6 Amendments of Isabella DE MONTE related to 2016/0276(COD)
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) The extended EFSI should address remaining market failures and sub-optimal investment situations and continue to mobilise private sector financing in investments crucial for Europe’s future job creation – including for the youth –, growth and competitiveness with strengthened additionality. They include investments in the areas of energy, environment and climate action, social and human capital and related infrastructure, healthcare, research and innovation, cross- border and sustainable transport, as well as the digital transformation. In particular, the contribution of operations supported by the EFSI to achieving the Union's ambitious targets set at the Paris Climate Conference (COP21) should be reinforced. Energy interconnection priority projects and energy efficiency projects should also be increasingly targeted. In addition, EFSI support to motorways should be avoided, unless it is needed to support private investment in transport in cohesion countries or in cross-border transport projects involving at least one cohesion country. For reasons of clarity, although they are already eligible, it should be explicitly laid down that projects in the fields of agriculture, fishery and aquaculture come within the general objectives eligible for EFSI support.
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) Additionality, a key feature of the EFSI, should be strengthened in the selection of projects. In particularorder to ensure that the entities that need to use the EFSI guarantee fund are better represented, it would be advisable to allow for rotation on the Steering Board, to include members of sectoral DGs, such as transport and environment. In accordance with the additionality principle, operations should only be eligible for EFSI support if they address clearly identified market failures or sub- optimal investment situations. Operations in infrastructure under the Infrastructure and Innovation Window linking two or more Member States, including e- infrastructure, should be considered additional given their inherent difficulty and their high added value for the Union.
Amendment 51 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) In order to reinforce the take-up of the EFSI in less-developed, outermost and transition regions, the scope of the general objectives eligible for EFSI support should be enlarged.
Amendment 55 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) In order to partly finance the contribution from the general budget of the Union to the EU guarantee fund for the additional investments to be made, a transfer should be made from the available envelope of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), provided for in Regulation (EU) No 1316/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council4. However, the appropriations from this transfer will hopefully be assigned primarily to infrastructure and transport projects. Moreover, EUR 1 145 797 000 of appropriations should be transferred from the CEF financial instruments to the grant part of the CEF with a view to facilitating blending with the EFSI or to other relevant instruments, in particular those dedicated to energy efficiency. _________________ 4 Regulation (EU) No 1316/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 establishing the Connecting Europe Facility, amending Regulation (EU) No 913/2010 and repealing Regulations (EC) No 680/2007 and (EC) No 67/2010, OJ L 348, 12.2013, p. 129.
Amendment 61 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) The EIB and the EIF should publicise the EFSI in order to raise the profile of this important instrument. They should also ensure that the final beneficiaries, including SMEs, are informed of the existence of EFSI support, so as to enhance the visibility of the EU guarantee granted under Regulation (EU) 2015/1017.
Amendment 104 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex – point 1 – point a
Annex – point 1 – point a