Activities of Ashley FOX related to 2014/2211(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Developing a sustainable European industry of base metals (A8-0309/2015 - Edouard Martin)
Developing a sustainable European industry of base metals - Anti-dumping measures and their effect on the EU steel industry (debate)
Amendments (23)
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the EU base metals industry should be considered as a strategic asset for European competitiveness, in particular for other industrial sectors as well as for the development of existing and new infrastructure;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas EU should reduce its dependency on import of base metal products from regions outside the Union;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. Whereas addressing the issue of competitiveness and the risk of carbon leakage should be the priority while any protectionist measures must be avoided;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the EU base metals industry is losing its competitiveness also due to high regulatory and administrative burdens;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Understands that the European Commission has launched discussions which will culminate in the reform of the ETS for the fourth period 2021-2028 and calls, in this connection, for the fight against climate change to focus on efficiency and optimising yields rather than on limiting productioncarbon reduction strategy to focus on competitiveness, efficiency and optimising yields;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Highlights the necessity for the EU to cut red tape, reduce regulatory and administrative burdens and set a competitiveness-friendly regulatory environment for the enterprises;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Highlights that focus should be shifted to the research and development of new technologies and process which will lead to increasing the competitiveness of the EU's base metals industry and to reduce harmful impacts on the environment;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Subheading 2
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Highlights the fact that an international agreement on combating climate change that creates circumstances of fairwhere countries would comopetition for all base rate at the multilateral level and forge a coherent global environmental producers would render border adjustment unnecessaryregime to reduce carbon emissions would be the most positive way of dealing with global emissions;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that by taking both imports and exports into account, the adjustment mechanism brings European regulation closer to a consumption-based territorial approach and that this kind of bottom-up approach has the advantage of offering a universal solution that enables each state to decide in a sovereign manner how ambitious its climate policy is to bea carbon border adjustment mechanism would undoubtedly lead to retaliation from trading partners in other areas and undermine the EU's efforts to reach a global deal on reducing emissions; it would also directly increase the cost of raw materials and therefore cause a negative effect on production, consumption as well as exports;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Maintains that the climate policy objectives of protecting the life and health of humans, animals and plants, and of the conservation of finite natural resources, if applied in a non-discriminatory manner, are consonant with the exceptions set out in Article XX of the WTOGATT Agreement; specifies that the global nature of the climate issue, and the fact that an atmosphere with a low carbon content (clean air) is a global public good, means that it is already viewed as a natural resource that can be exhausted;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Notes that knowing the carbon content, which is assessed on an industry-wide basis, is essential for building an international system for combating greenhouse gas emissions; points out that the establishing of border adjustment measures is thus the precursor of an international system to combat CO2 emissions;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5
Subheading 5
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Suggests that any facility classified as subject to the ETS should make comprehensive information available every year, including in respect of combating climate change and compliance with EU environmental directives, and that this be accessible to workers' representatives and to the representatives of civil society from local communities;
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 9
Subheading 9
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 10
Subheading 10
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22