Source: European Parliament
11.10.2024
Question for written answer E-002039/2024
to the Commission
Rule 144
Elena Nevado del Campo (PPE), Isabel Benjumea Benjumea (PPE), Raúl de la Hoz Quintano (PPE), Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez (PPE), Nicolás Pascual De La Parte (PPE), Susana Solís Pérez (PPE), Borja Giménez Larraz (PPE), Pablo Arias Echeverría (PPE), Alma Ezcurra Almansa (PPE), Antonio López-Istúriz White (PPE), Adrián Vázquez Lázara (PPE), Maravillas Abadía Jover (PPE), Francisco José Millán Mon (PPE), Pilar del Castillo Vera (PPE), Fernando Navarrete Rojas (PPE), Esther Herranz García (PPE)
Recent reports in some national and European newspapers[1][2] have provided details of the Commission’s supposed structural reform for the next programming period that will merge cohesion and common agricultural payments into a single national plan. Member States’ central authorities would thus draw up and manage directly the payments linked to those funds.
Cutting the budget for those funds or breaking with the principle of partnership and multilevel governance would undoubtedly pose a serious risk to cohesion across Europe, especially with regard to regional and local authorities.
In view of this potential redesign of the multiannual financial framework and the cohesion policy:
- 1.Does the Commission intend to merge EU programmes such as the European Structural and Investment Funds and the CAP into a single national plan based on the model used for NextGenerationEU funds?
- 2.If so, how will it maintain the role of regional and local authorities in managing such a policy, and ensure that the principles of shared management, partnership and multilevel governance are respected?
Submitted: 11.10.2024