Activities of Jens ROHDE related to 2012/2016(BUD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the mandate for the trilogue on the 2013 Draft Budget
Amendments (6)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Believes that EU policies and the EU budget she current economic climate and need for fiscal consolidation necessitates as restrictive a budget as possible that focuses its means on EU policies and programmes that could make a substantial contribution to the revitalisation of sustainable growth in the EU and tohat addressing major societal challenges such as the outdated infrastructure, the innovation gap, resource scarcity and climate change;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Acknowledges the need to strengthen and coordinate funding in order to implement the EU 2020 strategy; is concerned that the ceilings under Heading 1a within the current financial framework are insufficient to meet the EU's priority polices and in this regard welcomes the proposed increase in spending on sustainable growth, notable the FP7 and CIP programmes; stresses however that these increases should be financed through reallocations within the budget;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. In this regard believes that there should be a stronger focus on deployment projects within research and innovation funding to bridge the gap between research results and commercialisation thereby ensuring European competitiveness;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for enhanced EU support policies for SMEs, i.e. investmentthe EU programmes for SMEs to focus ion their innovfacilitationg and growth potential, and simplification of their access to funding; simplifying SMEs' access to risk capital to ensure self-sustaining investments in innovation thereby securing SMEs' growth potential;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Fully supports the pilot Project Bond Initiative, aimed at mobilising private savings and improving the range of financial instruments available for infrastructure projects in energy, transport and ICT; stresses the need to make adequate use of the EIB's sustainability criteria, on an equal footing with the financial criteriaat for project bonds to work and become a genuine investment object for the private capital markets, care should be taken not to overregulate the issuing of such bonds and therefore the main criteria for a project bond must be its commercial viability; believes that for projects where relevant the EIB's sustainability criteria and financial criteria are mutually reinforcing;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Deplores the fact that initiatives aimed at enhancing the EU's energy headline targets are not given sufficient funding and that the SET plan is yet to receive sufficient funds despite the European Parliaments continuous demands;