29 Amendments of Monika VANA related to 2016/2250(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)
Citation 7 a (new)
- having regard to the memorandum signed in Cayenne by the outermost regions (5 March 1999), complemented by the joint memorandum of Spain, France, Portugal and the outermost regions signed in May 2010, which stipulates that the EU should promote the sustainable development of the outermost regions by building on the numerous natural and cultural assets of the outermost regions while promoting the principles of equal opportunities, partnership, proportionality and coherence of the EU policies,
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 a (new)
Citation 9 a (new)
- having regard to the joint memorandum of the outermost regions signed on the occasion of the Fourth Forum of the outermost regions held in March 2017 in Brussels,
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas Article 349 TFEU specifies that its application shall not undermine "the integrity and the coherence of the Union legal order, including the internal market and common policies";
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that, while the outermost regions are in principle fully integrated into the European Union and assimilated to its legal order, their structural economic and social situation, which is aggravated by all the factors the permanence and combination of which severely restrain their development, in many cases renders impossible the standardised application of Union law;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Recalls the importance of local development instruments such as CLLD and ITI as a bottom-up approach to respond to local structural challenges while promoting community ownership; calls therefore on the Commission and the concerned Member States to explore ways of strengthening the use of CLLD as a flexible and innovative answer to the need for adaptation expressed by the outermost regions;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Considers that this interpretation by the Commission has damagmight have hindered the capacity of the outermost regions to take full advantage of their belonging of the Union and to develop in a way which takes full account of their specific characteristics and structural constraints;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. DeploresTakes note of the fact that the small number of programmes, policies and funds specific to the outermost regions which drew on the success of POSEI have disappeared, in favour of the incorporation of provisions specific to the outermost regions in horizontal European programmes, which dilutes the specific approach to the outermost regions, damages; is concerned that this new approach might have hindered the objective and proportionate definition of the adjustments which are necessary in the outermost regions and considerably restricts the implementation of Article 349 TFEU;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls therefore on the European Union Institutions, in concert with the outermost regions, to open a new chapter in relations between the EU and the outermost regions, based on a genuine new European strategy for the outermost regions which takes full advantage of the possibilities offered by Article 349 TFEU, particularly for the creation of specific programmes and policies appropriate to their sustainable development needs;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to adopt a long-term overall common strategy detailing the approach to the outermost regions, accompanied, in the case of each outermost region, by a specific legislative package, when necessary by strategic frameworks and appropriate, precise, attainable and assessable objectives;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses the need to ensure that the instruments, provisions and derogations adoptede coherence and continuity of the EU approach to the outermost regions for the purpose of maintaining the stability conducive to the real/structural development of the outermost regions remain in force for a long time;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Observes that the disappearance of quotas and guaranteed prices which began with the reform of the COM in sugar in 2005 is damaging cane sugar producers in the outermost regions; calls for the establishment of a support schemeafety net for sugar-cane growers in the event of a fall in world sugar prices;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission to systematically produce impact assessments relating to the outermost regions before initiating any trade negotiations and to systematically adopt a policy of protecttake full account of the specific characteristics of the outermost regions when conducting its impact and sustainable impact assessments ing the products of the outermost regions in trade agreementcontext of trade negotiations;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls for the Union’s trade policies to be adjusted so as to take full account of the competitive disadvantages of the outermost regions; calls for the preservation of tariff and non-tariff barriers which are vital for the protection of the products of the outermost regions and for safeguard clauses and stabilisation mechanisms to be activat, including the narrowness of their local markets and their dependence to a small number of products; calls, when considering activating safeguard clauses and stabilisation mechanisms, for environmental and social factors to be duly considered;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Calls for the system of tolerance of imports to be abandoned which makes itreciprocity of standards to be strictly enforced for imported goods so that it should not be possible for goods to enter the Union that have been treated with active substances not authorised there;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls on the Union to remove all the regulatory obstacules, to authorise aid for the renewal of traditional fishing fleets in the outermost regionshat might create obstacles, while keeping up the fight against fraud, to increase investment which is needed for the sustainable development of local and sustainable fishing and to protect sensitive fishing grounds of the outermost regions;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Recalls that Article 349 TFEUthe Common Provision Regulation provides for specific access to structural funds for the outermost regions and that, on that basis, all the outermost regions should be regarded as ‘least developed regions’;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Considers that, for the next programming period, the outermost regions should be able to define some of their priorities for the use of the structural funds; calls for the continuation of budget allocations to the outermost regions, of compensation of excess costs, and of all derogations intended to compensate them forduly justified and proportionate for the compensation of their structural disadvantages;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Calls, in the context of the mid- term review of thenext Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), for revision ofthe Commission to reassess the allocation for Mayotte;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Recalls, in the light of youth unemployment in the outermost regions, the need to create specific measuresintensify EU action to support and train young people in the outermost regions, particularly by means of the Youth Employment Initiative;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. DeplorNotes the fact that the Regional State Aid Guidelines and the GBER (General Block Exemption Regulation) do not take sufficient account of Article 107(3)(a) and Article 349 TFEU and that they create a situation which may lastingly damage the economic and social development of the outermost regionsallows Member States to grant operating aid to compensate certain additional costs in the outermost regions in order to account for the permanent handicaps identified in Article 349 TFEU;
Amendment 229 #
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
Paragraph 40
40. Calls on the Commission to undertake to guarantee thatcarefully assess the necessity and proportionality of exceptional tax regimes for the outermost regions will be retained andin view of their possible extendedsion after 2020;
Amendment 239 #
40a. Calls on the Commission, in that context, to start launching impact assessments to check whether the conditions for granting those exceptional tax regimes for the outermost regions have indeed been met, especially in terms of creating local jobs and benefiting to the local economy;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7
Subheading 7
Research, education, culture, environment, transport, energy and telecommunications
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
Paragraph 43
43. Does not consider that any ofIs concerned that, in general, the Union’s horizontal programmes do not provides for access conditions specific tosufficient access for the outermost regions; regards this surges therefore the Commission to facilituation as particularly discriminatorye the access of the outermost regions to all the Union's horizontal programmes;
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44
Paragraph 44
44. Recalls the need to make energy autonomy of the outermost regions a priority; underlines that the outermost regions benefit from numerous advantages with regards to the development of renewable energies, energy efficiency and the circular economy;
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45 a (new)
Paragraph 45 a (new)
45a. Welcomes the fact that the new Erasmus+ programme encourages the mobility of students and youth entrepreneurs from the outermost regions by providing for the maximum amount of aid; calls for similar provisions to be included in the Creative Europe programme;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45 b (new)
Paragraph 45 b (new)
45b. Considers that exchanges and cooperation between the outermost regions and neighbouring third countries in the fields of research and innovation, culture and education should be further promoted so as to promote their regional integration;