6 Amendments of Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA related to 2015/0009(COD)
Amendment 54 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) The EFSI should target projects delivering high societal and economic value. In particular, the EFSI should target projects that promote job creation, long- term growth and competitiveness. 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. The EFSI should also ensure consistency and complementarity in relation to projects that have already been financed by EU funds, paying special attention to rural development funds.
Amendment 91 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The purpose of the EFSI shall be to support investments in the Union and to ensure increased access to financing for companies having up to 3000 employees, with a particular focus on small and medium enterprises, through the supply of risk bearing capacity to the EIB, with special priority being assigned to enterprises in rural areas, structurally weak and disadvantaged areas, mountainous areas and the outermost regions and islands, as well as to driving forward projects promoting territorial cohesion and interconnection in rural areas through the use of tools furthering broadband development or innovative measures of other kinds that enable the aforesaid areas to achieve greater profitability ('EFSI Agreement').
Amendment 102 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. The EFSI shall be responsible for funding projects with significant value added, paying attention at all times to complementarity and coherence with all other EU financed projects.
Amendment 114 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
The Union shall provide a guarantee to the EIB for financing or investment operations carried out within the Union covered by this Regulation ('EU guarantee'). The EU guarantee shall be granted as a guarantee on demand in respect of instruments referred to in Article 6. The objectives of the Horizon 2020 programme and the CEF shall not, under any circumstances, be affected by the establishment of the guarantee for the EFSI.
Amendment 119 #
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 industrial and agricultural centres; energy, in particular energy interconnections; and digital infrastructure;
Amendment 129 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point d
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point d
(d) infrastructure projects in the environmental, agricultural, natural resources, urban and rural development and social fields;