Recital 4

(4) The deployment and scaling up in the Union of digital technologies and deep tech innovation, clean and resource-efficient technologies, and biotechnologies will be essential for the purpose of reducing the Union’s strategic dependencies, and seizing the opportunities and meeting the objectives of the green and digital transitions, thus ensuring the sovereignty and strategic autonomy of the Union and promoting the competitiveness and sustainability of the Union’s industry. Therefore, immediate action is required to support the development and manufacturing in the Union of critical technologies, which constitute the Union’s primary strategic deficiencies. Developing and manufacturing critical technologies, builds upon the value chains of interlinked economic actors, operating across firms of different sizes, including small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), sectors and borders. Therefore, the Union should also safeguard and strengthen the value chains of those critical technologies and their associated services that are critical for and specific to the activities of developing or manufacturing those critical technologies, thereby reducing the Union’s strategic dependencies and preserving the integrity of the internal market, and should address existing labour and skills shortages in those sectors through life-long learning, education, training projects and apprenticeships and the creation of attractive quality jobs accessible to all.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-13 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.