Activities of Alessandro PANZA related to 2023/2061(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on reshaping the future framework of EU structural funds to support regions particularly affected by challenges related to the automotive, green and digital transitions
Amendments (10)
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas, as the 8th Cohesion Report also makes clear, while cohesion policy has improved the condition of the poorest regions, many of the transition regions have failed to make the desired 'leap' forward and find themselves in the 'development trap';
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas cohesion policy has thus far only had one specific instrument to mitigate the adverse effects of green transition – the Just Transition Fund – which has both a limited budget and limited objectives;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the combined use of EU budget resources from the multiannual financial framework and from the Recovery and Resilience Facility, in addition to their complexity, has created major difficulties for regions and local authorities in terms of policy fragmentation, administrative capacity and the complexity of planning and executing the funds programmed for the 2021-2027 period;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas the European automotive industry, which accounts for 7.5 million jobs, is heavily affected by the green and digital transition, and whereas that the choice, taken at EU level, to favour electric technology in the automotive sector is jeopardising an entire industry, with hundreds of thousands of workers affected across the entire EU;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses that, in addressing the challenges of the twofold green and digital transition, cohesion policy must necessarily combine economic and social sustainability with environmental sustainability;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that the EU cohesion policy beyond 2027 should follow a more differentiated and targeted approach, moving from the use of income-related criteria to determine the level of support to other criteria that also take into account regions’ characteristics and future growth potential, such as the youth unemployment rate, the depopulation rate, job dependency on transition sectors and research and development investment or the existing skills gap;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses the importance of ensuring more flexibility in state aid in rural, mountain, island and outermost areas;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission, in line with the recent statements by Committee of the Regions' Automotive Regions Alliance, to put forward thea necessary proposal to ensure the continuity of the Just Transitiofor the establishment of a European Mmechanism, and that it is endowed with sufficient funds to include support for regions that are dependent on the automotive and parts-supply industry, in particular in the relevant Just Transition Fund mainstreamed within the cohesion policy, so that synergies and spillover effects can be promoted with various European funds and programmes to address the regional transformation processlong similar lines to the Just Transition Fund, for regions that are dependent on the automotive industry and the ancillary sectors, whose priority objective should be to compensate areas where the most jobs are expected to be lost;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Recognises the significance of providing support to all companies in the sectors undergoing the transition, with special emphasis on SMEs, which may have limited resources to achieve the necessary transformation; stresses the importance of targeted assistance to help SMEs acquire, upgrade and maintain physical assets and infrastructure, and to invest in research and development; further stresses the need to provide adequate support to the ancillary companies that will not be in a position to make the desired conversion; emphasises the need for dedicated funding programmes, capacity-building initiatives and technical assistance specifically tailored to the needs of SMEs in order to ensure their successful integration into the sector’s evolving landscape;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Member States to ensure an adequate and equitable ecosystem for the penetration of electric mobility and, in this regard, to provide public alternative fuel infrastructure in rural, mountain, island and outermost regions and regions with a low population density that are not adequately covered by private providers so as to meet the needs of the resident population; considers, in this regard, that the price of this publicly provided service should mirror the average price of the service offered by private providers in that same region or Member State;