18 Amendments of Stéphanie YON-COURTIN related to 2022/2008(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that the new Industrial Strategy was updated to reflect the lessons learned from COVID-19, and that this strategy will be key to enhancing EU competitiveness and overcoming future challenges; recalls thatunderlines that the crisis clearly demonstrated that the single market needs to be better equipped to face possible future crisis; welcomes, in this respect, the announcement of the Commission to present a Single Market Emergency Instrument to strengthen its resilience and ask the Commission to improve the effectiveness of already existing governance tools; asks for a strong governance system and a digitalised market surveillance system making full use of new technologies, such as AI, as they are essential in order to relaunch theand ensure a well-functioning single market; calls on the Commission to focus on ensuring that the industrial strategy helps remove single market barriers and avoid further fragmentation;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls on the European Commission and the Member States to enhance cooperation amongst themselves and with economic operators and use new technologies and regulatory sandboxes for removing all unjustified barriers of the Single Market, and reducing the administrative burdens;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Notes that the War in Ukraine showed one more time that the European economic environment needs improvement and that we still need to complete the Single Market in key industrial sectors, such as energy production and transport;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Recalls the importance of SMEs and start-ups for the competitiveness of the EU and as a source of innovation; asks the Commission to launch new actions to facilitate the creation of new start-ups, to support them in finding better access to financing and to provide clear guidance on how to comply with EU sectorial rules; believes that financial instruments to support their digitalisation should be strengthened.
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Recalls the launch of the New Bauhaus initiative as an important direction in greening the architectonic, construction, and housing sectors, while additionally focusing on sustainable city planning and development and ensuring the inclusion of all European citizens; underlines the need for fast standardization processes in order to keep up with the innovative approaches, materials and technologies that will enable the creation of a Single Market in the field of aesthetic, sustainable, and inclusive constructions; emphasizes the need for the announced Bauhaus Label to include sector specific criteria for Bauhaus projects to be awarded the label and for the label to enhance funding opportunities for projects in the EU; furthermore, insists that the future NEB Lab focusses on innovative recommendations developed in close cooperation with other scientific institutions in the EU and European businesses; underlines the importance of considering this complex innovative movement in the up-dates of the industrial strategy;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines the need to strengthen the competitiveness of SMEs and industry by addressing supply risks, dependencies, disruptions and vulnerabilities, especially in the green and digital economies; stresses that effective public procurement will lead to more jobs, growth and innovative investments; 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 and underlines the need to prioritize high quality and innovative aspects over price in all public procurement;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Underlines the importance of SMEs in the internal market as producers and also as providers of industrial services to other manufacturers; calls for the removal of the unjustified regulatory barriers and to promote the approach of the horizontal services in the industrial strategy;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Underlines that the war on Ukraine that lead to increase tensions between the European Union and the Russian Federation showed once again the importance of ensuring the autonomy of the Single Market in strategic sectors; calls for the creation of a real Single Market in the production of energy and underlines the importance of developing and implementing the trans-European energy infrastructure, TEN-E, as part of the main pillars of the industrial strategy;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Recalls that the Green Deal can only be achieved with the increase of the production and use of renewable energy; underlines that the industrial strategy should address the key obstacles to a faster development of renewables, inter alia permitting hurdles, finding ways to better connect SMEs and all possible energy producers in the system and encourage them to be part of the creation of the Single Market in the energy sector;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Recalls the importance of the cooperation with the education sector in all the Member States to develop the digital skills in the Single Market and highlights the need of a permanent dialogue among all relevant authorities and the economic operators to ensure that the young work force is better prepared for the new industrial needs.
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Recalls the export of ideas and highly skilled professionals in the digital sector; calls on the Commission to include in the industrial strategy paths that would lead to the support of the creation of start- ups and help them in finding better access to financing leading to the increase of the scale-ups and decreasing the buyouts and take overs of the European companies by the much more developed companies from third countries;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Welcomes the establishing of the European alliances in different industrial sectors, like raw materials, batteries, processors and others; calls on the Commission to increase the dissemination of the information and to encourage the Member States, regions and economic operators, including SMEs to join the European efforts in achieving the key EU policy objectives;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Underlines the importance of research and innovation in the green and digital transition; stresses the need of a true Single Market and of the active and enhanced participation of the SMEs and technology education institutes in the market; calls on the Commission and the Member States to facilitate the participation of SMEs and micro- enterprises to the R&D market by proper legislation and easy access to financial instruments and the possibility to use the R&D IP rights as collaterals.
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Welcomes the Commission intention to elaborate a strategy for the textile industry; recalls that the textile industry faces a slow recovery from the downfall during the pandemic, being affected also by the massive re-location of the production sites in third countries; underlines the need to target the SMEs as the main players in the sector;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Believes that the new industrial strategy must also set path for the recovery and strong development of cultural and creative industry as one of the sectors that are more susceptible to be affected by economic crisis;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Underlines the need to include in the industrial strategy the gaming industry as one of the industries with the highest development potential recalling that most of the games producers and developers are not European actors; calls for clear paths at the European level to enable industry to accelerate and become one of the leaders in the sector;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Highlights the importance of developing a true single market for data to support the EU industrial development, to foster innovation and to strengthen the Digital Single Market as a whole;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Recalls the importance of competition rules adapted to new dynamics of the EU market and to a changing global context to guarantee effective and fair competition in the Single Market and to enhance consumers choice;