7 Amendments of Ulrike MÜLLER related to 2015/2279(INI)
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas mountain areas by agriculture, tourism and craft make a positive contribution to sustainable development, to maintenance of cultural landscapes and the preservation of regional ecosystems;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas mountainous cross-border cooperation, tourism and craft represent a sustainable way to foster economic and social development of mountainous regions;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) should form an integral part of the smart specialisation strategies of regions with mountain areas; notes that administrative burden poses a crucial obstacle to the mainly small communities in mountainous regions and thereby threatens the successful implementation of the programmes; calls therefore on the Commission, Member States and the regions to strengthen synergies between different funds and measures for mountain areas in preparing, examining and adopting operational programmes and to promote the reduction of bureaucracy regarding the application and administration of the use of funds in order to give small communities better access to funding;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission and Member States to develop strategies between local and regional authorities, civil society and economic players in mountain ranges in order to determine joint action plans for the promotion, development and protection of the mountain ranges in question; welcomes and supports in this regard the Alpine macro-regional strategy initiative, and calls on the Commission to take into account the lessons learnt from the implementation of other EU macro- regional strategies;
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Believes that sustainable and inclusive tourism can tackle the problem of desertification and the lack of generational renewal and perspective creating jobs and diversified contents for those regions; recalls the importance of investing in infrastructure, in particular in digital infrastructure, and diversified educational offers which boost competitiveness and connectivity;
Amendment 127 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses the importance of establishing producer groups or organisations to strengthen the bargaining power of farmers in the food chain; recalls the crucial pertinence of local and regional cultural values while structuring the agricultural production and the promotion and protection of products in mountainous regions;
Amendment 133 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Believes that such approaches help maintain and create local and regional markets and short supply chains and initiate approaches geared to quality and promoting and protecting products (‘mountain products’, Protected Designations of Origin (PDO), Protected Geographical Indications (PGI) and Traditional Specialty Guaranteed (TSG));