5 Amendments of Nuno TEIXEIRA related to 2013/0000(INI)
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights that the State aid rules, as well as the Cohesion Policy objectives, should lead to improving the situation of the less-developed regions and most disadvantaged areas, and that the SAM process must reflect the objectives of cohesion throughout the EU; believes that the modernisation of competition rules must be based on understanding the impact of these rules at sub-national level , taking into account the specific and permanent handicaps of the most disadvantaged regions of the EU;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Takes the view that the geographical zoning of the new Guidelines on Regional State Aid 2014-2020 (RSAG) should not be reduced, and that decreasing the aid intensity should be reconsidered, taking into account the political, economic and social situation in the Member States in this context, calls the attention of the European Commission to the situation of outermost regions, taking into account their specific handicaps which shall not allow for a decrease of the additional aid intensity in favour of these Regions, namely through a clear guarantee that undertakings that perform a non financial activity are not excluded from state aid schemes when they fall under the following categories of the NACE Rev. 2 statistical classification of economic activities: undertakings whose principal activity falls under Section K ‘Financial and insurance activities’ or undertakings that perform intra-group activities and whose principal activity falls under classes 70.10 ‘Activities of head offices’ or 70.22 ‘Business and other management consultancy activities’; points out that, in the global context, the EU economy could be placed at a disadvantage relative to third countries benefitting from looser employment schemes or lower costs;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Believes that the application of State aid rules within Cohesion Policy programmes could be better achieved by focussing on large-scale aid, simplifying rules, increasing the de minimis ceiling, and extending the horizontal categories in the Enabling Regulation and the scope of the block exemption rules in the General Block Exemption Regulation; defends the inclusion of a new category in the GBER for aid schemes in favour of EU outermost regions that would take dully into account the state aid scheme under Article 107 (3) (a) TFUE, and consequently give full effect to Article 349 TFUE;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Considers that there is no need of an additional proof of existing structural problems in EU outermost regions since such problems derive from permanent handicaps of these regions that are also recognised by EU primary law; considers that the need of a regular assessment on the convenience of state aid in outermost regions would put at stake the security and predictability needed for investors and enterprises to seek market opportunities in these vulnerable regions and remembers that outermost regions have a special state aid scheme in Article 107 (3) (a) TFEU that is based on such grounds;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16 b. Calls on the Commission to clearly restate in the Guidelines on regional State aid 2014-2020, the principles of non- degressivity and non-limitation in time for State aid in outermost regions covered by Article 107(3)(a) TFEU, and asks for a review of the State aid definition that takes into account the specific economic and structural situation of EU outermost regions;