14 Amendments of Nuno TEIXEIRA related to 2010/2211(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that transport underpins Europe'’s economic and social activity, that the transport sector represents 4.6% of the European Union'’s GDP, while employing 9.2 million individuals, and that, as well as allowing communication between individuals and communities and providing the network upon which the movement of goods in the single market ultimately dependsenabling growth in intra-European trade and then completion of the single market, the sector is significant in terms of its potential contribution to ensuring social cohes, economic and territorial cohesion, especially in regions that are less accessible or difficult to access, in a manner reducing distances and promoting European integration, boosting employment and trade and enhancing the tourism sector, together with the contribution an efficient transport system can make to reduced carbon emissions, pollution and congestion;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Notes that the EU 2020 Strategy seeks to achieve intelligent, sustainable and inclusive growth through knowledge and innovation, energy efficiency apt to create a green – and yet competitive – economy, and the promotion of territorial and social cohesion as cross-cutting guidelines directly linked to support for the transport and tourism sector;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Insists that, viewed particularly from a financial efficiency standpoint, the need to ensure real added value from EU budgetary expenditure on transport policy items is paramount, under the principle of financial subsidiarity and given the current climate of public finance austerity in the Member States; notes that, while duplication or displacement of investment and expenditure better undertaken at national and regional level must be avoided, it is essential not to miss the opportunities for facilitating sustainable growth which the added value of EU transport expenditure alone can provide;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Considers economic, social and territorial cohesion to be a fundamental prerequisite for achieving the competitiveness objective, specifically through encouraging economic growth and job creation;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Endorses the Commission'’s view that cross-border infrastructure is one of the best examples of where the EU can plug gaps and deliver better value results; considers that targeted financial support at EU level can help to kick-start other important projects, which often have great commercial potential in the long term; notes that countries are now launching huge, ambitious infrastructure investment drives, that maintaining European competitiveness means that Europe has aust be based on support for research and innovation, reinforcing the particularly strong strategic interest in effective infrastructure, to lay the foundations for long-term economic growth, and that the result would be a European core transport network shifting freight and passenger flows towards more sustainable transport modes and alternatives to air and road transport; observes that such support needs to be targeted on key priorities – removing bottlenecks on strategic trans-European axes, encouraging their extension and building cross-border and inter-modal connections;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points out that the success of economic and social cohesion policy can be clearly seen in the 271 regions of the 27 Member States and notes that the subsidiarity principle, the partnership principle, and multilevel governance are fundamental prerequisites for that success; reaffirms its position on best practice, as set out in its resolution of 24 March 2009 on best practices in the field of regional policy and obstacles to the use of the Structural Funds;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that cohesion policy, which accounts for the largest individual budget, has been one of the EU's most significant and most successful policies for decades, as a result of its added value as a cross- cutting policy with the capacity to promote synergies among the other European internal policies;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls for the conditions to be created at European and national level for greater and better participation by local and regional authorities in the European decision-making process, particularly by bodies invested with legislative powers;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – indent 3 – point iv
Paragraph 5 – indent 3 – point iv
(iv) strengthening the social dimension (including efforts to combat demographic changes),
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Recalls the importance of tourism to the European economy, to the European natural and cultural heritage and to particular countries and regions where it is an economic and social mainstay; draws attention to the significance of the new provision on tourism that is now included in the Lisbon Treaty, giving Parliament legislative powers in the field of tourism for the first time, and to the need to exercise those powers to make the sector more competitive; reiterates its concern that no budget line to assist in the development of tourism has been established to reflect this new challenge and insists that in future adequate levels of EU support for tourism must be provided through the establishment of a dedicated budget line for sustainable economic development, industrial heritage, protection of the natural and cultural heritage, aided where appropriate by the Structural Funds and other funds.
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – indent 3 a (new)
Paragraph 5 – indent 3 a (new)
- in the sphere of cross-border cooperation
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Considers that particular attention should be paid to regions with specific needs and areas with serious and permanent natural and demographic limitations;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Points out that funds must be spent transparently and efficiently in the regions, on the basis of implementation supervision rules that are as simple as possible and sound management; stresses the need to better coordinate the annual monitoring carried out by the Commission with the multi-annual implementation of programmes;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Points out that monies from funds set up in connection with cohesion policy must not be used, under the Stability and Growth Pact, as a means of ‘punishment’; that would be counterproductive for the regions andffected, the Member States affected and the EU, and contrary to the principle of European solidarity enshrined in the Treaty;