Activities of Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ related to 2022/2008(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Implementation of the Updated New Industrial Strategy for Europe: aligning spending to policy (debate)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the implementation of the Updated New Industrial Strategy for Europe: aligning spending to policy
Amendments (37)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
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 thatunderlines that the crisis clearly demonstrated that the single market needs to be better equipped to face possible future crisis; welcomes, in this respect, the announcement of the Commission to present a Single Market Emergency Instrument to strengthen its resilience and ask the Commission to improve the effectiveness of already existing governance tools; asks for a strong governance system and a digitalised market surveillance system making full use of new technologies, such as AI, as they are essential in order to relaunch theand ensure a well-functioning single market; calls on the Commission to focus on ensuring that the industrial strategy helps remove single market barriers and avoid further fragmentation;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Highlights the importance to remove unjustified regulatory and non- regulatory barriers, including in services, that hamper the good functioning of the Single Market and to guarantee the effective implementation and enforcement of Single Market rules;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls on the European Commission and the Member States to enhance cooperation amongst themselves and with economic operators and use new technologies and regulatory sandboxes for removing all unjustified barriers of the Single Market, and reducing the administrative burdens;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Notes that the War in Ukraine showed one more time that the European economic environment needs improvement and that we still need to complete the Single Market in key industrial sectors, such as energy production and transport;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Acknowledges the European standardisation strategy and underlines that standards as well as innovation are essential for a well- functioning single market, global competitiveness and, the green and digital transitions and the protection of consumers;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Recalls the importance of SMEs and start-ups for the competitiveness of the EU and as a source of innovation; asks the Commission to launch new actions to facilitate the creation of new start-ups, to support them in finding better access to financing and to provide clear guidance on how to comply with EU sectorial rules; believes that financial instruments to support their digitalisation should be strengthened.
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Underlines the importance of ensuring that custom controls throughout the EU follow the same standards to prevent the large amount of divergences in controls and in customs procedures and sanction policies at the EU’s points of entry into the Customs Union that often result in large health and safety risks for consumers in the European Single Market.
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Recalls the launch of the New Bauhaus initiative as an important direction in greening the architectonic, construction, and housing sectors, while additionally focusing on sustainable city planning and development and ensuring the inclusion of all European citizens; underlines the need for fast standardization processes in order to keep up with the innovative approaches, materials and technologies that will enable the creation of a Single Market in the field of aesthetic, sustainable, and inclusive constructions; emphasizes the need for the announced Bauhaus Label to include sector specific criteria for Bauhaus projects to be awarded the label and for the label to enhance funding opportunities for projects in the EU; furthermore, insists that the future NEB Lab focusses on innovative recommendations developed in close cooperation with other scientific institutions in the EU and European businesses; underlines the importance of considering this complex innovative movement in the up-dates of the industrial strategy;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
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 investments; calls on the Commission to continue working on the correct implementation of EU public procurement legislation in order to create a well-functioning and harmonised Single Market across sectors and underlines the need to prioritize high quality and innovative aspects over price in all public procurement;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Welcomes the up-date of the New Industrial Strategy after one year into the Covid-19 pandemic; highlights the fact that the recovery prospects vary significantly amongst the industrial ecosystems and also amongst different regions of the European Union; underlines that the recovery process is endangered by the new energy crisis affecting different regions in very different ways requesting adapted regional and local recovery, resilience and development strategies;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Welcomes the new approach of the European Commission for reducing the strategic and industrial dependencies and working towards diversifying the international supply chains; underlines the important role of innovative SMEs in this process;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6 c. Underlines the need to better analyse the possibility of shortening the supply chains through the use of the new technologies and the databases with regional and local resources including the raw materials, the specific of the local labour force; welcomes in this regard the creation of the industrial alliances, such as The Battery Alliance, Alliance on processors and semiconductor technologies, the Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud, Alliance on Space Launchers and considers that it is very important to disseminate the information at regional and local level encouraging the main regional actors to join these alliances;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6 d. Highlights the need to better support the traditional industries and economic specificities of the regions on their way to the green and digital transition, encouraging the forming and growing of industrial hubs in order to help the regional development and reach the cohesion policy targets;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Underlines the importance of SMEs in the internal market as producers and also as providers of industrial services to other manufacturers; calls for the removal of the unjustified regulatory barriers and to promote the approach of the horizontal services in the industrial strategy;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 e (new)
Paragraph 6 e (new)
6 e. Underlines the need of better synergies between the European funds, prioritizing the innovation and the ecological approach, opening the eligibilities to all industries, including the food processing industry according to the regional specificities;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 f (new)
Paragraph 6 f (new)
6 f. Highlights that the New Industrial Strategy should take into account the specificities of remote areas and outermost regions, analyse and come with solutions for the development of the local and traditional industries of these regions and integrating them in the European industrial ecosystem;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Underlines that the war on Ukraine that lead to increase tensions between the European Union and the Russian Federation showed once again the importance of ensuring the autonomy of the Single Market in strategic sectors; calls for the creation of a real Single Market in the production of energy and underlines the importance of developing and implementing the trans-European energy infrastructure, TEN-E, as part of the main pillars of the industrial strategy;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 g (new)
Paragraph 6 g (new)
6 g. Stresses that a New Industrial Strategy should focus on better connecting the needs and support provided to all players within each value chain, industrial ecosystem and region, with special attention on the need to better connect the remote and outermost regions with the economy of the European Union;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Recalls that the Green Deal can only be achieved with the increase of the production and use of renewable energy; underlines that the industrial strategy should address the key obstacles to a faster development of renewables, inter alia permitting hurdles, finding ways to better connect SMEs and all possible energy producers in the system and encourage them to be part of the creation of the Single Market in the energy sector;
Amendment 41 #
6 h. Calls for taking into account the need for a common approach and a commonly approved strategy for challenging situations that might affect the industry in the future, keeping in mind that the unilateral measures taken by many Member States especially in the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic affected the well functioning of the industry especially in cross-border regions where trans-border workers were not allowed to daily travel from one country to another;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 i (new)
Paragraph 6 i (new)
6 i. Recalls, that the crisis of some basic health products in the beginning of the pandemics followed by a crisis of different products, such as chips, emphasized the need to rethink the industrial approach showing the need for prioritizing investments in strategic production facilities and diversifying the supply chains taking into account the regional specificities and the regional and local development strategies;
Amendment 43 #
6 j. Points out that the pandemics and the energy crisis underlined the differences between the European regions, the need of know-how and training for public authorities in order to manage the challenging situations, to adapt and implement the solutions designed and recommended from the European level; is of the opinion that regions that are still lagging behind should be given a special attention in the industrial strategy and solutions should be found for boosting the local and regional economy and for harvesting the traditional industries and the specificities in training of the local work-force;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 k (new)
Paragraph 6 k (new)
6 k. Underlines the importance of supporting the local production of energy and the encouraging of domestic energy production which will lead to local and regional development, the completion of the European energy infrastructure and of a real Single Market in the field of energy;
Amendment 45 #
6 l. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work together in order to quickly update their development strategies in order to focus on the green and digital transition, reducing dependencies, developing local autonomy and inter-regional cooperation;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 m (new)
Paragraph 6 m (new)
6 m. Asks for taking into account the local and regional dependencies on strategic products and also in energy and put forward projects that would reduce those dependencies asking for their prioritization in the European funding encouraging trans-regional and cross- border projects;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Regrets that there are yet professions highly regulated in the Member States and calls on the Member States to take steps to allow skilled and highly skilled professional to have free access to the EU market, achieving in the shortest time possible areal Single Market in this sector; recalls that the green and digital transition of the industrial sectors need the recognition of highly skilled and skilled professionals in the whole European Union;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Underlines the importance of preventing over-dependency of the EU industry on third countries for critical products in light of the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Recalls the importance of the cooperation with the education sector in all the Member States to develop the digital skills in the Single Market and highlights the need of a permanent dialogue among all relevant authorities and the economic operators to ensure that the young work force is better prepared for the new industrial needs.
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Recalls the export of ideas and highly skilled professionals in the digital sector; calls on the Commission to include in the industrial strategy paths that would lead to the support of the creation of start- ups and help them in finding better access to financing leading to the increase of the scale-ups and decreasing the buyouts and take overs of the European companies by the much more developed companies from third countries;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Welcomes the establishing of the European alliances in different industrial sectors, like raw materials, batteries, processors and others; calls on the Commission to increase the dissemination of the information and to encourage the Member States, regions and economic operators, including SMEs to join the European efforts in achieving the key EU policy objectives;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Underlines the importance of research and innovation in the green and digital transition; stresses the need of a true Single Market and of the active and enhanced participation of the SMEs and technology education institutes in the market; calls on the Commission and the Member States to facilitate the participation of SMEs and micro- enterprises to the R&D market by proper legislation and easy access to financial instruments and the possibility to use the R&D IP rights as collaterals.
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Underlines the importance of maintaining an open dialogue with all industrial sectors and relevant stakeholders to make sure the new legislation does not have a negative impact on the Single Market and that it does not leave anyone behind, adopting a model with enough flexibility and support.
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Welcomes the Commission intention to elaborate a strategy for the textile industry; recalls that the textile industry faces a slow recovery from the downfall during the pandemic, being affected also by the massive re-location of the production sites in third countries; underlines the need to target the SMEs as the main players in the sector;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Believes that the new industrial strategy must also set path for the recovery and strong development of cultural and creative industry as one of the sectors that are more susceptible to be affected by economic crisis;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Underlines the need to include in the industrial strategy the gaming industry as one of the industries with the highest development potential recalling that most of the games producers and developers are not European actors; calls for clear paths at the European level to enable industry to accelerate and become one of the leaders in the sector;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Highlights the importance of developing a true single market for data to support the EU industrial development, to foster innovation and to strengthen the Digital Single Market as a whole;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Recalls the importance of competition rules adapted to new dynamics of the EU market and to a changing global context to guarantee effective and fair competition in the Single Market and to enhance consumers choice;