13 Amendments of Yannick JADOT related to 2013/2006(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes the decline of Europe’s industrial sector, which has shed 3 million jobs and suffered a 10% fall in production since 2008 despite the fact that it is one of the main drivers of growth in Europe; calls on the Commission to implement a genuine joint strategy for the green and sustainable reindustrialisation of the European Union; asks the Commission to specify precisely the instruments it intends to use to implement this reindustrialisation project;
Amendment 10 #
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 invest in major transport, sustainable mobility, renewable energy and telecommunications infrastructure projects, as well as in cutting-edge, environmentally sound manufactured products, such as green vehicles and ships, and in technologies to mitigate the environmental impact of manufacturing processes; stresses the importance of promoting the use of local resources with a view to bringing about a genuine reindustrialisation to benefit society and create jobs;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Points out that that standards and technical regulations play a crucial role in ensuring that the EU leads the way in the most innovative sectors, including green technologies; calls, therefore, on the Commission to strengthen the EU's capacity to establish standards and international technical rules in innovative sectors; urges the Commission, furthermore, to improve cooperation with key third countries – including the emerging countries – with a view to establishing common standards and technical rules;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the importance of research and innovation as a means of ensuring the competitiveness of European companies in world markets; urges the Union and Member States to increase the funds allocated to research and development; calls on the Commission to encourage the emergence of industrial sectors which are based on new technologies, generate products with a high added value and are sparing in their use of energy resources, thus helping meet the challenges of climate change while ensuring that the EU continues to lead the way in the technology sector;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the importance of a clear and stable legal framework to encourage investment in industry; urges the Commission and the Member States to encourage the development and internationalisation of Europe’s SMEs, which will play a major role in tomorrow's industrial policy, by facilitating their access to funding; points out that public procurement plays a key role in supporting the development and growth of SMEs;
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 34 #
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, aby clearly setting the objectives of the former in the light of the objectives of the latter policy; to this end, calls foron the Commission systematically to analyze the consistency between FTAs and the objectives of the industrial policy in impact studies carried out for each FTA, and calls also for the impact of trade liberalisation on the objective of industrialisation to be regularly monitored throughout the implementation of trade agreements; calls for the Commission to make greater fiscal, social and budgetary convergence between the Member States so asa priority with a view to facilitateing the emergence of joint industrial projects;
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 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Encourages the Commission to ensure European companies have access to international markets, and considers that it is essential to establish reciprocal access to public markets, to protect the industrial property rights of European companies and to enhance the effectiveness of the Union’s Trade Defence Instrumentsenterprises, while laying the foundations for technology transfers to developing countries to enable them to address common challenges such as the fight against climate change and environmental protection.
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Recalls that Trade Defence Instruments remain a crucial element of industrial policy and calls on the Commission to enhance the effectiveness of these instruments, inter alia by adopting punitive measures within a shorter space of time, also in the light of the current context of an increase in illegal trade practices, especially by emerging countries;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Reminds the Commission that the low level of wages and environmental protection is still a very important aspect of international competition and that it is urgently necessary to pursue an upwards alignment of these standards so that the EU can genuinely re-industrialise; calls therefore upon the Commission to negotiate binding commitments regarding workers' rights and environmental protection in FTAs with third countries; calls also upon the Commission to develop mandatory traceability systems for products to prove their compliance with international standards in matters of workers' rights and environmental protection;
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 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Calls on the Commission to follow up its commitment to produce indicators for monitoring and evaluating the process of re-industrialisation; stresses that these indicators must be not only quantitative but also qualitative so as to ensure that this process is sustainable and compatible with protection of the environment;