Activities of Eva-Maria Alexandrova POPTCHEVA related to 2023/0199(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Establishing the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (‘STEP’) (debate)
Opinions (1)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (‘STEP’) and amending Directive 2003/87/EC, Regulations (EU) 2021/1058, (EU) 2021/1056, (EU) 2021/1057, (EU) No 1303/2013, (EU) No 223/2014, (EU) 2021/1060, (EU) 2021/523, (EU) 2021/695, (EU) 2021/697 and (EU) 2021/241
Amendments (42)
Amendment 81 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) The EU industry has proven its inbuilt resilience but is being challenged. High inflation, labour shortages, post- COVID supply chains disruptions, the Russian war in Ukraine, rising interest rates, and spikes in energy costs and input prices are weighing on the competitiveness of the EU industry. and have put forward the need for the Union to secure its open strategic autonomy and reduce its dependence on non-EU countries. Several strategic dependencies have already been identified in the energy intensive industries, health and digital ecosystems.39a This is paired with strong, but not always fair, competition on the fragmented global market. The EU has already put forward several initiatives to support its industry, such as the Green Deal Industrial Plan,40 the Critical Raw Materials Act41 , the Net Zero Industry Act42 , the new Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework for State aid,43 and REPowerEU.44 While these solutions provide fast and targeted support, the EU needs a more structural answer to the investment needs of its industries, safeguarding cohesion and the level playing field in the Single Market and to reduce the EU’s strategic dependencies. _________________ 39a Commission Staff Working document on Strategic dependencies and capacities (SWD(2021)352) and Commission Staff Working Document on EU strategic dependencies and capacities: second stage of in-depth reviews (SWD(2022) 41) 40 Communication on A Green Deal Industrial Plan for the Net-Zero Age, COM(2023) 62 final. 41 COM(2023) 160 final 42 COM(2023) 161 final 43 Communication on a Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework for State Aid measures (OJ C 101, 17.3.2023, p. 3). 44 Regulation (EU) 2023/435 as regards REPowerEU (OJ L 63, 28.2.2023, p. 1).
Amendment 87 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) The EU industry has proven its inbuilt resilience but is being challenged. High inflation, labour shortages, post- COVID supply chains disruptions, rising interest rates, and spikes in energy costs and input prices are weighing on the competitiveness of the EU industry. This is paired with strong, but not always fair, competition on the fragmented global market. The EU has already put forward several initiatives to support its industry, such as the Green Deal Industrial Plan,40 the Critical Raw Materials Act41 , the Net Zero Industry Act42 , the new Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework for State aid,43 and REPowerEU.44 While these solutions provide fast and targeted support, the EU needs a more structural answer to the investment needs of its industries, safeguarding cohesion and the level playing field in the Single Market, facilitating access to funding and to reduceing the EU’s strategic dependencies. _________________ 40 Communication on A Green Deal Industrial Plan for the Net-Zero Age, COM(2023) 62 final. 41 COM(2023) 160 final 42 COM(2023) 161 final 43 Communication on a Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework for State Aid measures (OJ C 101, 17.3.2023, p. 3). 44 Regulation (EU) 2023/435 as regards REPowerEU (OJ L 63, 28.2.2023, p. 1).
Amendment 91 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) The uptake and scaling up in the Union of deep and digital technologies, clean technologies, and biotechnologies will be essential to reduce the Union’s strategic dependencies, seize the opportunities and meet the objectives of the green and digital transitions, thus securing the sovereignty and strategic autonomy of the Union and promoting the competitiveness of the European industry and its sustainability. Therefore, immediate action is required to support the development or manufacturing in the Union of such technologies, safeguarding and strengthening their value chains thereby reducing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and addressing existing labour and skills shortages in those sectors through trainings and apprenticeships and the creation of attractive, quality jobs accessible to all.
Amendment 98 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) There is a need to support critical technologies in the following fields: deep and digital technologies, clean technologies, and biotechnologies (including the respective critical raw materials value chains), in particular projects, companies and sectors with a critical role for EU’s competitiveness and resilience and its value chains. By way of example, deep technologies and digital technologies should include microelectronics, high-performance computing, quantum technologies (i.e., computing, communication and sensing technologies), cloud computing, edge computing, and artificial intelligence, cybersecurity technologies, robotics, 5G and advanced and secure connectivity and virtual realities, including actions related toincluding 5G and satellite-based connectivity, and actions related to virtual realities, deep and digital technologies for the development of defence and aerospace applications. Clean technologies should include, among others, renewable energy; electricity and heat storage; heat pumps; electricity grid; renewable fuels of non- biological origin; sustainable alternative fuels; electrolysers and fuel cells; carbon capture, utilisation and storage; energy efficiency; hydrogen and its related infrastructure; smart energy solutions; technologies vital to sustainability such as water purification and desalination; advanced materials such as nanomaterials, composites and future clean construction materials, and technologies for the sustainable extraction and processing of critical raw materials. BThe health ecosystem, in particular biotechnology should be considered to include technologies such as biomolecules and its applications, pharmaceuticals and medical technologies vital for health security, including active pharmaceutical ingredients, medicine and vaccine production, crop biotechnology, and industrial biotechnology, such as for waste disposal, and biomanufacturing. The Commission may issue guidance to further specify the scope of the technologies in these three fields considered to be critical in accordance with this Regulation, in order to promote a common interpretation of the projects, companies and sectors to be supported under the respective programmes in light of the common strategic objective of reducing critical dependencies. Moreover, technologies in any of these three fields which are subjects of an Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) approved by the Commission pursuant to Article 107(3), point (b) TFEU should be deemed to be critical, and individual projects within the scope of such an IPCEI should be eligible for funding, in accordance with the respective programme rules, to the extent that the identified funding gap and the eligible costs have not yet been completely covered.
Amendment 119 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) The scale of investments needed for the transition require a full mobilisation of funding available under existing EU programmes and funds, inclusive those granting a budgetary guarantee for financing and investment operations and implementation of financial instruments and blending operations. Such funding should be deployed in a more flexible manner, to provide timely and targeted support for critical technologies in strategic sectors. Therefore, a Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (‘STEP’) should give a structural answer to the Union investment needs by helping to better channel the existing EU funds towards critical investments (including non-bankable investments) aimed at supporting the development or manufacturing of critical technologies, while preserving a level playing field in the Single Market, thereby preserving cohesion and aiming at a geographically balanced distribution of projects financed under the STEP in accordance with the respective programme mandates.
Amendment 126 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) The STEP should identify resources which should be implemented within the existing Union programmes and funds, the InvestEU, Horizon Europe, European Defence Fund and Innovation Fund. This should be accompanied by providing additional funding of EUR 104 billion. Of this, EUR 5.75 billion should be used to increase the endowment of the Innovation Fund46 and EUR 34 billion to increase the total amount of the EU guarantee available for the EU compartment under the InvestEU Regulation to EUR 7,510 billion,47 taking into account the relevant provisioning rate. EUR 0.75 billion should be made available to increase the financial envelope under the Horizon Europe Regulation,48 which should be amended accordingly; and EUR 13.5 billion to the European Defence Fund.49 _________________ 46 Directive 2003/87/EC establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading (OJ L 275, 25.10.2003, p. 32). 47 Regulation (EU) 2021/523 establishing the InvestEU Programme (OJ L 107, 26.3.2021, p. 30). 48 Regulation (EU) 2021/695 establishing Horizon Europe (OJ L 170, 12.5.2021, p. 1). 49 Regulation (EU) 2021/697 establishing the European Defense Fund (OJ L 170, 12.5.2021, p. 149.)
Amendment 129 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) A Sovereignty Seal should be awarded to projects contributing to the STEP objectives, provided that the project has been assessed and complies with the minimum quality requirements, in particular eligibility, exclusion and award criteria, provided by a call for proposals under Horizon Europe, the Digital Europe programme,50 the EU4Health programme,51 the European Defence Fund or the Innovation Fund, and regardless of whether the project has received funding under those instruments. The Commission should ensure that any future changes to the mentioned regulations regarding the minimum quality requirements provided by each call for proposals aim to preserve their alignment. These minimum quality requirements will be established with a view to identify high quality projects. This Seal should be used as a quality label, to help projects attract public and private investments by certifying its contribution to the STEP objectives. Moreover, the Seal will promote better access to EU funding, notably by facilitating cumulative or combined funding from several Union instruments. Member States are also encouraged to take into account the Sovereignty Seal when granting national support to projects. _________________ 50 Regulation (EU) 2021/694 establishing the Digital Europe Programme (OJ L 166, 11.5.2021, p. 1). 51 Regulation (EU) 2021/522 establishing a Programme for the Union’s action in the field of health, EU4Health Programme (OJ L 107, 26.3.2021, p. 1).
Amendment 135 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) A new publicly available website (the ‘Sovereignty Portal’) should be set up by the Commission to provide information on available support to companies and project promoters seeking funds for STEP investments. To that end, it shouldunder EU funding programmes. This Sovereignty Portal should bring EU funding opportunities closer to the citizens and businesses. For this purpose, the Portal should become a single and common online platform, where all available EU funding opportunities are displayed in an comprehensive, accessible and user- friendly manner the funding opportunities for STEP investments availabl. It seeks to solve an existing market failure, namely an asymmetry of information problem, that hampers the effective uander the EU budget. This efficient implementation of EU funds. This Portal should include information about directly managed programmes, such asincluding but not limited to Horizon Europe, the Digital Europe programme, the EU4Health programme, and the Innovation Fund, and also other programmes under shared or indirect management, such as InvestEU, the RRF, and cohesion policy funds. The Sovereignty Portal should also include a self-assessment tool and information on any open calls as a means to facilitate access to EU funding. The Sovereignty Portal shall display a list of programmes that have been awarded funds under any EU funding programme. Moreover, the Sovereignty Portal should help increase the visibility for STEP investments towards investors, by listing the projects that have been awarded a Sovereignty Seal. The Portal should also list the national competent authorities responsible for acting as contact points for the implementation of the STEP at national level. The Commission should ensure that already existing Portals (such as, the InvestEU Portal) cease to exist once they have been integrated in the common Sovereignty Portal.
Amendment 140 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) While the STEP relies on the reprogramming and reinforcement of existing programmes for supporting strategic investments reducing the Union dependencies, it is also an important element for testpreparing the feasibility and preparation of new interventions as a step towardsestablishment of a European Sovereignty Fund. The evaluation in 2025 will assess the relevance of the actions undertaken and serve as basis for assessing the need for an upscaling of the supp, provide an update on the state of the dependencies of the European Union and the most strategic sectors to strengthen its autonomy in a comprehensive way. This assessment will serve as a basis for the establishment of a European Sovereignty Fund to be integrated into the post-2027 Multiannual Financial Framewortk towards strategic sectorargeting key dependencies and increasing European investments in innovative projects with a strong economic potential for the Single Market and its competitiveness.
Amendment 156 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) In order to extend support possibilities for investments aimed at strengthening industrial development and reinforcement of value chains in strategic sectors, the scope of support from the ERDF should be extended by providing for new specific objectives under the ERDF, without prejudice to the rules on eligibility of expenditure and climate spending as set out in Regulation (EU) 2021/106055 and Regulation (EU) 2021/105856 . In strategic sectors, it should also be possible to support productive investments in enterprises other than SMEs, which can make a significant contribution to the development of less developed and transition regions, as well as in more developed regions of Member States with a GDP per capita below the EU average. However, even if this possibility exists, it is of the utmost importance that SMEs are not excluded from the programme funding, and a significant and proportionate part of it should still be allocated to them. Managing authorities are encouraged to promote the collaboration between large enterprises and local SMEs, supply chains, innovation and technology ecosystems. Thi, and to ensure that SMEs still have effective access to the programme. These changes would allow reinforcinge Europe’s overall capacity to strengthen its position in those sectors through providing access to all Member States for such investments, thus counteracting the risk of increasing disparities. _________________ 55 Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 laying down common provisions (OJ L 231, 30.6.2021, p. 159). 56 Regulation (EU) 2021/1058 on the European Regional Development Fund and on the Cohesion Fund (OJ L 224, 24.6.2021, p. 31).
Amendment 173 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) InvestEU is the EU flagship programme to boost investment, especially the green and digital transition, by providing demand-driven financing, including through blending mechanisms, and technical assistance. Such approach contributes to crowd in additional public and private capital. Given the high market demand of InvestEU guarantee, the EU compartment of InvestEU should be reinforced to correspond to the objectives of the STEP. This will, among other things, reinforce InvestEU’s existing possibility to invest in projects forming part of an IPCEI, within the identified critical technology sectors. In addition, Member States are encouraged to contribute to the InvestEU Member State compartment to support financial products in line with the STEP objectives, without prejudice to applicable State aid rules. It should be possible for Member States to include as a measure in their recovery and resilience plans a cash contribution for the purpose of the Member State compartment of InvestEU to support objectives of the STEP. That aAdditional contribution to support objectives of the STEP could reach up to 6% of their recovery and resilience plan’s total financial allocation to the Member State compartment of InvestEU. Additional flexibility and clarifications should also be introduced to better pursue the objectivesflexibility and clarifications should also be introduced to better pursue the objectives of the STEP, including measures aiming to channel all necessary resources to non- bankable and cross-border critical projects as the former potentially offer a higher reward and would pave the way for future EU leadership in those sectors, and the latter would contribute to the cohesion of the STEPUnion.
Amendment 177 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20
Recital 20
(20) Horizon Europe is the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation, and its European Innovation Council (EIC) provides for support for innovations with potential breakthrough and disruptive nature with scale-up potential that may be too risky for private investors. Additional flexibility should be provided for under Horizon Europe, so that t to improve the participation of SMEs and their access to finance, in particular to the EIC. The EIC Accelerator canshould provide equity- only support to non-bankable SMEs, including start-ups, and non- bankable SMEs and small mid-caps, carrying out innovation in the technologies supported by the STEP and regardless of whether they previously received other types of support from the EIC Accelerator. The implementation of the EIC Fund is currently limited to a maximum investment amount of EUR 15 million except in exceptional cases and cannot accommodate follow-on financing rounds or larger investment amounts. Allowing for equity- only support for non-bankable SMEs and small mid-caps would address the existing market gap with investments needs in the range of EUR 15 to 50 million. Moreover, experience has shown that the amounts committed for the EIC Pilot under Horizon2020 are not fully used. These unused funds should be made available for the purposes of the EIC Accelerator under Horizon Europe. The Horizon Europe Regulation should also be amended to reflect the increased envelope for the European Defence Fund.
Amendment 188 #
1. To strengthen European sovereignty and security, reduce its strategic dependencies, accelerate the Union’s green and digital transitions and enhance its competitiveness, reduce its strategic dependencies, favour a level playing field in the Single Market for investments throughout the Union, and promote inclusive access to attractive, quality jobs, the Platform shall pursue the following objectives:
Amendment 227 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) a Union guarantee referred to in Article 4(1) of Regulation (EU) 2021/523 with the indicative amount of EUR 7 510 000 000 000. That guarantee shall be implemented in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2021/523;
Amendment 232 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) an amount of EUR 7500 000 000 in current prices of the financial envelope referred to in point (i) of Article 12(2)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2021/695. That amount shall be implemented in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2021/695;
Amendment 234 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) an amount of EUR 5 00750 000 000 in current prices of the financial envelope referred to in the sixth subparagraph of Article 10a(8) of Directive 2003/87/EC. That amount shall be implemented within the Innovation Fund in accordance with the rules of Article 10a(8) of Directive 2003/87/EC and Commission Delegated Regulation [2019/856].
Amendment 240 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) An amount of EUR 13 500 000 000 in current prices of the financial envelope referred to in Article 4(1) of Regulation (EU) 2021/697. That amount shall be implemented in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2021/697.
Amendment 249 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall award a Sovereignty Seal, valid for a period of 5 years, to any action contributing to any of the Platform objectives, provided the action has been assessed and complies with the minimum quality requirements, in particular eligibility, exclusion and award criteria, provided by a call for proposals under Regulation (EU) 2021/695, Regulation (EU) 2021/694, Regulation (EU) 2021/697, Regulation (EU) 2021/522, or Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/856.
Amendment 261 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3
Article 4 – paragraph 3
3. When revising their recovery and resilience plans in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2021/241, Member States shall, without prejudice to the provisions of that Regulation, consider as a priority the actions that have been which have been awarded a Sovereignty Seal in accordance with paragraph 1.
Amendment 266 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 4
Article 4 – paragraph 4
Amendment 267 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 5
Article 4 – paragraph 5
5. Under Regulation (EU) 2021/523, the Sovereignty Seal shall be taken into account in the context of the procedure provided for in Article 19 of the European Investment Bank Statute and of the policy check as laid down in Article 23(3) of that Regulation. In addition, the implementing partners shall examine projects having been awarded the Sovereignty Seal in case they fall within their geographic and activity scope as laid down in Article 26(5) of that Regulation.
Amendment 276 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. The Commission shall establish a dedicated publicly available website (the ‘Sovereignty portal’), providing investors with where information about all EU funding opportunities for projects linked to the Platform objectives and grant visibility to those projects, in particular by displaying the following information:programmes under direct, shared or indirect management is displayed.
Amendment 277 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point a
Amendment 278 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point b
Amendment 279 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point c
Amendment 280 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point d
Amendment 282 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. The Sovereignty Portal shall serve project promoters to find available EU funding programmes that are relevant for their project. With this aim, the Sovereignty Portal shall include: (a) information about all EU funding programmes and access to any open calls for proposals and calls for tender, and (b) a self-assessment tool for project promoters, which will gather information about the particular project in order to highlight the relevant EU funding programmes under direct, shared or indirect management, for which the project could be eligible.
Amendment 283 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 b (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. The Sovereignty Portal shall display an up to date list of projects that have been awarded funds under any EU funding programme, as well as those projects that have been awarded a Sovereignty Seal according to Article 4 of this Regulation. The Portal shall allow public and private investors to filter the listed projects.
Amendment 285 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 3
Article 6 – paragraph 3
3. The Sovereignty portal shall be launched atnot later than 6 months after the [date of the entry into force of this Regulation] and shall be updated by the Commission regularly.
Amendment 290 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1
1. By 31 DecemberJune 2025, the Commission shall provide the European Parliament and the Council with an evaluation report on the implementation of the Platform, on the state of the dependencies of the Union and the strategic sectors for the its sovereignty.
Amendment 296 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 3
Article 8 – paragraph 3
3. Where appropriate, tThe evaluation shall be accompanied by a proposal for amendments of this Regulation, in view of the creation of a European Sovereignty Fund. In case the Commission does not present a European Sovereignty Fund, it shall provide the justification in a report to the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament.
Amendment 340 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Regulation (EU) 2021/523
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – first subparagraph
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – first subparagraph
The EU guarantee for the purposes of the EU compartment referred to in Article 9(1), point (a), shall be EUR 33 66 152 310 073 in current prices. It shall be provisioned at the rate of 40 %. The amount referred to in Article 35(3), first subparagraph, point (a), shall be also taken into account for contributing to the provisioning resulting from that provisioning rate.;
Amendment 343 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
Regulation (EU) 2021/523
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – second subparagraph
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – second subparagraph
An amount of EUR 18 821 327 310 073 in current prices of the amount referred to in the first subparagraph of paragraph 1 of this Article shall be allocated for the objectives referred to in Article 3(2).;
Amendment 353 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Regulation (EU) 2021/523
Article 13 – paragraph 4
Article 13 – paragraph 4
4. At least 75 % of the EU guarantee under the EU compartment as referred to in Article 4(1), first subparagraph, amounting to at least EUR 25 2397 114 232 5554, shall be granted to the EIB Group. The EIB Group shall provide an aggregate financial contribution amounting to at least EUR 6 309 80778 558 1389. That contribution shall be provided in a manner and form that facilitates the implementation of the InvestEU Fund and the achievement of the objectives set out in Article 15(2). If the Commission determines that the implementing partners do not have sufficient absorption capacity, the Commission may exceptionally and temporarily allow the EIB Group to be granted more than 75% of the EU guarantee under the EU compartment;
Amendment 360 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point 6 a (new)
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point 6 a (new)
Regulation (EU) 2021/523
Article 13 – paragraph 5
Article 13 – paragraph 5
(6a) Article 13(5) shall be replaced by the following: "The remaining 25 % of the EU guarantee under the EU compartment shall be granted to other implementing partners, whichunless the Commission adopts the decision referred to in paragraph 4. The implementing partners shall also provide a financial contribution to be determined in the guarantee agreements. " Or. en (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32021R0523&qid=1694106546408)
Amendment 361 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point 6 b (new)
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point 6 b (new)
Regulation (EU) 2021/523
Article 13 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Article 13 – paragraph 5 a (new)
(6b) In Article 13, the following paragraph shall be inserted: 5a. The Commission shall mention and justify any decision to allow the EIB Group to be granted more than 75% of the guarantee in the Annual Report to the European Parliament referred to in article 7 of Regulation.../... [STEP Regulation]. The European Commission shall also inform of any actions aiming to increase the absorption capacity of the other implementing partners.
Amendment 363 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point 6 c (new)
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point 6 c (new)
Regulation (EU) 2021/523
Article 13 – paragraph 6 a (new)
Article 13 – paragraph 6 a (new)
(6c) In Article 13, the following paragraph shall be inserted: 6a. The EIB Group shall ensure that: (a) at least, 35% of the EU guarantee granted to the EIB Group will support investment on non-bankable projects. (b) at least, 30% of the EU guarantee granted to the EIB Group will support cross-border projects.
Amendment 364 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point 6 d (new)
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point 6 d (new)
Regulation (EU) 2021/523
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – second subparagraph
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – second subparagraph
(6d) In Article 19(1), the second sub- paragraph shall be replaced by the following: "The implementing partner shall have appropriate exposure at its own risk to financing and investment operations supported by the EU guarantee, unless exceptionally the policy objectives targeted by the financial product to be implemented are of such nature that the implementing partner could not reasonably contribute its own risk-bearing capacity to it. The EU guarantee will cover up to 100% of the risk exposure in projects that fall under the STEP policy window" (Ensure coverage of high-risk investment in STEP projects.) Or. en (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32021R0523&qid=1694106546408)
Amendment 367 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point 9
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point 9
Regulation (EU) 2021/523
Article 25 – paragraph 2 – point j
Article 25 – paragraph 2 – point j
(j) provide advisory support to equity fund managers and other relevant stakeholders active in the areas referred to in point (e) of Article 8(1), including, regarding the valuation of intangible assets.
Amendment 368 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point 9 a (new)
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point 9 a (new)
Regulation (EU) 2021/523
Article 26 – paragraph 1
Article 26 – paragraph 1
(9a) Article 26(1) shall be replaced by the following: "The Commission shall establish the InvestEU Portal. The InvestEU Portal shall be an easily accessible and user-friendly project database that provides relevant information for each project. The Commission shall ensure the InvestEU Portal ceases to exist once it is integrated in the common Sovereignty Portal, as referred to in Article 6 of the [STEP Regulation]." Or. en (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32021R0523&qid=1694106546408)
Amendment 373 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Regulation (EU) 2021/523
Annex I – point e
Annex I – point e
(e) up to EUR 7 510 000 000 000 for objectives referred to in Article 3(2), point (e).
Amendment 391 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Regulation (EU) 2021/241
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 3
3. Without prejudice to paragraph 2, Member States may also propose to include in their recovery and resilience plan, as estimated costs, the amount of the cash contribution for the purpose of the Member State compartment pursuant to the relevant provisions of the InvestEU Regulation exclusively for measures supporting investment operations contributing to the STEP objectives referred to in Article 2 of Regulation .../...71 [STEP Regulation]. Those costs shall not exceed 6 % of the recovery and resilience plan’s total financial allocation, and the relevant measures, as set out in the recovery and resilience plan, shall respect the requirements of this Regulation. _________________ 71 Regulation …/… of the European Parliament and of the Council … [insert full title and OJ reference].