46 Amendments of Krzysztof HETMAN related to 2018/0196(COD)
Amendment 365 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point c
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point c
(c) in the context of State aid schemes, the undertaking which receivesbody which receives the aid, except when the Member State decides that the beneficiary is the body granting the aid;
Amendment 405 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) a greener, low-carbon Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition and sustainable urban mobility, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate adaptation and risk prevention and management;
Amendment 416 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) a more connected Europe by enhancing mobility, energy and regional ICT connectivity;
Amendment 578 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) the selected policy objectives indicating by which of the Funds and programmes they will be pursued and a justification thereto, and where relevant, a justification for using the delivery mode of the InvestEU, taking into account relevant country-specific recommendations and regional specificities;
Amendment 646 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall assess the Partnership Agreement and its compliance with this Regulation and with the Fund- specific rules. In its assessment, the Commission shall, in particular, take into account relevant country-specific recommendations and regional specificities.
Amendment 742 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
The Member State, in close cooperation with the relevant managing authority, shall establish a performance framework which shall allow monitoring, reporting on and evaluating programme performance during its implementation, and contribute to measuring the overall performance of the Funds.
Amendment 753 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. For programmes supported by the ERDF, the ESF+ and the Cohesion Fund, the Member State and relevant managing authority, shall review each programme, taking into account the following elements:
Amendment 867 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 1
Article 16 – paragraph 1
1. Member States or relevant managing authority, in cooperation with the partners referred to in Article 6, shall prepare programmes to implement the Funds for the period from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2027.
Amendment 917 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point d – point i
Article 17 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point d – point i
(i) the related types of actions, including an indicative list of planned operations of strategic importance, and their expected contribution to those specific objectives and to macro-regional strategies and sea- basin strategies, where appropriate;
Amendment 929 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point d – point iv
Article 17 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point d – point iv
(iv) specific territories targeted on the basis of strategic documents prepared at national and regional level, including the planned use of integrated territorial investment, community-led local development or other territorial tools;
Amendment 948 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point i
Article 17 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point i
(i) the envisaged approach to communication and visibility for the programme through defining its objectives, target audiences, communication channels, social media outreach, planned budget and relevant indicators for monitoring and evaluation;
Amendment 972 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 7
Article 17 – paragraph 7
7. The Member Statemanaging authority shall communicate to the Commission any changes in the information referred to in paragraph (3)(j)dicative list of planned operations of strategic importance referred to in paragraph (3)(d)(i), and the information referred to under points (d)(iii), (d)(vii) and(d)(j) of paragraph (3), without requiring a programme amendment.
Amendment 986 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 2
Article 18 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission may make observations within three months of the date of submission of the programme by the Member State. The Member State shall provide the Commission all the necessary additional information.
Amendment 1009 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 2
Article 19 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission shall assess the amendment and its compliance with this Regulation and with the Fund-specific Regulations, including requirements at national level, and may make observations within three months of the submission of the amended programme. The Member State shall provide the Commission with all necessary additional information.
Amendment 1037 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1
Article 19 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1
The Member State, while fully respecting the Code of Conduct for Partnership and Multi-level Governance, may transfer during the programming period an amount of up to 510 % of the initial allocation of a priority and no more than 35 % of the programme budget to another priority of the same Fund of the same programme. For the programmes supported by the ERDF and ESF+, the transfer shall only concern allocations for the same category of region.
Amendment 1082 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 1
Article 21 – paragraph 1
1. Member States may request the transfer of up to 510 % of programme financial allocations from any of the Funds to any other Fund under shared management or to any instrument under direct or indirect management.
Amendment 1105 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 22 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) another territorial tool supporting initiatives designed by the Member Statemanaging authorities of programmes for investments programmed for the ERDF under the policy objective referred in Article 4(1)(e).
Amendment 1115 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
The managing authority shall ensure that territorial strategies implemented pursuant to points (a) or (c) of Article 22 shall contain the following elements:
Amendment 1135 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 23 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. When preparing territorial strategies, entities referred to in Article 23(2) shall cooperate with relevant managing authorities, as far as the scope of operations to be supported under the relevant programme is concerned.
Amendment 1225 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 31 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) for the ERDF support under the Investment for jobs and growth goal, and for the Cohesion Fund support: 2,5 %;
Amendment 1240 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 31 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) for the ESF+ support: 4% and for programmes under Article 4(1)(c)(vii) of the ESF+ Regulation: 5 5%;
Amendment 1259 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 33 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
The Member Statemanaging authority shall set up a committee to monitor the implementation of the programme ('monitoring committee') within three months of the date of notification to the Member State concerned of the decision approving the programme.
Amendment 1266 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 4
Article 33 – paragraph 4
4. The Member Statemanaging authority shall publish the rules of procedures of the monitoring committee and all the data and information shared withconcerning the work of the monitoring committee on the website referred to in Article 44(1).
Amendment 1287 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 35 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) the methodology and criteria used for the selection of operations, including any changes thereto, after consultation with the Commission pursuant to Article 67(2), without prejudice to points (b), (c) and (d) of Article 27(3);
Amendment 1291 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
Article 35 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
(da) changes to the list of planned operations of strategic importance referred to in Article 17(3)(d)(i),and the information referred to under points (d)(iii), (d)(vii) and (d)(j) of Article 17(3);
Amendment 1292 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 35 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. In the case of financial instruments, paragraph 2, point a, will be used only for the selection of operations by the managing authority or intermediate body.
Amendment 1301 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 37 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 37 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
The managing authority shall electronically transmit to the Commission cumulative data for each programme by 31 January, 31 March, 31 May, 31March, 30 Julyne, 30 September and 30 Nov1 December of each year in accordance with the template set out in Annex VII. The first transmission shall be due by 31 March 2022, and the last by 31 March 2030.
Amendment 1405 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 53 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 53 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
The managing authority shall select the body implementing a financial instrument in accordance with Article 67.
Amendment 1412 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 53 – paragraph 6
Article 53 – paragraph 6
6. National co-financing of a programme may be provided either by the managing authority or at the level of holding funds, or at the level of specific funds, or at the level of investments in final recipients, in accordance with the Fund- specific rules. When the national co- financing is provided at the level of investments in final recipients, the body implementing financial instruments shall keep documentary evidence demonstrating the eligibility of the underlying expenditure.
Amendment 1418 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 54 – paragraph 2
Article 54 – paragraph 2
2. Interest and other gains attributable to support from the Funds paid to financial instruments shall be used undertil the same objective or objectives as the initial support from the Funds, either withend of the eligibility period in the same or other financial instrument; s for, following the winding up of the financial instrumurther investments in final recipients, in other financial instruand for any management costs and fees associated with such further investments, or in other forms of support, untilder the end of the eligibility periodsame specific objective or objectives.
Amendment 1425 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 56 – paragraph 1
Article 56 – paragraph 1
1. Resources paid back, before the end of the eligibility period, to financial instruments from investments in final recipients or from the release of resources set aside as agreed in guarantee contracts, including capital repayments and any type of generated income that is attributable to the support from the Funds, shall be re- used in the same or other financial instruments for further investments in final recipients, under the same specific objective or objectives and for any management costs and fees associated to such further investments or in other forms of support.
Amendment 1428 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 56 – paragraph 2
Article 56 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall adopt the necessary measures to ensure that the resources referred to in paragraph 1 and paid back to financial instruments during a period of at least eightfive years after the end of the eligibility period, are re-used in accordance with the policy objectives of the programme or programmes under which they were set up, either within the same financial instrument or, following the exit of those resources from the financial instrument, in other financial instruments or in other forms of support.
Amendment 1443 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 58 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point c
Article 58 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point c
(c) recoverable value added tax ('VAT'), except for operations the total cost of which is below EUR 5 000 000.
Amendment 1452 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 59 – paragraph 3
Article 59 – paragraph 3
3. Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to programme contributions to or from financial instruments and any operation which undergoes cessation of a productive activity due to a non- fraudulent bankruptcy.
Amendment 1494 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 64 – paragraph 2
Article 64 – paragraph 2
2. Commission audits shall be carried out up to threewo calendar years following the acceptance of the accounts in which the expenditure concernedafter the final payment to the beneficiary was included. This period shall not apply to operations where there is a suspicion of fraud.
Amendment 1742 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 85 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 85 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
The Member State shall submit a maximum of fourmanaging authority shall submit payment applications per programme, per Fund and per accounting year. Every year the time limit for each payment application shall be 30 April, 31 July, 31 October and 26 December.
Amendment 1745 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 85 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 85 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 1752 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 86 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 86 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Where financial instruments are implemented in accordance with Article 53(32), payment applications that include expenditure for the establishment of financial instruments shall be submitted in accordance with the following conditions:or contribution to them.
Amendment 1754 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 86 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 86 – paragraph 2 – point a
Amendment 1756 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 86 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 86 – paragraph 2 – point b
Amendment 1757 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 86 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Article 86 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Amendment 1758 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 86 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Article 86 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 1784 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 99 – paragraph 1
Article 99 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall decommit any amount in a programme which has not been used for pre-financing in accordance with Article 84 or for which a payment application has not been submitted in accordance with Articles 85 and 86 by 2631 December of the seconthird calendar year following the year of the budget commitments for the years 2021 to 2026. In the event of payment stops on a legal or precautionary basis, an extension shall also be applied.
Amendment 1811 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 102 – paragraph 1
Article 102 – paragraph 1
1. The ERDF, the ESF+ and the Cohesion Fund shall support the Investment for jobs and growth goal in all regions corresponding to level 2 of the common classification of territorial units for statistics (‘NUTS level 2 regions’) established by Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 868/2014 and by Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/2066.
Amendment 1902 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 106 – paragraph 1
Article 106 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission decision approving a programme shall fix the co- financing rate and the maximum amount of support from the Funds for each priority and the co- financing rate for the programme.
Amendment 2000 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 106 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Article 106 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
The co-financing rate for Interreg programmes shall be no higher than 7085 %.