11 Amendments of Daniel BUDA related to 2016/0276(COD)
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) For the period after 2020, the Commission intends to put forward the necessary proposals to ensure that strategic investment will continue at a sustainable level, while continuing to ensure complementarity between structural and investment funds.
Amendment 35 #
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, taking account of the need to adapt to current trends by facilitating collaborative economy instruments. 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 41 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) Due to their potential to increase the efficiency of the EFSI intervention, blending operations combining non- reimbursable forms of support and/or financial instruments from the Union budget, such aspporting innovation through the use of financing covered by the Horizon 2020 programme along with those available under the Connecting Europe Facility, and financing from EIB Group, including EIB financing under the EFSI, as well as other investors should be encouraged. Blending aims to enhance the value added of Union spending by attracting additional resources from private investors and to ensure the actions supported become economically and financially viable.
Amendment 52 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) In order to reinforce the take-up of the EFSI in less-developed and transition regions, the scope of the general objectives eligible for EFSI support should be enlarged, bearing in mind that the need for development in these regions confirms the potential available for investment.
Amendment 66 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) In line with the exceptional market demand for SME financing under the EFSI which is expected to continue, the EFSI SME Window should be enhanced. Particular attention should be paid to social enterprises, including through the development and deployment of new instruments and the diversification of financing sources by encouraging multiple financing such as crowdfunding.
Amendment 67 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) In line with the exceptional market demand for SME financing under the EFSI which is expected to continue, the EFSI SME and midcap Window should be enhanced. Particular attention should be paid to social enterprises, as well as sustainable/environmental projects, including through the development and deployment of new instruments.
Amendment 71 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) The EIB and the EIF should ensure that the final beneficiaries, including SMEs, are informed of the existence of EFSI support, by identifying instruments to measure the degree of visibility of EFSI investment, so as to enhance the visibility of the EU guarantee granted under Regulation (EU) 2015/1017.
Amendment 73 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) The EIB and the EIF should ensure that the final beneficiaries, including SMEs, are and midcaps, have timely access to the corresponding correct informedation ofn the existence of EFSI support, so as to enhance the visibility of the EU guarantee granted under Regulation (EU) 2015/1017.
Amendment 112 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point a – point i
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point a – point i
Regulation (EU) No 2015/1017
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – first part
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – first part
Such support shall include providing targeted support on the use of technical assistance for project structuring, on the use of innovative financial instruments, taking account of current economic trends, and on the use of public-private partnerships, taking into account the specificities and needs, needs and investment potential of Member States with less- developed financial markets.; (This amendment applies throughout the text. Adopting it will necessitate corresponding changes throughout.) Or. ro (Article 14 – paragraph 1 – first part)
Amendment 115 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point b – point i – introductory part
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point b – point i – introductory part
(i) point (c) is replaced by the following: leveraging local knowledge accompanied by corresponding information at local, regional and cross-border level for potential beneficiaries in order to facilitate EFSI support across the Union and contributing where possible to the objective of sectorial and geographical diversification of the EFSI referred to in Section 8 of Annex II by supporting the EIB to originate operations;
Amendment 120 #
(ii) point (e) is replaced by the following:roviding proactive support on the setting-up of investment platforms, including at cross-border level, with the aim of improving access for projects involving different Member States, in the case of smaller-scale projects that contribute to achieving the COP21 goals, with a view to attracting investors;