Activities of Marie-Thérèse SANCHEZ-SCHMID related to 2011/0276(COD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund covered by the Common Strategic Framework and laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund and the Cohesion Fund and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006
Amendments (39)
Amendment 16 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) For the Partnership Contract and each programme respectively, a Member State should organise a partnership with the representatives of competent regional, local, urban and other public authorities, public and private economic and social partners, and bodies representing civil society, including environmental partners, partners active in various fields such as culture, education and youth, non- governmental organisations, and bodies responsible for promoting equality and non-discrimination. The purpose of such a partnership is to respect the principle of multi-level governance, ensure the ownership of planned interventions by stakeholders and build on the experience and know-how of relevant actors. The Commission should be empowered to adopt delegated acts providing for a code of conduct in order to ensure that partners are involved in the preparation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Partnership Contracts and programmes in a consistent manner.
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 2 – Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Part 2 – Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point 1
(1) strengthening research, technological development, the cultural and creative industries and innovation;
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 2 – Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Part 2 – Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point 6
6) protecting the environment and the natural and cultural heritage and promoting resource efficiency;
Amendment 32 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 2 – Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point 9
Part 2 – Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point 9
9) promoting social inclusion, sport and tourism and combating poverty;
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 2 – Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point 10
Part 2 – Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point 10
10) investing in education, culture, skills and lifelong learning, including vocational training;
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 2 – Article 28 – paragraph 1 – point b
Part 2 – Article 28 – paragraph 1 – point b
b) community-led, by local action groups composed of representatives of public and private local cultural and socio-economic interests, where at the decision-making level neither the public sector nor any single interest group shall represent more than 49 % of the voting rights;
Amendment 43 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 2 – Article 42 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Part 2 – Article 42 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
The monitoring committee shall be composed of representatives of the managing authority and intermediate bodies and of representatives of the partners referred to in Article 5. Each member of the monitoring committee shall have a voting right.
Amendment 213 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) The Common Strategic Framework should therefore establish the key areas of support, territorial challenges to be addressed, policy objectives, priority areas for cooperation activities, coordination mechanisms and mechanisms for coherence and consistency with the economic policies of Member States and the Union and with macro regional strategies and sea basins strategies, where Member States and regions participate in such strategies.
Amendment 222 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) Member States should concentrate support to ensure a significant contribution to the achievement of Union objectives in line with their specific national and regional development needs. Ex ante conditionalities should be defined to ensure that the necessary framework conditions for the effective use of Union support are in place. The fulfilment of those ex ante conditionalities should be assessed by the Commissionall apply only to the extent that they are directly linked to the implementation of the Funds. The European Commission shall assess the information provided by the Member States on the application of the ex ante conditionalities in the framework of its assessment of the Partnership Contract and programmes. In cases where there is a failure to fulfil an ex ante conditionality, the Commission should have the power to suspend payments to the programme.
Amendment 466 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 2 – article 8 a (new)
Part 2 – article 8 a (new)
Article 8a Macro regional strategies and sea basins strategies The CSF Funds shall contribute to macro regional strategies and sea basins strategies, where Member States and regions participate in such strategies. The Commission and the Member States concerned shall ensure the Funds' coordination with these strategies at the level of the Common Strategic Framework, of Partnership Contracts and of operational programmes in order to ensure sufficient allocation from the Funds to these strategies.
Amendment 537 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 2 – article 12
Part 2 – article 12
Amendment 586 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 2 – article 14 – paragraph 1 – point a – point v
Part 2 – article 14 – paragraph 1 – point a – point v
(v) the main priority areas for cooperation, taking account, where appropriate, of macro-regional and sea basin strategies;
Amendment 592 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 2 – article 14 – paragraph 1 – point a – point vii bis (new)
Part 2 – article 14 – paragraph 1 – point a – point vii bis (new)
vii a) the means of coordinating programmes focused on Article 14 (a(vii)) with programmes working towards the objective of European Regional Cooperation.
Amendment 593 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 2 – article 14 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
Part 2 – article 14 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
(a a) arrangements to ensure alignment with macro regional and sea basins strategies, where Member States and regions participate in such strategies, in order to ensure sufficient allocation from the Funds to these strategies;
Amendment 600 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 2 – article 14 – paragraph 1 – point b – point ii
Part 2 – article 14 – paragraph 1 – point b – point ii
ii) the arrangements to ensure an integrated approach to the use of the CSF Funds for the territorial development of urban, rural, coastal, mountainous and cross-border, and fisheries areas and areas with particular territorial features, in particular the implementation arrangements for Articles 28, 29 and 99 accompanied, where appropriate, by a list of the cities to participate in the urban development platform referred to in Article 8 of the ERDF Regulation;
Amendment 661 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 2 – article 17 – paragraph 2
Part 2 – article 17 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall assess whether the applicable ex ante conditionalities are fulfilled. Ex ante conditionalities shall be applied only when they have a direct link to the implementation of the Funds.
Amendment 721 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 2 – article 20 – paragraph 3
Part 2 – article 20 – paragraph 3
3. Where there is evidence resulting from a performance review that a priority has failed to achieve the milestones set out in the performance framework, the Commission may suspend all or part of an interim paycall upon a Member State to propose amendments to the relevant programmes. If the Member State does not respond to this demand or does not respond in a satisfactory manner within three months, the Commission may suspend all or part of the engagements of a priority of a programme in accordance with the procedure laid down in Fund-specific rules.
Amendment 746 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 2 – article 23 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Part 2 – article 23 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. The use of multi-fund programmes (ERDF, ESF, cohesion funds, EAFRD, EMFF) is encouraged. In this way the Commission undertakes to allow the preparation and implementation of such programmes with respect to the principle of proportionality.
Amendment 760 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 2 – article 24 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Part 2 – article 24 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Where Member States and regions participate in macro regional strategies or sea basins strategies, the programme shall be coordinated with these strategies, in accordance with the Partnership Contract, in order to ensure sufficient allocation from the Funds to these strategies.
Amendment 763 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 2 – article 24 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point c a (new)
Part 2 – article 24 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point c a (new)
(c a) where appropriate, indicators related to the programme's contribution to macro regional strategies and sea basins strategies.
Amendment 940 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 2 – article 42 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Part 2 – article 42 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The monitoring committee of a programme under the European territorial cooperation goal shall also include representatives of any third country participating in that programme and may include representatives of the EGTC or other territorial cooperation organisations located in the territories affected by the programme.
Amendment 1101 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 2 – article 60 – paragraph 2 – point b
Part 2 – article 60 – paragraph 2 – point b
b) the total amount allocated under the programme to operations located outside the programme area is not less than 1 % but does not exceed 10 % of the support from the ERDF, Cohesion Fund and EMFF at the level of the priority, or 3 % of the support from the EAFRD at the level of the programme. These amounts may be allocated to the actions referred to in Article 87(2)(c) (v and vi);
Amendment 1209 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 3 – article 83 – paragraph 2
Part 3 – article 83 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission shall adopt a decision, by means of implementing acts, setting out the annual breakdown of the global resources by Member State, for the ‘Investing in growth and jobs’ goal without prejudice to paragraph 3 of this Article and Article 84(7) and by means of the cooperation programme for the European territorial cooperation goal.
Amendment 1315 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 3 – article 84 – paragraph 8
Part 3 – article 84 – paragraph 8
Resources for the European territorial cooperation goal shall amount to 3,487 % of the global resources available for budgetary commitment from the Funds for the period 2014 to 2020 (i.e., a total of EUR 11 700 000 004XXX).
Amendment 1338 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 3 – article 87 – paragraph 1
Part 3 – article 87 – paragraph 1
1. An operational programme shall consist of priority axes. AIn duly motivated circumstances, a priority axis shallmay concern one Fund for aor more categoryies of region and shall correspond, without prejudice to Article 52, to a thematic objective and comprise one or more investment priorities of that thematic objective, in accordance with the Fund-specific rules. For the ESF, a priority axis may combine investment priorities from different thematic objectives set out in Article 9(8), (9), (10) and (11) in order to facilitate their contribution to other priority axes, in duly justified circumstanc, or combine one or more complementary investment priorities from different thematic objectives and Funds, in accordance with Fund-specific rules.
Amendment 1359 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 3 – article 87 – paragraph 2 – point a – point ii bis (new)
Part 3 – article 87 – paragraph 2 – point a – point ii bis (new)
ii a) A presentation of the procedures for coordinating between the Investment for growth and jobs operational programmes, the programmes from the European territorial cooperation goal, and the programmes from the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF), the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI), the European Development Fund (EDF), and the Pre- Accession Instrument (IPA) for the regions concerned.
Amendment 1380 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 3 – article 87 – paragraph 2 – point c – point v
Part 3 – article 87 – paragraph 2 – point c – point v
Amendment 1473 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 3 – article 95 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Part 3 – article 95 – paragraph 1 – point 1
(1) an analysis of the development needs and objectives justifying the joint action plan, taking into account the objectives of the operational programmes, of macro regional strategies and sea basins strategies where they have a significant impact, and, where applicable, the country-specific recommendations and the broad guidelines of the economic policies of the Member States and of the Union under Article 121(2) and the Council recommendations which the Member States shall take into account in their employment policies under Article 148(4) of the Treaty;
Amendment 1529 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 3 – article 101 – paragraph 3 – point c
Part 3 – article 101 – paragraph 3 – point c
(c) where appropriate, progress in implementation of anymacro regional strategies and sea basins strategies and of any other interregional and transnational actions;
Amendment 1595 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 3 – article 110 – paragraph 2 bis (new)
Part 3 – article 110 – paragraph 2 bis (new)
2a. For programmes under the European Territorial Cooperation objective, the Commission’s decisions listed in Paragraphs 1 and 2 are carried out under an operational programme and not for each priority axis.
Amendment 1616 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 3 – article 110 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Part 3 – article 110 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
The co-financing rate at the level of each priority axis of operational programmes under the European territorial cooperation goal shall be no higher than 75 %.
Amendment 1618 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 3 – article 110 – paragraph 4
Part 3 – article 110 – paragraph 4
Amendment 1934 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex -I (new) – Part 1 – Section 1.6 – Paragraph 1.6.2
Annex -I (new) – Part 1 – Section 1.6 – Paragraph 1.6.2
1.6.2 In this context, the Funds covered by the CPR make it possible to combine the power of different EU funds into integrated packages which are tailor- made to fit local, territorial and regional specific needs.
Amendment 1939 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex -I (new) – Part 1 – Section 1.6 – Paragraph 1.6.3
Annex -I (new) – Part 1 – Section 1.6 – Paragraph 1.6.3
1.6.3 When developing their strategies and programmes with a view to identifying the most appropriate interventions, Member States and regions must pay particular attention to predominant territorial, structural and institutional features, such as connectivity of the region in question, employment patterns and labour mobility; rural-urban linkages; cross-border challenges; the local interdependencies between different sectors; cultural heritage; ageing and demographic shifts, etc.
Amendment 1945 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex -I (new) – Part 1 – Section 1.6 – Paragraph 1.6.5
Annex -I (new) – Part 1 – Section 1.6 – Paragraph 1.6.5
1.6.5 So as to foster good policies which are tailored to specific regional needs, Member States and regions must further develop an integrated territorial approach to policy design and delivery, taking account of relevant contextual aspects but focusing on the basis of the following central elements: a) an evaluation of the region's Europe 2020 development potential and capacity; b) an assessment of the development challenges facing the region and its ability to address them; c) an assessment of challenges of cross- border nature. d) consideration of the appropriate territorial scale and context for policy design and delivery, according to the subsidiarity principle; e) design of the multi-level governance arrangements necessary to ensure effective policy delivery; f) the choice of appropriate result and outcome indicators, to be used for policy monitoring and evaluation.
Amendment 1958 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex -I (new) – Part 2 – Section 2.2 – Paragraph 2.2.2
Annex -I (new) – Part 2 – Section 2.2 – Paragraph 2.2.2
2.2.2 In particular, Member States and regions must develop a national or regional research and innovation (R&I) strategy for 'smart specialisation' in line with the National Reform Program. These strategies must be developed through close collaboration between national or regional managing authorities and the authorities directly concerned by Horizon 2020, but also involving stakeholders such as universities and higher education institutions, local industry, SMEs and social partners. Those innovation strategies must take into account both upstream and downstream actions to and from Horizon 2020.
Amendment 2000 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex -I (new) – Part 2 – Section 2.6 – Paragraph 2.6.2
Annex -I (new) – Part 2 – Section 2.6 – Paragraph 2.6.2
Amendment 2004 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex -I (new) – Part 3 – Paragraph 3.2 – point a
Annex -I (new) – Part 3 – Paragraph 3.2 – point a
a) identify areas of intervention where the Funds covered by the CPR can be combined in a complementary manner to achieve the thematic objectives set out in this Regulation, taking into consideration cross-border aspects and the situation on the other side of the border;
Amendment 2007 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex -I (new) – Part 4 – Title
Annex -I (new) – Part 4 – Title
4. Priorities for territorial cooperation (cross-border, transnational and interregional)