2014/2209(INI) | [ParlTrack]

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)

– having regard to its resolution of November the 26th on the revision of the Commission's impact assessment guidelines and the role of the SME test1a, __________________ 1a Texts adopted, P8_TA(2014)0069

Amendment 10 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas SMEs account for more than 98 % of Europe’s businesses and provide more than 67 % of jobs in the Union; whereas they constitute the backbone of the European Union’s economy ~~and are~~, both because they are regarded as important drivers of ~~European~~ long-term economic growth and because they provide sustainable job creation opportunities within the 28 Member States; whereas ~~they~~SMEs thus play a~~n important~~ key role in the industrial ecosystem together with mid-cap and multinational companies;

Amendment 100 #

Anneleen VAN BOSSUYT, Hans-Olaf HENKEL, Ashley FOX, Brian CROWLEY, Ian DUNCAN, Evžen TOŠENOVSKÝ, Branislav ŠKRIPEK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Emphasises that entrepreneurs, SMEs, business associations and support organisations should be more literate on financing possibilities for more performant technologies, or for contracting services such as consultancy, coaching and training on eco-design, resource management and green entrepreneurship and availability of green technologies, products and services that could be beneficial for their business, therefore all information about these possibilities should be easily accessible and should be communicated in a way that corresponds best with the logic and working methods of SMEs;

Amendment 101 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Calls on the Commission and the EIB to make sure that in the implementation ~~phase~~ of the ‘'Investment Plan for Europe~~’ SMEs, in particular green and innovative ones, will be key beneficiaries of the support provided for under this proposal~~' is underpinned by strong sustainability criteria, including resource and energy efficiency objectives. Its implementation must ensure that eco-innovative SMEs, will be key beneficiaries of the support provided for under this proposal; insist that clear criteria, including European added value must be developed to achieve this aim and that provision of advisory services on resource efficiency and eco- innovation for SMEs be strengthened;

Amendment 102 #

Barbara KAPPEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Calls on the Commission to make sure that in the implementation phase of the ‘Investment Plan for Europe’ SMEs~~, in particular green and innovative ones,~~ will be key beneficiaries of the support provided for under this proposal; reminds the Commission, in this connection, that it must act in a technologically neutral manner;

Amendment 103 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Calls on the Commission to make sure that in the implementation phase of the ‘Investment Plan for Europe’ SMEs, in ~~particular~~cluding green and innovative ones, will be key beneficiaries of the support provided for under this proposal; Calls on the EIB and the Commission that all categories listed in the Commission recommendation 'concerning the definition of micro, small and medium- sized enterprises' (C (2003) 1422) benefit to an equal extent;

Amendment 104 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Urges to better focus funding of COSME and Horizon 2020 towards the development of eco-innovative solutions by and for SMEs and supports financing for improvement of product design and processes performance, building on the successful experience of the Eco- Innovation programme under the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme in the past MFF; point in particular to the full implementation of the SME instrument under Horizon 2020;

Amendment 105 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Believes that there is a need to mobilize capital markets towards the transition to a green economy, overcoming obstacles to long-term investment optimisation because of short- termism in financial markets; calls on the Commission to actively address, also in the context of the capital markets union, the need for mobilising private capital towards a low-carbon transition through renewables and resource efficiency investments; stresses the need for analysing the role of different policy instruments such as monetary tools, financial regulations, public incentives, and accounting and disclosure policies; asks the Commission to put forward policy proposals for improving financial regulatory regimes; refers to current international initiatives in this field such as the work of the UNEP Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial Systems and the Capital Markets Climate Initiative;

Amendment 106 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Welcomes the opening of calls under the SME Instrument focusing on eco- innovation and supply of raw materials, eco-innovative food production and processing, and innovation in efficient energy systems; supports enhancing the budget of the SME Instrument in these fields and the opening further eco- innovation calls in all areas of societal challenges and industrial leadership priority areas of Horizon 2020;

Amendment 107 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Highlights the importance of actively pursuing collaboration across- sector~~al collaboration~~s, along value chains as well as geographical areas, which offers the potential to spark innovation and new growth opportunities through cross- fertilisation of ideas and innovative concepts; welcomes the Horizon 2020 action ‘Cluster facilitated projects for new industrial value chains’, to better unlock the innovation potential of SMEs, including the eco-innovative and resource- efficient solutions they offer;

Amendment 108 #

Maria SPYRAKI, Paul RÜBIG

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Welcomes the establishment of a European Resource Efficiency Excellence Centre to advise and assist SMEs seeking to improve their resource efficiency performance; stresses the need to establish it as a strong network of partners across EU regions and to build on proven experiences in Member States; believes it should guide SMEs to European, national and regional programmes in this field of action, provide access to expertise, networks and infrastructure;

Amendment 109 #

Ivan JAKOVČIĆ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

Amendment 11 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas SMEs account for more than 98 % of Europe’s businesses and provide more than 67 % of jobs in the Union; whereas they constitute the backbone of the European Union’s economy and are important drivers of European long-term economic growth and sustainable job creation opportunities within the 28 Member States; whereas they thus play an important role in the industrial ecosystem together with mid-cap and multinational companies; whereas nine out of ten SMEs are small businesses employing 10 people or less;

Amendment 110 #

Anneleen VAN BOSSUYT, Hans-Olaf HENKEL, Ashley FOX, Ian DUNCAN, Evžen TOŠENOVSKÝ, Branislav ŠKRIPEK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Stresses the importance of knowledge transfers and multi-stakeholder knowledge sharing, including cross-border, through informal networks, especially for SMEs and micro enterprises, to raise awareness of existing and new innovative techniques, best practices, ways to acquire proper financing, possible government support schemes and the relevant legislative frameworks entailing the least burdensome administration and recalls that the existing national contact points for the EU funding programmes and the Enterprise Europe Network have to be fully involved in the support of SMEs and pro-actively inform, coach and support SMEs to identify financing possibilities at EU, national or regional level;

Amendment 111 #

Gerben-Jan GERBRANDY, Philippe DE BACKER, Fredrick FEDERLEY, Pavel TELIČKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Stresses the importance of knowledge transfers and multi-stakeholder knowledge sharing, including cross-border, ~~through informal networks,~~ especially for SMEs and micro enterprises, to raise awareness of existing and new innovative techniques, best practices, ways to acquire proper financing, possible government support schemes and the relevant legislative frameworks entailing the least burdensome administration;

Amendment 112 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Notes the important role of sector federations in providing appropriate information and advice on green technologies, funding possibilities and the relevant procedures; calls on the Commission and the Member States to fill the gap where this support is lacking. In cooperation with sector federations and companies further investigate what opportunities exist and accelerate sustainable solutions and invest in environmentally friendly technologies, resource efficiency and the recycling economy;

Amendment 113 #

Marco ZULLO, David BORRELLI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. ~~Notes the important role of sector federations~~Urges sector federations to play a more prominent role in providing appropriate information and advice on green technologies, funding possibilities and the relevant procedures; calls on the Commission and the Member States to fill the gap where this support is lacking;

Amendment 114 #

Maria SPYRAKI, Paul RÜBIG

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Notes the growing gap between the needs of SMEs and the skills of employees; notes that 26% of employers in Europe face difficulties at finding employees who hold the right skills;

Amendment 115 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Points out that besides the horizontal dimension of knowledge sharing (i.e. between SMEs) the horizontal coordination between EU institutions, funds and financing instruments plays a crucial role for overcoming the expectation-implementation gap; emphasises the need to approach SME networks and organisations on the local, regional and national levels timely and proactive, in order to provide information and guidance for making use of available and planned EU funding possibilities; reminds the Commission to use all means on communication and knowledge transmission available (promotional mailings, social media, webinars, etc.) as well as competitions for students and young entrepreneurs;

Amendment 116 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Welcomes the promotion of resource efficiency and awareness raising activities by the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN); supports the organisation of a European Resource Efficiency Campaign to inform SMEs on the benefits and opportunities offered by resource efficiency and asks the Commission to make available to the EEN the appropriate funds to organise this campaign; calls on the European Commission and the EEN to cooperate on resource efficiency with industry associations, trade unions, SMEs, NGOs, academia as well as regional initiatives;

Amendment 117 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Stresses the importance of creating industrial synergies on recycling and helping companies discovery how their energy, waste and by-products can serve as resources for others; calls of the Commission and Member States to promote approaches such as those taken in the UK with the National Industrial Symbiosis Programme; calls on the establishment of a pan-European network of industrial symbiosis initiatives;

Amendment 118 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 4

Research, development ~~and~~, innovation and skills

Amendment 119 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Stresses the need to further develop basic R&D necessary for further technological developments; highlights the importance of the reindustrialisation of Europe given the importance of the manufacturing industry for R&D&I and thus the EU’s future competitive advantage; believes that non- technological, organisational, systems innovation and public sector innovation must be given as much attention as technology driven solutions;

Amendment 12 #

Miloslav RANSDORF

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. Whereas 90% of SMEs are micro- enterprises (enterprises with less than 10 employees) and these micro-enterprises account for 53% of all jobs in Europe;

Amendment 120 #

Anneleen VAN BOSSUYT, Hans-Olaf HENKEL, Ashley FOX, Brian CROWLEY, Ian DUNCAN, Evžen TOŠENOVSKÝ, Branislav ŠKRIPEK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Stresses the need to further develop basic R&D necessary for further technological developments~~; highlights the importance of the reindustrialisation of Europe given the importance of the manufacturing industry for R&D&I and thus the EU’s future competitive advantage~~ and to fully involve SMEs in this process;

Amendment 121 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Stresses the need to further develop basic R&D ~~necessary f~~and to actively support further transformation of basic R&D outcomes into technological developments; highlights the importance of the reindustrialisation of Europe given the importance of the manufacturing industry for R&D&I and thus the EU’s future competitive advantage;

Amendment 122 #

Marco ZULLO, David BORRELLI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Stresses the need to ~~further~~be more effective in developing basic R&D necessary for further technological ~~development~~advances; highlights the importance of the reindustrialisation of Europe given the importance of the manufacturing industry for R&D&I and thus the EU’s future competitive advantage;

Amendment 123 #

Anneleen VAN BOSSUYT, Hans-Olaf HENKEL, Ashley FOX, Brian CROWLEY, Ian DUNCAN, Evžen TOŠENOVSKÝ, Branislav ŠKRIPEK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Highlights the importance of the reindustrialisation of Europe given the importance of the manufacturing industry for R&D&I and thus the EU's future competitive advantage;

Amendment 124 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Highlights the importance of the commercialisation and valorisation by European companies of R&D output; calls on the Commission and the Member States to provide for a stable regulatory framework and adequate financial schemes in order to enable economic initiative and entrepreneurship and to limit the time to market of new products, services and business practices~~, notably in the green economy~~ that are more environmentally sustainable;

Amendment 125 #

Paul RÜBIG

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Highlights the importance of the commercialisation and valorisation by European companies of R&D output; calls on the Commission and the Member States to provide for a more stable regulatory framework and adequate financial schemes in order to enable economic initiative and entrepreneurship and to limit the time to market of new products, services and business practices, notably in the green economy;

Amendment 126 #

Dominique RIQUET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Stresses the potential which lies in new European space infrastructure for innovation and green growth; calls on the Commission to promote the use by SMEs of data derived from these infrastructures in business nurseries and incubators; calls on the Commission to institute a regime for SMEs which affords ready access to data from these infrastructures at the research, development and commercialisation stages;

Amendment 127 #

Dominique RIQUET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Notes the benefits which the unitary European patent confers on SMEs, particularly in the field of green technologies; calls on all Member States to join the unitary European patent system; calls on Member States to ratify without delay the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court, which is necessary for the application of the unitary European patent; calls on the Commission to propose a simplified procedure for use by SMEs in bringing an action for infringement before the Unified Patent Court;

Amendment 128 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Calls on Member States and regions to address green skills shortages and support the development of green skills at all education levels and throughout lifelong learning; believes that educational and training curricula should be revised to meet existing and anticipated labour markets in the field of resource efficiency and circular economy; calls on social partners to further support workers involvement, life-long learning and training strategies in the fields of environmental management, energy and resource efficiency , and support the development of sector-wide resource efficiency roadmaps covering skills and training requirements;

Amendment 129 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Calls for an improved policy framework for the circular economy including adopting and implementing smart regulation, standards and codes of conduct that aim at internalisation of externalities, tackling resource intensive products, creating a level playing-field, rewarding front-runners and accelerating the transition towards a resource efficient and sustainable economy;

Amendment 13 #

José BLANCO LÓPEZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas at the moment, the global market for environmental goods and services is estimated at 1 000 billion per year, and it is estimated that this amount will double or even triple by 2020, creating tremendous opportunities for Europe’s SMEs and economic growth in general in the EU; whereas the market for environmental goods and services presents an opportunity for SMEs based in areas affected by depopulation and ageing to generate economic activity and jobs;

Amendment 130 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Believes that this policy framework should ensure that products placed on the Union market are 'eco-designed' with a view to optimising resource and material efficiency. This includes addressing, inter alia, product durability, reparability, reusability, recyclability, recycled content and product lifespan;

Amendment 131 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Calls on the Commission to include as part of the Circular Economy Package the extension of the eco-design instrument to include the resource efficiency dimension; believes that eco-design should address durability, reparability and recyclability of products, including standards for guaranteed minimum life- time and disassembly;

Amendment 132 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5

~~(De)~~Smart regulation as an engine for SMEs growth in a circular economy

Amendment 133 #

Bendt BENDTSEN

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5

~~(De)~~Better regulation as an engine for growth

Amendment 134 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Calls on Member States to avoid creating barriers to the internal market by gold-plating and to ensure consistent transposition into national legislation; invites the Commission to step up its efforts in addressing gold-plating with individual Member States; stresses the need for a clear and uniform EU-wide interpretation by national regulators and open public procurement rules, including green procurement and e-procurement, which at the moment represents a substantial barrier for SMEs wishing to internationalise and at the same time a tremendous opportunity for Member States to be early adaptors;deleted

Amendment 135 #

Paul RÜBIG, Maria SPYRAKI, Krišjānis KARIŅŠ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Calls on Member States to avoid creating barriers to the internal market by gold-plating and to ensure consistent transposition into national legislation, among others by implementing an SME impact assessment, the SME Test, at Member State level; invites the Commission to step up its efforts in addressing gold-plating with individual Member States; stresses the need for a clear and uniform EU-wide interpretation by national regulators and open public procurement rules, including green procurement and e-procurement, which at the moment represents a substantial barrier for SMEs wishing to internationalise and at the same time a tremendous opportunity for Member States to be early adaptors;

Amendment 136 #

Csaba MOLNÁR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Calls on Member States to avoid creating barriers to the internal market by gold-plating, to review their current regulatory regimes and remove any superfluous or ineffective regulations which constitute market barriers, and to ensure consistent transposition into national legislation; invites the Commission to step up its efforts in addressing gold-plating with individual Member States; stresses the need for a clear and uniform EU-wide interpretation by national regulators and open public procurement rules, including green procurement and e-procurement, which at the moment represents a substantial barrier for SMEs wishing to internationalise and at the same time a tremendous opportunity for Member States to be early adaptors;

Amendment 137 #

Miriam DALLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Calls on Member States to avoid creating barriers to the internal market by gold-plating and to ensure consistent transposition into national legislation; invites the Commission to step up its efforts in addressing gold-plating with individual Member States; stresses the need for a clear and uniform EU-wide interpretation by national regulators and open public procurement rules, including green procurement and e-procurement, which at the moment represents a substantial barrier for SMEs and micro enterprises wishing to internationalise and at the same time a tremendous opportunity for Member States to be early adaptors;

Amendment 138 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to take into account that no environmental legislation should be adopted or implemented in a way that might burden Small and Medium Sized Enterprises technically and economically unnecessarily; raises the example of the Energy Efficiency Directive (2012/27/EU);

Amendment 139 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Welcomes the Commission decision for withdrawing obsolete ~~or overly burdensom~~proposals; strongly regrets the withdraw of the waste legislativeon proposals; and calls ~~on the Commission to refrain from~~for a more ambitious legislative proposals t~~hat would lead to an unnecessary administrative burden for businesses and SMEs and~~o be put forward by 2015 as announced by V.P. Timmermans in EP plenary in December 2014 2e; points to the Commission analysis showing that adopting new waste targets would create 180 000 jobs, make Europe more competitive and reduce demand for costly scarce resources 2f; calls on the Commission to continuously review existing legislation with the objective of decreasing the current administrative burden and adapting ~~this~~ to new business models~~; stresses, nonetheless, the need for ambitious actions to reach the EU’s environmental targets;~~, while continuing to ensure high levels of environmental protection and social standards; stresses, the need for ambitious actions to reach the EU’s environmental targets; __________________ 2eVerbatim Plenary Debate Commission Work programme Tuesday, 16 December 2014 - Strasbourg 2fSWD(2014) 208 final – Impact assessment accompanying the proposal COM (2014)397

Amendment 14 #

Marco ZULLO, David BORRELLI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

Amendment 140 #

Renato SORU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Welcomes the Commission decision for withdrawing obsolete or overly burdensome legislative proposals; calls on the Commission to refrain from legislative proposals that would lead to an unnecessary administrative burden for businesses and SMEs and to continuously review existing legislation with the objective of ~~decreasing~~improving the quality and effectiveness of the current administrative burden and adapting this to new business models; stresses, nonetheless, the need for ambitious actions to reach the EU’s environmental targets;

Amendment 141 #

Barbara KAPPEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Welcomes the Commission decision for withdrawing obsolete or overly burdensome legislative proposals; calls on the Commission to refrain from legislative proposals that would lead to an unnecessary administrative burden for businesses and SMEs and to continuously review existing legislation with the objective of decreasing the current administrative burden and adapting this to new business models; stresses, nonetheless, the need for ambitious actions that are technically and economically feasible in all the Member States in order to reach the EU’s environmental targets;

Amendment 142 #

Paul RÜBIG

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Welcomes the Commission decision for withdrawing obsolete or overly burdensome legislative proposals; calls on the Commission to refrain from legislative proposals that would lead to an unnecessary administrative burden for large businesses and SMEs and to continuously review existing legislation with the objective of decreasing the current administrative burden and adapting this to new business models; stresses, nonetheless, the need for ambitious actions that are technically and economically feasible but equally for an adequate and timely implementation of already existing legislation in order to reach the EU’s environmental targets;

Amendment 143 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Welcomes the Commission decision for withdrawing obsolete ~~or overly burdensome~~ legislative proposals; calls on the Commission to refrain from legislative proposals that would lead to an unnecessary administrative burden for businesses and SMEs and to continuously review existing legislation with the objective of decreasing the current administrative burden and adapting this to new business models; stresses, nonetheless, the need for ambitious actions to reach the EU’s environmental targets;

Amendment 144 #

Miriam DALLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Welcomes the Commission decision for withdrawing obsolete or overly burdensome legislative proposals; calls on the Commission to refrain from legislative proposals that would lead to an unnecessary administrative burden for businesses ~~and SME~~, SMEs and micro enterprises and to continuously review existing legislation with the objective of decreasing the current administrative burden and adapting this to new business models; stresses, nonetheless, the need for ambitious actions to reach the EU’s environmental targets;

Amendment 145 #

Anneleen VAN BOSSUYT, Hans-Olaf HENKEL, Ashley FOX, Brian CROWLEY, Ian DUNCAN, Evžen TOŠENOVSKÝ, Branislav ŠKRIPEK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Calls on the Commission to pursue better and therefore not necessarily more legislation and to consequently involve stakeholders from the relevant industries and SMEs to share their insights and knowledge at each stage of the legislative process, including the impact assessment;

Amendment 146 #

Anneleen VAN BOSSUYT, Hans-Olaf HENKEL, Ashley FOX, Ian DUNCAN, Evžen TOŠENOVSKÝ, Branislav ŠKRIPEK, Brian CROWLEY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the SME Test is fully applied in all impact assessments;

Amendment 147 #

Marco ZULLO, David BORRELLI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Recalls the importance of technology- neutral and innovation-friendly legislation, which allows different new technologies to be tested and valued by the market; ~~calls on Member States to use market-based instruments in their public support~~welcomes the development of Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) scheme as and to refrain from using market-distorting subsidies; calls on the Commission to draw up common guidelines for national public support schemes for green investment projects in order to create a more uniform set of measur new tool to help innovative environmental technologies reach the market; calls on Member States to make adequate use of market-based instruments in their public support schemes and to refrain from using environmentally harmful market- distorting subsidies;

Amendment 148 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Recalls the importance of technology- neutral and green-innovation-friendly legislation, which allows different new technologies geared to more sustainable resource use to be tested and valued by the market; calls on Member States to ~~use market-based instruments in their public support schemes and to~~ refrain from using market-distorting subsidies in their public support schemes; calls on the Commission to draw up common guidelines for national public support schemes for green investment projects in order to create a more uniform set of measures;

Amendment 149 #

Paul RÜBIG, Maria SPYRAKI, Krišjānis KARIŅŠ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19a. Stresses the importance of standards for enabling development and market uptake of greener technologies, products and processes; calls on the Commission to mandate the European Standardisation Organisations to take into account circular economy objectives and to actively work with SMEs representatives, consumers and civil society organisations towards this aim;

Amendment 15 #

Nadine MORANO

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas at the moment, the global market for environmental goods and services is estimated at EUR 1 000 billion per year, and it is estimated that this amount will double or even triple by 2020, creating tremendous opportunities for Europe’s SMEs and economic growth in general in the EU;

Amendment 150 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Notes that public funding needs to go to mature technologies, which can be put on the market at a significantly lower cost, rather than being used to push for large-scale deployment of immature and cost-inefficient technologies;deleted

Amendment 151 #

Anneleen VAN BOSSUYT, Evžen TOŠENOVSKÝ, Ian DUNCAN, Hans-Olaf HENKEL, Ashley FOX

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

Amendment 152 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

Amendment 153 #

Barbara KAPPEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Notes that public funding needs to go to both mature technologies~~, which can be put on the market at a significantly lower cost, rather than being used to push for large-scale deployment of immature and cost-inefficient technologies~~ and pilot projects in order to overcome the valley of death;

Amendment 154 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Notes that ~~public funding needs to go to mature technologies, which can be put on the market at a significantly lower cost, rather than being used to push for large-scale~~market-pull mechanism needs to be further developed to support deployment and market uptake of mature eco-innovative technologies, while public funding should be granted for further research and depveloypment of imless mature ~~and~~in order to improve cost-inefficientcy of the next generation of eco-innovative technologies;

Amendment 155 #

Csaba MOLNÁR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Notes that disruptive industries and technologies often indicate flaws in existing legislation; stresses the need for continuous monitoring of existing legislation and the use of exemption clauses for certain innovative technologies to ensure that this does not hinder market entry for new technological developments;deleted

Amendment 156 #

Marco ZULLO, David BORRELLI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Notes that disruptive industries and technologies ~~often indicate flaws in~~may encounter difficulties with existing legislation; stresses the need for continuous monitoring and updating of existing legislation ~~and the use of exemption clauses for certain innovative technologies to ensure that this does not hinder market entry for new technological developments~~to ensure that sustainable and eco-innovative technologies may access the market;

Amendment 157 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Notes that disruptive industries and technologies often indicate flaws in existing legislation; stresses the need for continuous monitoring of existing legislation ~~and the use of exemption clauses for certain innovative technologies~~in order to be able to adjust and update it as soon as this is necessary, to ensure that it~~his~~ does not hinder market entry for new green technological developments;

Amendment 158 #

Paul RÜBIG

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Notes that disruptive industries and technologies often indicate flaws in existing legislation; stresses the need for continuous monitoring of existing legislation and its implementation as well as the use of exemption clauses for certain innovative technologies to ensure that this does not hinder market entry for new technological developments;

Amendment 159 #