21 Amendments of Yannick JADOT related to 2022/2040(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the recent external shocks caused by violent conflicts, pandemics and arbitrary disruptions of supply chainsRussia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, pandemics, disruptions of supply chains, aggressive strategies for resources grabbing and resources scarcity, have tested the resilience of economies worldwide; whereas the EU’s economy has shown itself to be highly dependent on 137 products, in particular those related to energy and raw materials, medicines and health products, cutting- edge and cloud technologies, batteries and semiconductors;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the World Trade Organization (WTO) should remain at the center of a rules based trade system, while at the same time modernising its rules in order to better integrate trade and climate and should bring a higher level of transparency to trade and trade- related measures for its members, as divisions risk undermining the maintenance and openness of global supply chains;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas in order to increase the resilience of its supply chains, the EU should implement a combination of different commodity-based solutions, including boosting existing EU production, reshoring and nearshoring, stockpiling, promoting the circular economy and diversifying suppliers through strategic free trade agreements, sectoral partnerships and alliances, and trade and technology councils;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines that it is crucial to respond to the possible negative consequences of any external shocks with a coordinated approach at national and EU levelstrong and consistent EU strategy;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to pay special attention to the sensitive sectors outlined hereafter, which are particularly crucial to developing or enhancing the approach to strengthening resilience in the specific supply chains; underlines that the pandemic and the war in Ukraine have exposed the vulnerabilities of global supply chains and stresses that the EU should put in place a resilience stress test for key sectors in order to identify raw materials or goods facing a risk of supply disruption with a negative cascade effects on the whole EU economy, pushing up inflation, jeopardizing the wellbeing of EU citizens and the transition, thereby equipping the EU and its Member States to better anticipate future shocks and cushion them;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Calls on the Commission to adopt a coherent and comprehensive approach to strengthening its resilience, which should be based on 3 pillars : (1) reshoring, greater domestic decarbonised production and shortening of supply chains, (2) energy economies, efficiency and recycling through binding targets to reduce material consumption within planetary boundaries, (3) cleaning-up supply chains from human rights violation and deforestation or biodiversity deterioration through new legislations, (4) foster partnerships and step-up investments in the green and social transition while ensuring that trade achieves the maximum human well-being for the minimum use of energy and resources; underlines that this entails the redesign of the global trade system so that it does not undermine but rather serves the regeneration of ecosystems, while ensuring the possibility of high-quality employment and environmental and human rights protection in the EU and in third countries;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Calls on the Commission to explore policy options to promote research and investment in domestic supply chains, also through tax incentives, funding and local content measures;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2 c. Calls on the Commission to come up with robust and ambitious legislations on energy economies, recycling and energy efficiency in order to reduce EU dependency on energy and critical raw materials; encourages the EU to promote the recycling or substitution of Critical Raw Materials (CRMS) by tightening its regulations, promoting 'circular by design' manufacturing, and fund research and development, especially to foster product for product substitution where possible;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the COVID-19 crisis and the warRussian aggression in Ukraine have highlighted the EU agricultural sector’s dependence on imports from a small number ofvulnerability caused by its reliance on complex import and export chains; highlights that localised, short supply chains countries, especially in the case of wheat and ammonium, which is essential for fertiliserbute to the resilience of food supply chains overall, which ensures profitable paths for production and distribution; notes that import dependency increases vulnerability of food producers to external shocks, as now observed in fuel energy, fertiliser and feed chains; recalls that the EU should be autonomous in primary sector products in order to guarantee its security and avoid dependence on third partiefor EU production to be recalibrated to focus on more domestic production and more sustainable practices, like agroecology, which reduce the need for inputs, and other practices which change and help diversify towards more sustainable inputs and alternatives to fertiliser sources and streams;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that the war in Ukraine and the subsequent sanctions on Russia have increased the difficulty ofhas accelerated and intensified shocks in the sourcing of raw materials; takes note of the announcement of the forthcoming publication of the Critical Raw Materials Act during the 2022 State of the Union address;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Hopes that the EU Chips Act will effectively catalyse EU competitiveness and resilience in semiconductor technologies and applications; asks the Commission to also focus on the production of basichigh-end chips necessary for the production of goods with high added value, such as those used with a view to strengthening the automotive sectorstrategic position of the EU in the chips value chain;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that medical supply chains can be strengthened by investing in skills, building health data infrastructure, and supporting regulatory framework and intellectual property policies that foster innovation and ensure affordable medicineswhile ensuring affordable medicines, including to developing countries in need, by transferring health technologies from the global north to the global south also with a view fostering the development of local economies and local resilience; believes that the TRIPS Agreement should be amended to allow WTO members to exclude key health technologies from patent protection;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Underlines the need for a harmonised approach on the unilateral, bilateral and multilateralat the EU level with a short-, medium- and long-term perspective;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the development of an EU toolbox of autonomous trade instruments, including the trade defence instruments, an anti-coercion instrument, the foreign-direct-investment screening mechanism, the foreign subsidies instrument and the international procurement instrument and stresses that a reactive implementation of those instrument will be crucial in order to rebalance trade relationships and foster more sustainable and protective-of- human-rights supply chains, as well as the creation of the post of Chief Trade Enforcement Officer (CTEO) to respond to these emerging challenges;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Emphasises that the continuing rise in the cost of bureaucracy, particularly as a result of EU legislation such as the Supply Chain Act, places a particular burden on the export industry, which is dominated by SMEsa model of production heavily reliant on cheap gas from Russia and cheap labour from China has proven unsustainable; welcomes the several legislative initiatives aiming at regulating Supply Chains and at internalising negative externalities in the area of climate, biodiversity, environmental protection, human rights, forced labour and other labour standards; underlines that the upcoming review of the EU Conflict Minerals Regulation should prioritise the enlargement of the scope to additional relevant minerals and geographical areas and thoroughly assess the extent to which the downstream sector has taken up the due diligence practices provided by the Regulation;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Recalls that in cooperation with the Member States and international partners, the EU must guaranteeshould contribute to upholding freedom of the sea and trade routes and thus ensure access to raw materials, energy and export markets;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to start a dialogue with neighbouring countries on the possibility of nearshoring production and increasing regulatory cooperationopen and transparent cooperation on regulatory matters in order to boost the security of supply and diversify its sources at the same time;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Recalls that the circular economy action plan is intended to help the EU treduce the carbon and environmental footprint of EU’s production while also reduceing its dependence on external players so as to support strategic autonomy in a wide range of sectors, including mining;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Believes that freeNotes that FTAs have exposed the EU to structural dependence and vulnerability; Believes that a revised approach to trade agreements (FTAs) may be crucial to diversifying sources of supply and reducing the EU’s dependence on just a few countries; calls for the EU to prioritise strategic FTAtrade agreements with a particular focus on chapters on raw materials and energy, which should ensure consistency with climate and environmental protection and value addition in the country of extraction and exploitation of the resources, technical barriers to trade and open and transparent regulatory cooperation; aiming at a race to the top in regulations and that fully preserves the right to regulate;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Recalls that liberalisation of trade and the consequent creation of global value chains, based on hyper- specialisation, has, in numerous cases, created excessive dependencies that risk now being leveraged politically and even in a coercive manner; is concerned that such countries as China play a dominant position at strategic choke points in the supply chain of goods and technology that are at the centre of the green and digital transitions; urges the Commission and the Member States to agree to a credible strategy aimed at increasing the EU’s leverage vis-à-vis those strategic dependencies and such key countries;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Takes note of the Commission communicationWelcomes the launch onf the Global Gateway as a plan for major investment in infrastructure development around the world, which is based on climate, environmental sustainability and with human rights at its core; urges the Commission, the EEAS and the MS to deploy credible flagship projects with a particular attention being paid to Africa;