16 Amendments of Francisco José MILLÁN MON related to 2020/2039(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
- having regard to the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a Recovery and Resilience Facility, COM(2020) 408 final,
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
Citation 8 a (new)
- having regard to its report of 27 February 2019 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Regional Development Fund and on the Cohesion Fund,
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)
Citation 10 a (new)
- having regard to the Commission’s roadmap of 27 July 2020 entitled ‘Rural development: long-term vision for rural areas’1a, _________________ 1a Ares(2020)3866098
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 b (new)
Citation 10 b (new)
- having regard to the Commission’s roadmap of 16 November 2020 entitled ‘Demographic change in Europe: Green Paper on ageing’1b, _________________ 1b Ares(2020)6799640
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Reiterates that the European Structural and Investment Funds, especially the ERDF, should pay more specific attention to demographic change as a fundamental challenge and a priority area in the creation and application of programmes; reiterates its demand for at least 5% of ERDF resources to be allocated to integrated spatial development in non-urban areas that suffer from natural, geographical or demographic disadvantages;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Recalls that the Recovery and Resilience Facility will provide large-scale financial support to make Member States’ economies more resilient and better prepared for the future, and insists that Member States should examine, in line with their specific circumstances, the possibility of proposeing measures for addressing demographic change in their national recovery and resilience plans; considers that local and regional bodies must be actively involved in drawing up these plans, as this is an area of particular importance when evaluating the plans, and subsequently in their management by Member States; highlights the importance of the instruments for a transition to sustainability such as the Just Transition Fund and its implementation mechanism, which aim to support the communities affected by the energy transition and avoid the risk of depopulation;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Member State to include demographic challenges in their national recovery and resilience plans, their national development policies and long- term strategies for sustainable development correlated with the European Semester, thus ensuring proper financing for demographic issues;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on the regions at risk of depopulation to focus investments on universal accessibility to quality services and infrastructure and job creation; insists on investment in education, with the participation of SMEs and service management businesses, and job creation; insists on investment in education, scholarships, school transport, the expansion of the early childhood education network for children aged 0 to 3, reskilling of workers, creating entrepreneurial conditions and supporting SMEs;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Considers it appropriate to involve regional and local authorities in long-term cooperative governance and planning initiatives at various levels; asks the Commission and the Member States to disseminate good practices on the use and benefits of this type of governance and of planning tools to support polycentric development; in that regard, expresses its concern that the planning and management of the Recovery and Resilience Facility might be carried out in a centralised way by Member States without active and genuine participation by the regions, in contrast to what has historically been the case with the Structural and Investment Funds and cohesion policies.
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Considers that an attractive fiscal policy is also a very useful tool in encouraging citizens to choose to settle in a particular territory and make their lives there; believes that, within free fiscal competition, creating attractive areas for business investment through reduced tax rates, cutting taxes for families and including fiscal incentives for employees and self-employed workers will facilitate job creation, the creation of opportunities, investment and consumption, thus helping to reverse negative demographic trends in the territories in which these fiscal policies are applied;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Encourages policymakers at regional and national level to invest in the knowledge economy, as well as in providing services and incentives, to maintain high-skilled workers and to develop research centres in the different regions, as well as making use of the funds in the Recovery and Resilience Facility;
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Calls on the Commission to provide a precise definition of the notion of ‘severe and permanent demographic handicaps’ referred to in Article 174 TFEU and Article 121 of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 that would enable demographic challenges to be statistically quantified; reiterates its proposal for ‘regions which suffer from severe and permanent demographic handicaps’ to be defined as those NUTS 3 regions and those clusters of local administrative units that have either experienced an average population decrease of more than 1% between 2007 and 2017 or have a population density below 12.5 inhabitants per km2 for sparsely populated areas or below 8 inhabitants per km2 for very sparsely populated areas;
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Insists that investments should be focused on information and communication technology, since this has the potential to reduce the distance between the users and to attract high- skilled workers; stresses the importance of funding the development and uptake of these technologies among companies and schools in rural and isolated regions and regions in industrial transition, including through funds from the Recovery and Resilience Facility;
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the initiative on the long-term vision for rural areas includes practical solution and means of support to address demographic changes; invites the Commission, in agreement with the Member States and local and regional authorities, to propose a ‘new deal’ on demographics in the EU as a multi-level policy approach;
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 a (new)
Paragraph 34 a (new)
34a. Welcomes the fact that the current team of Commissioners includes a European Commission Vice-President for Democracy and Demography; urges the European institutions to ensure that demographic, depopulation and ageing issues are kept to the fore in the upcoming Conference on the Future of Europe;
Amendment 288 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council and the Commission, the Commission, the European Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions and the national and regional parliaments of the Member States.