10 Amendments of Salvador GARRIGA POLLEDO related to 2011/2107(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph - 1 (new)
Paragraph - 1 (new)
-1. Underlines that the aim of the Common Strategic Framework is to cover all relevant EU research and innovation funding currently provided through FP7, CIP and EU initiatives such as EIT on the basis of coherent goals and shared strategic objectives;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that the Structural and Cohesion Funds canshould complement EU research and innovation funds but cannot replace them, and, because the principal aims of the respective funds differ, they should continue to be separate during the future multi-annual financial framework (MFF) while creating greater synergies between them;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the Commission's proposals on extending the use of innovative financial instruments to strengthen the leverage of the EU budget while fully respecting the rights of the budgetary and discharge authorities; asks the Commission to improve access for primary target groups such as SMEs; demands that any SME-specific bankaction should function under the umbrella of the EIB; expresses its reservations about so-called ‘soft loans’ blurring the distinction between grants and loans;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that a risk-averse culture of EU research funding would prevent financing of high-risk research ideas with the greatest potential for breakthroughs, and therefore advocates a trust-based approach with higher tolerance for risk and failure – involving, for example, more frequent use of prizes the use of prizes without substituting properly structured funding – in preference to a purely results- based approach, which is at odds with the very nature of innovative scientific research;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Is convinced that horizontal simplification activities throughout all research and innovation programmes should be one of the highest priorities for the new programme period together with measures to ensure flexibility, and draws attention to the important decisions on simplification to be taken in the ongoing procedure of revising the Financial Regulation, on issues including simplifying the rules on pre-financing and on eligibility of costs and increasing the scope for awarding research prizes; emphasises the need for further simplification of application procedures and control mechanisms, for the benefit of applicants to European research and innovation programmes;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Asks the Commission to build ‘stairways to excellence’ for all potential research and innovation players in those Member States with a low rate of participation in FP 7, including by encouraging more effective use of the Structural and Cohesion Funds in this respect; underlines the importance of trans-national cooperation through collaborative projects and stresses the need to develop dedicated actions to foster excellence across Europe;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Reiterates its position that, with regard to the MFF post-2013, the financial resources dedicated to large-scale projects such as ITER and Galileo should be fixed for the whole programming period and ring-fenced so, in order to ensure their planning continuity and organisation stability; believes that any cost overrun must be financed with fresh money through employing budgetary flexibility, as opposed to the redeployment of funds at the expense of other programmes such assmaller successful programmes like in the fields of research and innovation;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Strongly supports a further substantial increase in the EU's annual budgets for research and innovation, as these have been proven to deliver excellent European added value and to aid recovery from the economic crisis; emphasises that the Europe 2020 strategy for growth and jobs, adopted by the Council, clearly states the need for additional funds for research and innovation.
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. stresses the importance to further promote the complementarity between EU and national R&D funding; in this regard, calls for greater coordination at EU and the national level, through enhanced joint programming efforts, agreed common standards, and faster, more flexible and simpler instruments to allow co-funding;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)