9 Amendments of Massimiliano SALINI related to 2020/2076(INI)
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to focus on domestic productivity and reorganize industry within Europe, in order to establish less dependence on vulnerable supply chains in core industry sectors such as the tech and telecommunications, strategic raw materials, medical products and pharmaceuticals sectors, especially in times of global crisis, and to remain competitive on the global markets;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Supports, in principle, the initiative to reinforce a rule-based multilateral trading system; expresses its concern, however, about the functioning of the WTO, owingalso due to some international actors abusing their market power;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for the reinforcement of the safeguard instruments in order to make them more efficient and better adapted to protect European industry and to tackle global market distortions effectively, especially considering strategic metals;
Amendment 258 #
8. Is of the opinion that the industrial recovery plan should help to create new ambitious and innovative European industrial projects which go 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; call on the Commission to continue the work on value chains by ensuring an adequate follow-up to the actions proposed for the six strategic value chains identified by the Strategic Forum on IPCEI;
Amendment 440 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Maintains that a truly effective European industrial policy needs a dashboardstable framework of climate targets as a roadmap to shape the industry of the future; considers 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 for greater attention to be paid to network security and energy supplytechnologies as important breakthrough technologies; underlines the resilient functioning of the internal energy market as a key component of the energy transition; calls oin 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 tois context for greater attention to be paid to smart and digital electricity and gas network development which are fully compatible with the decarbonisation goals, in order to strengthen the internal energy market, support the energy transition and improve security of energy supply; calls on the Commission and Member States to make this a spending priority in the reconstruction and recovery phase; support the development of transnational energy grids as well as effective and swift decision-making procedures to support it; recalls that the use of the Border Carbon Adjustments mechanism as a way to protectinternational market mechanism can contribute to the cost-effective achievement of the climate objectives of the EU manufacturers and jobs from unfair international competitiond the Member States; and to make proposals for the rapid harmonisation of national energy trading rules;
Amendment 461 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls on the Commission to step up carbon leakage protection including for small and medium-sized industry without distorting competition and ensure that industrial production thrives in Europe, and for a 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 consider Border Carbon Adjustments mechanisms, as soon as possible, which are compatible with WTO rules and the Union's other free trade agreements as a way to ensure competitive environment for EU industries, including downstream manufacturers based on thorough impact assessments; underlines that an improved building stock has the greatest potential for achieving the EU's energy and climate goals and that policy, finance and innovation/digitalisation are the three key enablers for a sustainable built environment; believes that maximising the energy efficiency potential of buildings will require a smart combination of rigorous implementation of existing policies, new policy initiatives to phase-out the worst energy performing buildings, adequate financing mechanisms and investments in innovative solutions;
Amendment 474 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Considers that traditional insurance instruments are not sufficient to cover the losses in business interruption caused by a pandemic, and that an ambitious EU-wide solution is needed to anticipate and manage the negative effects of a future pandemic or systemic crisis on people, businesses and the economy; calls on the Commission to work towards the creation of a framework involving institutional investors, Member States and the EU, to cover the losses due to business interruption in case of a future pandemic;
Amendment 554 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Considers it imperative to digitalise the Union’s industries, including traditional ones; calls on the Commission to invest, inter alia, in the data economy, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, smart production, 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 571 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. CWelcomes the position of the Commission on the use of industrial data; reiterates that data plays a key role in the transformation of European industries; stresses the importance of smart manufacturing growth, digitalisation and strategic autonomy of European industries; calls on the Commission to implement a single European digital and data market, to and ensures and promotes the exchange of data among companies and among public institutions,access and flow of data within the EU and across sectors, industries and among public institutions, promote investment in next generation standards, tools and infrastructures to store and process data and pool European data in key sectors, with EU-wide common and interoperable data spaces, calls on the Commission to give particular focus and consideration on projects aimed at data curation and labelling, data format standardisation, data security; to develop and process data on European soil, in particular data from public bodies, to build a better digital taxation systems in which profits are taxed where companies have significant interaction with users, in line with a potential deal under the OECD in order to mitigate the risk of a trade war, and to further develop European standards for example on cybersecurity, in particular for critical infrastructure; including by revising the NIS directive and by establishing the cybersecurity competence centre network and to ensure fair platform to business relations that enable European enterprises and especially for SMEs to use data generated on platforms effectively; encourages the Commission to use the full capacity of ENISA to support the conduction of national cybersecurity risk assessments; highlights the importance of the EU space policy, especially to improve European industrial space capacities and to unlock the potential of the synergies with other key sectors and policies, in particular to develop cutting-edge technologies and accompany the industrial transformation;