9 Amendments of Marie-Thérèse SANCHEZ-SCHMID related to 2013/2006(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Expresses strong concern about the consequences of the financial and economic downturn, falling investment, and the growing inequalities in the EU, especially among its regions as regards productivity, competitiveness and prosperity; points out that without strong policy measures and the allocation of adequate financial resources in support of a new industrial ‘revolution’ in the EU, the sharp decline will have a serious negative impact not only on the EU’s output, but also on social and territorial cohesion;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Points out that in border areas, the industrial challenges are often the same on both sides of the border, owing to the common territorial features which these areas share; calls on the Commission, the Member States, and local and regional authorities to draw up cross-border industrial conversion strategies, aimed at creating cross-border clusters, and joint training and employment strategies on a scale appropriate to cross-border population centres;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the need to set out clear industrial competitiveness policy strategies in the National Reform Programmes, through a more focused approach which includes the setting of priorities in relation to: facilitating access to finance; support for R&D and education, education, and vocational training; administrative simplification; lower costs for businesses; the reduction of labour taxation; greater flexibility on the labour market; Europe-wide corporate tax harmonisation; improvement of infrastructure; greater involvement and coordination of all stakeholders at regional and local level and strong support for SMEs and entrepreneurs; believes that a more coordinated approach between different levels of government and stakeholders will be achieved by including the proposed territorial pacts in the partnership agreements;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Maintains that individual EU policies and the various sources of European reindustrialisation funding need to be coordinated more closely, following the guidelines to be set out in the future 2014-2020 Common Strategic Framework;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Takes the view that the potential of cultural and creative industries – in spite of their contribution to the European economy – is still not being sufficiently factored into reindustrialisation strategies; calls on public and private stakeholders to set up regional innovation incubators enabling creative companies, universities, investors, and cultural institutions to band together to promote cultural and creative industries;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Agrees with the Commission and the Council that competitiveness gains in the internal market, but also in trade with third countries, should be an absolute priority; calls on the Commission to expand aid schemes to help industries, and SMEs in particular, to export and internationalise; underlines the need for, and the importance of, the drawing-up of European standards that are widely applied and defended by the EU on the global market, so that innovative measures implemented by European enterprises do not penalise them, but instead gradually become a global standard; calls on the Commission to champion genuine reciprocity in trade, especially where access to public procurement is concerned, in order to cancel out the protectionist measures and discriminatory practices employed by some trading partners;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission to establish ecological and social taxation at EU borders with a view to balancing out the European social and environmental standards which EU industries have to observe;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Is of the opinion that, together with grants, there is a need for loans, venture capital, guarantees and other forms of financial engineering to play a stronger role; calls for the proper use of financial instruments through combining the various forms of financial support, both direct and indirect, especially those available to SMEs, in order to offer more tailor-made access to finances; calls for a European SME bank to be set up along the lines of the French OSEO and the German Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the Commission to review, and provide for greater flexibility in, the rules on competition laid down in Articles 101 and 102 TFEU so as to encourage the emergence of European industrial ‘champions’ in the mould of Airbus or EADS; also draws attention to the calls made in Parliament’s Vlasak report (2013/2104(INI)) for the Regional Aid Guidelines (RAG) to be revised in order to facilitate productive investment in European industries.