Activities of Oldřich VLASÁK related to 2010/2277(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: Towards a Single Market Act for a highly competitive social market economy - 50 proposals for improving our work, business and exchanges with one another
Amendments (4)
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that single market accessibility for all EU regions is a prerequisite for the free movement of people, goods, capital and services, and thus for a strong and dynamic single market; points out, in this connection, the essential role played by the Union's regional policy in terms of developing infrastructure, particularly in the less developed and outermost regions; calls for the development of innovative sources of funding (such as public-private partnerships, project bonds and user charges); calls for the elimination of those barriers to venture capital funds who desire to invest in the EU's regions, which, if permitted, could allow the EU's regions to play their full part in the Commission's flagship Innovation Union initiative; calls on the Commission and the Member States jointly to address the complexity of the rules governing revenue- generating projects;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines that regional policy implementation is crucial for the success of the Europe 2020 strategy and the deepening of the single market; points out that EU structural funding should be allocated in a dynamic, forward-looking manner, i.e. so as to cushion further the possible adverse effects on regions of international trade agreements and to prepare EU regions forto help develop the capacity of EU regions to adapt to socioeconomic change; calls for a more user-friendly regional policy, but also for stricter rules against ‘fund-shopping’, by means of which some enterprises may misuse the Union's financial instruments;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8a (new)
Paragraph 8a (new)
8a. Underscores the potential for the EU's regions to play their considerable role in assisting the Commission's drive to create a digital Single Market; highlights, in this regard, the importance that should be placed on utilising the funds available to the EU's regions in order to overcome their lack of development in the fields of e-commerce and e-services, which could serve as a fruitful source of future growth in the regions;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Takes the view that territorial cooperation (including European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation (EGTCs) and macro-regional strategies) makes a decisive contribution to removing visible and invisible internal borders within the single market; calls, in this connection, for the post-2013 budget for territorial cooperation to be increased;