Activities of David BORRELLI related to 2016/0047(NLE)
Plenary speeches (1)
Research programme of the Research Fund for Coal and Steel (A8-0358/2016 - Jerzy Buzek) IT
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the proposal for a Council decision amending Decision 2008/376/EC on the adoption of the Research Programme of the Research Fund for Coal and Steel and on the multiannual technical guidelines for this programme PDF (647 KB) DOC (83 KB)
Amendments (11)
Amendment 11 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 1 a (new)
Recital 1 a (new)
(1a) The recent industrial history of Europe shows that its steel industry has indeed had a key role in our overall industrial panorama. However, at the same time, due to some deeply wrong and ideologically biased decisions, it has created certain installations that have saddled the territories of the Union where they are located with staggering liabilities. These miscarriages of industrial policy have produced an enormous destruction of value in terms of serious damages to the health of workers and citizens, plus extremely serious environmental impacts. In such a context, the management of the funds resulting from the liquidation of the Community of Coal and Steel cannot go on under a model of "business as usual"; in order to recover credibility vis-à-vis its citizens, the Union needs to face this problem and bring definitive solutions, using all the means and instruments available.
Amendment 14 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 1 b (new)
Recital 1 b (new)
(1b) Our understanding of fossil fuels and of the certain damage that their combustion brings to the planetary climate stability and to the quality of air in our metropolitan areas, through the release of CO2 and other substances, is completely different not just from the one in 1951, when the European Coal and Steel Community was established, but also from the one in 2002, when it was liquidated. Accordingly, the overall cycle of coal must be treated in complete compliance with the Union's climate and environmental objectives.
Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 1 c (new)
Recital 1 c (new)
(1c) Although the financial income generated by the funds remaining after the liquidation of the European Coal and Steel Community is not particularly large, the criteria followed for its management can convey a clear political message to our citizens. The Union needs to acknowledge, through all instruments available, that some sections of its industrial steel policy have utterly failed, generating highly inefficient installations that now, well within the 21st century, must be definitively stopped and fully decommissioned, under the best international standards for territory and environmental restoration. The Union also needs to acknowledge that the best strategy towards fossil fuels, both now and in the envisageable future, is leaving them safely underground. Such is the message that the Union policy needs to send clearly to its citizens, and to the international scene.
Amendment 18 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 1 d (new)
Recital 1 d (new)
(1d) A significant share of the research projects financed under this Decision should address, as a major Union priority, the need to identify the steel production installations located in the Union to be urgently stopped and decommissioned, and contribute to the launch of the actual decommissioning and restoration projects, providing inputs and analyses to them, ensuring that the overall initiative is conducted under homogeneous criteria. In coherence with this priority, no funds should be allocated to any other research projects involving the industrial installations included in this "most damaging" list. In parallel, a major share of the research funds corresponding to coal should address how to clean and restore the communities damaged by the corresponding extractive processes. In coherence with this priority, no funds should be allocated to any other research projects that are not compatible with the climate policy and environmental objectives of the Union.
Amendment 19 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 1 e (new)
Recital 1 e (new)
(1e) A Union-wide public debate should be launched with a wide sample of representatives of civil society, in order to gather the political will necessary to fund the restoration and decommissioning projects regarding the industrial sites included in this "most damaging" list. To this end, a part of the debate should explore legal means and instruments that allow to review the agreements following the liquidation of the Community, so that the funds currently set aside can be used productively towards such a purpose. At the same time, it shall become necessary to identify additional Union funds, to be supplemented by national funds, which should not be considered into the calculations under the constraints imposed by the mechanism of stability.
Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – point -1 (new)
Article 1 – point -1 (new)
Decision 2008/376/EC
Article 4 – paragraph -1 (new)
Article 4 – paragraph -1 (new)
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – point -1 a (new)
Article 1 – point -1 a (new)
Decision 2008/376/EC
Article 7 a (new)
Article 7 a (new)
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – point -1 b (new)
Article 1 – point -1 b (new)
Decision 2008/376/EC
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point -a (new)
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point -a (new)
Amendment 47 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – point -1 c (new)
Article 1 – point -1 c (new)
Decision 2008/376/EC
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point -a a (new)
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point -a a (new)
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – point 3
Article 1 – point 3
Decision 2008/376/EC
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Members of the Technical Groups shall be selected from experts with competence in research strategy, management or produc, production or decommissioning of industrial installations in the areas referred to in Sections 3 and 4 of Chapter II and who have responded to public call for applications.
Amendment 68 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – point 3
Article 1 – point 3
Decision 2008/376/EC
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
They shall be active in the field concerned and have responsibility for research strategy, management or produc, production or decommissioning of industrial installations in the related sectors.