1 Amendments of Massimiliano SALINI related to 2017/2044(BUD)
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that, in light of the recent initiatives from the Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) to give a priority to loans and new financial tools, it is important to provide sufficient resources for grants, as grants remain an appropriate financing tool in some areas or for some types of projects, especially those where an absence of private investments is foreseen; highlightsrecalls that, in order to attain the objectives of the TEN-T programme, it is vital that highly technological projects, such as the ERTMS, get adequate resources, including by exploiting public- private-partnership opportunities channeled through the EFSI scheme in order to leverage the necessary volumes throughout the rest of the current multi- annual financial framework (MFF); highlights, nevertheless, the importance of synergies between different funding schemes such as CEF, EFSI and ESIF in order to maximise the impact of Union funds;