12 Amendments of Matthijs van MILTENBURG related to 2018/0166R(APP)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas, in the Commission’s proposal, the Cohesion Fund has been particularly hard hit, with a's budget will be reductioned in its 2021-2027 envelope ofby 45 %;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 22 #
5. Deplores the severNotes the reduction in the Cohesion Fund’s budget due to the development of some of the member states eligible under the current period for the Cohesion Fund; stresses the importance of investments under the Cohesion Fund in terms of reducing territorial disparities and progressing towards greater territorial cohesion in the EU;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Strongly opposes the reduction inWelcomes the allocation of a part of the Cohesion Fund’'s budget through its contributiono the amount of EUR 10 billion, in 2018 prices, to the Connecting Europe Facility;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for EUR 20 billion fromWelcomes the proposed financial allocation for the Reform Delivery Tool to Ssupport Sstructural Reforms to be used instead, in order to increase the financial allocation for cohesion policy, and the Interreg envelope within it; calls for EUR 5 billion of this amount to be used to increase the budget of the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) programme;reforms.
Amendment 39 #
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Underlines the effectiveness of the centralised governance structure laid down by the CEF Regulation; notes that transferring part of Cohesion Fund funding to the CEF has been a great success and that the degree of satisfaction of the Member States concerned confirms that this mechanism shall be continued under the next MFF and be sufficient to complete the currently ongoing projects funded through the Cohesion Fund contribution; accordingly proposes an allocation of EUR 20 billion from the European Regional Development Fund to the CEF, with the same management rules to be managed under similar rules to those which apply to Cohesion Fund funding for the CEF, albeit accessible for all Member States; believes that, in view of the big difference between available funding and what is needed, more attention needs to be paid to solutions with a big EU- added value such as missing cross-border links, such as rail, and this transfer would ensure that TEN- T projects in Europe made significant headway;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes that lower EU co-financing rates might result in difficulties for beneficiaries in the regions to access EU fundinghave been set at the pre-financial crisis level and that other stakeholders involved need to justifiably increase their contribution;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Welcomes the proposed introduction of the rule of law mechanism as proposed by COM(2018) 324 final;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses the significant mobilisation of the EU Solidarity Fund in cases of natural disasters with important budgetary consequences; reiterates its call to increase the available level of funding to EUR 1 billion per year;
Amendment 92 #
Paragraph 14 – point ii a (new)
ii a. Introduce a transfer from ERDF to CEF-Transport in line with the transfer from Cohesion Fund to CEF-Transport;