9 Amendments of Bronis ROPĖ related to 2016/0287(COD)
Amendment 25 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) Support of this kind should encourage entities with a public mission such as public authorities and providers of public services to offer free local wireless connectivity as an ancillary service to their public mission so as to ensure that local communities can experience the benefits of very high-speed broadband in the centres of public life. Such entities could include municipalities and other local public authorities, libraries and hospitalpremises of the municipal administrations and other local public authorities and their immediate vicinity as well as libraries, culture, sport, youth and leisure establishments, municipal squares and parks as well as health care facilities.
Amendment 35 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) Given the non-commercial nature of this intervention and the small scale of individual projects foreseen, the administrative burden should be limited to a minimum. Therefore, the intervention should be implemented by the most appropriate forms of financial assistance, notably grants, available under the Financial Regulation, now or in future. The intervention should not rely on financial instruments. The principle of sound financial management should apply.
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8 a (new)
Recital 8 a (new)
(8 a) It is necessary to take into consideration that continuity of services and maintenance of infrastructure, funded by EU support, after the completion of the project most frequently has to be ensured and financed from local public authorities' budgets while at the same time not providing them any sort of revenue.
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) Due to the limited reach of any single local wireless access point and the small value of individual projects covered, access points benefitting from financial assistance under this Regulation are not expected to challenge commercial offers. In order to further ensure that such financial assistance does not unduly distort competition, crowd out private investments or create disincentives for private operators to invest, the intervention should be limited to projects that do not duplicate already existing private or public offers of similar characteristics in the same area. This should not exclude additional support to deployments under this initiative from public or private sources of funding. Double financing should be excluded.
Amendment 56 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation EU No. 283/2014
Article 4 – Paragraph 1 – point c
Article 4 – Paragraph 1 – point c
(c) support the provision of free local wireless connectivity in local communities., which shall be close to the highest standards, currently available on the market (at least equal to performance foreseen by IEEE LAN/MAN 802.11n standard);
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6 a (new)
Regulation 283/2014
Annex – Section 4 – Paragraph 3 (new)
Annex – Section 4 – Paragraph 3 (new)
Financial assistance shall cover the installation and set-up of the relevant wireless internet connectivity infrastructure, project management costs, publicity measures (no more than 5% of total expenditure) and, in case of the provision of a relevant agreement with the chosen supplier of the internet connection, the advance payment of a maximum of 12 months of internet services for relevant wireless access points.
Amendment 67 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Regulation (EU) No 283/2014
Annex – Section 4, point 2 b
Annex – Section 4, point 2 b
Amendment 69 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6 Regulation (EU) No. 283/2014
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6 Regulation (EU) No. 283/2014
3) use the common visual identity to be provided by the Commission and the publicly displayed link to the associated online tools, provided in at least one additional language to the local one.
Amendment 72 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Regulation (EU) No 283/2014
Annex – Section 4 – separate pagaraph 4
Annex – Section 4 – separate pagaraph 4
Projects duplicating already existing private or public offers of similar characteristics, including quality, in the same area shall not be covered. Mobile internet services, accessible for a fee in the location of the proposeded local connectivity project, shall not be considered as a duplication of an offer.