7 Amendments of Mireille D'ORNANO related to 2018/0228(COD)
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) In order to achieve smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and to stimulate job creation, the Union needs an up-to-date, high-performance infrastructure to help connect and integrate the Union and all its regions, in the transport, telecommunications and energy sectors. The expected effect on growth, however, will remain very poor as long as the Member States, particularly those in the euro area, continue to be restricted by EU monetary, budgetary and trade policy obligations which prevent sustained growth. Those connections should help to improve the free movement of persons, goods, capital and services. The trans- European networks should facilitate cross- border connections, foster greater economic, social and territorial cohesion and contribute to a more competitive social market economy and to combating climate change.
Amendment 3 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) The aim of the Connecting Europe Facility (the ‘Programme’) is to accelerate investment in the field of trans-European networks and to leverage funding from both the public and the private sectors, while increasing legal certainty and respecting the principle of technological neutrality. The objective of the Programme shouldis to enable synergies between the transport, energy and digital sectors to be harnessed to the full extent, thus enhancing the effectiveness of Union action and enabling implementing costs to be optimised.
Amendment 8 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) It is necessary to promote investments in favour of smart, sustainable, inclusive, safe and secure mobility throughout the Union. Those objectives must not conflict with public service and land-use planning policy objectives, which Member States must continue to develop with regard to transport. In 2017, the Commission presented20 "Europe on the move", a wide-ranging set of initiatives to make traffic safer, encourage smart road charging, reduce CO2 emissions, air pollution and congestion, promote connected and autonomous mobility and ensure proper conditions and rest times for workers. These initiatives should be accompanied by Union financial support, where relevant through this Programme. _________________ 20 Commission Communication "Europe on the move: An agenda for a socially fair transition towards clean, competitive and connected mobility for all" – COM(2017) 283
Amendment 13 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) In its Communication "A stronger and renewed strategic partnership with the EU's outermost regions"26, the Commission highlighted the outermost regions' specific transport needs and the necessity to provide Union funding to match these needs, including through the Programme, all the more necessary because those regions are regularly overlooked in the EU's investment programmes. _________________ 26 COM (2017)623
Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 27
Recital 27
(27) Unconnected territories in all areas of the Union, including in central ones, represent bottlenecks and unexploited potential to the digital single market, and are a sign of marked inequality in the EU, given citizens' lack of digital access there (the digital divide). In most rural and remote areas, high quality Internet connectivity can play an essential role in preventing digital divide, isolation and depopulation by reducing the costs of delivery of both goods and services and partially compensating for remoteness. High quality Internet connectivity is necessary for new economic opportunities such as precision farming or the development of a bio-economy in rural areas. The Programme should contribute to providing all European households, rural or urban, with very high capacity fixed or wireless connectivity, focusing on those deployments for which a degree of market failure is observed and which can be addressed using low intensity grants. In doing so, the Programme should aim at achieving a comprehensive coverage of households and territories, as gaps in an already covered area are uneconomic to address at a later stage.
Amendment 21 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 35
Recital 35
(35) At Union level, the European Semester of economic policy coordination is the framework to identify national reform priorities and monitor their implementation them. Member States develop their own national multiannual investment strategies in support of these reform priorities. These strategies should be presented alongside the yearly National Reform Programmes as a way to outline and coordinate priority investment projects to be supported by national and/or Union funding. They should also serve to use Union funding in a coherent manner and to maximise the added value of the financial support to be received notably from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Cohesion Fund, the European Investment Stabilisation Function, InvestEU and the Connecting Europe Facility, where relevant. Financial support should also be used in a manner consistent with Union and national energy and climate plans where relevant.
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 45
Recital 45
(45) Adequate monitoring and reporting measures including indicators should be implemented in order to report the progress of the Programme towards the achievement of the general and specific objectives set out in this Regulation and the effectiveness of that implementation with regard to the allocated budgets. This performance reporting system should ensure that data for monitoring implementation of the Programme and its results are collected efficiently, effectively and in a timely manner. It is necessary to impose proportionate reporting requirements on recipients of Union funds in order to collect relevant data for the Programme.