43 Amendments of Reinhard BÜTIKOFER related to 2010/2095(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 a (new)
Citation 13 a (new)
- having regard to the report "Promoting innovative Business Models with Environmental Benefits" of November 2008 conducted on behalf of the Commission,
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the global economic crisis has hitaffected European industry hard, further exacerbating the already ongoing challenging processes of globalisation, climate change, resources depletion, demographic change and change to knowledge-based industry that are profoundly affecting industrial development, the workforce and prospects for the future,
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas, to be able to overcome the effect of the crisis and face those challenges, the EU needs an industry policy approach that combines competitiveness, sustainability and decent work that can at the same time stimulate the economy, boost employment, reduce environmental degradation and improve quality of life,
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas European industry is facing increasing global competitions from industrialised and from emerging countries such as China, India, Brazil in terms of access to resources, technological innovation, skilled workforce as well as targeted and ambitious industry and innovation policies,
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas maintaining global leadership of European industry is only possible through newrequire innovative technologies/processes/solutions, R&D, a sophisticated supply-chain, bettermore intelligent supply-chain, greater resources efficiency, strongkilled human resources, goodsmarter logistics and infrastructure, as cost-cutting is not the way forward for industry in Europe,
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas it is possible to achieve industrial progress through smart, long- term, balanca combination of the appropriate framework conditions as well as smart and targeted regulation and market stimulation, andsupporting the global trends towards clean and sustainable forms of production, distribution, and whereas consumption could be smartly exploited to the benefit of European industry, its competitiveness and global leadershipstimulation of smarter and sustainable consumption,
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Acknowledges the proposal for Integrated Industrial policy proposed by the Commission and notices its focus on restoring EU's industry competitiveness; stresses, in this respect, that, in the face of the global challenges, it is essential that energy and resources efficiency are at the basis of the European industrial renewal if European industry intends to maintain its competitiveness in the future;
Amendment 71 #
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 exampletargets and standards in particular for energy and resource efficiency, with a view tohile ensuring that European industry becomes more stable and competitive and jobs are created as a result; regrets, in this respect, the lack of tangible proposals in the Commission Communication on Integrated Industrial Policy;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Believes that macro-economic framework conditions in which European industry can thrive must be established, taking due account of the reality of resources scarcity and depletion; in this context, must aim at promoting not only today's competitiveness but above all securing future competitiveness;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Is convinced that not only the public sector but mostly the private sector will have an essential role to play in investing in the restructuring and the development of new industrial sectors, ensuring both the creation of jobs and the transition to a resource-efficient and low-carbon economy; considers it essential, therefore, for the right framework to be in place to stimulate these private investments;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. In this respect, believes that structural changes to national and international financial and fiscal systems, including for instance shifting taxation policies from labour to resources, the internalisation of external cost, are essential for creating the economic framework in which private and public investments can be stimulated and a sustainable industrial policy may deliver its objectives;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises that the new, integrated approach calls for extremely effective collaboration within the Commission, and calls on the Commission to set up a permanent industrial policy task force to this end; the role of this task force shall be to regularly evaluated the progresses of EU's industrial policy initiatives, promote coherence within its different elements and identify further problems to be addressed;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Is convinced that the success of a new, sustainable industrial policy depends on the involvement of all stakeholders, particularly the social partners, representatives of SMEs and the civil society; notes that the Commission is required to embed a clear partnership principle in all areas and measures, part of which consists in joint monitoring and evaluation of anticipated measures, including assessment of strategies/measures/programmes;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 – indent 2
Paragraph 8 – indent 2
· must cover the design, production and composition of products and services along the whole chain of processes and added value, and
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 – indent 3
Paragraph 8 – indent 3
· must reflect not the product alone, but also demand and use, and associated services with a view to integrated development and more sustainable, target- oriented production, leading to tangible benefits for consumers, businesses and the whole of society;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 – indent 3 a (new)
Paragraph 8 – indent 3 a (new)
· must include a smart mix of measure for the supply side as well as for the demand side which may be different from sector to sector, including for instance regulatory stimulus, standards, labelling, public procurement, vat reduction, tax incentives;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 – indent 3 b (new)
Paragraph 8 – indent 3 b (new)
· must allow for open innovation - and in some policy areas even consider requiring open innovation - which has become a major driving force for new thinking and new developments;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 – indent 3 c (new)
Paragraph 8 – indent 3 c (new)
· must promote creativity and employee driven innovation within public and private organisations;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Believes that in particular the setting of benchmarks and standards have proven to be strong drivers for promoting innovation and sustainable competitiveness in several industrial sectors; calls for a reinforcement of the European Standardisation System through measures promoting simplification, transparency, costs reduction and involvement of stakeholders;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Asks the Commission to present a strategy for the promotion of the Product Service Systems (PPS) since they would yield substantial business, balance of trade and environmental benefits;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses the success of the Risk Sharing Financial Facility (RSFF) as an important way of providing research, development and innovation funding for SMEs via the EIB, and strongly encourages the Commission to make significantly more funds available to the RSFF, direct private investments and innovative financing mechanisms, in particular for smaller companies and start ups, should be further promoted;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for further stimulation of technologies for sustainable development as begun in the ETAP action plan with the cross-linking of research, environmental and economic strategies, and calls for an ambitious ETAP follow-up plan and allocation of adequate financial resources for its implementation;
Amendment 190 #
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 and driving markets toward sustainable products and services; 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; in particular in the building sectors, the energy sector and transport sectors;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 – introductory part
Paragraph 13 – introductory part
13. Is convinced that the clear increase in resourcing efficiency as regards raw and auxiliary materials and supplies is strengthening the global competitive position of European industry, and therefore calls on the Commission to promotepose an ambitious EU resource efficiency policy as a priority. This means:
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 – indent 1 a (new)
Paragraph 13 – indent 1 a (new)
· indentifying targets and instruments that would enhance EU's resource productivity, durability and reuse, recycling and remanufacturing and the development of close loop industrial production systems,
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 – indent 3
Paragraph 13 – indent 3
· disseminating best-practice solutions and promoting resource efficiency networks and, in particular targeting supply chains and SMEs, and support materials efficiency agencies,
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – introductory part
Paragraph 14 – introductory part
14. Stresses that the availability of raw materials, in particular strategic resources and rare earths, is of central importance to European industry'’s development possibilities, and therefore calls on the Commission to present an ambitious and comprehensive raw materials strategy in 2010, which should include:
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Takes the view that an industry policy needs, first and foremost, to rebalance energy actions in favour of a demand-driven policy, empowering consumers and decoupling economic growth from energy use; in particular, the transport and construction industries must pursue an active energy savings policy and diversify towards sustainable, non-polluting and safe energy sources; an industry policy should help create market conditions which stimulate higher energy savings and energy efficiency investments, to exploit a wide range of renewable energies as well as key technologies for energy storage mobility (notably public transport);
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Is convinced that industry needs an energy policy focused on the long term which guarantees appropriate energy prices and security of supplyless energy consumption whilst guarantee the perenity of the industries, in particular SMEs, allows manufacturing to take place without the release less or zero production of gases damaging to the climate, and tries to prevents carbon leakage; points out that thea full internal energy market is an asset when it comes to switching to low-carbon production and supplyreducing industry costs, and that the network infrastructure (including heating networks) must therefore be renewed and extended, and smart grids promoted; a long-term energy policy should include the interaction between industries and the local heat market and possible use of low grade industrial heat in the residential and service sectors that will strengthen security of supply and increase resource efficiency;
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Recalls the huge job creation potential and cost reduction benefits that energy efficiency improvements are expected to yield; adopting measures including targets, standards and benchmarking mechanisms that ensure energy efficiency improvement must therefore underpin initiatives in all industrial sectors;
Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Believes that a policy of improving sustainability of transport systems and infrastructure through such measures as more efficient technologies, interoperability, innovative mobility solution but also local sourcing policies is needed to ensure that supply chains may function with more sustainable logistics systems and at reduced operating costs;
Amendment 287 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)
Paragraph 15 c (new)
15c. Believes that modern ICT technologies provide a large potential for innovations in support of sustainability and eco-efficiency, e.g. integration of technologies by putting additional intelligence layers on top of physical layers to achieve more efficiency management of systems (such as water supply, transportation systems); stresses the need to have open ICT standards available for such solutions and therefore urges the Commission to require open standards and the stakeholders to drive the development of suitable open standards in support to resources efficiency;
Amendment 303 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 – indent 2 a (new)
Paragraph 16 – indent 2 a (new)
- coordinated activities to improve the teaching and awareness raising of the economic role of European industrial sectors and the necessity of their innovative transformation within a low- carbon and resource efficient economy,
Amendment 362 #
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 order to improve the framework conditions for industrial property rights, implementing a reform of standardisation methods, a reform regarding modernisation of ICT standardisation policy in the EU and bringing about international standardisation in order to safeguard technological leadership;
Amendment 372 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls for the establishment of a task force on restructuring operations 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 towards innovative and sustainable alternatives be intensified;
Amendment 392 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 – indent 2 a (new)
Paragraph 22 – indent 2 a (new)
• to provide instruments fostering the development and growth of eco-innovative SMEs as well as the development of eco- industrial parks;
Amendment 406 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Takes the view that sectoral aid policy should not only be seen in the context of competition law, but must, in the interests of Europe, be used proactively, transparently and with clear rules to strengthen innovation and the roll-out of newsustainable products, and in connection with industrial restructuring operations, while aid to unsustainable processes should be phased out;
Amendment 438 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5
Subheading 5
Specific industrieal sectors
Amendment 441 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – introductory part
Paragraph 26 – introductory part
26. Is convinced that, in parallel with a horizontal approach, industry-specific initiatives can respond to the particular characteristics of individual industrial sectors, their supply chains and associated services and help modernise them and increase their competitiveness and sustainability; calls for:
Amendment 444 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – indent 1
Paragraph 26 – indent 1
• the existing industry-ial sectors specific approaches (task forces, high-level groups, lead markets, innovation platforms such as Cars 21, etc.and European technology platforms) to be renewed, comparably developed and equipped with clear strategic content by the Commission, in consultation with all stakeholders,
Amendment 447 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – indent 1 a (new)
Paragraph 26 – indent 1 a (new)
• the securing of sustainability proofing of the sector specific approaches in line with EU's climate and energy policy objectives and ambitious resource efficiency objectives,
Amendment 448 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – indent 1 b (new)
Paragraph 26 – indent 1 b (new)
• to consider the whole range of possible policy measures including benchmarks and standards and sustained R&D and innovation efforts,
Amendment 457 #
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 energies, aviation, chemicals, food and the creative industrievaluation of key European industry sectors in terms of jobs creation potential and sustainability for the identification of further initiatives,