11 Amendments of Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER related to 2018/0228(COD)
Amendment 16 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) In order to achieve smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and to stimulate job creation, the UnionMember States needs an up-to-date, high-performance infrastructure to help connect and integrate the Union and all itsall regions, in the transport, telecommunications and energy sectors. Those connections should help to improve the free movement of persons, goods, capital and services. The trans-European networks should facilitate cross-border connections,e trans-European networks should foster greater economic, social and territorial cohesion and contribute to a more competitive social market economy and to combating climate change.
Amendment 19 #
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 Programme should enable synergies between the transport, energy and digital sectors to be harnessed to the full extent, thus enhancing the effectiveness of Union action and enablinge implementing costs to be optimised.
Amendment 20 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) Reflecting the importance of tackling climate change in line with Union’s commitments to implement the Paris Agreement, and the commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, this Regulation should therefore mainstream climate action and lead to the achievement of an overall target of 25 % of the EU budget expenditures supporting climate objectives3. Actions under this Programme are expected to contribute 60 % of the overall financial envelope of the Programme to climate objectives, based inter alia on the following Rio markers: i) 100 % for the expenditures relating to railway infrastructure, alternative fuels, clean urban transport, electricity transmission, electricity storage, smart grids, CO2 transportation and renewable energy; ii) 40 % for inland waterways and multimodal transport, and gas infrastructure - if enabling increased use of renewable hydrogen or bio-methane. Relevant actions will be identified during the Programme's preparation and implementation, and reassessed in the context of the relevant evaluations and review processes. In order to prevent that infrastructure is vulnerable to potential long term climate change impacts and to ensure that the cost of greenhouse gas emissions arising from the project is included in the project's economic evaluation, projects supported by the Programme should be subject to climate proofing in accordance with guidance that should be developed by the CommissionMember States coherently with the guidance developed for other programmes of the Union where relevant. __________________ 3 COM(2018) 321, p. 13. COM(2018) 321, p. 13.
Amendment 40 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 30
Recital 30
(30) The Union has, the European Space Agency and ministries in some Member States have developed its owna satellite Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) technology (EGNOS/Galileo) and its owan Earth observation system (Copernicus). Both EGNOS/Galileo and Copernicus offer advanced services which provide important economic benefits to public and private users. Therefore any transport, energy or digital infrastructure funded by the Programme - that makes use of PNT or Earth observations services - should be technically compatible with EGNOS/Galileo and Copernicus.
Amendment 41 #
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. Member States develop their own national multiannual investment strategies in support ofparallel with 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 45 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 46
Recital 46
Amendment 59 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. The programmes must use only technologies from companies established in the Union, the EEA or Switzerland.
Amendment 82 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
(da) only equipment manufactured by European companies may be used in the programme; companies with their registered office, decision-making and production centres and main shareholders established in the Union, the EEA or Switzerland are deemed to be European companies.
Amendment 84 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22
Article 22
Amendment 85 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23
Article 23
Amendment 86 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24
Article 24