Activities of Grzegorz TOBISZOWSKI related to 2020/2076(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on a New Industrial Strategy for Europe
Amendments (24)
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 35 a (new)
Citation 35 a (new)
- having regard to the “EU Energy Intensive Industries’ Masterplan 2050. Report from the High Level Group on Energy-intensive Industries, 2019”,
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the Union requires a new industrial strategy that makes its industries more globally competitive, resilient and environmentally sustainable; whereas such a strategy should cover the transition of European industries to digitalisation and climate-neutrality, prioritising the reactivation of production and employment, the ‘energy efficiency first’ principles, energy savings andand deployment of renewable energy and low-carbon technologies;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the Union’s industrial strategy should ensure the correct functioning of the single market, create a level playing field inside and outside EU and ensure easier access to finance, technologies, affordable and secure energy supply, raw materials and markets, in addition to ensuring appropriate levels of investment, research and innovation, education and skills to boost competitiveness, employment, and sustainability;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Is of the opinion that digital and environmental transitions should be at the very core of all Unions strategies until 2050; in this context, calls on the Commission to define a comprehensive industrial strategy which manages these transitions, fosters transformation and guarantees the Union’s strategic autonomyprovides a clear path to conduct it, including through mobilising appropriate financial resources to enable the necessary investments, and guarantees the Union’s strategic autonomy for the key value chains and their raw materials required in the energy transition;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Is aware that market dynamics alone do not bridge the fractures created during the transformation process if there is no proper management of the transitions and no strong industrial policies; is, furthermore, aware that while markets, competition and innovation push fast towards transformation, it is society and the environment that face the impact of these transformations; considers that balancing out the number of jobs lost in traditional industries with new jobs created in the digital and environmental sectors is not enough in itself as these new jobs are neither created in the same regions nor taken up by the same workers; calls on the Commission, therefore, to ensure that these transitions are fair and socially just, in the spirit of ‘no one left behind’ principle, and that every action aimed at accelerating a transformation process (digital, environmental, etc.) is accompanied by a corresponding initiative to up-skill and reskill workers, with the aim of managing in alignment with the needs of the labour market of the eaffects produced by that accelerated process on bothed region, with the aim of its economic revitalisation, rather than counting on worker mobility and risking depopulation and impoverishment of regions and people;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers, in the current context, that the Union requires a new, tailor-made industrial strategy that focuses on two distinct phases; the first aimed at recovery and the second aimed at reconstruction and transformation; calls on the Commission, therefore, to prepare a comprehensive report assessing the state of the EU economy and a feasibility to carry out a twin transition and, based on its findings, to adapt the strategy published in March 2020 to the current situation and address both phases, while keeping the digital and environmental objectives as priorities throughout;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the Temporary State Aid framework as a way to promptly transfer liquidity where urgently needed; calls on the Commission nonetheless to ensure that the aid provided in the emergency phase does not lead to permanent distortions in the single market, and that loosening of state aid rules is time-limited and is gradually phased-out;
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
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; stresses the need to create transparent conditions of application for joint projects of IPCEI that would be uniform in all Members States in order to ensure that they serve the benefit of the EU as a whole;
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Expresses concern with the delays in the implementation of energy projects caused by disruption of supply chains and shifting investment funds to achieve immediate goals related to fighting the pandemic and alleviating its most acute socio-economic impacts, that could negatively impact targets enshrined in the EU’s climate and energy policy; expresses opinion that current situation is proving that while planning the recovery from the crisis Europe needs to strengthen the resilience of its economy and supply chains to external shocks and to increase technological sovereignty in strategic sectors; calls therefore to recognise wind , solar and energy storage technologies as strategic value chains and to prepare measures and stimuli for their development in Europe, including through reshoring, in particular, to include them in the work of the High- Level Forum on IPCEI, to support the role of local content in the RES supply chain and legislation, to study feasibility to launch relevant IPCEIs in these sectors, to adapt State Aid regulatory framework to encourage public support for them, and to ensure a level-playing field for EU and non-EU manufactures;
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Recalls that the European climate and energy policy will require high volumes of metals and minerals for its strategic technologies, including wind, solar, energy storage technologies; expresses concern that Europe is highly reliant on other areas of world for its supply of many of these metals and minerals, and is gradually losing its global share even for the materials where it does have industrial capacity; stresses that Europe’s autonomy in strategic sectors cannot be achieved without competitive and sustainable EU ecosystem for base, precious and critical materials from primary and secondary sources; underlines in this respect the significance of Circular Economy Action Plan and stresses however that Europe needs to boost its capacity for all stages of the raw materials value chain: mining, recycling, and smelting, refining and transformation;
Amendment 275 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Welcomes the announcement of Critical Raw Materials Action Plan and Alliance, envisaged by the industrial strategy; expresses opinion that the scope of the Alliance should not be limited to critical raw materials and should be aimed at development of integrated ecosystem for the range of materials, metals, and minerals required for energy transition;
Amendment 277 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 d (new)
Paragraph 8 d (new)
8d. Draws attention that European raw materials value chain and energy intensive industries meet the highest environmental and social standards and that the politics of decarbonisation is forcing them to undertake an enormous effort of industrial electrification and gasification; points out in this regard to the necessity to ensure a level playing field and fair trade conditions, particularly at a time of pandemic crisis when European companies are at their weakest and recovering non-European economies are having a strong rationale to oversupply global market or engage in strategic stockpiling; expresses particular concerns over European steel industry which already challenging situation was compounded by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic; regrets the failure of Global Forum of Steel Excess Capacity to tackle efficiently the problem of global overcapacity and subsidised export and calls on the Commission to consider application of trade defence instruments where necessary;
Amendment 292 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point b
Paragraph 9 – point b
b. will be managed directly, when possible, by the Commission throughcompliant with the subsidiarity principle with the Commission acting through existing and new European programmes in order to avoid further distortion of the single market;
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point e
Paragraph 9 – point e
e. gives preference to companies and SMEs that focus their long-term business plans on digital and environmental transformation, while avoiding discrimination of companies in emergency that are not ready to carry out these innovations at the moment and concentrate their efforts on other type of investments, more urgent in crisis situation;
Amendment 342 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to carry out a detailed impact assessment of the potential costs and burdens for European companies and SMEs before presenting new proposals for legislation or adopting new measures; calls on the Commission to postpone new initiatives until the end of a recovery phase and to propose commensurate support to the affected sectors whenever a negative impact cannot be avoided;
Amendment 396 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Points out that electrification and gasification of industrial processes aimed at reducing GHG emissions puts a great financial burden on the industries since this requires not only purchase of new machineries, but also large investments into infrastructure (such as electric grids, network capacity, compressor stations), therefore having a considerable impact on their competitiveness; calls therefore on the Commission to prepare a plan detailing measures to be taken at Union's level in order to ensure that the appropriate financial resources are mobilised to enable the necessary investments for energy intensive industries to achieve a climate-neutral EU economy, including a proposal to proportionally increase the compensation mechanisms for Member States with different starting points and GDP per capita below EU average;
Amendment 405 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Recalls the 2019 EU Masterplan for a competitive transformation of energy-intensive industries which has at its heart managing the transition while keeping the European industries competitive and calls on the Commission to implement its recommendation to help displace imports from third countries not meeting sufficiently environmental standards and incentivise higher levels of climate ambition from the EU’s global trading partners;
Amendment 419 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Considers that there is significant potential in domestic and global markets for low-emission technologies and sustainable products, processes and services throughout the whole value chain from raw materials to energy-intensive industries, manufacturing and the industrial services sector; considers, moreover, that the Climate Law is a first step towards enshrining climate targets into Union legislation; believes that a more holistic and systematic target framework is also required in orderalongside the Climate Law it is more required to ensure policy coherence across all Union policies and a homogenous governance approach in all policy areas, paving the way towards a clear and stable strategy for Europe in order to provide European industries with certainty and predictability to base their decisions and industriesvestments on;
Amendment 427 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Commission to support investments aimed at expanding transport infrastructure, in particular low-carbon one, which would allow, firstly, to achieve a multiplier effect through placing orders addressed to a wide spectrum of entities - contractors, subcontractors, suppliers and their subcontractors - and secondly, to ensure long-term sustainable growth by supplementing and developing linkage between EU regions;
Amendment 435 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Maintains that a truly effective European industrial policy needs a dashboard of climate targets as a roadmap to shape the industry of the future; considers that all key sectors of economy, including those ETS and non-ETS covered 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 technologynatural gas as means of sustainable and cost-effective energy transition and a technical enabler of deployment of new gases, i.e. biogas, biomethane and hydrogen; stresses that natural gas and other gaseous fuels will be used as a feedstock in the industrial sector, given that there is no other applicable alternative in the foreseeable future; calls for a clear and stable regulatory framework that will support the development and modernization of gas infrastructure and stresses that respective investments cannot be subject to discriminatory treatment neither from the EU funding perspective, nor from the taxonomy perspective; calls also for greater attention to be paid to network security and energy supply; calls on the Council to increase spending from the EU budget on climate change efforts; calls on the Commission to ensure that industries withexposed to the risk of high carbon leakage do notcontinue to benefit from EU subsidies to invest in environmental innovative technologies, 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 procesadapting to new environmental standards, and to use the Border Carbon Adjustments mechanism as a way to protect EU manufacturers and jobs from unfair international competition;
Amendment 500 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Highlights the need to support a just energy transition, and believes that a well- designed Just Transition Mechanism, including a Just Transition Fund particular a Just Transition Fund, together with the other supporting mechanisms, such as the Modernisation Fund and “the solidarity pool” under the EU ETS Directive, which should be increased proportionately to the new 2030 emission reduction target, would be an important tool to facilitate the transition and reach ambitious climate targets while addressing socialeconomic, social and energy security impacts; stresses that robust financing of this instrument, including additional budgetary resources, and tailored solutions implemented by the Member States reflecting their national and regional differences would be a key element for the successful implementation of the European Green DealU climate and energy policy;
Amendment 524 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission to tailor its industrial strategy to the scaling-up and commercialisation of breakthrough technologies in the Union, by providing risk financing for early-stage technology and developing early value chains to support first commercial-scale, climate- neutral technologies and products; and supporting the development of research infrastructure, particularly in these Members States which need some improvements in this regard;
Amendment 607 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Considers that industrial transformation requires the integration of new knowledge and innovation into existing markets and their use in the creation of new ones; regrets, in this respect, that the Union invests less in R&D as a percentage of GDP than its global competitors and that it suffers from a serious lack of innovative capacity in small and medium-sized enterprises due to a shortfall in the necessary risk capital; calls on the Commission to increase the budget for those programmes that underpin the transformation of the Union’s industry, including Horizon Europe, and to foster synergies between regional, national, European and private financial sources by taking advantage of synergies among all Union programmes;
Amendment 636 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Is of the opinion that ecosystems will be key components of the next industrial revolution, providing affordable and cleaner energy, transformative manufacturing and service-provision methods; calls for each ecosystem to be analysed in more detail, including the specific needs of each contained sector and to develop sectorial investment plans for their transition; believes, moreover, that supporting collaboration among industry, academia, SMEs, start-ups, trade unions, civil society, end-user organisations and all other stakeholders will be key to solving market failures and supporting efforts to cross the ‘valley of death’, including in areas not yet covered by industrial interests;