15 Amendments of Janusz LEWANDOWSKI related to 2017/2052(INI)
Amendment 57 #
3. Considers that the next MFF period should make provision for adequate EU funding, including structural and investment funds, in order to deepen the integration of the EU energy market and support energy transition, especially for key energy infrastructure projects such as projects of common interest (PCIs);
Amendment 112 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Reiterates the need to continue with Horizon 2020 and to provide it with at least the same share of funding as at present in order to respond to societal challenges and secure Europe’s global competitiveness and industrial leadership in innovation; calls also for a greater focus on implementing innovation through joint undertakings, on supporting investment in key technologies and on ensuring that SMEs have better access to risk capital; supporting investment in key technologies, on ensuring that SMEs have better access to risk capital and on implementing innovation through joint undertakings and other efficient instruments such as the European Institute of Technology (EIT) and its Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs), which need adequate resources to further develop their actions in education, support to innovation projects and to start-ups;
Amendment 170 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Stresses the importance of strengthening and streamlining energy and climate policy, in particular all objectives of the Energy Union, which should be supported by existing and new instruments, including in the cohesion policy;
Amendment 173 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Emphasises that the Union's coal- dependent regions and countries need targeted support, including adequate funds, to effectively contribute to a strategic transition to low-emission, circular economy; calls for establishing comprehensive instrument for such regions and countries in order to support a just transition, in particular through development and deployment of renewable sources, energy efficiency solutions, energy storage, electro-mobility solutions and infrastructures, modernisation of power generation and grids, advanced power generation technologies, including CCS, CCU and coal gasification, modernisation of district heating, including high-efficiency cogeneration, early adaptation to future environmental standards, restructuring of carbon dependent sectors as well as addressing societal, socio-economic and environmental impacts.
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41 a (new)
Paragraph 41 a (new)
41a. Calls for the creation of new financial instrument to support civic initiatives aimed at promoting and strengthening European democratic values in the Member States - The European Values Instrument. Drawing on the experience of the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights supporting projects in the area of human rights in non-EU countries, the new intra-EU budget line should help citizens to act effectively in their own countries in defence of values laid out in Article 2 of the TEU. Funds should be disbursed by the European Commission independently of governments and granted to the civic organisations in the Member States;
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
Paragraph 45
45. Notes the reference to the notion of European added value presented in several Commission documents; reiterates the list of parameters identified by Parliament in its resolution6 in this context; recalls that the EU’s resources should be used to finance European public goods as well as to act as a catalyst in providing incentives for Member States at all administrative levels to take action in order to fulfil Treaty objectives and to attain common EU goals which would not be realised otherwise; agrees that the EU budget should be used to finance actions that can benefit the EU as a whole, which cannot be ensured efficiently by any single Member State alone and that can offer better value for money compared to actions taken solely at national, regional or local level; __________________ 6considers that European added value is created by programmes in both shared and central management as two complementary methods of attaining EU goals; __________________ 6 Texts adopted, P8_TA(2017)0401. Texts adopted, P8_TA(2017)0401.
Amendment 320 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 65
Paragraph 65
65. Believes, therefore, that the current presentation of the headings requires some improvements, but is against any unjustified radical changes; proposes, as a result, the following structure for the MFF post-2020; Heading 1: A stronger and sustainable economy Including programmes and instruments supporting: under direct management: - - smSmart and Inclusive Growth a. Competitiveness for growth and jobs b. Economic, sociall and medium-sized enterprises - - - adaptation - - - supporting investments in Europe (possible umbrella financialtorial cohesion research and innovation industrument at EU level, incl. EFSI) Heading 2: Stronger cohesion and solidarity in Europe Including programmes and instruments supporting: - cohesion (under shared management): investments in innovation, digitalisation, reindustrialisation, SMEs, transport, climate change adaptation empy, entrepreneurship and large-infrastructure projects transport, digitalisation, energy environment and climate change agriculture and rural develoypment, social maritime affairs and social inclusion - education and life-long learning - communication - - justice and consumers - national administrations Heading 3: Stronger responsibility in the world Including programmes and instruments supporting: - development - - - - - external relations facilities Heading 4: Security, peace and stability for all Including programmes and instruments supporting: - - - policy - Heading 5: An efficient administration at the service of Europeans - - equipment of EU institutionsfisheries horizontal (financial) instruments Heading 2: Sustainable Growth: Natural Resources economic, social and territorial culture, citizenship and health and food safety asylum, migration and integration, support to and coordination with Heading 3: Security, citizenship and defence international cooperation and neighbourhood enlargement humanitarian aid trade contribution to EU trust funds and Heading 4: Global Europe security crisis response and stability common foreign and security defence Heading 5: Administration financing EU staff financing the buildings and
Amendment 353 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 70
Paragraph 70
70. Calls, furthermore, for a greater focus on implementing research and innovation through joint undertakingdiverse instruments and for supporting investment in key technologies to close the investment gap in innovation; emphasises that the increase in funds must be coupled with a simplification of funding procedures; welcomes the Commission’s efforts in this respect and insists that these should continue under the next programming period; notes the large geographic imbalances in the use of funds from the Framework Programme; calls for comprehensive budgetary solutions to ensure that all EU Member States and regions engage in research, development and innovation;
Amendment 400 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 75
Paragraph 75
75. Considers it essential to secure a sustainable and affordable energy supply in Europe; calls, therefore, for continuous support for investments ensuring the diversification of energy sources and routes, increasing energy security and enhancing energy efficiency, including by CEF Energy; stresses in particular the importance of providing for comprehensive support, especially for carbon-intensive regions, energy transition, transition to a low-carbemission economy, the modernisation of power generation and grids, carbon capture storage and utilisation technologies, and the modernisation of district heating; considers that the transformation of the energy sector in the light of the climate objectives should be supported by the creation of an Energy Transition Fund under the next MFF that would facilitate the structural changes in energy-intensive industries and carbon-intensive electricity production plants, and create incentives for low-carbon investments and innovative solutionUnion's coal-dependent regions and countries need targeted support, including adequate funds, to effectively contribute to a strategic transition to low- emission economy and calls for establishing comprehensive instrument for such regions and countries in order to support a just transition, in particular through development and deployment of renewable sources, energy efficiency solutions, energy storage, electro-mobility solutions and infrastructures, modernization of power generation and grids, advanced power generation technologies, including CCS, CCU and coal gasification, modernisation of district heating, including high-efficiency cogeneration, early adaptation to future environmental standards, restructuring of energy-intensive industries as well as addressing societal, socio-economic and environmental impacts;
Amendment 458 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 78 a (new)
Paragraph 78 a (new)
78a. Underlines the key role of convergence of the direct payments between Member States to ensure a level playing field in the single European market, equal treatment of EU citizens and the implementation of the Treaty objectives in terms of economic and social cohesion;
Amendment 459 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 78 b (new)
Paragraph 78 b (new)
78b. Points out that the numerous EU rural areas face serious problems such as low employment, underdevelopment of technical and social infrastructure, lack of or low level of basic services, which in turn leads to their rapid depopulation; stresses, therefore, that these areas need more support while the criteria for the distribution of the funds should continue to take into account differences in the level of rural development in Member States;
Amendment 488 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 81
Paragraph 81
81. Stresses that cohesion policy post- 2020 should remain the main investment policy of the European Union covering all EU regions while concentrating the majority of the resources on the most vulnerable ones; believes that, beyond the goal of reducing the disparities between levels of development and enhancing convergence as enshrined in the Treaty, it should focus on the achievement of the broad EU political objectives and proposes, therefore, that under the next MFF, the three cohesion policy funds – the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Cohesion Fund – should concentrate mainly on providing support for growth and competitiveness, innovation, digitalisation, reindustrialisationy 4.0, SMEs, transport, climate change adaptamitigation and adaptation, environmental sustainability, circular economy, energy transition, employment and social inclusion; calls, moreover, for a reinforced territorial cooperation component and an urban dimension for the policy;
Amendment 510 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 82
Paragraph 82
82. Considers maintaining the financing of cohesion policy post-2020 for the EU-27 at least at the level of the 2014- 2020 budget to be of the utmost importance; stresses that GDP should remain one of thethe main parameters for the allocation of cohesion policy funds, reflecting well the development gaps, but believes that it should be complemented by an additional set of social, environmental and demographic indicators to better take into account new types of inequalities between EU regions; supports, in addition, the continuation under the new programming period of the elements that rendered cohesion policy more modern and performance-oriented under the current MFF;
Amendment 626 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 90
Paragraph 90
90. Is ready to consider a streamlined architecture of the external financing instruments, as long as the Commission and the High Representative clearly demonstrate the expected advantages of such changes and provided that the specificities of the underlying Union policies are respected; notes that suchunderlines that the new financial architecture should include a budgetised EDF, and must duly reflect the importance of the EU neighbourhood policy, therefore proposes to maintain a separate European Neighbourhood Instrument; notes that such architecture should include a more transparent incorporation of trust funds and facilities, as well as a possible continuation of the External Investment Plan based on its evaluation; could consider, as part of an overall increase in the external financing instruments, a larger unallocated reserve aimed at increasing in-built flexibility, but stresses that this should not be achieved at the expense of long-term geographic and thematic priorities;
Amendment 641 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 91 a (new)
Paragraph 91 a (new)
91a. Points out that ensuring food security for all EU citizens is also an important aspect of security, and requires adequate funding of the common agricultural policy, which plays a key role in this respect;