Activities of Ulrike MÜLLER related to 2023/2048(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the implementation of territorial development (CPR, Title III, Chapter II) and its application in the European Territorial agenda 2030
Amendments (7)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas rural areas face the urgent challenges of demographic decline and ageing, especially affecting EU farming populations, along with rural abandonment, lack of or poor access to public and private infrastructure and services, including particularly digital infrastructure, mobility, healthcare and social services, education and training, as well as low incomes and fewer job opportunities;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas SME play a particularly important role in rural areas as employers, as facilitators of a diversification of farm income and as sponsors of social and cultural life and thus help to make rural areas more attractive to young people;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the digital and green transitions offer opportunities for stronger, connected, resilient, innovative and prosperous rural areas in the long term; whereas an up-to-date digital infrastructure is a precondition for digital and smart farming solutions and hence the success of the green transition, as well as a key enabler for competitive SME in rural areas;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that small and family farms and SME are the backbone of EU rural areas, providing food security and ecosystem services for European citizens;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the importance of improving the policy coherence and rural proofing of future EU initiatives to effectively prevent rural depopulation and to facilitate generational renewal, broadband access and job creation in rural areas; Stresses the importance of implementing a rural proofing mechanism for all EU initiatives so as to assess the coherence and complementarity of EU policies and their potential impact on rural areas to ensure that they are fit for purpose; underlines the importance of involving local and regional authorities in the definition and implementation of rural proofing mechanisms;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the potential of the LEADER community-led local development method (CLLD)1 to engage rural communities in local action groups for the preparation and implementation of targeted local development strategies; stresses nonetheless that the Commission should continuously evaluate the costs and benefits of LEADER to ensure that the risk associated of potential misuse of distributed funds is reduced to a minimum, while ensuring that the programme effectively facilitates local engagement and that administrative requirements must match the size and structure and of local community to ensure that they do not create avoidable obstacles for new initiatives; _________________ 1 https://ec.europa.eu/enrd/leader- clld/leader-toolkit/leaderclld- explained_en.html.
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Member States to make effective use of the various funding opportunities also with a view to improving the prospects of SMEs, given their major role in generating employment in rural areas, and calls on the Commission to monitor and assess whether its support reaches rural areas and benefits their communities;