7 Amendments of Maxette PIRBAKAS related to 2022/2046(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Reiterates its concern as regards the significant delay in the implementation of cohesion policy for the 2021-2027 period, as well as its call for the Commission and the Member States to speed up the adoption of the partnership agreements and programmes, without undermining their quality and while respecting the EU’s political priorities and the applicable principles; stresses that this delay is hampering the implementation of post- COVID recovery policies and could cause less-developed regions, including the outermost regions, to fall further behind; reiterates the need for special consideration to be given to less-developed regions and islands in this context;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Reiterates its call for the Commission to put forward a contingency plan to mitigate the risk of under- implementation and decommitments due to the late start of the cohesion policy programmes, through a legislative proposal and, if need be, a corresponding revision of the multiannual financial framework; calls for the programmes already received by the Commission, even if only provisional, to be swiftly implemented;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Recalls that the other emergency instruments used to support the regions, such as CRII, CRII+ and REACT-EU, are not intended as long-term solutions to compensate for the delay in the implementation of cohesion policy; stresses nonetheless that the cohesion policy is but one of a number of instruments designed to support the cohesion and convergence of the regions;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines the necessity of providing the towns and regions with appropriate and immediately accessible financial means in order to deal with the waves of migration caused by the Russian aggression against Ukraine and its multifaceted consequences; emphasises the need to address the grave difficulties that the current rise in energy costsand agricultural product costs, and the breakdown of a number of value chains, is causing for the regions, and to identify suitable financial instruments to deal with them at a regional level;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for a significant increase in the European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF) budget, which would help regions to anticipate and, mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change, and for the scope of the EUSF to be broadened, so that it can also support more climate-resilient restoration or construction of public and private infrastructure, especially infrastructure for the health sector and for the transition to an older EU;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses the need to update the cohesion policy to take account of the spiralling inflation rates and loss in EU citizens’ purchasing power; points out that since the beginning of 2022, threats to purchasing power have been a key area of concern for Europeans; acknowledges that the tensions arising therefrom pose a major risk to public support for the EU and to EU cohesion, particularly in the most peripheral regions;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines that the existing possibility of transfers from the cohesion policy funds to other EU instruments of up to 5 % of the initial allocation provides for sufficient flexibility; strongly opposes the proposal of additional transfers from the cohesion policy funds put forward under the RePowerEU initiative and calls on the Commission to mobilise funds from the Brexit reserve to finance this initiative.