5 Amendments of Henna VIRKKUNEN related to 2016/0287(COD)
Amendment 18 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) Support of this kind should encourage entities with a public mission such as public authorities and providers of public services to offer free local wireless connectivity as an ancillary service to their public mission so as to ensure that local communities can experience the benefits of very high-speed broadband in the centres of public life. Such entities could include municipalities and other local public authorities, libraries and hospital, hospitals, companies owned by municipalities and non-profit- making cooperatives.
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) To provide this intervention with appropriate financing, the financial envelope for the implementation of the CEF in the telecommunications sector should be increased by an amount of EUR 50 000 000his measure should be funded entirely by means of reallocated appropriations.
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Regulation (EU) No 1316/2013
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Amendment 72 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) Due to the limited reach of any single local wireless access point and the small value of individual projects covered, access points benefitting from financial assistance under this Regulation are not expected to challenge commercial offers. In order to further ensure that such financial assistance does not unduly distort competition, crowd out private investments or create disincentives for private operators to invest, the intervention should be limited to projects that do not duplicate already existing private or public offers of similar characteristics in the same area. The projects should be assessed in a technology-neutral way and take into account the coverage of mobile networks and the opportunities to develop them in the area. This should not exclude additional support to deployments under this initiative from public or private sources of funding.
Amendment 103 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 5 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 5 a (new)
Regulation (EU) No 283/2014
Annex – section 2 – paragraph 3 – point b a (new)
Annex – section 2 – paragraph 3 – point b a (new)
Actions aiming at the provision of free local wireless connectivity in the centres of local public life, including outdoor spaces accessible to the general public that play a major role in the public life of local communities, shall be eligible for financial assistance. In order for it to be fully used by the general public, potential linguistic barriers should be avoided. This means that it is recommended for the whole connection system to be available both in English and in the national language of the country concerned.