25 Amendments of Patrizia TOIA related to 2013/2006(INI)
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission's focus on industrial policy (IP) and strongly sustains the objective of increasing industry's share of production to 20% by 2020;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that RISE must be embedded in an ecological and social market economy in accordance with the principles of fair competition, the internalisation of externalities and environmentally conscious Ordnungspolitik; states that Europe’s future industrial competitiveness must be guided by the vision of sustainability and transparency, including in sector-supply chains;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Emphasises that RISE will only succeed if underpinned by an adequate macroeconomic framework and the necessary budgetary resources in order to leverage private investment; demands, in this context, a European green, meaning sustainable, growth strategy. and deplores the Council's cuts to MFF heading 1A;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Applauds the Commission’s transversal approach to IP; holds that RISE should follow a horizontal rather than vertical IP concept; believes that sector-specific measures must as a rule be connected to sectoral specialisation promoting high-tech and high-value added strategiesemployment, skills, entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity and high-tech and high-value added strategies in sectors which can potentially support employment and growth in Europe; welcomes in this regard the grouping of sectors under individual themes, which meets the need for flexibility and produces a product that is technologically sound and environmentally sustainable;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the EU institutions and national governments to provide measures aiming at facilitate effective industry competitiveness within the Single Market and the global context, through a stronger coordination of all relevant policies;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Holds that RISE must be geared towards kick-starting investment flows in Europe's south to reinvigorate growth, particularly through smart specialisation and the formation of clusters, including and business networks, operating also at transnational clusterslevel;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Commission to provide for convergent measures in its structural policies (ERDF and ESF) in order to pave the way for sustainable, ongoing growth; in particular, stresses the need to harmonise national policies with EU policies, firstly to overcome the poverty emergency and secondly to boost employment and production;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Expects that the measures and actions promoting entrepreneurship at European or national level will apply to all types of enterprises, cooperatives, craft businesses, liberal professions and social economy enterprises;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Highlights the need to strengthen the role of local authorities in the reindustrialisation process, in order to put local communities at the heart of business;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Emphasises that only with an innovation, efficiency and sustainable technology offensive can the EU's industrial base mod, together with new business models based on improved experntise and increase its core competitiveness, creativity and local manufacturing, can regenerate and increase the competitiveness of the EU's industrial base;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. With the goals of a globally competitive, innovation-based economy in view, calls on the EU and the Member States to focus their efforts on industries with a high level of R&D+i, including process innovation, with an active participation in the trade balance and which employ qualified staff;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission to propose a cluster policy and cluster networks in the form of cooperation between connected companies, suppliers, service providers, universities and research centres; stresses the importance of establishing transnational clusters; recognises, in this regard, the need to relaunch districts across the EU; calls on the Commission to supervise the global offshoring of manufacturing;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Recognises the importance of the economic definition for the economic sector of the high-end cultural and creative industries, a sectors which covers the high-end segments of several products and services markets, and believes that the RISE strategy should emphasize specific characteristics such as the added-value contribution of culture and creativity, product' or service's aura, the protection of intellectual property, European manufacturing quality, design and innovation;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Stresses the importance of corporate social responsibility, a key tool for a company policy that pays attention to the efficient use of natural resources, social aspects regarding relationships with the community and with workers and their representatives, and economic aspects relating to sound company management;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Welcomes the Product Safety and Market Surveillance Package proposed by the Commission, stressing the important role the indication of origin can play, not only for consumers but also with a view to a more transparent trade policy, both internally and externally;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to urgently complete the single market for energy, telecoms, green products and venture capital, in order to address the cost disparities which EU companies have to bear compared to their third-country competitors;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls on the Commission, with regard to trade policy and in particular to bilateral agreements and in the implementation of climate policies, to protect the interests of European industry to ensure equal treatment compared to companies from third countries; calls on the Commission also to assess the possibility of suspending some of the charges and red tape for companies in the most crisis-stricken sectors;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Underlines the importance of the completion of the digital single market and encourages the Commission to set this as a priority; invites the Commission to apply an equivalent regulatory framework to the online and offline markets so to re-establish consumers' trust and oppose unfair commercial practices;
Amendment 295 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32a. Underlines the importance of setting an ambitious EU free trade agenda based on the reduction of tariffs and non-tariff barriers, the liberalization of access to public procurement and private investment and the international harmonization of standards and regulations; considers that it is necessary to complete comprehensive and ambitious trade agreements with the US and Japan and all of the EU's major trade partners;
Amendment 352 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38 a (new)
Paragraph 38 a (new)
38a. Calls on the Commission to identify tax mechanisms to facilitate small company mergers;
Amendment 355 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
Paragraph 40
40. Calls on the Commission to support the development of national investment banks for SMEs and to enable existing ones to expand their operations in other Member States, by drawing up guidelines with a view to overcoming the widespread credit crunch;
Amendment 371 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43 a (new)
Paragraph 43 a (new)
43a. Calls on the Commission to facilitate measures that encourage operators to adopt tools geared to responsibility in business process management and sustainability in the value chain, by providing additional recompenses within the EU funding system and through green public procurement and the regulations governing public contracts;
Amendment 402 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46 a (new)
Paragraph 46 a (new)
46a. Calls on the Commission to support the specific nature of master crafts in the high-end cultural ad creative industries, which greatly contribute to European job- creation and are based on creativity, excellence, know-how and career-long learning;
Amendment 425 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 54
Paragraph 54
54. Believes that enhancing the image of vocational education and training could be done by linking it to a possible transition to university or other higher education; stresses the importance of improving educational skills to improve the quality of development of new manufacturing skills, also by means of EU measures to standardise human resource policies starting from basic training;
Amendment 488 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 62
Paragraph 62
62. Notes that the EU's south is affected by peripheral location; calls on the Commission to promote a full infrastructure integration of southern economies, and stresses the need to gear the Connecting Europe facility to this effec; calls for more investment transport infrastructure and logistics because they are strategic assets and contribute to the mobility of goods and thus to industrial competitiveness; welcomes the new programme "Connecting Europe Facility" and call on the European Institutions and Member States to guarantee adequate levels of funding and simplified bureaucratic procedures to enhance PPP, project financing and project bonds; invites the Commission to set a comprehensive plan in favour of freight, industrial and distribution logistics (the so-called business logistics) for the effective completion of the internal market;