13 Amendments of George BECALI related to 2010/2054(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the sustainable economic development of rural areas and the sustainable, long-term operational capability of economic units in Europe are priorities, and the specific potential of relatively sparsely populated agricultural areas ought to be utilised and developed in a worthwhile way and so as to ensure their continued inhabitation,
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas, in the circumstances of modern society, this ‘multifunctional challenge’ can be met only by drawing on support services, facilities and structures, which need to be affordaccessible and accessiblereasonably priced, in line with rural earnings,
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Points out that it has always been in the interest of European unification to assist and support women;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that efforts are needed to create living conditions in rural areas which correspond to those in urban areas while reflecting the realities of the countryside, in order to offer women and their families the prospect of staying and making a successful life there;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the rural world to be promoted as a natural multifaceted, integrated setting in which people can work and do business, and for the key function of women, their expertise and their competence to be used to this end;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for the promotion of development strategies that have their own momentum, as a means of supporting the particular creativity of men and women in the countryside, while making use of the specific traditional resources of each rural community;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for framework conditions to be provided in rural areas that will enable women of all generations to remain in their own immediate environment and contribute to revival and development there;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Points out that, as in urban areas, a further precondition for pursuing the above aims is the adaptation of infrastructure for everyday life – such as childcare and teaching facilities, care services, educational facilities, institutions providing care for the elderly, local outlets for everyday goods, and leisure and cultural facilities – and calls for agricultural policies to be framed in such a way that women in rural areas are enabled to fulfil their potential in making multifunctional farming a reality;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for rural development policy to focus more strongly on creating healthy, innovative and sustainable living and working conditions in rural areas;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Points out that, in relation to innovative forms of provision, positive experience with projects for women already carried out under the second pillar of the CAP (e.g. Leader + projects) should be utilised, and examples of best practice should be identified, accompanied by exchanges of good practice between the new Member States and Member States which have already achieved results in respect of rural regeneration;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to contribute to an informative database on the economic and social situation of women and their involvement in business in rural regions, together with their concerns, and to optimise the use of data already available (e.g. from Eurostat) for purposes of tailoring policy measures;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Recognises the important role played by existing networks for women at various levels, particularly in terms of the local promotion of rural areas and the way they are perceived by the public, and calls on the Member States to support increased participation by women in the political process, including their proper representation on the boards of institutions, companies and associations, as well as locally elected political organisations;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for women’s entrepreneurial spirit to be encouraged, for support to be given to networks of female entrepreneurs, and also for provision to be made in the financial sector for affording rural businesswomen, including individually self-employed or part-time self-employed women with low earnings, access to investment – thus empowering them more effectively in the marketplace and enabling them to develop businesses from which they can make a stable living, including rural regeneration projects;