33 Amendments of Eleonora EVI related to 2020/2076(INI)
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 37 a (new)
Citation 37 a (new)
- having regard to the conclusions on “More circularity - Transition to a sustainable society” as adopted by the Council at its 3716th meeting held on 4 October 2019 (12791/19),
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the Union requires a newforward-looking industrial strategy thatreflecting the European Green Deal objectives makesing its industries more globally competitive, resilient and environmentally sustainable; whereas such a strategy should cover the transition of European industries to digitalisation and climate-neutrality, prioritising the ‘energy efficiency first’ principleswards a highly energy and resource efficient, fully renewable-based, energy savings and renewable energy technologiest-zero GHG and toxic-free industrial base by 2040, as well as towards a sustainable digitalisation;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the Union’s industrial strategy should ensure the correct functioning of the single market, the achievement of the Union’s energy and climate goals, create a level playing field inside and outside EU and ensure easier access to finance, sustainably sourced raw materials and markets, in addition to ensuring appropriate levels of investment, research and innovation, education and skills to boost competitiveness and, sustainability and economic prosperity;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic and its fallout have created an unprecedented economic downturn in Europe; whereas in this context any future- looking industrial strategy should start by addressing industrial recovery laying the foundation for reconstruction and transformation of the industrial base in line with the European Green Deal objectives;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Is of the opinion that digital and environmental transitionsthe transition to a highly energy and resource efficient, fully renewable based, net-zero GHG and toxic-free economy by 2040 should be at the very core of all Unions strategies until 2050; in this context, calls on the Commission to define a comprehensive industrial strategy which manages these transitions, fosters transformation and guarantees in line with the European Green Deals objectives, fosters transformation, guarantees regulatory and policy certainty and ultimately the Union’s strategic autonomy;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Is aware that market dynamics alone do not bridge the fractures created during the transformation process if there is no proper management of the transitions and no strong industrial policies; is, furthermore, aware that while markets, competition and innovation push fast towards transformation, it is society and the environment that face the impact of these transformations; considers that balancing out the number of jobs lost in traditional industries with new jobs created in the digital and environmentalgreen sectors is not enough in itself as these new jobs aremay neither be created in the same regions nor taken up by the same workers; considers industrial transformation as an opportunity to accelerate the complete phase-out of fossil fuels (including natural gas and all fossil-derived gases) and invest in renewable, clean and green production, making sure no one is left behind; calls on the Commission, therefore, to ensure that these transitions are fair and socially just, and that every action aimed at accelerating a transformation process (digital, environmental, etc.) is accompanied by a comprehensive vision and corresponding initiative to help the workforce to be as adaptable as possible, including through up-skill and reskill initiatives for workers, with the aim of leaving no one behind and managing the effects produced by that accelerated procestransition on both regions and people; stresses oin both regions and people; this regard the importance of digital skills and lifelong learning approaches;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers, in the current context, that the Union requires a new, tailor-made industrial strategy that focuses on two distinct phasesmutually reinforcing two-step approach for the implementation of its industrial strategy; the first step aimed at recovery anda green and resilient recovery preparing the ground for the second step aimed at reconstruction and transformation; calls on the Commission, therefore, to adapt the strategy published in March 2020 to the current situation and address both phases, while keeping the distrengthen all the relevant legislation and come forward with new one in order to prioritise the ecologitcal and environmental objectives as priorities throughoutthe sustainable digital transitions in both phases;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the Temporary State Aid framework as a way to promptly transfer liquidity where urgently needed; calls on the Commission nonetheless to ensure that the aid provided in the emergency phase does not lead to permanent distortions in the single market nor to spending conflicting with the European Green Deal and the overall climate objectives of the Union;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to include in the recovery plan a strategy to redeploy industries in Europe and to relocate industrial production in strategic sectors; calls, moreover, on the Commissionadvance a smart re-shore of EU undertakings in strategic sectors in order to reduce dependence and vulnerabilities of strategic supply chains and infrastructures; is the of opinion that such re-shoring may represent an opportunity for EU most peripherals and less industrialized regions; in this regard, asks the Commission to establish a common reserve fund for critical and strategic products and to adopt a stronger stance on unfair global competition and predatory acquisitions by SOEs and sovereign funds; is of the opinion that, in this context, the Union should implement a provisional TDI scheme;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Highlights that, during this critical phase, the Union should protect its market in strategic sectors and block takeovers and FDI that could further increase its dependency on foreign powers; welcomes in this regard the presentation of the White paper on an Instrument on Foreign Subsidies and urges the Commission to come forward with a legislative proposal as soon as possible;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Is of the opinion that the industrial recovery plan should help to create new ambitious and innovative European industrial projects which gofully in line with the net-zero GHG objective and the European Green Deal and going hand in hand with the current revision of the guidelines for ‘Important Projects of Common European Interest’ (IPCEI), in order to encourage the emergence of European leaders in strategic industrial sectors that are capable of competing on a global scale; calls on the Commission to define an investment prioritisation list, outlining which technologies can contribute to achieving EU objectives and have to be scaled up and which technologies should be excluded, including in particular fossil fuel technologies and projects;
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – introductory part
Paragraph 9 – introductory part
9. Considers the Recovery Fund (hereinafter ‘the Fund’) to be the pillar of the first phase: the EU’s industrial recovery from COVID-19Welcomes the presentation of Next Generation EU as the pillar of EU recovery from COVID-19; Recognize the need to support a green and resilient recovery; calls on the Commission to ensure that the fund is implemented swiftly and:
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point a
Paragraph 9 – point a
a. has sufficient financial capacity to offset the damage caused by the COVID- 19 crisis to European industries and to engine their ecological and sustainable digital transformation;
Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point a a (new)
Paragraph 9 – point a a (new)
aa. foresee targets for investments in environmental and social resilience and for the transition towards a highly energy and resource-efficient, fully renewable- based, net-zero GHG, toxic-free and sustainably digitalised industrial base;
Amendment 294 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point b
Paragraph 9 – point b
b. will be managed directly, when possible, by the Commission through European programmes and the use of grants in order to avoid further distortion of the single market;
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point c
Paragraph 9 – point c
c. distributes the financial aid among the different countries and industrial sectors according to the damage suffered, the challenges faced and the amount of national financial support already received through national aid schemes;
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point e
Paragraph 9 – point e
e. gives preference to companies andforesees dedicated funding for SMEs that focus their business plans on diecologitcal and environmensustainable digital transformations and economic circularity;
Amendment 327 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Highlights the need to support a sustainable and fair recovery beyond the COVID-19 crisis in order to enhance growth in the EU by increasing investment in the digital and green transitions; asks the Commission to support an ambitious Recovery Fund that is within the framework of a stronger MFF and is integrated in the own resource decision, and to pursue fiscal policy coordination to strengthen the European fiscal framework; is of the opinion that, after the peak of the pandemic, the Fund; is of the opinion that, after the peak of the pandemic, the elements of Next Generation EU should become a permanent Reconstruction Fund to foster the digital and green industrial transitions;
Amendment 359 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Considers that once the emergency phase is over, the Union should embark on awith continuity on the second phase of its industrial strategy: ensuring the competitiveness, resilience and sustainability of its industries in the long termtransition towards a highly energy and resource efficient, renewable-based, net-zero GHG, toxic-free and sustainably digitalised industrial base by 2040;
Amendment 383 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Highlights the potential of the circular economy forBelieves that circularity principles must be at the centre of the modernisingation of the Union’s economy, reducing by prioritising the reduction of its energy and resource consumptionneeds and the transformingation of the whole industrial sectors and their value chain, its production processes, business models, value chains and ultimately its products; and services Calls on the Commission to set sectoral resource efficiency targets and to implement monitoring and control measures based on measurable and credible indicators;
Amendment 418 #
14. Considers that there is significant potential in domestic and global markets for low-emission, zero emission and renewable technologies and sustainable products, processes and services throughout the whole value chain from raw materials to energy-intensive industries, manufacturing and the industrial services sector; considers, moreover, that the Climate Law is a first step towards enshrining climate targets into the Union legislation; believes that a more holistic and systematic binding target framework is also required in order to ensure policy coherence across all Union policies and a homogenous, predictable and inclusive governance approach in all policy areas, paving the way towards a clear and stable strategy for European industries;
Amendment 458 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Maintains that a truly effective European industrial policy needs a dashboard of climate targets as a roadmap to shape the industry of the futurable to shape the industry of the future and leaving no- one behind, needs a strong governance framework setting targets, defining sectoral roadmaps on industrial transitions, monitoring progress and ultimately ensuring policy coherence; cConsiders that all sectors should contribute towards achieving the Union’s climate objectives and, in this regard, underlines the importance of gas as a means of energy transition and hydrogen as a potential breakthrough technology; calls also; Calls, therefore, on the Commission to define an inclusive and transparent governance for the definition of a clear roadmap for greclimater attention to be paid to network security and energy supply; callsnd GHG emissions reductions objectives up to 2050, with 2030 and 2040 milestones, and onf the Council to increase spending from the EU budget on climate change efforts; calls on the Commission to ensure that industries with high carbon leakage do not benefit from EU subsidies, and for better use to be made of the EIB, as the Union’s ‘Climate Bank’, to enhance sustainable financing to the public and private sectors and to assist companies in the decarbonisation process, and to use the Border Carbon Adjustments mechanism as a way to protect EU manufacturers and jobs from unfair international competitionrelative sectoral pathways and targets guiding the industrial transformations; moreover, calls on the Commission to establish an independent observatory of experts, stakeholders and civil society to monitor and report the progress of the industrial sectors in their paths towards the achievement of such objectives, and to suggest measures to correct the trajectory of those industrial sectors deviating from it;
Amendment 469 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls on the Council to increase climate related spending to at least 40% of the EU budget and to ensure overall spending are in line with the objective to phase out direct and indirect fossil fuels subsidies;
Amendment 476 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Calls on the Commission to ensure that industries with high carbon leakage do not benefit from EU subsidies, and for better use to be made of the EIB, as the Union’s ‘Climate Bank’, to enhance financing to the public and private sectors according to the sustainable taxonomy;
Amendment 477 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)
Paragraph 15 c (new)
15c. Calls on the Commission to explore a range of mechanisms to protect EU manufacturers and jobs from unfair international competition and to encourage trade partners to adopt ambitious climate and environmental legislation; in this regard, welcome the intention of the Commission to implementing a WTO compatible Border Carbon adjustment tax and calls contextually on the Commission to assess how an Emissions Added Tax (EAT) applied to final products, monetising on the VAT the CO2 emissions of their manufacturing process, could be developed;
Amendment 501 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Highlights the need to support a just transitionfair, inclusive and socially acceptable just transition leaving no one behind, and believes that a well- designed Just Transition Mechanism, including a Just Transition Fund, would be an important tool to facilitate the transition and reach ambitious climate targets while addressing social impacts; stresses that robust financing of this instrument, including additional budgetary resourceshighlights in this regard that an inclusive participation process of different local stakeholders needs to be ensured in the designing of the Just transition plans; stresses moreover that robust financing of this instrument, including additional budgetary resources and the exclusion of any investments in fossil fuels (including natural gas and all fossil-derived gases), would be a key elements for the successful implementation of the European Green Deal;
Amendment 519 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission to tailor its industrial strategy ton the resource and energy efficiency principles and consequently promote the scaling-up and commercialisation of environmentally sustainable breakthrough technologies in the Union, by providing risk financing tools for early-stage technology and developing early value chains to support first commercial-scale, climate- neutral, circular, zero-emission and renewable technologies, processes and products; in this regard, highlights the importance of a fair distribution of those financial resources not only across countries but also across their regions especially those with a low industrialisation and innovation rate;
Amendment 541 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. CHighlights that digital technologies are critical enabler for attaining the sustainability goals of the Green New Deal but that they also present interlinking risks for both people and the environment which have not fully been explored yet; considers it imperative tohat the digitaliseation of the Union’s industries, including traditional ones;, supports and does not hamper the transition towards a climate-neutral economy; calls, therefore, on the Commission to ensure that the digital transition of the EU industries is at the service of the EU energy and climate goals and to plan financial investments accordingly; in this regard, calls on the Commission to invest, inter alia, in the data economy, artificial intelligence, smart production, e-mobility, and resilient and secure very high-speed networks; invites the Commission, in this respect, to assess the effectiveness of co- financed National Tax Credit schemes that could complement or replace traditional ‘on demand’ grants/tender-based support, especially for SMEs; highlights the importance of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Cohesion Fund (CF) in supporting job creation, business competitiveness, economic growth and sustainable development;
Amendment 599 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Considers that industrial transformation requires the integration of new knowledge and innovation into existing markets and their use in the creation of new ones; regrets, in this respect, that the Union invests less in R&D as a percentage of GDP than its global competitors and that it suffers from a serious lack of innovative capacity in small and medium-sized enterprises due to a shortfall in the necessary risk capital; calls on the Commission to increase the budget and set conditions for environmental sustainability compliance for those programmes that underpin the transformation of the Union’s industry, including Horizon Europe, to prioritise R&I in disruptive projects or technologies capable of driving transformative change in line with the European Green Deal objectives; and to foster synergies between regional, national, European and private financial sources by taking advantage of synergies among all Union programmes;
Amendment 642 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Is of the opinion that representative ecosystems will be key components of the next industrial revolution, providing affordable and cleanerrenewable energy, transformative manufacturing and service- provision methods; believes, moreover, that supporting collaboration among industry, academia, SMEs, start-ups, trade unions, civil society, end-user organisations and all other stakeholders will be key to for a democratic transition, for solving market failures and supporting efforts to cross the ‘valley of death’, including in areas not yet covered by industrial interests;
Amendment 646 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Regrets the lack of transparency in the process of identification of the ecosystems, the lack of a clear role for the Industrial Forum and the Alliances and the limited information made available to the public; reminds that the ecosystem approach should have the aim to involve all relevant economic and social stakeholders, including civil society, in a holistic and transparent way to foster open discussions and overarching solutions which work for everyone; Calls therefore on the Commission to ensure transparency on industrial ecosystems and a clear role for civil society, consumers organisations and trade unions in the overall governance and implementation of the industrial Strategy and any other relevant legislations or initiatives;
Amendment 661 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Considers green and sustainable public procurement to be a crucial driver of industrial transformation; calls on the Commission to study how to fully use the leverage of public expenditure and investment to create markets for carbon neutral and resource efficient products and services and achieve policy objectives, including by making environmental and social criteria mandatory in public procurement; calls also on the Commission to push for a more ambitious International Procurement Instrument that provides for reciprocity and mutual standards;
Amendment 667 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Calls on the Commission to consider a possible introduction of ‘Buy European Act’ to support European manufacturers, especially SMEs, facing the increasing degree of competition stemming from emerging countries in particular; Stresses that ‘Buy European Act’ shall be necessary in the absence of a strong International Procurement Instrument; reminds, in this regard, that EU industry strategy is always been too much focused on services rather than manufacturing sectors which still represents the majority of EU SMEs;