23 Amendments of Dominique RIQUET related to 2023/2059(INI)
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas ports play a crucial role for Europe’s economy and energy transition by enabling the production, supply and import of clean energies and technologies, including for hydrogen;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to present an EU strategic policy framework to reduce and limit influence and operational control by non-EU countries in the EU’s ports and in their processes and hinterland operations; calls on the Commission and Member States to monitor particularly the involvement of third countries in the ports of neighbouring countries falling within the scope of the European Neighbourhood Policy and the Enlargement Policy;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission to propose an ambitious revision of the FDI screening regulation; encourages Member States which did not yet adopt stringent national screening mechanisms or equivalent tools to do so;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission and Member States to continuously monitor and report on the influence of non-EU countries in EU ports, EU terminal management and global container shipping, in particular those in the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T), and assess the potential links between the actions of a given non- EU country in these sectors;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to pay particular attention to the threat that foreign investments may pose to intellectual property in particular through forced technology transfers;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Stresses that European ports are particularly exposed to customs and VAT fraud and that it is necessary to step up the fight against these activities;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that limiting foreign investments in an individual port in one Member State can negatively affect the competitive position of that port compared to neighbouring ports that do not have these limitations, which underlines the need for a joint European strategyic approach towards foreign investments in all EU critical infrastructures, including critical port infrastructure;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Considers that asymmetrical spread of foreign investments between EU countries may threaten the unity, the crisis management capabilities and the resilience of the EU;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Underlines that, in particular, aggregated Chinese presence in the core network ports and nodes of the Trans- European Transport Network (TEN-T) carries important implications for the resilience and security of individual nodes and the network as a whole; recalls that the presence of third-country investors in ports may hamper their dual use role by Member states for defence purposes;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to carry out a risk assessment of China’s involvement in maritime infrastructures that includes its impact on labour and the environment, dependencies in strategic sectors including energy, critical raw materials, agricultural goods and medicines, an assessment of bottlenecks in the shipping of goods from China to the EU and transhipment;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Stresses that overseas territories and outermost regions, and the ports located therein, are of paramount importance to the European sovereignty, to the European strategic autonomy and to the European and international maritime trade given their strategic location and the crucial role of maritime exchanges for them; calls for significant public and private investments in ports located in overseas territories and outermost regions to turn them into strategic clusters for multi-modal transport, energy generation, storage and distribution as well as defence when needed; calls on the Commission to include provisions to limit influence and operational control by non-EU countries in those ports in its proposal;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to specifically address the need to prevent and reduce the risks of espionage and sabotage in ports with a military function, such as ports that are used by NATO;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Underlines that EU ports are key entry points for illicitsometimes misused by criminal organisations for trafficking illegal products such as drugs and calls on the Commission to present measures for effective European cooperation to combat drug trafficking, extraction and criminal subversion;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Underlines that the security of ports depends on their resilience to climate and environmental change; therefore calls on Member States to realise a long-term environmental risk assessment for critical port infrastructure and provide in a timely manner the adapting measures;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Stresses the vital role ports play in the energy transition as energy hubs for the conversion, conditioning and storing of energy carriers, for the import of critical raw materials, as servicing stationcarbon capture and storage hubs, as servicing stations and manufacturing hubs for offshore energy facilities and as nodes in transport systems supporting the energy transition;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Stresses the vital role ports play in the energy transition as energy hubs for the conversion, conditioning and storing of energy carriers, for the import of critical raw materials, liquified gas, hydrogen and ammonia as servicing stations for offshore energy facilities and as nodes in transport systems supporting the energy transition;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Stresses the importance of increasing synergies between the trans- European transport network and the trans-European energy network;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission and Member States to address the increasing need for investments in ports and their infrastructure so that they can assume their role in the energy transition, in particular in overseas territories and outermost regions;
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Underlines that an energy transition in ports will not be possible without a skilled workforce, easy and swift permitting procedures and adequate public and private funding;
Amendment 222 #
18a. Stresses the importance of the ‘Just-in-Time Arrival” principle when it comes to the green transition and calls on the Commission to put forward measures to promote the use of the principle;
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Stresses that strengthening the economic position of EU ports and improving their competitiveness in a global economy is crucial for limiting foreign influence and security risks; as well as ensuring stable supply chains ;
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Commission to analyse and address the investment needs of portestablish an “Atlas of European Ports” by mapping the European commercial ports, their roles and importance for different sectors, and analyze the availability of electricity and green fuels in ports; considers that such a mapping will help form an overall factual basis for the continues development of EU ports and address the investment needs in order for them to be competitive in theand future-proof and to work towards a more stable investment climate including transparency and predictability in investment assessments;