20 Amendments of Bernd LANGE related to 2010/2095(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. Whereas industrial policy in Europe can only succeed if it is firmly rooted both in a new financial sector architecture that promotes investment and prevents speculation, and also in a macroeconomic policy that steers fiscal, economic and budgetary policies in the EU towards sustainable growth and employment,
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas European industry’s global leadership is increasingly being challenged by the expanding industrial base in emerging countries, and the major competitors such as the USA, Japan and China are pursuing a strong and active industrial policy supported by broad investment in leading edge products and services, and for this reason it is extremely important to maintain and develop the competitiveness of European industry, to maintain its role as a driver of sustainable growth and employment in Europe,
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Regrets that Point 9 of the Commission Communication places less stress than in earlier Commission deliberations on specific targets, named indicators and review of objectives, and that these have now been subsumed into general observations on the EU 2020 Strategy;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Supports the Commission’s initiative at Point 3 of its Communication consistently to analyse the industrial policy implications of future legislation and to assess the implementation of this legislation, and stresses that the social partners must be included and there must be the greatest possible transparency;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for research expenditure for the upcoming programming period from 2013 (RDP 8) to be significantly increased (EU target for public funding: 1% of GDP).: 3% of GDP for research and development, 1% of GDP in public funding) so that European industry remains at the forefront of technology and globally competitive, thus putting private investment to effective use; Notes that, alongside strongly process- oriented research and innovation, research in basic cross-sectoral technologies in such areas as ICT, mobility, energy, biotechnology and nanotechnology is needed and, in addition, that procedures must be simplified;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses the success of the Risk Sharing Financial Facility (RSFF) as an important way of providing research funding for SMEs via the EIB, and strongly encourages the Commission to make significantly more funds available to the RSFFpromote more high-risk innovative projects and those in which suitable SMEs participate;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the Commission to use new funding possibilities to strengthen the innovation capacity of SMEs, creating revolving innovation funds from ERDF resources and disseminating them as good practice;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Calls on the Commission to draw up an inventory of the best practices of existing and planned funding mechanisms, fiscal measures and financial incentives to promote innovation and calls for an annual update and review of the measures’ effectiveness;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 – introductory part
Paragraph 13 – introductory part
13. Is convinced that the clear increase in resourcing efficiency as regards raw and auxiliary materials and supplies is strengthening the global competitive position of European industry, and therefore calls on the Commission to promote resource efficiency as a prioritbuild on its Communication on a resources strategy (COM(2005) 670) and promote resource efficiency as a priority in an action plan and, if needs be, in a Directive on resource efficiency. This means:
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 – indent 4
Paragraph 13 – indent 4
· developing an SME-friendly standard form of business sustainability report which will analyse the ‘environmental rucksack’ – resulting in economies and making firms more competitive in consequence – and group together and standardise existing reporting requirements and possibilities (e.g. EMAS), and which should be mandatory wherever possible;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – introductory part
Paragraph 14 – introductory part
14. Stresses that the availability of raw materials is of central importance to European industry’s development possibilities, and therefore calls on the Commission to present a comprehensive raw materials strategy in the first half of 20101, which should include:
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – indent 1
Paragraph 14 – indent 1
- intensification of raw material recovery by means of ambitious recycling rulethe consistent implementation of existing recycling and waste rules, more far reaching recycling standards, appropriate support for research, and a stop to the exporting of waste that contains raw materials,
Amendment 294 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 – indent 1 a (new)
Paragraph 16 – indent 1 a (new)
- emphasises both the need for Europe- wide strengthening of work-based learning in order to link vocational training systems more closely to the labour market, and the importance of enhancing the appeal of vocational training throughout Europe with higher education permeability for vocational training graduates,
Amendment 323 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Stresses that the comparative reluctance to engage in self-employed business activity can be overcome by creating a more attractive environment for business starters, more integrated support schemes such as ENTRE:DI and specific programmes such as ‘Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs’;
Amendment 334 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for a stronger, coordinated and technology-neutral EU policy on lead markets, such as the environmental industries (some 3.5 million employees, EUR 300 billion turnover, up to 50% of the global market); stresses that many ‘traditional’ markets – steel, automobiles and shipbuilding, for example – have a strong capacity for innovation and/or offer and manufacturing industries with a strong capacity for innovation, such as steel, automobiles and shipbuilding, which have comparative advantages, of which full use should be made; for these purposes, product-specific legislation such as the eco-design directive should be developed further, and along cost efficiency lines and work should continue on industry stimulating initiatives such as the ‘green car initiative’ put in place; calls, in this context, for a long-term campaign on sustainable consumption to raise awareness and change behaviour and thus support new innovative products and designs;
Amendment 364 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Stresses that there is still vast potential for the performance of European industry in the full implementation of the internal market and calls on the Commission and Member States to quickly dismantle the remaining obstacles and barriers in the internal market;
Amendment 381 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 – indent 1
Paragraph 22 – indent 1
• to press on with implementation of the Small Business Act, and to deal with shortcomings in the application of the guidelines adopted and, in connection with the Small Business Act, to address specific measures such as reducing the administrative burden and the ‘SME Test’, so that sufficient progress is finally made for Europe’s SMEs, thus creating equal initial conditions for all SMEs in the internal market;
Amendment 409 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Takes the view that sectoral aid policy should not only be seen in the context of competition law, but must, in the interests of Europe, be used proactively, transparently and with clear rules to strengthen innovation and the roll-out of new products, and in connection with industrial restructuring operations;
Amendment 483 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to devise new mediation approaches to monitoring and building new infrastructure and to implement them so as increase the involvement of citizens, so that infrastructure which is necessary for the sustainable renewal of the industrial base (e.g. smart networks, wind farms, new railway lines) become possible quickly;
Amendment 493 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 – indent 3 a (new)
Paragraph 28 – indent 3 a (new)
• the clusters and networks should be brought together under the ‘umbrella’ of European platforms, so that support for clusters and networks can be strengthened,