55 Amendments of Isabel CARVALHAIS related to 2023/2048(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas rural areas face the urgent challenges of demographic decline and ageing, especially affecting EU farming populations, along with rural abandonment, lack of access to infrastructure, healthcare, education and services, low incomes and fewer job opportunities;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the digital and green transitions offer opportunities for stronger, connected, resilient, innovative and prosperous rural areas in the long term, however, despite recent improvements in high-speed broadband connectivity, only 59% of households in rural regions have access to broadband, compared to 87% of the households in the EU;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas cohesion policy is the main investment policy for the EU’s regions and cities, consistently serving as a first choice for financial assistance facing unforeseen events that shake our socio-economy, and the Territorial Agenda is the guiding instrument for the European Union’s territorial policy;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. Whereas it is at territorial level where the challenges facing European regions are identified and managed;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. Whereas Article 7 of the European Regional Development Fund Regulation (1301/2013) refers to Sustainable urban development based on integrated sustainable urban strategies as the framework for the selection of single operations;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the Long-term Vision for the EU's Rural Areas calls to improve rural quality of life, achieve balanced territorial development and stimulate economic growth in rural areas;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. Whereas the previous and current Common Provisions Regulations make no specific reference to the Territorial Agenda 2020 and the Territorial Agenda 2030 respectively;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas the role and importance of rural areas is often under-appreciated, insufficiently rewarded and funded;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas the diversity of EU’s rural areas calls for locally designed responses and solutions corresponding to each territory’s specific needs and possibilities and strategies should address rural areas according to their individual characteristics and in relation to their environment, using, among other tools, the rural proofing mechanism;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Recital C d (new)
Recital C d (new)
Cd. whereas rural communities are exposed to greater damages from climate change, more frequent adverse climate events such as storms, floods and droughts, and the consequences of biodiversity loss, and experience greater costs associated with climate transition;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas it considers the richness of Europe's territorial diversity as a dynamic and complex system in which each region faces development challenges according to its particular characteristics;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that small, medium and family farms are the backbone of EU rural areas, providing food security and ecosystem services for European citizens;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. Whereas there is great potential for the Union in their national programmes and projects for spatial planning and regional development;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas it is important to incorporate territoriality into EU funds, especially cohesion policy;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas Article 28 CPR designates integrated territorial investments (ITIs) and community-led local development (CLLD) as the instruments for implementing territorial development strategies and calls for coherence and coordination among the Funds when several are applied to the same strategy for territorial or local development;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas it acknowledges the efforts made by our regions to meet the new objectives (PO); thus asks the EC to allowing flexible implementation of PO5 without strict requirements regarding strategies and governance (CPR Title III, Chapter II) thereby opening it to all kinds of initiatives contributing to regional and urban development, e.g. allow transnational Interreg programmes to choose PO5 in future programming;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
Recital F b (new)
Fb. Whereas these instruments aim at bottom-up territorial development with the active participation of local stakeholders;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. Whereas the European Urban Agency, through the Leipzig Charter, supports the objectives of the Territorial Agenda 2030;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I b (new)
Recital I b (new)
Ib. Whereas both documents share common principles such as a local approach, policy coordination and effective multi-level frameworks;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Highlights the role that agriculture plays in achieving the Union objectives of food security, sustainable growth, social inclusion, and combating climate change, while helping to diversify agricultural production, preserve biodiversity and develop local economies;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I c (new)
Recital I c (new)
Ic. Whereas the driving principles of the Territorial Agenda 2030 are encompassed in the two priorities "People and places are drifting apart" and "Sustainable development and climate change";
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I d (new)
Recital I d (new)
Id. Whereas territorial priorities set by the Territorial Agenda 2030 for a fair and green Europe;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. Whereas the EU Territorial Agenda 2030 calls for the territorial dimension of sectoral policies to be strengthened at all levels of governance;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J b (new)
Recital J b (new)
Jb. Whereas a better data collection and a coherent revision of the Territorial Agenda 2030 is needed;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J c (new)
Recital J c (new)
Jc. Whereas to date, 7 pilot actions have been carried out in the implementation of the Territorial Agenda 2030, serving as an example of the application of its objectives on the ground, at local and regional level;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J d (new)
Recital J d (new)
Jd. whereas it takes into account the limited geographical balance in the development of these actions;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J e (new)
Recital J e (new)
Je. whereas it takes into account the administrative difficulties encountered by the pilot actions when they were financed by several programmes or funding sources;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls for improvement of the level of digital skills and the availability and affordability of adequate digital infrastructure, and the capacities to effectively deploy digital technologies, such as digital service platforms in rural areas;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the Handbook of territorial and development strategies and the Handbook of Sustainable Urban Development Strategies as guides for all administratives levels for the design, implementation and monitoring of territorial and urban development strategies;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Calls for development of partnerships in all economic activities in rural areas, between businesses of all sectors, local authorities, researchers and services based on innovation, knowledge sharing and cooperation;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Calls for more effort in enabling rural residents to take active part in policy and decision-making processes, involving a broad range of stakeholders at all levels of governance to develop tailor-made, place-based and integrated policy solutions and investments
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the need forTakes into account the capacities demonstrated by local and regional authorities in the implementation and management of territorial tools, and considers necessary a paradigm shift in the involvement of local and regional authorities in the implementation and management of territorial tools;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 e (new)
Paragraph 5 e (new)
5e. Calls for improving affordable public transport services and infrastructure such as railways, roads, charging and refuelling stations to support e-mobility solutions;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 f (new)
Paragraph 5 f (new)
5f. Emphasises the essential economic role played by agriculture, forestry and fisheries, calls for further development of short supply chains, quality schemes, producer organisations and cooperatives that contribute to increasing the sustainability of European food production;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Highlights the impact of the EU Semester decisions on territorial cohesion and, consequently, on the development capacity of territorial programmes;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 g (new)
Paragraph 5 g (new)
5g. Emphasises that generational renewal is the key for social, economic and environmental sustainability of rural areas and EU food autonomy and the future of agriculture and thus must remain a high priority in territorial development plans and strategies, stresses the need to account for the needs of small and medium sized farmers, and especially focus at attracting young farmers, preventing land abandonment and facilitating land access and access to credit;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 h (new)
Paragraph 5 h (new)
5h. Stresses the significance of circular and bio-economy principles, as well as their application within the agricultural sector, in contributing to the realization of the objectives set out in the European Green Deal; encourages the enhancement of understanding and the implementation of circular and bio- economy principles within the European agriculture and food system.
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for territorial or local development strategies funded by more than one programme to merge into a single track, in accordance with Article 28 of the CPR and in order to prevent delays and administrative obstacles;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Welcomes the data shown in the STRAT-Board for the period 2014-2020 and notes that CLLDs played a major role in the development of territorial strategies, highlighting the strong interest of the local level in actively participating in the development of these strategies;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Calls on the Commission, in view of the successful use of CLLDs in the 2014-2020 period, to simplify the administrative process for the management of funds, especially where CLLDs draw from more than one distinct fund;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Stresses that the ITIs are the main tool used by those Member States with a larger allocation of ERDF funds, as they quickly absorb the amounts and are able to cover several main axes at the same time, present in one or several operational programmes;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Considers TA2030 to be a real and proper instrument that ensures the EU’s cohesion through the management of each of its regions and their particularities; calls on the EC to consider modifying the role of the Territorial Agenda beyond that of a territorial management guide;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls for greater flexibility for the regions in the fulfilment of the PO5 objective and for the actions to achieve it to be aligned with those set out in the Territorial Agenda 2030;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses the need to involve the European Parliament, - in particular its competerelevant Committee on Regional Development, - in the pilot actions, in order to ensure that they are in line with current EU priorities, and to extend their results of pilot actions at European level, which can be integrateding and coordinateding them with initiatives such as cohesion policy, including particular the ERDF and Interreg;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls for a strategy for merging funds or for the administrative simplification for pilot actions financed by more than one fund, so as to lower administrative barriers and facilitate applications for these projects;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Stresses the need for greater dissemination of the actions and achievements of the pilot projects as examples of the implementation of European funds; stresses the importance of communicating the results of the pilot actions, that a biennial conference is organised to showcase the pilot actions to local and regional authorities, as well as to relevant actors at national and EU level, linking it with other events such as the Rural Pact or the Cities Forum;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Member States to develop their territorial agendas in line with the TA2030 as a basis for programming their territorial strategies, taking into account the specificities of each of its regions and serving as an incentive, and in order to stimulate the decision-making process and the design of territorial and urban policies;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to promote the implementation of the TA2030 beyond pilot actions, making this instrument a reference framework for action that provides concrete and adapted guidelines for EU territories to improve their performance; highlights the opportunity to make regional funding conditional on achieving TA2030 priorities and calls on the Commission to develop monitoring indicators linking the TA2030 and the use of cohesion policy funds, in particular the ERFD;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on the Commission to ensure the proper implementation of funds and the implementation of territorial instruments, favouring easy management without bureaucratic barriers;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to carry out a coherent review of the Territorial Agenda 2030 by 2024, including a thorough review of its governance system, the progress made in implementation and the relevance of its priorities, as outlined in the Territorial Agenda 2030;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls for a single framework for strategies aimed at both urban and wider territorial development, treating territorial requirements as a whole by taking as a basis unit functional areas at level 3 of the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS); stresses that this could significantly reduce bureaucratic barriers in the acquisition of funds, homogenising the process for European regions;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Recognises the Council's initiative in its role in the development of the territorial activities of the Member States;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to increase its involvement in territorial policy through cohesion policy and to strengthen the governance of regions in order to promote cohesion and micro- cohesion by covering the particularities of each region, improving decision-making at local and regional level and applying existing tools in order to improve the management of legislative instruments; calls on the Commission to strengthen the value of Cohesion Policy Funds to be sufficiently resilient, thus being able to cushion the effects of future unexpected events and to avoid regions suffering the consequences, thus upholding the principle of do not harm to cohesion;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Calls on the EC to carry out a study of each region's capacity to cushion future global challenges affecting territorial cohesion. This would provide a rapid response tool that would allow for flexibility in the allocation or reinforcement of these resources, according to the real time situation of our regions;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Calls on the EIB to increase the financial allocation foreseen for Cohesion Policy funds, dedicated to safeguarding the balance and proper functioning of our regions;