Activities of Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ related to 2015/2233(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Negotiations for the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) (A8-0009/2016 - Viviane Reding) HU
Negotiations for the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) (debate)
Amendments (10)
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 - point a - point i
Paragraph 2 - point a - point i
i. to ensure the highest level of transparency in the negotiations, in particular by allowing access to documents and by organising a consultation with Parliament and civil societyrelevant stakeholders throughout the process;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 - point a - point ii
Paragraph 2 - point a - point ii
ii. to ensure that before considering the removal of barriers, the agreement seeks to create a level playing field in the services sector, and has as its main objective to highlight and maintainpromote and safeguard the high level of protection of consumers, workers and the environment enshrined in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) while preserving a highly competitive social market economy;
Amendment 28 #
iii. to ensure that the TiSA provides reciprocal accessoffers in the different areas reciprocal and equally ambitious approach reflecting both parties’ expectations, to underline that the different proposals for those areas must be balanced, notwithstanding the right of the countries to adopt regulations which are duly justified on public policy grounds;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 - point b - point i
Paragraph 2 - point b - point i
i. to ensure that the negotiations maintain and strengthen the fundamental role played by public services and services of general interest in the European Union, which provide an essential safety net for citizens and contribute to social cohesion, growth and employmentdo not undermine the fundamental role of services of general interest in the European Union;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 - point b - point i a (new)
Paragraph 2 - point b - point i a (new)
ia. to facilitate more active participation of EU businesses, including SMEs, in public procurement globally, as this can contribute to stimulating private-sector innovation and to the emergence of new, high-growth, innovative companies and sectors; to stress that this possibility must not undermine the capacity of EU governments to maintain their public services;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 - point b - point ii a (new)
Paragraph 2 - point b - point ii a (new)
iia. to underline that the public procurement must be part of any final comprehensive agreement given that it represents a substantial part of the EU’s and other trading partners’ economies and therefore is a key economic interest for the EU;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 - point c - point i
Paragraph 2 - point c - point i
i. to ensure that a positive list of services ready to be placed on the market is presented by the Union in order to protect those services not explicitly referred to from being opened up to competition; the TiSA does not endanger the high quality of services and to support the current proposal for increasing market access for services according to a "hybrid list approach" and, in accordance with the EU's decision, not to take any market access or national treatment commitments on publicly-funded health and social services, publicly-funded education, water collection, purification, distribution and management services, film, TV and other audio-visual services; to ensure that a positive list of services ready to be placed on the market is presented by the Union in order to protect those services not explicitly referred to from being opened up to competition, whereby services that are to be opened up to foreign companies are explicitly mentioned while ensuring that possible stand-still clause only applies to non-discrimination provisions and allow for enough flexibility to bring services of general economic interest back into public control as well as to take into account the emergence of new and innovative services and using "negative list" for national treatment;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 - point c - point ii
Paragraph 2 - point c - point ii
ii. to ensure that the negotiations comply with the new directives on public procurement and concessions, in particular as regards the definition of public-public cooperation, exclusions and SME accesw public procurement and concession directives are complied with in the negotiations, in particular as regards the definition of public-public cooperation, exclusions, SMEs access and the award criteria on best value rather than lowest price, the possibility for contracting authorities to cooperate and form intercommunalities, and the thresholds below which the procurement is not subject to EU or international rules;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 - point c - point iii a (new)
Paragraph 2 - point c - point iii a (new)
iiia. to observe that, in the field of public procurement, relevant criteria and their possible extension must not be called into question;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 - point c - point iv
Paragraph 2 - point c - point iv
iv. to ensure that transparent and effective measures are put in place to protect consumers against fraudulent online commercial practices; most importantly, to ensure that consumers will be protected at home, when they travel, when they shop online and will benefit from easy access to dispute resolution mechanisms and effective resolution of dispute;