22. Stresses the need to enhance private sector involvement in green infrastructure investments and calls on the Commission and the EIB to quickly establish and make operational a financing facility including innovative financing mechanisms to support green infrastructure investments and other natural capital-related projects, while also assessing real and long-term support for ecosystem functions; points out that further financing sources at local, regional and national level will also need to be explored;

57. Stresses that the European Union’s cohesion policy is providing investment for sustainable growth and jobs as well as for improved competitiveness in Europe, in line with the objectives of economic, social and territorial cohesion in the EU; recalls that the cohesion policy is the main investment tool for the achievement of the Europe 2020 objectives; calls, therefore, on the Commission to take appropriate action in a prompt manner, so as to guarantee a timely start, as well as to set clear conditions to allow implementation of the 2014-2020 operational programmes in the Member States; urges the Commission to table immediately a r ...[+++]evised draft of Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002 on the European Solidarity Fund;

The Commission found that Progroup's share would remain significantly below the 25% threshold on the relevant markets for corrugated case material and for corrugated board, both before and after the planned investment.

With regard to the transport networks, in relation to the energy sector, I have already presented specific projects for Euro-Mediterranean energy networks, which must allow, firstly, for the rationalisation of investments made in a series of countries and greater coordination and efficiency in investments, thereby achieving not just purely national benefits from certain investments, but providing a broader continental-type perspective.

- Impact on competition: the amount of aid will be decreased on the one hand in cases where the investment creates an increase in capacity in a sector in overcapacity or in decline, and on the other hand if the beneficiary owns, before the planned investment, a market share of at least 40%.

Investment in mining especially for exploration has risen from about $400 million when we took office in October 1993 to a projected investment of approximately $850 million this year.