8 Amendments of Lambert van NISTELROOIJ related to 2014/2213(INI)
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas thesome of the strategic challenges which cities are facing can only be met by taking into account their relation torelated to economic development, climate change, transport and demographic change can only be tackled in partnerships between the cities and their surrounding rural areas;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Is of the opinion that EU policies should support and enable towns, cities and larger functional urban areas, including polycentric conurbations, to attain their full strength and potential as motors of economic growth, employment and social inclusion; believes, therefore, that towns, cities and larger functional urban areas need to be more closely associated with the entire European policymaking cycle;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Asks the Commission to propose ways to introduce an early warning mechanism, giving the subnational government the possibility to observe whether the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality have been taken into accouRecognises that although there is no EU competence on urban development, a broad range of EU initiatives impact directly or indirectly on cities; believes there is a need to better assess this impact as new initiatives are being developed at EU level through a stronger territorial and urban dimension of EU's impact assessments; asks the Commission to work with the Committee of the Regions to strengthen impact assessments;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Is of the opinion that the European Urban Agenda should be a joint effort by the Commission, the Member States and the clocal authorities to rationalise, coordinate and implement EU policies with an urban dimension through a practical, integrated and coordinated, yet flexible, approach, ‘in and with’ the cities and functional urban areas, and respecting each Member State’s institutional architecture;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Believes that a European Urban Agenda should be fully in line with the EU’s overall objectives and strategy, particularly Europe 2020; stresses that administrative borders are becoming less and less pertinent when trying to address development challenges at regional and local level; believes, therefore, that the European Urban Agenda should be inclusive and take into account the diversity of territorial entities in the EU, especially the rural- urban linkages;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to apply a more place-based integrated territorial approach when conceptualising new policy initiatives aimed at urban areas, in order to ensure consistency and to empower towns, cities and larger functional urban areas to deliver the Europe 2020 objectives of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Asks the Commission to systematically introduce a territorial impact assessment on the urban dimension of all relevant EU policy initiatives and to make sure that all relevant sectorial EU policies adequately address the challenges that towns, cities and larger functional urban areas are facing; calls on the Commission to concentrate these territorial impact assessments on the following elements: balanced territorial development, territorial integration and territorial governance;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Urges the Commission to develop a new model of multi-level governance, combining formal governmental structures with informal flexible governance structures that correspond to the new realities of the digitalised ‘network’ society, and which is adapted to the scale at which the challenges exist, a model which improves multi-level cooperation, both vertical and horizontal, with governmental and non-governmental actors at local, regional, national and European level, thus bringing government closer to the citizens and improving the democratic legitimacy of the European project; recommends that this model become the working method of the future European Urban Agenda; considers that a made-to-measure approach is required for it;