10 Amendments of Pavel TELIČKA related to 2016/2099(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas transport is the largest sector in which the European Investment Bank (EIB) has been active since its foundation, with more than a trillion euros invested in transport projects since 1958;, with more than a trillion euros invested in the transport sector thanks to the support of the EIB since its foundation in 1958, this is the sector in which the EIB has been most active.
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas decarbonising transport is a major challenge, and significant reductions in CO2 emissions from transport are needed if the EU is to achieve its long-term climate goals; whereas congestion and air pollution are major problems in developing urban mobility and protecting human health;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the plan to review the Regulation on the European Fund for Strategic Investments announced by Commission President Juncker’s plan, which aims to increase the capacity of the Investment Plan for Europe from EUR 315 billion to EUR 630 billion until 2022; underlines, however, that it should not lead to a reduction in well-functioning sources of transport infrastructure funding;effective sources that are indispensable to the appropriate funding of transport infrastructure, such as subsidies under the Connecting Europe Facility.
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Encourages the EIB to continue to support sustainable, safe, climate-friendly and innovative transport; underlines that it is the European ParliamentUnion’s priority to providensure sufficient funding for projects with European added value, including the cross- border transport links;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that an innovative and effective economy needs advanced infrastructure and that transport infrastructure should be among the priorities, with a special focus on innovative multimodal infrastructure solutions such as short multimodal tunnels or bridges in sparsely populated areas or local communities;solutions.
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Underlines the need for European investment policy to pay more attention to horizontal issues, particularly as regards future means of transport, which will require the simultaneous and coherent development of alternative energy and telecommunications networks.
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls onSupports the Commission in its attempt to drevelop new common EU regulations onise the current Financial Regulation, and in particular its provisions concerning the use of innovative financial instruments such as public-private partnerships or project bonds;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the importance in combating climate change of the goals set by COP 21 with regard to road, rail and inland waterway transport; underlines that the financial means should be available to bring about a modal shift from road to rail and waterborne and inland waterway transport; insists also that attention should be paid to investment in clean power for transport; proposes, to this end, increasing the capacities of financing tools that are specialised for this purpose, such as the European Clean Transport Facility (ECTF);
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Underlines the importance of optimising the Union’s investment policies by harmonising the various investment support tools (EFSI, ESIFs, CEF, projects bonds, the various funds, etc.); calls for a coordination structure to be set up between the EIB and the Commission in order to optimise the joint use of these various tools on a project-by- project basis so that loans, subsidies and guarantee mechanisms can be mixed for the same project under the best possible conditions.