What Cristian-Silviu spoke about.

Madam President, dear colleagues, dear Commissioner, as chair of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, I have had many discussions on the Energy Charter Treaty, and we had debates inside the committee, and a couple of months ago, together with my coordinators, we came to the decision that it is time to withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty. In our discussions, two major reasons appear

Mr President, in today's debate on economic governance in the last plenary of this legislature, we are focusing once again on the importance of fiscal policies, monetary strategies and financial regulations aimed at ensuring stability and growth in the euro area. But I am pleased that these discussions also involve budgetary discipline, structural reforms and measures to address economic dispariti

Madam President, we need a European industrial agreement that makes us competitive and that is at least as important as the European Green Deal. European industry is struggling with the consequences of the pandemic, high energy prices, financing problems, qualified human resources, dependence on critical materials. We need to strengthen the internal market, to unite capital, to focus more on innov

Mr President, dear Commissioner, dear colleagues, we are here today after long months and years of hard work and perseverance, and for the agreements reached, I would like to congratulate my colleagues, the rapporteurs: President Buzek, Mr Geier and Mr González Casares. Following the rise in energy prices in the light of the post-COVID recovery, in the midst of Green Deal transformation and Russia

Madam President, dear Commissioner Hoekstra, dear colleagues, indeed, the European Climate Risk Assessment identifies policy priorities for climate change adaptation and for climate-sensitive sectors. It shows also that societal preparedness is insufficient as policy implementation, and is lagging behind the rapid increase in climate risk levels versus adaptation policy development. We have all wi

Mr President, dear Commissioner, dear colleagues, the review of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive is an essential element of the renovation wave and also a crucial part of the Fit for 55 package. I would like to congratulate, first, the European Commission, but also the European Parliament team, for concluding this file before the end of the mandate and for achieving what I will call a

Mr President, félicitations, monsieur Danti, félicitations, monsieur Breton! I would like to congratulate Mr Danti, Commissioner Breton and the European Commission on this important initiative. In recent years, the European Parliament has done a lot, together with the other European institutions, to establish clearer rules and to have more effective institutions in the fight against cybercrime. In

Madam President, dear colleagues, it was a very interesting and constructive debate. Competition for global technological dominance is raging, especially for control over the fundamental technologies of the 21st century, such as artificial intelligence, 5G, semiconductors, green technologies and biotechnologies. Many of the major economies have put specific schemes in place to support their net-ze

Mr President, dear Commissioner, dear colleagues, this week we will finalise and adopt the revision of the MFF package, out of which STEP is a part, and we follow the very tight timetable – I would say a record one for an ordinary legislative file. This was a very challenging journey, and it required a lot of cooperation and hard work. As the Chair of Industry, Research and Energy Committee, I wou

Mr President, dear colleagues, cher Commissaire, as Chair of the ITRE Committee, I would like to congratulate Mr Borchia and all colleagues working on this file and concluding the agreement on PRIMA. With the heightened relevance due to climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic and geopolitical challenges, the partnership indeed is a very good instrument for fostering science diplomacy. It is importan

Madam President, dear Commissioner, dear colleagues, I would like to thank and congratulate the rapporteurs. As opinion rapporteur for the ITRE Committee, I supported many important proposals of the European Health Data Space Initiative, especially the provisions aimed at providing better health outcomes. The idea of initiative on EHDS and asking for a European health record was introduced in the

Mr President, dear colleagues, dear Commissioner, cher Thierry, I want to congratulate and to thank Commissioner Breton and also our rapporteur and the negotiating team for the quick, constructive and successful negotiation. Several legislative proposals were high on the agenda this autumn in the remit of industry, but the proposal related to the Critical Raw Materials Act is one of the most impor

Madam President, thank you Commissioner Kadri Simson for representing the State of the Energy Union report, which every year marks an opportunity for this House to take stock of the progress and also debate what else we should do. The past year has been one of the decisive actions by the Union in the field of energy policy. The ongoing war of aggression in Ukraine and the overall geopolitical inst

Madam President, dear colleagues, the ITRE Committee that I chair ranks high in terms of legislative activity in the field of energy, industry, digital or research. Our goal is that, until the elections, we will proactively show our continued support to Ukraine in the war against Russia, will make all efforts to decarbonise Europe’s industry while ensuring it remains competitive and boosting econo

Madam President, dear colleagues, dear Commissioner, we have reacted against the atrocity of Russia and have shown solidarity for Ukraine. We have had financial measures, sanctions, bans on importing energy products and with REPowerEU will be totally independent in the energy sector from Russia. But we need to accept that some of our sanctions have had limited impact and take action now and furthe

Mr President, issues related to availability, accessibility and affordability of medicines, as well as manufacturing dependency on third countries outside of the EU and disruptions or other situations along the whole supply chains, are routes for the shortages of medicines, and these circumstances is weakening our healthcare systems and hindering sustainable access to medicines for patients. In th

Madam President, very briefly, I would like to thank the negotiating team. In less than one month after receiving the mandate from you, from the plenary, we finalised last week the negotiations with the Council with very good support from the European Commission, delivering for the Ukrainian people and the European defence industry. We secured a EUR 500 million budget. We eliminated the reference

Madam President, dear colleagues, this will modernise a lot the structure of the fees paid to the European Medicines Agency, and I ask you to agree to refer back to the committee.

Mr President, I congratulate the initiators of the petition, Razvan Nicolescu and the Association for Clean Energy and the colleagues in the PETI Committee for supporting and adopting this petition. Austria's negative vote against Romania is a vote against fundamental rights and the rule of law in the European Union, a serious violation of the basic principles of the EU Treaty. The negative vote w

I welcome the initiative package and in particular the Energy Efficiency Directive. I thank colleague Niels Fuglsang. I also had the honour of leading some of the negotiating trilogues with the Council, thank you to the European Commission and the Council. It is clearly a step towards achieving the strategic targets: Fit for 55 in 2030, Green Deal in 2050, but also towards energy independence and,

Madam President, as Chair of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE), according to Rule 59(4) fourth subparagraph of the Rules of Procedure, I would like to request to refer the file back to the ITRE Committee for interinstitutional negotiations that we will try to conclude ASAP.

Madam President, it will be much shorter than this. So the ITRE Committee supports the request made by the EPP and Renew Groups to apply the urgent procedure laid down in Rule 163 for the Commission proposal for a regulation on ASAP. This proposal is about reinforcing Union industry in the defence area and it is clearly important to adopt this proposal as quickly as possible, given the current sta

Mr President, I welcome the proposal for this regulation and I congratulate Thierry Breton. This will be an efficient instrument to financially support the reinforcement of the Union’s industrial production capacities, a mechanism to anticipate the existence of bottlenecks in the supply chains and to address the ammunition supply shortage. It is also a very concrete way of supporting Ukrainian peo

Madam President, in the current context, we are still working on making the Union less dependent on Russian oil and gas and reaching our climate goals, our Green Deal agenda. We have already put measures in place, like REPowerEU, but we need measures in the long term as well. That is why we in the ITRE Committee and the European Parliament outlined the need for a new waste energy storage strategy

Commissioner, you mentioned renewables and you also mentioned the debate last week in ITRE. Thank you for that, and for the very good cooperation with the ITRE Committee, which I chair. You remember that we discussed a lot, and maybe the main obstacle is not the lack of investment, not the lack of interest, but the permitting and the bureaucracy in many of the EU Member States. Besides what we are