Activities of Matthijs van MILTENBURG related to 2014/2213(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the urban dimension of EU policies PDF (211 KB) DOC (142 KB)
Amendments (7)
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Asks the Commission to systematically introduce a territorial impact assessment on the urban dimension and the practical feasibility at regional and local level of all relevant EU policy initiatives and to make sure that all relevant sectorial EU policies adequately address the challenges that towns, cities and larger functional urban areas are facing; calls on the Commission to concentrate these territorial impact assessments on the following elements: balanced territorial development, territorial integration and territorial governance;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Is of the opinion that urban platforms and networks (such as URBACT, the Urban Development NetworkCivitas, the Covenant of Mayors, Smart Cities and Communities Initiative, Reference Framework for Sustainable Cities) have provided an excellent opportunity for the engagement of local and regional actors in urban development and knowledge sharing between actors; urges the Commission to consolidate and ensure better coordination between these platforms in order to allow local actors to better understand them and engage with them in a more efficient way;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Believes that in order to formulate better informed and tailored policies there is a Urban Audit Database needs to develop uniform basic databe updated and improved; encourages Eurostat and the Commission to provide and compile more detailed data, collected where policies are implemented – in many cases at local level; underlines that the collection of flow data – measuring the relationships between cities and their surrounding areas – is also becoming increasingly important in order to improve the understanding of complex functional areas, and therefore urges the Commission to gather and analyse that data, turning it into evidence for policy developments;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Believes that in order for the European Urban Agenda to be an effective tool it should be a shared and regularly updated conceptual framework with a thematic focus on a limited number of challenges in the larger context of the Europe 2020 goals of smart, inclusive and sustainable growth, with particular attention being given to social inclusion, demographic change and environmental sustainability;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Urges the Commission and the Member States to make sure that a higher degree of cross-sector coordination of policies with an urban dimension is ensured at all levels of government to allow better mainstreaming of integrated urban development; calls on DG REGIO, responsible for the EU’s urban policies, to drive this process and to make sure that the urban dimension is taken into account in all relevant new initiatives, while assigning a central role in this to the Commission’s Inter-service Group on Urban Development;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. AskUrges the Commission to appoint a special EU urban envoy tohave the practical implementation of such coordination monitored and evaluated by the practical implementation of such coordinationCommissioner for Regional Policy by closely following the implementation of the Europe 2020 strategy and the territorial agenda of the EU in a horizontal (engaging all relevant policy sectors) and vertical (engaging all levels of government) manner; is of the opinion that the special EU urban envoy calls on the Commissioner to report to the European Parliament’s Committee on Regional Development annually on the subject; is of the opinion that the Commissioner for Regional Policy should, with the help of the Commission’s Inter-service Group on ‘Urban Development’ and with the involvement of one of the Vice-Presidents of the Commission, perform a systematic impact assessment of policy proposals, ensuring that the urban dimension of future legislation is adequately addressed;