15 Amendments of Reinhard BÜTIKOFER related to 2022/2008(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that the EU industrial strategy must be implemented in a coherent and coordinated way; stresses that free trade and open markets which respect international law, as well as working with cooperative partners, fair and sustainable trade, that properly balance the need for open markets and strategic sovereignty, in line with the European Green Deal, which respect international law, as well as working to develop strategic solidarity with like- minded partners on topics such as inter alia international standard-setting, will reinforce the EU’s industrial base;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that SMEs are the foundatibackbone of the EU economy; emphasises that the twin transition needs the proactive and future oriented involvement of European industry; underlines the need to fully support SMEs in the twin transition by providing them with easier access to financeproportionate regulatory measures and tailor-made access to finance; emphasizes the need to monitor and provide forward-looking regulatory and financial incentives for facilitating the shift to sustainable economic activities; underlines in this regard the importance of the ‘do no significant harm’ (DNSH) principle enshrined in the EU Taxonomy legislative framework;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is convinced concerned that both the current and the proposed EU legislation must not create envisages too many bureaucratic hurdles for EU businesses that burden them in an unfair way; calls on the Commission to fully implement the principles of better regulation and ‘think small first’;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that for the EU to be competitive in open markets, every sector must receive sufficient and targeted support in developing its respectivea sustainability oriented technological base and intherefore, in enhancing promoting the research and innovation efforts carried out by public and private stakeholders; necessary for fostering the green and digital transition, carried out by public and private stakeholders; underlines the need to provide proactive public financial support to investments in sustainability oriented R&D with the aim of reaching commercial viability of green products and services;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that the key European headline policy goals1 remain unchanged in spite of recent developments at international level; _________________ 1 https://ec.europa.eu/info/priorities-and- goals_en. like the European Green Deal, the Digital Decade and the resilience goals need to be reinforced in view of recent developments at international level; underlines in particular the need rapidly phase-out dependencies on fossil fuels imports by speeding up the transition to electrification and renewables;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for further negotiations to secure sustainable and future-oriented trade agreements with ambitious and enforceable TSD chapters, pursue the goals of level-playing field and reciprocity vis-à-vis other major trading partners and to continue with the reform of the World Trade Organization; points out that sustainable inward and outward investments, trade and access to third markets are crucial in supporting the EU’s economic recovery and resilience, with the aim of strengthening the EU’s autonomsovereignty, diversifying its supply chains and guaranteeing its independence from any single producer, friend- shoring, near-shoring or re-shoring where relevant and guaranteeing its independence from any single producer, as well as securing sustainable supply chains in line with the Paris agreement; underlines the need to facilitate foreign direct investment (FDI) that contributes to achieving climate goals;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Strongly insists that the fight against illicit trade and, the prevention of unfair competition, as well as strategic investment and takeovers by hostile actors, must remain a key prioritythe phasing-out of subsidies to economic activities that are significantly harmful to the environment, as well as strategic investments that would run counter to national security or public order must remain a key priority; also raises the necessity of dealing with the presently existing regulatory gap regarding European participation in foreign-based joint ventures;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to step up its efforts to secure the necessary energy supply for European industry through diversifying energy sources and suppliers, and reducing the EU’s energy dependenciesfossil and nuclear energy dependencies; underlines in particular the need to rapidly phase-out dependencies on oil, coal and gas imports by speeding-up the transition to electrification and renewable energy intermediate targets and phase-out subsidies to fossil-fuels by 2030 at the latest.
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Underlines that the twin transition will require to secure and massively scale- up access to mining and processing of strategic and critical raw materials such as, Lithium, rare earths and Cobalt, that will need to be imported and for which there will be a growing geopolitical competition; emphasizes therefore the need to promote circular technologies and to reinforce long-term strategic partnerships with third countries in mutually beneficial terms so as to promote sustainable supply chains for strategic resources; stresses the growing concern that the increased demand of critical raw materials will lead to potential tension with non-EU producer countries, due to environmental risks, including stranded assets and higher costs of environmental action;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8 b. Underlines that global value chains are impacted by detrimental effects of natural or man-made hazards and shocks; stresses that the frequency and entity of those hazards is likely to increase in the future, and being transmitted to different world regions, leading to the subsequent increase of macroeconomic volatility and market and trade uncertainty; emphasizes that the environmental and social costs of highly fragmented global value chains using critical raw materials and just-in-time production models are not factored into the prices of these products, and thus result in market failures that could further impact trade relations between the EU and supplier countries; advocates for EU initiatives to develop Resilient Supply Chain Agreements with like-minded partners, particularly from Africa and Asia like ASEAN countries or Taiwan;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8 c. Takes note of the ‘Chips Act’ initiative aiming at securing the supply to semiconductors that are critical for the EU industry; emphasizes that such kind of initiatives need to be placed within a broader framework that should identify and monitor key supply chain dependencies as a crucial milestone of an EU integrated and sustainable industrial strategy, as a key component of the European Green Deal; proposes to also develop a “European Rare Earth Act” Initiative;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 d (new)
Paragraph 8 d (new)
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 e (new)
Paragraph 8 e (new)
8 e. Strongly welcomes in that perspective the forthcoming adoption by the Commission of a Single market emergency instrument; urges the Commission to integrate provisions in the context of such legislative framework to identify and monitor key supply chain dependencies; underlines in that perspective the need to adopt, as part of such legislative framework, a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators and screening criteria needed for both identifying and monitoring critical supply chains as well as for assessing the costs- benefits including externalities as well as social, environmental and political risks of friend-shoring, nearshoring and reshoring and diversification of supply chains,
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 f (new)
Paragraph 8 f (new)
8 f. Asks also the Commission to establish, in the context of the Single market emergency instrument legal provisions to subject companies largely exposed to international supply chains to undertake regular 'resilience stress tests' that would map, assess and provide potential responses to their supply chain risks, including externalities as well as social, environmental and political risks;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 g (new)
Paragraph 8 g (new)
8 g. Calls on the Commission to advance in our relations with partner countries for a global circular economy by proposing a Global Circular Economy Alliance, to bring forward an international agreement on the management of natural resources, and to launch a discussion at the WTO on the constraint posed by the prohibition of local content requirement on the scale-up of circular economy, to build a stronger partnership with different world regions and ensure that Free Trade Agreements reflect the enhanced objectives of the circular economy;