20 Amendments of Patrizia TOIA related to 2020/2076(INI)
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Is aware that market dynamics alone do not bridge the fractures created during the transformation process if there is no proper management of the transitions and no strong industrial policies; is, furthermore, aware that while markets, competition and innovation push fast towards transformation, it is society and the environment that face the impact of these transformations; considers that balancing out the number of jobs lost in traditional industries with new jobs created in the digital and environmental sectors is not enough in itself as these new jobs are neither created in the same regions nor taken up by the same workers; calls on the Commission, therefore, to ensure that these transitions are fair and socially just, and that every action aimed at accelerating a transformation process (digital, environmental, etc.) is accompanied by a corresponding initiative to up-skill and reskill workers, with the aim of managing the effects produced by that accelerated process on both regions and peopleto support workers’ participation to companies’ management and governance and their self- entrepreneurship, with the aim of managing the effects produced by that accelerated process on both regions and people; underlines in this regard the importance of lifelong learning to guarantee the permanence of workers in the labour market;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1
Subheading 1
Phase One - Fast Recovery
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to preserve a strong research-based pharmaceutical industry on the EU territory and to address in its next pharmaceutical and industrial strategies measures focused on ensuring that Europe ‘‘remains an innovator and world leader’’, as outlined in President von der Leyen’s mission letter to Commissioner for health Stella Kyriakides;
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Is of the opinion that the industrial recovery plan should help to create new ambitious and innovative European industrial projects which go hand in hand with the current revision of the guidelines for ‘Important Projects of Common European Interest’ (IPCEI), in order to encourage the emergence of European leaders and to strengthen well-structured supply chains in strategic industrial sectors that are capable of competing on a global scale; in this regard, recalls the recommendations of the Strategic Forum on Important Projects of Common European Interest on six Strategic Value Chains - Connected, clean and autonomous vehicles; Hydrogen technologies and systems; Smart health; Industrial Internet of Things; Low- carbon industry; Cybersecurity - that complement the already identified strategic value chains for batteries, microelectronics and high-performance computing;
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point b
Paragraph 9 – point b
b. will be managed directly, when possible, by the Commission through European programmes in order to avoid further distortion of the single market and provide a clearer perception to European citizens of the Union role in this phase;
Amendment 333 #
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 green 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 hand in hand with social cohesion;
Amendment 354 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Subheading 2
Phase Two - Reconstruction and transformation as soon as possible
Amendment 395 #
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, improving its strategic autonomy for key raw materials and transforming whole industrial sectors and their value chains;
Amendment 424 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Considers that there is significant potential in domestic and global markets for low, zero-emission and renewable 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 452 #
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, recalls the strategic role of electricity infrastructures for the energy and climate transitions, 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 sustainable financing to the public and private sectors and to assist companies in the decarbonisation process, and to use the Border Carbon Adjustments mechanism as a way to protect EU manufacturers and jobs from unfair international competition;
Amendment 529 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission to tailor its industrial strategy to the scaling-up and commercialisation of breakthrough technologies in the Union, by providing risk financing for early-stage technology and developing early value chains to support first commercial-scale, climate- neutral and renewable technologies and products;
Amendment 536 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls on the Commission to retrieve and renew the spirit of the Small Business Act, through initiatives aimed at supporting especially the micro and small businesses, as often the "one size fits all" measures do not ensure the appropriate approach to micro and SMEs; believes that ad hoc supporting measures will have to address SMEs, avoiding bureaucratic obstacles, ensuring that the necessary liquidity reaches companies through effectively and accessible tools characterized by fast, agile and SME- friendly procedures;
Amendment 550 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Considers it imperative to digitalise the Union’s industries, including traditional ones; calls on the Commission to invest, inter alia, in the data economy, artificial intelligence, smart production, mobility, efficient welfare and health care systems and resilient and secure very high- speed networks; invites the Commission, in this respect, to assess the effectiveness of co- financed National Tax Credit schemes that could complement or replace traditional ‘on demand’ grants/tender- based support, especially for SMEs; highlights the importance of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Cohesion Fund (CF) in supporting job creation, business competitiveness, economic growth and sustainable development;
Amendment 564 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Recalls that any National Tax Credit schemes should be accompanied by a strong European initiative to overcome any fiscal dumping within the EU;
Amendment 581 #
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 harness the potential of the digital transformation to support research, to build a better digital taxation system in which profits are taxed where companies have significant interaction with users, and to further develop European standards on cybersecurity, in particular for critical infrastructure;
Amendment 601 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Considers that industrial transformation requires the integration of new knowledge and innovation into existing markets and their use in the creation of new ones; regrets, in this respect, that the Union invests less in R&D as a percentage of GDP than its global competitors and that it suffers from a serious lack of innovative capacity in small and medium-sized enterprises due to a shortfall in the necessary risk capital; calls on the Commission to increase the budget for those programmes that underpin the transformation of the Union’s industry, including Horizon Europe, to create appropriate funding instruments for the market development of breakthrough technologies supported by the set-up of the European Innovation Council and to foster synergies between regional, national, European and private financial sources by taking advantage of synergies among all Union programmes;
Amendment 609 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. In this regard, also believes that a better prepared and a more resilient society is key in dealing with disruptive events of a European or global scale and giving comprehensive policy responses. Coordinated R&S investments are key in this respect. To this end, calls on the Commission to launch under Horizon Europe a Partnership instrument on Pandemic Preparedness and Societal Resilience. The partnership would create the conditions for a better coordination at EU level, identify priority areas and launch actions that require high quality medical research and coordinated R&I investments.
Amendment 621 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 b (new)
Paragraph 20 b (new)
20b. Calls on the Commission to ensure that social economy enterprises and entities are fully involved in the Single Market and prioritised in the upcoming industrial strategy since they have already proven to be resilient, to create public value and an essential impact on the local communities they are grounded in and as they are founded on the values that should lead the reconstruction and transformation phase; calls in this regard on the Commission to introduce specific supporting and financial instruments able to assist this category of enterprises and to make sure they can access all Union’s investment programmes as well as to value the role of workers’ buy-outs during economic crisis;
Amendment 631 #
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; calls on the Commission to develop, besides the strategic value chains identified so far, vigorous industrial policies for each of the fourteen strategic industrial ecosystems and to support robust European value chains in the ecosystems that are crucial for the twin ecological and digital transitions;
Amendment 650 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Acknowledges that the research- based pharmaceutical industry is an essential sector and contributor to ensuring quality manufacturing and supply of medicines to reach all patients in need, to ensuring future innovation to address outstanding, unmet needs, and to supporting the resilience, responsiveness and readiness of healthcare systems to address future challenges including pandemics;