5 Amendments of Marco ZULLO related to 2016/2101(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
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1. Acknowledges the greater coherencTakes note of the new mainstreamed European Semester, which allows for more opportunities to engage and communicate with Member States and stakeholders at all levels;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
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2. Is concerned by the cumulative lack of investments, which affects long-term growth and job creation; regrets the late adoption of the Operational programmes in the current programming period; stresses the importance of swift and consistent implementation of cohesion policy 2014- 2020 operational programmes and other EU-funded programmes and initiatives; underlines also the necessity of enhancing multi-level governance and improving the overall quality of public administration, both horizontally and vertically and involving civil society already in the early stage of programming;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
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3. RecognisDeplores the strong links that cohesion policy has established with the wider economic governance framework by providing support for recovery efforts to stimulate compliance with the European Semester rules; underlines, however, that, as the legitimacy of cohesion policy derives from the Treaties, and that this policy is the expression of European solidarity; is therefore of the opinion that measures linking the effectiveness of ESI Funds with sound economic governance should be applied judiciously, with cautpunish sub- national level actors for failures of processes that are steered at national level, and that there are therefore counterproductive for the development of regions and only as a last resortmunicipalities, also considering that the reprogramming would entail a further administrative burden to Local and Regional authorities; recalls, moreover, that the decision of the application of such measures should always take intobe taken considerationing the specific socio- economic circumstances of the Member State concerned, in order to avoid restricting regional and local investments;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
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4. Believes that ensuring the transparency and effectiveness of public expenditure is essential for creating a growth-friendly environment; welcomes the factremarks that several Member States have been able to address the CSRs in their operational programmes (OPs) by means of targeted investments or reforms undertaken in the context of ex-ante conditionalities; appreciates the fact that the ESI Fund investments already contribute to the implementation of structural reforms and improve overall economic performanceconsiders that the rationale of the ESI Funds do not lie in the implementation of structural reforms and that the ESI Funds remain the main tool for public investment in Member States;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
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5. Is of the opinion thatStrongly opposes the Structural Reform Support Programme (SRSP) should provide dedicated and targeted support to Member States on a voluntary basis to assist them with the design and implementation of institutional, structural and administrative reforms, only when such reforms cannot be addressed by other instruments or supported by other types of technical assistanceand regrets that EUR 142 800 000 will be deduced from the technical assistance resources of 2014-2020 ESI Funds programming; emphasises that the budgetary transfer from the technical assistance under cohesion policy to the SRSP at the initiative of the Commission should not be a precedent for any future proposals.