1 Amendments of Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI related to 2014/2245(INI)
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that culture and cultural heritage are key elements for the attractiveness of cities and regions and for economic development through cultural tourism; calls on the EU’s cities and regions to use the cohesion policy instruments efficiently in order to boost cultural and socioeconomic development that draws on the cultural distinctiveness of European countries, regions and cities; calls on the Commission, in this connection, to review the decision to place a ceiling of EUR 5 million (or EUR 10 million of the total cost where sites on the UNESCO list are involved) on ERDF funding for cultural heritage projects; stresses that there is no legal basis for this approach in EU law; emphasises that setting such a low ceiling for support reduces the scope for many types of investment that are of vital importance to social and economic development in the EU.