14 Amendments of Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ related to 2009/2231(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Aa (new)
Recital Aa (new)
Aa. whereas by multi-level governance is meant coordinated action by the Union, Member States and local and regional authorities, based on partnership and aimed at drawing up and implementing European Union policies, which definition implies responsibility being shared between the different tiers of government;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Ca (new)
Recital Ca (new)
Ca. whereas the practical solutions which our fellow citizens expect to see as regards public services (such as public transport, drinking water, public health, social housing and public education) can be achieved only by means of good governance, involving two complementary systems: firstly, the institutional system, which provides for the allocation of powers and budgets between the State and regional and local authorities and, secondly, the partnership system, which brings together public and private parties with an interest in a given topic in a given territory,
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Cb (new)
Recital Cb (new)
Cb. whereas partnership should take account of all relevant communities and groups, can bring benefit and added value to the implementation of cohesion policy through enhanced legitimacy, guaranteed transparency and better absorption of funds, and should also be assessed in terms of the social and civic value it represents,
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Cc (new)
Recital Cc (new)
Cc. whereas an integrated approach should take account of the economic, social and environmental aspects of regional development, reconcile the interests of the various parties concerned and pay attention to the regions’ special characteristics (geographical and natural disadvantages, depopulation, outermost region, etc.) if it is to meet local and regional challenges,
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2a (new)
Paragraph 2a (new)
2a. Recommends that the territorial impact analysis should become standard practice through the involvement, upstream of the policy decision, of the various parties concerned in order to understand the economic, social and environmental repercussions on the regions of Community legislative and non-legislative proposals;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2b (new)
Paragraph 2b (new)
2b. Recommends that major Community strategic reforms should be accompanied by a regional action plan agreed between the EU institutions, the Member States and the regional authorities, setting out the political mechanisms to facilitate the ownership, implementation and evaluation of the policies adopted, and including a decentralised communication plan;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5a (new)
Paragraph 5a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to study, in conjunction with local and regional authorities, a possible reform to the open method of coordination to make it more inclusive, by developing participatory governance indicators and territorial indicators;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Considers that satisfactory multi-level governance should be based on a bottom- up approach and calls on the local and regional authorities to examine how they could step up their cooperation with the national government and the Community’s administration by, for example, holding periodic meetings attended by officials from all tiers of government or by the establishment of European Territorial Pacts that link on a voluntary basis the different tiers of government concerned;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Urges the Member States to decentralise the implementation of cohesion policy, so that the system of multi-level governance can work effectively and in keeping with the principles of partnership and subsidiarity, and calls on them to take the decentralisation measures required, at both legislative and budgetary levels;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7a (new)
Paragraph 7a (new)
7a. Emphasises that for the efficient absorption of funds and maximisation of their impact there must be sufficient regional and local administrative capacity; calls therefore on Member States to ensure adequate administrative structures and human capital in terms of recruitment, remuneration, training, resources, procedures, transparency and accessibility;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. URecommends reinforcing the partnership practice and urges the Commission to come up with an agreed definition of the concept of partnership as a condition for building up real partnerships with regional and local authorities; asks the Commission to seriously verify the implementation of this principle by developing specific evaluation tools and to spread best practices in this area through ICT tools; emphasises that partnership can contribute to effectiveness, efficiency, legitimacy and transparency in all the phases of Structural Fund programming and implementation and can increase commitment to and ownership of programme outputs; underlines the important role of the voluntary sector in the partnership process;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9a (new)
Paragraph 9a (new)
9a. Draws attention to the requirement to consult the general public and organisations representing civil society in order to reflect their proposals, and stresses that the participation of civil society helps to legitimise the decision- making process; notes that the efforts to involve the public in the preparations for the operational programmes for the period 2007-2013 were not as successful as hoped for; calls on the Commission to identify good practices and to facilitate their application with a view to improving public involvement ahead of the next programming period;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11a (new)
Paragraph 11a (new)
11a. Takes the view that the European networks for exchanges of good practice should broaden their work in the area of governance and partnership, put more emphasis on political and strategic lessons learnt from previous programme cycles and should ensure public access to exchanges of experience in all European Union languages and thus help to ensure that good practices are in fact implemented;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. WEmphasises that transparent and clear procedures are factors of good governance and therefore welcomes the ongoing simplification of the Structural Funds regulations; calls for a simpler architecture for the Funds after 2013, not as a consequence of the economic crisis but as a general principle of the future cohesion policy, in order to avoid discouraging potential partners from taking part in projects;