5 Amendments of Anne E. JENSEN related to 2008/2334(INI)
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Recalls that some of the EIB interventions also require support from the EU budget, but that this is not currently provided for in the Recovery Plan; considers that this could be achieved either through the blending of grants and loans or in the form of joint risk sharing instruments such as the Risk Sharing Finance Facility (RSFF) and the Loan Guarantee Instrument for trans- European transport network projects (LGTT); points out that, in the latter case, which should be extended to include availability based PPPs, the EIB could contribute with its own reserves which could multiply the leverage effect;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Asks the Commission to extend the EUR 5 000 000 000 proposed for trans- European energy inter-connections and broadband infrastructure projects to the trans-European transport (TEN-T) infrastructure, which are at an advanced stage of preparation and should benefit from the greater availability of this appropriation;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Underlines the added value of the trans-European transport network programme (TEN-T) for the achievement of the Lisbon strategy, the Union's climate change goals and for a greater social, economic and territorial cohesion, while also providing timely support for sustaining aggregate demand in Europe; underlines the importance of the 30 TEN- T priority projects - especially the cross- borders corridors - for re-launching the economy and for meeting the increasing demand for a better, more environmentally friendly, co-modality; calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop new methods of financing transport infrastructures and to increase substantially the budget for the TEN-T projects in the next EU Financial Perspectives and in the European Economic Recovery Plan;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 d (new)
Paragraph 7 d (new)
7d. Welcomes the Commission's proposal to bring forward from 2010 to 2009 EUR 500 000 000 in investment in transport infrastructure; nevertheless, strongly urges the Commission and Member States to include urban transport and TEN-T priority projects among those eligible for the additional EUR 5 000 000 000 fund to be mobilised under the Recovery Plan; considers that in particular those TEN-T projects at an advanced stage of implementation should benefit from the greater availability of appropriations;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 e (new)
Paragraph 7 e (new)
7e. Calls for a urgent examination by the Parliament, Council, Commission and the European Investment Bank of the benefits which would derive from a feasible European sovereign debt fund whose debt servicing cost would be lower than for the equivalent aggregate of national debts, which would be temporary in nature and transferred after a period of time to national debts and which would be reserved for transport infrastructure projects part-funded by public/private partnerships;