4 Amendments of Helmut SCHOLZ related to 2017/2190(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that 10 % of the EIB’s overall lending activity is dedicated to operations outside the Union; stresses, for this reason, the importance of the annual reporting by the EIB on its operations outside of the Union with regard to compliance with the general principles guiding the external action of the Union, and to play its due role in the framework of the Union's renewed commitment to Policy Coherence for Development to achieve trade related aspects of the United Nations Agenda 2030;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Calls on the EIB to refrain from financing projects involving heavily polluting and out-dated technologies, in particular when facilitating investment in the energy sector, including in EU candidate countries; calls on the EIB to alarm Member States and the European Parliament, when other investors take over once the EIB has pulled out of a project after its own SIA has raised serious environmental or social concerns; encourages the EIB to become through its careful selection of projects a key instrument of the EU in the global joint effort to tackle climate change and to support sustainable development and should be even more ambitious in this area; calls on the EIB to increase its lending to public infrastructure projects mitigating the consequences of climate change such as floods;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that there has been a lack of foreign direct investment (FDI) support operations towards Asia in the last few years; calls on the EIB to get involved into the implementation of the Belt and Road strategy to improve trade flows and economic cooperation throughout the Eurasian continent, and to share its much advanced expertise concerning social and environmental impact assessments of projects in the respective cooperation with other public investment banks; stresses that EU investors should have a greater presence on the Chinese and other Asian markets and benefit from a level playing field; calls on the EIB to provide direct financing to EU companies in support of outward investment, while pointing out that the EIB financial means may not be used to provide for unfair advantages for EU based companies; calls on the EIB to increase its support to EU companies outward investment in the more risk- intensive regions and Least Developed Countries, including through the external lending mandate (ELM);
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the role of the EIB in local private sector development and its support for microfinance, and recogniszes that its activities offershould contribute to develop new economic and trade opportunities for SMEs, in particular in developing countries; calls for an expansion of the EIB ELM, with a view to increasing its role in achieving sustainable development and providing a strategic response to address the root causes of migration, and for it to take a more active part in the new private sector strategyEU's Africa strategy; calls on the EIB in this regard to get more involved into projects for the infrastructure needed to promote local and regional trade routes, as contribution to meet the Agenda 2030 targets regarding the SDGs, as well as actively contributing to the implementation of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement;