48 Amendments of Cristina GUTIÉRREZ-CORTINES related to 2010/2245(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A – introductory part
Recital A – introductory part
A. whereas accelerating innovation is not only essential in order to attain a sustainable and competitive economic model and secure future employment, but will also generate solutions to the shared grand societal challenges facing European society, namely:
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Urges the European Commission to follow the recommendation of the Interim Evaluation of the Seventh Framework Programme (Expert Group) when it asks a moratorium on new instruments should be considered until the existing ones have been sufficiently developed and adequately evaluated, and care should be taken to avoid a confusing proliferation of instruments;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Considers that in order to guarantee the success of the new instruments for innovation that are going to be developed in the EU2020 strategy its necessary to approve clear and specific 'Rules of Participation' that include an obligatory proportion of small enterprises;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Asks the European Commission to present to the European Parliament an external evaluation of the innovation instruments created under the Seventh Framework Programme, such as, for example, technological platforms and JETIs (Joint European Technology Initiatives), whereby the evaluation should cover activities, calls for proposals, innovation projects and results (if any) and the economic contribution from public and private funds.
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B – point 1 a (new)
Recital B – point 1 a (new)
· ensure a direct and open involvement of the most relevant actors (especially enterprises) in the decision-making processes,
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Stresses that in some sectors, such as that of health, the results of research have fed into innovation whenever science has allowed, and therefore considers that the Commission’s pessimism with regard to innovation is in many cases unjustified;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Given that innovation is usually closely linked to the market and develops through non-formal channels, believes that the EU should fine-tune its evaluation methods to reflect the fact that the same criteria cannot be used to assess every area;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14 c (new)
Paragraph 14 c (new)
14c. Calls on the EU to conduct a study on the obstacles the EU itself has created to the development of research and innovation in Europe by reducing the expiry date for patents, the widespread introduction of the precautionary principle, giving legal form to the principle of substitution without any specific impact assessments and adopting the Reach Regulation without taking into account quality considerations or exemptions and without having checked for any adverse impact it might have on industrial activity;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Regrets that innovation protocols are subjected to long bureaucratic approval processes that slows down innovation, limits the competitiveness of the EU market and stops the development of scientific knowledge in the medical community deferring the benefits to patients;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Calls upon the Commission and Member States to define and implement policy frameworks aimed at stimulating rapid access for users to valuable innovations across the EU, ensuring that newly-found innovations can actually reach potential end-users within reasonable timeframes;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14 c (new)
Paragraph 14 c (new)
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14 d (new)
Paragraph 14 d (new)
14d. Stresses the great importance of using new knowledge to create new and better ways to prevent, find, and treat cancer and to promote rapid mechanisms to make those discoveries available to patients;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14 e (new)
Paragraph 14 e (new)
14e. Urges the European Commission to follow the recommendation of the Interim Evaluation of the Seventh Framework Programme (Expert Group) when it asks a moratorium on new instruments should be considered until the existing ones have been sufficiently developed and adequately evaluated, and care should be taken to avoid a confusing proliferation of instruments;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14 f (new)
Paragraph 14 f (new)
14f. Asks the European Commission to present to the European Parliament an external evaluation about the innovation instruments created inside the Seventh Framework Programme. Platforms, JETIs where the evaluation should include activities, calls, projects of innovation and results (if they exist) and the economic contribution from public and private funds;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Innovation Union flagship initiative, which is the most significant and concrete attempt so far to introduce a strategic, integrated and market-oriented European innovation policy, whose success though depends on the full cooperation of – and its implementation by –the Member States;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for a broad concept of innovation that goes beyond technological and product-oriented innovation and placesinnovation, involves all the stakeholders interested by the innovation chain, with a special focus on enterprises and on the enabling role of citizens at the centre; ; recalls that innovation is applying ideas successfully in practice and targets products, processes, services or movements;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls for a clear distinction to be made between ‘original innovation’, meaning something made for the first time and not available on the market, from commercial improvements or alterations made to a product, service, process or movements already present on the market;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Takes the view that socio-economic innovation needs to be precisely but flexibly defined, because in many cases it does not take the form of a product or the application of a technical solution but of a series of interconnected, long-term institutional, technical and management changes that constitute a process;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Takes the view that the rules governing the use of innovation support should make a distinction between original innovation and product or company management improvements; points out that funding provided for business improvements could be deemed to constitute business aid;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Considers that in order to guarantee the success of the new instruments for innovation that are going to be developed in the EU2020 Strategy is necessary to approve clear and specific 'Rules of Participation' that include an obligatory proportion of small and micro enterprises;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the Commission's focus on grand societal challenges, and stresses that innovation is needed in order to increase resource productivity and sustainable substitution while simultaneously reducinguse of resource uses and energy consumptiontowards an increasing efficiency;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 – point 1
Paragraph 6 – point 1
· strategic orientation, design and implementation of all policies and measures, with the aim of contributing to and enhancing innovation in Europe (through, for example, education and training, advisory services, the labour market, the single market, infrastructure, taxation instruments, industrial policy and trade);
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 – point 1
Paragraph 6 – point 1
· strategic orientation, design and implementation of all policies and measures, with the aim of contributing to and enhancing innovation in Europe (through, for example, education and training, advisory services, the labour market, the single market, infrastructure, taxation instruments, EU policies focused on SMEs, industrial policy and trade);
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the Commission's proposal for the development of a single integrated indicator allowing better monitoring of progress in innovation, involving primarily enterprises that, since the very beginning and in a concrete way, are committed in evaluating innovation; urges further development of the ‘scoreboard’ by means of international cooperation;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Believes that, given that innovation is usually closely linked to the market and develops through non-formal channels, the EU should fine-tune its innovation evaluation methods to reflect the fact that the same criteria cannot be used to assess every area;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Subheading 2
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses that citizens' demands as consumers and engagement as professionals are one of the main drivers of innovation; points out that the creation of an innovative society must therefore be based on the participation of its citizens, by enabling them to articulate their needs and their creative potential through a bottom-up approach and by providing innovative solutions enabling individual citizens to contribute to resource efficiency;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Highlights the importance of social innovation and the need to adopt a bottom- up approach and an open environment for creative ideas reducing the European risk adversity towards business development, so as to spur productivity growth, empower employees and develop solutions for unmet social needs (such as inclusion and immigration);
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the EU, national and regional authorities to stimulate social innovation and to provide public funds in support of it; stresses thatCommission to launch the pilot project and the new research programme on social innovation, that could serve as basis for the future activities in this field; as all other innovation components, also social innovation should be included in funding and support programmes such as the European Social Fund, the Framework Programmes (FPs) and the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP);
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to introduce a better method of financing innovation, by creating synergies and merging Research & Development & Innovation (R&D&I) support programmes where possible, for example the FPs, Joint Technology Initiatives, the CIP, Joint Programmes, the European Institute of Innovation and Technology and the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan, and to direct structural funding and parts of the Common Agricultural Policy funds and Emission Trading Scheme auction revenues toto innovation; recalls on the Members States to respect their commitment to devote 50% of ETS revenues to finance climate related action, including innovation projects; joins the Council in calling for a new balance between trust and control, and between risk-taking and risk avoidance;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Asks the European Commission to present to the European Parliament an external evaluation about the innovation instruments created inside the Seventh Framework Programme like Technological Platforms and JTIs where the evaluation should include activities, calls, innovation projects and results (if they exist) and the economic contribution from public and private funds;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Stresses the need to support a composite financial architecture, as well as the development of new financial mechanisms, also combining automatic instruments with grant-based instruments in order to foster investments needed to reach strategic R&D goals;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Welcomes the Commission proposal to define specific investments addressed to innovative start-ups;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to move a greater proportion of close-to-the-market research to demonstration projects through relevant loan-driven instruments such as the CIP, the RSFF and the EIF, and to give SMEs Europe-wide access thereto;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Urges the European Commission to follow the recommendation of the Interim Evaluation of the Seventh Framework Programme (Expert Group) when it asks for a moratorium on new instruments that should be considered until the existing ones have been sufficiently developed and adequately evaluated; therefore, calls for special precaution to be taken in order to avoid confusion due to the proliferation of instruments;
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, in the light of the fact that over recent years some EU policies and legislation have created difficulties for research and innovation and have been instrumental in the closure of many firms and the relocation of a large part of the European pharmaceuticals and chemicals industries, and have at the same time created difficulties for innovation, to carry out a study to identify the difficulties caused by the current legislation;
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Stresses that the European single market must be completed for all goods and services as a matter of urgency, including innovative health products, thus providing access to 500 million consumers; draws attention, in this connection, to the fact that in some sectors, such as the health sector, results research findings have fed into innovation whenever science has allowed, and therefore considers that the Commission’s pessimism with regard to innovation is in many cases unjustified;
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Calls for the introduction of a single Community patent; welcomes, meanwhile, the broad support in the Council for the enhanced cooperation procedure on a single EU patent to start in 2011balanced and non-discriminatory single EU patent;
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Welcomes the Commission proposal to develop a European knowledge market for trading and licensing by the end of 2011, including facilitating access to unused intellectual property;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Points out that, if we are to move towards a single innovation market, ways of assessing the direct and indirect, short- and long-term, economic and social benefits need to be agreed;
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Calls on the EU to conduct a study on the obstacles it has itself created to the development of research and innovation in Europe by bringing forward the expiry date for patents, introducing the precautionary principle across the board, giving legal form to the principle of substitution without any specific impact assessments and adopting the Reach Regulation without taking into account quality considerations or exemptions and without having checked for any adverse impact it might have on industrial activity;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Urges the Member States to direct their public procurement towards innovative products, processes and services; calls, therefore, on the Commission, in its legislative proposals, to facilitate innovation enabling public procurement, including a review of pre-commercial procurement opportunities, and calls on the Member States to increase their green ppromote Green Public Procurement as defined in the Commission Communication COM/2008/400 Public pProcurement for a better environment;
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 – point 5
Paragraph 32 – point 5
· encompass all research and innovation programmes, including the EIT's Knowledge and Innovation Communities;
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 point 5 a (new)
Paragraph 32 point 5 a (new)
· involve all relevant public and private partners along the supply chains, in the selection and development of the future partnerships, as well as in the definition of their governance models,
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 point 5 b (new)
Paragraph 32 point 5 b (new)
· better coordinate existing instruments and initiatives