Activities of Marina YANNAKOUDAKIS related to 2012/2294(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on Eco-innovation - Jobs and Growth through environmental policy PDF (240 KB) DOC (127 KB)
Amendments (11)
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
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2. Calls on the CommissionMember States to develop a European strategyies for matchaligning workforce skills with the needs ofopportunities offered by the Green Tech sector, looking to different subsectors and their needs for qualified workers as well as developing an EU-wide database for highly-skilled green jobs;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
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3. Believes that it is not onlyrather than subsidies that, innovative European companies need, but also better more flexible legislation, better links to the research base and better and more diverse access to funding and financing, ranging from grants to loans and equity financing; calls, therefore, on the Member States and the Commission to create appropriate conditions at national and European level;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
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4. Stresses that Green Tech job creations should not be limited to renewable energy production, increasing energy efficiency and the transport sector, since green growth is an opportunity for all sectors, which should therefore investigate development options for and raise consumer awareness of the importance of buying ‘'green’' products;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
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10. Considers the Eurostat definition of ‘'green jobs’' (in the environmental goods and services sector), which for example stipulates that ‘'green’' technologies and products must have an environmental protection or resource management purpose as their prime objective, to be useful to avoid diverging statistics, but considers it necessary to further develop an EU- wide uniform definition of green jobs and growth, which would, for example, also include the public transport sector;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Given that eco-innovation is a cross- cutting policy area which no single ministry or agency can tackle on its own, calls on the Commission and the Member States to encourage cooperation across ministries and policy levels and to monitor the implementation of the policies concerned on a regular basis;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to draw up new legislation and strengthenMember States to implement the existing legislation in the field of the developmenting and use ofing renewable energies and increasing energy efficiency, providing legal certainty and a level playing field, and boosting public and private investment;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Recommends that the local and regional authorities, in accordance with the legal and institutional architecture of each Member State, adopt development strategies in line with the objectives of the EU 2020 Strategy, with the aim of creating new jobs in a sustainable economy;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
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20. Takes the view that the existing and proposed EU environmental legislation has significant, where properly impact assessed to take account of its impact both on the environment and on economic competitiveness, offers potential to create conditions for new jobs in areas such as air, soil and water, energy, public services, agriculture, transport, forestry and environmental management, and calls on the Member States to implement this legislation;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to eliminate in the medium termphase out all subsidies and financial support for fossil fuels and environmentally unsustainable policies, as well as those subsidies that damage competition within the internal energy market;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Invites the Commission, specifically, to programme clearly-defined, focused and reinforced resources for market replication projects, risk capital, networking and internationalisation for eco-innovations and their commercialisation in the EU by SMEs, conceivably with budgets ring- fenced for eco-innovation as a minimum guarantee;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Emphasises that an increa more efficient use inof funds must be coupled with a simplification of funding procedures;