Activities of Ivana MALETIĆ related to 2016/2302(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
The right funding mix for Europe’s regions: balancing financial instruments and grants in EU cohesion policy - Future perspectives for technical assistance in cohesion policy (debate) HR
Amendments (6)
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Is alarmed by the significant delays in the implementation of the programmes; urges the Member States to tackle promptly all causes of delay, particularly late designation of managing authoritiesEuropean Commission to ensure tailor made technical assistance to the Member States and Regions for preparation of project pipelines, simplification and acceleration of the financial management and control system, for contracting and monitoring procedures and for structural reforms which will improve business and investment climate, in order to avoid a repetition of the accumulated backlog of unpaid invoices in the second half of the current MFF, which could seriously impact other EU-funded policies as well;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points to the challenges that FIs represent for democratic control, timely and transparent reporting and accountability; believes that the revision of the Financial Regulation and the ‘omnibus regulation’ could provide an opportunity to streamline the reporting on FIs and thus provide a better basis to assess additionality and complementarity between different forms of EU support, particularly between cohesion funds and the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), stresses the importance of active and efficient use of EU budget, therefore welcomes all measures to avoid overlapping between EU instruments and to insure full coherence and synergy.
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Notes that implementation delays will affect disbursement rates, revolving and leverage; recalls the fact that delays in the 2007-2013 period contributed irreversibly to sub-optimal performance of ERDF and ESF financial instruments; emphasises that all necessary steps should be taken to mitigate the negative effects of delayed implementation, especially regarding the risk of limited use and impact; calls on the Commission to take appropriate measures to ensure that the Member States maintain the renewable nature of the funds for the prescribed period of eight years following the end of the eligibility period for the 2014-2020 programming period;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes the significant differences across the EU regarding the penetration of financial instruments, including ESI Funds and the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI); emphasises that the overall success of such instruments depends on how easy they are to use and the ability of the Member States to manage investments through them; calls on the Commission to ensure the exchange of knowledge and experience when working with financial instruments and to carry out obligatory ex-ante assessments, which will include an analysis of the impact, advantages and disadvantages of similar instruments, when developing new financial instruments;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Welcomes the Commission’s actions in optimising regulation; emphasises that, despite the improvements, complexity still exists and issues such as the long set-up time and the administrative burden for recipients are disincentives to use financial instruments; calls on the Commission to work closely with the EIB and the EIF to make access to ESI Funds microcredit, loans, guarantees, equity and venture capital as easy as using grantsimpler, and to explain it in detail both to management structures in Member States and to end-users;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Highlights that financial instruments perform better in well- developed regions and metropolitan areas, while grants address regional structural issues; notes that increasing the share of financial instruments should not influence the grant appropriations as this would hinder the balance; emphasises that in a number of public policies grants have to dominate, while financial instruments can play complementary roles; calls on the Commission to draft guidelines for implementing the provisions that allow the continued use of financial instruments from one programming period to the next;