7 Amendments of Teresa RIERA MADURELL related to 2010/2211(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the flagship initiatives highlighted in the EU 2020 Strategy; calls for a broad political concept for a competitive, social and sustainable future for the EU and stresses the need to achieve the EU’s social, economic and territorial cohesion; underlines that the EU flagship initiatives described in the EU 2020 Strategy, most of them under the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy remit, require solid, credible and sustainable EU financial support if the EU's key 2020 objectives are to be met; asks, therefore, for the inclusion of reference amounts for the flagship initiatives in the post-2013 MFF;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Believes that adequate financing needs to be secured in order to honour EU's international agreements;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the fact that the EU 2020 Strategy highlights the importance of industrial policy for sustainable growth social end economic welfare as well as for and employment in Europe; calls for a comprehensive vision for European industry in the year 2020, with a view to ensuring that a diversified and competitive industrial base is maintained and further developed and that jobs are created as a result; strongly supports the continuation of guarantee instruments in the framework of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) and calls for an extension and considerable expansion of the resources allocated to the CIP; asks the Commission for the next generation of programmes to put a stronger emphasis on mezzanine financial instruments and to support them with risk- sharing funds and facilities;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls the European Parliament's call on 10 March 2009 to further enhance the visibility and awareness of SME-related policy actions through the bundling of Community instruments and funds for SMEs under a separate heading in the EU budgetStresses the need to secure a 15% binding target for SMEs participation in Community instruments and funds;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Believes that thriving research, innovation and development contribute to addressing the major challenges of our times; recalls the EU´s objective of strengthening its scientific and technological bases by achieving a European Research Area; recognises the key role of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) as a key driver of EU sustainable growth and competitiveness through the stimulation of world-leading innovation; underlines the imp and calls fort ance of continuing efforts on simplifying research, innovation and development enlargement of the KICs priority areas, duly fundinged;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses the need to maintainenhance, stimulate and secure the financing of research, innovation and development in the EU via appropriate programme management and funding amounting at least to the percentage of the total EU budget that FP7 will have when it ends; calls for a significant increase in research expenditure from 2013, with an EU target of 1% of GDP for public funding significant increase in research expenditure from 2013 and continuing efforts on simplifying research, innovation and development funding and appropriate programme management; calls for increased international cooperation on R&D and more funds for mobility programmes;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Underlines the strategic importance of the European Global Satellite Navigation Systems (Galileo and EGNOS) as well as the European Earth monitoring programme GMES and is convinced, that their implementation will require intensive monitoring and evaluation; recognisestakes the view that the development of the newly established European space policy would logically imply additional financial capacity for the EUrequire a proper budget line with adequate funding.