Activities of Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO related to 2016/2271(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Digitising European industry - Internet connectivity for growth, competitiveness and cohesion: European gigabit society and 5G (debate) ES
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on digitising European industry PDF (471 KB) DOC (108 KB)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on digitising European industry
Amendments (44)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the information and communications technology (ICT) sector currently employs six million people in Europe and whereas 40 % of European workers have insufficient digital skills; whereas a large gender gap exists in employment and training in the (ICT) sector, with strong negative implications for equality in the labour market;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas industrial value-added and employment has been declining in its relative weight for decades, also leading to strong imbalances within the European economy that have negatively affected social and regional cohesion; whereas the digitalisation of industry poses both challenges and opportunities for the sector as a whole, which require the active involvement of public authorities and social partners in pursuit of a fair digital transition;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas energetic efforts to reindustrialise Europeand rebalance the economy of Member States must be pursued with the aim of combining competitiveness andgrowth and quality job creation with social and environmental sustainability;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the digitisation of industry represents a major challenge in terms of the organisation of work and therefore requires targeted responses regardingis profoundly transforming work relations by accelerating many of the tendencies (out-sourcing and sub- contracting of industrial production and services, irregular and on-demand working patterns...) that were already becoming prevalent in the past decades; highlights that these transformations require Members States and the Commission, together with the social partners, to review legislation in the fields of employment, social and education policies, as well as the provision of up-to-date infrastructurend to strengthen collective bargaining mechanisms; notes with concern that the lack of appropriate action has already resulted in an increase in precarious and atypical work in the industrial field, including such worrying developments as the use of zero-hour contracts or the spike in "bogus" self- employment and non-paid over-time in many Member States; highlights that the digitalisation of industry must be shaped so that it contributes to improved working conditions, including higher-skilled quality employment and reduced working- times;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes the strong regional differences as regards the digitisation of industry, which hareflect overall imbalances in the technical and productive development of the different Member States; highlights that growing divergences have negative consequences on jobs and growth; calls on the EU, therefore, for efforts in developingto take exclude public investments in this field from deficit calculations, and to use European funds in a manner that contributes to the development of digital infrastructure to be stepped up, particularly in regions lagging behind, and for universal access to the open internet to be promoted; believes that public digital innovation and open standards are a way to counter concentration of digital knowledge in a few industrial companies, thus promoting balanced digital development across Member States;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas it is an imperative for European industrial strategy to create a digital single marketshape digitalization in a socially-just manner;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the digitalisation of industrial manufacturing can be an important stepping stone in increasing the resilience, sustainability and competitiveness of our economy;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, in cooperation with social partners, to regularly assess the impact of digitisation on the quality, numberlevel and types of jobsemployment and to adjustmend related policies accordinglyin order to ensure digitalisation effectively contributes to rising social and labour standards;
Amendment 42 #
F. whereas digitalisation has the potential toshould increase efficient use of resources, energy and capital, contributing to a more integrated circular economy and industrial symbiosis;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas digitaliszation can contribute to safer working conditions, to greater product safety, and to the individualisad the individualisation and decentralisation of production should be made compatible with decent working conditions and decentralisation ofgreater production safety;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recognises the opportunities related to the digitisation of industry; stresses, however, that new forms of work must comply withnot be used to circumvent current labour and social legislation and guarantees regards the protection of worker's’ and consumer rights;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas there is widespread concern as regards the labour market effects of digitalisation in industrial manufacturing on workers as well as its possible effects on workplace democracy and regional development;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to clarifyregulate the legal situation of platform workers and to guarantee all workersin line with the rights currently recognised to workers in the same line of employment and to guarantee all workers, including the dependent self-employed, the same social rights, including the freedom of association, the right to conclude collective agreements, the right to industrial action and the right to organise;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States to ensure universal access to training in digital skills, in order to allow equal participation of all citizens in the digital single market, be it as employees, entrepreneurs or customnot to increase the current digital gap, including basic training on key enabling competences in the digital field, from basic skills to STEM, to life-long learning opportunities and training for all workers;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomNotes the Commission’s Communication on Digitising European Industry;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point a
Paragraph 2 – point a
(a) Strengthening economic dynamics, cohesion and resilience vis-à-vis technological transformations and disruptions;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
Paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
(aa) Ensuring public control over critical digital infrastructure and knowledge, as well as favouring open access to new digital technologies;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Notes that the digitalisation of industry has ambiguous effects on the quality of work, since it may also lead to de-skilling of workers, which become mere appendixes of robotised production systems or digitalised platforms, with negative effects also on workplace democracy; highlights the need to strengthen the role of workers' representatives in shaping digital transformations, by strengthening their rights of consultation and participation in everyday management, as key to ensure a fair digital transition;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point b
Paragraph 2 – point b
(b) Fostering quality job creation and improving working standards and the attractiveness of industrial sector jobs through a socially just transformation;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses the need to identify together with the social partners potential occupational health and safety risks stemming from the digitisation of industry and to take appropriate measures, including new psychological risks and the effects of robot-human interaction, and to take appropriate measures including the recognition of such rights as the right to disconnect.
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point d
Paragraph 2 – point d
(d) Strengthening European cohesion through a reliable European investment policy (in digital infrastructure) and a coordinated European industrial policy con the basis oftributing to sustainable moderniszation and regional cohesion, through a territorially-based approach;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Calls on Member States to launch, together with the social partners, nation- wide consultations on the future of work and digitalisation; believes that the Commission should play a key role in disseminating and coordinating these national initiatives;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7 b. Highlights the need to identify the effects of ICT standards and new standards on workers, including the problem of worker's data safety, security and privacy; believes such issues should be tackled through new legislation;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7 c. Notes that new forms of crowdworking are likely to extend to industry, given the possibilities for decentralisation and flexibility in industrial production afforded by digitalisation; reiterates its concerns on the way crowdworking is being used to circumvent tax legislation and worker rights, including minimum wages, health and safety obligations, maximum working times and the rights to social security; calls on the Commission and Member States to develop a framework which ensures that crowd-workers enjoy the same rights as workers in standard forms of employment, updating their legislation where appropiate;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 d (new)
Paragraph 7 d (new)
7 d. Believes that firms should be liable to the same tax and social-security payments for robotized jobposts as for ordinary workers, in order to eliminate any bias in the decision to automate a particular task and to contribute to the long-term sustainability of public finances and social security systems;
Amendment 94 #
(f) Strengthening economic, policy and social innovation through the principles of openness and accessibility of public and private data and information, with due consent and respect for private safety, both for workers and consumers;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point i
Paragraph 2 – point i
(i) Improving energy security through a digitised, more flexible industrialthe flexibility of energy production;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point j
Paragraph 2 – point j
(j) Partnering with other macro- regions in the world in developing innovative and fair digital open marketsContributing to the development of digital technology at a global level;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the importance of an EU governance structure coordinated EU forum for the digitalisation of industry that facilitates the coordination of national initiatives and platforms on industrial digitalisation; calls on the Commission to consider setting a non- binding orientation target, that allows the EU to remain a global industrial leadert the frontier of digital development; underlines the importance of advancing digitalisation particularly in those regions that are lagging behind; expects that, besides industry leaders and the social partners, as well as stakeholders from academia, the standardisation community, trade unions, policy-makers and civil society as wewill asbe industry leaders, especially SMEs, will also be invited to play an active rolevited to play an active role; stresses the importance, in order to ensure a socially-just digital transition, of involving workers' representatives at every step of its digital strategy;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Asks the Commission to establish a specific industrial foresight unit that examines manufacturing and digitalisation trends, studies pertinent developments in other regions, identifies new key technologies and ensures that European leadership in these areas is maintained and new trends are integrated into policies and actionsnew trends are integrated into policies and actions in order to allow the European economy to benefit from new digital developments, while embedding them in a policy framework that ensures data protection and privacy and worker's rights as well as a more cohesive European economy;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Subheading 2
Creating conditions for successful industrial digitalisation: infrastructure, investment, innovation, social dialogue
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that integrated industrial digitalisation must be based on strong enabling conditions and strengthened social dialogue;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Highlights in this context the need to advance public investment in connectivity through 5G and fibre optics as an instrument for convergence and ensuring a robust digital infrastructural backbone for Europe’s industry; stresses the importance of public control and regulation of said sector, in order to better serve the needs of a changing economy; highlights the importance of timing the transition to ensure that enough spectrum remains available for current users such as radio and television broadcasters, considering also their importance for European creative and cultural industries;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Believes that clusters and synergies between SMEs, industrial players, the skilled crafts sector, start-ups, academia, finance and other stakeholders can be successful models in advancing digital manufacturing and innovation; notes the importance of utilising digitalisation for advancing business model innovationshighlights the fundamental role of the public sector in creating new digital knowledge and innovation; notes the importance of digitalisation in changing business models and calls on the EU and Member States to ensure labour legislation is adapted to the new environment, in order to preserve workers' rights and strengthen collective bargaining;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Notes the important role of cities in providing digital infrastructure and support for SMEs, entrepreneurs and industry, and the immense opportunities which digital- industrial innovation holds for cities; asks the Commission to look into the US ‘Cities Innovation Technology Investment Initiative (CITIIS)’; welcomes the publication of a European Digital City Index;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Highlights the role that public procurement can play in advancing new industrial digital innovations and technology; asks the Commission to include a digital check in its REFIT Programmestresses, however, that digitalization of public services must not be used to advance austerity measures in the public sector or to reduce necessary physical services; calls, in this respect, for the involvement of workers in the public sector in the definition and implementation of public digital strategies;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses the importance of financing the digitalisation of Europe’s industry; expresses disappointment that the European Fund for Strategcalls for the strengthening of public Iinvestment (EFSI) has so far invested only 11 % in digital projectsin digital innovation and research;
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Underlines the role of cybersecurity within the digitalisation of Europe’s industry; considers cyber-resilience as crucial and cybersecurity as a core sector for European digitalisation efforts; believes that producers are responsible for ensuring safety and security standards on the basis of the available state of the art technology; notes that cybersecurity requirements for theexpresses concern and the lack of cybersecurity in the current Internet of Things (IoT) and calls for the development of IT security standards musthat strengthen European cyber- resilience; believes that European standardisation bodies have a special role to play in this respect;
Amendment 263 #
17. Stresses the need for monitoring of data sovereignty; believes that industrial data protection and data ownership, especially b2b, require special attention; notes that open data and open standards can promote new technologies and calls for EU-financed projects to ensure them;
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Recognises the potential of digitising industry for the purpose of sectoral data retrieval and of governance by public and semi-public authorities and market participants, but calls for strong public regulation ensuring data safety and privacy;
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Recognises the importance of protectsharing technical know-how as regards the exchange and interlinkage of industrial- digital components while at the same time allowing and furthering connectivity;
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Stresses that European leadership in industrial digitalisation requires a strong and open standardisation strategy; emphasises the important and unique make-up of Europe’s standardisation bodies, including their inclusive approach; calls on the Commission to promote the development of open standards and welcomes its intention to guarantee access to standard essential patents under FRAND (fair, reasonable, non-discriminatory) conditions; calls for an EU coordinated approach towards international fora and consortia such as the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC);
Amendment 292 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Highlights the fact that the digital transformation of industry will have a major societal impact on areas ranging from employment, working conditions, workers’ rights to education and skills; calls on the Commission and the Member States to adequately study the social effects of industrial digitalisationzation in consultation with the social partners and to adapt social and labour legislation accordingly;
Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Stresses that Europe faces a digital gap in terms of skills; calls for the implementation of a skills guarantee, after consultation and with participation of social partners, and the right to (re- )training and life-long- learning; emphasises the importance of ensuring the promotion and recognition of digital skills; calls on industry to grant employees a paid ‘digital sabbatical’; asks the Commission to launch a pan-European up-skilling initiative;