2 Amendments of Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI related to 2015/2052(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomNotes the Commission’s criteria, highlightingand calls for further consideration to be given to whether the current Cohesion Fund rules should be applied to the other structural and investment funds; highlights the fact that multiannual programmes and the long-term nature of the challenges facing Member States require certainty and permanence, and that frequent reprogramming should therefore be avoided and stability preferred in order to reinforce the predictability and credibility of ESI fund programmes;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights the fact that reprogramming or suspension as regulated in Article 23 of the Common Provisions Regulation (CPR) could undermineposes a threat to social and economic convergence between regions and thereby jeopardises goals pursued by ESI funds, especialnot only in countries with deep macroeconomic and social imbalances; asks the Commission to use the mechanism only when Member States have persistently failed to take effective action to address its reques, but also in those countries, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe, which rely on the funds to compete on the single market on an equal basis; calls on the Commission, when taking decisions on using these instruments, to reprogramme funding and giving due consideration to the unemployment rate or the impact on the economies of the Member Statcarry out an assessment of their impact on the unemployment rate and economic development in the countries concerned;