2 Amendments of José Manuel FERNANDES related to 2013/2042(INI)
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Maintains that regions with specific characteristics, such as the outermost regions, as referred to in Article 349 TFEU, and rural areas, areas affected by industrial transition, and regions which suffer from severe and permanent natural or demographic handicaps, such as the northernmost regions with very low population density and island, cross- border, and mountain regions, as referred to in Article 174 TFEU, have to be given special attention as regards economic, social, and – above all – territorial cohesion objectives;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the need to restore and improve financial capacity at sub-national level to secure public investment for programmes and projects aimed at boosting growth and securing jobs, especially at regional and local level; maintains that if the outermost regions and other regions with specific characteristics were to be to any extent deprived of their existing support, and if there were any moves to undermine the schemes compensating for the additional costs which they incur on account of their remoteness, or because they are islands, or to whittle away the specific measures relating to agriculture, fisheries, State aid, customs and trade, taxation, and free zones, the structural economic and social situation in these regions might worsen still further and their integration into the European internal market could consequently be held up, a fact which would make itself felt in terms of development, economic growth, and employment at regional level;