5 Amendments of Beata GOSIEWSKA related to 2015/0009(COD)
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) Many small and medium enterprises, as well as mid-cap companies, across the Union require assistance to attract market financing, especially as regards investments that carry a greater degree of risk. This concerns, in particular, enterprises operating in rural areas and in areas where agricultural processing is predominant, where there is an urgent need to ensure economic growth and maintain jobs in order to prevent depopulation. The EFSI should help these businesses to overcome capital shortages by allowing the EIB and the European Investment Fund ('EIF') to provide direct and indirect equity injections, as well as to provide guarantees for high-quality securitisation of loans, and other products that are granted in pursuit of the aims of the EFSI.
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) The EFSI should be established within the EIB in order to benefit from its experience and proven track record and in order for its operations to start to have a positive impact as quickly as possible. The work of the EFSI on providing finance to small and medium enterprises, in particular, to enterprises operating in rural areas and in areas where agricultural processing is predominant and small mid-cap companies should be channelled through the European Investment Fund ('EIF') to benefit from its experience in these activities.
Amendment 56 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) The EFSI should target projects delivering high societal and economic value. In particular, the EFSI should target projects that promote job creation, long- term growth, innovation and competitiveness, especially infrastructure measures (digital and transport). The EFSI should support a wide range of financial products, including equity, debt or guarantees, to best accommodate the needs of the individual project. This wide range of products should allow the EFSI to adapt to market needs whilst encouraging private investment in the projects. The EFSI should not be a substitute for private market finance but should instead catalyse private finance by addressing market failures so as to ensure the most effective and strategic use of public money, without adding to administrative burden or creating additional payment systems, which would undermine the efficiency of the EFSI’s objectives, so as to ensure the most effective and strategic use of public money, without introducing additional bureaucracy or payment systems that have a negative impact on the effective attainment of EFSI’s objectives. The requirement for consistency with State aid principles should contribute to such effective and strategic use.
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) The EFSI should target projects with a higher risk-return profile than existing EIB and Union instruments to ensure additionality over existing operations. The EFSI should finance projects across the Union, including in the countries most affected by the financial crisis, as well as in the many disadvantaged areas of Europe which are rural and areas in extremely peripheral locations in which agricultural processing is predominant. The EFSI should only be used where financing is not available from other sources on reasonable terms.
Amendment 77 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22
Recital 22
(22) In accordance with the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Infrastructure, research and development, and project investments supported under EFSI should be consistent with State aid rules. To that end, the Commission has announced that it will formulate a set of core principles, for the purpose of State aid assessments, which a project will have to meet to be eligible for support under the EFSI. If a project meets these criteria and receives support from the EFSI, the Commission has announced that any national complementary support, will be assessed under a simplified and accelerated State aid assessment whereby the only additional issue to be verified by the Commission will be the proportionality of public support (absence of overcompensation). The Commission has also announced that it will provide further guidance on the set of core principles with a view to ensuring an efficient use of public funds.