6 Amendments of Rolandas PAKSAS related to 2011/2195(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that the Europe 2020 Strategy has been conceived as the main instrument for driving the European economies out of the economic crisis and that regional and cohesion policies are recognised as central instruments for the achievement of its targets, due to their budgetary dimension and multi- level governance approach; considers it essential to help lagging regions to catch up by devoting the majority of the resources to these, whilst at the same time helping to boost and enhance the competitiveness of all regions; considers therefore that the outermost regions, along with all other European regions, deserve a place in the new economic and budgetary strategy of the European Union for the period to 2020 for their own benefit and the benefit of the EU as a whole;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls on the Commission to allocate cohesion policy sufficient funds from the Community budget when contributions from national and local authorities are being reduced due to national budgetary policieson expenditure restraint;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Welcomes the European Commission proposal set out in its Communication “A Budget for Europe 2020” to introduce a new category of “transition regions”; calls for regions whose GDP per capita has exceeded 75 %. of the EU27 average in the current financial perspective to have the opportunity to use resources for infrastructure investment, to enable these regions to consolidate the added value gained during the current programming period.
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas Cohesion Policy has an important role to play in these regions in reducing disparities, enabling them to integrate into the internal market and assert themselves in their respective geographical areas, promoting the economic development and convergence of these regions with the EU mainland and in pursuing the EU 2020 targets, and whereas European Funds are key instruments;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Calls for specific measures to be actively applied to encourage SMEs in the outermost regions to invest externally so that these regions could be better integrated into their geographical surroundings;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. considers that owing to the unique nature of the outermost regions, priority assistance granted under the structural policy for economic and social cohesion should be maintained for these regions.