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8 Amendments of Oldřich VLASÁK related to 2008/2100(INI)

Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas one of the Union’s development aims is to modernise social structures, including employment structurespromote economic and social progress and a high level of employment and to achieve balanced and sustainable development,
2008/11/14
Committee: REGI
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas territorial cohesion can be enhanced by aligning both per-capita incomesthrough economic development and employment structurespromotion in rural and urban areas,
2008/11/14
Committee: REGI
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Takes the view that the criteria traditionally used to distinguish rural areas from urban areas (lower population density, size of population, different employment structure, lower level of income and worse access to public goods and services) fail to provide a complete picture of the situation; considers, therefore, that from the point of view of territorial cohesion, per-capita income, not lower population density, should be the decisive characteristicit is necessary, in addition to the criteria cited, to take into consideration the costs of safeguarding living standards; at the same time, is aware that it is not appropriate to adopt a common definition of rural areas, since that would not take sufficient account of the diversity of situations in the individual Member States, and therefore takes the view that the definition of rural areas should be determined by the Member States in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity;
2008/11/14
Committee: REGI
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on Member States and regional authorities to formulate, in cooperanjunction with the Commissiondevelopment strategy for urban areas, a transparent, long- term rural development strategy at national and regional level, in order to be able to identify clearly rural development priorities and objectives and adapt to them the various sources of funding available;
2008/11/14
Committee: REGI
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to provide appropriate support for projects to develop human capital, in particular through the provision of retraining and further training opportunities for inhabitants of rural areas with the aim of promoting employment and job creation;
2008/11/14
Committee: REGI
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Council to convene a joint meeting of agriculture and regional development ministers to discuss the best means of coordinating cohesion policy and rural development measures, and to invite to this meeting representatives of regional and local bodies;
2008/11/14
Committee: REGI
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission and Member States to apply the open method of coordination to rural development policy at Union level and to involve the representatives of regional and local authorities in this process;
2008/11/14
Committee: REGI
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Notes that the process of rural development must be reconciled with the interests of suburban areas and must be closely coordinated with the promotion of urban development, and emphasises that the synergies between rural and urban development policies are neither sufficient nor effective;
2008/11/14
Committee: REGI