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2012/2256(INI) European Semester for economic policy coordination: Annual Growth Survey 2013
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Lead committee dossier: ECON/7/10778
Legal Basis RoP 048
Next event: Text adopted by Parliament, single reading 2013/02/07 more...
- Council Meeting 2012/12/11
- Committee draft report 2012/12/06
- Amendments tabled in committee 2012/12/20
- Council Meeting 2013/01/22
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading 2013/02/04
- Debate in Parliament 2013/02/05
Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Opinion | AFCO | RANGEL Paulo (EPP) | |
Opinion | BUDG | TRAUTMANN Catherine (S&D) | |
Lead | ECON | FERREIRA Elisa (S&D) | GAUZÈS Jean-Paul (EPP), DE BACKER Philippe (ALDE), TURUNEN Emilie (Verts/ALE), EPPINK Derk Jan (ECR) |
Opinion | ENVI | ||
Opinion | REGI | DEUTSCH Tamás (EPP) |
Legal Basis RoP 048
Subjects
Activites
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2013/02/07
Text adopted by Parliament, single reading
- T7-0052/2013
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2013/02/05
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- 2013/02/04 Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
- #3215
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2012/12/04
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2012/10/25
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Documents
- Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T7-0052/2013
- Committee draft report: PE501.955
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE502.108
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A7-0032/2013
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2012/2256(INI)
2012/12/04
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26 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the efforts made to strengthen economic and budgetary coordination through the European Semester, allowing the monitoring of national budgets and economic policies in parallel during a six- month period every year; stresses that the cohesion policy ought to become a focal point of the Annual Growth Survey of the European Commission; regrets therefore that the AGS 2013 has not exploited an opportunity to commence a more meaningful debate on growth and jobs in the European Union notably through an overhaul of its guidelines.
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. Highlights that a strong and well- financed cohesion policy can prevent in the future economic and financial crises in Europe and can protect especially the less developed regions;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Stresses that, at a time of crisis, the cohesion policy's flexible instruments are adapting quickly to changing needs and harsher financial conditions; recalls that emergency measures, such as advance payments or increased co-financing rates, have been coupled with long-term policy measures to stimulate growth and generate employment; welcomes in this regard, the Commission's initiative of reprogramming where possible unallocated Structural Fund resources in favour of SMEs, energy efficiency and youth employment;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 – point 1 (new) (1) Stresses the need to modernise public administration as it is an important factor to improve the member states' absorption rate of the structural funds; suggests that member states should be provided assistance by experts if they wish; recalls that the use of structural funds should also be improved by reducing bureaucratic burdens;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Is
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Takes the view that a
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls on Member States to prioritise, on the expenditure and revenue sides of the budget, growth-friendly policies, particularly in the areas of education, research, innovation, ICTs, infrastructure and energy, and ensure the efficiency of such expenditures and revenues;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls on Member States to prioritise, on the expenditure and revenue sides of the
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls on Member States to prioritise, on the expenditure and revenue sides of the budget, growth-friendly policies, particularly in the areas of education, research, innovation, infrastructure and energy, and ensure the efficiency of such expenditures and revenues; recalls that growth can be achieved without increasing the national budget but by prioritising investment in growth-friendly policies;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Iinvites Member States to pay particular attention to long life learning and retraining programs in order to avoid, in the following decades, a shortage of manpower in areas of interest;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8.
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the efforts made to strengthen coordination of economic
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8 a. Is deeply concerned, that years after the start of a systemic crisis, long term unemployment continues to increase within the EU, accompanied with alarming levels of youth unemployment, increasing risks of poverty and social exclusion with no prospects of immediate improvement;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 b (new) 8 b. Urges the Commission, Member States and regions to make determined action against unemployment levels in the EU their priority; calls on the Commission to include in the European Semester as one of the Europe 2020 sub- targets the fight against youth unemployment and poverty;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Calls for strong measures to restore confidence in the banking sector and thus boost investment; recalls that
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Calls for strong measures to restore confidence in the banking sector and thus boost investment; recalls that lack of access to finance remains one of the critical barriers preventing
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10. Points out that
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 11. Takes the view that, in order to strengthen growth, competitiveness and productivity, enhanced coordination of economic policies and far-reaching structural reforms are needed.
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 11. Takes the view that
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Considers that the recently ended European semesters have highlighted the necessity for the European Union to fight the consolidation of inequalities among regions and the macro-economical imbalances based on an symmetric approach and based on more democratic legitimacy, as well as on interconnected policies at European level that target the achievement of the objectives established in the Europa 2020 Strategy;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Underlines the crucial role of cohesion policy as a key instrument for Europe 2020; considers that a strong and well- funded cohesion policy is an effective and efficient instrument to implement Europe 2020 and prevent future economic and financial crises, owing to its long-term development programmes, budgetary dimension and decentralised administration system and the incorporation of the EU's priorities for sustainable development; points out that cohesion policy is an investment policy and should thus promote territorial, economic and social cohesion in all regions of the EU, keeping in mind the principle of solidarity; stresses, in this
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Underlines the crucial role of cohesion policy as a key instrument for achieving the objectives of Europe 2020; considers that a strong and well-
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Underlines the crucial role of cohesion
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Considers that the regional policy will continue to play a very important role in the development of national programs within the European semester and, at the same time, will represent a key instrument for achieving the established objectives on medium and long- term;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Recalls that Cohesion Policy can only be successful if
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Recalls that Cohesion Policy can only be successful if sound broad fiscal and structural policies conducive to growth are put in place by Member States and should therefore be linked to a macroeconomic conditionality; stresses that implementing the Common Strategic Framework funds where national governments fail to set the right policies or fail to carry out the necessary structural reforms may entail wasting financial resources or even reducing incentives to correct unhealthy economic policies;
source: PE-501.919
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