6 Amendments of Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA related to 2016/2148(INI)
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas cohesion policy is confronted in the current period with many challenges, deriving from the financial crisis, leading to a decrease in public investment in many Member States, leaving the ESI funds and co-financing by the Member States as the main tool for public investment in many Member States, and from the migration crisis;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Observes that the key communication on cohesion policy projects should focus on European added value and the visibility of success stories, whilst underlining the importance of learning from projects that fail to achieve their objectives; insists that communication on the subject of the ESI Funds should be modernised and intensified;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Highlights the fact that in order to improve communication on, and the visibility of ESI Funds, greater focus could be placed on participation by stakeholders and recipients, and on involving citizens in cohesion policy; additionally, urges the Commission to communicate more about both the achievements of cohesion policy and where lessons can be learned;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Underlines, in particular, that consideration should be given to the circumstances of the distinctively urban or rural regions, the so-called ‘'lagging regions’' and regions with permanent natural or geographical handicaps (northernmost regions with very low population density, and cross-border, insular, mountainous or outermost regions); recalls in this context that it is important to allow sufficient flexibility for Member States and regions to support new policy challenges, such as immigration, as well as the broadly understood digital dimension of cohesion policy (including ICT and broadband access issues, which are linked to the completion of the Digital Single Market); points to the Energy Union Strategy, as the ESI Funds have an important role to play in its delivery;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Supports a further balanced increase in financial instruments; asks the Commission, therefore, to come forward with incentives for managing authorities to achieve this and to analyse the management costs of grants and of repayable assistance implemented in shared and centrally managed programmes;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Is of the opinion that GDP might not be the only legitimate indicator for ensuring a fair distribution of money that takes account of specific territorial needand that specific territorial needs and importance of agreed programme priorities for development of the programme areas should be taken into account while deciding about the future allocation between Interreg programmes; is of the opinion that many regions in Europe are facing a situation of demographic change, as well as shrinking population numbers in rural areas;