5 Amendments of Edward SCICLUNA related to 2011/2186(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the EIB to undertake not to fund certain types of project and to draw up lists of ‘banned areas’ and ‘banned technologies’ covering, for example, projects that result in significant changes to important natural habitats or in the production of banned substances, large dam projects that fail to comply with the recommendations of the World Commission on Dams, and extraction projects (oil, gas and minerals) which have a devastating environmental and social impact and do not comply with the World Bank Extractive Industries Review recommendations; or which fail to reach the average European environmental benchmarks. (Paragraph 3)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the EIB to draw up a grey list of projects involving technologies which although they might be within the European minimum standards, fail to reach the average European environmental standards;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Urges the EIB to increase funding for projects related to water resource management with particular emphasis given to countries in the Southern Mediterranean area with particular concern for the sustainability of supply;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Welcomes the increased role of the EIB's structural programme loans (SPLs) in helping Member States to finance their contributions to programmes supported by EU Structural Funds; calls on the Commission to work with the EIB to ensure that investment in infrastructure projects is not postponed as a result of the economic difficulties faced by Member States;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Notes that in 2010 the Bank provided EUR 25.9 billion to regions in the EU worst hit by the economic crisis;