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60 Amendments of Dragoş PÎSLARU related to 2020/2076(INI)

Amendment 16 #
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas the Union requires a new industrial strategy that makes its industries more globally competitive, resilientinnovative, inclusive, resilient, digitalised and environmentally sustainable; whereas such a strategy should cover the transition of European industries to digitalisation and climate-neutrality, strengthen European leadership and competitiveness and decrease dependency from other parts of the world in strategic value chains, while preserving an open market, prioritising the ‘energy efficiency first’ principles, energy savings and decarbonised and renewable energy technologies;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
D a. Whereas large scale unemployment during the COVID-19 pandemic affected in particular seasonal workers and those in vulnerable situations;
2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Recital E a (new)
E a. Whereas Eurostat statistics1a show that almost half of the Europeans in age group 25-64 do not wish to participate in education and training, with 77,8% of them believing they need no further education or training, becoming thus vulnerable to shocks and unaware of the role changes and the professional pathways that they might have in the future; __________________ 1a https://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/s ubmitViewTableAction.do
2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas the Union’s industrial strategy should ensure the correctfull functioning of the single market, create a level playing field inside and outside EU in particular by making reciprocal access to markets a principle and ensure easier access to finance, raw materials and markets, in addition to ensuring appropriate levels of investment, research and innovation, education and skills to boost competitiveness and sustainability;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Highlights that digitalization, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, cyber security, innovation and development of measures for sustainable industries are essential for creating better social cohesion, achieving the European green deal objectives and ensuring EU’s competitiveness.
2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Stresses the importance of cross border and seasonal workers for the provision of services as a key component of the economic recovery effort and calls for measures aimed at encouraging their mobility and protecting their labour rights, including a better implementation of existing legislation;
2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Urges the European Commission to address the problems of cross border and seasonal workers in acquiring their social entitlements due to lack of portability of entitlements for workers via a swift adoption of the revision to the Social Security Coordination Regulation and the implementation of coordinated digital solutions at Member States level while enhancing and streamlining solutions against fraud of any kind;
2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic and its fallout have created an unprecedented economic downturn in Europe; whereas, all sectors of the economy have been impacted ,in particular SMEs across sectors, and some have come to a complete standstill; this is particularly the case for the tourism and catering industry, the creative and cultural industry, but also for more traditional industries (automotive, building, space, aeronautics, aluminium, steel, textiles, etc.); whereas in this context any future- looking industrial strategy should start by addressing industrial recovery while taking into account industrial long-term objectives;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Welcomes the financial relief provided by the Commission in saving jobs via the SURE programme and further partnerships between employment services, social partners and companies to facilitate reskilling, especially for seasonal workers in all job types in the tourism industry;
2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Welcomes the proposal for an EU Recovery plan presented by the Commission on 27 May 2020, which includes a reinforced long-term budget of the EU (MFF 2021-2027) and a new recovery instrument of 750 billion euros- Next Generation EU, highlights in this sense the importance of investments in industrial sectors particularly hit by the crisis through the Recovery and Resilience Facility which will allow the development of a strategy for sustainable and competitive industrial policy across the EU;
2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2 c. Highlights the need for the European industry based on ecosystems that rely on entrepreneurial discovery and invest in the creation of start-ups and new SMEs that will reinforce smart specialization and provide the ambition for business growth and expansion; considers that developing entrepreneurial skills is a key factor for building resilience, since several regions in the EU still witness a low survival rate of newly established start-ups and SMEs; stresses the need to boost the next generation of entrepreneurs in order to ensure the emergence of fast growing firms and unicorns helping Europe to have a significant impact on the global industrial landscape.
2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic, that has led to a shortage of medical devices and medicinal products, has once again revealed that Europe is over- dependent on foreign imports of raw materials and particularly for strategic sectors;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas the economic downturn demonstrated the crucial role played by social shields in the event of economic shocks and the importance of ensuring access to social protection for all, especially for young, atypical or vulnerable workers;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Underlines that the EU industrial strategy should be developed together with skilling, reskilling and upskilling policies aimed at the development of the right skills for the shift to sustainable ways of production and service delivery, in line with the EU commitments to achieve climate-neutral economy by 2050.
2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Is of the opinion that digital and environmental transitions and strategic leadership and autonomy should be at the very core of all Unions strategies until 2050; in this context, calls on the Commission to define a comprehensive industrial strategy which manages these transitions, fosters transformation and guarante, creates long-term growth and global competitiveness based on innovation and strategic value chains, strengthens the entrepreneurial spirit, encourages the creation and upscaling of start-ups and companies and improves the Union’s strategic resilience and autonomy;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 118 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that the ability to recruit and retain a qualified workforce is essential to a competitive EU industry; considers education in future-oriented sectors, skills and competences, particularly as regards Vocational Education Training and digital skills, to be essential to address current skills shortages; believes that lifelong learning is a prerequisite to ensure efficient and timely upskilling and reskilling of workers and should be an integral part of the EU Industrial Strategy; calls, in this regard, on the Commission to ensure complementarity between the aims of the new Industrial Strategy and the anticipated updated Skills Agenda for Europe; by focusing on concrete measures and coordinated strategies for adults in order to allow them to reinforce their skills and qualifications to fit modern market requirements, demands and transitions;
2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. ICalls for an inclusive industrial strategy that include all industrial ecosystems, SMEs, regions, communities and workers in its development and its implementation; is aware that market dynamics alone do not bridge the fractures created during the transformation process if there is no proper management of the transitions and no strong industrial policies; is, furthermore, aware that while markets, competition and innovation push fast towards transformation, it is society and the environment that face the impact of these transformations; considers that balancing out the number of jobs lost in traditional industries with new jobs created in the digital and environmental sectors is not enough in itself as these new jobs are neither created in the same regions nor taken up by the same workers; calls on the Commission, therefore, to ensure that these transitions are fair and socially just, and that every action aimed at accelerating a transformation process (digital, environmental, etc.) is accompanied by a corresponding initiative to up-skill and reskill workers, with the aim of managing the effects produced by that accelerated process on both regions and peoplEuropean production of essential products such as emission-intensive materials is transformed into a cleaner alternative rather than replaced by imports of the same products and that these transitions are fair and socially just, go hand-in-hand with the full implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights, improved social and living standards and good working conditions, and that every action aimed at accelerating a transformation process (digital, environmental, etc.) is accompanied by a corresponding initiative to up-skill and reskill workers, with the aim of managing the effects produced by that accelerated process on both regions and the most vulnerable people; calls on the Commission and the Member States to anticipate and map the industry needs for skilled labour in order to deliver skills strategies that overcome labour demand and supply mismatch, to develop knowledge-based economy that empowers citizens to adapt and accelerate the digital and environmental transition; call on the Commission to make full use of and increase the amounts allocated to the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund to financially support workers made redundant, as a result of restructuring due to Covid19 or due to the digital and environmental transformations, in their retraining, re-skilling and reintegration into the labour market in sectors of the future;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 126 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Acknowledges that skills shortages are among the biggest challenges faced by businesses today, which impedes production and growth; believes that businesses are key actors in fostering the development of skills and competences; calls on the EU and the Member States to encourage and support better cooperation between educational institutions and firms to provide the new skills for new occupations and sectors that will emerge from transitioning to sustainable, digital and green economy.
2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 129 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Stresses the need for a faster integration into the labour market of young apprentices via high quality, paid internship; calls on the Member States to promote the VET educational culture from the time of primary education, in which trades are appreciated and the VET educational path becomes a desirable and predictable path;
2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 132 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Emphasizes the role of accessibility of learning activities in creating a lifelong learning culture; calls on the European Commission to develop and encourage more opportunities to access lifelong learning activities, such as universities programs for adults and seniors, public learning centers, vouchers for learning activities, public Massive Open Online Courses, more funds for CSOs in the educational area, career transitions funds and activities.
2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 133 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Stresses that high-skilled and specialised workers are major resource for innovation and competitiveness; calls on the Commission and the Member States to enhance the mobility within the internal market, removing all remaining obstacles, ensuring the portability and full recognition of skills and professional qualifications and effective protection of the social security right of mobile people within the EU;
2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 136 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4 c. Welcomes the work of the European Training Foundation (ETF), especially on vocational education, in fostering mobility and helping partner countries operating their transitions and developing human capital through the reform of their education and training systems and labour market; calls for more cooperation on insights, information sharing and best practices among CEDEFOP, EUROFOUND, the EEAS and Commission.
2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 137 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4 c. Considers that urgent actions are needed in order satisfy the current and future demand for qualified workers; calls on the EU and the Member States to improve and further develop the policies for attracting researchers, high performing students and highly-skilled workers from third countries.
2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 139 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4 d. Calls for a better forecast of the European Commission of the skills needed across sectors and industry to adapt to the change required by a new green economy and in particular to provide models for the employment effects of decarbonizing scenarios; encourages the European Commission to continue the consultation process of all relevant stakeholders, including VET providers, universities, public employment services, companies, trade unions, local and regional authorities.
2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 140 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4 d. Believes that the New Industrial Strategy should take into account SME’s diversity in terms of size, age or sector; furthermore, acknowledges that the green and digital transformations may pose a challenge for some SMEs; calls on the Commission and the Members States to provide more support for the upfront investments required by circular and greener business models and to remove any existing administrative burdens that SMEs face.
2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 142 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 e (new)
4 e. Highlights that EU citizens and businesses across the EU should have equal opportunities to profit from the industrial transformations; calls on the EU and the Member States to ensure that the transition towards more digital, innovative and sustainable industries boost economic growth and prosperity and does not lead to exclusion or social and geographic polarisation.
2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Considers, in the current context, that the Union requires a new, tailor-made industrial strategy that focuses on two distinct phases; the first aimed at recovery and the second aimed at reconstruction and transformation; considers nevertheless that the investments which, from the recovery phase onwards, support and accelerate the digital and environmental transformation and strengthen the autonomy of the Union should be encouraged; calls on the Commission, therefore, to adapt the strategy published in March 2020 to the current situation and address both phases, while keeping the digital and environmental objectives, the Union’s sovereignty and its strategic autonomy as priorities throughout;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 152 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Calls on the European Commission to propose an ambitious update of the European Digital Education Action Plan, one that democratises distance learning, includes lifelong learning, and non formal education, ensures better funding to make the digital skills an absolute priority and increases cooperation amongst Member States; calls on the European Commission to explore the acute role and potential of teleworking and telelearning in the public and private sector, while leaving no one behind.
2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Considers, in the current context, that the Union requires a new, tailor-made industrial strategy that focuses on two distinct phases; the first aimed at recovery and the second aimed at reconstruction and transformation; calls on the Commission, therefore, to adapt the strategy published in March 2020 to the current situation and address both phases, while keeping the digital and environmental objectives as priorities throughout; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take into account when granting funds that the recovery phase represents an opportunity to accelerate the transformation of our industries towards a greener, innovative, inclusive and sovereign Europe;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses the importance of coherent and coordinated EU approach in supporting European industries, in particular SMEs and safeguarding the employment in Europe for preserving and strengthening the Single market to the benefit of European citizens and businesses;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 171 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Stresses the responsibility of local authorities in social protection and reiterates the loss of a significant part of their income during the transition period; Calls on the Member States to support an extended social protection package of measures, including guaranteed minimum income, unemployment benefits, family support allowance, heating allowance, social allowance for pensioners, scholarships for students, payment of internships, and aid for people with disabilities; calls on the European Commission to ensure the sufficient funds and efficient mechanism through ESF+, the JTF and others.
2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the measures taken by the Union to deal with the COVID-19 crisis, the injection of liquidity by the ECB, the relaxation of the rules of the Stability Pact, the increase in the EIB’s capital for SMEs and the SURE initiative to help Member States finance short-time working arrangements, maintain employment and protect workers; welcomes the Temporary State Aid framework as a way to promptly transfer liquidity where urgently needed; calls on the Commission nonetheless to ensure that the aid provided in the emergency phase is justified by the consequences of the pandemic, does not lead to permanent distortions in the single market; and that no strategic sector is neglected;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Welcomes the Commission proposal to create a new recovery instrument, Next Generation EU of €750 billion; calls for an ambitious and stronger long-term EU budget for 2021- 2027, having regard to the Resolution of the European Parliament on the new multiannual financial framework, own resources and the recovery plan (2020/2631(RSP));
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Welcomes the identification of 14 ecosystems by the Commission and the inclusive approach of bringing together all actors operating in a value chain in order to promote European leadership in strategic sectors and competitiveness on the global stage; underlines the need to ensure that SME will thrive within each ecosystem;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Welcomes the enhanced InvestEU, with its new window on strategic investments that should play a key role in the first phase of recovery for the strategic autonomy of the EU;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls for a rapid reform of European competition policy to enable the creation of European leaders in the global market; considers urgent for the Union to review its definition of the relevant market, which must be analysed at global level so that it no longer constitutes a barrier to the global competitiveness of our industries;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Is of the opinion that the industrial recovery plan should help to create new ambitious and innovative European industrial projects which go hand in hand with the current revision of the guidelines for ‘Important Projects of Common European Interest’ (IPCEI), in order to encourage the emergence of European leaders in strategic industrial sectors that are capable of competing on a global scale and to facilitate the participation of SMEs in future IPCEIs; calls on the Commission to consider a revision of its 2014 guidelines to include the resilience of strategic value chains in the common European interest and European sovereignty in strategic areas as criteria for defining IPCEIs; calls in particular for the health value chain to be swiftly structured within an IPCEI covering health products essential to fighting ongoing and future sanitary crises (PPEs, MDs, antibiotics, vaccines…) as well as innovative health products (biotechnologies, e-health);
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Welcomes the launch by the Commission of new industrial Alliances which have demonstrated their potential added value for EU competitiveness; Calls on the Commission to launch more new Alliances in the sectors of space, aeronautic health, critical raw materials, and renewable energies, medical equipment, medical personal protective equipment and vital pharmaceutical production for lowering EU dependence on import from third countries;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Considers innovation as the key driver for economic recovery and growth; Highlights that funding in research and innovation is essentials in this recovery phase; Calls on the Commission to encourage the pooling of resources on research and innovation on an EU-wide scale, increase entrepreneurial spirit and create a new ambitious, creative and innovative environment for European business and industrial projects;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 276 #
8c. Welcomes the Industrial Forum initiative of the Commission; calls on the Commission to ensure a continuous dialogue as well as an effective and fully transparent governance approach that oversees implementation and stimulates synergies between regulations, instruments and private funding;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 290 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point b
b. will be managed directly, when possible, by the Commission through European programmes in order to avoid furthermove forward in a more coordinated way, to better impact the global market and to avoid the risk of distortion of the single market;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 297 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point c
c. distributes the financial aid among the different industrial sectorosystems according to the damage suffered, the challenges faced and the amount of national financial support already received through national aid schemes taking into account the structural interdependencies between the different value chains;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 326 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Highlights the need to support a sustainable and fair recovery beyond the COVID-19 crisis in order to enhance growth and autonomy in the EU by increasing investment in the digital and green transitions; asks the Commission to support an ambitious Recovery Fund that is within the framework of a stronger MFF and is integrated in the own resource decision, and to pursue fiscal policy coordination to strengthen the European fiscal framework; in this regard, highlights the position of the European Parliament on the reform of the EU own resources system, including the introduction of new resources that are better aligned with and incentivise progress in major EU policy priorities such as a digital services taxation, a financial transaction tax, proceeds generated by the establishment of a common consolidated corporate tax base, income from the emissions trading scheme, a plastics contribution and a carbon border adjustment mechanism; is of the opinion that, after the peak of the pandemic, the Fund should become a permanent Reconstruction Fund to foster the digital and green industrial transitions;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to strengthen its impact assessment practice and to carry out a detailed impact assessment of the potential costs and burdens for European companies and SMEs before presenting new proposals for legislation or adopting new measures especially when a traditional industry has to adapt because of regulatory decisions; calls on the Commission to propose commensurate support to the affected sectors whenever a negative impact cannot be avoidedin order to keep a strong European industrial basis;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 350 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Stresses the strategic and fragile nature of the European space industry, 90% made up of SMEs, and the need for rapid support in order to avoid laborious reconstruction;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 366 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Considers that oncein parallel to the emergency phase is over, the Union should embark on aprepare and anticipate the second phase of its industrial strategy: ensuring the competitiveness, resilience and sustainability of its industriestowards a greener, innovative, inclusive and sovereign Europe in the long term;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 375 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Highlights the need to increase market opportunities and investment in European value chains conducive to the massive deployment of green technologies, in sustainability and reparability of products and in the creation of markets for circular and climate-neutral products in accordance with the action plan for the circular economy. recalls in this regard the potential of the digital sector in reaching a European climate-neutral economy, and the need to reducing its carbon footprint;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 382 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Highlights the potential of the circular economy for modernising the Union’s economy, reducing its energy and resource consumption, providing incentives for innovation and transforming whole industrial sectors and their value chains, with a huge potential to create jobs at local level; encourages the development of new ecodesigned technologies and solutions to prevent environmental impacts; stresses the need to implement the new circular economy action plan and encourage sustainable production;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 398 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Highlights that the renovation wave provides great opportunity for the EU´s building and energy sector and for the innovative solutions if the energy and resource efficiency principles are fully followed; calls on the Commission to develop standards for materials, eco- design in building sector and controls; stresses the need for climate-neutral building stocks and, harmonization of the sustainable assessment of buildings in Europe and to enable an easier integration of structural and sustainability criteria into the design process;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 503 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Highlights the need to support a just transition, and believes that a well- designed Just Transition Mechanism, including a Just Transition Fund, would be an important tool to facilitate the transition and reach ambitious climate targetsclimate neutrality while addressing social impacts; stresses that robust financing of this instrument, including additional budgetary resources, would be a key element for the successful implementation of the European Green Deal and a fair and equitable sharing of financial support between the regions most affected, would be a key element for the successful implementation of the European Green Deal; in this regard, welcomes the revaluation of the Just Transition Fund within the framework of Next Generation EU;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 539 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Considers it imperative to digitalise the Union’s industries, including traditional ones; calls on the Commission to invest, inter alia, in the data economy, artificial intelligence, smart production, mobility, and resilient and secure very high-speed networks; invites the Commission, in this respect,the Union requires an innovative industrial strategy that accelerate the digitisation of our industries and SMEs including traditional ones, enhance the EU industrial capacity in critical digital infrastructures and strengthen the digital and data single market; considers the Union must support businesses in the automation and digitisation of their know-how and training and investment in digital equipment (hardware and software) for businesses; underlines the importance of the Digital Europe -programme for improving the digital capabilities of SMEs and accelerating the adoption of enabling and emerging technologies in industries; encourages the creation of digital innovation hubs across the EU; calls on the Commission to invest, inter alia, in the data economy, artificial intelligence, smart production, mobility, supercomputing, cloud, quantum technology, resilient and secure very high-speed 5G and 6G networks, blockchain, robotics, batteries and satellite internet; invites therefore the Member States and the Commission, in this respect, to ensure a timely implementation of the relevant key measures recommended in the 5G cybersecurity toolbox and in particular to apply, where appropriate, the relevant restrictions on high risk suppliers for key assets defined as critical and sensitive in the EU coordinated risk assessments and to assess the effectiveness of co-financed National Tax Credit schemes that could complement or replace traditional ‘on demand’ grants/tender-based support, especially for SMEs; highlights the importance of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Cohesion Fund (CF) in supporting job creation, business competitiveness, economic growth and sustainable development and calls for these funds to have a stronger focus on research and innovation and to be better linked with Horizon Europe and the Digital Europe Programme;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 556 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Highlights that EU industrial competitiveness relies on a fully functioning Single Market in Products and Services; underlines that the Commission must consider how to deepen the Single Marker as part of any revised set of priorities and address the existing regulatory and non-regulatory internal market barriers stemming from restrictive and complex national rules, limited administrative capacities, imperfect transposition of EU rules, as well as their inadequate enforcement; stresses the importance of more flexible and transparent governance of the internal market with more effective peer reviews to identify and address barriers and non- compliance, improved monitoring and performance tools such as Internal Market Scoreboard to better reflect market reality, as well as strengthened SOLVIT network;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 574 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to implement a single European digital and data market, to promote the secure exchange of data among companies and among public institutions, to develop and process data on European soil, in particular data from public bodies, to build a better digital taxation system in which profits are taxed where companies have significant interaction with users, and to further develop European standards on cybersecurity, in particular for critical infrastructure; and certification on cybersecurity and disruptive technologies, in particular for critical infrastructure; therefore the protection of critical European data in such critical infrastructures should be guaranteed through an assessment of service and technology providers to meet security as well as trustworthiness criteria modelled on the EU 5G toolbox. calls for the swift implementation of the European Data Strategy and the adoption of the Digital Services Act;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 594 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Considers that industrial transformation requires the integration of new knowledge and innovation into existing markets and their use in the creation of new ones; regrets, in this respect, that the Union invests less in R&D as a percentage of GDP than its global competitors and that it suffers from a serious lack of innovative capacity in small and medium-sized enterprises due to a shortfall in the necessary risk capital; highlights the need to increase considerably spending on research, development and innovation as key element to achieve the twin transition, improve strategic leadership and autonomy and increase long-term competitiveness; calls on the Member States to uphold their commitment of reaching 3% of GDP on research and development; Considers an increase of the funding of Horizon Europe as well as Digital Europe programs and Connected Europe Facility (digital and energy) is needed to achieve the ambitious targets. recognise the effective support of European Innovation Council (EIC) and the European Institute for Innovation and Technology (EIT) and calls to strengthen their missions; calls for a public-private collaboration to promote the transfer of knowledge and technology from research centres and universities to the industrial process, taking advantage of the industrial ecosystem scheme; calls on the Commission to increase the budget for those programmes that underpin the transformation of the Union’s industry, including Horizon Europe and Digital Europe (DEP), and to foster synergies between regional, national, European and private financial sources by taking advantage of synergies among all Union programmes; calls on the Commission to target as a priority the whole range of decarbonised and renewable industrial processes; acknowledges the importance of intellectual property protection to incentivise R&D investments necessary to ensure continued participation of EU industry in the development of key technologies like 5G and 6G, necessary to achieve the EU 2025 connectivity objectives;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 623 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 b (new)
20b. highlights the relevance of Institutional Partnerships under Horizon Europe as efficient tools to promote R&I efforts within strategic industrial ecosystems;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 630 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Is of the opinion that ecosystems will be key components of the next industrial revolution, providing affordable and cleaner energy, transformative manufacturing and service-provision methods; believes, moreover, that supporting collaboration among industry, academia, SMEs, start-ups, trade unions, civil society, end-user organisations and all other stakeholders will be key to solving market failures and supporting efforts to cross the ‘valley of death’, including in areas not yet covered by industrial interests; calls for a governance of these ecosystems that integrates all relevant stakeholders form the industrial sectors which are key to achieve the energy and digital transition; considers that ecosystems should play a role in the definition of solutions and measures to be adopted in order to implement the European industrial strategy; recalls that sectorial action plans announced within the Green Deal and the industrial strategy as well as work already undertaken in previous European industrial forums, in particular the Strategic Forum for IPCEIs, should all be taken into account in the future work of industrial ecosystems;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 648 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Highlights the potential role of the regions in achieving the European industrial ambitions; believes that interregional cooperation aimed at the sustainable and digital transformations, as in the Smart Specialisation strategies, are to be strengthened in order to stimulate regional ecosystems; therefore asks the Commission to support the development of tools which can provide a clear roadmap for regions with a tailor- made approach to secure industrial leadership;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 669 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Stresses the importance to provide political and policy direction and ambitious public programs to support the industry and to boost investments, particularly in R&D and space and defence industries; in this regards, highlights the importance of having adequate funding and fostering synergies in the next MFF for Horizon Europe, the European Space program and the European Defence Funds;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 676 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission to adopt a strong Key Performance Indicator (KPI) system to analyse the ex-ante impact of Union regulations and instruments, and to monitor progress and results taking into account the SME dimension; calls on the Commission for regular reporting progress to the Competitiveness Council and to the European Parliament;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE