Activities of Frédéric DAERDEN related to 2013/2006(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Reindustrialising Europe to promote competitiveness and sustainability (debate)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on reindustrialising Europe to promote competitiveness and sustainability
Amendments (12)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that the Member States which have best withstood the economic crisis are those which have given priority to strong social dialogue and, particular types of investment and an active employment policy designed to preserve the maximum number of jobs; is of the opinion that those priorities ought to be studied and used as a guide for the purpose of reindustrialising Europe on a solid, competitive, sustainable, and diversified basis, particularly by making public investment conditional on a guarantee that jobs will be created or preserved;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that industrial sectors make it possible to survive crises, partly by dint of the service economy which they generate around their production;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recommends that investment be channelled into human resources and eimphasis laid on training and learningroving the conditions for the exercise of the right to training and learning, while allowing permeability among the various training systems, not only in order to anticipate, and respond to, the demand for skilled labour in industry oriented towards new technologies and an energy-efficient green economy but also to reinforce all production chains, including the basic industries necessary for the development of high-technology industries;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Recommends that the Union and Member States also invest massively in R&D, particularly to facilitate the transition to a less energy-hungry industry compatible with the Union’s environmental ambitions, which should be pursed in equilibrium with its industrial ambitions;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Maintains that industry-wide social dialogue is an essential way to chart a new direction for European industries by fostering corporate social responsibility (CSR) and promoting a European social label based on a body of common criteria, the aim being to turn employees into stakeholders in their company’s future and bring about a flexi-security which is balanced in both its aspects;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that, in terms of reindustrialisation, there is a major role to be played by socially responsible management of restructuring in anticipating and managing change in sectors, as stressed in the European Parliament Resolution of 15 January 2013;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Maintains that measures need to be taken urgently with a view to establishing and supporting innovative industries by helping SMEs to gain access to financing, cutting tax charges and administrative red tape, and exploiting the possibilities offered by the digital single market;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Suggests that the Commission make an in-depth study, by sector, of the added value of European industrial production in world production chains in order to ascertain how rooted the various sectors of industry are in our various Member States and to establish more effectively a common strategy to defend European industrial interests;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Suggests that the Commission assess the extent to which the refusal by a group with worldwide operations to surrender a site which it has decided to close to another group which might take it over or to a public entity for temporary public operation accords with European competition law;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Stresses the need for the Union to protect its industrial interests in the context of its trade relations, both in the drafting of its trade agreements or its legislation on access to its public markets for third-country undertakings, and in the too rare use of its protection tools against unfair competition from third-country undertakings;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6d. Recommends that the Commission and Member States adopt the necessary provisions for the emergence of a European Industrial Policy which is not weakened by competition between Member States such as exists at present; recommends, to this end, upward convergence of national social standards and fiscal harmonisation;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 e (new)
Paragraph 6 e (new)
6e. Calls on Member States, in the event of potential amendments to the Treaties, to establish a Common Industrial Policy with an ambition and instruments comparable to those of the Common Agricultural Policy, i.e. involving genuine transnational consultation with a view to a common strategy, ample funding and market regulation tools such as the other major trading areas in the world have, for example a monetary tool or State aid rules adapted to the needs of our industry, while complying with international law;