Activities of Eleftherios SYNADINOS related to 2015/2052(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
European Structural and Investment Funds and sound economic governance (A8-0268/2015 - José Blanco López) EL
Amendments (5)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission’s criteria, highlighting 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; stresses the need for the Commission to ensure that these programmes are drawn up on the basis of specific recommendations for each country;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 2
2. Highlights the fact that reprogramming or suspension as regulated in Article 23 of the Common Provisions Regulation (CPR) could undermine social and economic convergence between regions and jeopardise goals pursued by ESI funds, especially in countries with deep macroeconomic and social imbalances, something that might possibly have a greater impact on economically vulnerable Member States where public investments are more dependent on fund support; asks the Commission to use the mechanism only when Member States have persistently failed to take effective action to address its requests to reprogramme funding and giving due consideration to the unemployment rate or the impact on the economies of the Member States concerned;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 5
5. Asks the Commission to avoid arbitrariness in applying Article 23 of the CPR, to devise a transparent and democratic decision-making process, in line with Article 23(15) of the CPR, and; regrets that Parliament is not involved in decisions regarding the reprogramming or suspension of disbursements; urges the Commission to allow Parliament, on the basis of a formalised process, to be informed at all stages of the adoption of reprogramming requests or of any proposals and decisions on suspension of commitments or payments.
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to give careful consideration to the economic and social effects on the regions affected by a suspension of payments; underlines the importance of the principles of proportionality and effectiveness when the Commission proposes such a suspension of payments, while making the suspension of payments the ultimate sanction measure imposed on Member States of the EU;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that Parliament will carefully apply its scrutiny rights in the decision- making process via the structural dialogue, thereby ensuring how power should be exercised at European level, particularly as regards transparency, participation, control, effectiveness and consistency.