17 Amendments of Emmanuel MAUREL related to 2022/2040(INI)
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for 99 % of all EU businesses, 65 % of all EU jobs, 85 % of job creation and more than 50 % of the EU’s economic output from the non- financial sector;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas in order to increase the resilience of its supply chains, the EU should implement a combination of different commodity-based solutions, including boosting existing EU production, reshoring and nearshoringsuppliers to the EU’s neighbourhood, stockpiling, promoting the circular economy and diversifying suppliers through strategic free trade agreements, sectoral partnerships and alliances, and trade and technology councilectoral partnerships and alliances;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the COVID-19 crisis and the war in Ukraine have highlighted the EU agricultural sector’s dependence on imports from a small number of countries, especially in the case of wheat and ammonium, which is essential for the production of fertilisers; recalls that the EU should be autonomous in primary sector products in order to guarantee its security and avoid dependence on third parties; believes that the the EU’s goal should be to achieve food self-sufficiency;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that the war in Ukraine and the subsequent sanctions on Russiarecovery from the pandemic and then the war in Ukraine have increased the difficulty of sourcing raw materials; takes note of the announcement of the forthcoming publication of the Critical Raw Materials Act during the 2022 State of the Union address;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that medical supply chains can be strengthened by reshoring the production of active ingredients, investing in skills, building health data infrastructure, and supporting regulatory framework and intellectual property policies that foster innovation and ensure affordable medicines;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to start a dialogue with neighbouring countries on the possibility of neareshoring production sites situated far from the EU’s neighbourhood and increasing regulatory cooperation in order to boost the security of supply and diversify its sources at the same time;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Notes the lack of robustness of a supply chain system based on subcontracting, outsourcing and offshoring; calls for a rethinking of our supply security through the development of more collaborative models based on more balanced relationships in which benefits are shared along the supply chain;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Recalls that the circular economy action plan is intended to help the EU to reduce its dependence on external players so as to support strategic autonomy in a wide range of sectors, including mining;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls for our supply chain model to be restructured by boosting recycling, the circular economy, reasonable consumption and massive investment in disruptive technologies;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Believes that the proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs) may be crucial to diversifying sources of supply and reducing the EU’s dependence on just a fewand the resulting hyper-specialisation of economies have countries; calls for the EU to prioritise strabuted to a systegmic FTAs with a particular focus on chapters on raw materials and energy, technical barriers to trade and regulatory cooperationweakening of supply chains;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Believes that the proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs) may be crucial to diversifying sources of supply and reducing the EU’s dependence on just a few countries; calls for the EU to prioritise strategic FTAs with a particular focus on chapters on raw materials and energy, technical barriers to trade and regulatory cooperationand the trend towards specialisation of emerging economies which they promote can lead to a systemic weakening of supply chain resilience;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Welcomes the launchQuestions the official negotiating mandate of the EU- US Trade and Technology Council (TTC) in June 2021 and the EU-India agreement on launching a trade and technology council in April 2022; regards these initiatives as meaningful forums for addressing new challenges in the areas of trade, technology and securityforums with no legal basis or democratic scrutiny by the European Parliament of action taken by the European Commission;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Notes the strategic strengthening of US trade policy through the Buy American Act and calls on the EU to strengthen the robustness of its own supply chains by establishing an ambitious Buy European Act to support European production, know-how and workers;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. WelcomNotes the launch of new EU digital partnerships with Japan, South Korea and Singapore with a view to cooperating on the development and standardisation of connectivity tools and bolstering supply- chain resilience, especially in the case of semiconductors; recalls, however, that any such partnership must respect the principles and provisions of EU digital services legislation;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Takes note ofWelcomes the Commission communication on the Global Gateway as a plan for major investment in infrastructure development around the world; calls for a more intense and more balanced collaboration between the EU and Africa in infrastructure-related investments in supply chains;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21