16 Amendments of Jacky HÉNIN related to 2013/2062(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas Europe’s automotive industry is currently in the throes of a crisis of unprecedented proportions requiring swift, coordinated action within the EU; taking into account the need to maintain existing production in those Member States with fragile economies in order to halt the disastrous collapse of the sector, the bankruptcy of thousands of small and medium-size entrepreneurs, the destruction of thousands of small businesses and the loss of thousands of jobs;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Highlights the need for adequate financial resources to be provided under the Multiannual Financial Framework 2014–2020 for the restructuring of the sector and to upgrade and modernise its micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, to increase productivity and promote nationally-produced goods from the sector;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Considers there is a need for wide- ranging debate in order to forge a new European industrial policy for the automotive sector that will be respectful of the environment and will promote job creation, regional development and new wealth creation;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls for measures for the automotive industry as a whole, Europe wide, to secure employment and training provision;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 – point b a (new)
Paragraph 10 – point b a (new)
ba. Calls for all corporate relocation plans to be suspended and to be subject to the assent of the works councils, employees’ representatives, trade unions and local authorities affected by them;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 – point b b (new)
Paragraph 10 – point b b (new)
bb. Insists that company and group-level management bodies should take account of any development project produced by works councils, employees’ representatives or trade unions;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Considers that new rights and powers of intervention and decision-making in corporate and group management structures are essential so as to change the way that companies and groups are run and the aims they pursue. Employees’ new rights and powers must extend to all key decisions about aspects of management, level and quality of employment, manufacturing and investment choices, strategic takeovers, mergers, re-locations and closures, and relations with suppliers and sub- contractors. This will be achieved in particular by broadening the remit of works councils, Community-wide works councils and group works councils at EU level;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls for specific forms of state and EU aid to be created encouraging European vehicle manufacturers to cooperate in producing new, safer, non- polluting, highly fuel efficient vehicles and less expensive, more efficient electric vehicles that will constitute a proper response to mobility needs, particularly for less-well-off and younger people. One of the areas thus funded, within a framework of cooperation and public involvement, would be research into vehicles for the post-oil era. The cooperative arrangements established would include governments and energy companies so that the network infrastructure needed for the new vehicles could be put in place;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Calls for a European Cooperation Fund to be set up to promote cost sharing in certain areas such as research and training that would facilitate a new type of cooperative joint development arrangement with Russia, the emerging countries, the Mediterranean countries and Africa, enabling these countries to make up lost ground and helping them fund joint development projects to meet their own needs, thereby creating jobs within these countries and in the European Union;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)
Paragraph 33 a (new)
33a. Calls for a ‘made in Europe’ quality label to be introduced for vehicles having 80% of their value produced within the European Union;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 – point b a (new)
Paragraph 35 – point b a (new)
ba. coordination at EU level to step up efforts to combat the import of counterfeit spare parts;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 a (new)
Paragraph 36 a (new)
36a. Considers that any company relocating to the European Union should benefit from tax incentives provided that it creates new jobs and a total increase in workforce. A special loans fund should be set up for relocations to be funded equally by the banks and the Member States;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 a (new)
Paragraph 36 a (new)
36a. Takes the view that governments, public companies and the armed forces should buy or lease only vehicles having 80% of their value produced within the European Union;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38 a (new)
Paragraph 38 a (new)
38a. Considers that all investment outside the European Union that would harm employment production and added value within Europe through the reimporting of vehicles or equipment should be subject to a tax on these reimports; considers that the funds collected through this tax should be used to assist with the design and conception of vehicles adapted to the needs of developing countries;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38 b (new)
Paragraph 38 b (new)
38b. Considers that a system of quotas for each importing country at the European Union's borders should allow imports to be regulated; European groups importing vehicles manufactured outside the European Union should have these vehicles taxed at a rate of 10%, the proceeds of which should go to European fund for research into manufacturing clean vehicles;