7 Amendments of Andrea COZZOLINO related to 2015/2285(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
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2. Expresses concern that despite moderate signs of recoveryhesitant signs that the tide may be on the turn, the EU economy is still in a period of slow growth, high long-term and youth unemployment, increased poverty levels and widening regional disparities in terms of GDP per capita; stresses also that the unprecedented inflow of refugees and asylum seekers over the last year has represented a great challenge in some Member States to be met in accordance with the principle of solidarity (Article 80 TFEU);
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
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3. UrgStresses the Commission to take better account of the Europe 2020 Strategy and its key targets by improving its implementation and carrying out a further review, in the context of the European Semester, as well as by proposing measures and methodology for importance of the EU 2020 strategy for relaunching growth in Europe and urges the Commission to reactivate it in a bid to meet the targets; calls on the Commission to consider the possibility of a strategy analysis in the context of the European Semester, also with a view to ensuring better monitoring of the EU Funds expenditures related to Europe 2020 goals; believes thatstresses the importance of the forthcoming Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) review under Article 2 of the MFA regulation, which will provide an opportunity to analyse and therefore enhance the value added by EU funding to the goals of Europe 2020 Strategy; stresses that in order to optimise their results and to ensure the necessary investment to support recovery, this review of the MFF should be carried out in combination with the mid-term review of the EU 2020 strategy;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 4
4. Underlines that the new European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), as part of the Investment Plan for Europe, should be complementary to and in line with local and regional investment strategies and the European Structural and Investment (ESI Funds), and points out that Member States should closely involve the local and regional authorities from the outset in promoting project pipelines and investment platforms; calls for further stepresh solutions to be takenfound to ensure complementarity and synergies between the ESI Funds, the EFSI and other EU-subsidised programmes and initiatives, together with national public investments and private financial instruments, in order to obtain maximum added value and synergy by exploiting the full potential of such investments;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 5
5. Notes the closer links between the objectives of the European Semester process and the programming of the ESI Funds for 2014-2020, reflected in the Partnership Agreements, especially concerning improvements to the labour market, the reform of education systems, the functioning of public administration, improvements to the business and research and innovation environment, and social inclusion; considers that, following the 2014-2020 reform, cohesion policy investments could play a very important role in supporting structural reforms and the fulfilment of the EU’s strategic goals by following up the relevant CSRs together with the effective implementation of the Partnership Agreements;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
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6. Urges the Member States and the Commission to ensure adequate administrative capacity in order to increase the quality of service to firms and citizens, and to ensure improved transparency, efficiency and accountability in public procurement, by utilisingfor example, by means of innovative solutions such as e- procurement and tackling corruption; calls, in this context, for the efficient use of ESI Funds to reform structures and processes, human resource management and service delivery;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
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7. Welcomes the fact that the Commission has underlinedStresses that ESI Funds can play a vital role in supporting reform implementation and injecting investment directly into the real economy, if targeted wiselybeing used to achieve the targets set out in the 2014-2020 reform and effectively implemented; acknowledges that there is an urgent need to focus on improving the investment environment and points out that both CSRs and ex ante conditionalities within cohesion policy 2014-2020 have a key role to play in this context,contribute to this as they have important positive spillover effects on the broader investment environment; urges the Commission and the Member States to ensure that EU funding is used to its full potential and in the most effective and efficient way;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 8
8. Notes the proposal by the Commission to set up the Structural Reform Support Programme (SRSP); urges the Commission to ensure that the programme funding, designed to deliver support upon a Member State’s request and through the management modes intended is implemented while i) avoiding additional administrative complexity and ii) is consistent with existing resources and arrangements for structural reformdeployed in accordance with the specific scope and purpose of each fund, in line with the objectives under the Treaty, including economic, social and territorial cohesion (Article 4 of Regulation 1303/2013) and that the programme is implemented while i) avoiding additional administrative complexity and ii) is consistent with existing resources and arrangements for structural reform; calls on the Commission to legislate more effectively, specifying in greater detail the methodology and indicators to be used for monitoring the implementation and effectiveness of the programme, while avoiding unnecessary secondary legislation (delegated act); calls on all the services concerned to work together upstream in order to coordinate activities and avoid overlaps when offering assistance for the efficient and effective use of Union funds.