Activities of Heidi HAUTALA related to 2020/2076(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
A New Industrial Strategy for Europe (short presentation)
A New Industrial Strategy for Europe (short presentation)
Legal basis opinions (0)
Amendments (9)
Amendment 11 #
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 thaCalls for a massive and consistent EU industrial strategy, in line with the Green Deal, to transform our economies and strengthen its resilience through the pooling of strategic investments to support SMEs, are kept at a competitive disadvantage by investing in climate neutrality to comply with the Green Dealnd increase job opportunities and skills to mitigate the impact of the COVID crisis on workers, consumers and families while trstaying to remain competitive and thriveing on export markets;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to focus on domestic productivity within Europe, in order to establish less dependence on vulnerable supply chains in coreinvestments to be prioritized into the Green Deal, the digital agenda and achieving European sovereignty indu stryategic sectors such as the tech and telecommunications, medical products and pharmaceuticals sectors, especially in times of global crisis, and to remain competitive on the global market, with a consistent industrial strategy and while shortening and diversifying supply chains and reorienting trade policies;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Reiterates its strong support for the goal outlined in the Commission’s Green Deal regarding the introduction of a Carbon Border Adjustment mechanism; calls on the Commission to bring this reform forward as part of the Commission Work Program for 2020; underlines that all reorientations in the EU trade policy must be consistent with the EU’s industrial strategy under the prerogative of realizing the Green Deal;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Insists that the EU industrial strategy shall be inclusive and transparent encompassing all actors operating along the entire value chain from the smallest start-ups to the largest companies, from academia to research, service providers to suppliers, but also trade unions and consumers organisations.
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Supports, in principle, the initiatives to reinforce athe rule-based multilateral trading system; expresses, make its concern, however, about the functioning of the WTO, owing to somesistent with global efforts to halt climate change and biodiversity loss, and prevent strong international actors to abusinge their market power;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to work towards effective and opreconsider the international procurement that allows the EU to take swift, targeted and compelling measures and increase leverage to negotiate reciprocity and market openingdimension of its public procurement policy with regard to goals defined in the Green Deal, such as advancing a circular economy, increasing the resilience of supply chains for public goods, and facilitating local production through a Buy European Act;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for the reinforcement of the safeguard instruments in order to make them more efficient and better adapted to protect European industry and to tackle market distortions effectively provoked by unjustified state aid in third countries for lowering factor costs of production not in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement, the SDGs or efforts to mitigate the impact of the COVID crisis;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Calls on the Commission to urgently amend the EU Steel Safeguard, taking into account the current COVID-19 context, to defend the steel sector against persistent global overcapacity and unfair trading practices and to guarantee effective competition;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to consider the urgentstrike a balance between the enforcement of intellectual property rights and the involvement of all actors in the fight against infringement and counterfeiting as key objecencouraging innovation, ensuring access to medicine and protecting public health; underlines that the flexibilitives of the intellectual property action planprovided in the TRIPS agreement should be used to address potential supply shortages in medicines;