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Establishing the European Competitiveness Fund ('ECF’), including the specific programme for defence research and innovation activities

Document ITRE-AM-788894 · (COM(2025)0555 – 2025/0555(COD))

Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

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Amendment 1052

Yvan Verougstraete, Grégory Allione, Christophe Grudler, Oihane Agirregoitia Martínez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 1

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1. This Regulation establishes the European Competitiveness Fund (the ‘ECF’), including a specific programme on defence research and innovation referred to in Article 182(3) TFEU and lays down the objectives of the ECF, its budget for the period 2028-2034, the forms of Union support and the rules for providing such support under cross-cutting activities and specific policies supported by the ECF.1. This Regulation establishes the European Strategic and Competitiveness Fund (the ‘ESCF’), including a specific programme on defence research and innovation referred to in Article 182(3) TFEU and lays down the objectives of the ESCF, its budget for the period 2028-2034, the forms of Union support and the rules for providing such support under cross-cutting activities and specific policies supported by the ESCF.

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Justification

Amend all references throughout the text accordingly

Amendment 1053

Paulius Saudargas

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point a

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(a) A ‘Clean Transition and Industrial Decarbonisation’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter IV, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (a);(a) An ‘Energy Infrastructure, Industrial Decarbonisation, Clean and Energy-Efficient Technology’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter IV, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (a);

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Amendment 1054

Marc Botenga

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point a

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(a) A ‘Clean Transition and Industrial Decarbonisation’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter IV, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (a);(a) A ‘Public Energy Infrastructure, Industrial Decarbonisation and Green Technologies ’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter IV, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (a);

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Amendment 1055

Massimiliano Salini, Letizia Moratti, Fulvio Martusciello

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point a

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(a) A ‘Clean Transition and Industrial Decarbonisation’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter IV, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (a);(a) An ‘Energy Infrastructure, Industrial Decarbonisation, Clean and Energy-Efficient Technology’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapters II and IV, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (a);

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Amendment 1056

Paulo Cunha, Paulo do Nascimento Cabral

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point a

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(a) A ‘Clean Transition and Industrial Decarbonisation’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter IV, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (a);(a) A ‘Clean Transition and Industrial and Fishing Sector Decarbonisation’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter IV, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (a);

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Amendment 1057

Krzysztof Hetman, Adam Jarubas, Borys Budka, Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Mirosława Nykiel

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point a

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(a) A ‘Clean Transition and Industrial Decarbonisation’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter IV, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (a);(a) A ‘Clean Transition, Water Resilience and Industrial Decarbonisation’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter IV, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (a);

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Amendment 1058

Carmen Crespo Díaz, Raúl de la Hoz Quintano

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point a

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(a) A ‘Clean Transition and Industrial Decarbonisation’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter IV, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (a);(a) A ‘Clean Transition and Industrial and Fishing Sector Decarbonisation’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter IV, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (a);

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Amendment 1059

Yvan Verougstraete, Christophe Grudler, Oihane Agirregoitia Martínez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point a

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(a) A ‘Clean Transition and Industrial Decarbonisation’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter IV, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (a);(a) A ‘Clean Transition and Industrial Decarbonisation’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter IV, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2);

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Amendment 1060

Marc Botenga

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(a a) A ‘Public Health and Medicines’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter IVa, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (b)

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Amendment 1061

Krzysztof Hetman, Alexander Bernhuber, Adam Jarubas, Norbert Lins, Borys Budka, Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Mirosława Nykiel, Céline Imart, Paulo do Nascimento Cabral, Carmen Crespo Díaz, Herbert Dorfmann, Stefan Köhler, Daniel Buda, Maria Walsh

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) A ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture and Bioeconomy’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter V, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (b);(b) A ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture, Food Production and Bioeconomy’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter V, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (b);

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Amendment 1062

Seán Kelly

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) A ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture and Bioeconomy’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter V, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (b);(b) A ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture, Food Security and Bioeconomy’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter V, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (b);

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Amendment 1063

Yannis Maniatis

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) A ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture and Bioeconomy’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter V, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (b);(b) A ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture, Food Security and Bioeconomy’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter V, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (b);

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Amendment 1064

Marc Botenga

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) A ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture and Bioeconomy’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter V, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (b);(b) A ‘Public Biotech, Sustainable Agriculture and Bioeconomy’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter V, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (c);

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Amendment 1065

Sigrid Friis, Martin Hojsík, Bart Groothuis, Morten Løkkegaard, Emma Wiesner

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) A ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture and Bioeconomy’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter V, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (b);(b) A ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture, food and Bioeconomy’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter V, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (b);

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Amendment 1066

Dario Nardella, Stefano Bonaccini, Cristina Maestre, Maria Grapini, Giorgio Gori, Claire Fita

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) A ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture and Bioeconomy’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter V, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (b);(b) A ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture, Food and Bioeconomy’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter V, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (b);

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Justification

This amendment adds “food” to Health, Agriculture, Biotech and Bioeconomy in order to fully reflect the strategic importance of agri-food value chains within the Programme. This ensures that the entire continuum from primary production to food processing, distribution and consumption is adequately covered. The amendment allows the Programme to better address key Union priorities such as food security, resilient supply chains, and the promotion of healthy and sustainable diets, while ensuring coherence between research, innovation and real economic and societal needs.

Amendment 1067

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) A ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture and Bioeconomy’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter V, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (b);(b) A ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture, Food and Bioeconomy’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter V, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (b);

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Amendment 1068

Katri Kulmuni, Emma Wiesner, Benoit Cassart

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) A ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture and Bioeconomy’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter V, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (b);(b) A ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture & Bioeconomy’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter V, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (b);

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Justification

Horizon funding is very important for agriculture and the bioeconomy that are industries where the EU has natural advantages. Horizon funding helps these key and important sectors to develop, retain their competitive advantage and meet the challenges of our time, ensuring food security and replacing fossil -based products through bioeconomy sector solutions. Commission proposal should be supported.

Amendment 1069

Nicola Procaccini, Carlo Fidanza, Alessandro Ciriani, Elena Donazzan, Pietro Fiocchi, Lara Magoni, Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) A ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture and Bioeconomy’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter V, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (b);(b) A ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture, Food and Bioeconomy’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter V, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (b);

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Amendment 1070

Julie Rechagneux, Aleksandar Nikolic, Mélanie Disdier

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) A ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture and Bioeconomy’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter V, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (b);(b) A ‘Health and Biotech’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter V, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (b);

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Amendment 1071

Sarah Knafo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) A ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture and Bioeconomy’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter V, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (b);(b) A ‘Health, and Biotech’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter V, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (b);

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Amendment 1072

Yvan Verougstraete, Christophe Grudler, Oihane Agirregoitia Martínez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) A ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture and Bioeconomy’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter V, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (b);(b) A ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture and Bioeconomy’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter V, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(3);

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Amendment 1073

Paulo Cunha

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b a) A dedicated window for agriculture under Chapter V — SUPPORT FOR HEALTH, BIOTECH, AGRICULTURE AND BIOECONOMY — to ensure complementarity with the CAP in supporting investment in innovation and infrastructure. This window should, within the financial planning framework, establish an indicative amount.

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Amendment 1074

Julie Rechagneux, Aleksandar Nikolic, Mélanie Disdier

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b a) An 'Agriculture, Food and Bioeconomy' window — implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter V, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (b);

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Amendment 1075

Sarah Knafo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b a) An 'Agriculture, Food and Bioeconomy' window — implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter V, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (b);

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Amendment 1076

Christophe Clergeau, Victor Negrescu, Nikos Papandreou, Kristian Vigenin, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, Estelle Ceulemans, Raphaël Glucksmann

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b a) A ' Public Health' window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter Va, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (ba);

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Justification

Health policy pursues objectives distinctfrom industrial and competitiveness policy, including a high level of humanhealth protection in the definition and implementation of all Union policiesand activities. In order to ensure policy coherence, legal clarity, budgetarytransparency and the effective pursuit of public health objectives, support forhealth actions should be implemented through a separate policy window and a corresponding financial architecture

Amendment 1077

Marc Botenga

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point c

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(c) A ‘Digital Leadership’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter VI, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (c);(c) A ‘Public Digital Infrastructure and Technological Development’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter VI, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (d);

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Amendment 1078

Yvan Verougstraete, Christophe Grudler, Oihane Agirregoitia Martínez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point c

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(c) A ‘Digital Leadership’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter VI, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (c);(c) A ‘Digital Leadership’ window – implemented through the activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter VI, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(4);

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Amendment 1079

Marc Botenga

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point d

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(d) A ‘Resilience and Security, Defence Industry, and Space’ window – implemented through activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter VII, including the specific programme for defence research and innovation referred to in paragraph 1, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (d).(d) A ‘Resilience and Space’ window – implemented through activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter VII, including the specific programme for defence research and innovation referred to in paragraph 1, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (e).

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Amendment 1080

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point d

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(d) A ‘Resilience and Security, Defence Industry, and Space’ window – implemented through activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter VII, including the specific programme for defence research and innovation referred to in paragraph 1, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (d).(d) A ‘Resilient, Safe and Secure Society, and Space’ window – implemented through activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter VII, including the specific programme for defence research and innovation referred to in paragraph 1, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (d).

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Amendment 1081

Yvan Verougstraete, Christophe Grudler, Oihane Agirregoitia Martínez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point d

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(d) A ‘Resilience and Security, Defence Industry, and Space’ window – implemented through activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter VII, including the specific programme for defence research and innovation referred to in paragraph 1, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2), point (d).(d) A ‘Resilience and Security, Defence Industry, and Space’ window – implemented through activities set out in Chapter II and Chapter VII, including the specific programme for defence research and innovation referred to in paragraph 1, and contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3(5).

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Amendment 1082

Elisabetta Gualmini

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(d a) A ‘Urban Innovation’ window contributing to the specific objective set out in Article 3(2), point (e)

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Amendment 1083

Yvan Verougstraete, Christophe Grudler, Oihane Agirregoitia Martínez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 3

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
3. The Regulation also sets up a legal framework aiming at ensuring security of supply, removing investment obstacles and production bottlenecks and supporting the competitiveness of the Union’s industrial base.deleted

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Justification

Integrated within the objectives in article 3

Amendment 1084

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 3

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
3. The Regulation also sets up a legal framework aiming at ensuring security of supply, removing investment obstacles and production bottlenecks and supporting the competitiveness of the Union’s industrial base.3. The Regulation also sets up a legal framework for the close coordination at Union level to identify strategic sectors, technologies, and value chains of most significant common Union value-added in order to prioritise the support of their security of supply, removing investment obstacles and production bottlenecks, thus supporting the competitiveness of the Union. This legal framework shall complement existing mechanisms established under other Union laws for some sectors and value chains, and shall be implemented in compliance with Union objectives, targets and benchmarks enshrined in EU laws.

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Amendment 1085

András Gyürk, Jorge Martín Frías

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 3

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 3

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
3. The Regulation also sets up a legal framework aiming at ensuring security of supply, removing investment obstacles and production bottlenecks and supporting the competitiveness of the Union’s industrial base.3. The Regulation also sets up a legal framework aiming at ensuring security of supply, removing investment obstacles, production bottlenecks and skill gaps, and supporting the competitiveness of the Union’s industrial base, while ensuring balanced and fair access to funding across all Member States.

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Amendment 1086

Barry Andrews, Yvan Verougstraete

Proposal for a regulation

Article 1 – paragraph 3

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
3. The Regulation also sets up a legal framework aiming at ensuring security of supply, removing investment obstacles and production bottlenecks and supporting the competitiveness of the Union’s industrial base.3. The Regulation also sets up a legal framework aiming at ensuring security and diversification of supply, removing investment obstacles and production bottlenecks and supporting the competitiveness of the Union’s industrial base.

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Amendment 1087

Oihane Agirregoitia Martínez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(1 a) ‘competitiveness’ means the ability of European companies to compete successfully in global markets, which requires a level playing field for European industry compared to global competitors in terms of the cost of doing business, including by making it easier to invest, lowering energy costs, supporting energy efficiency solutions, enhancing productivity, boosting innovative capacity and increasing long-term public investments, and which requires a skilled workforce, which should lead to quality jobs and sustainable growth across the whole Union;

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Amendment 1088

Massimiliano Salini, Letizia Moratti, Fulvio Martusciello

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(1 a) ‘competitiveness’ means the ability of European companies to compete successfully in global markets, which requires a level playing field for European industry compared to global competitors in terms of the cost of doing business, including by making it easier to invest, lowering energy costs, supporting energy efficiency solutions, enhancing productivity, boosting innovative capacity and increasing long-term public investments, and which requires a skilled workforce, which should lead to quality jobs and sustainable growth across the whole Union;

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Amendment 1089

Yvan Verougstraete, Stine Bosse, Grégory Allione, Morten Løkkegaard, Christophe Grudler, Oihane Agirregoitia Martínez, Bart Groothuis

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(2 a) ‘biotechnology’ means the application of science and technology to living organisms as well as parts, products and models thereof, to alter living or non-living materials for the production of knowledge, goods and services;

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Amendment 1090

Paulius Saudargas

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 3 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(3 a) ‘competitiveness’ means the ability of European companies to compete successfully in global markets, which requires a level playing field for European industry compared to global competitors in terms of the cost of doing business, including by making it easier to invest, lowering energy costs, supporting energy efficiency solutions, enhancing productivity, boosting innovative capacity and increasing long-term public investments, and which requires a skilled workforce, which should lead to quality jobs and sustainable growth across the whole Union;

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Amendment 1091

François-Xavier Bellamy

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(4 a) 'Design authority' means the ability for an eligible entity to decide, without restrictions imposed by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third country entities on the definition, adaptation, integration, production, manufacturing, and evolution of the product, based on the ownership of intellectuel property rights and mastery of technologies, as well as the necessary skills and know-how. This ability includes the legal authority to substitute or remove components subject to restriction imposed by non-associated third cuntries or by non-associated third country entities with alternative restriction-free components originated in the EU.

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Amendment 1092

Nicolás González Casares, Mohammed Chahim, Elena Sancho Murillo, Lina Gálvez, Yannis Maniatis, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Annalisa Corrado, Bruno Tobback, Niels Fuglsang

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(4 a) ‘Competitiveness’ means the Union’s capacity to raise its productivity, to foster innovation, upholding employment, social fairness and high living standards; to compete successfully on global markets, to bolster its strategic autonomy and independence and to ensure the resilience of its economy against security, geopolitical, climate and environmental risks or any other systemic shocks, while ensuring a level playing field and in full alignment with the clean transition and the Union’s climate objectives;

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Amendment 1093

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(4 a) ‘defence products’ means any defence-related products as referred to in the Annex to Directive 2009/43/EC, including, where appropriate, their components and corresponding raw materials insofar as they are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products, as well as works, supplies and services directly related to those products for any and all elements of their life cycle within the meaning of Article 2, point (c), of Directive 2009/81/EC.

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Amendment 1094

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(4a) 'Design authority' means the ability to decide, without restrictions imposed by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities, on the definition, adaptation and evolution of the design of the defence product, including the legal authority to substitute or remove components that are subject to restrictions imposed by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities.

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Amendment 1095

Jana Nagyová, Ondřej Knotek, Tomáš Kubín, Klara Dostalova, Vilis Krištopans, Afroditi Latinopoulou, Anna Bryłka, Jorge Buxadé Villalba, António Tânger Corrêa

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(4 a) ‘European Innovation Scoreboard’ means the annual comparative assessment of innovation performance of Member States published by the Commission, based on the latest harmonised statistical data made publicly available by Eurostat and, where relevant, other official Union data sources, and classifying Member States by reference to the Union average.

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Amendment 1096

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4 b (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(4 b) ‘ energy communities’ means citizen energy community as defined in Article 2, point (11), of Directive (EU) 2019/944 and ‘renewable energy community’ means a renewable energy community as defined in Article 2, point (16), of Directive (EU) 2018/2001;

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Amendment 1097

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4 c (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(4 c) ‘social economy entities’ means private entities, independent of public authorities, that provide goods and services to their members or to society at large and operate in accordance with the principles of the social economy, in particular the primacy of people and social and/or environmental purpose over profit, the reinvestment of the majority of profits and surpluses in pursuit of collective or general interest objectives, and democratic and/or participatory governance. Such entities include, cooperatives, mutual benefit societies, associations, including charities, foundations, social enterprises and other legal forms recognised at Member State level that adhere to these principles;

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Amendment 1098

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4 d (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(4 d) ‘building renovation’ means ‘building renovation’ as defined in Article 2 point 13 of Regulation 2023/955;

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Amendment 1099

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4 e (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(4 e) ‘vulnerable households’ means vulnerable households’ as defined in Article 2 point 10 of Regulation 2023/955;

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Amendment 1100

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4 f (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(4 f) ‘vulnerable micro-enterprises’ means micro-enterprises as defined in Article 2 point 11 of Regulation 2023/955;

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Amendment 1101

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4 g (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(4 g) ‘vulnerable transport users’ means ‘vulnerable transport users’ as defined in Article 2 point 12 of Regulation 2023/955;

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Amendment 1102

Jüri Ratas, Riho Terras, Tobias Cremer, Sven Mikser

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 5

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(5) ‘Executive management structure’ means the body of a legal entity appointed in accordance with national law, and which, where applicable, reports to the chief executive officer or any other person having comparable decisional power, and which is empowered to establish the legal entity’s strategy, objectives and overall direction, and oversees and monitors management decision-making;(5) ‘Executive management structure’ means the body of a legal entity appointed in accordance with national law, and which, where applicable, reporting to the chief executive officer or any other person having comparable decisional power, and which is empowered to establish the legal entity’s strategy, objectives and overall direction, and which oversees and monitors the legal entity's management decision-making;

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Amendment 1103

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 5

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(5) ‘Executive management structure’ means the body of a legal entity appointed in accordance with national law, and which, where applicable, reports to the chief executive officer or any other person having comparable decisional power, and which is empowered to establish the legal entity’s strategy, objectives and overall direction, and oversees and monitors management decision-making;(5) ‘Executive management structure’ means the body of a legal entity in the EU appointed in accordance with national law, and which, where applicable, reports to the chief executive officer or any other person having comparable decisional power, and which is empowered to establish the legal entity’s strategy, objectives and overall direction, and oversees and monitors management decision-making;

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Amendment 1104

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(6 a) ‘European Competitiveness’ means the Union’s industrial, human and financial capacity to generate long-term sustainable prosperity by developing, manufacturing and deploying strategic technologies and solutions that: (a) ensure the Union’s sovereignty and economic security; (b) improve productivity and strategic resilience within planetary boundaries, in particular by maximising resource efficiency, material recovery and recycling; (c) contribute to the achievement of the Union’s energy and environmental objectives including the transition to climate-neutrality by 2050 at the latest; (d) contribute to the Union’s social objectives defined in the European Pillar of Social Rights; while contributing to economic, social and territorial cohesion throughout the Union.

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Amendment 1105

Radan Kanev

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(6 a) ‘financial efficiency first’ means selecting method, for each intervention, the least distortive and most cost-effective form of Union support capable of achieving the policy objective, by applying an instrument merit order in which procurement, guarantees, loans, equity or quasi-equity and other repayable support are prioritised where feasible, and grants are used primarily where the action is non-bankable, delivers a public good, or addresses early-stage innovation with high spillovers.

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Amendment 1106

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 7 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(7 a) 'innovative startup' and 'innovative scaleup' mean entities as defined in the Commission Recommendation C(2026) 1800 final of 18 March 2026;

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Amendment 1107

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(8) ‘Imperative public interest’ means, for the purpose of Article 20, an overriding reason for providing Union support for a certain action, or set of actions, due to a clear and significant contribution to the achievement of policy objectives under the ECF, which justifies the application of accelerated and simplified rules to the award;(8) ‘Imperative public interest’ means, for the purpose of Article 20, the sound and duly justified considerations leading to consider the existence of an overriding reason for providing Union support for a certain action, or set of actions, due to a clear and significant contribution to the achievement of policy objectives under the ECF, which justifies the application of accelerated and simplified rules to the award;

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Amendment 1108

Yvan Verougstraete, Christophe Grudler, Oihane Agirregoitia Martínez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 11

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(11) ‘Investment journey’ means the continuum of public and private financial support and policy support mechanisms provided to recipients across its entire development chain, including a comprehensive series of activities involved in the allocation of financial resources and provision of support to foster innovation and economic growth. This journey includes, but is not limited to, the initiation from fundamental and applied research phases, progressing through stages of scaling up, industrial deployment, and advancing to the culmination in full-scale manufacturing and industrial maturity and internationalisation;deleted

Or. en

Justification

No longer relevant with amendments to other parts of the text

Amendment 1109

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 11

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(11) ‘Investment journey’ means the continuum of public and private financial support and policy support mechanisms provided to recipients across its entire development chain, including a comprehensive series of activities involved in the allocation of financial resources and provision of support to foster innovation and economic growth. This journey includes, but is not limited to, the initiation from fundamental and applied research phases, progressing through stages of scaling up, industrial deployment, and advancing to the culmination in full-scale manufacturing and industrial maturity and internationalisation;(11) Investment journey’ means the continuum of public and private financial support and policy support mechanisms provided to recipients across its entire development chain, from fundamental and applied research, through technology development, scaling up and deployment, to full-scale uptake, and internationalisation;

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Amendment 1110

Georgiana Teodorescu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 11

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(11) ‘Investment journey’ means the continuum of public and private financial support and policy support mechanisms provided to recipients across its entire development chain, including a comprehensive series of activities involved in the allocation of financial resources and provision of support to foster innovation and economic growth. This journey includes, but is not limited to, the initiation from fundamental and applied research phases, progressing through stages of scaling up, industrial deployment, and advancing to the culmination in full-scale manufacturing and industrial maturity and internationalisation;(11) ‘Investment journey’ means the continuum of public and private financial support and policy support mechanisms provided to recipients across its entire development chain, including a comprehensive series of activities involved in the allocation of financial resources and provision of support to foster innovation and economic growth. This journey, covering all technologies defined as net-zero in Regulation (EU) 2024/1735 (Net-Zero Industry Act), includes, but is not limited to, the initiation from fundamental and applied research phases, progressing through stages of scaling up, industrial deployment, and advancing to the culmination in full-scale manufacturing and industrial maturity and internationalisation;

Or. en

Justification

This clarification ensures legal certainty that applied research activities related to all net-zero technologies (such as nuclear energy and fuel cycle technologies) are eligible for Union support, alongside subsequent stages of development and deployment.

Amendment 1111

Matej Tonin, Davor Ivo Stier

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 11

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(11) ‘Investment journey’ means the continuum of public and private financial support and policy support mechanisms provided to recipients across its entire development chain, including a comprehensive series of activities involved in the allocation of financial resources and provision of support to foster innovation and economic growth. This journey includes, but is not limited to, the initiation from fundamental and applied research phases, progressing through stages of scaling up, industrial deployment, and advancing to the culmination in full-scale manufacturing and industrial maturity and internationalisation;(11) ‘Investment journey’ means the continuum of public and private financial support and policy support mechanisms provided to recipients across its entire development chain, including a comprehensive series of activities involved in the allocation of financial resources and provision of support to foster innovation and economic growth. This journey, covering all technologies defined as net-zero in Regulation (EU) 2024/1735 (Net-Zero Industry Act), includes, but is not limited to, the initiation from fundamental and applied research phases, progressing through stages of scaling up, industrial deployment, and advancing to the culmination in full-scale manufacturing and industrial maturity and internationalisation;

Or. en

Amendment 1112

Laura Ballarín Cereza

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 11

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(11) ‘Investment journey’ means the continuum of public and private financial support and policy support mechanisms provided to recipients across its entire development chain, including a comprehensive series of activities involved in the allocation of financial resources and provision of support to foster innovation and economic growth. This journey includes, but is not limited to, the initiation from fundamental and applied research phases, progressing through stages of scaling up, industrial deployment, and advancing to the culmination in full-scale manufacturing and industrial maturity and internationalisation;(11) ‘Investment journey’ means the continuum of public and private financial support and policy support mechanisms provided to recipients as a single entity or as a group of collaborating entities across its entire development chain, including a comprehensive series of activities involved in the allocation of financial resources and provision of support to foster innovation and economic growth. This journey includes, but is not limited to, the initiation from fundamental and applied research phases, progressing through stages of scaling up, industrial deployment, and advancing to the culmination in full-scale manufacturing and industrial maturity and internationalisation;

Or. en

Justification

The proposal focuses too much on the investment journey of single companies, while the journey from idea, via research and development and prototyping to the market introduction and scaling up is often a journey involving groups of companies collaborating at different stages of this journey.

Amendment 1113

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 11

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(11) ‘Investment journey’ means the continuum of public and private financial support and policy support mechanisms provided to recipients across its entire development chain, including a comprehensive series of activities involved in the allocation of financial resources and provision of support to foster innovation and economic growth. This journey includes, but is not limited to, the initiation from fundamental and applied research phases, progressing through stages of scaling up, industrial deployment, and advancing to the culmination in full-scale manufacturing and industrial maturity and internationalisation;(11) ‘Investment journey’ means the continuum of public and private financial support and policy support mechanisms provided to recipients in the EU across its entire development chain, including a comprehensive series of activities involved in the allocation of financial resources and provision of support to foster innovation and economic growth. This journey includes, but is not limited to, the initiation from fundamental and applied research phases, progressing through stages of scaling up, industrial deployment, and advancing to the culmination in full-scale manufacturing and industrial maturity and internationalisation;

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Amendment 1114

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 13

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(13) ‘Legal entities’ means a legal person created and recognised as such under Union, national or international law, including Structures for European Armament Programme (SEAP), established in accordance with Regulation (EU) [XXX]32 of the European Parliament and of the Council [EDIP], which has legal personality and the capacity to act in its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations, or an entity which does not have legal personality as referred to in Article 200(2), point (c), of the Financial Regulation;(13) ‘Legal entities’ means a legal person created and recognised as such under Union, national or international law, including Structures for European Armament Programme (SEAP), established in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2025/2643 of the European Parliament and of the Council, European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), established in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 723/2009 and European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (EDIC) established in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2022/2481, which has legal personality and the capacity to act in its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations, or an entity which does not have legal personality as referred to in Article 200(2), point (c), of the Financial Regulation;
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Amendment 1115

Yvan Verougstraete, Christophe Grudler, Oihane Agirregoitia Martínez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 17

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(17) ‘Competitiveness Seal’ means a quality label awarded to a proposal submitted to a call for proposals that meets all the quality requirements set out in the award procedure but might receive support from other Union or national funding sources;deleted

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Justification

Not necessary as it is covered by its own article

Amendment 1116

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 17

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(17) ‘Competitiveness Seal’ means a quality label awarded to a proposal submitted to a call for proposals that meets all the quality requirements set out in the award procedure but might receive support from other Union or national funding sources;(17) ‘Competitiveness Seal’ means a European quality label awarded to a proposal submitted to a call for proposals that meets all the quality requirements set out in the award procedure but might receive support from other Union or national funding sources;

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Amendment 1117

Marc Botenga

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 17 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(17 a) social economy’ means a set of private law entities providing goods and services to their members or to society, encompassing organisational forms such as cooperatives, mutual societies, associations (including charities), foundations or social enterprises, as well as other legal forms, that operate in accordance with the following key principles and features:
(i) the primacy of people as well as social or environmental purpose over profit;
(ii) the reinvestment of all or most of the profits and surpluses to further pursue their social or environmental purposes and carry out activities in the interest of their members/users (‘collective interest’) or society at large (‘general interest’); and
(iii) democratic or participatory governance.

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Amendment 1118

Niels Flemming Hansen

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 18

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(18) ‘Small mid-cap company’ means an entity as defined in the Commission recommendation 2025/3500 final;(18) ‘Small mid-cap enterprises’ means enterprises which are not micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, that employ fewer than 1000 persons, and either have an annual turnover not exceeding EUR 200 million or an annual balance sheet total not exceeding EUR 172 million, those numbers and amounts being calculated in accordance with points (1) and (3)-(6) of the Annex to Commission Recommendation 2025/1099 on the definition of small mid-cap enterprises.

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Justification

To align the definition with the positions of the Parliament and the Council on the Omnibus proposal concerning small mid-caps.

Amendment 1119

Yvan Verougstraete, Stine Bosse, Grégory Allione, Christophe Grudler, Barry Andrews, Oihane Agirregoitia Martínez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 19 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(19 a) ‘start-up’ is an enterprise which fulfils all of the following criteria: (a) it is an autonomous enterprise within the meaning of point 5.1. of the Annex to Commission Recommendation C(2026) 1800 final; (b) it employs fewer than 100 persons and its annual turnover or annual balance sheet total, or both, does not exceed EUR 10 million; (c) it has been operating for less than 10 years following its registration;

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Amendment 1120

Yvan Verougstraete, Stine Bosse, Grégory Allione, Christophe Grudler, Barry Andrews, Oihane Agirregoitia Martínez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 19 b (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(19 b) ‘scale-up’ is an enterprise which fulfils all of the following criteria: (a) it is an autonomous enterprise within the meaning of point 5.1 of the Annex to Commission Recommendation C(2026) 1800 final; (c) its annual turnover or balance sheet total, or both, exceeds EUR 10 million; (d) its average annualised increase in the number of employees or in revenue exceeds 20% over the two preceding years; (e) it fulfils at least one of the two following criteria: (i) it employs fewer than 750 persons; (ii) it is not publicly listed;

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Amendment 1121

Yvan Verougstraete, Brigitte van den Berg, Stine Bosse, Grégory Allione, Sigrid Friis, Morten Løkkegaard, Christophe Grudler, Barry Andrews, Emma Wiesner, Oihane Agirregoitia Martínez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 20

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(20) ‘Stakeholders' means individuals, groups, or organizations that are affected by and can be involved in the programme implementation;(20) ‘Stakeholders' means individuals, groups, or organizations that are affected by and can be involved in the programme implementation, including social partners, relevant civil society organisations, local and regional authorities, and industry, research, and innovation experts;

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Amendment 1122

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 20

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(20) ‘Stakeholders' means individuals, groups, or organizations that are affected by and can be involved in the programme implementation;(20) ‘Stakeholders' means individuals, groups, and organizations, including from civil society, that may have a legitimate interest in the programme implementation and shall be consulted throughout the programme implementation, including at the design stage of the programming;

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Amendment 1123

François-Xavier Bellamy

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 20 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(20 a) 'Strategic technologies' means the key technologies instrumental for the green and digital transitions as well as for defence and aerospace applications, in the meaning of Article 2(30) of the Critical Raw Materials Act;

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Amendment 1124

Bruno Tobback, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Yannis Maniatis, Nicolás González Casares

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(21) ‘Infrastructure’ means all physical and virtual elements necessary for the provision of services and economic activities, including networks, grids and assets, as well as mobile assets linked to infrastructure, fostering decarbonisation, resilience, efficiency, digitalisation, and interoperability;(21) ‘Infrastructure’ means all physical and virtual elements necessary for the provision of services and economic activities, including networks, grids, assets, flexibility and grid enhancing technology softwares, and other non-wire solutions, as well as mobile assets linked to infrastructure, fostering decarbonisation, resilience, efficiency, flexibility solutions, digitalisation, and interoperability;

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Amendment 1125

Yvan Verougstraete, Brigitte van den Berg, Stine Bosse, Grégory Allione, Sigrid Friis, Morten Løkkegaard, Christophe Grudler, Barry Andrews, Oihane Agirregoitia Martínez, Bart Groothuis

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(21) ‘Infrastructure’ means all physical and virtual elements necessary for the provision of services and economic activities, including networks, grids and assets, as well as mobile assets linked to infrastructure, fostering decarbonisation, resilience, efficiency, digitalisation, and interoperability;(21) ‘Infrastructure’ means all physical and virtual elements necessary for the provision of services and economic activities, including networks, grids and their balancing tools, pipelines and assets, as well as mobile assets linked to infrastructure, fostering decarbonisation, resilience, efficiency, flexibility, digitalisation, and interoperability;

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Amendment 1126

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(21) ‘Infrastructure’ means all physical and virtual elements necessary for the provision of services and economic activities, including networks, grids and assets, as well as mobile assets linked to infrastructure, fostering decarbonisation, resilience, efficiency, digitalisation, and interoperability;(21) ‘Infrastructure’ means all physical and virtual elements necessary for the provision of services and economic activities, including networks, grids and assets, as well as mobile assets linked to infrastructure, fostering decarbonisation, de-fossilisation, resilience, efficiency, flexibility, digitalisation, and interoperability;

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Amendment 1127

Paulo Cunha, Paulo do Nascimento Cabral

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(21) ‘Infrastructure’ means all physical and virtual elements necessary for the provision of services and economic activities, including networks, grids and assets, as well as mobile assets linked to infrastructure, fostering decarbonisation, resilience, efficiency, digitalisation, and interoperability;(21) ‘Infrastructure’ means all physical and virtual elements necessary for the provision of services and economic activities, including water management, networks, grids and assets, as well as mobile assets linked to infrastructure, fostering decarbonisation, resilience, efficiency, digitalisation, and interoperability;

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Amendment 1128

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21 – point a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
a) ‘Results’ means any tangible or intangible effect of a given action under the Fund, such as data, know-how or information, whatever their form or nature and regardless of whether they can be protected or not, as well as any rights attached to them, including IPR;

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Amendment 1129

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21 – point b (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
b) 'Special report' means a specific deliverable of a research action summarising its results, providing detailed information on the basic principles, the aims, the outcomes, the basic properties, the tests performed, the potential benefits, the potential applications and the recommended course of the exploitation of the research towards development, including information on the IPRs but without necessitating the inclusion of IPR information;

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Amendment 1130

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21 – point c (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
c) ‘Critical chemicals’ means chemical molecules that are essential for strategic technologies and value chains and depend on supplies from a single third country or from just a few suppliers, within the meaning of the European Chemicals Industry Action Plan COM(2025) 530.

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Amendment 1131

Julie Rechagneux, Aleksandar Nikolic, Mélanie Disdier

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(21 a) 'co-investment partners' means private investors, including institutional investors, risk capital actors and managers of alternative investment funds, that: (a) co-invest with the ECF InvestEU Instrument in operations supporting the Union's strategic priorities; (b) commit to investment behaviours aligned with the long-term competitiveness and strategic autonomy of the Union, including patient capital orientation and compliance with the conditions on exit and resale of supported assets; (c) have been recognised by the Commission, following a qualification process, as fulfilling the requirements set out in the investment guidelines referred to in Article [X]; and whose recognition does not constitute the entrustment of budgetary tasks within the meaning of Article 62 of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509;

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Amendment 1132

Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Yannis Maniatis, Christophe Clergeau, Bruno Tobback, Pierre Jouvet, Raphaël Glucksmann

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Competitiveness means the Union’s capacity to raise its productivity, to foster innovation, to compete successfully on global markets, to enhance skills and to create quality jobs in the Union to bolster its strategic autonomy and independence, and to ensure the resilience of its economy against security, geopolitical, health, climate and environmental risks or any other systemic shocks, while ensuring a level playing field and alignment with the clean transition and the Union’s climate objectives, and fostering social, economic and territorial cohesion;

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Amendment 1133

Giorgio Gori, Stefano Bonaccini, Annalisa Corrado

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(21 a) (xx) ‘Regional, Territorial and Urban Innovation Track’ means a dedicated part of the work programmes supporting research, testing, demonstration, procurement and deployment of innovative solutions at regional and territorial, and urban areas, through cooperation between local and regional authorities, their energy agencies, public service providers, SMEs, research and technology organisations, higher education institutions, investors and civil society.

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Amendment 1134

Paolo Borchia, Isabella Tovaglieri, Raffaele Stancanelli, András Gyürk

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(21 a) ‘strategic dependencies’ means situations where only limited diversification or substitution options exist and the Union relies predominantly on a single or a small number of countries or entities outside the Union for the supply of critical technologies – including in the digital realm – critical raw materials, critical infrastructure or critical supply chains that may affect the Union’s security, economic security, or public order;

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Justification

Strategic dependencies should primarily be addressed through diversification of sources, suppliers and routes, thereby strengthening resilience and reducing vulnerability to external shocks. The general objective should be to mitigate excessive dependencies while avoiding an approach aimed at economic autarky, which would be neither realistic nor desirable in an open and globally integrated economy. The explicit reference to the digital realm reflects the growing importance of digital supply chains as a source of strategic vulnerability.

Amendment 1135

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(21 a) 'critical infrastructure' means an asset, system or part thereof located in Member States which is essential for the maintenance of vital societal functions, health, safety, security, economic or social well-being of people, and the disruption or destruction of which would have a significant direct or indirect impact in at least two Member States as a result of the failure to maintain those functions;

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Amendment 1136

Bruno Tobback, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Yannis Maniatis, Daniel Attard

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(21 a) 'Technology infrastructure' means facilities, equipment, pilot lines, testing and demonstration installations, and associated services that enable validation, testing, scale-up and pre-commercial deployment of technologies in pre-competitive non-economic activities, as defined under Horizon Europe

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Amendment 1137

Borys Budka, Danuše Nerudová, Davor Ivo Stier, Nikolina Brnjac, Karlo Ressler, Miriam Lexmann, Adam Jarubas, Krzysztof Hetman, Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Mirosława Nykiel, Iuliu Winkler, Loránt Vincze, Andrzej Halicki, Virgil-Daniel Popescu, Inese Vaidere, Tomáš Zdechovský, Siegfried Mureşan, Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, Daniel Buda, Gheorghe Falcă, Adina Vălean, Romana Tomc, Radan Kanev, Eva Maydell, Eszter Lakos, Jan Farský, Rasa Juknevičienė, Andrey Kovatchev, Andrey Novakov, Ilia Lazarov, Sandra Kalniete

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(21 a) 'less experienced applicants' means legal entities, and their predecessors, which, during the five years preceding the call deadline, have not been awarded funding under a centrally managed Union programme or have submitted eligible proposals without being selected for funding.

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Amendment 1138

Laura Ballarín Cereza

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(21 a) ´Control points´, in the context of innovation ecosystems, means ecosystems which anchor essential parts of the value chain and are, therefore, indispensable across the pathway from research to scaling, including the design, manufacturing and deployment of a product.

Or. en

Justification

A control point is a unique business activity that players in the value chain cannot circumvent.

Amendment 1139

Sofie Eriksson

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(21 a) “High risk sectors” means sectors which have higher risks of labour exploitation and abuse, such as construction, agriculture, hospitality, domestic work, transport and logistics, meat and food processing, cleaning services and care work.

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Amendment 1140

Jana Nagyová

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(21 a) ‘linear infrastructure’ are large-scale, continuous physical networks that extend over long distances in a predominantly linear form, enabling the movement of goods, people, and energy across territories.

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Amendment 1141

Christophe Clergeau, Jean-Marc Germain, Nikos Papandreou, Romana Jerković, Kristian Vigenin, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, Victor Negrescu, Estelle Ceulemans, Raphaël Glucksmann

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(21 a) ‘One Health’ means One Health as defined in Article 3, point (7), of Regulation (EU) 2022/2371 of the European Parliament and of the Council;

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Amendment 1142

Paolo Borchia, Isabella Tovaglieri, Raffaele Stancanelli

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21 b (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(21 b) ‘resilience’ means the ability of the Union to face physical, digital, and hybrid economic, security, and economic security challenges and to adapt to such challenges. Resilience is a challenge for society as a whole – it requires a close cooperation between policymakers, government agencies, and the business community. A strong and competitive economy is the pillar of a resilient Union.

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Justification

Resilience must be explicitly defined to cover the full spectrum of modern threats, including physical, digital and hybrid challenges. The definition should also reflect the societal dimension of resilience and the essential role of the business community alongside public actors. A strong economy is the indispensable foundation of a resilient Union

Amendment 1143

Giorgio Gori, Stefano Bonaccini, Annalisa Corrado

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21 b (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(21 b) (xy) ‘‘Regional, Territorial and Urban Innovation Hub’ means a multi-actor platform supporting a local and urban (innovation) ecosystem, including project pipeline development, matchmaking and facilitated access to infrastructures and finance.

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Amendment 1144

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21 b (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(21 b) 'quality job' means a job that offers stable employment, adequate wages, good working conditions including health and safety provisions, up- and re- reskilling opportunities and is covered by collective bargaining;

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Amendment 1145

Borys Budka, Eszter Lakos, Eva Maydell, Radan Kanev, Romana Tomc, Adina Vălean, Gheorghe Falcă, Daniel Buda, Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, Siegfried Mureşan, Tomáš Zdechovský, Inese Vaidere, Virgil-Daniel Popescu, Andrzej Halicki, Loránt Vincze, Iuliu Winkler, Mirosława Nykiel, Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Krzysztof Hetman, Adam Jarubas, Miriam Lexmann, Karlo Ressler, Nikolina Brnjac, Davor Ivo Stier, Danuše Nerudová, Jan Farský, Rasa Juknevičienė, Andrey Kovatchev, Andrey Novakov, Ilia Lazarov, Sandra Kalniete

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21 b (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(21 b) 'first-time applicants' means legal entities, and their predecessors, that, prior to the call deadline, have never submitted a proposal under a centrally managed Union programme.

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Amendment 1146

Bruno Tobback, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Yannis Maniatis, Daniel Attard, Nicolás González Casares

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21 b (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(21 b) 'Renewable energy community' means a legal entity as defined in Article 2 point (16) of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;

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Amendment 1147

Bruno Tobback, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Yannis Maniatis, Daniel Attard

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21 c (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(21 c) “Innovation and industrial ecosystem” means the network of interconnected actors across a value chain, including companies of all sizes, start-ups, suppliers, service providers, research and innovation organisations, civil society, investors and public authorities, whose interactions contribute to the development, production, deployment and scaling of technologies, products and services within the Union’s Single Market.

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Justification

Innovation and industrial ecosystems have not been formally defined in any previous EU legislation. However the concept is clearly described in the "A New Industrial Strategy for Europe" (Com(2020)102) and further developed in the Communication Updating the 2020 New Industrial Strategy: Building a stronger Single Market for Europe’s recovery (COM(2021)350). The ECF offers a unique opportunity to officially define and formalize the concept, building on the descriptions in the above mentioned communications and emphasizing their importance in the framework of industrial competitiveness which increasingly depends on networks of interconnected and various actors, interacting across value chains and across regions and Member States.

Amendment 1148

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21 c (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(21 c) ‘European Defence Project of Common Interest’ or ‘EDPCI’ means a collaborative industrial project established in line with the Chapter IV of Regulation (EU) 2025/2643;

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Amendment 1149

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21 d (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(21 d) 'Strategic raw materials' and 'critical raw materials' mean the raw materials listed respectively in Annexes I and II to Regulation (EU) 2024/1252 of the European Parliament and of the Council;

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Amendment 1150

Rihards Kols

on behalf of the ECR Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 – paragraph 1 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
1 a. "Competitiveness" means the ability of European companies and industries to compete successfully in global markets while preserving the Union's economic security, technological sovereignty and resilience; this requires a level playing field for European industry compared to global competitors in terms of the cost of doing business, including by making it easier to invest, lowering and stabilising energy costs across all decarbonisation pathways, enhancing productivity, boosting innovative and industrial capacity, securing critical supply chains and infrastructure, and maintaining the rule of law, internal stability and a credible security posture as preconditions for sustained investment, leading to quality jobs and sustainable growth across the whole Union, in particular in regions exposed to higher security risks;

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Justification

A Regulation establishing a 'Competitiveness Fund' must define 'competitiveness' so as to enable a clear intervention logic, budgetary control and ex-post evaluation. The definition should reflect the components identified in the Draghi and Letta reports and the Competitiveness Compass: external market performance, the cost of doing business including stable energy costs, productivity, innovation and industrial capacity, and the resilience of supply chains and infrastructure. Reference to the rule of law and security as preconditions for sustained investment is consistent with Recital 2 and with Article 4(2) TEU.

Amendment 1151

Sarah Knafo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 2 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 2a
Definition of competitiveness
For the purposes of this Regulation, 'competitiveness' means the ability of Union enterprises, in particular industrial actors and their European value chains, to develop, produce and market goods and services on global markets at a level of productivity, innovation and cost-efficiency comparable to or higher than that of their main international competitors, while ensuring the resilience and strategic autonomy of the Union.

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Amendment 1152

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
1. The general objective of the ECF is to increase European competitiveness, notably in strategic sectors and technologies along the investment journey by:1. The general objective of the ECF is to foster the scaling up of strategic sectors and technologies for economic security and economic development in line with planetary boundaries and away from fossil fuels, complementing the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation along the investment journey, to support the availability of a highly skilled, healthy and adaptable workforce, to strengthen resilient and diversified European supply chains including through the participation of SMEs, thus enabling European competitiveness, while contributing to the social and territorial cohesion. The ECF shall contribute to reaching the objectives of relevant Union legislation and policy, and be implemented in particular by:

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Amendment 1153

Laura Ballarín Cereza

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
1. The general objective of the ECF is to increase European competitiveness, notably in strategic sectors and technologies along the investment journey by:1. The general objectives of the ECF are to increase European competitiveness, while continuing to honour the commitments to European clean transition and industrial decarbonisation, notably in strategic sectors and technologies critical to the EU´s competitiveness along the investment journey, including through supporting collaborative projects between companies including SMEs, start-ups, larger companies, regional public authorities, universities, and research and technology organisations that advance this goal by:

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Justification

The green transition is the EU's strategic advantage for increased competitiveness, and the EU needs to stay on the course. Europe must continue to take action to support a sustainable industrial transition and create incentives that make it attractive for European companies to stay in Europe. Competitiveness is inherently territorial and economic development is often a regional competence. European regions are at the heart of the European Union’s competitiveness, with their investments accounting for about two thirds of the increase in total public investments in the EU in 2023. They play a pivotal role in shaping the conditions for industries and businesses to thrive through land-use planning, infrastructure development, education, housing, research, training, and quality of life.

Amendment 1154

Paolo Borchia, Isabella Tovaglieri, Raffaele Stancanelli

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
1. The general objective of the ECF is to increase European competitiveness, notably in strategic sectors and technologies along the investment journey by:1. The general objectives of the ECF are to increase European competitiveness, while continuing to honour the commitments to European clean transition and industrial decarbonisation, notably in strategic sectors and technologies critical to the EU competitiveness along the investment journey, including through supporting collaborative projects between companies including SMEs, start-ups, larger companies, regional and local public authorities, universities, and research and technology organisations that advance this goal, by:

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Justification

Competitiveness is inherently territorial and economic development is often a regional competence. European regions and cities are at the heart of the Union's competitiveness and play a pivotal role in shaping the conditions for industries and businesses to thrive. Explicitly including regional and local public authorities reflects this reality.

Amendment 1155

Oihane Agirregoitia Martínez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
1. The general objective of the ECF is to increase European competitiveness, notably in strategic sectors and technologies along the investment journey by:1. The general objectives of the ECF is to increase European competitiveness, while continuing to honour the commitments in the European Green Deal, notably in strategic sectors and technologies critical to the EU competitiveness along the investment journey, including through supporting collaborative projects between companies including SMEs, start-ups, larger companies, regional public authorities, universities, and research and technology organisations that advance this goal, by:

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Amendment 1156

Yvan Verougstraete, Brigitte van den Berg, Stine Bosse, Grégory Allione, Sigrid Friis, Christophe Grudler, Barry Andrews, Oihane Agirregoitia Martínez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
1. The general objective of the ECF is to increase European competitiveness, notably in strategic sectors and technologies along the investment journey by:1. The general objective of the ECF is to improve the Union’s competitiveness and global economic position, strengthen its strategic autonomy and economic security in order to ensure the Union’s prosperity and resilience against economic shocks, geopolitical and security threats, climate and natural risks.
1a. The ECF shall advance the Union’s competitiveness through the following transversal objectives:

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Amendment 1157

Marc Botenga

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
1. The general objective of the ECF is to increase European competitiveness, notably in strategic sectors and technologies along the investment journey by:1. The general objective of the ECF is to strengthen public, social, ecological, industrial and technological advancement and resilience by financing and supporting public investment in strategic civil sectors, public infrastructure, quality jobs, democratic participation, and territorial cohesion, with priority given to projects of clear Union added value and public interest. It shall achieve this by:

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Amendment 1158

Eszter Lakos, Paulius Saudargas, Davor Ivo Stier

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
1. The general objective of the ECF is to increase European competitiveness, notably in strategic sectors and technologies along the investment journey by:1. The general objective of the ECF is to increase European competitiveness, notably in strategic sectors and technologies along the investment journey including through supporting collaborative projects between companies including SMEs, start-ups, and larger companies, regional and local public authorities, universities, and research and technology organisations that advance this goal by:

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Amendment 1159

Sofie Eriksson

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
1. The general objective of the ECF is to increase European competitiveness, notably in strategic sectors and technologies along the investment journey by:1. The general objective of the ECF is to increase European competitiveness, defined as the Union’s capacity to raise productivity growth and resilience, by supporting investments with strong innovation potential that provide Union added value while addressing market failures and providing technology leadership, notably in strategic sectors and technologies along the investment journey by:

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Amendment 1160

Elisabetta Gualmini, Martin Hojsík, Grégory Allione, Bart Groothuis, Morten Løkkegaard, Yvan Verougstraete

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
1. The general objective of the ECF is to increase European competitiveness, notably in strategic sectors and technologies along the investment journey by:1. The general objective of the ECF is to increase European competitiveness, notably in strategic sectors and technologies along the investment journey, including through supporting collaborative projects between companies including SMEs, start-ups, larger companies, regional and local public authorities, universities, and research and technology organisations that advance this goal by:

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Amendment 1161

András Gyürk

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
1. The general objective of the ECF is to increase European competitiveness, notably in strategic sectors and technologies along the investment journey by:1. The general objective of the ECF is to increase European competitiveness, productivity, resilience and security by geographical balance and inclusive participation of all Member States and their strategic stakeholders in strategic value chains, notably in strategic sectors and technologies with a technology neutral approach along the investment journey by:

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Amendment 1162

Nicolás González Casares, Mohammed Chahim, Elena Sancho Murillo, Lina Gálvez, Yannis Maniatis, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Annalisa Corrado, Christophe Clergeau, Bruno Tobback, Niels Fuglsang

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
1. The general objective of the ECF is to increase European competitiveness, notably in strategic sectors and technologies along the investment journey by:1. The general objective of the ECF is to strengthen, increase and safeguard the Union's competitiveness, while ensuring full alignment with the Union’s climate neutrality objective, delivering high environmental and living standards, protection and social fairness, notably in strategic sectors and technologies along the investment journey by:

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Amendment 1163

Martin Hojsík, Sigrid Friis, Yvan Verougstraete, Barry Cowen

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
1. The general objective of the ECF is to increase European competitiveness, notably in strategic sectors and technologies along the investment journey by:1. The general objective of the ECF is to increase European competitiveness, notably in strategic sectors and technologies along the investment journey, while ensuring full alignment with the Union’s climate neutrality objective and delivering high environmental standards and protection, by:

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Amendment 1164

Michał Kobosko, Martin Hojsík, Ivars Ijabs, Lucia Yar, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Krzysztof Śmiszek

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
1. The general objective of the ECF is to increase European competitiveness, notably in strategic sectors and technologies along the investment journey by:1. The general objective of the ECF is to strengthen the Union's competitiveness across all EU Member States, supporting investments that provide Union added value, notably in strategic sectors and technologies along the investment journey by:

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Amendment 1165

Mirosława Nykiel, Borys Budka, Adam Jarubas, Krzysztof Hetman, Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
1. The general objective of the ECF is to increase European competitiveness, notably in strategic sectors and technologies along the investment journey by:1. The general objective of the ECF is to strengthen the Union's competitiveness across all EU Member States, supporting investments that provide Union added value, notably in strategic sectors and technologies along the investment journey by:

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Amendment 1166

Barry Andrews, Yvan Verougstraete

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
1. The general objective of the ECF is to increase European competitiveness, notably in strategic sectors and technologies along the investment journey by:1. The general objective of the ECF is to increase European competitiveness by supporting innovation, productivity, resilience and diversification, notably in strategic sectors and technologies along the investment journey by:

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Amendment 1167

Martin Hojsík, Barry Cowen

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
1. The general objective of the ECF is to increase European competitiveness, notably in strategic sectors and technologies along the investment journey by:1. The general objective of the ECF is to increase European competitiveness and accelerate just transition to climate neutral economy, notably in strategic sectors and technologies along the investment journey by:

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Amendment 1168

Jörgen Warborn, Tomas Tobé

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
1. The general objective of the ECF is to increase European competitiveness, notably in strategic sectors and technologies along the investment journey by:1. The general objective of the ECF is to increase European competitiveness, notably in the strategic sectors identified through the ECF’s four policy areas and in strategic technologies along the investment journey by:

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Amendment 1169

Jörgen Warborn, Tomas Tobé

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point -a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(-a) being the Union’s flagship instrument for supporting socially important investments in the development, deployment and manufacturing processes that are of the utmost strategic significance for the Union’s competitiveness and global standing;

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Amendment 1170

Jörgen Warborn, Tomas Tobé

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point -a a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(-aa) supporting lasting capacity-building efforts in strategic capability areas of major importance to the Union as a whole;

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Amendment 1171

Letizia Moratti, Massimiliano Salini, Fulvio Martusciello

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(a) delivering technological, economic and environmental impact from the Union's investments, including by developing disruptive and incremental innovation, and emerging, cutting-edge, dual-use, and strategic technologies with significant economic potential, including by developing and accelerating their manufacturing and industrial deployment;(a) in accordance with the principle of technological neutrality, delivering technological, economic and environmental impact from the Union's investments, by developing, deploying, diffusing, scaling up and commercialising disruptive and incremental innovation, and emerging, cutting-edge, dual-use, and strategic technologies with significant economic potential, including by developing and accelerating the manufacturing and industrial deployment of technologies such as those defined as net-zero technologies under Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1735, strategic technologies under Regulation (EU) 2024/795, and transitional solutions as defined in Article 10(2) of Regulation (EU) 2020/852;

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Amendment 1172

Yvan Verougstraete, Brigitte van den Berg, Grégory Allione, Sigrid Friis, Morten Løkkegaard, Christophe Grudler, Barry Andrews, Oihane Agirregoitia Martínez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(a) delivering technological, economic and environmental impact from the Union's investments, including by developing disruptive and incremental innovation, and emerging, cutting-edge, dual-use, and strategic technologies with significant economic potential, including by developing and accelerating their manufacturing and industrial deployment;(a) increasing productivity and innovation, notably by
i) aligning research, innovation and industrial policy to translate the Union's research excellence into industrial strength on global markets
ii) developping and accelerating the deployment of emerging, cutting-edge, dual-use and strategic sustainable technologies
iii) addressing shortages of skills in strategic sectors and future emerging technologies and supporting entrepreneurial and business skills

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Amendment 1173

Krzysztof Hetman, Adam Jarubas, Borys Budka, Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Mirosława Nykiel

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(a) delivering technological, economic and environmental impact from the Union's investments, including by developing disruptive and incremental innovation, and emerging, cutting-edge, dual-use, and strategic technologies with significant economic potential, including by developing and accelerating their manufacturing and industrial deployment;(a) delivering technological, economic and environmental impact from the Union's investments, including by developing disruptive and incremental innovation, and emerging, cutting-edge, dual-use, and strategic technologies with significant economic potential, including by developing and accelerating their manufacturing and industrial deployment and through large-scale deployment, replication and integration into European value chains of mature and near-commercial technologies;

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Amendment 1174

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(a) delivering technological, economic and environmental impact from the Union's investments, including by developing disruptive and incremental innovation, and emerging, cutting-edge, dual-use, and strategic technologies with significant economic potential, including by developing and accelerating their manufacturing and industrial deployment;(a) delivering positive technological, economic, social and environmental impact from the Union's investments by supporting the full-scale demonstration, scaling up and large-scale manufacturing of disruptive and incremental innovation with significant economic potential, including nature-based solutions and dual-use technologies, with a focus on emerging and cutting-edge technologies stemming from excellent research supported under the Framework Programme;

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Amendment 1175

Oihane Agirregoitia Martínez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(a) delivering technological, economic and environmental impact from the Union's investments, including by developing disruptive and incremental innovation, and emerging, cutting-edge, dual-use, and strategic technologies with significant economic potential, including by developing and accelerating their manufacturing and industrial deployment;(a) delivering technological, economic and environmental impact from the Union's investments, including by developing disruptive and incremental innovation, and emerging, cutting-edge, dual-use, and strategic technologies with significant economic potential, including including advanced manufacturing processes and technologies, advanced materials, quantum technologies, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity solutions, and renewable energy technologies;

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Amendment 1176

Christophe Clergeau, Jean-Marc Germain, Romana Jerković, Kristian Vigenin, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(a) delivering technological, economic and environmental impact from the Union's investments, including by developing disruptive and incremental innovation, and emerging, cutting-edge, dual-use, and strategic technologies with significant economic potential, including by developing and accelerating their manufacturing and industrial deployment;(a) delivering technological, economic and environmental impact from the Union's investments, including by developing disruptive and incremental innovation, and emerging, cutting-edge, dual-use, and strategic technologies with significant economic potential, including by developing and accelerating their manufacturing and industrial deployment as well as by ensuring equitable access to those strategic technologies across the Union;

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Justification

This amendment aims to reintroduce amendments adopted in the SANT opinion

Amendment 1177

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(a) delivering technological, economic and environmental impact from the Union's investments, including by developing disruptive and incremental innovation, and emerging, cutting-edge, dual-use, and strategic technologies with significant economic potential, including by developing and accelerating their manufacturing and industrial deployment;(a) delivering technological, economic and environmental impact from the Union's investments, including by developing disruptive and incremental innovation, and emerging, cutting-edge, dual-use, and strategic technologies with significant economic potential, including by developing and accelerating their manufacturing and industrial deployment at EU level;

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Amendment 1178

Marc Botenga

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(a) delivering technological, economic and environmental impact from the Union's investments, including by developing disruptive and incremental innovation, and emerging, cutting-edge, dual-use, and strategic technologies with significant economic potential, including by developing and accelerating their manufacturing and industrial deployment;(a) delivering technological, economic, social and environmental impact from the Union's investments, including by developing disruptive and incremental innovation, and emerging, cutting-edge and strategic technologies with significant economic and societal potential, including by developing and accelerating their manufacturing and industrial deployment;

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Amendment 1179

Sarah Knafo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(a) delivering technological, economic and environmental impact from the Union's investments, including by developing disruptive and incremental innovation, and emerging, cutting-edge, dual-use, and strategic technologies with significant economic potential, including by developing and accelerating their manufacturing and industrial deployment;(a) delivering technological, industrial and economic impact from the Union's investments, including by developing disruptive and incremental innovation, and emerging, cutting-edge, dual-use, and strategic technologies with significant economic potential, including by developing and accelerating their manufacturing and industrial deployment;

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Amendment 1180

Aura Salla

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(a) delivering technological, economic and environmental impact from the Union's investments, including by developing disruptive and incremental innovation, and emerging, cutting-edge, dual-use, and strategic technologies with significant economic potential, including by developing and accelerating their manufacturing and industrial deployment;(a) delivering technological and economic impact from the Union's investments, including by developing disruptive and incremental innovation, and emerging, cutting-edge, dual-use, and strategic technologies with significant economic potential, including by developing and accelerating their manufacturing and industrial deployment;

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Amendment 1181

Christian Ehler, Oliver Schenk, Matej Tonin, Adina Vălean, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Hildegard Bentele, Angelika Niebler, Eszter Lakos, Wouter Beke, Radan Kanev, Susana Solís Pérez, Virgil-Daniel Popescu, Dimitris Tsiodras

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(a) delivering technological, economic and environmental impact from the Union's investments, including by developing disruptive and incremental innovation, and emerging, cutting-edge, dual-use, and strategic technologies with significant economic potential, including by developing and accelerating their manufacturing and industrial deployment;(a) delivering technological and economic impact from the Union's investments, including by developing disruptive and incremental innovation, and emerging, cutting-edge, dual-use, and strategic technologies with significant economic potential, including by developing and accelerating their manufacturing and industrial deployment;

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Amendment 1182

Krzysztof Hetman, Adam Jarubas, Borys Budka, Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Mirosława Nykiel

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(a a) engaging and connecting the full competitiveness potential across the Union by promoting pan-EU collaboration and inclusive participation of Member States in strategic industrial value chains;

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Amendment 1183

Jana Nagyová, Ondřej Knotek, Tomáš Kubín, Klara Dostalova, Afroditi Latinopoulou, Anna Bryłka

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(a a) engaging and connecting the full competitiveness potential across the Union by promoting pan-EU collaboration and inclusive participation of Member States in strategic industrial value chains;

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Amendment 1184

Ondřej Krutílek

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(a a) engaging and connecting the full competitiveness potential across the Union by promoting pan-EU collaboration and inclusive participation of Member States in strategic industrial value chains;

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Amendment 1185

Dimitris Tsiodras

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(a a) engaging and connecting the full competitiveness potential across the Union by promoting pan-EU collaboration and inclusive participation of Member States in strategic industrial value chains;

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Amendment 1186

Michał Kobosko, Martin Hojsík, Ivars Ijabs, Lucia Yar, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Krzysztof Śmiszek

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(a a) engaging and connecting the full competitiveness potential across the Union by promoting pan-EU collaboration and inclusive participation of Member States in strategic industrial value chains;

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Amendment 1187

Mohammed Chahim, Sérgio Gonçalves

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure;(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, reducing the Union’s exposure to fossil-fuel import dependencies, support to ramp up the production of renewable energy and sustainable fuels (as defined in Regulation (EU) 2023/1804, Regulation (EU) 2023/1805, Regulation (EU) 2023/2405 and Directive (EU) 2023/2413) within the EU, strengthening the resilience of infrastructure, support to ramp-up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure;

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Justification

This amendment was part of the Compromise Amendments negotiated in the context of the TRAN Opinion

Amendment 1188

Bruno Tobback, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Yannis Maniatis, Nicolás González Casares

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure;(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through phasing out fossil fuel dependencies and decarbonising our energy system, improving resource efficiency and enhancing the circular economy, diversifying sources and markets, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and materials, supporting skill development and sustainable job creation, and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure;

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Amendment 1189

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure;(b) reducing and preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies on natural resources and substances of concern including via circularity and resource efficiency, and reinforcing the Union’s economic security and resilience, including from climate and nature-related risks, including through stockpiling and diversifying sources and markets and deepening the involvement of SMEs and SMCs into pan-European industrial strategic value chains, and supporting the ramp-up of European production critical to strategic technologies;

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Amendment 1190

Georgiana Teodorescu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure;(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure, targeted investment on key agriculture inputs and addressing supply chain bottlenecks with logistics, strategic infrastructure of food/energy and critical inputs for agriculture;

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Amendment 1191

Marc Botenga

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure;(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources, reducing dependence on fossil fuel imports and improving resource efficiency, ensuring democratic control over essential infrastructure and services, direct public investments and conditional support to ramp up European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure;

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Amendment 1192

Yvan Verougstraete, Brigitte van den Berg, Stine Bosse, Grégory Allione, Sigrid Friis, Morten Løkkegaard, Christophe Grudler, Oihane Agirregoitia Martínez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure;(b) reducing or preventing the Union's strategic dependencies and supplier concentration notably to ensure security of supply, including energy supply, by
i) ensuring manufacturing and production capacity, especially in strategic sectors, in the Union
ii) strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains
iii) improving resource efficiency and circularity
iv) diversifying sources and markets

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Amendment 1193

Yannis Maniatis

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure;(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure, including agri-food supply chains and critical agricultural inputs essential to the Union's food security and strategic autonomy;

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Amendment 1194

Jüri Ratas, Riho Terras, Tobias Cremer, Sven Mikser

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure;(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure, including against increasing emerging threats of both a hybrid and a kinetic nature and instrumentalisation of dependencies ;

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Amendment 1195

Radan Kanev, Miriam Lexmann, Paulius Saudargas, Eszter Lakos

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure;(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure, while promoting EU-wide collaboration and inclusive participation of Member States in strategic industrial value chains;

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Amendment 1196

Niels Flemming Hansen

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure;(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, reducing the Union’s exposure to fossil-fuel import dependencies, improving resource efficiency and circularity, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure;

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Amendment 1197

Jan Farský, Miriam Lexmann

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure;(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, notably on non-democratic countries, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets by strenghtening cooperation with trusted partners, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure;

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Amendment 1198

Dario Nardella, Stefano Bonaccini, Cristina Maestre, Maria Grapini, Giorgio Gori, Claire Fita, Eric Sargiacomo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure;(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure, including agri-food supply chains and strategic agricultural inputs for food security;

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Amendment 1199

François-Xavier Bellamy

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure;(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure including agri-food supply chains and strategic agricultural inputs for food security;

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Amendment 1200

Martin Hojsík

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure;(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, phasing out of fossil fuels, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure, including from impacts of climate change;

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Amendment 1201

Paolo Borchia, Isabella Tovaglieri, Raffaele Stancanelli

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure;(b) Reducing or preventing the Union's strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union's resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and their current and potential control points in particular, and infrastructure;

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Justification

If Europe wishes to reduce its dependencies and reinforce its resilience, specific attention must be given to the 'control points' in innovation ecosystems, the vital junctions in the design and production process without which strategic objectives cannot be achieved.

Amendment 1202

Laura Ballarín Cereza

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure;(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and their current and potential control points, and infrastructure;

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Justification

If Europe wishes to reduce its dependencies and reinforce its resilience, a vital part of this are those innovation ecosystems where so called “control points” in the investment journey are situated. These are the vital points in the design and production process without which we cannot reach the target. Specific attention is required for these control points.

Amendment 1203

Paulo Cunha, Paulo do Nascimento Cabral

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure;(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including food security and water security, notably through diversifying sources and markets, supporting the ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure;

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Amendment 1204

Letizia Moratti, Massimiliano Salini, Fulvio Martusciello

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure;(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure, as well as enhancing food security;

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Amendment 1205

Nicola Procaccini, Carlo Fidanza, Alessandro Ciriani, Elena Donazzan, Pietro Fiocchi, Lara Magoni, Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure;(b) reducing or preventing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and reinforcing the Union’s resilience, and economic security, including through diversifying sources and markets, support to ramp up of European production of strategic technologies and creating, strengthening and protecting critical Union value chains and infrastructure, including for food security;

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Amendment 1206

Nicolás González Casares, Mohammed Chahim, Elena Sancho Murillo, Lina Gálvez, Yannis Maniatis, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Annalisa Corrado, Christophe Clergeau, Bruno Tobback, Sofie Eriksson, Niels Fuglsang

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b a) (new) contributing to the shift towards a competitive, sustainable, circular, energy-, water- and resource-efficient, renewable-based, climate-neutral and resilient economy

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Amendment 1207

Yvan Verougstraete, Brigitte van den Berg, Sigrid Friis, Christophe Grudler, Oihane Agirregoitia Martínez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(c) addressing market failures and suboptimal investment situations, including by crowding in private capital and institutional investors as well as public funding in a proportionate manner, while avoiding duplication and without crowding out private investors; serving as an integrated platform for delivering targeted financial support to companies across all development phases start-ups, scale-ups, and strategic companies, including those actively pursuing manufacturing, industrial and market deployment;(c) addressing market failures and suboptimal investment situations

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Amendment 1208

Jana Nagyová, Ondřej Knotek, Tomáš Kubín, Klara Dostalova, Afroditi Latinopoulou, Anna Bryłka

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(c) addressing market failures and suboptimal investment situations, including by crowding in private capital and institutional investors as well as public funding in a proportionate manner, while avoiding duplication and without crowding out private investors; serving as an integrated platform for delivering targeted financial support to companies across all development phases start-ups, scale-ups, and strategic companies, including those actively pursuing manufacturing, industrial and market deployment;(c) addressing market failures and suboptimal investment situations accross EU;

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Amendment 1209

Marc Botenga

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(c) addressing market failures and suboptimal investment situations, including by crowding in private capital and institutional investors as well as public funding in a proportionate manner, while avoiding duplication and without crowding out private investors; serving as an integrated platform for delivering targeted financial support to companies across all development phases start-ups, scale-ups, and strategic companies, including those actively pursuing manufacturing, industrial and market deployment;(c) addressing core infrastructural needs, serving as an integrated platform to support and promote targeted industrial policy in strategic sectors through furthering and supporting primarily public investment, as well as mechanisms that where necessary allow targeted private sector involvement at the service of strategic objectives, like public procurement;

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Amendment 1210

Nicolás González Casares, Mohammed Chahim, Elena Sancho Murillo, Lina Gálvez, Yannis Maniatis, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Annalisa Corrado, Christophe Clergeau, Bruno Tobback, Sofie Eriksson, Niels Fuglsang

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(c) addressing market failures and suboptimal investment situations, including by crowding in private capital and institutional investors as well as public funding in a proportionate manner, while avoiding duplication and without crowding out private investors; serving as an integrated platform for delivering targeted financial support to companies across all development phases start-ups, scale-ups, and strategic companies, including those actively pursuing manufacturing, industrial and market deployment;(c) addressing market failures including negative externalities, and suboptimal investment situations, including by crowding in private capital and institutional investors as well as public funding in a proportionate manner, while avoiding duplication and without crowding out private investors; empowering regional entities to support a local, clean industrial transition; serving as an integrated platform for delivering targeted financial support to companies across all development phases start-ups, scale-ups, and strategic companies, including those actively pursuing manufacturing, industrial and market deployment;

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Amendment 1211

Bruno Tobback, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Yannis Maniatis, Nicolás González Casares

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(c) addressing market failures and suboptimal investment situations, including by crowding in private capital and institutional investors as well as public funding in a proportionate manner, while avoiding duplication and without crowding out private investors; serving as an integrated platform for delivering targeted financial support to companies across all development phases start-ups, scale-ups, and strategic companies, including those actively pursuing manufacturing, industrial and market deployment;(c) addressing market failures and suboptimal investment situations, including by crowding in private capital and institutional investors and mobilising retail and household savings through dedicated investment instruments such as European green bonds, as well as public funding in a proportionate manner, while avoiding duplication and without crowding out private investors; serving as an integrated platform for delivering targeted financial support to companies across all development phases start-ups, scale-ups, and strategic companies, including those actively pursuing manufacturing, industrial and market deployment;

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Justification

There is a huge, largely untapped, potential in mobilizing retail and household savings to contribute to the sustainable transition and competitiveness of EU industries. Citizens can win three times this way: financially, with guaranteed revenues from their investments, economically, by contributing to the competitiveness of our industries and job creation, and in terms of social involvement, by contributing to the prosperity of their society.

Amendment 1212

Sarah Knafo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(c) addressing market failures and suboptimal investment situations, including by crowding in private capital and institutional investors as well as public funding in a proportionate manner, while avoiding duplication and without crowding out private investors; serving as an integrated platform for delivering targeted financial support to companies across all development phases start-ups, scale-ups, and strategic companies, including those actively pursuing manufacturing, industrial and market deployment;(c) addressing market failures and suboptimal investment situations, including by crowding in private capital, institutional investors, venture capital and private equity funds, business angels, corporate venture capital, equity crowdfunding platforms and managers of alternative investment funds, as well as public funding in a proportionate manner, while avoiding duplication and without crowding out private investors;

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Amendment 1213

Laura Ballarín Cereza

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(c) addressing market failures and suboptimal investment situations, including by crowding in private capital and institutional investors as well as public funding in a proportionate manner, while avoiding duplication and without crowding out private investors; serving as an integrated platform for delivering targeted financial support to companies across all development phases start-ups, scale-ups, and strategic companies, including those actively pursuing manufacturing, industrial and market deployment;(c) addressing market failures and suboptimal investment situations, including by crowding in private capital and institutional investors as well as public funding in a proportionate manner, while avoiding duplication and without crowding out private investors; serving as an integrated platform for delivering targeted financial support to companies, ecosystems and their constituent individual actors, across all development phases start-ups, scale-ups, and strategic companies, including those actively pursuing manufacturing, industrial and market deployment;

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Justification

Individual companies, more often than not, work within an ecosystem and are dependent on the collaboration with actors within and beyond that ecosystem and also on the services that the ecosystem itself offers them. Therefore, economic success depends on the smooth functioning of the whole system, rather than on one company. This is the key argument to claim that financial support should be available for ecosystems and their constituent parts.

Amendment 1214

Paulo Cunha

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(c) addressing market failures and suboptimal investment situations, including by crowding in private capital and institutional investors as well as public funding in a proportionate manner, while avoiding duplication and without crowding out private investors; serving as an integrated platform for delivering targeted financial support to companies across all development phases start-ups, scale-ups, and strategic companies, including those actively pursuing manufacturing, industrial and market deployment;(c) addressing market failures and suboptimal investment situations, including by crowding in private capital and institutional investors as well as public funding in a proportionate manner, while avoiding duplication and without crowding out private investors; serving as an integrated platform for delivering targeted financial support to companies across all development phases start-ups, scale-ups, and strategic companies, including those actively pursuing manufacturing, industrial and market deployment, namely first industrial deployment;

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Amendment 1215

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(c) addressing market failures and suboptimal investment situations, including by crowding in private capital and institutional investors as well as public funding in a proportionate manner, while avoiding duplication and without crowding out private investors; serving as an integrated platform for delivering targeted financial support to companies across all development phases start-ups, scale-ups, and strategic companies, including those actively pursuing manufacturing, industrial and market deployment;(c) addressing market failures and suboptimal investment situations, including by crowding in private capital and institutional investors as well as public funding in a proportionate manner, while avoiding duplication and without crowding out private investors; serving as an integrated platform for delivering targeted financial support to economic agents, with a focus on innovative start-ups, innovative scale-ups, and strategic companies, including those actively pursuing manufacturing, industrial and market deployment;

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Amendment 1216

Dimitris Tsiodras

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(c) addressing market failures and suboptimal investment situations, including by crowding in private capital and institutional investors as well as public funding in a proportionate manner, while avoiding duplication and without crowding out private investors; serving as an integrated platform for delivering targeted financial support to companies across all development phases start-ups, scale-ups, and strategic companies, including those actively pursuing manufacturing, industrial and market deployment;(c) addressing market failures and suboptimal investment situations across the EU, including by crowding in private capital and institutional investors as well as public funding in a proportionate manner, while avoiding duplication and without crowding out private investors; serving as an integrated platform for delivering targeted financial support to companies across all development phases start-ups, scale-ups, and strategic companies, including those actively pursuing manufacturing, industrial and market deployment;

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Amendment 1217

Ondřej Krutílek

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(c) addressing market failures and suboptimal investment situations, including by crowding in private capital and institutional investors as well as public funding in a proportionate manner, while avoiding duplication and without crowding out private investors; serving as an integrated platform for delivering targeted financial support to companies across all development phases start-ups, scale-ups, and strategic companies, including those actively pursuing manufacturing, industrial and market deployment;(c) addressing market failures and suboptimal investment situations across EU, including by crowding in private capital and institutional investors as well as public funding in a proportionate manner, while avoiding duplication and without crowding out private investors; serving as an integrated platform for delivering targeted financial support to companies across all development phases start-ups, scale-ups, and strategic companies, including those actively pursuing manufacturing, industrial and market deployment;

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Amendment 1218

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(c) addressing market failures and suboptimal investment situations, including by crowding in private capital and institutional investors as well as public funding in a proportionate manner, while avoiding duplication and without crowding out private investors; serving as an integrated platform for delivering targeted financial support to companies across all development phases start-ups, scale-ups, and strategic companies, including those actively pursuing manufacturing, industrial and market deployment;(c) addressing market failures and suboptimal investment situations, including by crowding in private capital and institutional investors as well as public funding in a proportionate manner, while avoiding duplication and without crowding out private investors; serving as an integrated platform for delivering targeted financial support to companies in the EU across all development phases, start-ups, scale-ups, and strategic companies, including those actively pursuing manufacturing, industrial and market deployment;

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Amendment 1219

Michał Kobosko, Martin Hojsík, Ivars Ijabs, Lucia Yar, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Krzysztof Śmiszek, Yvan Verougstraete

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(c) addressing market failures and suboptimal investment situations, including by crowding in private capital and institutional investors as well as public funding in a proportionate manner, while avoiding duplication and without crowding out private investors; serving as an integrated platform for delivering targeted financial support to companies across all development phases start-ups, scale-ups, and strategic companies, including those actively pursuing manufacturing, industrial and market deployment;(c) addressing market failures and suboptimal investment situations across the EU, especially by crowding in private capital and institutional investors as well as public funding in a proportionate manner, by avoiding duplication and without crowding out other private or public investors; serving as an integrated platform for delivering targeted financial support to companies across all development phases, including those actively pursuing manufacturing, industrial and market deployment;

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Amendment 1220

Miriam Lexmann, Paulius Saudargas

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(c a) contributing to spreading excellence across the Member States in a geographically balanced manner by deploying at least 25 % of the allocation via open calls dedicated for entities registered in less developed regions;

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Amendment 1221

Radan Kanev, Miriam Lexmann, Paulius Saudargas

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(c a) contributing to the geographical balance in investments by taking into account the need to invest in innovative projects in less developed regions and considering this need when awarding support under this fund;

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Amendment 1222

Marc Botenga

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point d

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(d) furthering the integration of Union capital markets in alignment with the objective of delivering Savings and Investment Union, including solutions to address the fragmentation of Union capital markets, eliminate barriers and create incentives for private investments and diversify and reinforce the sources of financing for Union enterprises in all the Member States, including those with less developed capital markets;deleted

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Amendment 1223

Yvan Verougstraete, Brigitte van den Berg, Sigrid Friis, Morten Løkkegaard, Christophe Grudler, Barry Andrews, Oihane Agirregoitia Martínez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point d

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(d) furthering the integration of Union capital markets in alignment with the objective of delivering Savings and Investment Union, including solutions to address the fragmentation of Union capital markets, eliminate barriers and create incentives for private investments and diversify and reinforce the sources of financing for Union enterprises in all the Member States, including those with less developed capital markets;(d) fostering an enabling environment for companies, including SMEs, small midcaps, start-ups and scale-ups, to grow and become competitive, notably by
i) addressing the fragmentation of Union capital markets
ii) eliminating barriers along the entire investment journey and creating incentives for private investment
iii) improving access to finance, including private investment, micro-finance and support to social enterprises
iv) deepening the integration of the Single Market

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Amendment 1224

Jörgen Warborn, Tomas Tobé

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point d

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(d) furthering the integration of Union capital markets in alignment with the objective of delivering Savings and Investment Union, including solutions to address the fragmentation of Union capital markets, eliminate barriers and create incentives for private investments and diversify and reinforce the sources of financing for Union enterprises in all the Member States, including those with less developed capital markets;(d) furthering the integration of Union capital markets in alignment with the objective of delivering Savings and Investment Union, including solutions to address the fragmentation of Union capital markets, eliminate barriers and create incentives for private investments and diversify and reinforce the sources of financing for Union enterprises;

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Justification

It is important to make it clear that the ECF is not a cohesion policy instrument. It cannot be a criterion that the support should reach all Member States. Rather, the support should be directed towards the projects that bring the most added value for the EU as a whole, regardless of their geographical location.

Amendment 1225

Jüri Ratas, Riho Terras, Tobias Cremer, Sven Mikser

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(d a) strengthening the EDTIB by prioritising projects that contribute to technological sovereignty, resilience and security of supply within the Union;

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Amendment 1226

Marc Botenga

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(d a) Strengthening both fundamental and public-led mission-oriented research;

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Amendment 1227

Yvan Verougstraete, Sigrid Friis, Christophe Grudler, Oihane Agirregoitia Martínez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point e

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(e) aligning research, innovation and industrial policy support to translate Union’s research excellence into Union industrial strength on global markets and securing the future of manufacturing in Europe;deleted

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Justification

Integrated in paragraph a

Amendment 1228

Bruno Tobback, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Yannis Maniatis, Nicolás González Casares, Giorgio Gori

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point e

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(e) aligning research, innovation and industrial policy support to translate Union’s research excellence into Union industrial strength on global markets and securing the future of manufacturing in Europe;(e) aligning research, innovation and industrial policy support, amongst others by reinforcing innovation and industrial ecosystems, to translate Union’s research excellence into Union industrial strength on global markets and securing the future of manufacturing in Europe;

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Amendment 1229

Marc Botenga

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point e

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(e) aligning research, innovation and industrial policy support to translate Union’s research excellence into Union industrial strength on global markets and securing the future of manufacturing in Europe;(e) Where it serves societal or environmental objectives, aligning research, innovation and industrial policy to translate the Union’s research excellence into Union industrial strength and securing the future of manufacturing in Europe;

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Amendment 1230

Aldo Patriciello

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point e

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(e) aligning research, innovation and industrial policy support to translate Union’s research excellence into Union industrial strength on global markets and securing the future of manufacturing in Europe;(e) strengthening fundamental and applied research, innovation and industrial policy support to translate Union’s research excellence into Union industrial strength on global markets and securing the future of manufacturing in Europe;

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Amendment 1231

Paolo Borchia, Isabella Tovaglieri, Raffaele Stancanelli

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point e

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(e) aligning research, innovation and industrial policy support to translate Union’s research excellence into Union industrial strength on global markets and securing the future of manufacturing in Europe;(e) strengthening fundamental and applie research, innovation and industrial policy support to translate Union’s research excellence into Union industrial strength on global markets and securing the future of manufacturing in Europe;

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Justification

The current wording of Article 3(1)(e) reduces the role of research to a mere instrument of alignment with industrial policy. Replacing 'aligning' with 'strengthening fundamental and applied' reflects a more ambitious and accurate framing: fundamental and applied research are not subordinate to industrial policy but are its primary source. Explicitly recognising both dimensions ensures that the ECF supports the full research-to-market pipeline, from discovery through to industrial deployment.

Amendment 1232

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point e

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(e) aligning research, innovation and industrial policy support to translate Union’s research excellence into Union industrial strength on global markets and securing the future of manufacturing in Europe;(e) coordinating and aligning research, innovation and industrial policy at Union level to translate Union’s research excellence into Union industrial strength;

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Amendment 1233

Elisabetta Gualmini

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point e a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(e a) (e) For strengthening the territorial dimension of the Union's competitiveness, the specific objective of supporting the development of regional and local innovation ecosystems, alongside sustainable urban development and urban innovation initiatives, shall be implemented through competitive calls targeting city-anchored consortia to drive deployment and scale-up actions, including clean energy, zero-emission mobility, circular procurement, and the decarbonisation, rehabilitation, and regeneration of the built environment, where these contribute to the innovation capacity and sustainability of regional and local economies. To maximise the impact on cities and regions, the Fund shall promote synergies with programmes contributing to economic, social, and territorial cohesion, in particular those implemented under the National and Regional Partnership Plans. The Fund may provide technical assistance to cities and regional and local authorities aimed at supporting project preparation, public procurement, and the development of standardised monitoring, reporting, and verification frameworks.

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Amendment 1234

Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Nicolás González Casares, Daniel Attard, René Repasi, Sofie Eriksson, Bruno Tobback

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point e a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(e a) contributing to covering, in close collaboration with Horizon Europe, the whole research and innovation journey from the emergence of ideas in research organizations to the commercialisation on global markets, enabling the scaling up of research results into innovative solutions and technologies and contributing to reinforcing industrial competitiveness in line with the Union’s industrial strategies;

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Amendment 1235

Bruno Gonçalves, Daniel Attard, Csaba Molnár, Yannis Maniatis

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point e a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(e a) safeguarding a balanced geographical distribution of opportunities across the Union, unlocking the full potential of all regions by facilitating cooperation among industry, SMEs, research organisations, and local and regional authorities, including cohesion regions, rural areas, peripheral territories and, in particular, outermost regions.

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Amendment 1236

Mohammed Chahim, Sérgio Gonçalves

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point e a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(e a) safeguarding a balanced distribution of opportunities across the Union, unlocking the full high-value potential of all regions by facilitating cooperation among industry, SMEs, research organisations, and local and regional authorities, with a special focus on cohesion regions, rural areas, peripheral territories and outermost regions.

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Justification

This amendment was part of the Compromise Amendments negotiated in the context of the TRAN Opinion

Amendment 1237

Eszter Lakos, Paulius Saudargas, Davor Ivo Stier

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point e a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(e a) supporting the creation of place-based innovation ecosystems across Member States, encompassing whole value chains;

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Amendment 1238

Bruno Tobback, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Yannis Maniatis, Daniel Attard, Nicolás González Casares

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;(f) (f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness and strategic independence, in particular energy and transport, raw materials and circular economy infrastructure, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure, technology infrastructure, as well as social infrastructure and related data and services; the Commission shall assess and, where appropriate, propose or mobilise Union-level financial and other instruments, mechanisms and support frameworks to facilitate and incentivise investments by Member States in such infrastructures, with a view to strengthen the Union’s competitiveness, resilience and strategic autonomy.

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Justification

Investments in cross-border and strategic infrastructure are essential for strengthening the Union’s competitiveness, resilience and strategic autonomy, particularly in areas such as energy systems, transport networks, digital infrastructure and critical raw materials value chains. However, such investments are capital-intensive and can be unevenly distributed across Member States. In the current geopolitical context, it is essential that all Member States willing to undertake these investments are supported rather than constrained. This is particularly relevant as Member States start from different fiscal positions and budgetary constraints, with Member States sometimes facing higher deficit levels or being subject to corrective procedures under the Union’s fiscal governance framework. This amendment therefore invites the Commission to assess and, where appropriate, mobilize or propose Union-level instruments, mechanisms and enabling frameworks that facilitate and incentivize such investments, ensuring that Europe can develop the infrastructure base required for the clean transition, industrial competitiveness and security.

Amendment 1239

Oihane Agirregoitia Martínez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union's competitiveness, in particular for energy, digital, scientific and research and technology and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services, including access to and operation of shared scientific research facilities — such as high-performance computing, quantum computing platforms, and advanced materials characterisation facilities — located in Member States and contributing to shared European research and innovation ecosystems;

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Amendment 1240

Radan Kanev, Miriam Lexmann, Paulius Saudargas

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services; highlights the need to pay attention to the EU eastern regions bordering Russia, Belarus and Ukraine and consider investments in their cross-border and critical infractructure as a strategic investment for Europe's security, competitiveness, and future stability;

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Amendment 1241

Krzysztof Hetman, Adam Jarubas, Borys Budka, Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Mirosława Nykiel

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy, water and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure, food storage and food security as well as social infrastructure and related data and services, including in areas undergoing the energy transition, where the modernisation and repurposing of existing networks and facilities can underpin new competitive and sustainable activities;

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Amendment 1242

Davor Ivo Stier, Nikolina Brnjac

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, with digitalisation serving as a cornerstone for improving traffic management systems and multimodality, and contributing to the Union’s strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, cooperative intelligent transport systems (C-ITS) defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;

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Amendment 1243

Yvan Verougstraete, Brigitte van den Berg, Stine Bosse, Sigrid Friis, Christophe Grudler, Barry Andrews, Oihane Agirregoitia Martínez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;(f) developping and protecting cross-border and critical infrastructure in all relevant sectors;

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Amendment 1244

Oliver Schenk, Marion Walsmann, Hildegard Bentele

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure, together with the enabling infrastructure required for the development, demonstration, deployment and scaling-up of such key projects, social infrastructure and related data and services;

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Justification

The amendment clarifies that support may also cover enabling infrastructure necessary for the development, demonstration, deployment and scaling-up of strategic and critical projects. This ensures a more comprehensive and effective approach to strengthening the Union’s competitiveness, resilience and strategic independence.

Amendment 1245

Georgiana Teodorescu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure, agri-food related infrastructure, including resource management, water and supply chain/energy grid infrastructure, as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;

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Amendment 1246

François-Xavier Bellamy

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness as well as the infrastructure related to the development of the trans-European transport network, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, food security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;

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Amendment 1247

Michał Kobosko, Ivars Ijabs, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Krzysztof Śmiszek

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;(f) developing and strengthening Union cross-border and critical infrastructure essential for the Union’s competitiveness (including fuel infrastructure for military mobility purposes), strategic independence and resilience in particular for energy, transport, digital, security (including cybersecurity), defence, space, water and social infrastructure, and related data and services;

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Amendment 1248

Mirosława Nykiel, Borys Budka, Adam Jarubas, Krzysztof Hetman, Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;(f) developing and strengthening Union cross-border and critical infrastructure essential for the Union’s competitiveness (including fuel infrastructure for military mobility purposes), strategic independence and resilience in particular for energy, transport, digital, security (including cybersecurity), defence, space, water and social infrastructure, and related data and services;

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Amendment 1249

Marc Botenga

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to achieving societal and environmental challenges; and public and democratic control over strategic and critical infrastructure energy and transport, public health and medicines infrastructure, digital and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;

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Amendment 1250

Mohammed Chahim, Sérgio Gonçalves

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, resilience, decarbonisation efforts and strategic independence in particular energy, transport and logistics infrastructure, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;

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Justification

This amendment was part of the Compromise Amendments negotiated in the context of the TRAN Opinion

Amendment 1251

Paulo Cunha, Paulo do Nascimento Cabral

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;(f) developing and strengthening Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence and resilience in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space, water and social infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;

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Amendment 1252

Angelika Winzig

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, cooperative intelligent transport systems (C-ITS), defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;

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Amendment 1253

Nicola Procaccini, Carlo Fidanza, Alessandro Ciriani, Elena Donazzan, Pietro Fiocchi, Lara Magoni, Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, resilience, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, infrastructures including for defence, space, water, food logistics as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;

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Amendment 1254

Aldo Patriciello

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space, research and technology infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;

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Amendment 1255

Massimiliano Salini, Letizia Moratti, Fulvio Martusciello

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, in particular for energy, digital, transport and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;

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Amendment 1256

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;(f) supporting the development and resilience of critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, health, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;

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Amendment 1257

Christophe Clergeau, Jean-Marc Germain, Nikos Papandreou, Romana Jerković, Kristian Vigenin, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, Victor Negrescu, Estelle Ceulemans, Daniel Attard, Raphaël Glucksmann

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, public health, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;

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Justification

This amendment aims to reintroduce amendments adopted in the SANT opinion

Amendment 1258

Wouter Beke

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as agrifood and social infrastructure and related data and services;

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Amendment 1259

Christophe Clergeau, Jean-Marc Germain, Merja Kyllönen, Nora Mebarek, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, André Franqueira Rodrigues, Bruno Tobback, Tonino Picula

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence, maritime and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;

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Amendment 1260

Daniel Attard

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, water, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;

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Amendment 1261

Sigrid Friis, Martin Hojsík, Morten Løkkegaard, Emma Wiesner

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, food, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;

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Amendment 1262

Dario Nardella, Stefano Bonaccini, Cristina Maestre, Maria Grapini, Giorgio Gori, Claire Fita, Eric Sargiacomo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence, space, water, food logistics as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;

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Amendment 1263

Jüri Ratas, Riho Terras, Tobias Cremer, Sven Mikser

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular of energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;

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Amendment 1264

Christian Ehler, Oliver Schenk, Matej Tonin, Adina Vălean, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Hildegard Bentele, Angelika Niebler, Eszter Lakos, Virgil-Daniel Popescu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure and related data and services;

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Amendment 1265

Aura Salla

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure and related data and services;

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Amendment 1266

Jörgen Warborn, Tomas Tobé

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness, and strategic independence in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure as well as social infrastructure and related data and services;(f) developing Union cross-border and critical infrastructure key to the Union’s competitiveness and strategic independence, in particular energy and transport, digital and security, defence and space infrastructure, as well as related data and services;

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Amendment 1267

Marc Botenga

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(f a) actively creating high-quality employment through support for good and fair wages, working conditions, strong social dialogue and collective bargaining, reinforcing unionization rates, promoting democracy at work, and tackling abuse and exploitation of workers;

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Amendment 1268

Jüri Ratas, Riho Terras, Tobias Cremer, Sven Mikser

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(f a) enhancing the protection and monitoring of Union's cross-border and critical infrastructure, and capability development essential for the resilience, protection and monitoring of strategic infrastructure, such as energy, transport, water and underwater infrastructure;

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Amendment 1269

Yvan Verougstraete, Sigrid Friis, Christophe Grudler, Oihane Agirregoitia Martínez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point g

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(g) strengthening the competitiveness of SMEs and small mid-cap companies established in the Union and their ability to grow and scale up, in particular by improving their access to finance, including private investment, micro-finance and support to social enterprises as facilitating access to Union funding, through faster, simplified and harmonised procedures; reducing and ensuring a proportionate reporting burden;deleted

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Justification

Integrated in previous paragraph

Amendment 1270

Oihane Agirregoitia Martínez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point g

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(g) strengthening the competitiveness of SMEs and small mid-cap companies established in the Union and their ability to grow and scale up, in particular by improving their access to finance, including private investment, micro-finance and support to social enterprises as facilitating access to Union funding, through faster, simplified and harmonised procedures; reducing and ensuring a proportionate reporting burden;(g) strengthening the competitiveness of SMEs and small mid-cap companies established in the Union which are active within the policy windows and their ability to grow and scale up, in particular by improving their access to finance, including private investment and micro-finance and support to social enterprises, recognising that the majority of innovative SMEs operate within regional industrial ecosystems and cluster networks; facilitating access of such SMEs and mid-caps to Union funding through faster, simplified and harmonised procedures, including through regional intermediary bodies with delegated management capacity; and ensuring that bottom-up calls in ECF work programmes maintain meaningful allocation for SME-led or SME-inclusive consortia, including those in regions with established smart specialisation strategies;

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Amendment 1271

Letizia Moratti, Massimiliano Salini, Fulvio Martusciello

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point g

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(g) strengthening the competitiveness of SMEs and small mid-cap companies established in the Union and their ability to grow and scale up, in particular by improving their access to finance, including private investment, micro-finance and support to social enterprises as facilitating access to Union funding, through faster, simplified and harmonised procedures; reducing and ensuring a proportionate reporting burden;(g) strengthening the competitiveness of SMEs and small mid-cap companies established in the Union and their ability to grow and scale up, in particular by improving their access to finance, including private investment, micro-finance and support to social enterprises as facilitating access to Union funding, through faster, simplified and harmonised procedures; reducing and ensuring a proportionate reporting burden. A clear distinction shall be ensured between SMEs and small mid-cap companies, taking into account their different structural characteristics, financial capacities, and administrative resources, and providing tailored support instruments adapted to the specific needs of each category.

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Amendment 1272

Paolo Borchia, Isabella Tovaglieri, Raffaele Stancanelli, András Gyürk

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point g

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(g) strengthening the competitiveness of SMEs and small mid-cap companies established in the Union and their ability to grow and scale up, in particular by improving their access to finance, including private investment, micro-finance and support to social enterprises as facilitating access to Union funding, through faster, simplified and harmonised procedures; reducing and ensuring a proportionate reporting burden;(g) strengthening the competitiveness of micro-enterprises, SMEs, start-ups, scale-ups and small mid-cap companies established in the Union and their ability to grow, scale, innovate, internationalise and access new markets, and to enhance their presence at local level, in particular by improving their access to finance, including private investment, micro-finance and support to social enterprises, as well as facilitating access to Union funding, through faster, simplified and harmonised procedures; reducing and ensuring a proportionate reporting burden;

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Justification

Strengthening the competitiveness of smaller enterprises does not necessarily imply scaling up: it also includes consolidating their investment capacity and strengthening their local presence. The amendment ensures greater visibility for firm growth, market uptake and internationalisation, including for micro-enterprises.

Amendment 1273

Daniel Attard

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point g

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(g) strengthening the competitiveness of SMEs and small mid-cap companies established in the Union and their ability to grow and scale up, in particular by improving their access to finance, including private investment, micro-finance and support to social enterprises as facilitating access to Union funding, through faster, simplified and harmonised procedures; reducing and ensuring a proportionate reporting burden;(g) strengthening the competitiveness of SMEs and small mid-cap companies established in the Union and their ability to grow and scale up, in particular by improving their access to finance, including private investment, micro-finance and support to social enterprises as facilitating access to Union funding, through faster, simplified and harmonised procedures; reducing and ensuring a proportionate reporting burden; and maintaining separate funding streams for SMEs and small mid-cap companies to address their differing financial needs and capacities;

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Amendment 1274

Borys Budka, Danuše Nerudová, Davor Ivo Stier, Nikolina Brnjac, Karlo Ressler, Miriam Lexmann, Adam Jarubas, Krzysztof Hetman, Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Mirosława Nykiel, Iuliu Winkler, Loránt Vincze, Andrzej Halicki, Virgil-Daniel Popescu, Inese Vaidere, Tomáš Zdechovský, Siegfried Mureşan, Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, Daniel Buda, Gheorghe Falcă, Adina Vălean, Romana Tomc, Eszter Lakos, Jan Farský, Rasa Juknevičienė, Andrey Kovatchev, Andrey Novakov, Ilia Lazarov, Emil Radev, Sandra Kalniete

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point g

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(g) strengthening the competitiveness of SMEs and small mid-cap companies established in the Union and their ability to grow and scale up, in particular by improving their access to finance, including private investment, micro-finance and support to social enterprises as facilitating access to Union funding, through faster, simplified and harmonised procedures; reducing and ensuring a proportionate reporting burden;(g) maximizing the competitiveness impact of EU funding by strengthening the competitiveness of SMEs and small mid-cap companies established across Member States of the Union and their ability to grow and scale up, in particular by improving their access to finance, including private investment, micro-finance and support to social enterprises as facilitating access to Union funding, through faster, simplified and harmonised procedures; reducing and ensuring a proportionate reporting burden;

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Amendment 1275

Dimitris Tsiodras

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point g

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(g) strengthening the competitiveness of SMEs and small mid-cap companies established in the Union and their ability to grow and scale up, in particular by improving their access to finance, including private investment, micro-finance and support to social enterprises as facilitating access to Union funding, through faster, simplified and harmonised procedures; reducing and ensuring a proportionate reporting burden;(g) strengthening the competitiveness of SMEs established across the Union and their capacity to secure long-term viability and continuity of operations in the EU, grow and scale up, in particular by improving their access to finance, including private investment, micro-finance and support to social enterprises as facilitating access to Union funding, through faster, simplified and harmonised procedures while reducing and ensuring a proportionate reporting burden;

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Amendment 1276

Nicola Procaccini, Carlo Fidanza, Alessandro Ciriani, Elena Donazzan, Pietro Fiocchi, Lara Magoni, Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point g

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(g) strengthening the competitiveness of SMEs and small mid-cap companies established in the Union and their ability to grow and scale up, in particular by improving their access to finance, including private investment, micro-finance and support to social enterprises as facilitating access to Union funding, through faster, simplified and harmonised procedures; reducing and ensuring a proportionate reporting burden;(g) strengthening the competitiveness of SMEs and small mid-cap companies established in the Union and their ability both to grow and scale up and to enhance their presence at local level, in particular by improving their access to finance, including private investment, micro-finance and support to social enterprises as facilitating access to Union funding, through faster, simplified and harmonised procedures; reducing and ensuring a proportionate reporting burden;

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Amendment 1277

Marc Botenga

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point g

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(g) strengthening the competitiveness of SMEs and small mid-cap companies established in the Union and their ability to grow and scale up, in particular by improving their access to finance, including private investment, micro-finance and support to social enterprises as facilitating access to Union funding, through faster, simplified and harmonised procedures; reducing and ensuring a proportionate reporting burden;(g) strengthening SMEs and the social economy sector established in the Union and their ability to grow and scale up, in particular by improving their access to finance, including private investment and support to social enterprises as facilitating access to Union funding, through faster, simplified and harmonised procedures; reducing and ensuring a proportionate reporting burden;

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Amendment 1278

András Gyürk, Jorge Martín Frías

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point g

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point g

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(g) strengthening the competitiveness of SMEs and small mid-cap companies established in the Union and their ability to grow and scale up, in particular by improving their access to finance, including private investment, micro-finance and support to social enterprises as facilitating access to Union funding, through faster, simplified and harmonised procedures; reducing and ensuring a proportionate reporting burden;(g) strengthening the competitiveness of SMEs and small mid-cap companies established in across the Union and their capacity to ensure long-term vialibity and continuity of operations within Europe, ability to grow and scale up, in particular by improving their access to finance, including private investment, through faster, simplified and harmonised procedures; reducing and ensuring a proportionate reporting burden;

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Amendment 1279

Christian Ehler, Oliver Schenk, Matej Tonin, Adina Vălean, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Hildegard Bentele, Angelika Niebler, Eszter Lakos, Radan Kanev, Susana Solís Pérez, Virgil-Daniel Popescu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point g

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(g) strengthening the competitiveness of SMEs and small mid-cap companies established in the Union and their ability to grow and scale up, in particular by improving their access to finance, including private investment, micro-finance and support to social enterprises as facilitating access to Union funding, through faster, simplified and harmonised procedures; reducing and ensuring a proportionate reporting burden;(g) strengthening the competitiveness of SMEs and small mid-cap companies established in the Union and their ability to grow and scale up, in particular by improving their access to finance, including private investment, micro-finance and facilitating access to Union funding, through faster, simplified and harmonised procedures; reducing and ensuring a proportionate reporting burden;

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Amendment 1280

Aura Salla

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point g

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(g) strengthening the competitiveness of SMEs and small mid-cap companies established in the Union and their ability to grow and scale up, in particular by improving their access to finance, including private investment, micro-finance and support to social enterprises as facilitating access to Union funding, through faster, simplified and harmonised procedures; reducing and ensuring a proportionate reporting burden;(g) strengthening the competitiveness of SMEs and small mid-cap companies established in the Union and their ability to grow and scale up, in particular by improving their access to finance, including private investment, micro-finance and facilitating access to Union funding, through faster, simplified and harmonised procedures; reducing and ensuring a proportionate reporting burden;

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Amendment 1281

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point g

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(g) strengthening the competitiveness of SMEs and small mid-cap companies established in the Union and their ability to grow and scale up, in particular by improving their access to finance, including private investment, micro-finance and support to social enterprises as facilitating access to Union funding, through faster, simplified and harmonised procedures; reducing and ensuring a proportionate reporting burden;(g) fostering the ability of SMEs, small mid-cap companies and innovative scaleups, and social enterprises, established in the Union to grow and scale up, in particular by improving their access to the Single Market and finance, including private investment, micro-finance and facilitating access to Union funding, through faster, simplified and harmonised and proportionate procedures and reporting;

Or. en

Amendment 1282

Ondřej Krutílek

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point g a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(g a) strengthening the competitiveness of small mid-cap companies established in across the Union and their capacity to ensure long-term viability and continuity of operations within the EU, grow and scale up, in particular by improving their access to finance, including private investment, as well as facilitating access to Union funding, through faster, simplified and harmonised procedures and reducing and ensuring a proportionate reporting burden;

Or. en

Amendment 1283

Dimitris Tsiodras

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point g a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(g a) strengthening the competitiveness of small mid-cap companies established in across the Union and their capacity to ensure long-term viability and continuity of operations within the EU, grow and scale up, in particular by improving their access to finance, including private investment, as well as facilitating access to Union funding, through faster, simplified and harmonised procedures and reducing and ensuring a proportionate reporting burden;

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Amendment 1284

Yvan Verougstraete, Sigrid Friis, Christophe Grudler, Oihane Agirregoitia Martínez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point h

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(h) addressing shortages of skills critical to all kinds of quality jobs in strategic sectors for EU competitiveness, through both horizontal and specific skills investment, contributing to the availability of skills in future emerging technologies, and by pursuing to accompany investments with skills investment and indicate when it is included;deleted

Or. en

Justification

integrated in previous paragraph

Amendment 1285

Aldo Patriciello

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point h

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(h) addressing shortages of skills critical to all kinds of quality jobs in strategic sectors for EU competitiveness, through both horizontal and specific skills investment, contributing to the availability of skills in future emerging technologies, and by pursuing to accompany investments with skills investment and indicate when it is included;(h) addressing shortages of skills critical to all kinds of quality jobs in strategic sectors for EU competitiveness, through both horizontal and specific skills investment, integrated programmes, public-private partnerships, cooperation between research institutes and universities, contributing to the availability of skills in future emerging technologies, and by pursuing to accompany investments with skills investment and indicate when it is included;

Or. en

Amendment 1286

Paolo Borchia, Isabella Tovaglieri, Raffaele Stancanelli

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point h

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(h) addressing shortages of skills critical to all kinds of quality jobs in strategic sectors for EU competitiveness, through both horizontal and specific skills investment, contributing to the availability of skills in future emerging technologies, and by pursuing to accompany investments with skills investment and indicate when it is included;(h) addressing shortages of skills critical to all kinds of quality jobs in strategic sectors for EU competitiveness, through both horizontal and specific skills investment, integrated programmes, public-private partnerships, cooperation between research institutes and universities,contributing to the availability of skills in future emerging technologies, and by pursuing to accompany investments with skills investment and indicate when it is included;

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Justification

Skills shortages in strategic sectors cannot be addressed through investment alone. Integrated programmes that bridge education and labour market needs, public-private partnerships that align training with industrial requirements, and structured cooperation between research institutes and universities are essential mechanisms for building the human capital that European competitiveness depends upon.

Amendment 1287

Matthias Ecke

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point h

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(h) addressing shortages of skills critical to all kinds of quality jobs in strategic sectors for EU competitiveness, through both horizontal and specific skills investment, contributing to the availability of skills in future emerging technologies, and by pursuing to accompany investments with skills investment and indicate when it is included;(h) addressing shortages of skills critical to all kinds of quality jobs in strategic sectors for EU competitiveness, through both horizontal and specific skills investment by ring-fencing five percent of the budget under each window for skills, contributing to the availability of skills in future emerging technologies, and by pursuing to accompany investments with skills investment and indicate when it is included;

Or. en

Amendment 1288

Georgiana Teodorescu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point h

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(h) addressing shortages of skills critical to all kinds of quality jobs in strategic sectors for EU competitiveness, through both horizontal and specific skills investment, contributing to the availability of skills in future emerging technologies, and by pursuing to accompany investments with skills investment and indicate when it is included;(h) addressing shortages of skills critical to all kinds of quality jobs in strategic sectors for EU competitiveness, and in key areas, such as the rural and farming communities, through both horizontal and specific skills investment, contributing to the availability of skills in future emerging technologies, and by pursuing to accompany investments with skills investment and indicate when it is included;

Or. en

Amendment 1289

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point h

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(h) addressing shortages of skills critical to all kinds of quality jobs in strategic sectors for EU competitiveness, through both horizontal and specific skills investment, contributing to the availability of skills in future emerging technologies, and by pursuing to accompany investments with skills investment and indicate when it is included;(h) addressing and anticipating shortages of skills critical to all kinds of quality jobs through both horizontal and specific skills investment with a focus on strategic sectors, contributing to the availability of an adaptable workforce for the development of deep technologies, and by striving to address gender gaps in skills and by accompanying public support with skills investment, where applicable;

Or. en

Amendment 1290

Dario Nardella, Stefano Bonaccini, Cristina Maestre, Maria Grapini, Giorgio Gori, Claire Fita, Eric Sargiacomo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point h

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(h) addressing shortages of skills critical to all kinds of quality jobs in strategic sectors for EU competitiveness, through both horizontal and specific skills investment, contributing to the availability of skills in future emerging technologies, and by pursuing to accompany investments with skills investment and indicate when it is included;(h) addressing shortages of skills critical to all kinds of quality jobs in strategic sectors for EU competitiveness, including agriculture and agri-food, through both horizontal and specific skills investment, contributing to the availability of skills in future emerging technologies, and by pursuing to accompany investments with skills investment and indicate when it is included;

Or. en

Amendment 1291

Nicola Procaccini, Carlo Fidanza, Alessandro Ciriani, Elena Donazzan, Pietro Fiocchi, Lara Magoni, Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point h

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(h) addressing shortages of skills critical to all kinds of quality jobs in strategic sectors for EU competitiveness, through both horizontal and specific skills investment, contributing to the availability of skills in future emerging technologies, and by pursuing to accompany investments with skills investment and indicate when it is included;(h) addressing shortages of skills critical to all kinds of quality jobs in strategic sectors, including agriculture and agrifood, for EU competitiveness, through both horizontal and specific skills investment, contributing to the availability of skills in future emerging technologies, and by pursuing to accompany investments with skills investment and indicate when it is included;

Or. en

Amendment 1292

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point h

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(h) addressing shortages of skills critical to all kinds of quality jobs in strategic sectors for EU competitiveness, through both horizontal and specific skills investment, contributing to the availability of skills in future emerging technologies, and by pursuing to accompany investments with skills investment and indicate when it is included;(h) addressing shortages of skills critical, in the medium and long term, to all kinds of quality jobs in strategic sectors for EU competitiveness, through both horizontal and specific skills investment, contributing to the availability of skills in future emerging technologies, and by pursuing to accompany investments with skills investment and indicate when it is included;

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Amendment 1293

Marc Botenga

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point h

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(h) addressing shortages of skills critical to all kinds of quality jobs in strategic sectors for EU competitiveness, through both horizontal and specific skills investment, contributing to the availability of skills in future emerging technologies, and by pursuing to accompany investments with skills investment and indicate when it is included;(h) addressing shortages of skills critical to all kinds of quality jobs, through both horizontal and specific skills investment, contributing to the availability of skills, including in future emerging technologies, and by accompanying investments with skills investment and indicate when it is included;

Or. en

Amendment 1294

Yvan Verougstraete, Sigrid Friis, Christophe Grudler, Oihane Agirregoitia Martínez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point i

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(i) ensuring the integration of the Single Market, including by supporting initiatives at any stage of the investment journey with positive spill-over effects for the Single Market and resilience of its value chains;deleted

Or. en

Justification

Integrated in previous paragraph

Amendment 1295

Raúl de la Hoz Quintano

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point i

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(i) ensuring the integration of the Single Market, including by supporting initiatives at any stage of the investment journey with positive spill-over effects for the Single Market and resilience of its value chains;(i) ensuring the integration of the Single Market, including by supporting initiatives at any stage of the investment journey with positive spill-over effects for the Single Market and resilience of its value chains. The European Competitiveness Fund should play a pivotal role in safeguarding the fundamental principles of undistorted competition enshrined in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and in preserving the integrity and level playing field of the single market;

Or. en

Amendment 1296

Jüri Ratas, Riho Terras, Tobias Cremer, Sven Mikser

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point i

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(i) ensuring the integration of the Single Market, including by supporting initiatives at any stage of the investment journey with positive spill-over effects for the Single Market and resilience of its value chains;(i) ensuring the integration of the Single Market, including by supporting initiatives at any stage of the investment journey with positive spill-over effects for the Single Market and resilience of its value chains, reducing the fragmentation and risk of unnecessary duplication of European defence products and technologies, and taking into account the specific needs of Member States in the case of materialisation of conventional military threats ;

Or. en

Amendment 1297

Marc Botenga

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point i

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(i) ensuring the integration of the Single Market, including by supporting initiatives at any stage of the investment journey with positive spill-over effects for the Single Market and resilience of its value chains;(i) ensuring positive spill-over effects for society including through promoting the large availability and affordability of results of supported initiatives as well as their contribution upward convergence where this promotes wellbeing, health, prosperity, quality of life, working conditions, democratic rights and freedoms, environmental standards and resilience of value chains

Or. en

Amendment 1298

Georgiana Teodorescu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point i

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(i) ensuring the integration of the Single Market, including by supporting initiatives at any stage of the investment journey with positive spill-over effects for the Single Market and resilience of its value chains;(i) ensuring the integration of the Single Market, including by supporting initiatives at any stage of the investment journey with positive spill-over effects for the Single Market and resilience of its value chains, notably in zet-zero sectors as defined by Regulation EU 2024/1735 (Net-Zero Industry Act);

Or. en

Justification

This clarification provides a clear legal and policy link between the ECF and the EU's broader regulatory framework for net-zero technologies, ensuring that Union funding prioritizes projects with tangible spill-over effects on growth, strategic autonomy, and Single Market integration.

Amendment 1299

Matej Tonin, Davor Ivo Stier

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point i

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(i) ensuring the integration of the Single Market, including by supporting initiatives at any stage of the investment journey with positive spill-over effects for the Single Market and resilience of its value chains;(i) ensuring the integration of the Single Market, including by supporting initiatives at any stage of the investment journey with positive spill-over effects for the Single Market and resilience of its value chains, notably in all net-zero sectors as defined by Regulation (EU) 2024/1735 (Net-Zero Industry Act);

Or. en

Amendment 1300

Bruno Tobback, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Yannis Maniatis, Nicolás González Casares

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point i

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(i) ensuring the integration of the Single Market, including by supporting initiatives at any stage of the investment journey with positive spill-over effects for the Single Market and resilience of its value chains;(i) ensuring harmonization across Member States and the integration of the Single Market, including by supporting initiatives at any stage of the investment journey with positive spill-over effects for the Single Market and resilience of its value chains;

Or. en

Justification

One of the most crucial elements for achieving the full potential of the Single Market is ensuring harmonization across Member States.

Amendment 1301

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point i

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(i) ensuring the integration of the Single Market, including by supporting initiatives at any stage of the investment journey with positive spill-over effects for the Single Market and resilience of its value chains;(i) ensuring the integration of the internal market, including by supporting initiatives at any stage of the investment journey with positive spill-over effects for the internal market and resilience of its value chains;

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Amendment 1302

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point i a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(i a) protecting, restoring and improving the quality of the environment, including air, water and soil, by reducing pollution, halting and reversing biodiversity loss and tackling the degradation of terrestrial and marine ecosystems, while enhancing climate and water resilience;

Or. en

Amendment 1303

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point i b (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(i b) fostering the shift towards a sustainable, circular, energy-, water- and resource-efficient, pollution-free, climate-neutral, fully-renewables based and resilient economy, including to climate change;

Or. en

Amendment 1304

Nicolás González Casares, Mohammed Chahim, Elena Sancho Murillo, Lina Gálvez, Yannis Maniatis, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Annalisa Corrado, Christophe Clergeau, Bruno Tobback, Sofie Eriksson, Niels Fuglsang

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point j

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(j) supporting actions for the development, implementation, and monitoring of relevant Union legislation and policy;(j) supporting actions for the development, implementation, and monitoring of relevant Union legislation and policy, including the Union’s environmental and climate laws and objectives and relevant energy legislation and policies, in view of achieving climate neutrality by 2050, in a way that fosters innovation, ensures energy security, and maintains the global competitiveness of European industry.

Or. en

Amendment 1305

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point j

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(j) supporting actions for the development, implementation, and monitoring of relevant Union legislation and policy;(j) supporting actions for the development, implementation, monitoring and enforcement of relevant Union legislation and policy;

Or. en

Amendment 1306

Eszter Lakos, Paulius Saudargas, Davor Ivo Stier

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point j a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(j a) new supporting actions for the deployment of the EU Missions as set up in the Regulation 2021/695;

Or. en

Amendment 1307

Julie Rechagneux, Aleksandar Nikolic, Mélanie Disdier

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k) ensuring a just transition to a sustainable, decarbonised and digital economy that is fair and supporting workers and communities.(k) ensuring a just, technologically neutral transition towards a sustainable, decarbonised and digital economy, by combating deindustrialisation, supporting the reindustrialisation and reshoring of strategic activities to the Union, preserving and modernising existing industrial capacities while fostering the development of new and advanced manufacturing industries, and supporting workers, communities and regions concerned, including industrially distressed regions, industrial heartlands and rural communities, so as to sustain quality industrial employment and enable populations to access skilled jobs close to their place of residence.

Or. en

Amendment 1308

Mirosława Nykiel, Borys Budka, Adam Jarubas, Krzysztof Hetman, Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k) ensuring a just transition to a sustainable, decarbonised and digital economy that is fair and supporting workers and communities.(k) Supporting the Union’s just transition and economic convergence by ensuring the full and broad participation of entities from all Member States in the European Competitiveness Fund, in particular entities from areas undergoing industrial transition referred to in Article 174 TFEU, as well as from regions with lower levels of innovation or limited absorption capacity, with a view to strengthening the long-term competitiveness and resilience of the Union economy as a whole.

Or. en

Amendment 1309

Krzysztof Hetman, Adam Jarubas, Borys Budka, Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Mirosława Nykiel

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k) ensuring a just transition to a sustainable, decarbonised and digital economy that is fair and supporting workers and communities.(k) ensuring a just transition to a sustainable, decarbonised, water resilient and digital economy that is fair and supporting workers and communities. In each policy window, a dedicated amount of the budget shall support activities that prioritize just transition in areas negatively affected by the transition to climate neutrality. This should especially involve activities that utilise local infrastructure and employ affected industries and companies.

Or. en

Amendment 1310

Sarah Knafo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k) ensuring a just transition to a sustainable, decarbonised and digital economy that is fair and supporting workers and communities.(k) ensuring a balanced industrial transition by combating deindustrialisation, supporting the reindustrialisation and reshoring of strategic activities to the Union, preserving and modernising existing industrial capacities while fostering the development of advanced manufacturing industries, and supporting workers, communities and regions concerned, including industrial heartlands.

Or. en

Amendment 1311

Benedetta Scuderi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k) ensuring a just transition to a sustainable, decarbonised and digital economy that is fair and supporting workers and communities.(k) ensuring a fair and just transition towards the Union’s 2030, 2040 and 2050 targets for energy and climate targets and digital economy supporting citizens, workers and communities, with a focus on the most vulnerable ones and contributing to a secure, resilient, democratic, and healthy society;

Or. en

Amendment 1312

Paolo Borchia, Isabella Tovaglieri, Raffaele Stancanelli

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k) ensuring a just transition to a sustainable, decarbonised and digital economy that is fair and supporting workers and communities.(k) ensuring a just transition to a sustainable, decarbonised and digital economy that is fair and supporting workers and communities in all regions and Member States, in line with technological neutrality and with a particular focus on regions dependent on energy-intensive industries

Or. en

Justification

The just transition must be explicitly territorial and technologically neutral, with dedicated measures to support societal transformations, including economic diversification, upskilling and reskilling, in the regions most affected by the shift to climate neutrality.

Amendment 1313

Jana Nagyová, Ondřej Knotek, Tomáš Kubín, Klara Dostalova, Afroditi Latinopoulou, Anna Bryłka

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k) ensuring a just transition to a sustainable, decarbonised and digital economy that is fair and supporting workers and communities.(k) ensuring a just transition to a sustainable, decarbonised and digital economy that is fair and supporting workers and communities, including in sectors requiring enhanced transition efforts, in particular in the energy-intensive industries;

Or. en

Amendment 1314

Dimitris Tsiodras

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k) ensuring a just transition to a sustainable, decarbonised and digital economy that is fair and supporting workers and communities.(k) ensuring a just transition to a sustainable, decarbonised and digital economy that is fair and supporting workers and communities, including in sectors requiring enhanced transition efforts, in particular in the energy-intensive industries;

Or. en

Amendment 1315

Nicolás González Casares, Mohammed Chahim, Elena Sancho Murillo, Lina Gálvez, Yannis Maniatis, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Annalisa Corrado, Christophe Clergeau, Bruno Tobback, Daniel Attard, Niels Fuglsang

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k) ensuring a just transition to a sustainable, decarbonised and digital economy that is fair and supporting workers and communities.(k) ensuring a just transition to a sustainable, decarbonised and digital economy that is fair and supporting workers, citizens, social actors, vulnerable households and communities.

Or. en

Amendment 1316

Jörgen Warborn, Tomas Tobé

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k) ensuring a just transition to a sustainable, decarbonised and digital economy that is fair and supporting workers and communities.(k) ensuring that, in the transition to a sustainable, decarbonised and digital economy, economic competitiveness is maintained or enhanced, for the benefit of workers and communities.

Or. sv

Amendment 1317

Dario Nardella, Stefano Bonaccini, Cristina Maestre, Maria Grapini, Giorgio Gori, Claire Fita

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k) ensuring a just transition to a sustainable, decarbonised and digital economy that is fair and supporting workers and communities.(k) ensuring a just transition to a sustainable, decarbonised and digital economy that is fair and supporting workers and communities, both in urban and rural areas.

Or. en

Amendment 1318

Nicola Procaccini, Carlo Fidanza, Alessandro Ciriani, Elena Donazzan, Pietro Fiocchi, Lara Magoni, Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k) ensuring a just transition to a sustainable, decarbonised and digital economy that is fair and supporting workers and communities.(k) ensuring a just transition to a sustainable, decarbonised and digital economy that is fair and supporting workers and communities, both in urban and in rural areas.

Or. en

Amendment 1319

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k) ensuring a just transition to a sustainable, decarbonised and digital economy that is fair and supporting workers and communities.(k) ensuring a just transition to a sustainable, decarbonised and digital economy that is fair and supporting of workers and communities in all the EU regions.

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Amendment 1320

Marc Botenga

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k) ensuring a just transition to a sustainable, decarbonised and digital economy that is fair and supporting workers and communities.(k) ensuring a just transition to a sustainable, green and digital economy that is fair, supporting as well as being supported by workers and communities.

Or. en

Amendment 1321

Marion Maréchal

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k) ensuring a just transition to a sustainable, decarbonised and digital economy that is fair and supporting workers and communities.(k) ensuring a just transition to a sustainable, decarbonised and digital economy that is fair and supporting workers, communities and rural areas.

Or. fr

Amendment 1322

Yvan Verougstraete, Stine Bosse, Grégory Allione, Sigrid Friis, Morten Løkkegaard, Christophe Grudler, Emma Wiesner, Oihane Agirregoitia Martínez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k) ensuring a just transition to a sustainable, decarbonised and digital economy that is fair and supporting workers and communities.(k) enabling a just transition to a sustainable, decarbonised, and digital economy that delivers positive impact for the climate, workers and communities

Or. en

Amendment 1323

Martin Hojsík, Sigrid Friis, Yvan Verougstraete

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k) ensuring a just transition to a sustainable, decarbonised and digital economy that is fair and supporting workers and communities.(k) ensuring a just transition to a sustainable, clean, decarbonised and digital economy that is fair and supporting workers and communities.

Or. en

Amendment 1324

Dimitris Tsiodras

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k – point i (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
i) safeguarding a balanced distribution of opportunities across the Union, unlocking the full high-value potential of all member states and regions, fostering cooperation, and promoting integration into sustainable, inclusive and resilient Union value chains;

Or. en

Amendment 1325

Oihane Agirregoitia Martínez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k a) development and support for regional, territorial and local innovation and deployment ecosystems to strengthen the territorial dimension of competitiveness by facilitating cooperation among industry, SMEs, research organisations, and local and regional authorities; promoting territorially anchored industrial, technological and skills capacities; and enabling the deployment of innovative actions that contribute to Union competitiveness and resilience.

Or. en

Amendment 1326

Jana Nagyová, Ondřej Knotek, Tomáš Kubín, Klara Dostalova, Afroditi Latinopoulou

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k a) The scope of the Fund shall extend beyond 'frontier technologies' to include particularly the 'Deep-Tech' transformation of traditional industrial sectors. Eligible projects shall include large-scale industrial modernization, the adoption of advanced manufacturing processes (Industry 4.0), and the decarbonization of existing manufacturing lines, provided they contribute to the Union’s overall strategic autonomy.

Or. en

Amendment 1327

Giorgio Gori, Stefano Bonaccini, Annalisa Corrado

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k a) (l) developing and supporting regional, territorial and local innovation and deployment ecosystems to strengthen the territorial dimension of competitiveness by facilitating cooperation among industry, SMEs, research organisations, and local and regional authorities, and promoting territorially anchored industrial, technological and skills capacities.

Or. en

Amendment 1328

Krzysztof Hetman, Adam Jarubas, Borys Budka, Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Mirosława Nykiel

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k a) ensuring a balanced approach between the excellence principle and fair access to funding across the Union, by addressing structural disparities in participation and enabling companies from all parts of the Union, including those operating in areas undergoing the energy transition, to fully benefit from the Union’s competitiveness agenda;

Or. en

Amendment 1329

Raúl de la Hoz Quintano

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k a) pursuing predominantly horizontal interventions improving framework conditions for research excellence, innovation capacity-building and the global competitiveness of all European companies, minimising top-down steering, political earmarking or selective support for specific sectors, companies or value chains;

Or. en

Amendment 1330

Sigrid Friis, Martin Hojsík, Morten Løkkegaard, Emma Wiesner

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k a) (l) strengthening the Union's food security and competitiveness by investing in resilient and decarbonised value chains contributing to the diversification of the agri-food sector, cutting the Union's dependence on imports, and delivering nutritious products that are at the basis of healthy diets.

Or. en

Justification

It should be a key objective of the ECF to support sustainable agri-food value chains that strengthen farmer and food-system resilience and deliver nutritious products that support access to healthy diets for all EU citizens. Investing in the agri-food sector is essential for food security and the long-term economic sustainability of one of the Union’s key competitive sectors.

Amendment 1331

Borys Budka, Eszter Lakos, Romana Tomc, Adina Vălean, Gheorghe Falcă, Daniel Buda, Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, Siegfried Mureşan, Tomáš Zdechovský, Inese Vaidere, Virgil-Daniel Popescu, Andrzej Halicki, Loránt Vincze, Iuliu Winkler, Mirosława Nykiel, Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Krzysztof Hetman, Adam Jarubas, Miriam Lexmann, Karlo Ressler, Nikolina Brnjac, Davor Ivo Stier, Danuše Nerudová, Jan Farský, Rasa Juknevičienė, Andrey Kovatchev, Andrey Novakov, Ilia Lazarov, Emil Radev, Sandra Kalniete

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k a) safeguarding a balanced distribution of opportunities across the Union, unlocking the full high-value potential of all market operators and regions, fostering cooperation, and promoting integration into sustainable, inclusive and resilient Union value chains.

Or. en

Amendment 1332

Mirosława Nykiel, Borys Budka, Adam Jarubas, Krzysztof Hetman, Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k a) safeguarding a balanced distribution of opportunities across the Union, unlocking the full high-value potential of all member states and regions, fostering cooperation, and promoting integration into sustainable, inclusive and resilient Union value chains.

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Amendment 1333

Ondřej Krutílek

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k a) safeguarding a balanced distribution of opportunities across the Union, unlocking the full high-value potential of all member states and regions, fostering cooperation, and promoting integration into sustainable, inclusive and resilient Union value chains;

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Amendment 1334

András Gyürk

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k a (new)

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k a) promoting a fair distribution of opportunities across the Union, mobilising the potential of all market operators and regions, and facilitating their integration into sustainable, inclusive and resilient Union value chains.

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Amendment 1335

Yannis Maniatis

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k a) ensuring water resilience across the Union by supporting sustainable and efficient water use, upgrading water-related infrastructure and contributing to long-term resilience to droughts and water scarcity.

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Amendment 1336

Marc Botenga

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k a) tackling the cost of living and producing in the EU, including energy prices, housing costs, infrastructural underinvestment and decline and the consequences of climate change

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Amendment 1337

Daniel Attard

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k a) Accelerating ECF implementtation by ensuring that each Member States has an ECF-financed Advisory Hub that acts as a one-stop-shop to promote ECF projects and financing opportunities

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Amendment 1338

Mirosława Nykiel, Borys Budka, Adam Jarubas, Krzysztof Hetman, Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k b (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k b) For strengthening the territorial dimension of the Union's competitiveness, the specific objective of supporting the development of regional and local innovation ecosystems, alongside sustainable urban development and urban innovation initiatives, shall be implemented through competitive calls targeting city-anchored consortia to drive deployment and scale-up actions, including clean energy, zero-emission mobility, circular procurement, and the decarbonisation, rehabilitation, and regeneration of the built environment, where these contribute to the innovation capacity and sustainability of regional and local economies. To maximise the impact on cities and regions, the Fund shall promote synergies with programmes contributing to economic, social, and territorial cohesion, in particular those implemented under the National and Regional Partnership Plans. The Fund may provide technical assistance to cities and regional and local authorities aimed at supporting project preparation, public procurement, and the development of standardised monitoring, reporting, and verification frameworks.

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Amendment 1339

Krzysztof Hetman, Adam Jarubas, Borys Budka, Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Mirosława Nykiel

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k b (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k b) applying targeted mechanisms to ensure such balanced access, including dedicated calls, for companies investing in areas undergoing the energy transition or exposed to structural impacts arising from the implementation of the Union’s climate and energy objectives, in order to prevent persistent investment gaps and unlock their potential to contribute to the Union’s competitiveness, resilience and security;

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Amendment 1340

Borys Budka, Danuše Nerudová, Davor Ivo Stier, Nikolina Brnjac, Eszter Lakos, Karlo Ressler, Miriam Lexmann, Adam Jarubas, Krzysztof Hetman, Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Mirosława Nykiel, Iuliu Winkler, Loránt Vincze, Andrzej Halicki, Virgil-Daniel Popescu, Inese Vaidere, Tomáš Zdechovský, Siegfried Mureşan, Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, Daniel Buda, Gheorghe Falcă, Adina Vălean, Romana Tomc, Eva Maydell, Jan Farský, Rasa Juknevičienė, Andrey Kovatchev, Andrey Novakov, Ilia Lazarov, Sandra Kalniete

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k b (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k b) fostering innovation convergence, value chain integration and technology diffusion across the Union by channelling targeted support to entities based in Member States and regions underperforming on innovation, with particular attention to SMEs, startups and scaleups, while avoiding disproportionately reinforcing existing geographic concentration of technological and innovation capacities.

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Amendment 1341

Jana Nagyová, Ondřej Knotek, Tomáš Kubín, Klara Dostalova, András Gyürk, Afroditi Latinopoulou, Anna Bryłka

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k b (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k b) strenghtening the competitiveness by safeguarding a balanced distribution of opportunities across the Union, unlocking the full high-value potential of all member states and regions, fostering cooperation, and promoting integration into sustainable, inclusive and resilient Union value chains;

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Amendment 1342

Krzysztof Hetman, Alexander Bernhuber, Adam Jarubas, Norbert Lins, Borys Budka, Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Mirosława Nykiel, Céline Imart, Paulo do Nascimento Cabral, Carmen Crespo Díaz, Herbert Dorfmann, Stefan Köhler, Daniel Buda, Maria Walsh

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k c (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k c) Strengthening the competitiveness of agriculture, forestry and the food production as strategic pillars of the Union’s security and resilience, in particular with regard to ensuring food security.

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Amendment 1343

Krzysztof Hetman, Adam Jarubas, Borys Budka, Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Mirosława Nykiel

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k d (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(k d) Reducing water-related risks on all economic value-chains by building a water-smart economy stimulating investment in water efficiency, sustainable alternative water sources, investing in water resilience by upgrading water-related infrastructure, digitalisation of water management as well as circular and resource recovery processes.

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Amendment 1344

Daniel Attard

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
1 a. The ECF shall promote balanced funding across the Union, paying particular attention to small, insular, and peripheral regions to uphold economic, social, and territorial cohesion in accordance with Article 174 of the TFEU.

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Amendment 1345

Mirosława Nykiel, Borys Budka, Adam Jarubas, Krzysztof Hetman, Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz

Proposal for a regulation

Article 3 – paragraph 1 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
1 a. engaging and connecting the full competitiveness potential across the Union by promoting pan-EU collaboration and inclusive participation of Member States in strategic industrial value chains;

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