Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council authorising the Commission to vote in favour of the capital increase of the European Investment Fund’

(COM(2020) 774 final — 2020/0343 (COD))

(2021/C 56/10)

Referrals	European Parliament, 26.11.2020 Council of the European Union, 30.11.2020
Legal basis	Articles 173(3) and 304 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
Section responsible	Economic and Monetary Union and Economic and Social Cohesion
Adopted at plenary	2.12.2020
Plenary session No	556
Outcome of vote (for/against/abstentions)	207/1/8

Since the Committee endorses the contents of the proposal and has already set out its views on the Proposal for a regulation establishing the InvestEU programme (1), adopted on 17 October 2018 and on its revision (2), adopted on 15 July 2020, it decided, at its 556th plenary session of 2 and 3 December 2020 (meeting of 2 December 2020), by 207 votes to 1 with 8 abstentions, to issue an opinion endorsing the proposed text and to refer to the position it had taken in the above-mentioned document.

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(1)  OJ C 62, 15.2.2019, p. 131.

(2)  OJ C 364, 28.10.2020, p. 139.