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8 Amendments of Elisabeth SCHROEDTER related to 2008/2010(INI)

Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas the Azores, the Canaries, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Madeira, Martinique and Reunion are characterised by a combination of permanent and severe handicaps, including their remoteness from the European mainland, their insularity or inaccessibility, their difficult topography and climate and the smallness of their markets,
2008/03/07
Committee: REGI
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
F. whereas, during the last three years, the ORs have been directly affected by major Community reforms, including the financial perspective, regional policy 2007- 2013, the EFF, the EAFRD, State aids, the COM in sugar and bananas and the POSEI schemes for agriculture and fisheries, and whereas these changes have frequently had serious effects on these regions,
2008/03/07
Committee: REGI
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for the ORs unit at the Commission to be maintained and its staff considerably strengthened in order to provide it with the resources necessary to fulfil its tasks, given the wide range of sectors involved and the complexity of the policies concerned;
2008/03/07
Committee: REGI
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that Structural Fund intervention continues to play a major role in the development of the ORs; nevertheless, would like to see cohesion policy better coordinated with other Community policies so as to enhance synergies; calls on the Commission to display greater flexibility and adapt more effectively to and better to reflect the realities of the situation of the ORs;
2008/03/07
Committee: REGI
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Is concerned at some of the measures proposed by the Commission in the transport sector, particularly the assessment of specific needs and the taking into account of environmental externalities; reiterates the need for the ORs to be given differential treatment in this area, particularly as regards the inclusion of civil aviation in the ETS system, so as not to jeopardise the efforts made to overcome their accessibility deficit;deleted
2008/03/07
Committee: REGI
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Urges that the scope of Article 299 (2) of the EC Treaty (in due course Articles 299 and 311a), which is the cornerstone of the Union's policy to assist ORs and the basis for the approach taken to these regions by the Commission's services, should be included on the agenda for the debates so as to give them the legal, institutional and political substance they merit;deleted
2008/03/07
Committee: REGI
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to assist any Member States planning to implement the 'passerelle' clause in Article 311a, (6);deleted
2008/03/07
Committee: REGI
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Requests that the questions of future Community funding for the Union's strategy to assist ORs and the compensation of handicaps linked to outermost status should not be side- stepped and should be discussed, with no taboos;
2008/03/07
Committee: REGI