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Motion for a resolution 2025-06-13

Clean Industrial Deal

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13.6.2025 B100277/1

Amendment 1

Hanna Gedin, Per Clausen, Dario Tamburrano

on behalf of The Left Group

Motion for a resolution B100277/2025

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Recital A

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A. whereas the Clean Industrial Deal (CID) aims to bring together climate action and competitiveness under one overarching growth strategy focusing on supporting energy-intensive industries and the clean tech sector; whereas this is much needed, as the transition to a decarbonised and circular economy can only be successful when competitiveness is maintained;

A. whereas the Clean Industrial Deal (CID) aims to bring together climate action and competitiveness under one overarching growth strategy focusing on a green transition in energy-intensive industries and the clean tech sector; whereas this is much needed as the transition to a decarbonised and circular economy is a prerequisite for European industry to thrive in the medium and long term;

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13.6.2025 B100277/2

Amendment 2

Hanna Gedin, Per Clausen, Marc Botenga, Dario Tamburrano

on behalf of The Left Group

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Recital D

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D. whereas European industry is willing to move towards sustainability, contributing to achieving climate neutrality by 2050, and a future-proof, decarbonised industrial base can offer significant opportunities, but decarbonisation projects risk being shelved because their business case within Europe no longer adds up;

D. whereas European industry has refrained from making investments at the scale necessary to achieve climate neutrality by 2050; whereas an active public sector and a stable, future-proof, decarbonised industrial base are crucial if private decarbonisation projects risk being shelved because their business cases in Europe no longer add up;

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13.6.2025 B100277/3

Amendment 3

Marina Mesure, Anthony Smith, Dario Tamburrano

on behalf of The Left Group

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Paragraph 1

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1. Welcomes the Clean Industrial Deal as a long-awaited first step towards strengthening Europe’s industrial competitiveness and innovation, strategic autonomy, decarbonisation, prosperity and clean growth; urges the Commission to swiftly move from strategy to action and implementation; recognises that the proposed actions must be expanded with further measures; stresses that robust and well-targeted industrial policy is crucial to ensure a strong and sustainable industrial base in Europe and to create and maintain high-quality jobs while decarbonising our economy, reducing pollution and strengthening Europe’s resilience;

1. Calls for a proactive industrial policy that can facilitate the clean energy transition and high-quality jobs, based on long-term strategic planning, high social and environmental standards, strong public services and infrastructure, and trade unions and collective bargaining processes;

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13.6.2025 B100277/4

Amendment 4

Marina Mesure, Anthony Smith

on behalf of The Left Group

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Paragraph 3

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3. Supports the Action Plan for Affordable Energy and its focus on the implementation of the Electricity Market Design, enhancing tools such as Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) and two-way Contracts for Difference (CfDs) to reduce the influence of fossil fuel prices on electricity prices; welcomes the pilot programme for corporate PPAs via the European Investment Bank and stresses the need to leverage PPAs to expand capacity and achieve genuine decarbonisation; calls on the Commission to introduce de-risking tools to address the main barriers that energy-intensive industries face in signing PPAs, in particular renewable PPAs, as well as CfDs for risk reduction on the demand side for energy users, and to explore how to stimulate the development of hybrid PPAs with matching flexibility products;

3. Stresses the inefficiency of the Electricity Market Design in lowering energy prices and acknowledges its major negative impact on key industrial sectors; highlights the continuation of its failed approach in the proposed plan for affordable energy; calls for a structural transformation of the European energy system based on public and democratic control over production and distribution, and the development of public and green infrastructure as the foundation for any coordinated and well-planned European industrial strategy;

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13.6.2025 B100277/5

Amendment 5

Hanna Gedin, Per Clausen, Marc Botenga, Dario Tamburrano

on behalf of The Left Group

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3a. Recalls that the energy sector is of utmost strategic importance and a fundamental requirement for the economic development of the Union; invites the Member States, therefore, to intervene in any way they deem necessary to guarantee low energy prices for local communities and industry, including price caps, supporting local citizens’ energy cooperatives, democratic ownership of energy companies and build-up of publicly owned infrastructure;

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13.6.2025 B100277/6

Amendment 6

Hanna Gedin, Per Clausen, Marina Mesure, Anthony Smith, Dario Tamburrano

on behalf of The Left Group

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Paragraph 5

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5. Highlights the need to finalise work on the revision of the Energy Taxation Directive4, which aims to align the taxation of energy products with the EU’s energy and climate policy objectives, and to harmonise a design of tariff methodologies for network charges, provided that such measures do not come at the expense of final consumers; calls on the Member States to urgently provide short-term relief to industry and households, for example by reducing electricity taxes and levies and abstaining from unjustified additional requirements (‘gold-plating’ EU legislation) where this distorts the level playing field;

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1 Council Directive 2003/96/EC of 27 October 2003 restructuring the Community framework for the taxation of energy products and electricity (OJ L 283, 31.10.2003, p. 51, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2003/96/oj).

5. Highlights the need to finalise works on the revision of the Energy Taxation Directive4, which aims to align the taxation of energy products with the EU energy and climate policy objectives, and to harmonise a design of tariff methodologies for network charges, provided that such measures do not come at the expense of final consumers; calls on Member States to urgently provide short-term relief to industry and households, such as by reducing electricity taxes and levies; encourages the Member States to be ambitious and to inspire and creatively explore local and regional best practices in order to achieve quick and effective relief for local communities and industry;

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13.6.2025 B100277/7

Amendment 7

Hanna Gedin, Per Clausen, Marc Botenga, Marina Mesure, Anthony Smith, Dario Tamburrano

on behalf of The Left Group

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6a. Calls for all public funding under the Clean Industrial Deal and related instruments to be underpinned by binding social conditionalities, ensuring that public support is strictly conditional on enforceable job guarantees, respect for collective bargaining and collective agreements, decent wages, secure employment, and high-quality working conditions; underlines that such conditionalities are essential to ensure that the clean industrial transition creates quality jobs across Europe and does not lead to the growth of territorial and social divergences; stresses that companies benefiting from public support must actively engage in social dialogue and uphold fundamental workers’ rights;

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13.6.2025 B100277/8

Amendment 8

Marina Mesure, Anthony Smith, Dario Tamburrano

on behalf of The Left Group

Motion for a resolution B100277/2025

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Paragraph 6 b (new)

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6b. Expresses its profound disapproval of the decision by the ArcelorMittal Group to cut up to 1 400 jobs in western Europe, including 637 in France, following the closure of the Reims and Denain sites and the loss of 135 jobs; expresses its concern about the 60 000 indirect jobs the company provides throughout France; expresses its concern about the loss of skills and autonomy in this strategic sector for European industry; deplores the plan to relocate support to India and Poland; recalls that the group made a profit of EUR 1.3 billion and paid out more than EUR 1.5 billion to its shareholders in 2024; recalls that, in recent years, ArcelorMittal has received several billion euro in public support from the EU through the European Regional Development Fund and from Member States; calls on the Commission to guarantee that Member States are able to do everything in their power, including sustained nationalisation, to protect jobs, skills and the European steel industry;

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13.6.2025 B100277/9

Amendment 9

Hanna Gedin, Per Clausen, Dario Tamburrano

on behalf of The Left Group

Motion for a resolution B100277/2025

Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

Clean Industrial Deal

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Paragraph 8

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8. Calls on the Commission to take into account, in safeguarding both security of supply and affordability, all available technologies that contribute to reaching the EU’s climate neutrality goal for 2050 in a cost-effective way in the pursuit of a cleaner, stable, secure and more independent energy mix; recognises that renewable energy, alongside nuclear energy for those Member States that decide to use it, is essential for a clean and secure energy mix; calls on the Commission to strengthen cooperation on the safe development and production of small modular reactors in Europe and to advance research in nuclear fusion as a future energy technology; welcomes the announced assessment of the possibility of streamlining licensing practices for new nuclear energy technologies;

8. Calls on the Commission to take into account, in safeguarding both security of supply and affordability, all green technologies that contribute to reaching the EU’s climate neutrality goal for 2050 in a cost-effective way in the pursuit of a cleaner, stable, secure and more independent energy mix;

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13.6.2025 B100277/10

Amendment 10

Hanna Gedin, Per Clausen, Dario Tamburrano

on behalf of The Left Group

Motion for a resolution B100277/2025

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Paragraph 11

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11. Reiterates the need to develop measures to ensure gas supply at a mitigated cost for those sectors which cannot rely substantially on electrification in the short to medium term; calls for diversified and reliable partnerships in line with the Union’s security, interests and the RePowerEU roadmap;

11. Underlines the need to phase out natural gas as soon as possible; notes that some sectors cannot rely substantially on electrification in the short term;

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