35 Amendments of Romana JORDAN related to 2011/0401(COD)
Amendment 294 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22 a (new)
Recital 22 a (new)
Amendment 312 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 24
Recital 24
(24) Research and innovation activities supported by Horizon 2020 should respect fundamental ethical principles. The opinions of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies should be taken into account. Research activities should also take into account Article 13 TFEU and reduce the use of animals in research and testing, with a view ultimately to replacing animal use by means including strategic development and the incorporation and application of innovative non-animal methods and technologies. All activities should be carried out ensuring a high level of human health protection in accordance with Article 168 TFEU.
Amendment 346 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26 a (new)
Recital 26 a (new)
(26a) To exploit synergies between policies, stairways to excellence instruments should be introduced in both Horizon 2020 and the Cohesion Policy.
Amendment 457 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 1
1. Horizon 2020 shall support indirect actions through one or several of the forms of funding provided for by Regulation (EU) No XX/2012 [New Financial Regulation] in particular grants, prizes, procurement and financial instruments. The latter shall be the predominant form of funding for activities close to market, supported under this programme.
Amendment 487 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1
Article 13 – paragraph 1
1. Linkages and interfaces shall be implemented across and within the priorities of Horizon 2020. Particular attention shall be paid in this respect to the development and application of key enabling and industrial technologies, to bridging from discovery to market application, to cross-disciplinary research and innovation, to social and economic sciences and humanities, to fostering the functioning and achievement of the ERA, to widening the pan-European cooperation in research, to cooperation with third countries, to responsible research and innovation including gender, and to enhancing the attractiveness of the research profession and to facilitating cross-border and cross- sector mobility of researchers.
Amendment 534 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 a (new)
Article 15 a (new)
Article 15 a Researchers'' Careers Horizon 2020 shall contribute to the attractiveness of researchers' careers across Europe. To this aim, it shall be implemented in a manner to promote the creation of a single market for researchers in particular by providing for appropriate mechanisms to decrease the disparities in researcher's remuneration.
Amendment 535 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 a (new)
Article 15 a (new)
Article 15 a Attractiveness of researchers' careers Horizon 2020 shall contribute to the promotion and attractiveness of researchers' careers across Europe. As a result it shall be implemented in a manner to promote the creation of a single market for researchers, in particular by providing for appropriate mechanisms aiming to decrease the disparities in researcher's remuneration under this programme.
Amendment 539 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
All the research and innovation activities carried out under Horizon 2020 shall comply with ethical principles and relevant national, Union and international legislation, including the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the European Convention on Human Rights and its Supplementary Protocols. Research activities shall also take into account Article 13 TFEU and reduce the use of animals in research and testing with a view to replacing animal use entirely, including through the strategic development, integration and deployment of innovative, non-animal instruments and technologies.
Amendment 561 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 3 – point c a (new)
Article 16 – paragraph 3 – point c a (new)
(ca) research that entails destroying embryonic stem cells;
Amendment 611 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 2
Article 18 – paragraph 2
2. Specific actions shall be undertaken within the specific objective ‘Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies’ set out in Point 1 of Part II of Annex I and each of the specific objectives under the priority ‘Societal challenges’ set out in Points 1 to 6 of Part III of Annex I. These specific actions shall take the form of a dedicated SME instrument that is targeted at all types of SMEs with an innovation potential and shall be implemented in a consistent manner and tailored to the needs of SMEs as set out under the specific objective ‘Innovation in SMEs’ in Point 3.3.(a) of Part II of Annex I, while fully respecting the principle of subsidiarity and pursuit of the European added value.
Amendment 626 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 3
Article 18 – paragraph 3
3. The integrated approach set out in paragraphs 1 and 2 is expected to lead to aroundt least 15% of the total combined budget for the specific objective on ‘Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies’ and the priority ‘Societal challenges’ going to SMEs.
Amendment 734 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 1
Article 25 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall annually monitor the implementation of Horizon 2020, its specific programme and the activities of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. This shall include information on cross-cutting topics such as sustainability and climate change, including information on the amount of climate related expenditure, SME participation and widening participation.
Amendment 736 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 1
Article 25 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall annually monitor the implementation of Horizon 2020, its specific programme and the activities of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. This shall include information on cross-cutting topics such as progress towards widening participation across the EU, sustainability and climate change, including information on the amount of climate related expenditure.
Amendment 866 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – Part 1 – point 1 – point 1.2 – paragraph 3
Annex 1 – Part 1 – point 1 – point 1.2 – paragraph 3
Frontier research funded by the ERC is thereby expected to have a substantial direct impact in the form of advances at the frontiers of knowledge, opening the way to new and often unexpected scientific and technological results and new areas for research which, ultimately, can generate the radically new ideas which will drive innovation and business inventiveness and tackle societal challenges. The main emphasis on awarding ERC grants is on the innovative ideas, while the track record of investigators is required mainly to demonstrate the capability of accomplishing the proposed project. This combination of excellent individual scientists with innovative ideas underpins every stage of the innovation chain.
Amendment 868 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – Part 1 – point 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 1
Annex 1 – Part 1 – point 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 1
The fundamental activity of the ERC shall be to provide attractive long-term funding to support excellent investigatordeas and their research teams to pursue ground-breaking, high-gain/high-risk research.
Amendment 873 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – Part 1 – point 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 5
Annex 1 – Part 1 – point 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 5
By 2020, the ERC therefore shall aim to demonstrate: that the best researcherideas are participating in the ERC's competitions, that ERC funding has led directly to scientific publications of the highest quality and to the commercialisation and application of innovative technologies and ideas and that the ERC has contributed significantly to making Europe a more attractive environment for the world's best scientists. In particular, the ERC shall target a measurable improvement in the Union's share of the world's top 1 % most highly cited publications. In addition it shall aim at a substantial increase in the number of excellent researcherplement promotion measures, aiming to raise the visibility of its fprom outside Europe whom it fundgrammes and at specific improvements in institutional practices and national policies to support top researchers.
Amendment 878 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – Part 1 – point 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 6
Annex 1 – Part 1 – point 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 6
The ERC's Scientific Council shall continuously monitor the ERC's operations and consider how best to achieve its objectives by means of grant schemes that emphasise clarity, stability and simplicity, both for applicants and in their implementation and management, and, as necessary, to respond to emerging needs. It shall endeavour to sustain and further refine the ERC's world-class peer-review system which is based on transparent,ensuring fair and impartial treatment of proposals, where care needs to be taken of the coincidence that decision makers within the panels can often also be grant recipients, so that it can identify ground-breaking scientific excellence, breakthrough ideas and talent regardless of a researcher's gender, nationality, origin institution or age. Finally, the ERC shall continue conducting its own strategic studies to prepare for and support its activities, maintain close contacts with the scientific community and other stakeholders and look to make its activities complement research conducted at other levels.
Amendment 934 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – Part 1 – point 3 – point 3.3 – point b – paragraph 2
Annex 1 – Part 1 – point 3 – point 3.3 – point b – paragraph 2
Key activities shall be to encourage experienced researchers to broaden or deepen their skills by means of mobility by opening attractive career opportunities in universities, research institutions, businesses, SMEs and other socio- economic groups all over Europe and beyond. In order to enhance the innovativeness in private sector, emphasis shall in this regard be given to cross- sector mobility. Opportunities to restart a research career after a break shall also be supported.
Amendment 1002 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – Part 2 – point 1 – paragraph 10
Annex 1 – Part 2 – point 1 – paragraph 10
The approach shall include both agenda- driven activities and more open areas to promote innovative projects and breakthrough solutions. Emphasis shall be on R&D, large-scale pilots and demonstration activities, test beds and living labs, prototyping and product validation in pilot lines. Activities shall be designed to boost industrial competitiveness by stimulating industry, and in particular SMEs, to make more research and innovation investment. Substantial focus will be given on small and medium scale projects.
Amendment 1034 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – Part 2 – point 1 – point 1.1 – point 1.1.3 – point c a (new)
Annex 1 – Part 2 – point 1 – point 1.1 – point 1.1.3 – point c a (new)
(c a) Cloud computing: scalable, secure services for greater efficiency, greater flexibility, and lower cost;
Amendment 1069 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – Part 2 – point 1 – point 1.2 – point 1.2.3 – point d – paragraph 1
Annex 1 – Part 2 – point 1 – point 1.2 – point 1.2.3 – point d – paragraph 1
Focusing on new operations, smart integration of new and existing processes, biotechnological production of bionanomaterials as well as up-scaling to achieve mass production of products and multi-purpose plants that ensures the efficient transfer of knowledge into industrial innovation.
Amendment 1084 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – Part 2 – point 1 – point 1.3 – point 1.3.3 – point a – paragraph 1
Annex 1 – Part 2 – point 1 – point 1.3 – point 1.3.3 – point a – paragraph 1
Amendment 1092 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – Part 2 – point 1 – point 1.3 – point 1.3.3 – point d – paragraph 1
Annex 1 – Part 2 – point 1 – point 1.3 – point 1.3.3 – point d – paragraph 1
Developing new products and applications, and consumer behaviour that reduce energy demand, and facilitate low-carbon emission production.
Amendment 1108 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – Part 2 – point 1 – point 1.4 – point 1.4.1 – paragraph 1
Annex 1 – Part 2 – point 1 – point 1.4 – point 1.4.1 – paragraph 1
The specific objective of biotechnology research and innovation is to develop competitive, sustainable and innovative industrial products and processes and contribute as an innovation driver in a number of European sectors like agriculture, food, chemical and health, bionanotechnology and advanced materials.
Amendment 1112 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – Part 2 – point 1 – point 1.4 – point 1.4.1 – paragraph 1
Annex 1 – Part 2 – point 1 – point 1.4 – point 1.4.1 – paragraph 1
The specific objective of biotechnology research and innovation is to develop competitive, sustainable and innovative industrial products and processes and contribute as an innovation driver in a number of European sectors like agriculture, forestry, food, chemical and health.
Amendment 1117 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – Part 2 – point 1 – point 1.4 – point 1.4.2 – paragraph 1
Annex 1 – Part 2 – point 1 – point 1.4 – point 1.4.2 – paragraph 1
Powered by the expansion of the knowledge of living systems, biotechnology is set to deliver a stream of new applications and to strengthen the Union's industrial base and its innovation capacity. Examples of the rising importance of biotechnology are in industrial applications including biopharmaceuticals and bio- chemicals, of which the market share is estimated to increase by up to 12 %-20 % of chemical production by 2015. Also, due to ever increasing threat of multi-drug resistant bacteria and unmet needs in therapeutic areas such as cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, biotechnology brings a possibility to develop novel drugs targets for more efficient therapies. Both biopharmaceuticals as well as new natural products and their analogs derived by innovative systemic biology, biosynthetic engineering and semisynthetic approaches, should be given a greater attention. A number of the so- called twelve rules of Green Chemistry are also addressed by biotechnology, due to the selectivity and efficiency of bio-systems. The possible economic burdens for Union enterprises can be reduced by harnessing the potential of biotechnology processes and bio-based products to reduce CO2 emissions, estimated to range from between 1 to 2.5 billion tons CO2 equivalent per year by 2030.In Europe's biopharmaceutical sector, already some 20 % of the current medicines are derived from biotechnology, with up to 50 % of new medicines. Cutting edge technologies such as synthetic biology hold promise for sustainable and carbon neutral fuels, production of fine chemicals including pharmaceuticals, environment-friendly production methods, new health applications and bionanomaterials. Biotechnology also opens new avenues for exploiting the huge potential of marine resources for producing innovative industrial, health and environmental applications. The emerging sector of marine (blue) biotechnology has been predicted to grow by 10 % a year.
Amendment 1129 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – Part 2 – point 1 – point 1.4 – point 1.4.3 – point a – paragraph 1
Annex 1 – Part 2 – point 1 – point 1.4 – point 1.4.3 – point a – paragraph 1
Development of emerging technology areas such as synthetic biology, bioinformatics and systems biology, biopharmaceuticals, which hold great promise for completely novel applications e.g. biologically active natural peptides with proven mode of pharmacological action.
Amendment 1141 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – Part 2 – point 1 – point 1.4 – point 1.4.3 – point c a (new)
Annex 1 – Part 2 – point 1 – point 1.4 – point 1.4.3 – point c a (new)
(c a) Emerging health issues Development of products and technologies for novel antimicrobials (novel antibiotics and alternatives), (safer) vaccines and drugs against genetic disorders and diseases connected to demographic changes.
Amendment 1328 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – Part 3 – point 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 3
Annex 1 – Part 3 – point 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 3
An increasing disease and disability burden in the context of an aging population places further demands on health and care sectors. If effective health and care is to be maintained for all ages, efforts are required to improve decision making in prevention and treatment provision, to identify and support the dissemination of best practice in the health and care sectors, and to support integrated care and the wide uptake of technological, organisational and social innovations empowering in particular older persons as well as disabled persons to remain active and independent as well as to decrease cost by new therapies and alternative cost-effective biotechnological production methods. Doing so will contribute to increasing, and lengthening the duration of their physical, social, and mental well-being.
Amendment 1347 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – Part 3 – point 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 5
Annex 1 – Part 3 – point 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 5
Specific activities shall include: understanding the determinants of health (including environmental and climate related factors), improving health promotion and disease prevention; understanding disease and improving diagnosis; developing effective screening programmes and improving the assessment of disease susceptibility; improving surveillance and preparedness; developing better preventive vaccineand therapeutic vaccines; developing new biopharmaceuticals, cell- based therapies and new production methods; using in-silico medicine for improving disease management and prediction; treating disease; transferring knowledge to clinical practice and scalable innovation actions; better use of health data; active ageing, independent and assisted livingand organisation of health data; application of efficient e-health systems; active ageing, independent and assisted living; patient's needs serving innovative orthopaedic tools; individual empowerment for self- management of health; promotion of integrated care; improving scientific tools and methods to support policy making and regulatory needs; and optimising the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare systems and reducing inequalities by evidence based decision making and dissemination of best practice, and innovative technologies and approaches.
Amendment 1505 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – Part 3 – point 3 – point 3.3 – point b – paragraph 1
Annex 1 – Part 3 – point 3 – point 3.3 – point b – paragraph 1
Activities shall focus on research, development and full scale demonstration - of innovative renewables and carbon capture and storage technologies offering larger scale, lower cost, environmentally safe technologies with higher conversion and storage efficiency and higher availability for different market and operating environments.
Amendment 1509 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – Part 3 – point 3 – point 3.3 – point c – paragraph 1
Annex 1 – Part 3 – point 3 – point 3.3 – point c – paragraph 1
Activities shall focus on research, development and full scale demonstration of technologies and value chains to make bio-energy more competitive and sustainable, use of synthetic biology for the sustainable production of different types of fuels, to reduce time to market for hydrogen and fuel cells and to bring new options showing long-term potential to maturity.
Amendment 1534 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – Part 3 – point 3 – point 3.3 – point g a (new)
Annex 1 – Part 3 – point 3 – point 3.3 – point g a (new)
(g a) Compensation of climate change impacts to energy security Activities shall focus on multi-disciplinary research of regionally dependent climate change (precipitation, hydrology) and its impact in the future energy supply which also include adaptation of existing technologies (hydro power plants, cooling systems, polygeneration systems) as well as transition into the new energy supply paradigm.
Amendment 1584 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – Part 3 – point 4 – point 4.3 – point a – paragraph 2
Annex 1 – Part 3 – point 4 – point 4.3 – point a – paragraph 2
The focus of activities shall be to reduce resource consumption and greenhouse gas emissions and improve vehicle efficiency, to accelerate the development and deployment of a new generation of electric, hydrogen and other low or zero emission vehicles, including through breakthroughs in engines, batteries, fuel cells etc. and infrastructure; to explore and exploit the potential of alternative fuels and innovative and more efficient propulsion systems, including fuel infrastructure; to optimise the use of infrastructures, by means of intelligent transport systems and smart equipment; and to increase the use of demand management and public and non- motorised transport, particularly in urban areas.
Amendment 1788 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – Part 5 – point 3 – point a – paragraph 1
Annex 1 – Part 5 – point 3 – point a – paragraph 1
The EIT shall aim to unleash the innovative potential of people and capitalise on their ideas, irrespective of their place in the innovation chain. Thereby, the EIT will also help to address the ‘European paradox’ that excellent existing research is far from being harnessed to the full. In doing so, the EIT shall help to bring ideas to the market. The EIT must ensure open access to all high quality European research communities. Chiefly via its KICs and its focus on fostering entrepreneurial mindsets, it will create new business opportunities in the form of both start-ups and spin-offs but also within existing industry.