KLEVA, Mojca

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Slovenia Socialni demokrati 2011/04/13 - 9999/12/31

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S&D Member Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament 2011/04/13 - 9999/12/31

Committees

Role	Committee	Start	End
Member of	Committee on Regional Development	2011/05/09	9999/12/31
Substitute of	Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs	2011/05/05	9999/12/31
Substitute of	Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality	2011/05/05	9999/12/31

Delegations

Role	Delegation	Start	End
Vice-Chair of	Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees	2011/06/08	9999/12/31
Member of	Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly	2011/05/09	9999/12/31
Substitute of	Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee	2011/05/05	9999/12/31

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Role	Delegation	Start	End
Member of	Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees	2011/05/09	2011/06/07

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Rapporteur

Opinion	2012/2027(INI)	Innovative financial instruments in the context of the next Multiannual Financial Framework
Shadow	2011/0283(COD)	Structural Funds and Cohesion Fund: provisions relating to risk sharing instruments for Member States experiencing or threatened with serious difficulties with respect to their financial stability
Shadow	2011/0211(COD)	Structural Funds: increased payments for certain Member States

Born

1976/03/30 Koper

Amendments

Amendments	Dossier
13	2012/2256(INI) European Semester for economic policy coordination: Annual Growth Survey 2013 2012/04/12 REGI 13 amendments... Amendment 2 # KLEVA, Mojca Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the efforts made to strengthen coordination of economic ~~and~~, budgetary ~~coordination~~and employment policies through the European Semester, allowing the parallel monitoring of ~~national budgets and economic policies in parallel~~different national policies during a six- month period every year; Amendment 5 # KLEVA, Mojca 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- funded cohesion policy is an effective and efficient instrument to implement Europe 2020 and help 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 sustainable territorial, economic and social cohesion in ~~all regions of~~ the EU, keeping in mind the principle of solidarity; stresses, in this con~~nection~~text, the importance of involving all regions and local authorities in achieving the EUurope 2020 goals; Amendment 8 # KLEVA, Mojca 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; 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 policieit can enjoy a stable and durable financial framework; stresses that implementation of funds covered by the CPR cannot be made conditional upon compliance with macroeconomic conditionality as regional and local authorities cannot be blamed for their national governments' inability to balance their budgets; Amendment 11 # KLEVA, Mojca 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 13 # KLEVA, Mojca Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Is ~~strong~~deeply concerned by the ~~high risk of the euro area re-entering recession, which is indicated by a contracting economy~~ negative impact that fiscal consolidation has on growth and job creation; welcomes Commission's acknowledgment that only a differentiated fiscal consolidation approach towards Member States cand a ~~rise in unemployment~~chieve both growth and social fairness; Amendment 14 # KLEVA, Mojca Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Takes the view that a ~~further~~more stpre~~ngthening of fiscal discipline and fiscal institu~~ad out and balanced fiscal consolidations at both national and sub- national levels ~~is a prerequisite for enhancing market confidence in the medium- and long-term~~can be conducive to achieve sustainab~~ility of~~le public finances in the euro area, which is of paramount importance to growth; urges Member States to pursue fiscal consolidation and respect the rules for a balanced budget, in line with the rules of the Stability and Growth Pact, which take into account country-specific macro- financial situations, enhanced market confidence, increased competitiveness, more growth and improved employment opportunities in the euro area and indeed in the whole EU; Amendment 16 # KLEVA, Mojca 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; stresses that particular attention should also be paid to reinforcing the coverage and effectiveness of employment services and active labour market policies; Amendment 19 # KLEVA, Mojca Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. UStresses the need to ensure coherence within and among different Member States' and regions' economic policies where special attention should be given to the spill-over effects of individual national economic policies; urges Member States and regions to ensure the consistency of different economic policy instruments, in particular as regards policies targeting the EUurope 2020 objectives ~~and headline targets on an equal basis so as to attract investors' inter~~, so as to restore investors' confidence in order to achieve the long-term financing of the real economy; in light of the limited and costly access to funding for many businessest and ~~restore their confidence in order to achieve the long-term financing of the real economy~~households, calls on the Commission to continue working with Member States to accelerate the use of unallocated Structural Funds as well as encourage them to make full use of new innovative risk-sharing instruments (such as project bonds) to help unlock private funding; Amendment 20 # KLEVA, Mojca 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 # KLEVA, Mojca 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 # KLEVA, Mojca Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Calls for strong measures to restore confidence in the banking sector and thus boost investment; recalls that ~~lack of~~insufficient access to finance remains one of the critical barriers preventing SMEs from finding private capital to match EU co-funding and regaining competitiveness; underlines that cohesion policy's innovative financial instruments together with the EIB capital, can act as catalysts for targeted investment towards SMEs and serve as a complement to traditional bank lending; urges the Commission to provide detailed information, further assistance and guidance to Member States and regions concerning financial instruments under cohesion policy in 2013 and future programming period (2014-2020); Amendment 24 # KLEVA, Mojca Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10. Points out that ~~additional efforts are constantly requir~~more determined action is needed to crea~~ch the targets, especially in the area of employment, which is at least as important as grow~~te the conditions for a job-rich recovery, with in the context of the European Semester; stresses that job creation is a prerequisite for sustainable growth and the prevention of future crises; Amendment 26 # KLEVA, Mojca Draft opinion Paragraph 11 11. Takes the view that~~, in order to strengthen growth and productivity, enhanced coordination of economic policies and far-reaching structural reforms are needed~~ budgetary, growth and employment measures need to be taken simultaneously as they are interdependent and jointly constitute a prerequisite for a full recovery. source: PE-501.919

Dossier

2012/2256(INI) European Semester for economic policy coordination: Annual Growth Survey 2013

2012/04/12 REGI 13 amendments...

Amendment 2 #

KLEVA, Mojca

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the efforts made to strengthen coordination of economic ~~and~~, budgetary ~~coordination~~and employment policies through the European Semester, allowing the parallel monitoring of ~~national budgets and economic policies in parallel~~different national policies during a six- month period every year;

Amendment 5 #

KLEVA, Mojca

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- funded cohesion policy is an effective and efficient instrument to implement Europe 2020 and help 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 sustainable territorial, economic and social cohesion in ~~all regions of~~ the EU, keeping in mind the principle of solidarity; stresses, in this con~~nection~~text, the importance of involving all regions and local authorities in achieving the EUurope 2020 goals;

Amendment 8 #

KLEVA, Mojca

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; 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 policieit can enjoy a stable and durable financial framework; stresses that implementation of funds covered by the CPR cannot be made conditional upon compliance with macroeconomic conditionality as regional and local authorities cannot be blamed for their national governments' inability to balance their budgets;

Amendment 11 #

KLEVA, Mojca

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 13 #

KLEVA, Mojca

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Is ~~strong~~deeply concerned by the ~~high risk of the euro area re-entering recession, which is indicated by a contracting economy~~ negative impact that fiscal consolidation has on growth and job creation; welcomes Commission's acknowledgment that only a differentiated fiscal consolidation approach towards Member States cand a ~~rise in unemployment~~chieve both growth and social fairness;

Amendment 14 #

KLEVA, Mojca

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Takes the view that a ~~further~~more stpre~~ngthening of fiscal discipline and fiscal institu~~ad out and balanced fiscal consolidations at both national and sub- national levels ~~is a prerequisite for enhancing market confidence in the medium- and long-term~~can be conducive to achieve sustainab~~ility of~~le public finances in the euro area, which is of paramount importance to growth; urges Member States to pursue fiscal consolidation and respect the rules for a balanced budget, in line with the rules of the Stability and Growth Pact, which take into account country-specific macro- financial situations, enhanced market confidence, increased competitiveness, more growth and improved employment opportunities in the euro area and indeed in the whole EU;

Amendment 16 #

KLEVA, Mojca

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; stresses that particular attention should also be paid to reinforcing the coverage and effectiveness of employment services and active labour market policies;

Amendment 19 #

KLEVA, Mojca

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. UStresses the need to ensure coherence within and among different Member States' and regions' economic policies where special attention should be given to the spill-over effects of individual national economic policies; urges Member States and regions to ensure the consistency of different economic policy instruments, in particular as regards policies targeting the EUurope 2020 objectives ~~and headline targets on an equal basis so as to attract investors' inter~~, so as to restore investors' confidence in order to achieve the long-term financing of the real economy; in light of the limited and costly access to funding for many businessest and ~~restore their confidence in order to achieve the long-term financing of the real economy~~households, calls on the Commission to continue working with Member States to accelerate the use of unallocated Structural Funds as well as encourage them to make full use of new innovative risk-sharing instruments (such as project bonds) to help unlock private funding;

Amendment 20 #

KLEVA, Mojca

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 #

KLEVA, Mojca

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 #

KLEVA, Mojca

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9

9. Calls for strong measures to restore confidence in the banking sector and thus boost investment; recalls that ~~lack of~~insufficient access to finance remains one of the critical barriers preventing SMEs from finding private capital to match EU co-funding and regaining competitiveness; underlines that cohesion policy's innovative financial instruments together with the EIB capital, can act as catalysts for targeted investment towards SMEs and serve as a complement to traditional bank lending; urges the Commission to provide detailed information, further assistance and guidance to Member States and regions concerning financial instruments under cohesion policy in 2013 and future programming period (2014-2020);

Amendment 24 #

KLEVA, Mojca

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10

10. Points out that ~~additional efforts are constantly requir~~more determined action is needed to crea~~ch the targets, especially in the area of employment, which is at least as important as grow~~te the conditions for a job-rich recovery, with in the context of the European Semester; stresses that job creation is a prerequisite for sustainable growth and the prevention of future crises;

Amendment 26 #

KLEVA, Mojca

Draft opinion
Paragraph 11

11. Takes the view that~~, in order to strengthen growth and productivity, enhanced coordination of economic policies and far-reaching structural reforms are needed~~ budgetary, growth and employment measures need to be taken simultaneously as they are interdependent and jointly constitute a prerequisite for a full recovery.

source: PE-501.919

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