17 Amendments of Younous OMARJEE related to 2013/0000(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
- having regards to the provisions of Article 174, third paragraph, TFEU which stress the necessity to pay particular attention to the needs of territories with permanent geographic and demographic handicaps such as islands, mountains, and sparsely-populated areas,
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 b (new)
Citation 1 b (new)
- having regard to Article 175 TFEU which stresses that the formulation and implementation of the Union's policies and actions and the implementation of the internal market shall take into account the objectives set out in Article 174 and shall contribute to their achievement,
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)
Citation 2 a (new)
- having regard to Article 349 TFEU which takes into account the remoteness, insularity, small size, difficult topography and climate, economic dependence on a few products of the outermost regions and allows the European instutions to adopt specific measures aimed, in particular, at laying down the conditions of application of the Treaties to those regions, including common policies,
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Takes the view that the implementation of both the Cohesion Policy and the rules on State support schemes to reinforce local and regional investments are of key importance for promoting economic, social and territorial cohesion, regional and local development, industrial growth and job creation; is, however, concerned about whether the State aid rules are coherent with the implementation of the European Structural and Investment Fundsbelieves that the regional State aid is a key instrument to counter the effects of the crisis and to support regions facing difficulties; calls therefore for the Commission to maintain the ceilings of the current scheme of State aid as well as the percentage of the population covered by this aid in order to better promote harmonious regional development;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights that the State aid rules, as well as the Cohesion Policy objectives, should leadare absolutely vital to improvinge the situation of the less-developed regions, and that the SAM process must reflect the objectives of cohesion throughout the EU and must allow these regions to attain the level of economic and social well-being achieved by other EU regions; believes that the modernisation of competition rules must be based on understanding the impact of these rules at sub-national level;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Highlights that State aid granted to territories characterized by remoteness, substantial transport overcost, and market-size limitations is unlikely to result in market distortion, and that State aid rules should be adapted correspondingly, according to the principle of proportionality;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Takes the view that the geographical zoning of the new Guidelines on Regional State Aid 2014-2020 (RSAG) should not be reduced, and that decreasing the aid intensity should be reconsidered, taking into account the political, economic and social situation in the Member States as well as their natural, geographic and demographic handicaps; points out that, in the global context, the EU economy could be placed at a disadvantage relative to third countries benefitting from looser employment schemes or lower costs;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Believes that to take into account the specific situation of the outermost regions, as recognised in Article 107(3)(a)TFEU, the Commission should provide them with at least the same level of aid they have been allocated under the current scheme, given the fact that their handicaps are structural and permanent in nature; believes thus that the maximum aid intensities applicable to regional investment in outermost regions should be kept unchanged; underlines that the non degressivity and non limitation in time for operating aids in the outermost regions is essential due to their remoteness from the EU's internal market, their proximity to other markets of less developed countries and their permanent constraints;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Questions the relevance of the new RSA zoning, based on GDP and unemployment rate; suggests in particular that the zoning criteria also takes into account the natural, geographic and demographic handicaps faced by certain regions;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4 c. Takes the view that additionally to GDP, unemployment rates should also be taken into account as a new criterion for the eligibility of regions covered by State aid;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points out to the restrictive impact of new rules on investment and growth of regions as they move from the less developed to the more developed category; is aware that certain regions eligible for State aid under the current system will not meet the zoning criteria of the RSAG in the future period and will thus be suddenly excluded from the zoning scheme; believes that these regions should have a special safety regime, similar to that for transition regions under the Cohesion Policy, allowing them to cope with their new situation;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Believes that the application of State aid rules within Cohesion Policy programmes could be better achieved by focussing on large-scale aid, simplifying rules, increasing the de minimis ceiling, and extending the horizontal categories in the Enabling Regulation and the scope of the block exemption rules in the General Block Exemption Regulation with, for instance, the inclusion of a new category in the GBER for aid schemes in favour of the outermost regions;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Believes that the Member States should coordinate their activities with the Commission better, in terms of the quality and timeliness the information they are to submit and the notifications they are to prepare; calls on the Member States to ensure the proper application of the State aid ex-ante conditionality under Cohesion Policy, and to provide better compliance with State aid rules at national level;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Stresses the importance of the rules for regional as sector-specific State aid for attracting foreign direct investment to the EU and its regions and for ensuring their global competitiveness, helping thus to achieve economic, social and territorial cohesion;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Recalls that the regulation and the definition concerning large enterprises companies should not applied in outermost regions;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Believes that the eligibility of large enterprises for State aid incentives should be determined not on the basis of the size of the enterprise or the sector in which it operates but on the basis of the number of jobs that could be created under the incentive, the quality of these jobs or, the sustainability of the project, and the project's contribution to social cohesion; stresses that, in compliance with the principle of subsidiarity, decisions to determine which particular projects have the highest potential to achieve the objectives of EU policies should be left to the Member States, the regions concerned and local governments;