40 Amendments of Reinhard BÜTIKOFER related to 2016/2271(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 25 a (new)
Citation 25 a (new)
- having regard to the Commission communication of 10 January 2017 to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions entitled ‘Building a European Data Economy’ (COM(2017)9 final),
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the digitalisation willof industrial manufacturing helps increasing the resilience, energy and resource efficiency, sustainability and competitiveness of our economies, thus transforming manufacturing, impacting fundamentally the balance of opportunities and challenges for European industries through innovation;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas Europe has a strong base from which to become a leader in the digital transformationwith its industrial heritage, its network of industrial sectors and value chains, its innovative strengths, its strategic public investment in R&D, its availability of private investment and efficient administration, its skilled labour force, and its integration of industrial development with societal challenges, has a strong base from which to become a leader in the digital transformation and whereas there is an opportunity for the strengthening of EU industry if we manage to build fully integrated value chains for digitally-enhanced industrial products and product-service bundles;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas digitalisation of industry is only part of a bigger digitalisation of the economy and society, with potential for enormous opportunities but also challenges and whereas digitalisation of industry has to be seen in an integrated way with broader digitalisation developments and has to consider a cross- policy and vision;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)
Recital H b (new)
Hb. whereas there are big differences between the EU Member States when it comes to digitalisation, which must be overcome;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H c (new)
Recital H c (new)
Hc. whereas digitalisation of manufacturing processes, tools and services raises new questions of ownership of industrial and production- relevant data, of new data monopolies, of access to data, liability, integrity, sovereignty, portability, protection of intellectual property and industrial knowledge and of conditions for fair competition in a data-driven world;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point a
Paragraph 2 – point a
(a) Strengthening economic dynamics, cohesion and resilience vis-à-vis technological disruptions through the modernisation and interconnection of Europe's industries and economic value chains, through increasing public and private investments in the real economy and providing investment opportunities in a sustainable modernisation;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point b
Paragraph 2 – point b
(b) Fostering job creation and reshoring opportunities, improving working standards (good jobs) and the attractiveness of industrial sector jobs through a socially just transformation that results in benefits for employers and employees alike through more diverse job models and work time schemes, through improved workplace safety and conditions, and a better integration of employment and life-long-learning;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point c
Paragraph 2 – point c
(c) Rejuvenating an EU resource policy that goes hand in hand with a strengthened European circular economy; industrial capacity for a European circular economy, critical for the material conditions of a European high-tech sector as well as digitised industrial production and its products;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point d
Paragraph 2 – point d
(d) Strengthening European cohesion through a reliable European investment policy (in digital infrastructure) and a coordinated European industrial policy on the basis of sustainable modernisation - hardware and software) utilising diverse European financing instruments including EFSI, regional funds, Horizon 2020 and others, and a coordinated European industrial policy on the basis of sustainable modernisation and technological, social and business model innovation that improves the digital single market and the integration and modernisation of all European industry in a sphere of connected production and economy;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point e
Paragraph 2 – point e
(e) Supporting Europe’'s goals in climate policy by raising the energy and resource efficiency of industrial production as well as improving the sustainability of industrial production as such (e.g. through biologisation) where advances in sustainability go hand in hand with economic gains and competitiveness;
Amendment 97 #
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 and allowing for a better integration of all sorts of economic sectors and policy fields from industrial production to urban development, creative industries and space policy, environmental innovation, energy policy and production, transport or services through the public availability of such information (from emissions to resource demands);
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point g
Paragraph 2 – point g
(g) Improvncreasing the livelihoods of citizens in urban and non-urban areas through more modernisation and more sustainable industry based on technological innovation (e.g. improving quality control and resource efficiency through digitisation);
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point h
Paragraph 2 – point h
(h) Stimulating technological and social innovation in EU research through an industrial digitisation policy with a clear focus and vision;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point j a (new)
Paragraph 2 – point j a (new)
(ja) Highlights the need for a more fair and effective European policy of taxation, clarifying questions such as tax base in an era of globally connected digital markets and digitised production;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point j b (new)
Paragraph 2 – point j b (new)
(jb) Meeting increased risks of social tensions from workplace transformation and diminishing demand for certain jobs, with opportunities and incentives for skilling, re-skilling and life-long- learning;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the importance of an EU governance structure for the dDigitalisation of iIndustry that facilitates the coordination of national and of EU-wide initiatives and platforms on industrial digitalisation; calls on the ECommission to consider setting a non- binding orientation target, that allows the EU to remain aexert global industrial leadership; underlines the importance of advancing digitalisation particularly in those regions that are lagging behind; welcomes in this regard the proposed high-level Roundtable and European Stakeholder Forum; highlights the need to particularly include EU Member States that lack industrial digitalisation platforms or strategies in these structures to advance best practice sharing; 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; believes that these roundtables and platform of platforms should also be part of an outreach strategy; suggests that high-level roundtables could also take place in different European regions; supports therefore to have the European Stakeholder Forum meet each year in a different EU Member State;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Asks the ECommission to establish a specific industrial foresight unit that examines manufacturing and digitalisation trends, as well as trends in non-technical disciplines (such as law, policy, administration, communications, etc.), studies pertinent developments in other regions, identifies new key technologies and ensures that European leadership in these areas is maintained and new trends are integrated into policies and actions while taking into account the concepts of security by design and privacy by design;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that integrated industrial digitalisation must be based on strong enabling conditionsUnderlines that an Industrial Digitalisation Strategy holds the opportunity to advance innovation, efficiency and sustainable technologies that raise competitiveness and modernise the EU's industrial base; stresses that an integrated industrial digitalisation must be based on strong enabling conditions ranging from a first-rate infrastructure, R&D and an investment-friendly environment to a reliable innovation- nudging regulatory framework, deepened digital single market, good skills and entrepreneurship;
Amendment 153 #
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 infrastructure as an instrument for convergence and ensuring a robust digital infrastructural backbone for Europe’s industry; backbone for Europe's industry; emphasises the need to particularly advance digital infrastructure in regions lagging behind in connectivity; highlights the need to establish leadership in digital industrial value chains and key technologies, such as 5G, quantum technologies, high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, big data analytics, the Internet of Things, robotics and automation; supports in this regard the EC working documents accompanying the EC Communication;
Amendment 176 #
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, consumer organisations, finance and other stakeholders can be successful models in advancing digital manufacturing and innovation; encourages EU research, innovation, structural, cohesion, EFSI and other funds to be used in synergy with other national and regional funds as well as private investments to drive industrial digitalisation; calls on the EC to review state aid rules to allow Member States and regions to advance necessary digital infrastructure investments; stresses the importance of accelerator programmes and venture capital to help the scale-up of start-ups; notes the importance of utilising digitalisation for advancing business model innovations; such as "pay-per-output" systems;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Believes that specialfic attention should be devotedgo to SMEs whosere the relative gains, in terms of energy and resource efficiency as well production efficiency through already modest digitalisation efforts, are highest; digitalisation efforts would be highest, where own capital and resources for R&D is limited and where connecting to a digitised economy can dramatically upscale economic success; stresses digitalisation demo tours and a strengthening of SME and industry associations and their outreach via digitisation programmes, the strengthening of centres for applied sciences with a focus on digitalisation, the co-funding for SME in-house R&D and the evaluation of digitalised modernisation, the strengthening of SME focused advisory councils in respect to their digitalisation competences, and a European programme on a digital sabbatical or apprenticeship similar to Erasmus that could be an instruments to further success;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Welcomes the establishment of the Smart Specialisation Platform for Industrial Modernisation and particularly the Commission’EC's proposal for Digital Innovation Hubs (DIH) to strengthen industrial digitalisation and digital innovation for SMEs; calls on the Commission to increase the funding for the DIH; in all regions; notes that the skilled crafts sector shouldn't be ignored in that regard; calls on the EC to particularly drive forward the establishment of DIH and digital competence centres in less digitalised European regions; calls on the EC to increase the funding for the DIH; believes that designated DIH should specialise in industrial digital innovations contributing to tackling Europe's societal challenges; believes that Horizon 2020 funding for the DIH could be combined with Horizon 2020 funding for societal challenges in this regard; notes the importance of ICT innovation vouchers for SMEs in accessing advice, best- practice sharing and the expertise of DIH; asks the EC to particularly study in this regard the French Digitalisation- Vouchers system used for financing industrial modernisation;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Notes the important role of cities inand local governments in developing new business models and providing digital infrastructure and support for SMEs, entrepreneurs and industry, and the immense opportunities which digital- industrial innovation holds for cities; asks the Commission for example via zero-waste local manufacturing, a closer integration between industrial production and local and urban logistics and transport, on energy production, consumption, manufacturing and 3D printing; considers that cities should also be able to access the DIH;; asks the EC to look into the US ‘"Cities Innovation Technology Investment Initiative (CITIIS)’"; welcomes the publication of a European Digital City Index; and initiatives to promote data and systems interoperability among European cities; believes the exchange of best-practice amongst cities could help disseminate digital innovations; notes that the SMART Cities initiative plays a role in this context; highlights the positive experience of regional advisory fora that bring together local administration, academia, and local businesses to exchange best- practice and information regarding the latest technologies and innovations;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Highlights the role that public procurement and legal requirements for registration of business and reporting on business activity or disclosure can play in advancing new industrial digital innovations and privacy-friendly technology; asks the Commission to include a digital check in its REFIT Programme; EC to consider how public procurement could be employed as an innovation-pull mechanism, particularly for the Internet of Things; asks the EC to include a digital check in its REFIT Programme to ensure that regulations are up-to-date for the digital context; calls on the EC to investigate the concept of "regulatory test bed areas" where a limited geographic area can be exempt from certain legislation for purposes of testing new technologies and innovations, while ensuring environmental and social standards; recommends accelerating the adaptation of the legal and technological environment, such as IPv6 transition, to the needs for industry digitalisation and Internet of Things take-off;
Amendment 214 #
12. Stresses the importance of public and private financinge for the digitalisation of Europe’'s industry; expresses disappointment that the European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI) has so far only invested only 11 %11% in digital projects; believes this must be significantly scaled up and public investments into digital projectinfrastructure be dramatically increased; asks the EC to establish a Finance Roundtable for Industrial Digitalisation, to study and come up with innovative financing proposals;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Asks the Commission to enforceRecognises the imperative role of strengthening research and development (R&D); calls on the EC to support in- house as well as external R&D efforts and fostering innovation networks and cooperation between start-ups, established corporate players, SMEs, universities, etc. in a digital ecosystem; asks the EC to study how minimum thresholds for EU- based research and development (R&D) of companies applying for research funding could be enforced, and to maximise Horizon 2020 research results transfer to market and exploitation by European companies; requests the EC to increase and report on the rate of Horizon 2020 research projects generating patents and IPR;
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Highlights the factEmphasises the importance of safeguarding sensitive European technologies and know-how which form the basis of future industrial strength and economic resilience; highlights the potential risks in regard to strategic state and industrial-policy driven foreign direct investments, particularly by state-owned enterprises through mergers and acquisitions; highlights that external fForeign dDirect iInvestment (FDI) has shown a growbeen increasingly interested in acquiring sensitive European technologies via M&A; calls on the Commissionrequests the EC to study the CFIUS (The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States) experience in order to learn from it; calls on the EC to consider the proposal by the German Ministry of Economy to allow EU Member States to get involved in a merger and acquisition if it would affect a key European technology that is of crucial value for future industrial development;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Stresses that developments in regard to automation, robotics, the application of artificial intelligence in production as well as the deep integration of technical components of different origin is opening up new questions as regards security, safety and liability for products and production facilities;
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. UnderlinesRecognises that openness and connectivity also has potential effects on vulnerability as regards to cyber attacks, sabotage, manipulation of data or industrial espionage and underlines in this context, the role of cybersecurity within the digitalisation of Europe’'s industry; considers cyber-resilience as a crucial and cybersecurity as a core sector for European digitalisation effortresponsibility for business leaders and national and European industrial and security policy makers; believes that producers are essentially responsible for enassuring safety and security standards on the basis ofaccording to the available state of the art technology but that under certain conditions and criteria this producer responsibility can be deviated from; notes that cybersecurity requirements for the Internet of Things (IoT) and IT security standards must, for example based on the reference architecture RAMI4.0 and ICS, would strengthen European cyber- resilience; believes that the European standardisation bodies have a special role to play in this respect; there and should not be side-lined through public-private partnerships; stresses the need for a common European cybersecurity approach rather than national piece-meal legislation; asks the EC to study different models to advance cybersecurity for IoT be it via baseline requirements, sector-specific requirements, critical infrastructure requirements, labels, including certification, or other approaches; asks public institutions, however, to make cybersecurity requirements mandatory for public procurement with regards to IT equipment and IoT products; considers that cybersecurity checks and advice offered to SMEs for their digitalised industrial products is of great importance; believes that best-practice sharing between EU Member States could facilitate European cyber resilience in that regard;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Notes that further development of the European digital society can only be sustainably achieved by further enhancement of network and information security (NIS) practices and policies at the pan European level; recognises the work of the EU Agency of the Network and Information security (ENISA) to facilitate this;
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Calls for a European monitoring mechanism and definition of critical infrastructure and highlights the role that products of digitalised industries (Internet of Things) play in that regard; based on the understanding that cyber attacks on digitalised industries can have effects that go beyond the core business activity of the respective company but can affect the public good or public safety, that mechanism should define and safeguard high security standards as well as compliance; asks the commission to study member state legislation in that regard with the aim of proposing a European solution; welcomes the NIS directive in that regard;
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Believes that there should be common criteria for critical infrastructure and their digital security thereofand that the European Union Directive on security of network and information systems (NIS Directive) is the first step towards achieving a high common level of security network and information systems within the Union; stresses the need strengthen the role the governing bodies in the NIS Directive have in establishing trust in future technologies; notes that cyber threat monitoring mechanisms and horizon scanning should be recognised as important for the security of the EU digital industries;
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Stresses the need for monitoring of data sovereignty; believes that industrial data protection and data ownership, especially b2b, require special attention; notes that at specific attention has to be paid to questions of collecting and accessing industrial or production-related data and information. Underlines that in this regard particular emphasis has to be put on the principles of data sovereignty, open and standardised access and availability of data, on strengthening innovation and productivity, new services and business-models, security auditability while allowing for fair competition. Innovation as well as the privacy concerns of workers and consumers has to be protected and safeguarded, questions of informational self- determination be addressed. Stresses in addition that disclosure and access to information for public interest and scientific purposes should be furthered. Takes note of the EC proposal for a data economy in this regard to promote a common European data and open standards can promote new technologiemarket. Considers that in the ongoing debate on the data regime, two essential aspects must be underlined: fostering the development of technical solutions for reliable identification and exchange of data, default contract rules coupled with introducing an unfairness control in B2B contractual relationships;
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Stresses that European leadership in industrial digitalisation requires a strong standardisation strategy coordinated with EU Member States and the EC; emphasises the important and unique make-up of Europe’'s standardisation bodies, including their inclusive approach with its inclusive and consensus-based approach integrating societal stakeholders and particularly SMEs, which ensure the integration of SME, environmental and social aspects in the development of standards; calls on the ECommission to promote the development of open standards and welcomes its intention to guarantee access to standard essential patents under FRAND (fair, reasonable, non-discriminatory) conditions; believes that the circular economy could be a major driver for a coherent standardisation of communication flows along industrial value chains; calls for an EU-wide coordinated approach towards international fora and consortia such as the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), ITU and IoT Forum, noting that a coherent and non- contradictory standardisation field is essential; believes that it is desirable to aim for global and universal standards, but also underlines the willingness to proceed with European standards in case international cooperation in standardisation fora is proceeding unconstructively;
Amendment 287 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Highlights the factBelieves that great efforts with regard to education, training, life-long- learning, taxation and social security systems have to be undertaken in order to integrate the transformative effects into our European social and economic model; highlights 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 Commission, eHealth, environment and sustainable development; stresses the need to provide security within this change and bring people along in this transformation; calls on the EC to adequately study the social effects of an industrial digitalisation; believes that digitalization's impact and digital workers' rights must be included in the upcoming social rights pillar that the EC will put forth; stresses the need for studying the new forms of employment arrangements, ensuring that employment standards are not undermined, that job quality is maintained and that individualisation through digitalisation does not endanger collective bargaining; emphasizes that digitalization could also be used to advance worker engagement, for example through better trade union consultation rights; underlines that worker data must be protected and that digitalisation should not lead to a surveillance of worker data;
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Stresses that Europe faces a digital gap in terms of skills; calls for the implementation of a skills guarantee and the right to (re-)training and life-long- learning; emphasises the importance of ensuring the promotion of digital skills; calls on within these and a new trend towards "multi-skilling"; believes that employers should make use of the European Social Fund for such training; asks industry to grant employees a ‘d"Digital sSabbatical’"; asks the Commission to launch a pan-European up-skilling initiativeEC to launch a pan-European up- skilling initiative and promote a digital toolbox for up-skilling in collaboration with industry and social partners; welcomes teaching material and sector- specific curricula; asks the EC to study options for establishing a certification system for continued education programmes for digital skills as well as creating an online platform where schools, institutes and other educational facilities can offer their digital education programmes;
Amendment 315 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Underlines that education must include digital skills and that these must be integrated into national education curricula; is must be integrated into national education curricula; notes that examples of initiatives supported by ENISA such as the European Cyber Security Month and the European Cyber Security Challenge should be further developed in pursuit of this goal; emphasises the importance of specialised teacher training for digital skills and that digital skills must be taught to all children and be part of a mandatory curricula; calls on the EU Member States and the EC to ensure that all schools are equipped with Wifi; notes that coding also plays an important role; calls for the exchange of best-practice between EU Member States to learn from established practices such as the Fit4Coding programme, digital academy initiatives, e- learning programmes, or coding schools such as webforce3; asks the EC to promote the integration of digital skills testing in the IGCU/Pisa studies to allow for competition and comparison between the EU Member States; stresses that all EU Member States should develop comprehensive national digital skills strategies with targets, as they have been invited to do by the EC; expresses the important role that social partners and other stakeholders can play in the development and implementation of such strategies; notes that so far only half of the EU Member States have created national coalitions for digital jobs; stresses that a specific budget line supporting the activities of the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition would strengthen the dissemination of information and further activities;
Amendment 325 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Emphasises the importance of investing in the digitalisation of vocational training and the skilled crafts sector; stressehighlights that digital skills also need to be combined with engineering skills and the promotion of sScience, tTechnology, eEngineering and mMathematics (STEM) education; as well as the promotion of soft skills such as communications, team coordination, cross-sectoral thinking;