Πολιτική Συνοχής 2014~2020: Συμμετοχή στο διάλογο των περιβαλλοντικών ΜΚΟ
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Cohesion Policy 2014‐2020:
NGO priority recommendations for trialogue
Environmental NGOs would like to highlight the opportunity for decision makers to support and improve key aspects of the European Commission’s proposals and oppose detrimental changes during trialogues. This will maximise the benefits that can be delivered to European regions by the future Cohesion Policy and other Common Strategic Framework funds.
These improvements to the Commission’s proposals will ensure that these EU funds contribute to reach the EU 2020 environmental targets, create regional green jobs, enhance economic opportunities and address environmental challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and resource inefficiency.
This briefing focuses on priority issues of the Common Provisions Regulation, the European Regional Development Fund’s Regulation and the Cohesion Fund’s Regulation.
Priorities for the Common Provisions Regulation
Support the European Parliament’s proposal for a stronger language on Sustainable development including explicitly biodiversity and ecosystem protection (Art 8).
Support a compromise to include ‘sustainable urban mobility’ (not ‘sustainable transport’ which is too broad) under the low carbon thematic objective, in order to ensure consistency with ERDF regulation (Art 9‐4).
Support the European Parliament’s proposals to assess climate impacts of programmes complementing the Strategic Environmental Assessment (Art 48) and biodiversity impacts of major projects (Art 91).
Oppose the Council’s proposal to weaken ex‐ante conditions and instead support the improvement of result orientation of the Cohesion Policy through ex‐ante conditions and an adequate performance framework based on targets and indicators (Art 17, Annex I). Furthermore, the European Commission should adopt the entire Partnership Contract proposed by the Member States (Art 14).
Support the European Parliament’s proposal for a strong partnership through multi‐level governance and the European Code of Conduct, ensuring the equal engagement of environmental and socio‐economic partners. This needs to be reflected in the monitoring committees but also during the preparation of partnership contracts and Operational Programmes, with technical assistance available for partners (Art 5‐3, 13, 14, 23, 24, 42, 43, 48, 52, 87‐1).
Priorities for the European Regional Development Fund’s Regulation
Support a compromise in modifying the European Commission’s proposal regarding basic services projects in developed regions. Some projects, including in the areas of ICT, innovative solutions and cross‐border cooperation under the European territorial cooperation goal still lack sufficient support in developed regions. There should still be financial support to these areas in developed regions (Art 3‐1 d).
Support a compromise in expanding the thematic concentration of ERDF to include ICT and Environment thematic objectives as means of expanding the flexibility of the concentration.
Support a compromise for higher thematic concentration for the low carbon objective to contribute to the Europe 2020 Strategy and 2020 targets on renewable energy, energy efficiency and climate change. We recommend a minimum of 22% in developed regions and 12% in less developed regions as proposed by the European Parliament (15% if the Cohesion Fund is accounted) (Art 4 a ii and b ii).
Ensure that investment priorities in the ERDF will not be further diluted and will deliver on the Europe 2020 Strategy targets including:
Supporting the European Parliament’s proposal for SME support to explicitly include eco‐innovation and resource efficiency areas (Art 5‐3);
Supporting the European Parliament’s proposal of ‘ecosystem‐based’ climate adaptation and risk prevention (Art 5‐5 a and b);
Supporting a compromise to limit the scope of cogeneration and district heating and cooling support to high efficiency distribution networks as means of avoiding subsidising fossil fuel (Art 5‐4);
Supporting the Council’s proposal in expanding the low carbon objective to specifically mention sustainable multi‐modal urban mobility and land based measures delivering both on climate mitigation and adaptation (Art 5‐4);
Supporting the Council and European Parliament’s proposal explicitly mentioning the ‘restoration’ of biodiversity under the environment investment priority (Art 5‐6 d);
Opposing the Council’s proposal in introducing the support for the development of gas and power distribution, storage and transmission systems under the transport investment priority (Art 5‐7);
Priorities for the Cohesion Fund’s Regulation
Ensure that investment priorities in the Cohesion Fund will not be further diluted and will deliver on European 2020 targets and the Europe 2020 strategy. This includes:
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Supporting a compromise to limit the scope of cogeneration and district heating and cooling support to high efficiency distribution networks as means of avoiding subsidising fossil fuel (Art 3 a);
Supporting a compromise for expanding the low carbon objective to specifically include sustainable, smart and integrated energy action plans and land based measures delivering both on climate mitigation and adaptation (Art 3 a);
Supporting the European Parliament’s proposal of ‘ecosystem‐based’ climate adaptation and risk prevention (Art 3 b);
Supporting the European Parliament’s proposal to explicitly mention Natura 2000 under the environment investment priority (Art 3 c).
Contacts:
Bruna Campos, EU Financial Perspectives Policy Officer, BirdLife Europe / Conservation International – Europe, bruna.campos@birdlife.org, tel +32 2 238 50 99
Pieter De Pous, Director of Policy, European Environmental Bureau, pieter.depous@eeb.org, tel +32 2 289 1306
Nina Renshaw, Transport policy officer, Transport & Environment, nina.renshaw@transportenvironment.org, tel +32 2 893 08 44
Peter Torkler, WWF Germany, WWF European coordinator on Cohesion Policy, torkler@wwf.de, tel +49 30 311 777 263
Markus Trilling, EU Sustainable Funds Coordinator, CEE Bankwatch / Friends of the Earth Europe,
markus.trilling@foeeurope.org, tel +32 2 893 1031
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