Introduced the strategy Leadership 2020 in order to safeguard and to develop the naval shipbuilding competitiveness of the European



This afternoon to Brussels a summit has been carried out on the update of the strategy Leadership in order to preserve and to develop the naval shipbuilding competitiveness of the European to which the representatives of the Commission and the Parliament of the EU, the navalmeccanica industry and the social parts with the objective to approve of the recommendations have participated in order to improve the competitiveness of the field that they will be to the base of the new European strategy Leadership 2020 that will be subordinate to the board meeting of the European Union on the competitiveness in next 30 the 29 program and May.

The new strategy Leadership 2020, than is based on the strategy published Leadership 2015 in 2003, is introduced by the vice president of the EU commission, Antonio Tajani, commissioner for the Industry and the imprenditoria, and from the general secretary of navalmeccanica association European SEA Europe, Douwe Cunningham. In the course of the encounter it is evidenced that the European industry of the constructions and naval repairs is composed of about 300 yards and about 7.500 enterprises engaged in the naval equipment production, that they occupy altogether beyond 500.000 assigned and they record a total annual medium turnover of about 72 billion euros, but must tackle to a strong competition and, as many other fields, to the effects of a crisis unprecedented.

Regarding the strategy precedence, Leadership 2020 involves a phantom wider than subject: all the industries of the marine technologies and fields they customers, which the section of wind energy, the shipowners and the section of the dredging. The recommendations of the new strategy Leadership 2020 space from the greater use of instruments of the EU in order to promote new for research purposes competences and qualifications to partnerships public-private (PPP) in the marine field, from the offered possibilities of financing from the European Investment Bank (BEAUTIFUL) to strategies of intelligent specialization in regional politics.

In particular, on the front of the occupation and the competences the strategy Leadership 2020 thwarts the problem of the sparsity of qualified staff and proposes a systematic approach at the level of the EU for mappare the competences available and tackling to the requirements of competences and formation with the use of programs of the EU which the Program for the change and social innovation 2014-2020. The participation of the Member States and the regions is previewed moreover, especially by means of the creation of regional nets. Moreover the strategy exhorts to effectively communicate the vision in the long term of the marine industry and previews the exploitation of the current instruments, as programs and initiatives of the EU, in order to stimulate the choice of a career in the field of the European marine technologies. The strategy at last recommends to promote mobility and to study the modalities with which harmonizing the qualifications and the systems of accreditation in the EU to the aim to satisfy it must of the market and improve the perspectives of employment of the graduated ones.

In order to improve the access at the market and to assure fair conditions of market, the strategy Leadership 2020 anticipates the necessity to redefine the role of the Working group of the OCSE on the shipbuilding to the aim to examine new treacherous and not sustainable ways to order the practical ones of market. Such activity would have to comprise the monitoring of the state participations and the evolution of the prices. The strategy emphasizes also the opportunity to study new methods in order to reduce the ability and to update the common norms. The elaboration of a general picture and a strategy to the aim is proposed also to insert "objectives of public value" in the contracts European publics besides advanced levels of innovation, as well as the application of a greater reciprocity between Member States of the EU and Third-country as regards opening of the markets. Moreover, in consideration of the fact that the access to the financings has become the single factor of greater importance in participating to the international contests of shipbuilding, the new strategy proposes some methods in order to face the problems of the access to the financings, between which making the best possible use of the opportunities of financing of the BEAUTIFUL ones and the possibility to widen of the activity of distribution of loans, mainly for relative projects to the ecocompatibili marine transports, renewable energies offshore and the modernization of the ships; in the long term to examine the opportunity of a potential provision of financing of the shipbuilding one at the expense of the EU commission, the Member States, the financial operators and the field of the marine technologies; at last, with respect to the possibility to create a public-private partnership (PPP) marine, the strategy invites the field to light examine the possibility of a specific PPP of the structure of the industry in Europe and the respect of the norms on the aids of State.

In topic of search, development and innovation, the strategy Leadership 2020 proposes that the industry developments a schedule towards a PPP at the level of the EU (Horizon 2020) dedicated to the marine search on ships to emissions zero and the high energy efficiency, on ships to zero technical incidents as well as on the emergent opportunities of market. It proposes also the study of the feasibility of a PPP on renewable energies of marine origin. Moreover the strategy proposes that the Member States and the coastal regions examine the possibility to assign deep structural 2014-2020 to the diversification of the field of the marine technologies in new fields of market, especially in the context of the regional strategies of intelligent specialization.