13 Amendments of Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP related to 2023/2048(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas Article 174 TFEU states that the Union must aim at reducing disparities between the levels of development of the various regions, paying particular attention to rural areas, that face the urgent challenges of demographic decline and ageing, especially affecting EU farming populations, along with rural abandonment, lack of access to infrastructure and services, low incomes and fewer job opportunities;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas women play a crucial role in rural development and in the social fabric of rural areas, maintaining and improving rural livelihoods and strengthening rural communities and must be regarded as drivers of sustainable development; whereas the significant contribution that women make to local and rural development is not sufficiently reflected in their participation in the corresponding decision-making processes, given that women in rural areas are often underrepresented in decision-making bodies;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the importance of improving the policy coherence and implementing a rural proofing of future EU initiatives totegrated territorial development initiatives to assess the coherence and complementarity of EU policies and their potential impact on rural areas, thus effectively preventing rural depopulation and to facilitateing generational renewal, broadband access and job creation in rural areaaccess to essential services and job creation in rural areas; insists that the rural proofing mechanism should be mandatory, also for Member States when assessing the impacts of proposed legislation in rural areas; underlines the importance of involving local and regional authorities in the definition and implementation of rural proofing mechanisms, as well as in their governance at both European and national levels;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Welcomes EESC proposal to promote a Europe-wide Charter of rural/urban rights and responsibilities; is also convinced that more cooperation with urban areas is needed to ensure that no area or citizen is "left behind" in the just transition to a climate-neutral, sustainable and prosperous European Union, striving for a rural and urban commitment to a fair approach and showing the added value of rural and urban organisations working together;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Is worried about the environmental and social impact of large- scale projects for the production, transport and storage of energy developed in the rural areas; stresses the key role of EU legislation concerning environmental regulation; notes with concern that in several cases there have been inadequate, lack or incomplete Environmental Impact Assessments and recalls the need to strengthen public participation rights of local communities; calls in this regard on the Member States to promote an integrated territorial development approach in the design and implementation of energy projects;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the inclusion of TA2030 objectives in the legislative instruments and operational programmes of the cohesion policy funds; welcomes the TA2030 pilot actions that have been developed and calls on the Member States and the Commission to continue investing in these actions and coordinating them with initiatives around cohesion policy and rural development;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Highlights that rural areas lack access to quality basic services such as water services, sanitation, road connectivity, healthcare, childcare and quality education and training, and that they are poorly connected, in addition to the insufficient quality and availability of housing; calls for the addition to the TA 2030 of a new pilot action around access to essential services within a 30 minutes threshold travel time, promoting equal access to basic services in rural communities;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Calls on the Commission to provide the TA2030 with direct implementation instruments;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the potential of the LEADER community-led local development method (CLLD)1 to engage rural communities in local action groups for the preparation and implementation of targeted local development strategies; calls on the Member States to support CLLD, including LEADER, encouraging participation in local action groups and ensuring their effective autonomy in terms of composition and decision- making; considers that further development of development method and CLLD funding tools would contribute to stronger integrated strategies and more sustainable, resilient territorial development; stresses in this regard the need for a meaningful earmarking of assistance for CLLD under all relevant funds at EU level, similar to that in the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD); _________________ 1 https://ec.europa.eu/enrd/leader- clld/leader-toolkit/leaderclld- explained_en.html.
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points to the importance of facilitating and promoting the use of multi- fund approaches to support the implementation of integrated projects for inclusive and sustainable rural development.Calls on the Commission to improve the close cooperation and integrated use between EU funding instruments such as Cohesion Funds, EAFRD, the CAP and the NextGenerationEU recovery instrument, as well as with national instruments, in order to deliver local development strategies; points to the importance of facilitating and promoting the use of multi- fund approaches to support the implementation of integrated projects for inclusive and sustainable rural development; urges again the Commission to put forward before the end of the legislature a targeted legislative proposal for enabling the transfer of resources between all shared management funds when supporting rural territorial strategies and enhancing synergies between funds and programmes;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for a strong rural dimension in all future cohesion policy regulations, which should include dedicated funding to that end; calls on the Commission to promote funding aswell for TA2030 programmes, and to asses the possibility of earmarking a share of the European Regional Development Fund and the Cohesion Policy funds to rural areas, going beyond the 8 % currently earmarked in the EFRD for the development of programmes under the Urban Agenda;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)