2 Amendments of Gianni PITTELLA related to 2008/2334(INI)
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Regrets that the decision on the proposal to invest in trans-European energy interconnections and broadband infrastructure projects was in vain because of lack of budgetary agreement within the Council.; strongly calls on the Commission and Member States to include transport projects among those for the additional EUR 5 000 000 000 fund to be mobilised under the Recovery Plan;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls the joint declaration agreed at the conciliation meeting on 21 November 2008 on "Implementation of the cohesion policy" highlighting the benefits for the economy from accelerating the implementation of structural and cohesion funds and on "Payment appropriations" supporting the financing of new initiatives particularly regarding the economic crisis; notes that the amount of additional advance payments foreseen in 2009 on the basis of the Commission proposal on the financial management of the ESF, ERDF and the Cohesion Fund and ERDF is of EUR 6 300 000 000, and that other proposed modifications to the financial management of the funds may increase the speed of interim paymentsrelevant regulations of the funds may simplify the implementation; however, regrets that, as far as the financial management is concerned, proposals for the actual and immediate increase of liquidity on the ground by also intervening in interim payments were not taken into account;