2023/2048(INI) Implementation of territorial development (CPR, Title III, Chapter II) and its application in the European Territorial agenda 2030
Next event: Indicative plenary sitting date 2024/01/15
Lead committee dossier:
Next event: Indicative plenary sitting date 2024/01/15
Progress: Awaiting committee decision
| Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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| Lead | REGI |
ROS SEMPERE Marcos ( S&D)
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KEFALOGIANNIS Manolis ( EPP),
TOLLERET Irène ( Renew),
NIENASS Niklas ( Verts/ALE),
KRUK Elżbieta ( ECR),
MICHELS Martina ( GUE/NGL)
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| Committee Opinion | BUDG | ||
| Committee Opinion | TRAN | ||
| Committee Opinion | AGRI |
ADEMOV Asim ( EPP)
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Ulrike MÜLLER ( RE),
Juozas OLEKAS ( S&D),
Krzysztof JURGIEL ( ECR)
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Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
RoP 54
Legal Basis:
RoP 54Events
2024/01/15
Indicative plenary sitting date
2023/11/30
EP - Vote in committee
2023/11/16
EP - Committee opinion
Documents
2023/10/03
EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2023/07/20
EP - Committee draft report
Documents
2023/04/25
EP - ADEMOV Asim (EPP) appointed as rapporteur in AGRI
2023/04/20
EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament
2023/02/27
EP - ROS SEMPERE Marcos (S&D) appointed as rapporteur in REGI
Documents
| Amendments | Dossier |
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2023/2048(INI)
2023/09/25
AGRI
71 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas rural areas face the urgent challenges of demographic decline
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas the digital and green transitions offer opportunities for stronger, connected, resilient, innovative and prosperous rural areas in the long term, however, despite recent improvements in high-speed broadband connectivity, only 59% of households in rural regions have access to broadband, compared to 87% of the households in the EU;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas the digital and green transitions, if they are implemented fairly and do not leave anyone behind, offer opportunities for stronger, connected, resilient, innovative and prosperous rural areas in the long term;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas it appears that in regions and administrative units where LEADER is implemented, a mandatory Local Action Group (LAG) manager helps improving a better performance and absorption of regional funding and development;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas rural areas should be attractive places to do business and play a crucial role in ensuring the EU’s food security;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas the Long-term Vision for the EU's Rural Areas calls to improve rural quality of life, achieve balanced territorial development and stimulate economic growth in rural areas;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Recital C b (new) Cb. whereas, although Article 174 TFEU stipulates that particular attention is to be paid to rural areas under the EU’s cohesion policy, the current cohesion policy is only partially delivering on that commitment; whereas urban areas are given preferential treatment under the cohesion policy; whereas, furthermore, many investments in rural areas that are not directly linked to agriculture – such as the building of public roads, investment in sewage systems and the establishment of non-agricultural businesses – are largely financed by the EAFRD and not by the Cohesion Fund;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Recital C b (new) Cb. whereas the role and importance of rural areas is often under-appreciated, insufficiently rewarded and funded;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Recital C c (new) Cc. whereas the diversity of EU’s rural areas calls for locally designed responses and solutions corresponding to each territory’s specific needs and possibilities and strategies should address rural areas according to their individual characteristics and in relation to their environment, using, among other tools, the rural proofing mechanism;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Recital C d (new) Cd. whereas rural communities are exposed to greater damages from climate change, more frequent adverse climate events such as storms, floods and droughts, and the consequences of biodiversity loss, and experience greater costs associated with climate transition;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Recital C e (new) Ce. whereas sustainable farming and forestry management, that includes environmental, economic and social sustainability, provided decent work and livelihoods, ecological systems and biodiversity and also enhances climate and risk resilience;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas Article 174 TFEU states that the Union must aim at reducing disparities between the levels of development of the various regions, paying particular attention to rural areas, that face the urgent challenges of demographic decline and ageing, especially affecting EU farming populations, along with rural abandonment, lack of access to infrastructure and services, low incomes and fewer job opportunities;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Recalls that small and family farms
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Recalls that small, medium and family farms are the backbone of EU rural areas, providing food security and ecosystem services for European citizens;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Recalls that small and family farms and SME are the backbone of EU rural areas, providing food security and ecosystem services for European citizens;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Stresses that a fair and dignified income and quality of life for citizens and their families in the rural areas is essential to ensure social progress and a successful territorial and local development; insists on the need to ensure decent working and living conditions and social protection in particular for young farm workers, and migrant workers in the EU regions;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Stresses that small and family farms have a positive impact on social cohesion in these areas, providing employment opportunities and helping to maintain local populations;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. recalls that according to Article174 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which deals with economic, social and territorial cohesion, priority must be given to rural areas; notes, however, that rural areas and their specific needs are not sufficiently valued when allocating Cohesion Fund funds, which significantly contribute to maintaining the vitality of regions; therefore calls on the Commission to consider the possibility of creating a separate fund that would provide exclusive support for projects in rural areas through the Cohesion Fund, with local authorities making the investment decision;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Stresses the importance of improving the policy coherence and implementing a rural proofing of future EU in
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Stresses the importance of improving the policy coherence and rural proofing of future EU initiatives to effectively prevent rural depopulation and to facilitate generational renewal, broadband access and job creation in rural areas; Stresses the importance of implementing a rural proofing mechanism for all EU initiatives so as to assess the coherence and complementarity of EU policies and their potential impact on rural areas to ensure that they are fit for purpose; underlines the importance of involving local and regional authorities in the definition and implementation of rural proofing mechanisms;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Stresses the importance of improving the policy coherence and rural proofing of future EU initiatives to effectively prevent rural depopulation and to facilitate generational renewal, broadband
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Stresses the importance of improving the policy coherence and rural proofing of future EU initiatives to effectively prevent rural depopulation
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas rural areas face the urgent challenges of demographic decline and ageing, especially affecting EU farming populations, along with rural abandonment, lack of or poor access to public and private infrastructure and services
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Welcomes EESC proposal to promote a Europe-wide Charter of rural/urban rights and responsibilities; is also convinced that more cooperation with urban areas is needed to ensure that no area or citizen is "left behind" in the just transition to a climate-neutral, sustainable and prosperous European Union, striving for a rural and urban commitment to a fair approach and showing the added value of rural and urban organisations working together;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Welcomes the acceleration of digital transformation in the agricultural sector and rural areas; draws attention to the exclusion of small farms and the outermost regions from these developments, and points to the need to take measures to ensure that the digital transformation also benefits all; notes in particular that there is a need to manage risks of dependency and over- indebtedness for small farmers;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Emphasises that achieving the objectives of the cohesion policy in rural areas should always involve a compromise between environmental, economic and social objectives, which are vital for the well-being of current and future generations;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 c (new) 2c. Is worried about the environmental and social impact of large- scale projects for the production, transport and storage of energy developed in the rural areas; stresses the key role of EU legislation concerning environmental regulation; notes with concern that in several cases there have been inadequate, lack or incomplete Environmental Impact Assessments and recalls the need to strengthen public participation rights of local communities; calls in this regard on the Member States to promote an integrated territorial development approach in the design and implementation of energy projects;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Reiterates the need for full integration of the long-term vision for the EU’s rural areas in the current and future cohesion and common agricultural policy (CAP) programming frameworks, ensuring this is properly financed without prejudice to other CAP budget headings, so as to ensure that the rural dimension is properly
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Reiterates the need for full integration of the long-term vision for the EU’s rural areas in the current and future multiannual financial frameworks, especially the cohesion and common agricultural policy (CAP) programming frameworks
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on the inclusion of TA2030 objectives in the legislative instruments and operational programmes of the cohesion policy funds; welcomes the TA2030 pilot actions that have been developed and calls on the Member States and the Commission to continue investing in these actions and coordinating them with initiatives around cohesion policy and rural development;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Underlines the necessity to ensure a more balanced development of EU regions by ensuring better distribution of EU funds, including CAP support within and between Member States; emphasizes that it is impossible to achieve sustainable and long-term territorial development if support is allocated to different regions based on historical data;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Highlights the role that agriculture plays in achieving the Union objectives of food security, sustainable growth, social inclusion, and combating climate change, while helping to diversify agricultural production, preserve biodiversity and develop local economies;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas rural areas face the urgent challenges of demographic decline and ageing, especially affecting EU farming populations, along with rural abandonment, lack of access to infrastructure and services, low incomes
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Highlights that rural areas lack access to quality basic services such as water services, sanitation, road connectivity, healthcare, childcare and quality education and training, and that they are poorly connected, in addition to the insufficient quality and availability of housing; calls for the addition to the TA 2030 of a new pilot action around access to essential services within a 30 minutes threshold travel time, promoting equal access to basic services in rural communities;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 c (new) 3c. Calls on the Commission to provide the TA2030 with direct implementation instruments;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Underlines the potential of the LEADER community-led local development method (CLLD)1 to engage rural communities in local action groups for the preparation and implementation of targeted local development strategies; calls on the Member States to support CLLD, including LEADER, encouraging participation in local action groups and ensuring their effective autonomy in terms of composition and decision- making; considers that further development of development method and CLLD funding tools would contribute to stronger integrated strategies and more sustainable, resilient territorial development; stresses in this regard the need for a meaningful earmarking of assistance for CLLD under all relevant funds at EU level, similar to that in the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD); _________________ 1 https://ec.europa.eu/enrd/leader-
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Underlines the potential of the LEADER community-led local development method (CLLD)1 to engage rural communities in local action groups
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Highlights the central role played by Community Led Local Development initiatives in keeping and restoring living and thriving local rural economies, and the need to keep a sufficient level of funding for LEADER; Calls on the Member states to make full use of LEADER's capacities;
Amendment 45 #
4a. Takes the view that the establishment of territorial cohesion in rural areas should take account of and respect their diversity and the disparities between them as regards the level of infrastructure development and the links in place between urban and rural areas;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Calls on the Commission to use the results of the 2024 evaluation report for the 2014-2020 programming period as well as results and experiences of the EAFRD LEADER implementation to support programmes for the period 2021- 20271a; _________________ 1a Article 57 of the CPR tasks DG REGIO with conducting an evaluation of the ERDF and the Cohesion Fund by the end of 2024.
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 c (new) 4c. Calls on the Commission, when preparing the new programming period, to consider the possibility of providing financing measures in the LEADER program that would encourage the renewal of generations in rura areas;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5.
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Points to the importance of facilitating and promoting the use of multi- fund approaches to support the implementation of integrated projects for inclusive and sustainable rural development. reiterates the need to place the emphasis on synergy between EU- funded programmes, with a view to increasing the impact and efficiency of using such types of EU support. Also advocates that a coordinated approach be adopted to various sources of funding, such as EU funding, national funding and private investment, in order to maximise the impact and efficiency of rural development investments.
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas rural areas face the urgent challenges of demographic decline and ageing, especially affecting EU farming populations, along with rural abandonment, lack of access to infrastructure, healthcare, education and services, low incomes and fewer job opportunities;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Points to the importance of facilitating and promoting the use of multi- fund approaches to support the implementation of integrated projects for inclusive and sustainable rural development
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Calls for a strong rural dimension in all future cohesion policy regulations, which should include dedicated funding to that end; calls on the Commission to promote funding aswell for TA2030 programmes, and to asses the possibility of earmarking a share of the European Regional Development Fund and the Cohesion Policy funds to rural areas, going beyond the 8 % currently earmarked in the EFRD for the development of programmes under the Urban Agenda;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Stresses the important role women are playing in building integrated territorial development; points out the importance of creating an enabling environment for women entrepreneurs in rural areas, including legal and policy aspects, to ensure better access to information, knowledge and skills, as well as to facilitate access to financial resources and thereby create more jobs in rural areas;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Notes that the instability in the agricultural markets in the EU and across the world caused by Russia’s aggression in Ukraine is a particular challenge for the cohesion policy and for European solidarity as it is destabilising the farming sector and increasing the risk of widespread economic stagflation, which will further exacerbate the current wealth disparities between the various countries and regions of the EU;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Calls on the Member States to make effective use of the various funding opportunities also with a view to improving the prospects of SMEs, given their major role in generating employment in rural areas, and calls on the Commission to monitor and assess whether its support reaches rural areas and benefits their communities;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Emphasises the role of e-services, mobile service solutions, private-public partnerships, social enterprises, cultural and creative industries; accessibility of education and healthcare; as well as cooperatives to help provide necessary services for rural areas and act as a key factor for rural socio-economic development;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Draws attention to the need to also factor into the equation the development of other economic sectors, such as agri- tourism and cultural tourism, in rural regions in Europe, in order to revitalise rural areas.
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Draws attention to the continuing conflict of interest in some rural and suburban areas between the financing of cohesion policy and agricultural policy objectives and calls on the Commission to make an appropriate distinction, in line with the Treaty, between funding for rural areas under the CAP and under the cohesion policy, taking into account the objectives of each of these policies as laid down in Articles 39 and 174 of the Treaty;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Calls for improvement of the level of digital skills and the availability and affordability of adequate digital infrastructure, and the capacities to effectively deploy digital technologies, such as digital service platforms in rural areas;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas women play a crucial role in rural development and in the social fabric of rural areas, maintaining and improving rural livelihoods and strengthening rural communities and must be regarded as drivers of sustainable development; whereas the significant contribution that women make to local and rural development is not sufficiently reflected in their participation in the corresponding decision-making processes, given that women in rural areas are often underrepresented in decision-making bodies;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Points out that discrimination and exclusion prevent the pursuit of sustainable territorial development; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take action to develop and implement measures to combat gender inequality;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) 5c. Recalls that in the 2021-2027 Cohesion Policy Framework, gender equality and a gender perspective must be included and promoted throughout all stages of the process to prepare, implement, monitor and evaluate Cohesion programmes; calls on the member states to actively promote these cross-cutting principles in the preparation and implementation of the Territorial Agenda’s pilot projects on the ground;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) 5c. Calls for development of partnerships in all economic activities in rural areas, between businesses of all sectors, local authorities, researchers and services based on innovation, knowledge sharing and cooperation;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) 5c. Is convinced that the continuing lack of internal and external alignment as regards direct CAP payments is undermining the cohesion policy’s long- term objectives, especially in the poorest and least developed areas;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 d (new) 5d. Reiterates the need to urgently strengthen EU policy regarding mitigation and adaptation to climate change, also in the light of the growing trends of extreme weather events these last years and months in the EU; highlights, in this context, the need to step up ambition and quantity of the present and future pilot projects within the objective “Greener Europe” and its first priority “Healthier environment”;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 d (new) 5d. Calls for more effort in enabling rural residents to take active part in policy and decision-making processes, involving a broad range of stakeholders at all levels of governance to develop tailor-made, place-based and integrated policy solutions and investments
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 e (new) 5e. Notes that more and more people choose to live in the cities and work in rural areas; Calls the Commission to design programmes taking into account all territories, incluiding metropolitan, urban and functional areas; Encourage the Commission to design LEADER in such way that it can be used by small cities;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 e (new) 5e. Calls for improving affordable public transport services and infrastructure such as railways, roads, charging and refuelling stations to support e-mobility solutions;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 f (new) 5f. Notes that an effective sustainable public transport system is one of the necessary conditions for regional economic development, territorial cohesion and the development of regional potential; highlights therefore, that it is necessary to provide the necessary funding for the development and maintenance of transport links, as this could encourage the older generation to stay longer in agriculture and attract young people from regional centers to work in rural areas;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 f (new) 5f. Emphasises the essential economic role played by agriculture, forestry and fisheries, calls for further development of short supply chains, quality schemes, producer organisations and cooperatives that contribute to increasing the sustainability of European food production;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas SME play a particularly important role in rural areas as employers, as facilitators of a diversification of farm income and as sponsors of social and cultural life and thus help to make rural areas more attractive to young people;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 g (new) 5g. Emphasises that generational renewal is the key for social, economic and environmental sustainability of rural areas and EU food autonomy and the future of agriculture and thus must remain a high priority in territorial development plans and strategies, stresses the need to account for the needs of small and medium sized farmers, and especially focus at attracting young farmers, preventing land abandonment and facilitating land access and access to credit;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 h (new) 5h. Stresses the significance of circular and bio-economy principles, as well as their application within the agricultural sector, in contributing to the realization of the objectives set out in the European Green Deal; encourages the enhancement of understanding and the implementation of circular and bio- economy principles within the European agriculture and food system.
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas rising energy prices and inflation throughout Europe are hitting rural areas particularly hard, especially the poorest and most backward areas where it is most difficult to achieve cohesion policy objectives;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas the digital and green transitions offer opportunities for stronger, connected, resilient, innovative and prosperous rural areas in the long term;
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126 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 4 a (new) – having regard to Regulation (EU) 2021/1056 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 June 2021 establishing the Just Transition Fund3a _________________ 3a OJ L 231, 30.6.2021, p. 1
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas cohesion policy is the main investment policy for the EU’s regions and cities and the Territorial Agenda is the guiding instrument for the European Union’s territorial policy; whereas the Territorial Agenda provides orientation for strategic spatial planning, calls for strengthening the territorial dimension of sector policies at all governance levels and seeks to promote an inclusive and sustainable future for all places and to help achieve Sustainable Development Goals in Europe;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Stresses the need for greater dissemination of the actions and achievements of the pilot projects as examples of the implementation of European funds; stresses the importance of communicating the results of the pilot actions, that a biennial conference is organised to showcase the pilot actions to local and regional authorities, as well as to relevant actors at national and EU level, linking it with other events such as the Rural Pact or the Cities Forum;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Believes that businesses could play an essential role in territorial development strategies; calls on the Commission to support arrangements for collaboration between companies and local and regional authorities with a view to developing territorial development projects that foster job creation and economic growth;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on the Member States to develop their territorial agendas in line with the TA2030 as a basis for programming their territorial strategies and in order to stimulate the decision-making process and the design of territorial and urban policies; further calls on Member States to enable a CLLD approach for all EU regions including rural areas, areas affected by industrial transition, regions which suffer from severe and permanent natural or demographic handicaps, such as the northernmost regions and regions with very low population density, islands, cross-border regions and mountain regions;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on the Member States to develop their territorial agendas in line with the TA2030 as a basis for programming their territorial strategies, taking into account the specificities of each of its regions and serving as an incentive, and in order to stimulate the decision-making process and the design of territorial and urban policies;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Highlights that quality of governance structures can determine the optimal mix of investment priorities in order to achieve the necessary multi-level vertical and horizontal coordination to design and deliver integrated development strategies;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to promote the implementation of the TA2030 beyond pilot actions, making this instrument a reference framework for action that provides concrete and adapted guidelines for EU territories to improve their performance; highlights the opportunity to make regional funding conditional on achieving TA2030 priorities and calls on the Commission to develop monitoring indicators linking the TA2030 and the use of cohesion policy funds, in particular the ERFD;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to promote the implementation of the TA2030 beyond pilot actions, making this instrument a reference framework for action that provides concrete guidelines for EU territories to improve their performance; highlights the
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to promote the implementation of the TA2030 beyond pilot actions, making this instrument a reference framework for action that provides concrete guidelines for EU territories to improve their performance; highlights the opportunity to make regional funding conditional on achieving TA2030 priorities and calls on the Commission to develop monitoring indicators linking the TA2030 and the use of cohesion policy funds, in particular the ER
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Reiterates the need to urgently strengthen EU policy regarding mitigation and adaptation to climate change, also in the light of the growing trends of extreme weather events occurred in these last years and months in the EU; highlights, in this context, the need to step up ambition and quantity of the present and future pilot projects within the objective “Greener Europe” and its first priority “Healthier environment”, taking into account that the signatories of the Territorial Agenda has already set out, inter alia, the development of new crisis management tools to increase places' safety and resilience, the respect the natural limits of Europe's common livelihoods and the increase the resilience of all places impacted by climate change. the need for strengthening awareness and empowering local and regional communities to protect, rehabilitate, utilise and reutilise their (built) environments;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 b (new) 15b. Highlights the potential of territorial development as adequate response to challenges such as natural disasters and health crisis; stresses that territorial development is key to build up resilient regions and secure sustainable implementation of regional funding;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas cohesion policy is the main investment policy for the EU’s regions and cities, consistently serving as a first choice for financial assistance facing unforeseen events that shake our socio-economy, and the Territorial Agenda is the guiding instrument for the European Union’s territorial policy;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Stresses, in this context, the need for bottom-up visions showing the diversity of Europe, recognising all parts of society and territories and involving them more inclusively in the acknowledgement of the importance of the Territorial Agenda’s policy aims, of a climate neutral Europe by 2040 at the latest and of a fair and inclusive transition for all;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Calls on the Commission to ensure the proper implementation of funds and the implementation of territorial instruments, favouring easy management without bureaucratic barriers;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 b (new) 16b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to carry out a coherent review of the Territorial Agenda 2030 by 2024, including a thorough review of its governance system, the progress made in implementation and the relevance of its priorities, as outlined in the Territorial Agenda 2030;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Calls for a single framework for strategies aimed at both urban and wider territorial development, treating territorial requirements as a whole by taking as a basis unit functional areas at level 3 of the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS); stresses that this could significantly reduce bureaucratic barriers in the acquisition of funds, homogenising the process for European regions;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Calls for a single framework for strategies aimed at both urban and wider territorial development, treating territorial requirements as a whole
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18a. Underlines the need to simplify the access to funds identifying “one-stop shops” for potential beneficiaries of EU Cohesion funds and ITI or CLLD projects, in particular to access information about the type of financing, administrative requirements and eligibility;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18a. Recognises the Council's initiative in its role in the development of the territorial activities of the Member States;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 b (new) 18b. Requests Member States to foresee sufficient human resources in both managing authorities and implementation bodies in charge of ITI or CLLD, in order to ensure technical support and advisory service specifically for LAGs and for ITI partners to enable compliance with the regulations;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 c (new) 18c. Stresses that one of the main obstacles encountered by final beneficiaries of cohesion funds, especially for small-scale and local projects, is the delay in payments; encourages Member States to put in place a national scheme of cash advance for projects implemented through ITI and CLLD based on partnerships between managing authorities, public and private banks;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas cohesion policy
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Calls on the Commission to increase its involvement in territorial policy through cohesion policy and to strengthen the governance of regions in order to promote cohesion and micro- cohesion by covering the particularities of each region, improving decision-making at local and regional level and applying existing tools in order to improve the management of legislative instruments; calls on the Commission to strengthen the value of Cohesion Policy Funds to be sufficiently resilient, thus being able to cushion the effects of future unexpected events and to avoid regions suffering the consequences, thus upholding the principle of do not harm to cohesion;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Calls on the Commission to increase its involvement in territorial policy through cohesion policy and to strengthen the governance of regions in order to promote cohesion and micro- cohesion by covering the particularities of each region, improving decision-making at local and regional level, while taking into account functional links, and applying existing tools in order to improve the management of legislative instruments;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19a. Reiterates the need to strengthen the territorial dimension in the European Semester and improve the articulation between Cohesion Policy and the European economic governance, involving local and regional authorities at all stages of the procedures linked with the European Semester and its country specific recommendations;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19a. Calls on the EC to carry out a study of each region's capacity to cushion future global challenges affecting territorial cohesion. This would provide a rapid response tool that would allow for flexibility in the allocation or reinforcement of these resources, according to the real time situation of our regions;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls for key actors, such as the
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 a (new) 20a. Highlights the relevance of the territorial tools in terms of increased and inclusive participation from civil society and local governments; calls on the Commission to explore new ways to raise further awareness on their rationale and to substantially increase the use of ITI and CLLDs, also by potentially earmarking a mandatory percentage to be used in the post-27 Cohesion Policy framework;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 a (new) 20a. Calls on the EIB to increase the financial allocation foreseen for Cohesion Policy funds, dedicated to safeguarding the balance and proper functioning of our regions;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. Whereas it is at territorial level where the challenges facing European regions are identified and managed;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A b (new) Ab. Whereas Article 7 of the European Regional Development Fund Regulation (1301/2013) refers to Sustainable urban development based on integrated sustainable urban strategies as the framework for the selection of single operations;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A c (new) Ac. Whereas the previous and current Common Provisions Regulations make no specific reference to the Territorial Agenda 2020 and the Territorial Agenda 2030 respectively;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas the place-based approach to policy making based on integrated territorial development aims to unleash unique potential related to territorial capital, knowledge and assets, while recognising the need for tailored solutions in different types of territories;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas it appears that the main difficulties encountered by local a
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas it appears that the main difficulties encountered by local actors for the period 2014-2020 were a lack of skills
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas it appears that the main difficulties encountered by local actors for the period 2014-2020
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 4 b (new) – having regard to Regulation (EU) 2021/2115 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 2 December 2021 establishing rules on support for strategic plans to be drawn up by Member States under the common agricultural policy (CAP Strategic Plans) and financed by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and repealing Regulations (EU) No 1305/2013 and (EU) No 1307/20133b, _________________ 3b OJ L 435, 6.12.2021, p. 1
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas it appears that regions and administrative units where LEADER is implemented, a mandatory LAG manager contibutes in improving performance and absorption of regional funding and development1a; _________________ 1a in EAFRD / LEADER a regional management / manager is obligatory. So this concept is well known and explained here at the end of this page: https://ec.europa.eu/enrd/leader- clld/leader-toolkit/implementing-lags-and- local-strategies-1_en.html
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas it considers the richness of Europe's territorial diversity as a dynamic and complex system in which each region faces development challenges according to its particular characteristics;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C b (new) Cb. Whereas there is great potential for the Union in their national programmes and projects for spatial planning and regional development;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C c (new) Cc. whereas it is important to incorporate territoriality into EU funds, especially cohesion policy;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas micro-cohesion is a form of balance for underdeveloped areas within more developed regions; whereas intraregional disparities can only be addressed by paying more attention to the diversity of territories, along with their development potential and challenges, and designing place-based policies and strategies;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas micro-cohesion is a form of balance for underdeveloped areas within more developed regions and whereas Territorial Agenda, explicitly focusing on ‘places and people’, pioneers the idea of ‘interpersonal cohesion’ along with territorial cohesion;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas Article 28 CPR designates integrated territorial investments (ITIs) and community-led local development (CLLD) as the instruments for implementing territorial development strategies and calls for coherence and coordination among the Funds when several are applied to the same strategy for territorial or local development;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F a (new) Fa. whereas it acknowledges the efforts made by our regions to meet the new objectives (PO); thus asks the EC to allowing flexible implementation of PO5 without strict requirements regarding strategies and governance (CPR Title III, Chapter II) thereby opening it to all kinds of initiatives contributing to regional and urban development, e.g. allow transnational Interreg programmes to choose PO5 in future programming;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F b (new) Fb. Whereas these instruments aim at bottom-up territorial development with the active participation of local stakeholders;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas CLLD was the second most used tool by Member States for developing territorial or local strategies in the period 2014-2020
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 4 c (new) – having regard to Regulation (EU) 2020/2220 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 December 2020 laying down certain transitional provisions for support from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and from the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) in the years 2021 and 2022 and amending Regulations (EU) No 1305/2013, (EU) No 1306/2013 and (EU) No 1307/2013 as regards resources and application in the years 2021 and 2022 and Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 as regards resources and the distribution of such support in respect of the years 2021 and 20223c, _________________ 3c OJ L 437, 28.12.2020, p. 1
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H a (new) Ha. whereas the implementation of ITIs and CLLD remains uneven across the Union and several Member States and managing authorities show weak commitment in implementing integrated territorial development; whereas interpretation and implementation of Policy Objective “Europe closer to citizens” (PO 5) is not being understood and used in the same way in each Member States, resulting in low implementation of ITI and CLLD;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H a (new) Ha. Whereas there is no mandatory earmarking for the use of CLLD in the 21-27 programming period;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H b (new) Hb. Whereas ITI and CLLS are instruments that should be aimed not only at facilitating a bottom-up approach for a territorial development by involving local and regional governments (LRGs) (including in the initial design of programmes), but also by facilitating dialogue between the various stakeholders and by increasing cooperation between the public and private sector, as well as by fostering cooperation and the transfer of information between the top and bottom levels of government;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas the Territorial Agenda 2030 (TA2030) invites the European Parliament and its Committee on Regional Development to take its objectives into account by advocating its priorities in EU legislative processes; whereas integrated territorial development and place-based policies are necessary conditions to achieve the EU strategic objectives such as the green and digital transitions;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas the Territorial Agenda 2030 (TA2030) invites the European Parliament and its Committee on Regional Development as responsible for economic, social and territorial cohesion, to take its objectives into account by advocating its priorities in EU legislative processes;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) Ia. whereas place-based policies can help territories to escape from long-term economic decline and the so-called “regional development trap”, in which a region is unable to retain its economic dynamism in terms of income, productivity, and employment; whereas territories which feel left behind are faced with disengagement and discontent of their citizens in the long term;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) Ia. Whereas the Territorial Agenda 2030 further aligns EU territorial development objectives with the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the European Green Deal;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) Ia. Whereas the European Urban Agency, through the Leipzig Charter, supports the objectives of the Territorial Agenda 2030;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I b (new) Ib. Whereas the Territorial Agenda 2030 defines two overarching objectives, a Just Europe and a Green Europe, which have six priorities (Balanced Europe- Functional Regions-Integration beyond borders; Healthy Environment-Circular Economy-Sustainable Connections) for developing the European territory as a whole along with all its places;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I b (new) Ib. Whereas both documents share common principles such as a local approach, policy coordination and effective multi-level frameworks;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 24 a (new) – having regard to its resolution of 20 May 2021 on reversing demographic trends in EU regions using cohesion policy instruments,
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I c (new) Ic. Whereas territorial approaches add value by applying a strategic, spatial lens that captures the specific combinations of social, institutional, economic and environmental challenges and potentials that influence the development of all types of territory;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I c (new) Ic. Whereas the driving principles of the Territorial Agenda 2030 are encompassed in the two priorities "People and places are drifting apart" and "Sustainable development and climate change";
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I d (new) Id. Whereas a strong common territorial development through the Common Provisions Regulation and implementation of the TA2023 can function as an engine for stronger solidarity and democracy within the EU;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I d (new) Id. Whereas territorial priorities set by the Territorial Agenda 2030 for a fair and green Europe;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas implementation of the (TA2030) priorities remains uneven across the Union
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J a (new) Ja. Whereas, to inspire joint actions across Europe, seven pilot pilot actions were launched with the adoption of the Territorial Agenda 2030, a seventh was added recently: •A future for lagging areas: Understanding how sector policies shape spatial (im)balances; Small places matter; Cross-border spatial planning; Climate action in Alpine Towns; Climate change adaptation and resilience through landscape transition; Reducing land artificialisation, urban sprawl and soil sealing in cities of different sizes and functional urban areas;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J a (new) Ja. Whereas the EU Territorial Agenda 2030 calls for the territorial dimension of sectoral policies to be strengthened at all levels of governance;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J a (new) Ja. whereas TA2030 conclusions show growing inequalities within the EU, which accentuate the gaps between citizens and between territories.
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J b (new) Jb. Whereas a better data collection and a coherent revision of the Territorial Agenda 2030 is needed;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J c (new) Jc. Whereas to date, 7 pilot actions have been carried out in the implementation of the Territorial Agenda 2030, serving as an example of the application of its objectives on the ground, at local and regional level;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 24 b (new) – having regard to its resolution of 25 March 2021 on cohesion policy and regional environment strategies in the fight against climate change,
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J d (new) Jd. whereas it takes into account the limited geographical balance in the development of these actions;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J e (new) Je. whereas it takes into account the administrative difficulties encountered by the pilot actions when they were financed by several programmes or funding sources;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph -1 (new) -1. Highlights the importance of the bottom-up approach to territorial development, which is a vehicle for social innovation and capacity building, empowering citizens to take ownership of the development of their territories through the design and implementation of strategies and projects; calls for a paradigm shift in the implementation of cohesion policy and a mainstreaming of the bottom-up approach;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that, in the period 2014- 2020, only 28 % of strategies for sustainable urban development (SUDs) were implemented through ITIs; calls on the Commission to take action to encourage the use of such tools to develop the TA2030, in particular through stepped-up communication activities;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Stresses the valuable contribution to territorial development delivered by actions implemented through CLLD such as those under the LEADER programme; calls on the Commission and the Member States to reinforce LEADER by increasing its budgetary envelope, by guaranteeing high level of autonomy of the Local Action Groups regarding their constitution and their decision making and reducing the administrative burden;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Commission to use the results of the 2024 evaluation report for the 2014-2020 programming period to support programmes for the period 2021-202716 ;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Commission to use the results of the 2024 evaluation report for the 2014-2020 programming period, as well as results and experiences of the EAFRD LEADER implementation, to support programmes for the period 2021-202716 ;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Calls on all public authorities to ensure accessibility, proximity, affordability and quality of public services for all citizens, fight against inequalities and poverty, and fight against climate change;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Welcomes the Handbook of territorial and development strategies and the Handbook of Sustainable Urban Development Strategies as guides for the design, implementation and monitoring of territorial and urban development strategies; regrets, however, the belated publication of these Handbooks and encourages the Commission to produce timely guidelines to simplify the process for elaboration of the operational programmes; highlights the need to offer more guidance to Member States on the implementation of the Policy Objective “Europe closer to citizens” (PO 5) and incentives to allocate more funding to PO 5, such as allowing for projects contributing to more than one PO to count for thematic concentration of both POs;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Welcomes the Handbook of territorial and development strategies and the Handbook of Sustainable Urban Development Strategies as guides for the design, implementation and monitoring of territorial and urban development strategies; believes the dissemination of good practices must be fostered with a view to ensuring that projects are effective and sustainable;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 28 a (new) – having regard to the study conducted for the Commission’s Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO) entitled “The geography of EU discontent and the regional development trap",
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Welcomes the Handbook of territorial and development strategies and the Handbook of Sustainable Urban Development Strategies as guides for all administratives levels for the design, implementation and monitoring of territorial and urban development strategies;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Member States to promote strategic spatial planning that takes into account territories as a whole beyond metropolitan, urban and functional areas; further calls on Member States to strengthen rural-urban links as one way to achieve better balanced territorial development across the Union;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Member States to promote strategic spatial planning that takes into account territories as a whole beyond metropolitan, urban and functional areas; also calls on Member States to explicitly consider cross-border planning and implementation through bottom-up approaches such as CLLD/ITI;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Member States to promote strategic spatial planning that takes into account territories as a whole beyond metropolitan, urban and functional urban areas;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the need for a paradigm shift in the involvement of local and regional authorities in the implementation and management of territorial tools; believes, further, that the public must be involved in the territorial development process with a view to ensuring that projects address their needs and aspirations; calls on the Commission to encourage the public to participate actively in the planning and implementation processes for territorial development projects;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the need for a paradigm shift in the involvement of local and regional authorities in the implementation and management of territorial tools; calls for an effective implementation of the partnership principle and in-depth consultation with local authorities and stakeholders prior to the definition of ITI and CLLD actions;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the need for a paradigm shift in the involvement of local and regional authorities in the planning, implementation and management of territorial tools;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the need for
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 30 a (new) – having regard to the working paper produced by the Directorate- General for Regional and Urban Policy of the European Commission entitled “The geography of EU discontent and the regional development trap” published in March 2023,
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Highlights the impact of the EU Semester decisions on territorial cohesion and, consequently, on the development capacity of territorial programmes;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Calls for territorial or local development strategies funded by more than one programme to merge into a single track in order to prevent delays and administrative obstacles; calls on the Commission, in that regard, to provide local and regional authorities with technical and financial support with a view to helping them to implement territorial development projects;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Calls for territorial or local development strategies funded by more than one programme to merge into a single track in order to prevent delays and administrative obstacles; welcomes the possibility, introduced in the 2021-2027 programming period, to designate a leading fund for strategies funded by more than one fund;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Calls for territorial or local development strategies funded by more than one programme to merge into a single track and be linked to existing national instruments in order to prevent delays and administrative obstacles;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Calls for territorial or local development strategies funded by more than one programme to merge into a single track, in accordance with Article 28 of the CPR and in order to prevent delays and administrative obstacles;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Welcomes the data shown in the STRAT-Board for the period 2014-2020 and notes that CLLDs played a major role in the development of territorial strategies, highlighting the strong interest of the local level in actively participating in the development of these strategies;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 b (new) 7b. Calls on the Commission, in view of the successful use of CLLDs in the 2014-2020 period, to simplify the administrative process for the management of funds, especially where CLLDs draw from more than one distinct fund;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 c (new) 7c. Stresses that the ITIs are the main tool used by those Member States with a larger allocation of ERDF funds, as they quickly absorb the amounts and are able to cover several main axes at the same time, present in one or several operational programmes;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Stresses the clear distinction between Member States that are committed to developing ITIs or CLLDs and those that are not; calls on the Commission to clarify this differentiation in order to avoid geographical disparities; Encourages all Member States to make a greater use of the integrated territorial development as defined in Article 28 of Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 and ensure the respect of partnership as defined in Article 8 of Regulation (EU) 2021/1060;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 30 a (new) – having regard to the study conducted for the Council of European Municipalities and Regions on “ITI and CLLD-The use of integrated territorial tools in cohesion policy"
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Stresses the clear distinction between Member States that are committed to developing ITIs or CLLDs and those that are not; calls on the Commission to clarify this differentiation in order to avoid geographical disparities and to foresee a tailored technical support for those MS who have not made use of these territorial tools ;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Stresses the clear distinction between Member States that are committed to developing ITIs or CLLDs and those that are not; calls on the Commission to clarify this differentiation in order to avoid geographical disparities; takes the view that ITI and CLLD should be mandatory for Member States;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Stresses the clear distinction between Member States that are committed to developing ITIs, OTIs or CLLDs and those that are not; calls on the Commission to clarify this differentiation in order to avoid geographical disparities;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Acknowledges the technical simplifications on territorial development introduced in the 21-27 programming period but calls on the Commission and the Member States to keep necessary additional administrative regulations at the lowest level as possible and to focus even more on proportionality, since financially small projects currently have proportionally higher administrative burden (for beneficiaries) and administrative costs (for programme authorities) than financially larger projects;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Considers TA2030 to be a real and proper instrument that ensures the EU’s cohesion through the management of each of its regions and their particularities; calls on the EC to consider modifying the role of the Territorial Agenda beyond that of a territorial management guide;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Considers TA2030 to be a real and proper instrument that ensures the EU’s cohesion through the management of each of its regions; notes that territorial instruments such as CLLDs and ITIs are proven measures that can bring Europe closer to citizens;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Considers TA2030 to be a real and proper instrument that
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Considers TA2030 to be a
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Highlights that although multi- funding is one of the main purposes of the territorial integrated tools, current findings show that the use of multi- funding may still appear difficult in some countries, especially since in the current period the EAFRD (rural development) is no longer included in the CPR and therefore additional and specific measures to align the rules of EAFRD and of other Cohesion Policy funds would be needed (i.e. using different EU funds for integrated projects at the local level that address several Policy Objectives);
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 b (new) 9b. Recalls that in the 21-27 Cohesion Policy Framework gender equality and a gender perspective must be included and promoted throughout all stages of the process to prepare, implement, monitor and evaluate Cohesion programmes and calls then on the MS to actively promote these cross-cutting principles in the preparation and implementation of the Territorial Agenda’s pilot projects on the ground;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 30 b (new) – having regard to the analysis produced by the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) entitled “ITI and CLLD. The use of integrate territorial tools in cohesion policy” published in December 2022,
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 c (new) 9c. Observes that TA30 not only advocates place-based policy responses to territorial challenges but provides also an actual political vision and ambition for the territorial cohesion objective through a better involvement of subnational authorities and citizens (e.g. Under the heading ‘a future for all places’) and has thus the potential to better address the drivers of the underlying multi-faceted issues leading to further regional developments traps;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Stresses that TA2030 actions should
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Stresses that TA2030 actions should be more decisive in the allocation of funds and the need to promote the integration of the TA2030 into EU policies, with a focus on levels of governance closer to the ground; calls on the Commission to provide the TA2030 with its own funding and updated allocation methodology in the future revision of the multiannual financial framework;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Calls for greater flexibility for the regions in the fulfilment of the PO5 objective and for the actions to achieve it to be aligned with those set out in the Territorial Agenda 2030;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Underlines as essential t
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Stresses the need to involve the European Parliament
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Stresses the need to involve the European Parliament, and in particular its competent Committee on Regional Development, in the pilot actions, as well as to promote and extend their results at European level, which can be integrated and coordinated with initiatives such as cohesion policy, including the ERDF and Interreg;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Calls for a strategy for
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Calls for a strategy for merging funds or for the administrative simplification for pilot actions financed by more than one fund, so as to lower administrative barriers and facilitate applications for these projects;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Points out to the huge potential of TA2030 and its current (e.g. A future for lagging areas) and future pilot projects to address the highly diverse needs of non urban areas areas, since these latter cover rural areas, mountainous areas, islands and coastal areas, remote and sparsely populated areas and many other types of territories where a mix of urban and rural features coexist (e.g. river basins, natural parks, low-density clusters); highlights in particular that rural areas are often confronted with demographic challenges, low population density and limited access to services of general interest, do not always have the capacity to design and implement innovative solutions and can then greatly take advantage of the exchange of best practices and dissemination, as well as of access to funding for local initiatives and support from regional facilitators;
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