3 Amendments of Nils TORVALDS related to 2016/2326(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes the shortcomings of the financial planning and implementation system that led to the accumulation of unpaid bills and the build-up of an unprecedented backlog that rolled over from the last MFF to the current one; is increasingly concerned about the slow start-up of the implementation of the 2014- 2020 operational programmes, which may lead to the same situation in the future; calls on the Commission to come up with a structural solution to solve such problems before the end of the current MFF and to prevent them from happening again in the next MFF; calls for a good balance of financial instruments and grants in the cohesion policy;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines the increasing need for flexibility in the EU budget in general, includingnotably in cohesion policy; encourages the Commission to explore different solutions that would enable the policy to be readily adapted to new challenges during a programming period; considers the creation of a reserve at EU level an interesting option in this context; believes, however, that efforts in this regard should be made both at EU level and at national and regional levels; calls for more flexibility for Member States, while supporting the shared management implementation method;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses the importance of endorsing simplification and coherence of the cohesion policy to minimise many different sets of rules and to make financing more efficient;