22 Amendments of Maurice PONGA related to 2011/0276(COD)
Amendment 179 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The outermost regions should benefit from specific, effective measures ands well as additional funding to offset the handicaps resulting from the factors referred to in Article 349 of the Treaty.
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 355 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 93
Recital 93
(93) Since the objective of this Regulation, namely to reduce disparities between levels of development of the various regions and the backwardness of the least favoured regions or islands, particular rural areas, areas affected by industrial transition, outermost regions and regions which suffer from severe and permanent natural or demographic handicaps, cannot be sufficiently achieved by Member States but can be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve that objective,
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 1223 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 3 – article 84 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point e
Part 3 – article 84 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point e
e) 0,29 % (i.e., a total of EUR 925 680 000)within the FEDER XXX budget EUR (i.e., EUR 40 per inhabitant) will be reserved as additional funding for the outermost regions identified in Article 349 of the Treaty and the NUTS level 2 regions fulfilling the criteria laid down in Article 2 of Protocol No 6 to the Treaty of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden.
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 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 1498 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 3 – article 99 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Part 3 – article 99 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Where Member States and regions participate in macro regional strategies or sea basins strategies, ITIs are consistent with these strategies.
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 1618 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 3 – article 110 – paragraph 4
Part 3 – article 110 – paragraph 4