1 Amendments of Lara COMI related to 2015/0009(COD)
Amendment 402 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22
Recital 22
(22) In accordance with the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Infrastructure and project investments supported under EFSI should be consistent with State aid rules. To that end, the Commission has announced that it will formulate a set of core principles, for the purpose of State aid assessments, which a project will have to meet to be eligible for support under the EFSI. If a project meets these criteria and receives support from the EFSI, tThe Commission has also announced that any national complementary support, will be assessed under a simplified and accelerated State aid assessment whereby the only additional issue to be verified by the Commission will be the proportionality of public support (absence of overcompensation). The Commission has also announced that it will provide further guidance on the set of core principles with a view to ensuring an efficient use of public fund, with a view to ensuring an efficient use of public funds, it will provide further guidance on the set of core principles in order to ensure that any national complementary support for projects receiving support from the EFSI is fully consistent with current sector- specific State aid rules.