9 Amendments of Siegfried MUREŞAN related to 2018/2161(INI)
Amendment 3 #
1a. Welcomes the contribution of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) in overcoming market failures by addressing market gaps and mobilising private investments;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Notes that the implementation of EFSI’s SME Window has been effective in ensuring the speedy deployment of finance to SMEs and mid-caps; highlights the importance of enhancing EIB support to SMEs and mid-caps by providing beneficiaries with clearer information on how to access finance;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Calls on the EIB to continue strengthening its work with National Promotional Banks and Institutions in order to ensure outreach and further develop advisory activities and technical assistance to support a balanced geographical distribution of EFSI in the long term; calls on the EIB’s local offices to extend their outreach to local partners in order to promote EFSI; stresses the importance to achieve a better geographical and sectorial distribution of the EIB’s lending activity without compromising the high quality of projects;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Expects the Commission, the EIB and national, regional and local authorities to continue working with National Promotional Banks and Institutions to strengthen their cooperation in creating more synergies between the ESI Funds and EIB financing instruments and loans, in reducing administrative burdens, simplifying procedures, increasing administrative capacity, boosting territorial development and cohesion and improving the visibility of ESI Funds and EIB financing;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1e. Calls on the EIB to focus investment on a larger number of cross- border projects, especially in light of new priorities of the revised EFSI Regulation; emphasises that projects linking two or more Member States are considered to provide strong indication of additionally, but face issues in attracting funding, so they should become a new target of the EIB lending activities;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Expects the EIB to improvealign its internal policies to reflect the newly adopted legal environment in order to fight tax avoidance, in addition to fighting tax evasion, as detailed in the Commission’s communication of 21 March 2018 on new requirements against tax avoidance in EU legislation governing in particular financing and investment operations (COM(2018)1756);
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that, irrespective of the final agreement between the UK and the EIB, the EIB should commit to maintaining its's shareholders should ensure that the EIB can maintain the current investment capacity at the currentnd lending level;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Encourages the EIB to maximise the use of all available instruments and their impact on the ground in order to tackle the phenomena of forced displacement androot causes of migration;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses the importance of the EIB’s financing activities in the Eastern Neighbourhood; asks the EIB to increase its lending towards the Eastern Neighbourhood in order to support investments in countries that are implementing Association Agreements with the EU;