8 Amendments of Franz OBERMAYR related to 2011/2035(INI)
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the incidence of errors and misuse of funds has been significantly lower in the most recent funding periods; whereas, regrettably, structural policy nonetheless remains an area with a continuing poor record in this respect, and some Member States still lack effective machinery for countering the misuse of funding and recovering money wrongly paid out, and whereas irregularities may not be reported, either through negligence or deliberately,
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Rejects the use of quotas in particular for national allocations under ESF/ERDF programmes, for urban development, for the countryside or otherwise according to categorisation on the basis of population density or territorial function; also regards as questionable the requirement to specify already at operational programme level which urban and other areas are to be eligible for support, and calls for the Member States and regions to be allowedgiven more responsibility to organise competitive and performance-based selection procedures in this respect as well;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Emphasises that support from the cohesion and structural funds must be more strongly oriented towards the educational and socio-political challenges of the EU 2020 strategy; takes the view, however, that across-the-board ‘Europeanisation’ of the relevant policy areas would be a doomed endeavour purely on financial grounds, apart from failing on financial grounds, would be against the subsidiarity principle and would not have sufficient democratic legitimacy; calls, therefore, for the further development of approaches that could serve as models, while retaining existing national and regional competences;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls, in the light of the necessary shift towards renewable sources of energy and of the climate debate, for cohesion policy to make a greater contribution to the rapid development of renewables and to ending the use of nuclear power; in that connection, supports the plans for decentralised energy strategies involving effective energy storage technologies in the regions;
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
Amendment 420 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
39. Calls for the indicators to concentrate on areas of impact with European added value (increases in productivity, research, transport services, regional growth and relevant environmental improvements); calls for, in addition to an assessment of quantitative targets to be eschewed when measuring progress in areas where responsibility rests largely with national authorities (i.e. on educational standards, poverty thresholds and integration) and, for an assessment, inste also to be mad,e of projects’ potential as models and of the degree of innovation they display;
Amendment 503 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51
Paragraph 51
51. Calls, in respect of Member States that are falling significantly short of the EU stability criteria requirements and also have a poor record on the use of monies from the structural funds, for a proposal for the automatic application of more stringent rules in order to monitor the use of such monies in accordance with the law and the relevant objectives; calls also for specific penalty mechanisms in the case of persistent irregularities and for consistent recovery of any undue payments of structural fund support;
Amendment 566 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60
Paragraph 60
60. Draws attention – with up-to-date figures in support of its contention – to the extremely severe financial consequences for cohesion policy of the accession of new Member States;11 emphasises that, from a cohesion policy point of view, the Union’s capacity to absorb new members would, on the basis of these figures, be severely overstretched; calls for use of the IPA to be extended to special preliminary forms of EU neighbourhood status or membership and reiterates its call for graduated cohesion policy arrangements for large candidate countries such assubstantially restricted and redirected away from preparation for accession and towards preparation of a special form of EU neighbourhood status for Turkey;