11 Amendments of Roberts ZĪLE related to 2016/2099(INI)
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomNotes Commission President Juncker’'s plan to increase the capacity of the Investment Plan for Europe from EUR 315 billion to EUR 630 billion; underlin. Stresses, however, that it should not lead to a reduction in well-functioning sources of transport infrastructure funding;e subpar functioning of EFSI as during the first year of operations 92 per cent of all investment has concentrated in EU-15 countries whilst only 8 per cent has reached the EU-13 countries and that to date 10 Member States, mostly in Central and Eastern Europe, had operations only under the SME Window (SMEW) of EFSI;1a __________________ 1a EIB independent evaluation report "Evaluation of the functioning of the European Fund for Strategic Investments" (http://www.eib.org/infocentre/publication s/all/evaluation-of-the-functioning-of-the- efsi.htm)
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Notes that many Eastern EU countries still lack major transport infrastructure and thus full integration within the EU Single Market. Thus believes that EFSI has so far been largely unhelpful in facilitating the Eastern EU countries' full integration within the Single Market;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that an innovative and effective economy needs advanced infrastructure and that transport infrastructure should be among the priorities, with a special focus on EU's Eastern regions as well as innovative multimodal infrastructure solutions such as short multimodal tunnels or bridges in sparsely populated areas or local communities;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Considers that in order to ensure more equal geographical balance and geographical diversification of investments as well as to reach the currently underserved EU-13 countries, a set of specific conditions and criteria that reflect the EU transport policy priorities and goals shall be established for transport infrastructure projects; also blending of CEF grants with EFSI financial instruments shall be facilitated as a way to leverage additional funding; notes that within the context of EFSI, many for-profit transport infrastructure projects are contrary to the EU´s Transport policy objectives to shift transport to more environmental friendly modes; believes that the above situation can only be changed if the share of certain transport mode projects is limited - - e.g. by limiting road transport project development to only countries eligible for funding from the Cohesion Fund as well as to cross-border projects;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Notes that in order to reduce the burden imposed on taxpayers and the public finances in general for the construction and maintenance of infrastructure, public-private partnership type transport infrastructure projects should generally be based on user-pays principle;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Notes that the EIB uses a wide range of products, such as loans, guarantees, project bonds and public- private partnerships to support public and private investment in transport; stresses that it is important to coordinate various types of EU funding and not to promote PPP type Funds at the expense of Structural Funds in order to ensure that EU transport policy objectives are met. across all of the EU;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. WelcomNotes the start of the EFSI, the legislation governing which entered into force in July 2015; underlstresses the subpar functioning of EFSI as during the first year of operations 92 per cent of all inves that the success of the programme is dependent upon its swift implementation; tment has concentrated in EU-15 countries whilst only 8 per cent has reached the EU-13 countries and that to date 10 Member States, mostly in Central and Eastern Europe, had operations only under the SME Window (SMEW) of EFSI; notes that after the first year of operations, 63 per cent of EFSI financing signed under the Infrastructure and Innovation Window (IIW) went to only three Western EU Member States, thus exceeding the geographical concentration limit of 45% as set within the Fund´s Strategic Orientation;1a __________________ 1aEIB independent evaluation report "Evaluation of the functioning of the European Fund for Strategic Investments" (http://www.eib.org/infocentre/publication s/all/evaluation-of-the-functioning-of-the- efsi.htm)
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Particularly welcomNotes the fact that total investment in EFSI approvals amounts to EUR 115.7 billion, which is equivalent to 37 % of the original target value (EUR 315 billion); believes, however, that as only 8 per cent of EFSI investment to date has reached the EU-13 countries, the current functioning of EFSI is contrary to the Fund's Regulation which states that EFSI should contribute to strengthening of the Union's economic, social and territorial cohesion. Further believes that the concentration of capital in the EU-15 countries and underserving of EU-13 countries widens social and economic disparities between the EU's Western and Eastern regions; notes that such disparities are fuelling brain drain and emigration of youth from the EU's poorer Member States towards the Western EU countries which, in turn, puts extra pressure on the former countries' social safety nets; further notes the growing discontent in Western EU countries to changes in their labour market structures, caused by immigration from the EU's poorer Member States, which often results in Western EU countries' governments adopting changes to their social legislation which are de-facto discriminatory in their nature;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)