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"Mr President, let me start by saying, on behalf of Commissioner Špidla and myself, that we very much welcome the report on strategic guidelines for cohesion adopted by Parliament’s Committee on Regional Development on 11 September. In particular I should like to thank Mrs Krehl for her hard work in drafting the report and also for the good cooperation we have enjoyed over the past year on the dossier.
I have been grateful for the support and ideas of the Committee on Regional Development and Parliament during this period on what is perhaps the most important and innovative part of the new cohesion policy for 2007-2013. Through the guidelines we are seeking to ensure that Community priorities are more fully integrated into national and regional development programmes supported by the Union. The guidelines seek to provide a clear and consistent approach in support of growth and jobs under the renewed Lisbon Strategy. I believe that the guidelines have benefited considerably from Parliament’s contribution.
I would draw your attention to the recitals that have been added to the document since Parliament produced its report last May. These are important in the sense that they reveal the political orientation that lies behind the guidelines. The recitals draw heavily on the suggestions in the report drafted by Mrs Krehl. For example, they draw attention to the importance of partnership (recital 16), to the contribution of infrastructure to convergence (recital 11), to equality of opportunity and the fight against discrimination (recital 15), to the importance of development that is sustainable in environmental terms (recital 14), to territorial cohesion and to the urban dimension (recital 12).
It is worth noting that in adopting these recitals the Council and the Member States are in effect writing a memo to themselves on how the next programmes should be run. This is clearly very important for us as we look forward to the programme negotiations.
In addition to the recitals, the text of the guidelines has been reinforced in key areas of importance to Parliament. In particular we have given more attention to territorial cohesion. This includes stronger wording on the urban question. We have also developed the text on the three initiatives – Jasper, Jeremy and Jessica – which you have supported strongly. This should, among other things, make a contribution to developing the use of public/private partnerships in our programmes, which is one of the recommendations of your report on the guidelines. There are many other areas where I think you will find that the Commission has tried to accommodate Parliament’s wishes.
I do not need to summarise once again the content of the document, but perhaps it would be worthwhile to remind ourselves of the vision of the new cohesion policy, which the strategic guidelines can help us to achieve. This vision is centred around economic development, which is increasingly being driven by local and regional resources, be it innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, local human skills or academic institutions. This vision is about developing our unique system of multilevel governance by taking policy closer to the local and regional levels, closer to the people and closer to the place where growth and jobs are created.
I know that some of you expressed a wish to have more debate on strategic guidelines, so I am looking forward to hearing your views."@en1
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