7 Amendments of Dominique RIQUET related to 2016/0282(COD)
Amendment 10 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) The fundamental budgetary principles should be maintained. Derogations from those fundamental principles for specific areas such as research, external actions and structural funds should be reviewed and simplified as far as possible, taking into account their continuing relevance, their added-value for the budget, and the burden they impose on stakeholders. In particular, the Structural Funds should be able to be used in joint financing mechanisms to enable a project of high European added value in the field of transport infrastructure to be carried out in all categories of region including the most developed regions and transition regions.
Amendment 12 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 239
Recital 239
(239) In order to increase the efficiency of the intervention, a blending facility or blending facilities may be established under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). Such blending facilities should finance blending operations which are actions combining non-reimbursable forms of support and/or financial instruments from the Union budget, including combination of CEF equity and CEF debt financial instruments, and financing from EIB Group (including EIB financing under EFSI) development or other finance institutions as well as investors.private investment and innovative financing in order to better leverage scarce Union resources;
Amendment 13 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 152 a (new)
Recital 152 a (new)
(12a) The financing of the EIB's guarantee fund under the EFSI is provided by the EU budget. The EIB should therefore be able to intervene systematically to provide first loss guarantees in the joint financing mechanisms for operations already supported by the EU budget (CEF, EFSI, etc.) in order to allow and facilitate additionality and the participation of private co-investors.
Amendment 16 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 242
Recital 242
(242) Only grants and procurement may currently be used to support actions in the area of Digital Service Infrastructures. In order to ensure that the Digital Service Infrastructures function as efficiently as possible, other financial instruments which are currently used under CEF, including innovative financial instruments, should also be made available to support these actions .
Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 239
Recital 239
(239) In order to increase the efficiency of the intervention, a blending facility or blending facilities may be established under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). Such blending facilities should finance blending operations which are actions combining non-reimbursable forms of support and/or financial instruments from the Union budget, including combination of CEF equity and CEF debt financial instruments, European structural and investment funds and financing from EIB Group (including EIB financing under EFSI) development or other finance institutions as well as investors.
Amendment 20 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 240 a (new)
Recital 240 a (new)
20a. In the context of this blending under the CEF and noting that the financing of the EIB guarantee fund under the EFSI is provided by the EU budget, the EIB should be able to intervene systematically to provide first loss guarantees in these mechanisms in order to allow and facilitate additionality and the participation of private co- investors.
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 272 – paragraph 1 – point 1 a (new)
Article 272 – paragraph 1 – point 1 a (new)
Regulation (EU) No 1316/2013
Article 16 a – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 16 a – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. In the context of this blending under the CEF and noting that the financing of the EIB guarantee fund under the EFSI is provided by the EU budget, the EIB is studying the possibility of systematically providing first loss guarantees in these mechanisms in order to allow and facilitate additionality and the participation of private co-investors.