7 Amendments of Marco ZULLO related to 2015/2347(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Urges the Member States in Central and Eastern Europe to ensure coordination and synergy between the European Structural and Investment (ESI) Funds, the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), and Horizon 2020, the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) and EIB and EBRD resources when implementing projects aimed at improving the connection and accessibility of the transport infrastructure in the region; underlines that the use of all this readily available funding should be given priority, especially in the context of the current absorption rate, over investment participation by third parties in cases where this investment is driven by political considerations rather than business interests;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on Central and Eastern European Member States to ensure a high level of transparency and close scrutiny of the use of those funds and to publish details of their allocation at the earliest opportunity;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that ESI Funds can be used in the development of the missing links in the border areas across Central and Eastern Europe; recalls that priority should be given to cross-border projects pertaining to the trans-European networks (TENs) in the region; calls, in this context, for continued efforts to be made towards introducing common standards in infrastructure, notably with regard to railways, in order to speed up attainment of the objective of efficient and Europe-wide interoperability; calls, with this in mind, on the Commission and the Member States to pursue funding strategies aimed at Europe-wide harmonisation of transport infrastructure;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that Central and Eastern Europe has significant development potential as regards its inland waterways as well as its sea ports; considers that this could be used towards furthering the goal of enhancing multimodal transport in the region on a sustainable, environment-friendly basis;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Strongly advises making better use of existing policies and instruments for regional cooperation, such as European Territorial Cooperation (ETC), Interreg and especially European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation (EGTCs), to enhance cross-border transport between regions and remove bottlenecks; urges the Member States to support and not impede such solutions on a local and regional level and to involve local and other stakeholders as part of a transparent process; advocates the use of macro- regional strategies like those for the Danube and the Baltic Sea in order to advance transnational infrastructure projects;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recalls that ESI Funds could also be used to increase the administrative capacity of the intermediate bodies and beneficiaries, which could otherwise undermine the EU’s support to transport investments in the region; notes that the JASPERS assistance mechanism in particular has proven helpful in this role thus far and might, therefore, apart from simply being continued, be considered also for a more permanent, institutional setting; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take steps to streamline the public management of such resources and make it more efficient, and to avoid unnecessary red tape;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Urges Central and Eastern European Member States to take action that is environmentally and socially sustainable, giving priority to environmentally friendly and sustainable infrastructure projects that have a low landscape impact, with a view to boosting the economy and the development of the regions concerned;