45 Amendments of Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN related to 2020/2076(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas today EU industry employs around 35 million people and accounts for over 80 % of exports; whereas women still remain under-represented across industrial sectors,the rate of women across industrial sectors is lower than the rate of men, from education ant training to occupations and management levels;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the EU industrial sector, while having the potential to contribute to environmental protection, has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic and needs support for its recovery, irrespective of its activity;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. Whereas SMEs represents over 99% of all European firms but only 17% have successfully integrated digital technologies into their business; whereas 70% of firms reports access to talent as an obstacle to invest across EU;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 16
Citation 16
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the EU industrial strategy must serve as a vector for creating more and better jobs and achieve an inclusive and balanced job market, accompanying the transition towards a digital and carbon- neutral industry;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. Whereas the importance of investment in research an innovation to boost competitiveness and productiveness for the European Industry;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas non-EU competitors often take advantage of less stringent climate and environmental regulations and lower labour costs, which has facilitated the relocation of European industry, ultimately having a detrimental effect on its competitiveness;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the technology to achieve the carbon neutral objectives laid down, particularly with regard to storing renewable energy, does not currently exist;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights that EU industrial policy must be in line with the European Pillar of Social Rights and efficiently address the social consequences of structural change and the need to continue implementribute to achieving its principles, in order to support fair working conditions and equal opportunities, as well as access to well-functioning labour markets and welfare systems;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to consider the impact of COVID-19 by eventually reviewing or removing certain environmental targets to facilitate industrial recovery, taking into account the specific needs of each sector and region;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Recognizes that a transition towards a carbon neutral industry will harm certain sectors and that there will be failures along the way, causing the close of business and increasing the unemployment; therefore, ask the Commission and Member States not to force an industrial change and postpone its objectives in line with technological developments;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas EU industry and enterprises should actively participate in planning and developing educational and training programs in order to ease the transition to the labour market;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission to focus the Next Generation EU programmes and instruments on the recovery of those sectors that have been hardest hit by the crisis caused by coronavirus, in both economic and employment terms, without making its support conditional on climate targets;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas SMEs represents over 99% of all European firms but only 17% have successfully integrated digital technologies into their business; whereas 70% of the firms report access to talent as an obstacle to invest across EU;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Reminds the Commission to take the different industrial ecosystems into account, with the aim of tailoring the focus of each programme in the Industrial Strategy, taking into consideration the needs of those regions with a lower level of technological development;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas SMEs are the backbone of the European economy and should be at the core of the EU industry and play a key role in implementing and delivering the EU industry policy;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Considers that the relocation of European industry should act as a stimulus to invigorate the less-developed European regions, including regions with low populations and those with dispersed populations, as mentioned in Article 174 of the TFEU; stresses that such an approach would promote their economic growth and would create many jobs that, ultimately, would make it possible for them to retain their populations;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic and its fallout have created an unprecedented economic downturn in Europe; whereas in this context any future- looking industrial strategy shouldneeds to start by addressing industrial recovery;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Emphasises the need to take into account the closure of businesses and the increase in unemployment that will be caused by the industrial transformation required in order to achieve a carbon- neutral economy; in that connection, calls on the Commission and the Member States to facilitate and promote the retraining and improvement in the skills of the workers affected with the aim of increasing their employability and equipping them to take on new jobs;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas new debts contracted to survive the economic downturn are likely towill leave companies with a more fragile financial structure, leading to sluggish growth in the long term;
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Considers that this transformation must take into account existing technological capacity and ensure that its targets are in line with the development of such capacity, without forcing industry to meet targets for which it is not prepared;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas a transition towards a carbon neutral industry will harm certain sectors and that there will be failures along the way, causing the close of business and increasing the unemployment;
Amendment 105 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Acknowledges the tailored made approach that the European Commission will undertake in the design of the programs under the industrial Strategy; calls that this approach should be done under a realistic perspective covering the real need of every ecosystem;
Amendment 109 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to create a supportive environment for business that enables them develop and growth based on reducing regulatory burden and eventually eliminating certain tax obligations to facilitate new jobs creation;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Is of the opinion that digital and environmental transitions should be at the very core of all Unions strategies until 2050; in this context, calls on the Commission toshould define a comprehensive industrial strategy which manages these transitions, fosters transformationthat fosters transformation, enhance the competitively of the EU industry and guarantees the Union’s strategic autonomy;
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3 c. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure the investments needed in infrastructures to guarantee broad access in all European regions, in particular rural areas and the regions covered by the174 Article of the EUTF and in order to encourage entrepreneurship and new jobs opportunities;
Amendment 119 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
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 dual formation and digital skills, to be essential to address current skills shortages; considers EU industry and enterprises should play a key role in planning and developing educational and training programs in order to ease the transition to the labour market; 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;
Amendment 147 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that the recent pandemic has shown the importance of digital solutions, particularly telework, and the need to establish guidelines and regulations at European level; believes that telework offers opportunities such as better work-life balance, reduced CO2 emissions related to the daily commute, and enhanced employment opportunities for people with disabilities; calls on the Commission to propose a legislative framework with a view to regulating telework conditions across the EU;
Amendment 154 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Calls on Member States to ensure effective preventive restructuring frameworks and second chance framework to enable honest debtors in financial difficulty to restore their viability, avoid insolvency and no to dissuade them from trying new ideas;
Amendment 155 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers, in the current context, that the Union requires a new, tailor-made industrial strategy to every ecosystem 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 objective as as key prioritiesy throughout;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to create a supportive environment for business that enables them develop and growth by reducing regulatory burden and eventually eliminating certain tax obligations to facilitate new jobs creation;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that the economic schemes put in place by individual Member States to help SMEs and companies cope with the short-term cash crunch are useful, but will increase the debt levels of these firms; in this context, therefore, calls on the Commission to facilitate recovery through fiscal schemeproposals that favour equity over debt and grants over loans and/or guarantees;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to include in the recovery plan a strategy to redeploy industries in Europe and to relocate industrial production in strategic sectors , including final and non-final products; Stresses that the industrial dependence in third countries leaves the European Union in a weak position to face unexpected situations; calls, moreover, on the Commission to adopt a stronger stance on unfair global competition and predatory acquisitions by SOEs and sovereign funds; is of the opinion that, in this context, the Union should implement a provisional TDI scheme;
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote entrepreneurship in their training and educational programs as well as measures that encourage the creativity and innovation needed to face the current uncertain situation;
Amendment 329 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Highlights the need to support a sustainable and fair recovery beyond the COVID-19 crisis in order to enhance growth in the EU by increasing investment in the digital and greenother fields that ensure a competitive EU industry 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; 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;
Amendment 347 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Amendment 385 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Highlights the potential of the circular economy for modernising the Union’s economy, reducing its energy and resource consumption and transforming whole industrial sectors and their value chains; remarks that these transformation should be done by the market itself and without forcing nor putting into risk the industry not the Internal Market; stresses the need to take into account the closure of business and job losses due to the industrial transition;
Amendment 414 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Considers that there is significant potential in domestic and global markets for low- emission technologies and sustainable products, processes and services throughout the whole value chain from raw materials to energy-intensive industries, manufacturing and the industrial services sector; considers, moreover, that the Climate Law is a first step towards enshrining climate targets into Union legislation; believes that a more holistic and systematic target framework is also required in order to ensure policy coherence across all Union policies and a homogenous governance approach in all policy areas, paving the way towards a clear and stable strategy for European industries;
Amendment 438 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Maintains that a truly effective European industrial policy needs a dashboard of climate targets as a roadmap to shape the industry of the future; considers that all sectors should contribute towards achieving the Union’s climate objectives and, in this regard, underlines the importance of gas as a means of energy transition and hydrogen as a potential breakthrough technology; calls also for greater attention to be paid to network security and energy supply; calls on the Council to increase spending from the EU budget on climate change efforts; calls on the Commission to ensure that industries with high carbon leakage do not benefit from EU subsidies, and for better use to be made of the EIB, as the Union’s ‘Climate Bank’, to enhance sustainabl as a measure to ensure the EU energetic independence; calls also for greater attention to be paid to network security and energy supply; calls on EIB to enhance financing to the public and private sectors and to assist companies in the decarbonisation processtowards an economy that creates jobs and prosperity, and to use the Border Carbon Adjustments mechanism as a way to protect EU manufacturers and jobs from unfair international competition;
Amendment 497 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 561 #
18a. Reminds to the Commission to take into account the different industrial ecosystems in order to do a tailored approach in designing the programs under the Industrial Strategy, taking into account the needs of the less technological regions;
Amendment 567 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure the investments needed infrastructure to guarantee broad access in all European regions, in particular in rural areas and the regions covered by the Article 174 of the TFEU;
Amendment 582 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to implement a single European digital and data market, to promote the 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 usremove the existing barriers, and to further develop European standards on cybersecurity, in particular for critical infrastructure;
Amendment 644 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
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;