2 Amendments of Fernando RUAS related to 2016/2306(INI)
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recognises the potential of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), which is designed to support high- risk investment projects, in boosting growth and employment; is concerned, however, about the enormous imbalance in use of the Fund between the EU15 (91% of funding) and the EU13 (9% of funding); welcomes the Commission’s proposal to strengthen synergies between the EFSI and the ESI Funds; emphasises, however, that thisEFSI must be additional to the ESI Funds and should by no means undermine the role of Cohesion Policy as the main investment policy of the European Union;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the fact that the Commission’s proposal to suspend parts of the ESI Funds for Spain and Portugal has been abandoned in the face of constructive criticism from Parliament which has shown conclusively that this proposal is superfluous; expects from the European Commission, in light of the review of article 23 of Regulation 1303/2013 foreseen for 2017, a report and a legislative proposal that takes into account the opinion of the European Parliament expressed during the structured dialogue of 2016.