13 Amendments of Svenja HAHN related to 2020/2076(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Welcomes the New Industrial Strategy for Europe, especially its focus on ensuring fair competition and level playing field globally and on the tools to make EU industry fit to address today’s and tomorrow’s challenges worldwide;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Takes note of the Commission’s initiatives to support European SMEs’ access to international markets; stresses, however, that SMEs have to deal with too many regulations and burdens and excessive bureaucracy; stresses that SMEs are kept at a competitive disadvantage by investing in cEncourages the Commission to strengthen and improve its initiatives to support European SMEs in overcoming barriers that prevent their access to international markets, among others, through negotiating dedicated chapters in trade agreements; calls on the Commission for an effective implementation of the SME strategy in order to reduce burdens and excessive bureaucracy for our businesses abroad and facilimtate neutrality to comply with the Green Deal while trying to remain competitive and thrive on export marketstheir internationalisation;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to focus on domestic productivity within Europe, in order to establish less dependStresses the importance of diversification to improve the resilience onf vulnerable supply chainsalue chains as well as of smart reshoring in core industry sectors such as the tech and telecommunications, medical products and pharmaceuticals sectors, and raw materials, to achieve an open strategic autonomy especially in times of global crisis, and to remain competitive on the global markets, at the same time taking into account the needs of developing countries;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. In the context of the New Industrial Strategy, calls on the Commission to revise the Schengen agreement on free movement in order to ensure a proper functioning of the Single Market and to guarantee all freedoms of movement offering the same opportunities to all Member States, including Romania, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Croatia, eliminating the long hours of waiting at the Schengen borders of EU citizens and EU products;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Considers that the New Industrial Strategy should focus, in line with the Green New Deal, on the creation and development of ecological industries, on those industries that allow and enhance the reduction of carbon dioxide and other toxic gases and on the creation of a Single Market for all new ecological products that can come only from harmonized legislation and common standards at EU level;
Amendment 43 #
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 functRecalls the commitment of the European Union to a rule-based multilateral trading system and underlines that the EU should be at the forefront of defending and reinforcing it; supports the Commission ing of the WTO, owing to some international actors abusing their market power its overall efforts to modernize the WTO and urges to continue engaging with WTO Members to find a long-term multilateral solution to overcome the current deadlock of the Appellate Body; welcomes the multi-party interim appeal arbitration arrangement;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Underlines the importance of the ongoing plurilateral WTO negotiations on e-commerce, and calls for a comprehensive and ambitious set of rules, guaranteeing European data protection standards, to address digital trade barriers and ensure that companies, especially SMEs, can compete worldwide in a level playing field;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to work towards effective and opuncil to move on the ‘International pProcurement that allows the EU to take swift, targeted and compelling measures and increase leverage to negotiate reciprocity and market openingInstrument’; emphasizes the need for an instrument that targets discriminatory practices against EU businesses in third country procurement markets and increase leverage to negotiate reciprocity and market opening; Calls on the Commission to start a reflection on a possible framework for monitoring third country bidders’ access to EU procurement markets in strategic sectors;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls on the Commission to finalise and share its White Paper on an Instrument on Foreign Subsidies, to address the distortive effects caused by foreign subsidies within the single market as part of the European trade defence toolbox; recalls that it should be coherent with the possible modernization or update of targeted EU competition rules, with the aim of ensuring a level playing field for EU companies;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Highlights the significant role public procurement plays in shaping the trajectory of European industry and calls on the Commission to continue working on the correct implementation of EU public procurement legislation in order to create a well-functioning and harmonised Single Market across sectors;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Calls for the adoption of the review of Regulation 654/2014 (Enforcement Regulation), in order to strengthen it; stresses that this is an important tool to protect the Union’s interests under international trade agreements in situations when third countries adopt illegal measures that can negatively hit our businesses;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to strengtheWelcomes the guidelines on the screening of fForeign dDirect iInvestment and to protect access to(FDI) and calls on the Commission to strengthen it, also in light of the current crisis, in order to protect strategic industries, infrastructure, key enabling technologies, or any other assets in the interests of security and cybersecurity.
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Emphasises that the New Industrial Strategy should support innovation in the automotive and machinery sectors, which will help the industry meet its emissions goals with cleaner combustion and electric vehicles and equipment with longer life-spans and lower carbon footprints; believes that such actions can increase the confidence of the consumer in the quality of the products purchased and made in the Internal Market and strengthen our economy going forward;