6 Amendments of Gaston FRANCO related to 2011/2035(INI)
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the partial failure of the Lisbon Strategy is due not to the inadequate implementation of cohesion policy but rather to the effects of the financial crisis, imperfect implementation of the single market, slack budgetary discipline and inadequate macroeconomic framework conditions in individual Member and the failure to respect multi- level governance, in particular the failure to involve the regional level in the elaboration and implementation of the Stratesgy,
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Emphasises that the Union will be able to hold its own in the face of global competition only if its cohesion policy can tap the development potential of all the regions in response to the challenges of the EU 2020 strategy; calls, therefore, for cohesion policy to continue to apply in future to all of Europe’s regions;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Sees macroregional strategies – provided that their sphere of governance includes regional authorities and that they are given a practical content particularly as regards programme management – as affording a major opportunity to harness forms of trans-regional potential and adopt a joint approach to challenges stemming from the natural environment, e.g. in relation to environmental protection; considers that better coordination of existing support mechanisms can create scope for more targeted use of the EU structural funds;
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Takes the view that GDP must be retained as the key criterion in the definition of areas eligible for maximum support (those with GDP/PE below 75% of the EU average) andthe allocation of funds among all regions after 2013; further takes the view that, in its implementation, wthere appropriate, cohesion countries (GDP/PE below 90% of the EU average); points out cohesion policy should be based on broader indicators thatn the competent national authorities must continue to have scope for the use of additional indicators at the relevant decision-making levelsat of GDP, taking into account for example sustainability, access to services of general interest, territorial density or the Human Development Index;
Amendment 300 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Takes the unequivocal view that efforts under Objective 3 (European Territorial Cooperation) need to be stepped up at all EU internal borders and at all three levels of such cooperation (cross-border, inter- regional and trans-national) and calls for the relevant share of the structural funds to be increased to 7%; stresses the importance of the border regions in terms of achievement of the EU 2020 objectives; considers there is a need for closer linkage with the TEN networksrans-European Networks, particularly those concerned with transport and energy – in line with European priorities – and with cross-border infrastructure, and calls for a corresponding increase in funding for all border regions;
Amendment 342 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls, in the interests of efficiency, for the elimination or merger of funds relevant to both regional development and cohesion; recommends that the Globalisation Fund be abandoned as a stand-alone instrument and that appropriate provision for its functions be included in the Social Fund; calls for consideration of whether a merger of the Cohesion Fund and the Regional Development Fund would be compatible with the European Treaties; points out that, as a rule, monies from the Regional Development Fund and the Cohesion Fund are spent on the same types of project;