3 Amendments of Bronis ROPĖ related to 2016/2306(INI)
Amendment 27 #
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); welcomes the Commission’s proposal to strengthen synergies between the EFSI and the ESI Funds and calls on the Commission to propose measures aiming at better balancing this discrepancy; takes note of the Commission’s proposal to strengthen synergies between the EFSI and the ESI Funds; is concerned that the highest risk- taking tranche of the investment shall be covered by ESI Funds instead of EFSI when the instruments are combined; emphasises, howevertherefore, that this should by no means undermine the role of Cohesion Policy as the main investment policy of the European Union;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Reiterates the need to accelerate the implementation of the ESI Funds during the 2014-2020 financial programming period; believes that tailor-made measures should follow the analysis of the implementation deficiencies and be included in the CSR formulation process; calls on the Commission to engage into close dialogue with Member States to define such measures;
Amendment 47 #
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; calls on the Commission to undertake a review of Article 23 CPR as set out in paragraph 17 of that Article taking into account the opinion expressed in the structured dialogue.