Activities of Adam GIEREK related to 2011/2056(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
An effective raw materials strategy for Europe (debate)
Amendments (9)
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the fact that in 2008 the Commission spearheaded the issue of non-energy, non- agricultural raw materials (RM)policy with its Raw Materials Initiative (RMI) in 2008, whose status reflects the importance of energy policy and whose scope includes all mineral and organic materials, as well as water and air;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the Commission’s work on identifying critical raw materials (CRM); calls on the Commission to follow this up by analysing the supply chains depending on CRM, the refining capacity and the interaction between CRM and their associated base metalsir capacity for further refining, such as refining and extraction leading to the production of semi-finished products; draws attention to the diversity of logistical paradigms for raw material streams in the common market;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the following criteria are taken into account for the classification of raw materials: the energy consumption used to obtain them, their final use, their possible substitution and their availability on the EU and global market;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Considers that demand for mineral and organic materials, water and air depends on a broad based innovatory policy in the field of materials substitution which is linked to their final use for the production of market products; it is therefore necessary to support innovatory solutions for obtaining construction materials for the building sector and machine industry, as well as materials for obtaining substances with specific physical and chemical properties, such as rare earth metals and copper;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Believes that a tax for mineral resources owned is not an adequate toolfiscal tool stimulating raw materials development, but calls on the Commission to investigate whether a tax on water and land useuse and air, land and geological structures could be of benefit;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission to identify priorities and allocate budgets for research into product lifecycles and recycling, materials substitution and available resource efficiency using FP7 and FP8 funding, particularly for CRM such as REEthrough rational use of funds from the framework programmes; insists on the importance of a European Innovation Partnership on RM; calls on the Commission to launch such a partnership in 2011strategic RM;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Given the uneven geographical distribution of resources in the world, raw materials policy is vulnerable to monopolisation, which may entail unwarranted economic and political demands for strategic resources and materials to be sold; appropriate protection of raw material resources is therefore needed within the territory of the EU Member States, together with their efficient use under the subsidiarity principle;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Considers that the police pursued under the strategic partnership between the EU and the Russian Federation is crucial in improving the raw materials balance in the common market in return for cooperation in modernising that country;
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. The Member States' sovereignty over raw materials and their enhanced role in shaping the EU's raw materials policy, which is conditioned by many environmental, soil-related and geological limitations, as well as local traditions, needs to be backed by a greater contribution from public finances, e.g. pension funds, towards investment in efforts to obtain both primary and recycled materials;