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Activities of Renata BRIANO related to 2014/2240(INI)

Plenary speeches (1)

Research and innovation in the blue economy to create jobs and growth (A8-0214/2015 - João Ferreira) IT
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2014/2240(INI)

Amendments (16)

Amendment 1 #
2015/04/21
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas there is a great deal of ignorance about the seas and oceans, their resources and biodiversity, and the ways in which these interact with human activities – whether taking place or still to be developed – and whereas inadequate knowledge on those points severely inhibits sustainable use of the resources concerned and poses an obstacle to innovation;
2015/04/21
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas investments in marine and maritime research and innovation will strengthen the position of the EU as a global leader in the field of maritime policy;
2015/04/21
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls for the development of a unified European maritime industrial strategy which should bring together EU initiatives on all maritime-related sectors;
2015/04/21
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 73 #
2015/04/21
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for clear-cut objectives and time- frames to be laid down with a view to making data – whether relating to the sea- floor or to the water column and living resources – more accessible and, more fully interoperable and harmonised for information about seas and oceans to be supplied to the public;
2015/04/21
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls for an EU initiative to encourage private companies of the maritime sector to share economically insensitive data for research purposes;
2015/04/21
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Points out that the Member States and regional authorities have a key role to play in developing the blue economy and urges the Commission to support and encourage all forms of cooperation between Member States and regional authorities, for example joint programming initiatives;
2015/04/21
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Considers the shortage of qualified professionals in various fields of study and activity – including, though not confined to, researchers, engineers, and technicians, to be a huge hurdle that could prevent the blue economy from fully realising its potential; maintains that this shortcoming is closely bound up with the growing disengagement and disinvestment by Member States in the spheres of science and education and with the decline in ththerefore urges Member States and regional authorities to invest in an ambitious social dimension of blue pgrofessional status and social standwth and maritime literacy ing of several of the professions concerned, and therefore calls for thesrder to promote training and access for young people two trends to be reversed without delaymaritime professions;
2015/04/21
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for an appropriate financial framework to be established in order to stimulate the development of the blue economy and job creation, combining and, coordinating and facilitating the access to the financial instruments available – structural and investment funding (EMFF, ERDF, ESF, Cohesion Fund), the research framework programme, and so forth; points out that the instruments should be better geared to the needs of individual stakeholders – public institutions, businesses, especially SMEs, non- governmental organisations, etc. – and the opportunities being offered widely publicised;
2015/04/21
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 149 #
2015/04/21
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Considers that the implementation of the Maritime Spatial Planning directive in a timely manner will foster investment in the blue economy as it provides the necessary certainty;
2015/04/21
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 153 #
2015/04/21
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Considers that environmentally healthy coastal and maritime areas are key for sustainable human activities; calls therefore for the full implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework directive;
2015/04/21
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 165 #
2015/04/21
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22b. Believes that a maritime safety "Erika IV" package should be launched to prevent further major maritime disasters; considers that this package should recognise the ecological damage to marine waters in the European legislation;
2015/04/21
Committee: ITRE