Activities of Csaba SÓGOR related to 2015/2052(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
European Structural and Investment Funds and sound economic governance (A8-0268/2015 - José Blanco López)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the European Structural and Investment Funds and sound economic governance: guidelines for the implementation of Article 23 of the Common Provisions Regulation
Amendments (7)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission's criteria, highlighting the fact that multiannual programmes and thethe challenges Member States face are of long- term nature of the challenges facing Member Statand that the multiannual programmes financed by ESI funds meant to address these challenges require certainty and permanence, and that frequent reprogramming should therefore be avoided and stability preferred in order to reinforce the predictability and credibility of ESI fund programmes;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Highlights the need for EU ESI fund financing to be supported by sound economic policies that can efficiently address new social and economic challenges when they emerge;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights the fact thatCalls on the Commission to use the mechanism of reprogramming or suspension as regulated in Article 23 of the Common Provisions Regulation (CPR) could undermine social and economic convergence between regions and jeopardise goals pursued by ESI funds, especially in countries with deep macroeconomic and social imbalances; asks the Commission to use the mechanism only when Member States have persistently failed to take effective action to address its requests to reprogramme funding and giving due consideration to the unemployment rate or the impact on the economies of the Member States concernedonly in cases where there is strong evidence that reprogramming could have a considerable direct impact on the correction of the challenges identified in the relevant Council recommendations;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to be extremely cautiouscareful in applying the first strand of Article 23 of the CPR to all programmes coming under any of the thematic objectives of the ESI Funds, in particular thematic objectives (8), (9) or (10), or the employment and social targets of the Europe 2020 Strategy, to ensure that social cohesion is not undermined; asks the Commission to be strictly committed to applying the ESF minimum share provided for in Article 92(4) of the CPR;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to avoid any suspension of commitments orhat when making recourse to the suspension of payments provided for in the second strand of Article 23 of the CPR where, it should take proportionate measures and consider the economic and social circumstances of the Member State concerned and should exercise caution in cases when Member States are involved in any of the situations described in sub-paragraphs (a) to (e) of paragraph 1 of Annex III to the CPR;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Asks the Commission to avoid arbitrariness in applying Article 23 of the CPR, to devise a transparent and democratic decision- making process, in line with Article 23(15) of the CPR, and to allow Parliament, on the basis of a formalised process, to be informed at all stages of the adoption of reprogramming requests or of any proposals and decisions on suspension of commitments or payments.;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission, not to apply suspension to such programmes that should be strengthened in the course of adaptation.