24 Amendments of Bernd LANGE related to 2016/2271(INI)
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas energetic efforts to reindustrialise Europe must be pursued with the aim of combining competitiveness and sustainability; reaching the EU´s target that 20 % of the EU GDP should be based on the industry by 2020 which must necessarily take into account the structural transformation of the industrial sector due to the disruption and dematerialisation of business models and the raise of new business models;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas digitalisation leads to a new producer-consumer relation and a raised degree of individualisation on the consumer side;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the digitalisation of industrial manufacturingwhich increasingly links people and machines as well as services across borders within the whole global value chain; notes that a well-designed digitalisation can be an important stepping stone in increasing the resilience, sustainability and competitiveness of our economy;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas digitalisation will lead to changing working conditions and can contribute to safer working conditions, to greater product safety, and to the individualisation and decentralisation of production;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas there is widespread concern as regards the labour market effects of digitalisation in industrial manufacturingdigitalisation causes a big change for the labour market (e.g. liquid work, crowd working, click work and desolidarisation) as well as its possiblefundamental effects on workplace democracy and regional development;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point j
Paragraph 2 – point j
(j) Partnering with other macro- regions in the world in developing innovative and fair digital open marketfair agreements and avoiding that negative effects caused by digitalisation are being transferred to partners;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Underlines that in order to avoid a fragmentation of the European market in the field of digitalisation, a better coordination of national and regional initiatives is highly needed; believes that in this context the exchange of best practices between the European member states is crucial;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Highlights in this context the need to advance investment in connectivity through 5G and fibre optics as an instrument for convergence and ensuring a robust digital infrastructural backbone for Europe’s industry; stresses, that a 50 MBit/s connectivity organized on European level is essential; underlines that due to the fact that data ownership and market power correlate, sufficient open infrastructure for SMEs must be particularly ensured;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. BUnderlines that regions need to focus on their productive strengths and foster their development through Smart Specialisation, Smart Chains and clusters; believes that clusters and synergies between SMEs, industrial players, the skilled crafts sector, start-ups, academia, finance and other stakeholders can be successful models in advancing digital manufacturing and innovation; notes the importance of utilising digitalisation for advancing business model innovations;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Believes that special attention should be devoted to SMEs that are lagging behind in the digitalisation process whose relative gains, in terms of energy and resource efficiency as well production efficiency through already modest digitalisation efforts, are highest; highlights that the promotion of new business models/ smart factories as well as addressing challenges in the field of data ownership and data access is crucial for the participation of SMEs in the transformation process;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Notes that China announced to be Number 1 in the industrial sector in a few years and will do many efforts in particular in the field of digitalisation;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses the importance of financing the digitalisation of Europe’s industry; expresses disappointment that the European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI) has so far invested only 11 % in digital projects; notes that the involvement of the European Structural Funds could support the coordination of the different initiatives in the area of digitalisation;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3
Subheading 3
Securing European technology leadership and security in industrial digitalisation: mergers and acquisitions (M&A), cybersecurity, data sovereignty, standardiszation, liability
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Highlights the fact that external foreign direct investment (FDI) has shown a growing interest in acquiring sensitive European technologies via M&A; calls on the Commission to study the CFIUS (Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States) experience in order to learn from it; underlines that equal market access for investment must be reached by establishing global rules without any protectionist measures;
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Underlines the role of cybersecurity within the digitalisation of Europe’s industry; stresses that today a big part of economic activity in the EU is linked to infringement intensive industries (e.g. copyrights, patents, licenses) and needs to be protected; considers cyber-resilience as crucial and cybersecurity as a core sector for European digitalisation efforts; believes that producers are responsible for ensuring safety and security standards on the basis of the available state of the art technology; notes that cybersecurity requirements for the Internet of Things (IoT) and IT security standards must strengthen European cyber- resilience; believes that European standardisation bodies have a special role to play in this respect;
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Stresses that in order to provide legal certainty and an appropriate framework of rules regarding emerging technologies such as the IoT and autonomous connected systems, the assessing, clarifying and strengthening of liability rules are necessary;
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Stresses the need for clear ownership and monitoring of data sovereignty; believes that industrial data protection and data ownership, especially b2b, play a crucial role and require special attention; notes that open data and open standards can promote new technologies; highlights that SMEs are in the need of an neutral approach concerning digital platforms and a free access to an European Data Cloud;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Stresses that European leadership in industrial digitalisation requires a strong standardisation strategy; recognizes that digital standards are essential for the creation of the European digital single market; believes that only a strict standardization of data streams can ensure effective control; underlines that a lack of strong digital standards especially restrain potential SMEs activities; emphasises the important and unique make-up of Europe’s standardisation bodies, including their inclusive approach; calls on the Commission to promote the development of open standards and welcomes its intention to guarantee access to standard essential patents under FRAND (fair, reasonable, non-discriminatory) conditions; calls for an EU coordinated approach towards international fora and consortia such as the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC);
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Stresses that trade barriers in the field of digitalisation hinder international activity of European industry and harm European competitiveness; believes that fair trade agreements between the EU and third countries can highly contribute to common international rules in the field of data protection, data flows, data use and standardization;
Amendment 312 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Stresses that Europe faces a digital gap in terms of skilleducation, skills and training; underlines that the understanding of skills requirements for new technologies in all sectors is needed in order to ensure a smooth transition to a smart economy; calls for sufficient training rights for workers, underlines that these trainings must not only include digital skills but also the strengthening of self-organisation abilities; calls for the implementation of a skills guarantee and the right to (re-)training and life-long- learning; emphasises the importance of ensuring the promotion of digital skills; calls on industry to grant employees a ‘digital sabbatical’; asks the Commission to launch a pan-European up-skilling initiative;
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Highlights that the European Social Fund can play an essential role for investments in the area of training, self- organisation, workers´ participation, industry and industry linked services in order to address the fundamental social changes entailed by digitalisation;
Amendment 326 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Given the important changes to the working environment due to digitalisation, it is crucial to involve European workers and their representatives in the process in time to ensure that the social dimension of these changes is adequately taken into account; empathises that information and consultation rights of workers´ representation are essential to find solutions and to address upcoming social challenges, stresses, that thanks to co- determination opportunities and challenges of the digitalisation could be anticipated and handled in a positive manner for European workers; highlights that for this purpose the European Work Council Directive (2009/38/EC) and the directive establishing a general framework for informing and consulting employees in the European Community (2002/14/EG) should be modified in order to incorporate the field of digital transformation of the European industry;
Amendment 330 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 b (new)
Paragraph 25 b (new)
25b. Underlines that digitalisation fosters flexibility, mobility and accessibility of workers; empathizes the need to ensure that safety and health in the new work environment are secured and that negative effects on the workers´ work-life-balance are avoided;
Amendment 332 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Recommends the establishment of a regular exchange of best practices, a bi- annual progress review and recommendations on the digitalisation of industry;