20 Amendments of Marc BOTENGA related to 2022/2008(INI)
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas industrial strategy can allow society to decide democratically on what to produce where at what conditions, making industry a formidable asset for people and planet; rather than leave these decisions to the market and amount to little more than a massive transfer of public subsidies, funding the profits of private corporations; calls on the Commission to ensure that its industrial strategy prioritizes social and climate imperatives over competitiveness and the needs of multinational corporations;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas any fair and sustainable production model should place workers and trade unions, as well as workers interests and long-standing expertise at the very core of its development to ensure a democratic functioning;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas a long-standing focus on competitiveness and market-based approaches has proven unable to solve divergence between and within Member States and regions, reinforcing the de- industrialization of entire regions and causing the loss of numerous jobs; whereas only a strong public industrial strategy can guarantee equal, sustainable and just industrial development, including high quality jobs, and ambitious social and environmental objectives;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomNotes the update of the industrial strategy; stresses that for the Green Deal to be a true growth strategy, reduce dependencies and maintain a level playing field for European industry during the transitiontruly address the climate emergency, it needs to be accompanied by ambitious industrial policy addressing the social emergency;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Highlights that EU industrial policy must address and support the need for structural change in order to guarantee high-quality and equal working conditions and employment;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls on the Commission to fully include workers and trade unions at every stage of the development and implementation of EU Industrial Strategy;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines that the EU cannot be dependent on non-EU countries for products and technologies that are essential to our economy and for our society of the future; stresses that the EU needs to regain a strong position in crucial global value chains and secure the supply of critical materials in times of crisisfor essential and strategic products and technologies the EU needs to build and guarantee a strong public industrial basis in line with ambitious public social and climate planning; highlights that in a global economy, economic interdependence is inevitable; stresses therefore that fair trade, equal partnerships and cooperation for mutual benefit with third countries are essential;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to present clear transition pathways for the industrial ecosystem as soon as possible, including by identifying the needs for a successful transition in terms of infrastructure, technologies and skills; calls on the Commission to ensure consistency and coordination across all initiatives, objectives, funding and regulatory instruments that will supportmake industry through than asset for the social and climate transitions; calls for annual monitoring and reporting on the competitiveness and resilience of our industrial ecosystems and on their contribution to - and progress made on - the transition pathways, so that instrumentregulations can be adapted swiftly whenever needed to reach social and environmental objectives;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that the EU is outperformed by other economic powers in research and development (R&D) expenditures as a percentage of GDP; reiterates the importance of an ambitious level of investment in R&D; regrets that the target of 3 % of GDP investments in R&D has still not been achieved in the vast majority of Member Statesis concerned about a lack of fair return on public investment; regrets the continuous decline in efficiency of the current innovation system due in part to data silos and the fragmentation of knowledge; calls on the Commission to promote and support open science partnerships as a mechanism to reverse this decline and promote innovation, avoiding restrictive forms of intellectual property to facilitate use and sharing;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Acknowledges that intellectual property rights, notably trade secrets, can hamper or delay future research; calls on the Commission to promote an innovation ecosystem better set up for using collective intelligence to accelerate advances, making wider use of open science, patent pools and compulsory licensing ; Calls on the Commission to support measures favouring open science in order to accelerate the sharing of data and research results within the scientific community in Europe and beyond;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the Commission’s announcement issuing guidance on public procurement; stresses that public procurement is an essentialimportant instrument for national and economic security and for supporting the uptake of and demand for clean productof industrial policy and should serve social and environmental development objectives; calls, in this regard, on the Commission to review public procurement and competition rules where needed;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Considers that EU industrial policy must embrace public investment strategies that promote the recovery of quality employment and manufacturing opportunities throughout the Union, in order to support the equal and sustainable development of all EU regions, particularly in strategic sectors such as health, transport, digitalisation and energy; calls on the Commission to promote public investment to create high- quality jobs and achieve ambitious social and environmental goals;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that public funds come with strong social conditionalities; highlights that emergency public support measures are incompatible with the use of tax havens and the payment of dividends to shareholders, and shall comply with strict environmental and social conditionalities, amongst which safeguarding existing jobs;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses the need for regulatory stability and predictability; calls on the Commission to include roadmaps in the transition pathways to reduce administrative burdens for European businesses, especially SMEs, by at least 30 %; stresses thguarantee fair taxation, tackle tax evasion, including by supporting a global financial register and a harmonised 25% minimum effective tax rate ‘one in, one out’ principle big multinational companies;
Amendment 231 #
11. Underlines the regional dimension of industrial policy and the role of regional smart specialisation strategies; calls on the Commission to include instruments to increase the use of ‘Made in EU’ at a regional levelin terms of employment, economic and industrial development throughout the territory of Member States; calls on the Commission to support the equal development of EU territories within the Union, and guarantee a strong public industrial basis and production in line with ambitious social and climate planning;
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to stimulatguarantee the production of affordable and abundant renewable and low-carbon energy; callsrenewable energy, notably through the promotion of massive public investment plans; calls therefore on the Commission to increase the coordination of the planning and financing for eneeded electricity, energy, hydrogen, CO2 and heating/cooling infrastructurergy efficiency and renewable energy, notably green hydrogen; notes that public subsidies for investments in fossil gas, low-carbon energy and gray hydrogen are incompatible with Union climate objectives, including the Paris Agreement;
Amendment 320 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Is strongly concerned about unfair competition, investments Considers that certain strategic sectors are too importandt takeovers by non-EU state-financed companies on the single market, especially in strategic sectors; calls on the Commission to analyse and prevent this interferenceo be left to the market or in the hands of a few multinational corporations; calls on the Commission to offer a comprehensive assessment of sectors concerned and potential remedies;
Amendment 326 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Maintains that a truly effective European industrial policy needs not only a dashboard of social, but also of climate targets as a roadmap to shape the industry of the future; considers that all sectors should contribute towards achieving the Union’s climate objectives and, in this regard, underlines the importance of green hydrogen as a potential breakthrough technology; calls also for greater attention to be paid to network security and energy supply; calls on the Commission to promote the transfer of crucial environmental technologies to developing countries by granting free or open licenses for such technologies in order to facilitate the green transition on a global scale;
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Calls on the Commission to develop a mechanism to guarantee maximum transparency in production and supply chains in strategic sectors, including in regard to stocks and potential shortages; calls for an early warning system for shortages, based on a European information network on supply problems, to monitor the obligation on the part of industry to provide early and transparent information on the availability of strategic products, such as medicinal products;
Amendment 343 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to examine the possibility of creating one or more European public or non-profit consortiums and/or infrastructures operating in the public interest in order to complete and guarantee security of supply and prevent possible shortages of products of strategic importance; recalls the essential role that new technologies, digitalisation and artificial intelligence can play in enabling researchers from European laboratories to work in a network and share their objectives and their results, while fully respecting the European Data Protection Framework;