2 Amendments of Miroslav POCHE related to 2016/0276(COD)
Amendment 53 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) The extended EFSI should address remaining market failures and sub-optimal investment situations and continue to mobilise private sector financing in investments crucial for Europe’s future job creation – including for the youth –, growth and competitiveness with strengthened additionalitysustainable quality and high levels of human capital, creation of good quality jobs – especially for the youth –, growth and competitiveness with strengthened additionality, as well as for increasing social cohesion, social inclusion and thus enhancing the well-being of citizens of the Union. They include investments in the areas of energy, environment and climate action, social and human capital and related infrastructure, healthcare, research and innovation, cross- border and sustainable transport, as well as the digital transformation. In particular, the contribution of operations supported by the EFSI to achieving the Union’s ambitious targets set at the Paris Climate Conference (COP21) should be reinforced. Energy interconnection priority projects and energy efficiency projects should also be increasingly targeted, which contribute to greater energy security for the EU, should also be increasingly targeted. Similarly, in the digital sector, and within the scope of the ambitious Union policy on the digital economy, new digital infrastructure targets should be set in order to ensure that the Union will be a global pioneer in the new age of the so- called ‘internet of things’, blockchain technology and cyber- and network- security. Moreover, a criterion for the success of the EFSI should be the assistance provided to policy areas that suffered from cuts in investments in order to fund the EFSI, such as research grants, especially for low technology readiness levels. In addition, EFSI support to motorways should be avoided, unless it is needed to support private investment in transport in cohesion countries or in cross- border transport projects involving at least one cohesion country. For reasons of clarity, although they are already eligible, it should be explicitly laid down that projects in the fields of agriculture, fishery and aquaculture come within the general objectives eligible for EFSI support. EFSI support to fossil fuel projects is to be avoided.
Amendment 89 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 a (new)
Recital 15 a (new)
(15a) It is to be noted that strict implementation of the Stability and Growth Pact is an obstacle for some Member States, particularly those that suffered more from the recent financial crisis, to participating directly in the EFSI or indirectly by contributing with public financing to individual projects and platforms. In order to encourage further contributions from Member States and regional and local administrations, any direct or indirect national contributions should be treated as ‘one-offs’ under the Stability and Growth Pact. These measures will support Member States in implementing necessary reforms that are essential for consolidating the growth of local economies.