7 Amendments of Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ related to 2008/2055(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. whereas EU cohesion policy remains a crucial pillar in the process of European integration, and plays an active role in reducing inequalities and development deficits;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Considers it indispensable that adequate funding be guaranteed for the period after 2013, so as to enable cohesion policy not only to continue carrying out successfully its traditional tasks, but also to deal with a number of new global challenges with significant territorial impact, such as climate and demographic change, depopulation, adaptation to globalisation, rehabilitation of rural areas, energy efficiency and urban concentration, as detailed in the Commission's Fourth Report on Economic and Social Cohesion (COM(2007)0273); therefore takes the view that the allocation of 0.35% of the EU’s GDP will be insufficient to finance this policy;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses the importance of maintaining the transitional funding mechanisms for the phasing in / phasing out regions and for Member States leaving the Cohesion Fund, in order to consolidate the convergence levels achieved;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b . Stresses the need for sufficient funding for economic, social and territorial policy with a view to reducing the persisting regional inequalities in access and communication between centre and periphery which arise from geographical and structural disadvantages, insufficient investment in transport infrastructures, failure to diversify potential transport links, inadequate public services in such areas as education and health, etc; stresses, in particular, the substantial obstacles in terms of accessibility facing the mountain and island regions, the remote and most remote regions, isolated border towns, sparsely populated regions and regions suffering from depopulation;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Stresses the need for sufficient resources to reduce the substantial technological divide between the more developed and the less-favoured regions;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2d. Reiterates the need to maintain an EU cohesion policy backed up by appropriate budgetary funding, with a view to consolidating the progress made in convergence throughout the Union, recalling that convergence between Member States nonetheless conceals increasing disparities between the within regions; notes, further, that these regional and infraregional inequalities can be observed in various fields, such as employment, productivity, income, educational levels, innovative capacity, etc; stresses the role of territorial cooperation in tackling these problems, and therefore calls for a budgetary allocation sufficient to meet this goal;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the need to simplify the procedures for the implementation of Structural Funds, especially the management and control systems; notes that the complexity of the system is to a certain extent responsible for the poor absorption by the Member States of the available resources; urges the Commission to present without further delay concrete proposals for simplifying relevant procedures which should be implemented immediately, and also for ensuring a clear division of responsibilities and competences between the EU, the Member States and the regional and local authorities;