9 Amendments of Nikolaos VAKALIS related to 2008/2061(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the regions of the European Union are confronted with broadly similar challenges: globalisation and the accelerated economic restructuring that goes with it, the opening up of trade relations, the consequences of climate change, the technological revolution, the development of the knowledge-based economy, demographic change and the rise in immigration,
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Stresses the particular added value of using and disseminating best practices in the regional policy sector; believes that the creation of an integrated system for highlighting and publishing best practices will not only make a decisive contribution not only to making European citizens more directly aware of successful Structural Fund interventions, but, more importantly, will substantively assist the bodies implementing these programmes by providing solutions to joint problems and choosing more effective and targeted interventions;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 - indent 2 a (new)
Paragraph 1 - indent 2 a (new)
- to draw up special policy measures and new qualitative indicators for regions with specific geographical characteristics, such as mountainous, island, sparsely population, outermost and border regions, and accordingly to adapt the territorial scale of policy interventions with the aim of promoting the territorial cohesion of the European Union;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1α. Points in particular to the need to simplify the procedures governing the implementation of Structural Fund projects and programmes, particularly as regards management and control systems; approves the Commission's recent legislative proposals in this direction and stresses the need for them to be supplemented by new measures such as the Commission undertook to announce within the next few months;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5α.Takes the view also that the use of a commonly accepted definition of 'best practices' will help clarify this term and help avoid confusion, particularly as regards other related terms; calls on the Commission to formulate such a definition for the regional policy sector and to publish it on the relevant website of DG REGIO;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
- project quality - assurance of partnership principle - promotion of coordination between the EU's sectoral and territorial policies - sustainability of the measure - respect for equal opportunities - innovativeness of the project - effective use of resources - duration of project before implementation - implementation of the project on time and to plan - significant driving force for the region or the EU overall - facilitation of networking and territorial cooperation between regions - transferability of project, i.e. its applicability in other regions of the European Union;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Stresses that all the criteria for highlighting best practices must be clearly measurable so as to avoid subjective judgments and evaluations which may undermine the entire project grading procedure based on these criteria; calls therefore on the Commission clearly to describe both the content of these criteria and how they should be implemented;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Recommends that the Commission use the available tools of the Committee of the Regions, in particular the Lisbon Monitoring Platform and the Subsidiarity Monitoring Network in order to exchange best practices between regions and Member States with a view to identifying and jointly determining the objectives, then planning actions and, finally, undertaking a comparative evaluation of the results of cohesion policy;