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16 Amendments of Bernd LANGE related to 2014/2211(INI)

Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the European coal and steel sector has played an historically significant role in the European integration process and forms the basis for the generation of European industrial value added and for European value chains;
2015/07/15
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas involving workers in innovation and restructuring measures is the best way to guarantee economic success;
2015/07/15
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas fair trade in steel products can likewise only work in accordance with basic employment rights and environmental standards;
2015/07/15
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas global protectionism in the steel industry is increasing, and third countries are gaining artificial competitive advantages through a range of different instruments;
2015/07/15
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas only an ambitious innovation policy which clears the way for the development of high-quality, energy- efficient and innovative products (such as high-strength yet flexible steels) and new production processes will enable the EU to hold its own in the face of ever more severe global competition;
2015/07/15
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that undertakings in third countries that form part of the value chain must also act in line with the EU’s climate and energy targets and take account of progress on energy efficiency in particular;
2015/07/15
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on the Commission to ensure that future trade agreements include provisions which significantly improve export opportunities and market access for European steel and steel-based products;
2015/07/15
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Border adjustment – a temporary and flexible measuredeleted
2015/07/15
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission to introduce an equivalent policy on CO2 reduction in trade agreements with partners and to take the burden of CO2 reductions into account in market access arrangements so that no distortions of competition arise;
2015/07/15
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Highlights the fact that an international agreement on combating climate change that creates circumstances of fair competition for all base metal producers would render border adjustment unnecessary;deleted
2015/07/15
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that by taking both imports and exports into account, the adjustment mechanism brings European regulation closer to a consumption-based territorial approach and that this kind of bottom-up approach has the advantage of offering a universal solution that enables each state to decide in a sovereign manner how ambitious its climate policy is to be;deleted
2015/07/15
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Maintains that the climate policy objectives of protecting the life and health of humans, animals and plants, and of the conservation of finite natural resources, are consonant with the exceptions set out in Article XX of the WTO Agreement; specifies that the global nature of the climate issue, and the fact that an atmosphere with a low carbon content (clean air) is a global public good, means that it is already viewed as a natural resource that can be exhausted;deleted
2015/07/15
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3
A carbon content for each product subject to emissions tradingdeleted
2015/07/15
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Notes that knowing the carbon content, which is assessed on an industry- wide basis, is essential for building an international system for combating greenhouse gas emissions; points out that the establishing of border adjustment measures is thus the precursor of an international system to combat CO2 emissions;deleted
2015/07/15
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Calls on the Council to press ahead quickly with the modernisation of trade defence instruments (TDI), in order to ensure that an appropriate response to unfair practices can finally be put in place and the European market can be protected against dumping;
2015/07/15
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21b. Calls on the Commission to take decisive action against the misuse of trade defence instruments (TDI) worldwide as an indirect trade barrier;
2015/07/15
Committee: ITRE