16 Amendments of Alyn SMITH related to 2011/0276(COD)
Amendment 43 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) economic and social partners representing the general interest of industries or branches, employers and employees; and
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) bodies representing civil society, including environmental partners, non- governmental organisations, and bodies responsible for promoting equality and non-discrimination, and others such as non-governmental organisations promoting social inclusion and organisations active in the areas of culture, education and youth policy.
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. A Member State, or sub-national government with competent authority, shall include those institutions, organisations and groups in the Partnership that might influence or might be affected by the implementation of the programmes. Specific attention shall be paid to groups that might be affected by the programmes and may suffer difficulties to influence them, in particular the most vulnerable and marginalised groups.
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2
Article 5 – paragraph 2
2. In accordance with the multi-level governance approach, the partners shall be involved by Member States inrepresenting the different territorial levels in the Member States shall be involved by Member States, and sub-national governments with competent authority, in all stages of the preparation of Partnership Contracts and progress reports and in all stages of the preparation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programmes. The partners shall participate in the monitoring committees for programmes.
Amendment 48 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1
The objectives of the CSF Funds shall be pursued in the framework of integrated sustainable development and the Union's promotion of the aim of protecting and improving the environment, as set out in Article 11 of the Treaty, taking into account the polluter pays principle and avoiding future external costs for European society.
Amendment 49 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 2
The Member States and the Commission shall, based on existing environmental legislation, ensure that environmental protection requirements, resource efficiency, biodiversity, ecosystem protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation, ecosystem-based disaster resilience and risk prevention and management are promoted in the preparation and implementation of Partnership Contracts and included as objectives in the programmes. Member States shall provide information on the support for climate change and biodiversity objectives using the methodology adopted by the Commission. The Commission shall adopt this methodology by means of an implementing act. The implementing act shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 143(3). Sustainability shall also be ensured in terms of maintaining and creating employment.
Amendment 57 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point d – point iv
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point d – point iv
(iv) the actions taken to involve the partners and their rolemplement the multilevel governance approach and to involve the partners referred to in Article 5 in the preparation of the Partnership Contract and the progress report as defined in Article 46 of this Regulation; and in the preparation, implementation, evaluation and monitoring of the programmes, in accordance with the European code of conduct referred to in Article 5, including a list of the partners involved, how they have been selected, their responsibilities and the views they expressed regarding the content of the Partnership Contract and regarding the implementation of the partnership principle;
Amendment 58 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point d – point iv a (new)
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point d – point iv a (new)
(iv a) an identification of relevant existing national/regional/local partnership and multilevel governance structures and ways to take them into account;
Amendment 68 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 3
Article 20 – paragraph 3
Amendment 69 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 4
Article 20 – paragraph 4
Amendment 73 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 2
Article 24 – paragraph 2
2. Each programme shall define priorities setting out specific objectives, financial appropriations of support from the CSF Funds and corresponding national co- financingit receives from one or more of the CSF Funds referred to in Article 1 and corresponding national co- financing. Where a programme receives support from more than one Fund, a lead Fund may be designated, in which case the running costs shall be financed by the lead Fund and the financial management rules of the lead Fund shall apply.
Amendment 74 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point c a (new)
Article 24 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point c a (new)
(c a) indicators relating to the impact of the operations on the environment and climate change.
Amendment 75 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 24 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Each programme shall set out its contribution to the integrated approach for territorial development set out in the Partnership Contract, including: (i) the mechanisms that ensure coordination between the different CSF Funds and other Union and national funding instruments, and with the EIB; (ii) planned integrated approached to the territorial development of urban, rural, coastal and fisheries areas and areas with particular territorial features, in particular the implementation arrangements for community led local development strategies referred to in Articles 28 and 29; (iii) the identification of areas in which community-led local development strategies referred to in Articles 28 and 29 will be implemented; (iv)the arrangements for interregional and transnational actions with beneficiaries located in at least one other Member State; (v) where appropriate, the contribution of the planned intervention strategies towards macro regional strategies and sea basin strategies.
Amendment 76 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 4 b (new)
Article 24 – paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. In order to improve the delivery of benefits from EU environment measures, each programme, plan and project shall set out the results of the Member States' and other project promoters' environmental assessment in particular based on Council Directives 85/337/EEC of 27 June 1985 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment1, on Directive 2001/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2001 on the assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment2 and 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habits and of wild fauna and flora3, and Directives of the European Parliament and of the Council: 2000/60/EC of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy4, and 2009/147/EC of 30 November 2009 on the conservation of wild birds5 in order to avoid or, when not possible, mitigate or compensate for negative impacts on the environment, such as to landscape fragmentation, soil sealing, air and water pollution as well as noise, and to effectively protect biodiversity. ______________ 1 OJ L 175, 5.7.1985, p. 40. 2 OJ L 197, 21.7.2001, p. 30. 3 OJ L 206, 22.7.1992, p. 7. 4 OJ L 327, 22.12.2000, p.1. 5 OJ L 20, 26.1.2010, p. 7.
Amendment 77 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 4 c (new)
Article 24 – paragraph 4 c (new)
4 c. Each programme, plan and project shall be based on a carbon-proofing assessment, in accordance with the EU 2020 targets. The Commission shall define a common methodology for these assessments according to the procedure indicated in Article 143.
Amendment 78 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 3
Article 29 – paragraph 3
3. Local development strategies shall be selected by a committee set up for this purpose by the relevant managing authorities of the programmes. The partners referred to in Article 5 shall be appropriately represented in this committee.