Activities of Vilja SAVISAAR-TOOMAST related to 2013/2008(INI)
Reports (1)
REPORT on the European Commission’s 7th and 8th progress reports on the EU Cohesion Policy and the Strategic Report 2013 on programme implementation 2007-2013 PDF (240 KB) DOC (121 KB)
Amendments (18)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. Whereas public resources both at Member States and EU level have become scarcer and subject to increasing pressure, while the crisis and the ensuing recession, as well as the sovereign debt crisis in several Member States, have pushed Member States to finally implement the needed important and deep structural reforms to contribute to the restoration of price competitiveness and fiscal sustainability, leading to cuts in mainly growth-friendly expenditureeconomic growth and job creation, leading sometimes to cuts in co-financing of Structural and Cohesion Funds;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. Whereas evaluations performed during the 2007-2013 programme do not look at the whole evaluation cycle including efficiency, effectiveness and impact;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
Recital G b (new)
Gb. Whereas the funds absorption rate is around 50% within Members States and around 30% in the last year of the period;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G c (new)
Recital G c (new)
Gc. Whereas SMEs are having difficulties with financing from the banking sector;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Takes the view that although the alignment with the Europe 2020 strategy is important, it is essential not to lose sight of the aims of economic, social and territorial cohesion, which were put at serious risk as a consequence of the crisis; calls for decisive action to maintain cohesion and for emphasis to be placed onstill many less developed regions need investments in infrastructurale projects in basic sectors such as transport, telecommunication and sustainable energy;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Insists on the role of the ESF in reducing the disparities in human capital among regions, and in the context of implementing the social dimension of the Europe 2020 Strategy, as this fund, in parallel with the ERDF, has beenshould contributing significantlye to the fulfilment of some of the current major priorities of the Union, namely boosting youth employment and the labour market, promoting sustainable economy and growth, reducing the number of early school leavers, and combating poverty, discrimination and social exclusion; Therefore insists in increasing the sound financial management principle, in particular efficiency and effectiveness of ESF operations.
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Recalls, however, that while there is strong evidence that implementation of cohesion policy has accelerated, and that the resulting programmes have made important contributions in many areas where investment is necessary for economic modernisation and competiveness (such as research and development, SME support, re- industrialisation, social inclusion, and education and training), a number of Member States risk not implementing their programmes untilbefore the end of the current programming period;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Encourages the Member States to explore synergies between cohesion policy financing and other sources of EU funding (such as for TEN-T, TEN-E, CEF, Horizon 2020, COSME and other programmes) as well as with financing provided by the European Investment Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; urges the Member States to accelerate implementation and to simplify and improve access to the funds available in order to stimulate SMEs, local municipalities and other interested beneficiaries to make use of them;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Is concerned that, although it is clear that evaluation has an essential role to play in the policy debate and learnthe provision of monitoring data and information on implementation is improving, the lack of data – and the impossibiquality of targets set, and the uneven quality, in many instanccases, of aggregating it – makes it impossible to monitor in a proper manner progress made at regional and local level towards the establishedreporting of progress makes it difficult to develop a full picture of progress towards the targets, and considers it a priority to broaden and update regional statistics and improve the quality of datat regional and local level;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Asks the Commission and the Member States, in order to strengthen the transparency of reporting and the quality of programming and its implementation, to make full use of the monitoring and evaluation tools available in the context of the next legislative framework (stronger result orientation, use of common output indicators, choice of programme specific result indicators and a clear performance framework);
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Commission, which is now launching the 2007-2013 ex-post evaluation, and the Member States to ensure that the evaluation is based on reliable data, look at efficiency, effectiveness and impact of operations and is completed by the 2015 deadline in order to draw clear lessons for the implementation of the next programming period mid-term evaluation.
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Urges the Commission to work together with the Member States in increasing the transparency of the calls for projects and its predictability as well as reducing the timing between calls and awards of contracts in particular for SMEs, which compete in a fast changing environment.
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 c (new)
Paragraph 13 c (new)
13c. Calls on Member States to develop policies in encouraging banks to co- finance EU projects
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 d (new)
Paragraph 13 d (new)
13d. Urges the Commission to verify the Managing authorities if they apply the Late payments directive and deal with the unreasonable payments delays by those authorities.
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 e (new)
Paragraph 13 e (new)
13e. Calls on the Commission to analyse the impact of ESF to unemployment and job creation as well as its effectiveness of operations.
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 f (new)
Paragraph 13 f (new)
13f. Calls on the Internal Audit Service of the Commission and the European Court of Auditors to increase its performance audits on Cohesion and Structural Funds and in particular on ESF.
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 g (new)
Paragraph 13 g (new)
13g. Urges the Commission to deeply analyse the causes of the low absorption rate.
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 h (new)
Paragraph 13 h (new)
13h. Calls on the Member States to ensure the co-financing rate in order to accelerate the implementation of funds.