Activities of Oldřich VLASÁK related to 2009/2233(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT Report on achieving real territorial, social and economic cohesion within the EU - a sine qua non for global competitiveness? PDF (230 KB) DOC (134 KB)
Amendments (2)
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Takes the view that the Member States must support a place-based approach to framing and implementing cohesion policy; acknowledges that the role of the regions varies between Member States depending on their political and administrative structure; requests that, in the interests of subsidiarity, an improvement be sought, by promoting the principle of decentralisation, down to the local authority level over the current programming period, in which the regions are administering only 30.5% of the overall budget allocated to cohesion policy, with the remainder being administered by central governments;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses the importance, in the interests of eliminating disparities, of continuing to provide support primarily for projects aimed at regions that are lagging behind, so that the impact expected in this programming period can be maintained and is in line with initial estimates; improving accessibility and infrastructural facilities will contribute to the competitiveness of lagging regions in the internal market, and thus to the external competitiveness of the EU as a whole; takes the view that withdrawing that support would reduce the impact of the positive initial results;