6 Amendments of Bernd LANGE related to 2015/0009(COD)
Amendment 75 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) The purpose of the EFSI should be: a) to help resolve the difficulties in financing and implementing productive investments in the Union and b) to ensure increased access to financing. It is intended that increased access to financing should be of particular benefit to small and medium enterprises and small mid-cap companies and innovative SMEs and innovative mid- cap companies. It is also appropriate to extend the benefit of such increased access to financing to mid- cap companies, which are companies having up to 3000 employees. Overcoming Europe's current investment difficulties should contribute to strengthening the Union's competitiveness, innovation potential, economic, social and territorial cohesion. and, through the transition to a sustainable economy, to greater energy and resource efficiency. Moreover, the emphasis on small and innovative companies should contribute to a sustainable re-industrialisation - particularly by enhancing the global competitiveness of European SMEs through investment in the digitisation of the industrial value added chain.
Amendment 119 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) The EFSI should target projects delivering high societal, sustainable and economic added value. In particular, the EFSI should target projects that promote sustainable, on site job creation, sustainable long- term growth and competitiveness and contribute to the attainment of the EU’s climate and energy targets. Experience from the implementation of tried and tested projects and initiatives may be taken into account in the selection of projects, such as from the energy efficiency projects ELENA (European Local Energy Assistance) and EEIF (European Energy Efficiency Fund) or from the public- private partnership ‘Factories of the Future’ in the area of the digitisation of manufacturing industry. The EFSI should support a wide range of financial products, including equity, debt or guarantees, to best accommodate the needs of the individual project. This wide range of products should allow the EFSI to adapt to market needs whilst encouraging private investment in the projects. The EFSI should not be a substitute for private market finance but should instead catalyse private finance by addressing market failures so as to ensure the most effective and strategic use of public money. The requirement for consistency with State aid principles should contribute to such effective and strategic use.
Amendment 351 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) development of infrastructure, including in the areas of transport, (particularly in the industrial centres; energy, in particular energy interconnections; and digital infrastructure);
Amendment 361 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a a (new)
(aa) development of digital infrastructure – particularly in rural areas – information and telecommunications technology and innovation, particularly with regard to the digitisation of the industrial value added chain;
Amendment 367 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a b (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a b (new)
(ab) development of sustainable energy infrastructure, particularly in terms of interconnectors, smart networks for the distribution of energy and energy storage;
Amendment 371 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) investment in education and training, health, research and development, information and communications technology and innovation;