4 Amendments of Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK related to 2016/2325(INI)
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Emphasises that space technology requires large budgets and that it is essential to allocate the necessarycontinue to allocate resources to this sector in the EU budget;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that the EU’s space industry provides employment for more than 200 000 specialists, generates an added value of at least EUR 46 billion and contributes to socioeconomic innovation and exploration in fisheries and the blue economy;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses that the forthcoming ninth framework programme (FP9) for the period after 2021 must include among its objectives both integration of the EU’s space strategy, fisheries and blue growth, as well as the involvement of specialised knowledge institutions in these fields;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Considers that Europe must become a world leader in the field of ‘blue’ space technology by further rolling out, deploying and improving: - Copernicus, which is important with a view to saving lives at sea and in connection with flooding, - Galileo, Europe’s worldwide satellite navigation system, - the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (Egnos), a European Differential Global Positioning System, which is already providing navigation services to users at sea in connection with the safety of human lives, - ‘blue’ drones controlled using satellite data, which can be deployed for rescue operations at sea, on the coast and in the Union’s inland waters, as by the winner of the Satnav Prize in 2015.