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Mr President, I should like to thank Mr Lipietz for his report, because it is balanced and at the same time positive about the EIB’s result. This is wholly justified because, compared to previous years, the EIB has undergone some positive developments, especially in terms of transparency and openness. I should also like, on behalf of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats, to congratulate the EIB and particularly its President, Mr Maystadt, even though we recognise that some changes need to be made where supervision is concerned.
The issue of the EIB’s prudential control is therefore – and with good reason – one of the key subjects in the annual report, and it is one to which, unfortunately, an adequate solution has not yet been found. The question is how prudential control can be best guaranteed in future. I should like to ask the EIB and the Commission to present a view on prudential control by the next annual report. Can that be done?
I would now like to turn to the objectives. The emphasis should indeed be on the role which the EIB can play in the Lisbon strategy, in strengthening innovation, as well as research and development. More synergy between the EIB’s and the Commission’s programmes can help considerably, as can cofinancing from the Commission’s programmes for projects, for example, in the framework of the Innovation 2010 initiative, but also vice versa. If the Commission has approved projects and cofinancing is required, it would be good if the EIB were able to contribute financially. I should therefore like to ask the EIB to develop a suitable instrument for this, so that, for example, companies are able to take part in programmes such as CRAFT and Collective Research more quickly.
SMEs must be given an even more enhanced role where the use of loans is concerned, because the differences between Member States are significant. I would therefore urge the EIB, during promotion, to involve the SMEs directly and promote credits not only via banks in the Member States, because there appear to be too many differences between the Member States, especially between the new ones. I would like to congratulate you again, and we are happy to support Mr Lipietz’s report in tomorrow’s vote."@en1
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