2 Amendments of Rumiana JELEVA related to 2008/2055(INI)
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Stresses the fact that the ultimate purpose of EU funding is to improve the quality of life of Union citizens and thus calls upon the Member States to ensure optimal management of EU funds; with this in mind, recalls the need for good governance and the importance of combating fraud, corruption and organised crime, which directly violate the principles underpinning the EU budget; therefore welcomes the efforts of OLAF in this regard;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Requests a significant reinforcement of the European Territorial Cooperation Objective both in policy and financial terms and requires that this be ensured for the next programming period; welcomes, in that respect, recent efforts made by the Commission to strengthen territorial cooperation by means of creating trans- national cooperation structures for countries that face similar problems; notes with great interest the Baltic Sea strategy, which shows that similar strategies might also be considered for other regions, such as the Black Sea region, in the future;