7 Amendments of Maria SPYRAKI related to 2018/0199(COD)
Amendment 55 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) Article 176 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union ('TFEU') provides that the European Regional Development Fund ('ERDF') is intended to help to redress the main regional imbalances in the Union. Under that Article and the second and third paragraphs of Article 174 of the TFEU, the ERDF is to contribute to reducing disparities between the levels of development of the various regions and to reducing the backwardness of the least favoured regions, among which particular attention is to be paid to certain categories of regions, among which cross-border regions or regions which suffer from severe and permanent natural or demographic handicaps such as the northernmost regions with very low population density, island, cross-border and mountain regions are explicitly listed.
Amendment 150 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22 a (new)
Recital 22 a (new)
(22 a) Under cross-border cooperation programmes, people-to-people(P2P) and small-scale projects are an important and successful instrument for eliminating border obstacles, fostering contacts between people locally and, in so doing, bringing border regions and their citizens closer together. P2P projects and small- scale projects are carried out in many areas such as, inter alia, culture, sport, tourism, general education and vocational training, the economy, science, environmental protection and ecology, health care, transport and small-scale infrastructure projects, administrative cooperation and public-relations work. As also set forth in the Committee of the Regions’ opinion ‘People-to-people and small-scale projects in cross-border cooperation programmes’32, P2P projects and small-scale projects have high European added value and make a considerable contribution towards realising the overall objective of cross- border cooperation programmes
Amendment 159 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 27
Recital 27
(27) Member States should be encouraged to assigndelegate the functions of the managing authority to an EGTC or to make such a grouping, like other cross-border legal bodies, responsible for managing a sub-programme, or an integrated territorial investment or one or more small project funds, or to act as s. Member States shall enable regional and local authorities and other public bodies from different Member States to set up such cooperation groupings with a legal personality and shall involve partnerlocal and regional authorities in their functioning. .
Amendment 172 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 36 a (new)
Recital 36 a (new)
(36 a) For many years, promoting European Territorial Cooperation (ETC) has been a major priority of EU cohesion policy. Under the General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER), support for SMEs in connection with the costs of ETC projects is already exempted from reporting requirements. Special provisions for regional aid for investments by undertakings of all sizes are also included in the Guidelines on regional State aid for 2014-2020 and in the regional aid section of the GBER. As aid for ETC projects would be compatible with the internal market and would have only a limited impact on competition and trade between Member States, it should be exempted from aid control arrangements and should not be subject to the reporting requirements under Article 108(3) TFEU.
Amendment 421 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Article 16 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
3. The participating Member States shall prepare an Interreg programme in cooperation with the programme partners referred to in Article [6] of Regulation (EU) [the new CPR]. in accordance with Article 6 CPR. New. In the preparation of the Interreg programmes, covering macro-regional or sea basin strategies, the Member States and the programme partners should take into account the thematic priorities of the relevant macro- regional and sea basins strategies and consult the relevant actors. An ex ante mechanism should beset up to ensure all actors at macro-region and sea basin level, ETC programme authorities, regions and countries are brought together at the start of the programming period to decide jointly on the priorities for each programme. Those priorities should be aligned with macro-regional or sea basin strategies’ Action Plans wherever relevant.
Amendment 464 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1
Article 19 – paragraph 1
1. The Member State hosting the managing authority may submit a motivated request for an amendment of an Interreg programme together with the amended programme, and after consultation of the local and regional authorities and in accordance with Article 6 of the CPR, setting out the expected impact of that amendment on the achievement of the objectives.
Amendment 478 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1
Article 19 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1
The Member State may transfer during the programming period an amount of up to 5% of the initial allocation of a priority and no more than 3% of the programme budget to another priority of the same Interreg programme, after consultation of the local and regional authorities and in accordance of the Article 6 of the CPR.