10 Amendments of Krišjānis KARIŅŠ related to 2018/0224(COD)
Amendment 420 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20
Recital 20
(20) The policy objectives of this Programme will be also addressed through financial instruments and budgetary guarantee under the policy windows of the InvestEU Fund. Financial support should be used to address market failures or sub-optimal investment situations, in a proportionate manner and actions should not duplicate or crowd out private financing or diIn order to address the need to support investment in higher-risk and non-linear activities such as research and innovation, it is essential that Horizon Europe, in particular the EIC as well as the EIT with its KICs, work in synergy with the financial products to be deployed under InvestEU. Additionally, innovative SMEs and startups face difficulties in access to finance, especially those focusing on intangible assets, hence the need for the EIC to work in close complementarity with the dedicated financial products under InvestEU to ensure a continuity of support for such SMEs. In that regard, the experience gained from the financial instruments deployed under Horizon 2020 such as InnovFin and the loan guarantee for SMEs under COSME, should serve as a strong basis to deliver this targeted support. In this regard also, the EIC shall benefit from the experience gained so far by KICs and work in collaboration with their stoart competition in the Internal market. Actions should have a clear European added value. -ups and the ecosystems created by KICs to the profit of the European innovators. Actions should strengthen EU’s external competitiveness.
Amendment 424 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
Recital 21
(21) The EIC through its instruments – Pathfinder and Accelerator – should aim, when possible and potentially efficient in collaboration with the EIT and its KICs, at identifying, developing and deploying breakthrough research targeted towards new technologies and market creating innovations and, together with InvestEU, supporting their rapid scale-up to EU and international levels. Through coherent and streamlined support to breakthrough innovation the EIC should fill the current vacuum incomplete public support and private investment for breakthrough innovation. The instruments of the EIC call for dedicated legal and management features in order to reflect its objectives, in particular market deployment activities. In this regard, the EIC shall work in synergies with the EIT and its KICs to use their expertise and experience and to avoid duplication.
Amendment 461 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26 a (new)
Recital 26 a (new)
(26a) With the aim of strengthening of the European Research Area, significant reduction of the EU research and innovation divide and diminishing the participation gap in the EU R&I actions, all parts of the Programme should contribute to spreading scientific excellence, boosting new R&I cooperation patterns, reducing remuneration gap among researchers within the Union, modernising national R&I ecosystems and ensuring balanced representation in the evaluation panels, expert groups and scientific boards.
Amendment 530 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 4 – point a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 4 – point a (new)
(a) The EIT shall implement the Programme in accordance with the Strategic Innovation Agenda of the EIT for the period 2021-2027 with the reserve that any new KIC created shall entail additional and adequate budgetary resources, not to undermine the objectives and the commitments of the existing KICs.
Amendment 763 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 7 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 7 a (new)
Amendment 905 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 1
1. The financial envelope for the implementation of the Framework Programme for the period 2021 – 2027 shall be EUR 94 1120 000 000 000 in curreonstant prices for the specific programme referred to in Article 1(3)(a) and, in addition, the amount for the specific programme referred to in Article 1(3)(b), as laid down in Regulation…. establishing the European Defence Fund.
Amendment 1046 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point d – point 1
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point d – point 1
(1) EUR 1 76 000 000 000 for 'sharpreading excellence and widening participation';
Amendment 1247 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 25 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Scientific excellence remains core evaluation criteria in all Horizon Europe’s calls. Among the proposals having passed the applicable thresholds and evaluated equally as excellent, priority shall be considered to those providing strong EU added value and meeting at least one of the following conditions, contributing directly to 'impact' and 'quality and efficiency of implementation' criteria: – helping to achieve the specific EU policy objectives; – attracting excellent scientists and high-quality industry partners from outside of the EU – using research infrastructure financed by the EU, particularly from ERDF – involving partners from the eligible widening countries
Amendment 1430 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 43 – paragraph 5 – introductory part
Article 43 – paragraph 5 – introductory part
5. With the agreement of applicants concerned, the Commission or funding bodies implementing Horizon Europe (including EIT and its KICs) may directly submit for evaluation under the last evaluation criterion a proposal for an innovation and market deployment action which already fulfils the first two criteria, subject to the following cumulative conditions:
Amendment 1634 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 4 – paragraph 2
Annex I – point 4 – paragraph 2
Areas of intervention: Sharpreading Eexcellence; Reforming and enhanc and widening participation through existing Teaming, Twinning, and ERA-Chairs instruments transformed from just networking to both networking and R&I activities, as well as through additional instrument focused on creating new high-quality R&I networks based on the sophisticated research infrastructures financed from ERDF; supporting COST and citizen engagement activities; reforming the European R&I system.s;