3 Amendments of Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO related to 2016/2306(INI)
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Is concerned about patchy implementation of country-specific recommendations (CSRs) in the European economic recovery; highlights the role of local and regional authorities and other relevant stakeholders, as well as European Structural and Investment Funds (ESI Funds) themselves, in supporting the structural reforms and investment; asks the Commission to consider the proposal of the European Committee of the Regions of a Code of conduct to involve the local and regional authorities in the European Semester;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recognises the potential of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), which is designed to support high- risk investment projects, in boosting growth and employment; is concerned, however, about the enormous imbalance in use of the Fund between the EU15 (91% of funding) and the EU13 (9% of funding); shares the view of the Commission that the Advisory Hub will be enhanced to be able to work more locally and to enhance its cooperation with National Promotional Banks and to be an useful tool to help project promoters develop better projects, in particular for regions or sectors where additional outreach and technical capacity are needed; welcomes the Commission’s proposal to strengthen synergies between the EFSI and the ESI Funds; emphasises, however, that this should by no means undermine the role of Cohesion Policy as the main investment policy of the European Union; asks the Commission to promote a broader use of the EFSI by the local and regional authorities across the EU, in particular through investment platforms; to this aim, invites the Commission to help by spreading information and to address the current lack of administrative and institutional capacity at sub-national level;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the fact that the Commission’s proposal to suspend parts of the ESI Funds for Spain and Portugal has been abandoned in the face of constructive criticism from Parliament which has shown conclusively that this proposal is superfluous; shares the Commission’s view that the euro area needs to adopt a more collective approach which takes into account the differences between Member states: the ones with a fiscal space which have a duty to support domestic demand and quality investments and the ones that need further fiscal adjustments that must be broadly compliant with the requirements of the Stability and Growth Pact.