4 Amendments of Rolandas PAKSAS related to 2016/2064(INI)
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Expresses doubts about the additionality of some of the first transport projects selected as they could most probably have been financed without the EFSI; believes that an ineffective regional policy makes it difficult to take proper advantage of the opportunities offered by the EFSI;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for resources to be concentrated on investment in advanced fields, while endeavouring to eliminate the fundamental obstacles to successful use of the EFSI and paying attention to the results of funded projects, more focused financing, the quality of national strategic planning documents, and ex ante analysis of projects' capacity to deliver;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Considers that blending EU grants with financial instruments can also ensure the additionality required and will mobilise investors to submit projects that otherwise might not have been carried out; asks the EIB and the Commission to promote the blending of EU grants (various EU mechanisms such as CEF, H2020, European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF)) with the EFSI in order to improve the infrastructure projects’ financial profile providing European Added Value; calls for measures to be less fragmented and for overlapping between the EFSI and other financial instruments to be reduced;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Underlines the promising start to the European Investment Advisory Hub (EIAH), which must play a major role in correcting the sectoral and geographical imbalance; calls on the EIAH to increase its presence in countries in which the EFSI has had difficulties taking hold and where there is a lack of administrative capacity to submit viable projects, in particular in cohesion countries; calls on the EIAH, furthermore, to provide specific advice in order to help specific transport projects wherever there is high risk aversion or the risk is fragmented among investors (such as cross border/multinational projects, long term/revenue infrastructure projects);