19 Amendments of Clara PONSATÍ OBIOLS related to 2022/0032(COD)
Amendment 142 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) It is necessary to take measures to build capacity and strengthen the Union’s semiconductor sector in line with Article 173(3) of the Treaty. These measures do not entail the harmonisation of national laws and regulations. In this regard, the Union should reinforce the competitiveness and resilience of the semiconductor technological and industrial base, whilst strengthening the innovation capacity of its semiconductor sector, reducing dependence on a limited number of third country companies and geographies, and strengthening its capacity to design and produce advanced components, while promoting sustainable manufacturing processes, mainly those that reduce the amount of water and energy used. The Chips for Europe Initiative (the ‘Initiative’) should support these aims by bridging the gap between Europe’s advanced research and innovation capabilities and their sustainable industrial exploitation. It should promote capacity building to enable design, production and systems integration in next generation semiconductor technologies, enhance collaboration among key players across the Union, strengthening Europe's semiconductor supply and value chains, serving key industrial sectors and creating new markets.
Amendment 159 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) Given the globalised nature of the semiconductor supply chain, international cooperation with third countries is an important element to achieve a resilience of the Union’s semiconductor ecosystem. The actions taken under this Regulation should also enable the Union to play a stronger role, as a centre of excellence, in a better functioning global, interdependent semiconductors ecosystem. The Commission, assisted by the European Semiconductor Board, should cooperate and build partnerships with third countries with a view to seeking solutions to address, to the extent possible, disruptions of the semiconductor supply chain. International collaboration, especially with like-minded partners, is crucial to bridge the current gap between research and design and manufacturing. Such collaboration should also help to develop a market of recycled semiconductors.
Amendment 165 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) Member States are primarily responsible for sustaining a strong Union industrial, competitive, sustainable and innovative base. However, the nature and scale of the innovation challenge in the semiconductor sector requires action to be taken collaboratively at Union level. The goals of this Regulation should be supported with specific and significant new financial provisions. Such funds should be used also for the research, design and testing of advanced and evolving existing and complementary technologies and products within the Union's semiconductor industry.
Amendment 172 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) In order to equip the Union with the semiconductor technology research and innovation capacities needed to maintain its research and industrial investments at a leading edge, and bridge the current gap between research and development and manufacturing, the Union and its Member States should better coordinate their efforts and co-invest. In those cases where an undertaking proposes a groundbreaking project that would foster the entire Union’s resilience, total investment from the Union should be considered in order to avoid excluding such crucial projects due to the lack of investment from Member States. To achieve this, the Union and Member States, should take into consideration the twin digital and green transition goals. The Initiative throughout all components and actions, to the extent possible, should mainstream and maximise the benefits of application of semiconductor technologies as powerful enablers for the sustainability transition that can lead to new products and more efficient, effective, clean and durable use of resources, including energy and materials necessary for production and the whole lifecycle use of semiconductors.
Amendment 192 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) With a view to accelerating implementation of the actions of the Initiative, it is necessary to provide an option of implementing some of the Initiative actions, in particular on pilot lines, through a new legal instrument, the European Chips Infrastructure Consortium (ECIC). The ECIC should have legal personality. This means that when applying for the actions to be funded by the Initiative, the ECIC itself, and not individual entities forming the ECIC, can be the applicant. The main aim of the ECIC should be to encourage effective and structural collaboration between legal entities, including Research and Technology Organizations. For this reason, the ECIC has to involve the participation of at least three legal entities from three Member States and be operated as a public- private sector consortium for a specific action. The setting up of ECIC should not involve the actual setting up of a new Union body and should not be targeted at one specific action under the Initiative. The ECIC should also be able to assist in obtaining semiconductor materials from primary and secondary sources, and to assist in the development of recycled semiconductors. It should address the gap in the Union’s toolbox to combine funding from Member States, the Union budget and private investment for the purposes of implementing actions of the Initiative. In particular, strong synergies can be attained through combined development of the different pilot lines in an ECIC, pooling the Union’s contribution with the collective resources of the Member States and other participants. The budget of the ECIC that would be made available by Member States and private sector participants over its projected period of operation should respect the timeframes of the actions implemented under this Initiative. The Commission should not be directly a party in the Consortium.
Amendment 200 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) Integrated Production Facilities and Open EU Foundries should provide semiconductor manufacturing capabilities that are “first-of-a-kind” in the Union and contribute to the security of supply and to a resilient ecosystem in the internal market. The qualifying factor for the production of a first-of-a-kind facility could be with regard to the technology node, substrate material, such as silicon carbide and gallium nitride, and other product innovation that can offer better performance, process technology or energy and environmental performance, such as reducing the amount of energy and water used in the manufacturing process. A facility of a comparable capability on an industrial scale should not yet substantively be present or committed to be built within the Union, excluding facilities for research and development or small-scale production sites. First-of-a-kind facilities should be able to source primary and secondary raw materials, hence leading towards the development of recycled semiconductors. The manufacturing process of semiconductors requires large amounts of Ultrapure Water (UPW) and energy. In order to enable the green transition while achieving the goals of this Regulation, the Integrated Production Facilities and Open EU Foundries should commit with their energy supplier to expand its renewable energy production by the same amount of the total energy employed by the undertaking, including the energy used to treat the wastewater and produce UPW.
Amendment 356 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10
(10) ‘first-of-a-kind facility’ means an industrial facility capable of semiconductor manufacturing, including front-end or back-end, or both, that is not substantively already present or committed to be built within the Union, for instance with regard to the technology node, substrate material, such as silicon carbide and gallium nitride, and other product innovation that can offer better performance, process innovation or energy and environmental performance, such as reducing the amount of energy and water used in the semiconductor manufacturing process;
Amendment 361 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 11
(11) ‘next generation chips’ and ‘next generation semiconductor technologies’ means chips and semiconductor technologies that go beyond the state of the art in offering significant improvements in computing power or energy efficiency as well as other significant energy and environmental gains, such as enhancing the semiconductor recyclability;
Amendment 406 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point a – point 3 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point a – point 3 a (new)
Amendment 418 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point b – point 2 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point b – point 2 a (new)
(2 a) supporting large scale innovation through access to new or existing pilot lines for experimentation, test, and validation of new less energy and water demanding manufacturing processes;
Amendment 423 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) building advanced technology and engineering capacities for accelerating the innovative development of quantum chiptechnologies.
Amendment 438 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) pilot lines for preparing innovative sustainable production, and testing and experimentation facilities;
Amendment 441 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) advanced technology and engineering capacities for quantum chiptechnologies;
Amendment 506 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point d
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point d
(d) it commits to invest in the next generation of chips, such as recycled and recyclable chips, and quantum technologies.
Amendment 509 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
(d a) it commits with its energy supplier to expand the supplier production of renewable energy by the same amount of the total energy employed by the facility, including the energy used to treat the wastewater and produce Ultrapure Water.
Amendment 512 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 3
Article 10 – paragraph 3
3. For the purpose of investing in the next generation of chips and quantum technologies according to paragraph 2, point (d), the Integrated Production Facility shall have priority access to the pilot lines set up in accordance with Article 5, point (b). Any such priority access shall be without prejudice to effective access to the pilot lines by other interested undertakings.
Amendment 537 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 2 – point d
Article 11 – paragraph 2 – point d
(d) it commits to invest in the next generation of chips, such as recycled and recyclable chips, and quantum technologies.
Amendment 540 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
Article 11 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
Amendment 545 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 4
Article 11 – paragraph 4
4. For the purpose of investing in the next generation of chips and quantum technologies according to paragraph 2, point (d), the Open EU Foundry shall have priority access to the pilot lines set up in accordance with Article 5, point (b). Any such priority access shall be without prejudice to effective access to the pilot lines by other interested undertakings.