7 Amendments of Teresa RIERA MADURELL related to 2011/0276(COD)
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) The Commission should adopt by delegated act a Common Strategic Framework which translates the objectives of the Union into key actions for the CSF Funds, in order to provide clearer strategic direction to the programming process at the level of Member States and regions. The Common Strategic Framework should facilitate sectoral and territorial coordination of Union intervention under the CSF Funds and with other relevant Union policies and instruments. ; takes the view that Structural Funds should be deployed to their full extent to support capacity building in the regions through dedicated activities aimed at founding centres of excellences, modernising universities, purchase of scientific equipment, local technology transfer, support to start-ups and spin-offs, and local interaction between industry and academia; believes that this will allow a stairway of excellence to be developed, leading these regions to fully participate in the Horizon 2020, based on quality and excellence; downstream from Horizon 2020, the structural funds could be used to finance or co-finance the follow up to Horizon 2020 research projects and to valorise research results in such a way as to encourage easy access to knowledge or to facilitate the deployment of the resulting knowledge in terms of its direct economic or societal use;
Amendment 170 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) Article 174 of the Treaty provides that, in order to strengthen its economic, social and territorial cohesion, the Union shall aim at reducing disparities between the levels of development of the various regions and the backwardness of the least favoured regions or islands, particularly rural areas, areas affected by industrial transition, and regions which suffer from severe and permanent natural or demographic handicaps, such as the northernmost regions with low population density as well as island, border and mountain regions. Also, for the purpose of maximising the effectiveness of the funds, where applicable, disadvantaged urban areas and remote border cities should be taken into account. Article 175 of the Treaty requires that the Union would support the achievement of these objectives by action it takes through the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund, Guidance Section, the European Social Fund, the European Regional Development Fund, the European Investment Bank and other instruments.
Amendment 354 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 93
Recital 93
(93) Since the objective of this Regulation, namely to reduce disparities between levels of development of the various regions and the backwardness of the least favoured regions or islands, particular rural areas, areas affected by industrial transition, and regions which suffer from severe and permanent natural or demographic handicaps, such as the northernmost regions with low population density as well as island, border and mountain regions, and the outermost regions, disadvantaged urban areas and remote border cities, cannot be sufficiently achieved by Member States but can be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve that objective,
Amendment 1226 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 3 – article 84 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point e
Part 3 – article 84 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point e
(e) 0,29 % (i.e., a total of EUR 925 680 000) as additional funding for the outermost regions identified in Article 349 of the Treaty andXXX€ as additional funding for the NUTS level 2 regions fulfilling the criteria laid down in Article 2 of Protocol No 6 to the Treaty of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden.
Amendment 1230 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 3 – article 84 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point e a (new)
Part 3 – article 84 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point e a (new)
(e a) XXX€ as additional funding for the outermost regions identified in Article 349 of the Treaty and for which the level of support should correspond to the realities of OMR-related handicaps.
Amendment 1232 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 3 – article 84 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point e b (new)
Part 3 – article 84 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point e b (new)
(e b) XXX€ as additional funding, to be allocated to areas beset by permanent and severe geographic handicaps in the framework of Operational Programmes undertaken under article 10 of the ERDF Regulation; such areas being those defined by Article 111(4) excluding those already mentioned above under e) and f).
Amendment 1640 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 3 – article 111 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Part 3 – article 111 – paragraph 1 a (new)
In such areas, the ceiling of co-financing rates set in Article 110.3 may be increased by 10% up to a maximum ceiling of 80%.