1 Amendments of Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER related to 2015/2353(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes the considerable long-term impact of EFSI on the EU budget; believes that EFSI invests in projects that are not the same as those targeted by the H2020- affected budget lines and CEF; stresses therefore that, if the EU is to reach its research and innovation targets, the unanimously agreed level of financing of these programmes needs to be fully restored; recalls, in this context, that CEF in the area of energy and telecom has high political priority for the Energy Union and the Digital Union; takes the view that the EFSI should be funded not by means of further contribution to the budget on the part of the Member States, but through an across-the-board increase in the customs duties set in the Common External Tariff;