16 Amendments of Marielle DE SARNEZ related to 2013/2006(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for European industrial policy to support the growth-promoting sectors where Europe already leads the field; calls on the Union to, or has the potential to do so; calls for more effective cooperation among the European institutions, the Member States and private partners with a view to accelerating investment in major transport, energy and telecommunications infrastructure projects;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses the need for European industrial policy to be based on a common European strategy drawn up in coordination among Member States with a view to further integrating the European energy market, developing European energy infrastructure and reducing the cost of European energy, thereby reducing European dependency on third-country energy suppliers;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on the Member States and private partners to develop innovative, ambitious financing arrangements combining public and private capital, such as project bonds;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Welcomes the forthcoming introduction of the European patent, which will safeguard European companies’ intellectual property rights while lessening the burden of red tape entailed in tapping into new markets; welcomes the Commission’s announcement in March 2013 of the package of measures to make European SMEs more competitive internationally by simplifying arrangements for registering trademarks abroad;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on the European Union to introduce mobility and training policies into the European market, particularly in respect of languages and IT, with a view to boosting workforce competitiveness and skills in European industry;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Considers that the effective protection of SMEs against unfair trading practices by certain EU partner states is just as important as helping SMEs wishing to internationalise;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Regards better, less costly and faster access of SMEs to anti-dumping procedures as key to better protecting them from unfair practices by trade partners; calls on the EU to take account of this point when reviewing its trade- defence instruments;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Proposes setting up a network linking SMEs and large European companies in order to enable SMEs to reap the benefit of these companies’ expertise and export and innovation capacities;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Recommends the implementation of practical measures at EU level to facilitate the access of enterprises to funding, such as special loans and funds for SMEs, systems of raising capital and export credits, in keeping with the rules of international trade;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to ensure the Union’s trade and competition policy is compatible with the objectives of European industrial policy, and calls for greater fiscal, social and budgetary convergence between the Member States so as to facilitate the emergence of joint industrial projects; believes that trade and competition policy should facilitate, not impede, industrial partnerships at European level;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Believes that European industrial policy should promote the creation of European industrial groups on a global scale in areas where European industry now leads the field and in areas where it will decide to invest in future;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls for greater convergence between Member States in fiscal, social and budgetary policy so as to facilitate the emergence of joint industrial projects and to eliminate the disparities that put the territories of the EU into competition with one another; believes that industrial renewal should contribute to the economic development of the already industrialised regions and the least industrialised regions alike;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Deplores the inadequate protection of intellectual property rights in the territory of some trading partners and regrets the lack of specific means for European enterprises, in particular SMEs, to fight effectively against IPR infringements; calls on the Commission and Member States to increase customs cooperation in the EU and with third countries in seizing counterfeit goods and simplifying customs procedures ; calls on the Commission and Member States to cooperate more closely with third countries on issues of copyright and licensing;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on the European Union to enhance its industrial production by providing consumers with more accurate information, by making it compulsory to mention the source of EU products and products imported from third countries and by enforcing respect for the geographical indications of European food products in third countries;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Calls for all products imported from third countries to comply with the environmental, health and social standards applied by the Union and defended on the world market so as to preserve European industrial producers from unfair competition;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6d. Urges the Union to ensure that the project of modernising its Trade Defence Instruments allows European enterprises to be protected, whatever their size, against the unfair practices of third countries, without exposing them to the risk of retaliation;