Traduction de «Fonds d'emprunt communautaire d'Ottawa » (Français → Anglais) :

It includes: RTD and innovation programmes at national and EU level; debt based financing; venture capital funds; infrastructure funds; and market-based instruments.

Mention was made of Community loans, the establishment of a specific fund based on adding a few cents to the current amounts of excise duty on motor fuels, a new approach to infrastructure charging, the establishment, for certain extremely costly major projects of arrangements for levying charges on another mode of transport (roads) to finance infrastructures in other modes (railways), and private capital, either through privatisation or by setting up public-private partnerships, etc.

Loan funding, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises, through a revolving fund administered by the Palestinian Development Fund, is also available on the basis of grants provided by the Community.

The Réseau québécois du credit communautaire was set up seven years ago and comprises loan funds, lending circles, and some 20 Quebec-based micro-credit organizations.

The report thus makes recommendations to facilitate the establishment of substantial funds, of both equity and loan capital : - by freeing the movement of bonds issued by the promoters of large projects, increasing their negotiability by giving them the status of "specially favoured bonds" - even by giving them in certain cases specific fiscal advantages on the model of American "tax exempt bonds". Other measures are proposed so the Commission can play an active role in the financial framework for a project : - by making available to the Commission limited budgetary resources to attract starting finance, through the creation of a special ...[+++] section of the European Investment Bank which would be partly funded from the Community budget, so making possible various means for financing the project.

The Guarantee Fund for external action was set up in 1994 in order to protect the Community against any budgetary shocks should loans covered by the Community guarantee under its borrowing and lending policy for non-member countries not be repaid.