8 Amendments of Heide RÜHLE related to 2011/2051(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Takes the view that Europe and its regions need a new, strong CAP that will boost development and improve competitiveness on the international market, will be more market-oriforward-looking rural developmented and will take account of public goods including food secur, first and foremost, food security, food quality, biodiversity conservation, resound waterrce-efficient water, soil and forest management and sustainable development based on education and knowledge, as well as driving cohesion;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Considers it important to state that rural development measures must be understood in a comprehensive rather than a sector-based way, as embracing the economic, social and infrastructural improvement of rural areas;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Takes the view that the award of funding for rural development must be better coordinated with regional policy; calls for an integrated strategy for local services, markets and employment opportunities; calls, in this regard, for local players to be involved, for partnerships to be more intensively pursued and for multi-level governance to be strengthened; is convinced that this would also promote simplification and minimise administrative outlay;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Points out that municipal authorities with real powers at local level or supra- local level provide a guarantee of successful participation by local civil society, in keeping with the Leader approach; notes that, in all the EU Member States, local authorities are the first tier of the state with which citizens come into contact and calls, therefore, for rural development measures to include provision for strengthening the capacity of urban and rural municipalities and the relevant regional bodies actively to shape development at the local and supra-local levels;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Draws attention to the demographic challenges that are particularly acute for rural areas; considers it important, in this regard, that demographic change should be managed and that rural areas should be more made more attractive to young people; stresses the need to safeguard access to innovative services and infrastructure in order to facilitate effective economic, social and cultural participation, and urges that rural areas be seen as integral to urban-rural relationships so that balanced development can be ensured;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that the potential of regions and rural areas is not confined to the natural resources that enable them to play a social and economic role, given that such areas are first and foremost a place where the food required in order to ensure food security is produced and that they provide key raw materials for industry and renewable energy generation on a sustainable basis, as well as constituting a source of environmental, ecological, landscape and tourism assets and non- material assets including traditions and cultural features such as culinary heritage in the form of regional products; takes the view that local economies and decentralised patterns of consumption should be reinforced;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points out that the current rules for the allocation of second-pillar funding were agreed on the basis of the cohesion criterion, i.e. the agricultural and rural development disparities existing between individual Member States and regions; believes, in view ofRecognises that rural development policy, unlike regional policy, has the advantage of not being tied to specific areas of the map and that it is thus better suited to becoming a strong and visible tool for the fact that those disparities still exist, that the current criteria and funding arrangements for rural development should be retained, in particular in the context of expanding the second pillar to take account of the Europe 2020 strategy objectives; points out that this will require appropriate coordination and distribution of tasks between the CAP and cohesion polichievement of European objectives across the entire territory; sees this as contingent on the standardisation of certain ERDF and EAFRD rules so as not to give rise to any unnecessary duplication of administrative outlay on the part of users or to place unnecessary obstacles in their way.