Activities of Viktor USPASKICH related to 2020/2076(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on a New Industrial Strategy for Europe
Amendments (20)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital A (new)
Recital A (new)
A. whereas Europe’s industrial strategy must reflect our values and social market traditions and bring about Europe’s sovereignty;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital B (new)
Recital B (new)
B. whereas a further updated European Intellectual Property (IP) policy will help to strengthen the Union’s technological and digital sovereignty, with IP rights to determine market value and competitiveness of European enterprises, such as through brands, designs, patents, data, know-how, and algorithms;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital C (new)
Recital C (new)
C. whereas Article 107 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union provides that certain state aid may be considered compatible with the internal market, namely if the aid would promote the execution of an important project of common European interest;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the COVID-19 crisis has had a profound impact on global production and has prompted the European Union to consider its future industrial strategyommission’s proposal on a future EU industrial strategy was published at the very beginning of the COVID-19 crisis and has since been complemented by a further package of recovery measures for Europe’s industry and SMEs; notes that the Strategy focuses on business recovery in a first phase, reconstruction and transformation in a second phase.;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that this crisis has demonstrated the need for the EU to adjust its industrial strategy by strengthening the defence of its strategic interests without abandoning international trade; believes that the EU must strike the right balance between protection and openness of its markets, while defending fair competition rules at global level;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the fact that the Competitiveness Council on 15 May 2020 referred to 14 industrial ecosystemsCommission having identified 14 coherent industrial ecosystems, representing more than 50 % of EU added value, whose strategic independence shouldmust be ensured;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that the EU labour market must be at the heart of the EU’s future industrial strategy; points out that any industrial transformation, besides economic aspects, should focus on the preservation of existing and the creation of new employment;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Emphasizes that strong and sustained investment into higher professional education, in particular in STEM fields, will be a key element to stimulate digital innovation, to generate skilled work force and to reduce skill mismatches between job opportunities and job seekers;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Is of the opinion that the “Important Projects of Common European Interest” should emphasise projects linked to the Digital Single market, designed to bring together public and private sectors to undertake large- scale projects contributing to the Union’s objectives, thereby encouraging the development of important collaborative projects which promote common European interests, such as the digital transformation; welcomes a reform of the Commission’s guidelines in this regard;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Is of the opinion that the creation of a European data economy will be essential in shaping the industrial strategy for Europe; stresses that a European data economy should be human-centric, respect fundamental rights, and be in compliance with privacy rules, data protection, and intellectual property rights;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 e (new)
Paragraph 3 e (new)
3e. Stresses the importance of a European single market for data, addressing the challenges which result from a significant increase in legally available data; stresses that individuals, employees and companies in Europe should retain control over their data, based on secure data infrastructures and trusted value chains; considers it vital that the industrial strategy includes measures to build sovereign digital infrastructures and to encourage companies to store and process their data on European soil;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 f (new)
Paragraph 3 f (new)
3f. Considers it essential to promote data sharing among public administrations, businesses, research institutions and the public, while respecting data protection and privacy rules, trade secrets and intellectual property rights;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 g (new)
Paragraph 3 g (new)
3g. Welcomes the Commission’s announcement to propose an Intellectual Property Action Plan, which assesses the need to upgrade the legal framework, to ensure a smart use of IPR for AI and to address counterfeited products; stresses that the purpose of such an Action plan should furthermore be to uphold Europe’s sovereignty and to promote a global level playing field of IPR protection;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 h (new)
Paragraph 3 h (new)
3h. Stresses that the digital transformation will be a key driver for Europe to regain its technological and digital sovereignty and shall therefore be at the heart of any future industrial strategy for Europe;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that such an objective implies relocating in the EU the industries correspone of the strategic objectives should be to propose measures to encourage the relocation of industrial productiond ing to these ecosystems, so as to avoid any excessive dependence on third countrie strategic sectors, such as health, defence, digital and energy in order to avoid any excessive dependence on third countries and to contribute to regaining Europe’s autonomy in these strategic sectors;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the need for a trade policy capable of diversifying the EU’s sources of supply, and for European companies to be encouraged to be flexible and capable, when needed, of urgently reorienting their production towards vital productsdependence on third country technology and raw materials; urges the Union to increase investment in sectors that are strategic for the EU’s autonomy and the Union’s sovereignty to tackle EU’s dependency;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. ConsiderStresses that imported products should alwayshave to comply with EU technicalsafety, environmental and health standards ands well as with EU intellectual property law; calls on the Commission to tackle the imbalance between EU and third country enterprises, which do not have to comply with European environmental and labour safety regulations and which are often subject to lower taxation;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses that the environmental priority set out in the Commission’s ‘European Green Deal’ should incentivise the EU to promote its own development of ‘green’ technologies and to introduce a carbon tax at its external borders; suggests preferential conditions for companies, which focus their investment on digital and environmental transformation;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission to help tack the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic by pursuinge an ambitious industrial policy ofwhich stimulatinges innovation in prosperous technologies of the future, in particular those using artificial intelligence.such as artificial intelligence, robotics, quantum and high performance computing;