3 Amendments of Monika VANA related to 2016/0287(COD)
Amendment 30 #
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 focused on areas identified as lagging behind in connectivity or digital literacy and thus suffering from a digital divide, and limited to projects that do not duplicate already existing private or public offers of similar characteristics in the same area. This should not exclude additional support to deployments under this initiative from public or private sources of funding.
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Regulation (EU) No 283/2014
Annex – section 4 – paragraph 3 – point 2 – point b a (new)
Annex – section 4 – paragraph 3 – point 2 – point b a (new)
ba) is designed to reduce the digital divide;
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Regulation (EU) No 283/2014
Annex – section 4 – paragraph 5
Annex – section 4 – paragraph 5
The available budget shall be allocated in a geographically balanced manner to projects meeting the above conditions in view of the proposals received and, in principle, on a 'first come, first served' basiswith priority being given to projects located in areas identified as lagging behind in terms of connectivity and digital literacy meeting the above conditions in view of the proposals received. The Commission shall publish a report establishing and identifying the geographical areas that are to be given priority, by ...[one month after the entry into force of this amending Regulation].