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25 Amendments of Roberts ZĪLE related to 2020/2122(INI)

Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 43 a (new)
— having regard to the European Court of Auditors (ECA) Special Report entitled ‘Resolution planning in the Single Resolution Mechanism’, published on 14 January 2021,
2021/05/27
Committee: ECON
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas the Banking Union encompasses a single supervisory mechanism, a single resolution mechanism, and harmonised national deposit guarantee schemes;
2021/05/27
Committee: ECON
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas a reinforced Banking Union requires first and foremost accelerated efforts by various Member States to reduce their high levels of non- performing loans and prevent their increase in the future;
2021/05/27
Committee: ECON
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
C b. whereas as long as risks differ greatly between national banking systems, European Deposit Insurance Scheme would pose additional systemic risk for the Banking Union;
2021/05/27
Committee: ECON
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
F. whereas prudential and anti-money laundering supervision is necessary and equally important;
2021/05/27
Committee: ECON
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
I a. whereas the sound public finances are necessary condition for the macro- financial stability of the Banking Union;
2021/05/27
Committee: ECON
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
J a. whereas the near zero interest rates greatly reduce the profitability of banks in one of their most important areas of business activity, the provision of credit for long-term investments;
2021/05/27
Committee: ECON
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J b (new)
J b. whereas the stability of financial institutions in the Banking Union is still a matter of grave concern; whereas the economic downturn will lead to an increase in non-performing loans;
2021/05/27
Committee: ECON
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls that the Banking Union has delivered the institutional set-up for greater market integration, through the SSM and the SRM, while a European deposit insurance scheme (EDIS) is still lacking;
2021/05/27
Committee: ECON
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that banks’ response to the current crisis demonstrates that the regulatory reforms in the past decade, as well as the institutional set-up, have resulted in better-capitalised and less- leveraged banks; notes, however, that the high level of non-performing loans remains a serious problem in several Member States;
2021/05/27
Committee: ECON
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines the vital contribution to addressing the crisis of public guarantee schemes, moratoria on loan repayments for borrowers in financial difficulty, the central banks’ liquidity programmes and the ECB’s targeted longer-term refinancing operations (TLTRO) and pandemic emergency purchase programme (PEPP); warns in this regard over the risk of overshooting the inflation target due to loose monetary policy which could affect the functioning of Banking Union;
2021/05/27
Committee: ECON
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Is concerned that loose monetary policy contributes to the lower long-term economic growth and creates an incentive to delay the implementation of the necessary structural reforms;
2021/05/27
Committee: ECON
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Stresses the need to further strengthen the financial sector through the completion of the Capital Markets Union which will help to channel credit into the real economy;
2021/05/27
Committee: ECON
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Regrets the failure to ensure full gender balanceliminate gender discrimination in EU financial institutions and bodies;
2021/05/27
Committee: ECON
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Condemns all forms of discrimination and stresses that competence and moral integrity should be the only and mandatory criteria for any job position in EU financial institutions and bodies;
2021/05/27
Committee: ECON
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Stresses that ensuring proper and timely management of deteriorated exposures will be key to preventing a build-up of non-performing loans (NPLs) in the short term; advices the Member States to make further efforts to address this issue;
2021/05/27
Committee: ECON
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Is concerned that as Member States sell increasing amounts of sovereign bonds, their share in banks’ balance sheets grows, potentially aggravating the doom loop; considers thatpoints out that government bonds are not risk-free assets and should not be treated as such; questions whether the creation of Next Generation EU will provide high-quality European assets;
2021/05/27
Committee: ECON
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Notes that the EU-wide stress test launched on 29 January 2021 aims to test capital trajectories of banks in a situation of worsening asset quality; stresses the importance to consider the impact of potentially rising interest rates on banks’ balance sheets;
2021/05/27
Committee: ECON
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Notes the efforts of the SSM to provide guidance and clarity to banks for self-assessing and appropriately reporting environmental and climate change-related risks; considers the SSM climate risk stress test an important step in evaluating banks’ practices and identifying concrete areas of improvement; warns, however, of danger of green asset bubbles that could be a consequence of oversubsidizing the sustainable investments;
2021/05/27
Committee: ECON
Amendment 300 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. TrustNotes that the introduction of a backstop into the SRF earlier than originally envisaged is positive for the strengthening of the crisis management frameworkincreases risk sharing; advises that risk reduction should precede any form of legacy sharing and risk sharing;
2021/05/27
Committee: ECON
Amendment 311 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29 a. Endorses ECA’s recommendation that in order to ensure that supervisory action is taken sufficiently early, the SRB and the Commission should approach the legislators and the ECB, in its role as supervisor, and advocate for objective and quantified thresholds for triggering early intervention measures, and reaching the decision that a bank is failing or likely to fail;
2021/05/27
Committee: ECON
Amendment 357 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35 a. Points out that risks still differ greatly between different national banking systems;
2021/05/27
Committee: ECON
Amendment 358 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 b (new)
35 b. Emphasises the potential high risks of EDIS, particularly those related to moral hazard; opposes therefore the completion of the Banking Union through the creation of a fully mutualised EDIS;
2021/05/27
Committee: ECON
Amendment 360 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 c (new)
35 c. Stresses that risk reduction would ensure the level of protection that depositors currently enjoy, without raising the systemic risk through establishing fully mutualised EDIS;
2021/05/27
Committee: ECON
Amendment 361 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 d (new)
35 d. Questions whether Article 114 would be an appropriate legal basis for the establishment of EDIS;
2021/05/27
Committee: ECON