16 Amendments of Karima DELLI related to 2012/2100(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the term ‘industry’ is not clearly defined and may include a wide variety of sectors, such as the manufacturing sector, the entire productive sector, energy production, mining and all kinds of services;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas cohesion and industrial policies are essentialpolicy can help to address the structural challenges facing EU industry, as well as to achievinge the ambitious objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy and, in particular, to ensuring, such as a shift towards a sustainable, low-carbon, energy-efficient and competitive, knowledge-based European economy with a high level of growthinclusive economy fostering knowledge and employment;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas any dilution of responsibility between public and private bodies at local level could result in the environmental risks arising in connection with brownfield redevelopment not being properly addressed;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Points to the existing means provided through the Structural Funds, the investment funds, and national, regional and municipal economic development policies to support the reconversion of old industrial areas; regrets, however, that these options do not always address the real region-specific problems and that the structural and investment funding made available is not being fully taken up at a time when industry is being hit hard by the crisis;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point 4
Paragraph 5 – point 4
• the need to promote entrepreneurship and adapt social skills, and qualifications and entrepreneurship to the new demands of a changing workingto the new demands arising as a result of economic, technological, professional and environmental changes;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to assess the present situation in old industrialised regions, identify their main challenges, and provide information and guidance for those regions, in order to develop regional strategies which can help improve those regions’ growth prospects, under democratic procedures, regional strategies based on broad partnerships which can help improve those regions’ sustainable development prospects by harnessing their endogenous potential;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses that the strengthening of the industrial basis of the economy is necessary for achieving the EU 2020 targets, and that the industrial heritage and expertise available in old industrialised regions can form an irreplaceable basis for this; draws attention to the key role that culture and the cultural and creative industries can play in brownfield redevelopment;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Takes the view that the decline in most of the old industrialised regions is partly due to the reliance on monostructures; believes that to base an economy solely on monostructures is counter-productive and that a diversified economy, also meeting local needs, is of utmost importance as a basis for sustainable growthdevelopment and job creation;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Believes that regional industrial strategies must be based on an integrated approach, including an employment, training, and education component, aimed at promoting growth sectors capable of creating local jobs, for example green industries; calls on the Commission to work more closely with Member States and the appropriate local and regional authorities for the purpose of forecasting medium- and long-term labour market skills requirements, especially when laying down regional industrial strategies; calls on the Member States and local and regional authorities to use the European Social Fund to invest in skills, employment, training, and vocational retraining, in particular in ‘green’ occupations, in order to create new jobs and improve the quality of employment by implementing national, regional, and local projects;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the Member States and managing authorities, when allocating European funds for the current and the next (2014-2020) programming periods, to give preference to innovative SMEs, including craft trades and the social economy sector, with a view to promoting local employment;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Calls on the Commission, the Member States, and the authorities concerned to insist on greater transparency in the allocation of aid to businesses, especially within clusters;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Highlights the fact that regions’ characteristics have to be taken into consideration when planning regional development strategies; points, in this context, having regard to the factmodel that bottom-up urban and rural (LEADER) development strategies existprovide for rural areas and could be an option to consider for urban areas as well, considers that bottom-up local development initiatives for urban areas should be encouraged;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Stresses that the sustainable regeneration of old industrialised regions takes decades and is very costly, often exceeding the administrative and financial capacities of in situ public bodies; points to the need, therefore, to develop technical assistance to regional and local authorities and public bodies;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Highlights that the new instrument for ‘Integrated Territorial Investment’ proposed in Article 99 of the draft Common Provisions Regulation for the new funding period 2014-2020 could offer an opportunity for developing regional strategies beyond administrative borders; believes that joint action plans, multi- regional programmes, and interregional cooperation programmes could provide further tools capable of meeting the challenges of reindustrialisation or conversion of entire employment areas;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Member States to avoid over-complex rules for beneficiaries; reiteratbelieves that where EU rules exist domestic rules can be eliminated where it is expedient to do so, in order to avoid duplicated or conflicting rules;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Stresses the need for the further concentration of cohesion policy support on industrial reconversion in the regions, in the following areas: business innovation and investment, social inclusion, energy transition, integrated approaches to urban development, and urban regeneration; believes that the minimum 5% ERDF allocation for integrated actions to promote sustainable urban development could offer an opportunity to provide local solutions for industrial areas;