9 Amendments of Silvia-Adriana ȚICĂU related to 2010/2211(INI)
Amendment 3 #
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 require solid, credible and sustainable EU financial support if the EU's key 2020 objectives are to be met;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Takes the view that the new multiannual financial framework should reflect the EU's political priorities as outlined in the EU 2020 Strategy; emphasises that the Union needs a long-term vision for an efficient and sustainable energy policy to 2050; notes that substantial investments in the European energy infrastructure are needed, in order not to jeopardise achieving the EU 2020 targets; welcomes the plans for an increase in the EU budget share for energy with a view to contributing to the funding of key European priority energy infrastructure projects with the aim of bridging the investment gap of about EUR 60 billion identified by the European Commission, as well as for European funding for research on new and renewable energy technologies; takes the view that energy efficiency and energy savings should remain key priorities in any future energy strategy, reducing the need for new additional energy infrastructures and they should be well reflected and supported by the EU’s future financial perspective;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to consider developing an integrated EU policy for inland waterways – bearing in mind the benefits of transport by ship on Europe’s integrated river and canal network, and the fact that the EU has over 37 000 of waterways linking hundreds of cities and industrial regions and that 20 of the 27 Member States have inland waterways – and for suitable support to be granted for this from the EU and Member State budgets;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Emphasises the need – in view of the potential of eco-efficient transport for generating new jobs – to support, through EU policies and financial instruments, the development of the requisite infrastructure for electric vehicles and their integration into a Europe-wide intelligent energy network which would also be able to use energy generated locally from renewable energy sources;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the fact that the EU 2020 Strategy highlights the importance of industrial policy for sustainable growth and, social end economic welfare as well as for 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 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 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Stresses that the competitiveness of EU is very much dependent on the innovation capacity, on the research and development facilities and on the linkage between innovation and manufacturing process;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to consider increasing dramatically GNSS application research funding in order to give European industry, SMEs and all the stakeholders a chance to increase their level of uptake in the GNSS global market and to ensure EU's independence in a sector on which more than 6% of the whole EU GDP relies;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses the need to maintain, 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 which will leverage the private sector to increase its participation to research funding to 2% of GDP; calls for increased international cooperation on R&D;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Urges the European Commission, the European Council and the Member States of the European Union to take action and, in addition to the national efforts of the Member States, EU's GNSS applications and user segment R&D funding to be raised to at least 100MEUR per year. Further, the level of EU's R&D funding through FP8 should be significantly increased in order to provide the European GNSS downstream industry with the means to be and to remain competitive;