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2015/2772(RSP) Resolution on simplification and performance orientation in cohesion policy 2014-2020

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Legal Basis:
RoP 136-p5

Events

2016/04/05
   EC - Commission response to text adopted in plenary
Documents
2015/11/26
   EP - Results of vote in Parliament
2015/11/26
   EP - Decision by Parliament
Details

The European Parliament adopted by 562 votes to 10, with 41 abstentions, a resolution on Towards simplification and performance orientation in cohesion policy 2014-2020.

Members considered that despite the reformed cohesion policy for the 2014-2020 programming period, in which simplification methods are addressed, application, management, reporting and control with respect to the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) are still cumbersome for both beneficiaries and managing authorities , in particular those with fewer administrative and financial capacities.

Therefore, Parliament called on the Commission and the Member States to:

introduce detailed guidelines on simplification in order to make the Member States and their regions aware of their task of eliminating, or at least significantly reducing, the administrative burden and gold-plating arising at national and local levels in the processes of procurement, project proposal selection and monitoring and control activities; provide the Member States and their regions with a roadmap for streamlining and simplifying control, monitoring and reporting activities; note the target date of 31 December 2015 for switching to e-cohesion as a precondition for significantly cutting the application-to-grant time; establish and implement, in coordination with the Member States and in line with the principle of proportionality, a light-touch approach to data and information requirements for beneficiaries in the process of application and reporting related to EU funding under shared management, and to encourage the sharing of good practices; promote simplification of the rules governing financial instruments within ESI Funds with a view to aligning them more closely to beneficiaries’ needs and ultimately improving their use; increase the use of the multi-fund approach , taking into consideration the needs of beneficiaries;

Lastly, the Commission is invited to enter into a structured and permanent dialogue with Parliament, the Committee of the Regions and other stakeholders on all aspects of this simplification process.

Documents
2015/11/26
   EP - End of procedure in Parliament
2015/11/18
   EP - Motion for a resolution
Documents
2015/10/27
   EP - Debate in Parliament
2015/10/26
   EP - Oral question/interpellation by Parliament
Documents

Documents

Activities

Votes

B8-1231/2015 - Résolution #

2015/11/26 Outcome: +: 562, 0: 41, -: 10
DE IT FR ES GB PL RO BE PT HU BG NL CZ EL SE AT SK HR FI LT IE SI DK MT LV CY LU EE
Total
74
61
63
44
55
43
25
21
21
18
15
21
16
16
13
17
13
11
11
9
8
7
6
6
5
5
4
4
icon: PPE PPE
182
2

Denmark PPE

For (1)

1

Latvia PPE

For (1)

1

Luxembourg PPE

2

Estonia PPE

For (1)

1
icon: S&D S&D
159

Netherlands S&D

2

Czechia S&D

3

Croatia S&D

2

Ireland S&D

For (1)

1

Slovenia S&D

For (1)

1

Denmark S&D

2

Malta S&D

3

Latvia S&D

1

Cyprus S&D

For (1)

1

Estonia S&D

For (1)

1
icon: ALDE ALDE
55

Romania ALDE

2

Bulgaria ALDE

3
3

Austria ALDE

For (1)

1

Croatia ALDE

2
3

Ireland ALDE

For (1)

1

Denmark ALDE

For (1)

1

Latvia ALDE

1

Luxembourg ALDE

For (1)

1

Estonia ALDE

2
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53

Romania ECR

For (1)

1

Bulgaria ECR

1

Netherlands ECR

2

Czechia ECR

2

Croatia ECR

For (1)

1

Finland ECR

For (1)

1

Denmark ECR

2

Latvia ECR

For (1)

1
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41

Italy GUE/NGL

2

France GUE/NGL

Abstain (1)

3

United Kingdom GUE/NGL

1

Netherlands GUE/NGL

2

Czechia GUE/NGL

2

Sweden GUE/NGL

For (1)

1

Finland GUE/NGL

For (1)

1

Ireland GUE/NGL

2

Cyprus GUE/NGL

2
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40

United Kingdom Verts/ALE

4

Belgium Verts/ALE

2

Hungary Verts/ALE

2

Netherlands Verts/ALE

2

Sweden Verts/ALE

3

Austria Verts/ALE

3

Croatia Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Finland Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Lithuania Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Slovenia Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Latvia Verts/ALE

1

Luxembourg Verts/ALE

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1
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37

France EFDD

1

Poland EFDD

1

Czechia EFDD

Abstain (1)

1

Lithuania EFDD

Abstain (1)

1
icon: NI NI
13

Germany NI

2

France NI

3

United Kingdom NI

For (1)

1

Poland NI

Against (1)

1

Hungary NI

2
icon: ENF ENF
32

United Kingdom ENF

For (1)

1

Poland ENF

Against (1)

1

Romania ENF

Abstain (1)

1

Belgium ENF

For (1)

1

Netherlands ENF

3

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