4 Amendments of Marco ZULLO related to 2015/2285(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 1
1. Acknowledges the new approach for a more streamlined European Semester organised in two successive phases, including publishing the recommendations for the entire euro area early on, together with this annual growth survey (AGS), preceding the country-specific recommendations (CSRs), thus giving Member States the opportunity to take the euro area recommendations into account in national policymaking;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
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4. Underlines that the new European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), as part of the Investment Plan for Europe, should be complementary tonot undermine the rationale for local and regional investment strategies and the European Structural and Investment (ESI Funds), and that Member States should closely involve theall the relevant stakeholders, including civil society organisations, local and regional authorities in promoting project pipelines and investment platforms; calls for further steps to be taken to ensure complementarity and synergies between the ESI Funds, the EFSI and other EU-subsidised programmes and initiatives, together with national public investments and private financial instruments, in order to obtain maximum added value and synergy by exploiting the full potential of such investments;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
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5. NotesExpresses its concern regarding the closer links between the objectives of the European Semester process and the programming of the ESI Funds for 2014- 2020, reflected in the Partnership Agreements, especially concerning improvements to the labour market, the reform of education systems, the functioning of public administration, improvements to the business and research and innovation environment, and social inclusion; considers that cohesion policy investments could play a very important role in supporting structural reforms and the fulfilment of the EU’s strategic goals by following up the relevant CSRs together with; considers that cohesion policy investments could play a very important role in supporting structural reforms but reiterates that the macroconditionality principle enshrined in the article 23 of the Common Provision Regulation is liable to jeopardise the achievement of the effobjective implementation of the Partnership Agreementsof economic, social and territorial cohesion;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
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7. Welcomes the fact that the Commission has underlined that ESI Funds can play a vital role in supporting reform implementation and injecting investment directly into the real economy, if targeted wisely and effectively implemented; acknowledges that there is an urgent need to focus on improving the investment environment and points out that both CSRs and ex ante conditionalities within cohesion policy 2014-2020 have a key role to play in this context, as they have important positive spillover effects on the broader investment environment, for instance by enhancing access to credit for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises; urges the Commission and the Member States to ensure that EU funding is used to its full potential and in the most effective and efficient way;