26 Amendments of Christian EHLER related to 2022/2008(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
— having regard to the Commission communication of 30 September 2020 entitled ‘A new ERA for Research and Innovation’ (COM(2020)628),
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 a (new)
Citation 14 a (new)
— having regard to the Commission staff working document of 8 April 2019 entitled ‘Technology Infrastructures’ (SWD(2019)158),
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 25 a (new)
Citation 25 a (new)
— having regard to its resolution of 11 November 2016 on a coherent EU policy for cultural and creative industries1a, _________________ 1a OJ C 238, 6.7.2018, p. 28–41.
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the EU needs to address the resilience of supply chains while creating an attractive innovative high- value manufacturing and supply ecosystem, aligned with Europe's excellent scientific base and innovation capacity;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the update of the industrial strategy; stresses that for the Green Deal to be a true growth strategy, reduce dependencies and maintain a level playing field for European industry during the transition, it needs to be accompanied by ambitious industrial policy; to ensure that European industry is not overburdened in these difficult times, the EU should introduce a moratorium on any new regulatory burdens on our industry; stresses therefore the need to create a political environment to foster energy-intensive industrial production in Europe to not create new dependencies in the course of independence from Russian energy imports;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the update of the industrial strategy; stresses that for the Green Deal to be a true growth strategy, reduce dependencies and maintain a level playing field for European industry during the transition, it needs to be accompanied by ambitious industrial policy; stresses that this need has increased significantly due to the ongoing energy crisis and Russia's war in Ukraine; these developments fundamentally challenge the assumptions on which peace-time plans were made;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to present clear transition pathways for the industrial ecosystem as soon as possible, including by identifying the needs for a successful transition in terms of infrastructure, technologies and skills; calls on the Commission to ensure consistency and coordination across all initiatives, objectives, funding and regulatory instruments that will support industry through the transitions; highlights in particular the need for full alignment between the transition pathways, the industrial technology roadmaps, the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda's of the European Partnerships under Horizon Europe; calls for annual monitoring and reporting on the competitiveness and resilience of our industrial ecosystems and on the progress made on the transition pathways, so that instruments can be adapted swiftly when needed;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to present clear transition pathways for theall industrial ecosystem as soon as possible, including bys before the end of this year as Russia's war urgently demands a full implementation of a strategic industrial strategy; the transition pathways should at least identifying the needs for a successful transition in terms of infrastructure, technologies and skills; calls on the Commission to ensure consistency and coordination across all initiatives, objectives, funding and regulatory instruments that will support industry through the transitions; calls for annual monitoring and reporting on the competitiveness and resilience of our industrial ecosystems and on the progress made on the transition pathways, so that instruments can be adapted swiftly when needed;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that the EU is outperformed by other economic powers in research and development (R&D) expenditures as a percentage of GDP; reiterates the importance of an ambitious level of investment in R&D; regrets that the target of 3 % of GDP investments in R&D has still not been achieved in the vast majority of Member States; recalls in this respect the Council Conclusions on the New European Research Area of 1 December 2020 in which the Member States reconfirm their commitment to this target; regrets that the ERA Policy Agenda does not include any concrete measures to achieve the spending target;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that the EU is outperformed by other economic powers in research and development (R&D) expenditures as a percentage of GDP; reiterates the importance of an ambitious level of investment in R&D; regrets that the target of 3 % of GDP investments in R&D has still not been achieved in the vast majority of Member States; welcomes in this regard Policy Action 12 "Accelerate the green/digital transition of Europe’s key industrial ecosystems" of the European Research Area Policy Agenda as adopted by the Council on 1 December 2020;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that the EU is outperformed by other economic powers in research and development (R&D) expenditures as a percentage of GDP; reiterates the importance of an ambitious level of investment in R&D; regrets that the target of 3 % of GDP investments in R&D has still not been achieved in the vast majority of Member States; highlights the importance of public investments in curiosity-driven as well as low TRL research in order to maintain and improve the knowledge base which sustains Europe's industrial innovation;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Welcomes the proposed efforts on developing strategic technology infrastructures for the European semi- conductors ecosystem, including pilot lines and first-of-a-kind industrial facilities; deplores the lack of an impact assessment for the European Chips Act which would provide a basis for the selection of three specific technologies for the pilot lines; calls on the Member States and the Commission to produce an comprehensive analysis of the future chips need of the European industry, the competitive advantage of Europe in different types of chips production, Europe's potential for chips production detailing each part of the value chain and considering the economic viability of such production particularly considering specific scenario's for export of European chips; considers that decisions on pilot lines and first-of-a-kind facilities should be guided by this analysis;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Highlights the importance of including education, upskilling and reskilling in the transition pathways; calls on the Commission to develop a strategy for vocational education and business- education partnerships, particularly within regional industrial clusters to boost skills and enhance the uptake of ready-for- market innovations by SMEs;
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Recalls that Europe's industrial competitiveness to a large extent depends on its capacity for innovation; reminds that Europe's scientific excellence, combined with its accessible, qualitative education system and intense public-private collaboration, is one of the competitive advantages for European industry on the global market; regrets that the European paradox - high scientific output, relatively low economic gains stemming from that science - is still alive; believes more efforts are needed to ensure that Europe becomes an innovation-friendly continent; stresses that this should include efforts on completing the Single Market, fostering more risk investment in Europe as well as creating an innovation-friendly regulatory environment; calls on the Commission to include reflections in line with the Innovation Principle in its impact assessment;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Underlines that SMEs and start-ups are playing a central role in the digitalisation of the EU and are a critical source of innovation; stresses the need to improve their access to financing; highlights in this regard the role of the European Innovation Council to foster a European startup and investment ecosystem more conducive for the development of deep-tech, high-risk high- reward innovations; stresses the need for the EIC to be able to take significant risk and to consider the Union's strategic interests in its investment portfolio; in this regard highlights that traditional bureaucratic traditions in the European Commission should be disregarded in order for the EIC to align with market realities; reminds that the EIC should also be a sole equity investor in technologies of strategic interest, even in the absence of co-investments from the market; calls for the development of an exit strategy for the EIC that is driven by strategic considerations rather than by market signals;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses the need for regulatory stability and predictability; implores the Commission, the Council and the Member States, in light of Russia's war in Ukraine and the consequences for European industry, to agree to a regulatory moratorium for industry in order to prevent any additional regulatory burden for our industry; calls on the Commission to include roadmaps in the transition pathways to reduce administrative burdens for European businesses, especially SMEs, by at least 30 %; stresses the ‘one in, one out’ principle;
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for a fundamental reorientation of our European energy policy in response to Russia's violent invasion of Ukraine; calls on the Commission to stimulate the production of affordable and abundant renewable and low-carbon energy; calls on the Commission to increase the coordination of the planning and financing for needed electricity, energy, hydrogen, CO2 and heating/cooling infrastructure; draws attention in particular to the need for a large-scale green power and hydrogen import strategy; stresses the need for international partnerships for energy that are important to import abundant energy needed to decarbonise industry;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls for further European coordination with regards to gas policies in order to provide energy security for European industry; supports the specification for minimum storage volumes as proposed by the Commission in April 2022 as well as the EU Energy Purchase Platform; notes that these ad- hoc measures should be developed in to a permanent and structured policy; considers in this regard the need for a coordination system that would systematically monitor the availability of gas in times of crisis in order to facilitate common European strategies to deal with the crisis;
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to bring down the time needed to issue permits substantially and create fast-track permitting procedures for infrastructure that supports industry in the energy transition; emphasises in this context the need for the development of a hydrogen backbone in Europe and further develop the interconnections across our continent;
Amendment 275 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to accelerate the implementation of instruments, including important projects of common European interest, and industrial alliances as well as technology infrastructures (demonstrators, testbeds, piloting facilities, living labs) to test, validate and upscale new technological solutions, incorporating users’ perspective, particularly those that develop innovative breakthrough technologies needed for the energy transition, such as clean steel, clean aviation and shipping, e-fuels, clean fertilisers, e- cracking and small modular reactors;
Amendment 300 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Welcomes the Commission analysis on strategic dependencies and capacities; calls on the Commission to finalise the analyses and technology roadmaps as soon as possible and propose actions to reduce dependence on the identified critical products and supplies; highlights the necessity of a strategy based on further in- depth analysis of mutual dependencies to strengthen the EU’s capacity in critical value chains; reminds the Commission that a holistic value chain approach is needed when analysing strategic dependencies;
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Welcomes the Commission analysis on strategic dependencies and capacities; calls on the Commission to finalise the analyses and industrial technology roadmaps as soon as possible and propose actions to reduce dependence on the identified critical products and supplies; highlights the necessity of a strategy based on further in- depth analysis of mutual dependencies to strengthen the EU’s capacity in critical value chains;
Amendment 331 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Considers that cultural and creative industries in Europe provide more than 12 million full-time jobs, which amounts to 7.5 % of the EU’s work force, creating approximately EUR 509 billion in value added to GDP (5.3 % of the EU’s total GVA); notes that employment in the cultural sector is unlikely to be offshored, as it is connected to specific cultural, often regional and historical competences and that CCIs contribute significantly and more than any other sector to youth employment;
Amendment 332 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 b (new)
Paragraph 20 b (new)
20b. Highlights that CCIs are central in the New European Bauhaus movement which will be a crucial imitative to help us imagine a climate-neutral utopia; furthermore notes that CCIs are a driving force for innovation and development of ICT in Europe; considers that digital transformation of the industry offers new possibilities for the development of new business models and market expansion, but also poses challenges to the traditional sectors of the CCIs;
Amendment 333 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 c (new)
Paragraph 20 c (new)
20c. Calls on the Commission to develop a comprehensive, coherent and long-term industrial policy framework for the Cultural and Creative Industries; welcomes in this regard the designation of CCIs as one of the fourteen industrial ecosystems; deplores the lack of a transition pathway for the CCIs;