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4 Amendments of Manfred WEBER related to 2009/2156(INI)

Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Takes the view that the fight against the depopulation of rural areas should form part of the strategy to support disadvantaged areas in the EU; considers it necessary to take a 'depopulation' criterion into account in the ‘fine-tuning’ that the Member States are to carry ouStresses that every Member State shall be permitted, in a ‘fine-tuning’, after considering the eight biophysical criteria and on the basis of national criteria, to carry out an ex post evaluation of the disadvantaged areas and to take a 'depopulation' criterion into account when drawing up the maps of intermediate disadvantaged areas;
2010/02/02
Committee: REGI
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Takes the view that the areas in which the eight biophysical criteria are not met, but in which all criteria, though just under the threshold, when taken together constitute a substantial handicap, should also be recognised as areas with natural handicaps;
2010/02/02
Committee: REGI
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Takes the view that the new scheme could lead to a transfer of aid from some areas to others, making it necessary for places which lose the status of intermediate disadvantaged areas toplaces which under the new system lose the status of ‘area with natural handicaps’ or in which a disproportionate shift takes place must be given a sufficient transitional period to adapt to the new situation;
2010/02/02
Committee: REGI
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Takes the view that, when the map of intermediate disadvantaged areas is drawn up, account should be taken of objective national criteria that will make it possible to adapt the definition of areas to the national and regional situation in each country within the framework of a global European Commission strategy;
2010/02/02
Committee: REGI