4 Amendments of Erna HENNICOT-SCHOEPGES related to 2008/2025(BUD)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Points out that the function of the EIT must be seen as complementary to the other Community initiatives on research and innovation, mainly the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development and the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP), and that optimum allocation of research and innovation resources is therefore required in the context of the revision of the financial perspective;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to promote the establishment of a regulatory framework for electronic communications which encourages coherent investments (for established undertakings and new actors), ensures competition and consumer choice and is able to meet current challenges and those to come, such as the deployment of optical fibre in the European Union. That framework will only be fully effective if the Body of European Regulators in Telecommunications (BERT) is funded in accordance with the needs expressed;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Questions whether the present trend to establish new regulatory agencies entrusted with administrative tasks, such as the proposed European Electronic Communications Market Authority and the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators, is a useful development; suggests that proper staffing of Commission departments working within priority areas might prove a better way of achieving the policy goals; supports, in that regard, the proposal to create a Body of European Regulators in Telecommunications (BERT) as an alternative to the European Electronic Communications Market Authority (EECMA), whose activities will be based on the current activities of the European Regulators Group (ERG), with joint funding from the 27 Member States via the national regulatory authorities and from the European Union;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Believes that, due to the limited margin available in Heading 1A, proper implementation and evaluation of ongoing pilot projects and preparatory actions should be one of the priorityies, together with new pilot projects and preparatory actions.