Activities of Marisa MATIAS related to 2019/0151(COD)
Reports (1)
REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (recast)
Amendments (24)
Amendment 114 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 a (new)
Recital 5 a (new)
(5 a) The crisis resulting from the outbreak of COVID-19 has caused a massive and disruptive impact on Member States' health and economic systems, causing societal disruptions. Those impacts will require the collaboration of all Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and the EIT should contribute to the innovation efforts that are needed to provide a coherent response to the crisis. Moreover, the EIT and its KICs should reinforce its actions in order to support and increase the resilience of microenterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises, start-ups as well as students, researchers, entrepreneurs and employees.
Amendment 115 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 b (new)
Recital 5 b (new)
(5 b) Ongoing research into tackling the effects of the COVID-19 crisis should be accelerated. The EIT should boost the impact of that research and help develop products and innovative services arising from that research, ensuring that they reach as many people as possible.
Amendment 116 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 c (new)
Recital 5 c (new)
(5 c) The EIT Governing Board and the KICs shall adopt flexibility measures and actions necessary to provide the appropriate support to their ecosystem based on the knowledge triangle, creating, where necessary, ad hoc support measures for their partners and beneficiaries and even beyond their communities. They shall provide their partners, their beneficiaries and students with tools and instruments to adapt to more decentralised and remote working methods, less travel, more uncertainty and continued social distancing.
Amendment 128 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) Taking into account the specificity of KICs, it is necessary to provide for special minimum conditions to form a KIC,. Those conditions may, on an exceptional basis derogatinge from the rules for participation and dissemination of the UnionHorizon Europe framework programme supporting research and innovation. Similarly, specific rules on ownership, access rights, exploitation and dissemination may be necessary for KIC added-value activities.
Amendment 151 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) The EIT should produce a consolidated annual activity report, outlining the activities conducted and results of the operations in the preceding calendar year . The EIT should also produce a single programming document, outlining its planned initiatives in terms of annual and multiannual programming and allowing the EIT to respond to internal and external developments in the fields of science, technology, higher education, innovation, societal challenges and other relevant areas. Those documents should be made available to the European Parliament.
Amendment 165 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
(2 a) 'KIC co-location centre' means a physical space, established in an open and transparent manner, covering a geographical area, where a KIC's main knowledge triangle partners can easily interact, providing the focal point for the KIC's activity in that area;
Amendment 169 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 b (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 b (new)
(2 b) 'innovation hubs' means a network of dynamic EIT community offices established in the Member States, which represent the whole EIT Community, aimed at ensuring a structured and sufficient level of EIT presence locally, which provide a focal and information point for local KIC activities, and which has a mandate to collaborate and find synergies with ecosystems at local, regional, national and Union level;
Amendment 170 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 c (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 c (new)
(2 c) 'EIT liaison offices network' means a network of national representatives nominated by the governments of the Member States and countries associated to the Horizon Europe Programme, part of the National Contact Points for Horizon Europe, tasked with facilitating a more structured dissemination of opportunities, results and achievements emerging from the EIT Community as well as encourage mutual transfer of knowledge, advice and best practise, in line with the EIT's institute function;
Amendment 186 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Amendment 189 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 13
(13) ‘financial sustainability’ means a capacity of a KIC to fundinance most or all its knowledge triangle activities, including a significant share of the costs of maintaining the ecosystem, independently and after the end date of the framework partnership agreement. Additionally, while the innovation and close to market activities of the KICs should be financially sustainable at the earliest possible date, the higher education, training and horizontally- structured activities of KICs should have the possibility to continue to receive EIT funding, after the end date of the framework partnership agreement and following a thorough evaluation by independent experts.
Amendment 205 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2
Article 4 – paragraph 2
2. The SIA shall be aligned with the objectives of the UnionHorizon Europe framework programme supporting research and innovation, the strategic multiannual planning, reporting, monitoring and evaluation and other requirements of that programme, and foster synergies with other relevant Union programmes of the respective MFF, in particular with those supporting education, skills development, competitive industry, entrepreneurship and regional development. It shall also establish appropriate synergies and complementarities between the EIT activities and other Union initiatives , policies and instruments . , in particular the European Universities Initiative, the European Innovation Council and the Missions as referred to in the Decision of Horizon Europe. The Commission shall offer the EIT all the necessary support in establishing appropriate synergies and complementarities, while avoiding duplication, with other Horizon Europe activities, as well as other Union initiatives and programmes.
Amendment 216 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) a Director, appointed by the Governing Board, who shall be the legal representative of the EIT responsible for its operations and day-to-day management. The Director shall be accountable to the Governing Board and report to it on an ongoing basis on the development of the EIT and all activities falling under his/her responsibility , including the implementation of the EIT Budget. The Director shall report to the European Parliament on periodical basis, at least after each monitoring and evaluation process;
Amendment 241 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point i a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point i a (new)
(i a) provide the necessary support and synergies with KICs to develop innovative solutions and help with the European Economic Recovery, while achieving the Union's priorities of the ‘European Green Deal’;
Amendment 242 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point i b (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point i b (new)
(i b) ensure that KICs can operate with the necessary flexibility to adapt their operations to the increasing demands arising from the COVID-19 crisis;
Amendment 245 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point k a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point k a (new)
(k a) establish a dedicated network of country liaison officers, as part of the National Contact Points for Horizon Europe in order to facilitate a more structured dissemination of opportunities, results and achievements emerging from the EIT community as well as encourage the mutual transfer of knowledge, advice and best practise in line with the EIT Institute function;
Amendment 261 #
(b) innovation-driven research, experimentation, prototyping and demonstration in areas of key economic and societal interest and drawing on the results of Union and national research, with the potential to strengthen Union’s competitiveness at international level and find solutions for the major challenges faced by European society, including health and digital challenges and the implementation of the Union's climate goals and the UN Sustainable Development Goals;
Amendment 280 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
(d a) elaborate a two-year strategic plan detailing initiatives envisaged to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 crisis, while paying specific attention to actions aiming to increase the resilience of microenterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises and start-ups, but also of the students, researchers and employees;
Amendment 282 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point d b (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point d b (new)
(d b) in synergy with other Union innovation strands and other Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and in order to respond to the European recovery plan, publish dedicated calls, promote initiatives using their partnerships, ecosystems and communities, develop individual and cross-KIC projects to support business restructuring, and identify microenterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises, start-ups and other stakeholders that need support and for example a better access to finance;
Amendment 283 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point d c (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point d c (new)
(d c) propose initiatives aiming to support their ecosystem based on the knowledge triangle, while at the same time being flexible enough to create measures that are fit for purpose for their partners and beneficiaries and beyond their existing communities;
Amendment 294 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) specific rules on ownership, access rights, exploitation and dissemination may apply for KIC added-value activities, where appropriate.
Amendment 304 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 5
Article 9 – paragraph 5
5. The EIT shall adopt and publish criteria and procedures for financing, monitoring and evaluating the activities of the KICs prior to the launching of the selection procedure for new KICs. The Member States’ Representatives Group referred to in Article 6(k), the EIT country liaison officers network and the European Parliament, shall be promptly informed of them.
Amendment 318 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 4
Article 11 – paragraph 4
4. Subject to the outcome of a final review before the expiry of the fourteenth year of the framework partnership agreement, the EIT may conclude a memorandum of cooperation with a KIC. Governing Board may, under strict conditions, decide to extend the framework partnership agreement with a KIC. Such an extended framework partnership agreement shall be: (a) subject to an in depth evaluation of the KIC by the Governing Board, taking into account the assessment criteria of paragraph 2; (b) subject to a detailed plan from the KIC duly justifying why the framework partnership agreement should be extended; (c) limited in scope and budget to the activities of the KIC that cannot yet be financially sustainable but remain crucial for the fulfilments of its tasks. Those activities shall be described in a detailed plan to be submitted by the Governing Board for evaluation. The EIT shall consult the European Parliament on the decision to extend the framework partnership agreement.
Amendment 329 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 7
Article 17 – paragraph 7
7. The EIT shall establish a competitive and performance-based allocation mechanism for granting an appropriate share of its financial contribution to the KICs. It shall include assessing the KICs’ business plans and performance as measured by continuous monitoring , and in particular their progress in achieving financial sustainability , the KIC’s openness to new members, their dissemination strategies and their geographical spread, as well as the performance of those business plans as measured by continuous monitoring , and in particular their progress in achieving financial sustainability. Particular attention shall be paid to actions put in place to mitigate the effects of theCOVID- 19 crisis and to the development of innovative ideas.
Amendment 372 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 6 – point 1
Annex I – section 6 – point 1
1. The staff of the EIT shall consist of personnel employed directly by the EIT . The Staff Regulations, the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants and the rules adopted by agreement between the institutions of the Union for giving effect to them shall apply to the staff of the EIT. As a transitional measure this provision shall apply to the staff of the EIT whose contracts expire in 2020.