Translation of "prêt subventionné " (French → English) :

In addition, under the temporary framework, Member States could also grant state-aid guarantees for loans at a reduced premium, aid in the form of a subsidised interest rate applicable to all types of loans, and subsidised loans for the production of green products involving the early adaptation to, or going further than, the future Community product standards.

(d) subsidised loan schemes or low interest loans;

This provides for subsidised loans for the manufacture of “green products” such as “green cars”.

73. Recognises the leverage effect of new financial instruments and their potential to mobilise investment, supports increased financing from credit in general, and calls for the use of revolving financial instruments to be extended to those areas eligible for funding which prove to be appropriate; calls for procedures to be simplified to that end and for a greater degree of legal certainty throughout the entire funding period, as well as for the establishment of an EU register showing which projects are provided with loans and which with subsidies; calls for the instruments to be adaptable, so as to ensure they are viable and feasible ...[+++] for all regions and cities; takes the view that at the end of a funding period, at the latest, responsibility for how the funds are spent should transfer to national level or project level; notes that during the current period not all Member States have adopted a decentralised approach to dealing with financial instruments such as JESSICA; emphasises the need for direct access for cities;

29. Is critical of Chinese "tied aid" soft loans and the systematic subsidising of its State-owned construction companies in international competition; conversely, China protects its domestic market through a discriminatory qualification system which has crushed, according to a study commissioned by the Directorate General for Trade, the market share of foreign contractors from 6% prior to China’s accession to the WTO to less than 1% today;

∙ a bigger and earlier reduction by all industrialised countries in all agricultural tariffs and quantitative restrictions on agricultural imports from developing and least developed countries; the substantial reduction with a view to the eventual reciprocal elimination, by all WTO members, of all forms of export subsidy and schemes having an equivalent effect, including aspects of food aid, export credit, credit guarantee and loan and insurance schemes;