4 Amendments of David CORMAND related to 2022/2147(INI)
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines the key role of cohesion policy in unlocking ORs’ potential and offsetting the impact of their permanent constraints; stresses the need to better account for ORs’ specific features in cohesion fund programming, while ensuring they can fully benefit from provisions enabling greater flexibility, namely higher co-financing rates and access to pre-financing; stresses the need to factor ORs’ specific circumstances fully in to delivery of the Green Deal and to tap into their potential to achieve self- sufficiency from full renewables by providing adequate support energy, as well as local and sustainable agriculture, by providing adequate and reinforced support; reiterates the potential of the ORs for the development of innovative pilot projects on renewable energies;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. 2bis. Underlines the specific vulnerability of ORs to the effects of climate change and biodiversity loss, in particular extreme weather events; stresses the environmental inequalities and injustices suffered by ORs; calls to increase efforts and investments in the environmental restauration of ORs, such as water and soil depollution; stresses that targeted regional policies and action aimed at protecting and restoring the unique biodiversity of the islands are necessary to preserve their natural resources and means of subsistence;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Highlights the success of the programme of options specifically relating to remoteness and insularity (POSEI) and calls on the Commission to replicate this instrument for other sectors, such as transport, in the post-2027 MFF; reiterates the importance of increasingmaintaining adequate allocations for POSEI agriculture in the future to specifically fund sustainable agriculture and adaptation to climate change, transitioning away from practices that drive land and ecosystem degradation;
Amendment 32 #
5 a. Welcomes the Commission’s objective to strengthen ORs’ regional cooperation with neighbouring countries and territories, as a way to reinforce their economic resilience and their food self- sufficiency;