Activities of Oldřich VLASÁK related to 2013/2008(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the European Commission’s 7th and 8th progress reports on the EU Cohesion Policy and the Strategic Report 2013 on programme implementation 2007-2013 PDF (240 KB) DOC (121 KB)
Amendments (3)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. Whereas cohesion policy will continue to be the main source of EU public funding in the context of the multiannual financial framework 2014-2020, and whereas cohesion policy new framework is putting all the emphasis on the need to concentrate investment in those few areas deemed to be most important, such as employment (in particular youth employment) and labour mobility, training and education, SMEs, innovation, energy, environment, andresearch, technological development and innovation, ICT, sustainable transport and bottlenecks removal, energy, environment, promotion of institutional capacity of public authorities and efficient public administration, urban development and cities;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Believes that – evidence notwithstanding that local and regional authorities are being involved in the preparation of Partnership Agreements – further action must be taken to reinforce the territorial dimension of the governance system of cohesion policy, the Europe 2020 strategy and the European Semester, by ensuring real coordination and complementarity among the different levels of governance, on one hand, and consistency of the priorities established at those levels with the needs and specificities identified at national, regional and local levels, on the other, while still allowing, where appropriate and necessary, some policy issues to be dealt with in a top- down manner; it stresses the importance to ensure that municipalities and regions are duly engaged in establishing national strategies as they introduce non-mediated view on problems and challenges faced;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Is concerned that, although it is clearUnderstands that evaluation has an essential role to play in the policy debate and learning, the lack of data – and the impossibility, in many instances, of aggregating it – makes it impossible to monitor in a proper manner progress made at regional and local level towards the established targets, and considers it a priority to broaden and update regional statistics and improve the quality of data and therefore it is necessary to monitor in a proper manner progress made; it points, however, out that the authorities at regional and local level are already overloaded by their own agenda and such monitoring must not bring them any additional burden;