Activities of Alessandra MORETTI related to 2020/2076(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on a New Industrial Strategy for Europe
Amendments (38)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the EU industrial sector, while hav should be supported ing the potential to contribute to environmental protection, has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic and needs support for its recoveryst-COVID- 19 recovery in a way that leads to a strong, more sustainable and competitive industry, with all sectors contributing to the objective of achieving climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest and to the protection of the environment;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the new European Industrial Strategy should be an enabler of a just transition to a climate neutral, circular and zero-pollution economy;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas getting the Industrial Strategy right as an integral part of the European Green Deal will boost jobs and economic opportunities, safeguard our climate and environment for future generations and become an era-defining policy that will help rebuild a sustainable European economy;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas non-EU competitors often take advantage of less the Union can exert considerable influence in global climate and environmental action via its internal market and green diplomacy, as well as by demonstratingent climate and environmental regulations and lower labour costsleadership while also supporting the development of future-proof industries and high standards for social protection;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to consider the impact of COVID-19 by eventually reviewing targets to facilitate industrial recovery, in defining the features of a future looking industrial strategy, the unprecedented economic impacts caused by COVID-19; highlights that the European Green Deal should be continued to be used as Europe’s strategy for growth; calls on the Commission to carefully analyse any attempts to delay implementation of existing targets and limit these only to cases where it can be clearly established that the implementation of these targets has been significantly affected by COVID-19;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Highlights the need for a green and fair recovery following the COVID-19 crisis in order to support sustainable economic growth in the EU, increasing investments in the digital and green transitions; calls on the Member States to support the creation of an ambitious Recovery plan with the Next Generation EU in the framework of a stronger MFF and the creation of new own resources; emphasises that the use of the recovery funds should be fully in line with the Union’s climate and environmental objectives and drive forward the green transition;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Highlights the importance of strengthening fiscal policy coordination and the European fiscal framework in the economic recovery of the Union; is of the opinion that, after the peak of the pandemic, the Recovery Fund should become a permanent Reconstruction Fund to foster the digital and the green industrial transitions;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Stresses that all sectors and industrial value chains, and in particular the energy-intensive sectors, will have a key role to play in achieving the objectives of the European Green Deal through the reduction of their own carbon footprints but also accelerating the transition by providing affordable and clean technology solutions, by developing and creating value chains for economically viable and sustainable products and processes and by developing new sustainable business models;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Recalls that the green transition should be fair and socially just, with no one left behind; stresses that just transition and reduction of inequalities should be mainstreamed in social, economic and environmental policies at all levels; highlights the importance of ensuring ambitious funding for the Just Transition Fund, which should particularly contribute to the creation of sustainable jobs and the upskilling and reskilling of workers;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1e. Stresses that the EU Industrial Strategy is not solely about enabling the transition of energy-intensive industries, but about creating a broader sustainable industrial base, including the SMEs, which are an important part of the European economy;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 f (new)
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1f. Maintains that the Industrial Strategy must also identify ways in which SMEs can contribute to greenhouse gas emission reductions and environmental protection in the EU, complementing the efforts and policies already in place and providing additional tools in order to enable them to keep up and contribute to the green transition of the industry to a climate neutral economy;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that, while forcing its industries and citizens t the green transition goes hand in hand with just transition, ensuring no contribute to extremely ambitious climate goals, the EU should strive for sustainability without compromising competitiveness ande is left behind; supports the establishment of ambitious climate goals for 2030 and 2040 in addition to the climate neutrality goal; believes that the EU should strive for sustainability and strengthen its competitiveness, while ensuring a high level of socio- economic well-being for discriminating against any technology that contributes to the transall and reduction of inequalitiones;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Underlines that a truly effective European Industrial Strategy and policy needs to be built on ambitious climate action and targets on the basis of the Climate law, providing a roadmap to shape the industry of the future with all sectors contributing to reach the objective of climate neutrality as early as possible and at the latest by 2050;
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Stresses that all sectors and industrial value chains, and in particular the energy-intensive ones, will have a key role to play in achieving the objectives of the European Green Deal through the reduction of their carbon footprints but also through accelerating the transition by providing affordable and clean technology solutions, by developing and creating value chains for economically viable, sustainable products and processes and by developing new sustainable business models;
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Recalls that the green transition should be fair and socially just, with no one left behind; stresses that just transition and reduction of inequalities should be mainstreamed in social, economic and environmental policies at all levels; highlights the importance of ensuring ambitious funding for the Just Transition Fund, which should particularly contribute to the creation of sustainable jobs and the upskilling and reskilling of workers;
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2d. Stresses that the EU Industrial Strategy is not solely about enabling the transition of energy-intensive industries, but about creating a broader sustainable industrial base, including the SMEs, which are an important part of the European economy;
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 e (new)
Paragraph 2 e (new)
2e. Maintains that the Industrial Strategy must also identify ways in which SMEs can contribute to greenhouse gas emission reductions and environmental protection in the EU;
Amendment 143 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for coherent EU policies to reduce overlaps and improve the enforcement of existing legislation, and for simplified EU funding in light of the difficulties experienced inUnderlines that EU policies should be coherent across sectors, aim to reduce overlaps and promote synergies; emphasises the importance of climate and environmental mainstreaming in all policy sectors; calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure correct implementation and effective enforcement of existing legislation; considers that access to EU funding should be facilitated particular by micro-ly for SMEs;
Amendment 147 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that the European Industrial Strategy should also ensure that clear, comprehensive and easily accessible information is made available on the status of European industry, particularly all information relevant to understand the health and environmental impacts of industrial production;
Amendment 152 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls for ambitious climate and biodiversity mainstreaming in the next MFF in order to support the decarbonisation of European societies and economies as well as the protection and restoration of biodiversity; considers it important to promote sustainability throughout all the production chains through public and private financing sources; emphasises also the importance of climate and biodiversity-proofing investments, including the funds from the MFF and the Recovery plan ensuring that Union funds are not used in a way contrary to its climate or environmental objectives; calls on the Member States to phase out all direct and indirect fossil fuel subsidies by 2020 so as to fulfil the EU’s climate commitments;
Amendment 157 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for a predictable intellectual property framework as this is key to incentivising investments and the promotion of innovative solutionunitary supplementary protection certificate which would ensure equal intellectual property (IP) protection to innovative pharma across the EU while upholding generic producers’ rights to manufacture for third countries where the supplementary protection has expired and to ensure Day-1 Entry of generic and biosimilar medicines contributing, io the Union pmarticular, to reducing GHG1 emissions; __________________ 1ket after the expiry of the relevant supplementary protection certificate; Greenhouse gas emissions
Amendment 160 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take action to restore European health sovereignty and local pharmaceutical manufacturing, giving priority to essential and strategic medicines to be defined and identified by public authorities at EU level in close cooperation with Member States and to preserve an attractive ecosystem for R&D in the pharmaceutical sector; stresses that the strategy should encourage producers to re-locate in the EU the production of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), medicine and compound manufacturing, packaging and distribution;
Amendment 166 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Observes that any initiative on restoring European health sovereignty and local pharmaceutical manufacturing in this sense should incorporate public safeguards, such as transparency regarding public contributions and clauses on accessibility and affordability of manufactured medicines to ensure they are equally available at a fair price;
Amendment 167 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to create one or more European non-profit pharmaceutical undertakings which operate in the public interest to address the issue of medicine shortages and contribute to the availability of medicines on the markets of different Member States;
Amendment 171 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that a global level playing field is needed; calls for a revision of the EU ETS2 and a CBAM3 to allow for a smart reshoring of manufacturing and shorter value chains, and toin line with the increased climate targets; stresses the need in particular to increase the linear reduction factor and reduce the free allocation of allowances to reflect technical progress; highlights the role of a CBAM3 in avoiding carbon leakage; __________________ 2 EU Emissions Trading System 3 Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
Amendment 181 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for better coordinated FTAs4 to foster consistency between trade, climate and environmental protection, customs, market surveillance and industrial policies; calls for prioritising the implementation of, in particular, thealso for the establishment of enforceable trade and sustainable development chapters in all trade agreements; stresses the importance of the implementation of EU regulations on product safety for imported products.; __________________ 4 Free Trade Agreements
Amendment 185 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Recalls that according to the Industrial Strategy, applying circular economy principles in all sectors and industries has potential to create 700,000 new jobs across the EU by 2030, many of which in SMEs; stresses that the Union’s industrial policy has to be fully aligned with the new Circular Economy Action Plan and ensure the transition of the European economy to a non-toxic circular economy;
Amendment 196 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Highlights that in order to improve circularity of the economy, demand-side measures such as promotion of sustainable consumption and increasing the use of green public procurement are only one side of the coin, and that significant efforts will have to be made to increase resource efficiency and circularity in production processes; calls on the Commission to set clear targets and legislative frameworks to this effect; welcomes in this regard the announcement of a Sustainable product policy framework and the establishment of mandatory recycled content requirements;
Amendment 202 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Calls on the Commission to set up ambitious sector-specific targets for improving resource efficiency, starting from the most resource-intensive sectors; considers that roadmaps that would guide the transition of the different sectors towards circularity should also be established and prepared in cooperation with industry associations, companies, trade unions, civil society and academia; underlines the importance of having in place a clear monitoring framework that provides comprehensive and publicly available information on progress made;
Amendment 209 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6d. Welcomes the intention of the Commission to set a more strategic approach for renewable energy industries; considers that these industries should be fully supported given their key role in decarbonising the energy systems and achieving climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest; highlights also the importance of following the energy- efficiency first principle to reduce energy demand;
Amendment 218 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 e (new)
Paragraph 6 e (new)
6e. Stresses that in the Union’s future actions on hydrogen, clear priority should be given to the development of renewable- based green hydrogen over other fossil fuels based forms;
Amendment 219 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 f (new)
Paragraph 6 f (new)
6f. Stresses that the sustainable and smart mobility industries have both the potential and responsibility to drive the digital and environmental transitions, to support Europe’s industrial competitiveness and to improve connectivity in particular in the automotive, aerospace, rail and ship building industries; calls on the Commission and Member States to increase investments in zero-emission mobility and resilient and secure transport infrastructures, in particular high-speed networks, and to further support the development of sustainable alternative fuels;
Amendment 222 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 g (new)
Paragraph 6 g (new)
6g. Underlines the importance of developing sustainable battery value chains for current and future electro- mobility needs; stresses that the new regulatory framework for batteries should fully incorporate sustainability requirements such as targets for reuse and recycling, and sustainable and socially responsible sourcing of raw materials; calls on the Commission and Member States to foster investments in a competitive and sustainable battery manufacturing sector providing a framework which includes secure access to raw materials, support for technological innovation, and consistent rules on battery production in line with the requirements of a the circular economy;
Amendment 225 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 h (new)
Paragraph 6 h (new)
6h. Highlights that the industry should fully contribute to the protection of biodiversity and the environment; points out that over half of global GDP depends on nature and the services it provides, with several sectors highly reliant on nature; notes that more than 90% of biodiversity loss and water stress come from resource extraction and processing; emphasises that the European industrial policy should be in line with the objectives of the 2030 Biodiversity strategy and respect the precautionary and polluter- pays principles;
Amendment 229 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 i (new)
Paragraph 6 i (new)
6i. Points out that industry is still a major contributor to environmental pollution with releases of pollutants to air, water and soil; underlines the role of the Industrial Emissions Directive in setting up obligations for large installations to minimise releases of pollutants; looks forward to the upcoming zero-pollution action plan for air, water and soil and the revision of the Industrial Emissions Directive that should lead to a significant reduction of industrial pollution;
Amendment 231 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 j (new)
Paragraph 6 j (new)
6j. Underlines that the European Industrial Strategy should be fully aligned with the upcoming Chemicals strategy for sustainability on the basis of elimination of hazardous substances and substitution to safer alternatives with particular emphasis on reducing and preventing exposure to chemicals such as endocrine disruptors, in order to protect human health and the environment;
Amendment 234 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 k (new)
Paragraph 6 k (new)
6k. Stresses the need to foster innovation in the chemical industry and acknowledges that the chemical industry is able to provide multiple low carbon solutions; stresses that promoting innovation and minimising the exposure of humans and the environment to hazardous chemicals are key elements in the transition from a linear to a circular and sustainable chemical industry, which would give to this pivotal sector for the European economy a major competitive advantage;
Amendment 237 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 l (new)
Paragraph 6 l (new)
6l. Calls on the European Commission and Member States to develop policies to facilitate and promote safe and sustainable chemical manufacturing in Europe, bringing back strategic value chains such as Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) and disinfectants, in order to regain controls in this strategic area and to reduce Europe’s dependence on third countries to ensure a secure access and avoid medicine shortages;