22 Amendments of Elisabeth SCHROEDTER related to 2008/2064(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3a (new)
Citation 3a (new)
- having regard to Article 11 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 of 11 July 2006 laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund and the Cohesion Fund1(hereinafter the ‘Structural Fund Regulation’), 1 OJ. L 210, 31.7.2006, p. 25.
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the practical solutions which our fellow citizens expect to see devised for problems affecting public services (such as public transport, drinking water, social housing, etc.) can be achieved only by means of good governance, involving two complementary systems: firstly, the institutional system, which provides for the allocation of powers and budgets between the State and regional and local authorities; and, secondly, the partnership system, which brings together all as regulated in Article 11 of the Structural Fund Regulation which, however, does not prevent any Member State from extending this system in order actively to involve other public and private bodies concerned by a given topic which are important for regional development in planning a given territorynd implementing the Structural Fund programmes and the sustainable development of a region,
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the extensive participation of the partners mentioned in the Structural Fund Regulation and closer cooperation among the bodies involved in implementing programmes and projects financed from the Structural and Cohesion Funds would serve to make cohesion policy more effective and to increase the leverage effect,
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas an integrated approach must not only take account not only of the economic, social and environmental aspects of territorial development, but must also seek to reconcile the interests of the various actors involved, in the light ofalso of the role of local and regional authorities in the Partnership laid down in the Structural Fund Regulation in order to address a territory's specific characteristics, with a view to meetingand local and regional challenges,
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas arrangements should be made for closer cooperation and transparency for all among the various authorities and public and private bodies involved, without necessarily transferring legal powers and without creating new authorities, thereby enabling each body to work more effectively as a result of that cooperation,
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas governance can only be improved and facilitated if the individuals involved in implementing cohesion policy have project management skills and if the procedure and decision-taking by the authorities is transparent,
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas the results of successful experiments involving new methods of governance should be drawn on in the future, including those which have already been successfully tested in European Fund programmes, such as the LEADER method and the global grant (pursuant to Articles 42 and 43 of the Structural Fund Regulation),
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission, the Council, the Member States and regional and local authorities to coordinate more effectivelyexploit the potential of the various Community funds (Structural Funds, Community programme for research and development, European Regional Development Fund, etc.) whose purpose is to promote regional and urban developmentin order to ensure integrated promotion;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on regional and local authorities to step up their use of the integrated approach during the current programming perioddemand that the national authorities responsible for the operational programmes during the current programming period commit themselves to exposing the integrated approach;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Proposes, for the sake of simplification and effectiveness, that a study should be carried out into the feasibility of merging the various European funds, in particular the ERDF, the ESF and the Cohesion Fund, under the future cohesion policy for the period 2014-2020;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the European Commission to draw up and submit to the European Parliament an assessment of the implementation of the partnership principle by the Member States in the context of the drafting of the National Strategic Reference Frameworks (NSRFs) and the Operational Programmes, identifying the factors behind successful and unsuccessful governance and to examine in particular to what extent account has been taken of opinions and proposals put forward by the partners in drawing up the operational programmes;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the European Commission to draw up a guide designed to facilitate the implementation of effective partnerships, in accordance with Article 11 of the Structural Fund Regulation,, in keeping with the institutional framework specific to each Member State;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Notes that the partnership process can work only with partners which have the necessary capabilities and resources, and calls on the managing authorities to contribute to the strengthening of those capabilities by providing the partners in accordance with Article 11 of the Structural Fund Regulation, with the same information in good time as is available to the authorities and making available to them a clearly defined sum from technical assistance for training measures, for capacity building and for professionalising their partnership activities;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Draws attention to the requirement to hold public consultations on the issue of programming and notes that the efforts to involve the public in the preparations for the operational programmes for the period 2007-2013 were not entirely successful; notes that in some cases this has occurred only technically, without any professional management or any serious efforts by the authorities to take on board suggestions made by participants; calls on the Commission, therefore, to identify good practices with a view to improving public involvement ahead of the next programming period;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Member States and managing authorities to involve the partners more closely and at an early stage in all the phases of Structural Fund programming and implementation, including assessment and at meetings of the monitoring committees for the Operational Programmes;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Title after paragraph 10 (new) and paragraph 10a (new)
Title after paragraph 10 (new) and paragraph 10a (new)
Tools for a successful partnership 10a. Calls on all Member State authorities responsible for implementing the Structural Fund programmes to implement partnership in accordance with Article 11 of the Structural Fund Regulation at least according to the following rules: - all partners to be selected by means of a transparent procedure, - at least those partners whose participation is laid down in Article 11 of the Structural Fund Regulation to be involved in the implementation of all Structural Fund programmes, - all partners to have the same status and voting rights in the monitoring committee, - all partners to receive all relevant documents in good time before the meeting of the monitoring committee, - the authorities to establish with the partners a transparent mechanism for responding to remarks and suggestions by the partners, - all partners to be involved in determining the criteria according to which projects are selected within the framework of operational programme measures, - all partners to be issued with the full minutes of the meetings of the monitoring committee, - all partners to receive travel expenses for participation in the meetings of the monitoring committee;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13., Urges the Member States to decentralise the implementation of cohesion policy by making full use of the possibilities offered by the global grant, so that the system of multi-level governance can work effectively and in keeping with the subsidiarity principle, and calls on them to take the decentralisation measures required;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Urges the Member States within the framework of the global grant to delegate responsibility for managing the Structural Funds to regional and local authorities with a view to involving them more closely in the work of drafting and implementing the operational programmes, or, at the very least, to award them grants which enable them to play a full role in the multi-level governance arrangements;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on those Member States which have not yet amended their national law to make provision for the establishment of the European Grouping for Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) to do so as soon as possible; calls on Member States to ensure that the joint administrative authority for the ECTC is a decentralised agency which is also available to advise project developers on the ground;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the elected representatives and the national, regional and local civil servants and partners in accordance with Article 11 of the Structural Fund Regulation involved in managing operational programmes in the context of cohesion policy to use the financial resources available under these programmes for technical assistance to arrange training in the forms of government linked to these programmes, in particular project management;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Proposes the creation of an ERASMUS programme for local elected officials and for the partners in accordance with Article 11 of the Structural Fund Regulation;