Regulation (EU) 2015/1017 entrusts the Commission with the responsibility to create, with the support of the European Investment Bank (EIB), a European Investment Project Portal (EIPP). The EIPP is a publicly available web portal of investment projects which acts as a platform to promote projects to potential investors worldwide.

Experience gained in managing the EIPP indicates that certain amendments, especially with regard to admission criteria and processing fee, are required to be made in order to provide for greater flexibility in the selection of projects for inclusion in the EIPP and to clarify the scope of the fee exemption.

In that context, it is appropriate to exempt in addition to public project promoters also private project promoters whose project is supported by a public authority of a Member State in pursuit of public investment priorities from the payment of the application processing fees in order to duly implement Article 15(4) of Regulation (EU) 2015/1017 and to attract an increased number of high quality projects with a specific link to such investment priorities.

In the interests of clarity, given the volume of amendments, and in order to simplify the implementation of the EIPP, Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/1214 should be repealed and replaced by this Decision,