81. Asks the Court of Auditors to draw up a Special Report on the performance and alignment with Union development policies and objectives of EIB external lending activities before the mid-term review of the EIB’s external mandate and the mid-term review of the Investment Facility, as well as compare the added value with regards the own resources used by the EIB; asks the Court of Auditors, furthermore, to differentiate its analysis between the guarantees granted by the general budget of the Union and by the Member States, the investment facility endowed by the EDF and the usage of reflows for these investments, and the EIB's use of the ...[+++] various forms of blending used in the EU-Africa infrastructural trust fund and the Caribbean investment facility;

An investment grant of €15 million for the Geothermal Development Facility Latin America which focuses on the development of geothermal energy in Latin America. A contribution for an energy project for the Eastern Caribbean (€4.25 million of EU grant funding). This project is gives technical assistance and invests in energy efficiency and renewable energy. The 5 phase of the Al-Invest programme (with total funding of €26 million) that facilitates access to international markets for Latin Ameri ...[+++]can small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

Question No. 834 Mr. Peter Julian: With regard to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) investigation of the Caribbean-based investment fund known as St. Lawrence Trading Inc.: (a) does the CRA know the identities of all Canadians with investments in the fund; (b) does the CRA know the identities of the six prominent Canadian business families with holdings of as much as $900 million in that fund and, if so, what are they; (c) how many Canadians are involved in the St. Lawrence Trading Inc. fund i ...[+++]n total; (d) what are the key reasons the CRA has been unable to obtain the information it needs to determine whether evasion of Canadian taxes has taken place; (e) what are the impediments to identification by the CRA of all those Canadians involved in the St. Lawrence Trading Inc. fund; (f) how much tax does the CRA estimate that Canadian individuals, who invested in the St. Lawrence Trading Inc. fund, have failed to pay; (g) how much tax does the CRA estimate that Canadian families with investments in the St. Lawrence Trading Inc. fund have failed to pay; (h) how much tax has been recovered from each Canadian individual and family that invested in St. Lawrence Trading Inc.; and (i) what is the estimated cost of the CRA’s investigation of the St. Lawrence Trading Inc. fund to date?

Working closely with the Caribbean Development Bank, will ensure that long-term funding can make a valuable contribution to projects across the region” said Dr. Werner Hoyer, European Investment Bank President.

Through the CJAP, the European Investment Bank has been able to work with experienced counterparts to fund infrastructure projects in the Dominican Republic and Jamaica, and enable a new start for the financial sector in post-earthquake Haiti,” said Plutarchos Sakellaris, European Investment Bank Vice President for Africa, Caribbean and Pacific.

The European Investment Bank has agreed to fund preparations for possible use of geothermal renewable energy to replace fossil fuels in the Caribbean.