27 Amendments of Patrizia TOIA related to 2016/2271(INI)
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas energetic efforts to reindustrialise Europe must be pursued with the aim of combining competitiveness, inclusiveness and sustainability;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas digitalisation will transform manufacturing, impacting fundamentally the balance of opportunities and challenges for European industries as well as workers;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas there is widespread concern as regards the labour market effectshaving regard to the debate on the impact on employment of digitalisation in industrial manufacturing as well as its possible effects on workplace democracy and regional development;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas digitalisation brings with it the risk of significant job losses, making suitable flanking strategies essential, but whereas it also offers a clear opportunity to create new, skilled jobs;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – introductory part
Paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Strongly believes that an IDS is of critical importance in contributing to solving Europe’s most pressing economic and societal challenges:
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
Paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
(ba) provide training for the professions and in the skills needed in connection with the digitalisation of industry and encourage the development of skills and know-how among the public as a whole
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point f
Paragraph 2 – point f
(f) Strengthening economic, policy and social innovation through the principles of openness and accessibility of public and private data and information always protecting sensitive data in the exchange between businesses and consumers;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point g
Paragraph 2 – point g
(g) Improving the livelihoods of citizens in urban and non-urban areas and their awareness of and ability to take advantage of the opportunities offered by digitalisation;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point j a (new)
Paragraph 2 – point j a (new)
(ja) Supporting reshoring in Europe;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the importance of an EU governance structure for the digitalisation of industry that facilitates the coordination of national initiatives and platforms on industrial digitalisation; calls on the Commission to consider setting a non- binding orientation target, that allows the EU to remain a global industrial leader; underlines the importance of advancing digitalisation particularly in those regions and sectors that are lagging behind; expects that, besides industry leaders and social partners, stakeholders from academia, the standardisation community, trade unions, policy-makers and civil society as well as industry leaders, especially SMEs, will also be invited to play an active role in such a governance structure;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Subheading 2
Creating conditions for successful industrial digitalisation: infrastructure, investment, innovation and skills
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Highlights in this context the need to advance investment in connectivity through 5G and fibre optics as an instrument for convergence and ensuring a robust digital infrastructural backbone for Europe’s industry; underlines that competition and incentives for investment on broadband infrastructure in EU are essential especially in industrial areas, often located outside the urban areas; highlights the importance of a greater harmonisation in spectrum allocation aiming at increasing demand for connectivity and to enhance the predictability of the network investment environment;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Believes that clusters and synergies between SMEs, industrial players, the skilled crafts sector, start-ups, academia, research centres, finance and other stakeholders can be successful models in advancing digital manufacturing and innovation; notes the importance of utilising digitalisation for advancing business model innovations;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Welcomes the establishment of the Smart Specialisation Platform for Industrial Modernisation and particularly the Commission’s proposal forEC's proposal included in the Action Plan on digitization of industry, to create a network of Competence Centres (CC) and Digital Innovation Hubs (DIH) to strengthen industrial digitalisation and digital innovation for SMEs; calls on the Commission to increase the funding for the DIH, through different European resources (H2020, Structural Funds etc..) and to support Member States' efforts and strategies aimed at developing a national network of DIH; calls on Member States to increase the transnational cooperation among their DIH;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses the importance of financing the digitalisation of Europe’s industry; expresses disappointment that the European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI) has so far invested only 11 % in digital projects; regrets furthermore that, despite its importance, the resources allocated to digital policies in the EU budget is too scarce to make a real impact; recognises the necessity to boost European economy through productive investments: the availability of existing European financial instruments, such as European Structural and Investment funds, Horizon2020 should ensure that this objective is achieved; the combination of these fund should be coherent with national resources and State Aid Regulations;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls for measures to promote the establishment of a more dynamic and innovative capital market which is better able to support start-ups and grow-ups, not least on the basis of guarantee instruments backed by the Member States or the European Union;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on Member States, in order to support an efficient industrial digitisation, to provide for fiscal incentives for business and enterprises realizing digital and smart production system;
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to establish and promote a framework to coordinate vocational training and the development of the skills required through regional and national programmes; calls, with that aim in view, for training of this kind to be included among the priorities of the European Social Fund in the next programming period;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Recognises that digital policy is also one of the elements supporting and advancing integration of products and services, with increasingly integrated services elements throughout the industrial value chains;
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Underlines the role of cybersecurity within the digitalisation of Europe’'s industry; recognises the need to raise awareness, especially for SMEs, on enhancing cybersecurity; underlines the need to establish fora for exchange of information at EU and global level; considers cyber-resilience as crucial and cybersecurity as a core sector for European digitalisation efforts; believes that producers are responsible for enassuring safety and security standards on the basis ofaccording to the available state of the art technology; notes that cybersecurity requirements for the Internet of Things (IoT) and that IT security standards must strengthen European cyber- resilience; believes that the European standardisation bodies have a special role to play in this respectthere to prevent discrimination and illegal uses;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Stresses the need for monitoring of data sovereignty; bBelieves that industrial data protection and, data ownership, especially b2b, requires special attention; notes thathow open data and open standards can promotethat could be developed through a public-private cooperation can promote and facilitate enterprises 'access to new technologies;
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Underlines the need of a bottom- up approach to digital standardisation; stresses that digitalisation needs open standards, accessible to SMEs, and based on a broad consensus between stakeholders, for this reason asks the Commission and Member States to promote data exchange and best practices on standards' definition and to support a coordination in the EU and at international level;
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Underlines the role of integrating openness of architecture as a design principle of digital components leveraging a digital ecosystem approach that allows to unlock industrial data access providing the governance framework for value creation, along the overall value chain, supporting the definition of industrial strategic vision to guarantee the progressive adoption and the on-boarding of relevant stakeholders and facilitating the creation of new models and new forms of interaction between companies, organizations, associations etc.;
Amendment 288 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Highlights the fact that the digital transformation of industry will have a majorgreat societal impact on areas ranging from employment, working conditions, workers’' rights to education and skills; calls on the Commissionstresses that if the digital transformation is not implemented in an inclusive manner, the digital divide could increase, which will not only lead to increased social exclusion and unemployment, but also to lowered competitiveness when EU companies are not able to find skilled workers who are able to work in the new digital economy; calls on the EC to adequately study the social effects of an industrial digitalisation and, as appropriate, propose further measures to close the digital divide and promote an inclusive digital society;
Amendment 299 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Calls on the Member States to ensure that employment and social policies are fit for purpose for digital innovation, so that employment rights and social welfare schemes are not undermined by new technology and can be maintained in the digital world of work; asks the Commission to identify and facilitate exchanges of best practices in the EU in these areas and at international level;
Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Stresses that Europe faces a digital gap in terms of skills; underlines the need for this gap to be quickly filled; calls for the implementation of a skills guarantee and the right to continuous (re-)training and life-long- learning; emphasises the importance of ensuring the promotion of digital skills; calls onasks industry to grant employees a ‘d"Digital sSabbatical’"; asks the Commission to launch a pan-European up- skilling initiative;
Amendment 316 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Underlines that education must include digital skills and that theseis must be integrated into national education curricula; calls on Member States, in cooperation with the Commission, to identify interdisciplinary study programs aiming at integrating several competences, such as IT with business management or engineering and data sciences; highlights that training workers and jobseekers is essential to help them in developing technological know-how and improving their skills;