10 Amendments of Amalia SARTORI related to 2013/2177(INI)
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas more steel scrap is exported from the EU than is imported into it, and the EU thus loses an important volume of valuable secondary raw material, often at the benefit of the steel production in countries where the environmental legislation lags behind the European one;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas the current crisis is creating enormous social hardship for the workers and regions affected, and whereas those companies involved in restructuring should act in a socially responsible manner, as experience has shown that successful restructuring has not been achieved without sufficient social dialogue;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I b (new)
Recital I b (new)
Ib. whereas, for restructuring to be economically successful and socially responsible, it has to be incorporated into a long-term strategy aimed at ensuring and strengthening the long-term sustainability and competitiveness of the company;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission to promote measures aimed at keeping steel production in Europe, ensuring that the relevant employment levels are maintained, and to promote measures to prevent and avoid plant closures in Europe;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Urges the Commission to make provision, among EU instruments and programmes, for active measures to support workers and not to waste their professional skills, through retraining, active training and lifelong learning policies, to ensure that the skills necessary for the competitiveness of the sector are not wasted but, rather, are developed;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Urges the Commission to promote, through the Erasmus programme for all and Erasmus for entrepreneurs, Sector Skills Alliances which, on the basis of data on skills requirements and their evolution, will devote themselves to developing and implementing training programmes and common methods, including, in particular, work-based learning, through which the skills required by the labour market in a specific field, such as the steel industry, will be acquired;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses that producing steel from scrap reduces energy inputs by 75 % and raw material inputs by 80 %; urges the Commission to ensure the efficient operation of the European steel scrap market; encourages the maximal use of scrap as a way to ensure access to raw materials, mitigate energy dependency, decrease emissions, and work towards a circular economy; supports the Commission’s initiative of inspecting and controlling waste shipments to avoid illegal exports of scrap, often towards countries in which environmental legislation cannot be compared to that of the EU;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls on the Commission to incentivise steel production waste recovery processes to enable the industry to expand and employment levels to increase;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Urges the Commission to protect European steel with legislative instruments to certify the end use of stainless steel and its chemical and physical composition, also by introducing a quality certification for steel-related products that is able to protect EU production from non-certified products;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22b. Urges the Commission to attach greater importance to industrial policy in order to revive the competitiveness of European industry vis-à-vis the global market with a view to guaranteeing an effective level playing field also in terms of social and environmental standards, so that there is genuine and effective reciprocity with third countries;