3 Amendments of Evžen TOŠENOVSKÝ related to 2012/2027(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Regrets the fact that the Energy Efficiency Fund, while in effect qualifying as a financial instrument, is considered by the Commission to be a type of subsidy, and is consequently incompatible with any recourse to structural funds on the part of same entity; emphasises therefore the necessity to ensure in the future that new financial instruments are compatible with structural funds and with other subsidising instruments made available by the European Union;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Appreciates the attention given to supporting SMEs through the equity and debt instruments for which the Programme for the Competitiveness of enterprises and SMEs (COSME) and the Horizon 2020 programme provide; believes it appropriate, however, to consider the possibility of increasing the maximum threshold stipulated by the loan guarantee facility in COSME (EUR 150 000), in view of a more precise valuation of the actual credit requirements of European SMEs;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Therefore urgently requests the implementation of the project bonds initiative and an accurate evaluation of the appropriateness of a new initiative for the issuing of European bonds for infrastructure, with the direct participation of European Union capital in infrastructure projects in the common interest, with strong European added value, through the public issuing of project bonds on the part of the Uniononly if the pilot phase has proven its effectiveness with regard to its original objectives following independent analysis and evaluation, should this evaluation and analysis prove that the pilot phase was unsuccessful, the initiative should be discontinued;