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10 Amendments of Leszek MILLER related to 2022/2008(INI)

Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that the new Industrial Strategy was updated to reflect the lessons learned from COVID-19, and that this strategy will be key to enhancing EU competitiveness and overcoming future challenges; recalls that a strong governance system and market surveillance are essential in order to relaunch the single market; calls on the Commission to focus on ensuring that the industrial strategy helps removing unjustified barriers on the single market barriers and avoiding further fragmentation while not losing sight of putting the digital and environmental transitions at the core of the Union's strategies;
2022/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Underlines that strengthening the resilience of the Single Market can only deliver benefits for all Member States and their citizens if focusing to consumer rights as well as the needs of businesses, including SMEs, micro enterprises and start-ups;
2022/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls on the Commission to further assess the pandemic related disruptions in cross-border value-chains as the industrial strategy must provide the completion of value chains in certain industries in order to achieve the strategic autonomy of the EU; also recalls that in order to achieve strategic autonomy the green and digital transitions must be accelerated across the EU;
2022/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Recalls that the leadership of European industries in strategic sectors should be maintained and developed also by the implementation of the New Industrial Strategy, especially for those sectors that proved to be essential during the COVID-19 pandemic; underlines that during the pandemic, the supply chains of the food and pharmaceutical sectors have been massively disrupted; recalls that the European food industry must be further strengthened to prevent imbalances in the European food supply chain and to ensure EU food sovereignty; recalls that EU manufacturers and producers need more support in order to achieve the economic independence of third countries and to guarantee European self- sufficiency at pharmaceutical and medical production;
2022/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Stresses that EU industrial competitiveness relies on a fully functioning Single Market, therefore, also underlines the importance of the barrier- free transport; recalls the usefulness of the EU ad-hoc measures at the pandemic period, but also underlines the necessity to avoid uncoordinated national or regional restrictions, including border controls and closures, restricting the free movement of persons, goods and services in the future as those - inter alia - led to major disruptions of supply chains in many industrial ecosystems as well as to difficulties for cross border or seasonal workers;
2022/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Acknowledges the European standardisation strategy and underlines that standardsharmonised standards can increase economic, societal and environmental welfare, including the health and safety of consumers and workers, therefore those are essential for a well- functioning single market, global competitiveness and the green and digital transitions;
2022/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines the need to strengthen the competitiveness of SMEs and industry by addressing supply risks, dependencies, disruptions and vulnerabilities, especially in the green and digital economies; stresses that effective public procurement will lead to more jobs, growth and innovative investmentpublic investment hand in hand with an effective public procurement can play an important role in supporting more jobs, sustainable growth and innovative investments; recalls that also in public tenders social and ecological criteria must be equated with economic ones;
2022/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Reiterates the need to enhance European strategic autonomy by investing in skills, digital infrastructures and key technologies such as AI, cybersecurity, 5G and 6G, microprocessors and semiconductors, high-performance computing and quantum technologies, as well as data economy, smart and 3D production; Underlines that rural areas and outermost regions must also profit from these investments;
2022/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls the commitments to increase R&D investments to 3 % of GDP and to develop a single market for research and innovation; underlines that R&D investment should also focus on all industrial sectors and not just the manufacturing sector; underlines that industrial alliances and public-private partnerships are important to develop breakthrough technologies; calls on the Commission to ensure consistency and synergy in all initiatives, funding and regulatory instruments supporting industry;
2022/04/06
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Reminds that amongst the ecosystems tourism was hit hardest, and several other ecosystems also face a slow recovery, while the digital ecosystem increased its turnover during the crisis; recalls that in addition to vertical ecosystems, there is a need to have horizontal approaches, such as on enabling technologies, and that the digital ecosystem must be integrated with all other industrial ecosystems horizontally.
2022/04/06
Committee: IMCO