4 Amendments of Iskra MIHAYLOVA related to 2015/2347(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to shift to a more efficient use of grants combined with financial instruments for revenue generating Major Projects under ESIF;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that ESI Funds can be used in the development of the missing links in the border areas across Central and Eastern Europe; recalls that priority should be given to cross-border projects pertaining to the trans-European networks (TENs) in the region; calls, in this context, for continued efforts to be made towards introducing common standards in infrastructure, notably with regard to railways, in order to speed up attainment of the objective of efficient and Europe-wide interoperability; calls on the Commission and Member States to streamline and simplify procurement procedures, to issue guidelines for PPP, to ensure an adequate state aid framework and to simplify the permitting procedures, in order to facilitate the implementation of transport projects, in particular cross-border projects;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recalls that ESI Funds could also be used to increase the administrative capacity of the intermediate bodies and beneficiaries, which could otherwise undermine the EU’s support to transport investments in the region; notes that the JASPERS assistance mechanism in particular has proven helpful in this role thus far and might, therefore, apart from simply being continued, be considered also for a more permanent, institutional setting; points out that technical assistance offered through the European Investment Advisory Hub should help public and private project promoters to create a stable pipeline of mature, well-structured projects in order to benefit from the financial instruments for a long term period;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission and EIB to better cooperate and coordinate their efforts to ensure a wide consultation with all stakeholders on the financing of transport infrastructure, the exchange of best practices, promotion of financial instruments, early mapping of potential projects and respectively provide regular information to the European Parliament;