18 Amendments of Emma WIESNER related to 2022/2008(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas it is crucial to enable industry to implement the green transition, including the energy and digital transitions while preserving jobs, competitiveness and its ability to actively participate in an economy of free trade and fair competition and to develop and produce clean products;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the aim of the Industrial Strategy must also be to strengthen the Single Market and foster technological breakthroughs in order to make the EU a world leader in green and digital technologies;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas in a changing geopolitical world, reducaddressing EU dependencies on critical materials, products and technologies is vital; by diversifying industrial supply chains is vital; considers that strategic autonomy and the resilience of the Union is achieved by strengthening and developing Europe’s industrial and technological capacities by means of investments in key technologies while ensuring an active free trade agenda, a well-functioning Single Market and a regulatory environment where companies are competitive;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the update of the industrial strategy; stresses that for the Green Deal to be a true growth strategy, reduce dependencies and maintain a level playing field for European industry during the transition, it needs to be accompanied by ambitious industrial policy and an ambitious R&;D policy, including a robust technology transfer policy in the framework of an EU-wide SME friendly business ecosystem;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Acknowledges that the EU Single Market is the most important instrument to strengthen the Unions competitiveness and resilience, and to deliver on the green and digital transitions. Highlights the need for the public sector to fully play its part by reducing red tape, avoiding fragmentation and further harmonising rules in order to fulfil the EU Treaty provisions on the Single Market freedoms;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines that the EU cannot bee need for the EU to further analyse its dependentcies on non- EU countries for products and technologies that are essential to our economy and for our society of the future and address these through market diversification and by maintaining an ambitious free trade agenda with global partners; stresses that the EU needs to regain a strong position in crucial global value chains and secure the supply of critical materials in times of crisis by promoting an open and rule- based trade with the rest of the world;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses the importance of providing policy direction and developing ambitious public programs to support and boost investments in space and defence industries;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the measures proposed in the EU Pharmaceutical Strategy guarantee competitiveness in terms of quality and prices of medicines, provide reliable supply and access to modern medicines and continue stimulating innovation and investment in pharmaceutical R&D;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to close the investment gap with global competitors forstimulate increased investments in R&D and test beds in key enabling technologies; welcomes, in this regard, the R&D ambitions in the Commission’s proposal for a European Chips Act10 and the establishment of the European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud; calls on the Commission to extendvaluate these initiatives to key enabling technologies, such as photonics and quantumin a transparent manner before considering to extend these to other key enabling technologies; _________________ 10 COM(2022)0046.
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the need to strengthen ‘Made in EU’ and accelerate the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies, particularly by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)for the Commission to safeguard effective competition rules while upholding vigilant supervision that limits a few actors from gaining excessive market power; welcomes the work on increasing contestability in digital markets and increased support for SMEs through the Digital Markets Act; calls on the Commission to embed the ‘Made iconsider when Ecurope’ partnership strongly in the Horizon Europe programmerent temporary reliefs in state aid rules can be repealed in order to reduce long term market distortions;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Highlights the importance of including education, upskilling and reskilling in the transition pathways as important tools in the transformation of EU industry and in the effort to achieve higher productivity; calls on the Commission to develop a strategy for vocational education and business- education partnerships within regional industrial clusters to boost skills and enhance the uptake of ready-for-market innovations by SMEs; highlights the need to strengthen cooperation between R&D and industry, especially in the form of technology transfers to SMEs;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses the need for regulatory stability and predictabilityto modernize and future-proof the regulatory framework to ensure regulatory stability and predictability; underlines the need to reduce unnecessary administrative burdens for companies and especially for SMEs, while maintaining adequate social, labour and environmental standards; calls on the Commission to include roadmaps in the transition pathways to reduce administrative burdens for European businesses, especially SMEs, by at least 30 %; stresses the ‘one in, one out’ principle;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Acknowledges that a strong framework of intellectual property rights is a crucial factor underpinning European competitiveness; calls on the Commission to preserve and strengthen Europe's world-class IP system by promoting strong IP protection in the EU and beyond, as well as incentives and reward mechanisms for R&D to attract investment into the development of future innovation for the benefit of European society, citizens and industry actors;
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to stimulate the production of affordable and abundant renewable and low-carbon energy; calls on the Commission to increase its efforts in the potential of the circular bioeconomy where sustainable and renewable resources are used in order to promote competitive and resilient industries in the long term; while increasing the coordination of the planning and financing for needed electricity, energy, hydrogen, CO2 and heating/cooling infrastructure;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to bring down the time needed to issue permits substantially and create fast-track permitting procedures for infrastructure that supports industry in the energy transition; its transition to a carbon neutral circular economy, without prejudice to the transparency, legitimacy and legality of the procedures;
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to accelerate the implementation ofuse appropriate instruments, including important projects of common European interest, and industrial alliances that develop innovative breakthrough technologies needed for the energy transition, such as clean steel, clean aviation, e-fuels, clean fertilisers, e- cracking and small modular reactors; underlines that IPCEI is a tool to overcome proven market failure which should be used with care and based on strict criteria so as not to distort competition on the Single Market;
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Underlines that recycling can play a critical role in increasing the supply of raw and secondary materials, thereby reducing EU reliance on third country imports;
Amendment 315 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Is strongly concerned aboutWelcomes the Commission initiatives to address unfair competition, investments and takeovers by non-EU state-financed compancompanies from third countries on the single market, especially in strategic se; highlights that, when an increased number of markets are concentrated around few actors;, calls on the Commission to analyse and prevent this interferenceustomer benefit, innovation and efficiency can be undermined; urges the Commission to continue competition monitoring and supervision of strategic sectors in order to secure functional and open markets that stimulates investments;