17 Amendments of Anni PODIMATA related to 2010/2095(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the global economic crisis has hit European industry hard, further exacerbating the already ongoing challenging processes of globalisation, climate change, demographic change and change to knowledge-based industrindustry based on knowledge and efficiency that are profoundly affecting industrial development, the workforce and prospects for the future,
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
Β. whereas maintaining global leadership of European industry is only possible through new technologies/processes/solutions, R&D, a sophisticated supply-chain, better efficiency and a smaller carbon footprint, strong human resources, good logistics and infrastructure, as cost-cutting is not the way forward for industry in Europe,
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to develop, together with the European Parliament and the Council, a qualitative and, where possible, quantitative vision for European industry in 2020, which looks towards sustainable development in the long term and lays down guidelines, for example for energy and resource efficiency, with a view to ensuring that European industry becomes more stablein particular by promoting renewable energies and energy efficiency with a view to ensuring greater stability and competitiveness and jobs are created as a resultthus creating jobs, in particular green jobs;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises that the new, integrated approach calls for extremely effective collaboration within the Commission, and, to this end, calls on the Commission to set up a permanent industrial policy task force to this end; responsible for analysing the state of EU industry on the basis of data it has collected and identifying current growth sectors and any future growth sectors that may be discerned on the basis of developments in our society;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for research expenditure for the upcoming programming period from 2013 (RDP 8) to be significantly increased (EU target for public funding: 1% of GDP). Notes that, alongside strongly process- oriented research and innovation, research in basic cross-sectoral technologies is needed and, in addition, that proceduresadministrative procedures and procedures for gaining access to funding must be simplified;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Recalls that, representing as it does an annual 17% of GDP in the EU, public procurement is a powerful instrument for stimulating innovation; calls for public procurement rules to be simplified and for compliance with the principles of transparency and access to information to be ensured; stresses that it is essential to encourage the private sector to become more involved in innovation activities; points out that competitors such as China and the USA have set ambitious targets for public procurement of innovative and environmental products, and calls for similar target setting in the EU;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – indent 1
Paragraph 14 – indent 1
- intensification of raw material recovery and reuse by means of ambitious recycling rules, appropriate support for research, and a stop to the landfill and exporting of waste that contains raw materials,
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Is convinced that industry needs an energy policy focused on the long term which guarantees appropriatffordable energy prices and security of supply, allows manufacturing to take place without the release of gases damaging to the climate, and prevents carbon leakage; points out that the internal energy market is an asset when it comes to switching to low-carbon production and supply, and that the network infrastructure must therefore be renewed and extended, and smart grids promoted;
Amendment 288 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 – introductory part
Paragraph 16 – introductory part
16. IDraws attention to the need for sufficient technical and skilled personnel; considers therefore that more investment is needed in the field of education and training; insists that every effort be made to redress skills shortages, by means inter alia of:
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 – indent 1
Paragraph 16 – indent 1
- an institutionalised dialogue between the relevant authorities and the social partners with a view to reviewing syllabuses, so as to include the entrepreneurial spirit and increase awareness of business, and devising effective ways of completing the transition between school and the job market, particularly encouraging the promotion of individual mobility programmes such as ‘Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs’ and ‘Erasmus for Apprentices’,
Amendment 297 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 – indent 2
Paragraph 16 – indent 2
- coordinated initiatives to improve the teaching of STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) at all levels, particularly to women, and to promote the exchange of best practice, coordinated initiatives to improve the teaching of STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) at all levels, particularly to women, and to promote the exchange of best practice in the fields both of education and of training, promoting exchanges of innovative measures to reconcile work and family life, and to promote equality between women and men;
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 – indent 4
Paragraph 16 – indent 4
- . establishing, in cooperation with training bodies and the social partners, work-based vocational and occupational (re)training and lifelong learning programmes, both for workers and for employers; opening up and modernising universities to allow them to offer higher vocational qualifications (for engineers, IT specialists, technicians, etc.);
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for a stronger, coordinated EU policy on lead markets, such as the environmental industries (some 3.5 million employees, EUR 300 billion turnover, up to 50% of the global market); stresses that many ‘traditional’ markets – steel, automobiles and shipbuilding, for example – have a strong capacity for innovation and/or offer comparative advantages, of which full use should be made; for these purposes, product-specific legislation such as the eco-design directive should be developed further, the directive on the eco- labelling of energy-consuming products should be fully implemented and industry-stimulating initiatives such as the ‘green car initiative’ put in place;
Amendment 355 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls for efforts to be stepped up with a view to creating without delay a Community patent in orderwhich will provide effective, high-quality legal protection at low cost, and a harmonised European system for settling disputes concerning patents, to improve the framework conditions for industrial property rights, implementing a reform of standardisation methods and bringing about international standardisation in order to safeguard technological leadership;
Amendment 371 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls for the establishment of a task force on restructuring operations, composed of all parties concerned, particularly workers’ representatives, and a stronger role for the European structural funds in restructuring processes so that employees and firms can be offered a future; calls for research and development in furtherance of conversion processes to be intensified;
Amendment 378 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 – introductory part
Paragraph 22 – introductory part
22. Stresses the great importance of SMEs in the industrial landscape, in particular when it comes to providing long-term jobs at regional level, and calls on the Commission:
Amendment 463 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – indent 3
Paragraph 26 – indent 3
• a particular focus on the key European industries – e.g. the automotive industry, renewable enersources of energy, energy- saving technologies, aviation, chemicals, food and the creative industries,