11 Amendments of Salvatore CARONNA related to 2011/2035(INI)
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for cohesion and structural policy programmes to place more emphasis on European added value; deems such added value to be achieved where EU projects bring about a lasting and measurable improvement in theand economic, infrastructural, social and/or environmental status of a disadvantaged regiondevelopment, and such improvedevelopment would not have been achievable without the European stimulus;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Doubts whether specific operational programmes for functional geographical entities such as metropolitan regions or sea or river basins will yield additional benefits; is particularly aware, in relation to such programmes, of the absence of political bodies (including democratically elected bodies) with a sufficiently wide- ranging remit to implement them; calls instead for closer coordination of macroregional or natural- environment strategies at inter- governmental levels;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Emphasises that support from the Cohesion Fund and the Structural Funds must be more strongly oriented towards the educational and socio-political challenges of the EU 2020 strategy; takes the view, however, that across-the-board ‘Europeanisation’ of the relevant policy areas would be a doomed endeavour purelycohesion policy must retain its autonomy and its own financial groundobjectives; calls, therefore, for the further development of approaches that could serve as models, while retaining existing national and regional competences;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Takes the view that GDP must be retained as the key criterion in the definition of areas eligible for maximum support (those with GDP/PE below 75% of the EU average) and, where appropriate, cohesion countries (GDP/PE below 90% of the EU average); points outconsiders that the competent national authorities must continue to have scope for the use of additional indicators at the relevant decision-making levelsshould nevertheless be able to incorporate, at the appropriate decision-making level, for each objective and in a manner reflecting geographical concentrations, additional indicators with which to assess the respective social, economic, environmental, demographic and geographical challenges faced;
Amendment 335 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
Amendment 348 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 30 – subparagraph 1 (new)
points out that the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) is a complementary means of achieving the objectives of the European Social Fund, as it seeks to enable workers made redundant as a result of globalisation and the crisis to find work;
Amendment 373 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Calls, in the event that binding priorities are set for all Member States, for these to cover innovation, infrastructure and resource management and to be tailored in each case to regions’ specific ne for Member States to include among their priorities innovation, infrastructure and resource management, but considers there should be some margin for manoeuvre to take into account the scale of the programmes, the baseline scenario in each region and the results to be achieveds; stresses that it must be possible to suggest and pursue additional priorities on a voluntary basis and in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity; calls for suggested priority areas to include energy, education and training, and combating poverty;
Amendment 400 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Calls for the funding under investment partnerships to be made conditional on the implementation of reforms by the Member States, in order to ensure that it is used efficiently in areato be subject to conditions predetermined in a dialogue between the Commission and Member States at the start of the programming period and set out in the investment partnership contracts and in the operational programmes; those predetermined conditions must be clearly defined, targeted and verifiable, and must refer solely to aspects directly related to the effectiveness of cohesion policy investments; considers it fair for such conditions to include, in particular, full implementation of existing EU legislation (e.g. on price regulation, tendering procedures, transport, the environment and health) in order to prevent irregularities and ensure effectiveness; rejects, however, the imposition of conditions requiring Member States to undertake fundamental social and economic reform;
Amendment 494 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51
Paragraph 51
Amendment 504 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 51 – subparagraph 1 (new)
is opposed to structural funding being made subject to any kind of macroeconomic conditions connected with the Stability and Growth Pact since this would conflict with the very aims of cohesion policy; in the interests of enhancing programming credibility and achieving tangible results, insists on the introduction of appropriate sets of conditions, verified ex-ante and based on a place-based approach to policies, that cover all the institutional, administrative, regulatory, planning and project-related requirements needed to ensure an effective implementation of the programmes;
Amendment 513 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53
Paragraph 53
53. Envisages that the Commission will, in future, have a greater responsibility for the improvement of national administrative procedures; takes the view, therefore, that it will be incumbent on the Commission to implement accreditation procedures for national or federal-state administrative and auditing bodies; envisages linkage between, on the one hand, successful accreditation and a reduction in the error rate and, on the other, entitlement to simplified and less frequent reporting;