5 Amendments of Maria SPYRAKI related to 2017/2052(INI)
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
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3. Considers that regional funding should be protected and should continue to predominantly take the form of grants rather than, which should be complemented by financial instruments, which do, however, have an important role to play in certain cases; stresses that in the event of a reduction in the EU’s budgets, greater focus on the EU’s core goals is required;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 4
4. Considers that a 5+5 year MFF period might be preferable, provided that the Commission ensures a smooth transition between programming periods, which would require stricter de- commitment rules, shorter procedures for closing programmes, and faster processes for the setup and start-up of programmes;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for the priorities of regional development programmes to be updated in order to take changing conditions into account and to benefit from new technology; also considers that more flexibility is required in the MFF to meet unforeseen challenges and that these new opportunities and challenges should be reflected in the specific indicators in order to measure EU's response to them;
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 7
7. Calls for the Commission to look into the possibilities for grefurther facilitater synergies and complementarities between the different EU funds, including cohesion policy, Horizon 2020, the Connecting Europe Facility and EFSI;
Amendment 111 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 8
8. Considers that it is essential, in the context of the new MFF, to ensure that budgetary rules, and rules on cohesion policy spending, are at last simplified., as well as to potentially adopt the "single rule book" approach in order to encourage more beneficiaries to apply for EU funding;