9 Amendments of Tamás DEUTSCH related to 2009/2166(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 a (new)
Citation 17 a (new)
– having regard to the last EIB report to Parliament on implementation of Parliament’s recommendations,
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas according to its Statute, after the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty the EIB is authorised to have maximum loans and guarantees equivalent to 250% not only of its subscribed capital but also of reserves, non-allocated provisions and profit and loss account surplus,
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas the EIB put particular emphasis on SMEs, sustainable, competitive and secure energy and the mitigation of climate change, and on the investments in the convergence regions of the EU particularly hard hit by the recent economic slowdown,
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the strengthening of the Audit Committee by increasing the number of its members from three to six and by giving it the mission to verify that the bank's activities conform to best banking practice and to audit the accounts; stresses the necessity to make sure that the members of the Audit Committee have a strong banking supervisory experience; stresses, however, that, in addition to thise strengthening of the Audit Committee should only constitute an intermediate solution awaiting a, concrete steps must be taken to ensure that the EIB is soon brought under proper banking supervision applying to the EIB;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Asks the EIB, the Commission and the Member States to consider the possibility that the European Union (as the EU has legal personality in accordance with the Lisbon Treaty) become a shareholder in the bankBank’s subsidiaries or other entities which implement EU policies in addition to the Member States, which would, in its view, result in a reinforced cooperation between the EIB and the Commission;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Reiterates its recommendations in paragraphs 46-48 of its above-mentioned resolution of 25 March 2009 followingAwaits the mid-term review of EIB external financing by 30 April 2010 and the Court of Justice's judgment of 6 November 2008 on the legal basis of Decision 2006/1016/EC and awaitsmmission proposal for a new decision replacing Decision No 633/2009/EC; takes the view that both the mid-term review and the new Commission proposal for a decisionshould take into account not only the EIB's external lending mandate following the mid-term review in April 2010; callsrecommendations of the steering committee chaired by Michel Camdessus, but also the previous recommendations of Parliament; calls in particular for greater consistency in the EIB’s external mandate, as regards both the sufficiency of funds for the whole period of the new mandate and their distribution by geographical areas;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Recalls that in paragraphs 20 to 24 of its resolution of 22 April 200812 on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds (EDF) for the financial year 2006 it expressed its concern that the management of the investment facility by the EIB is excluded from the dischargesuggests that, during the discharge procedure, the EIB present its annual report and explain the implementation of the investment facility directly to the Committee on Budgetary Control; further recalls that EDF resources are public money contributed by European taxpayers and not by the financial markets; 1 OJ L 88, 31.3.2009, p. 253. 2 OJ L 88, 31.3.2009, p. 253.Or. de
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Notes with satisfaction the Bank’s renewed policy towards OFCs, going beyond simply maintaining the existing ban on financing promoters who are based in a blacklisted OFC, especially the new obligation imposed by the EIB to all counterparts located in non-blacklisted yet weakly regulated OFCs to relocate to a country that is not an OFC prior to the signing of relevant contracts, thus ensuring for the Bank’s future lending after 31 March 2010 that none of the EIB’s borrowers will be located in a weakly regulated OFC;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30a. Emphasises that the success of the new programmes for European macro- regions depends on coordinating the activities pursued under all policies having a territorial impact and on finding a long-term solution to the funding of macro-regions; calls, therefore, on the Bank to consider the possibility of EIB and EIF funding, in addition to EU funding, for this purpose in the next financial programming period starting in 2014;