4 Amendments of Elisa FERREIRA related to 2010/2206(INI)
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Believes that the basis for a EU tourism strategy lies firstly in a packet of specific measures solely concerning the tourism sector, and secondly in a precise assessment of how measures in other sectors impact tourism; encourages the Commission to set specific timings to achieve all 21 actions and targets and to ask Member States to cooperate by assessing the implementation of each strategy;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the ‘European heritage label’ initiative as a tool giving prominence to some of the important sites in the history of European integration; stresses the need for coordination between this initiative and the UNESCO heritage sites in order to avoid overlapping that has no added value; recommends that the 'European heritage label' should be open, on a voluntary basis, to the participation of sites that represent European heritage in spite of being located outside the European Union;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. Encourages the Commission to foster a progressive reduction in the seasonal nature of tourism by continuing to build on the results, so far positive, of the preparatory action ‘Calypso’; calls, furthermore, on the Commission to press ahead with an exchange programme allowing specific categories of people, starting with the most disadvantaged, to take holidays, particularly during the low season and even travelling across national borders; recommends the progressive opening of the Calypso programme to EU citizens who meet all programme’s requirements but live in third countries, stimulating awareness in their countries of residence of European destinations, namely through reinforcing or building cultural and personal bridges with the second and third generations of European emigrants;
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
Paragraph 46
46. Highlights the opportunity this presents for VAT on tourism to be progressively harmonised across the Member States as a necessary condition for transparent competition between tourist companies within the EU and with non-EU countries; welcomes in this respect the discussion that started with the publication of the Green Paper on the future of VAT; calls the attention of the Member-States to the negative side effect of the growing tendency to over tax tourists travelling to EU or inside EU countries (with fuel charges, security charges, landing fees and port airport fees, city taxes, etc.);