14 Amendments of Franck PROUST related to 2010/2301(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
– having regard to the Chinese Government’s White Paper of 23 December 2010 on China-Africa economic and trade cooperation,
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas increased development and WTO accession entail, besides substantial benefits, greater responsibility for China to play a full and positive role in the global economic order, in particular in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas European businesses struggle to access the Chinese market because of interventionist industrial policies, inadequate protection of intellectual property, a system of rules which is ambiguous in terms of both the substance of the rules and their application, plus other non-tariff and technical barriers to trade;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas in 2010 over 103 million products suspected of infringing intellectual property rights (IPR) of a value totalling 1.11 billion euros were seized at the EU’s external borders and China is the country of origin for 85 % of these goods; whereas production of these goods frequently takes place in facilities that also produce goods for the regular market and in disregard of both labour law and health and safety requirements, and pose a danger to consumers and, in the case of chemicals, to the wider environment;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1
Subheading 1
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Is concerned at the unreliability of the judicial system, which fails to enforce contractual obligations, and at the lack of transparency and uniformity in applying the regulatory regime governing investments;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Is concerned at the lack of predictability and publicity in connection with the technical rules and standards applicable to products, particularly in relation to certification, creating significant trade barriers for businesses exporting to China;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Calls on China to adopt international standards for products and services so as to promote trade between China and other countries to a greater extent; welcomes the fact that China is increasing its involvement in international standard- setting bodies and believes that it must be encouraged to do so through reciprocated EU involvement in the bodies which lay down Chinese standard; stresses the importance of compliance by Chinese imports with European standards for food and non-food products;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Is concerned about the problems foreigEuropean businesses encounter in accessing Chinese public procurement whereas access to European public procurement is guaranteed; regrets that China has not acceded to the plurilateral Agreement on Government Procurement (AGP) even though it committed to do so in its protocol on accession to the WTO; calls onfor the Commission to make haste in developingdraw up a new proposal quickly in accordance with the AGP provisions agreed on 15 December 2011, covering in particular state, national, regional and local enterprises and services; calls on the Commission to submit in early 2012 a European instrument to ensure better access for European businesses to foreign public procurement markets and to encourage the EU’s trading partners, such as China, to open up their public procurement markets and eliminate protectionist measures;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Points to the opening up of European public markets to Chinese businesses; is concerned at the possible resulting unfair competition when Chinese businesses can make markedly better offers than European businesses because of, in particular, disguised state aids;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Deplores the inadequate protection of IPR in China and regrets the lack of specific means available to European businesses, and particularly SMEs, to counter IPR infringements effectively; welcomes the Commission’s decision to proposer a review of the directive on the enforcement of IPR; wants China to continue to transpose current international law on the protection of IPR into its national legislation, and more specifically to combat counterfeiting, and urges the Chinese authorities to apply it correctly; regrets that China is not taking part in the negotiations on the next international agreement to combat counterfeiting (ACTA); urges the Commission and the Member States to step up customs cooperation in the EU and with third countries, particularly on the seizure of counterfeit goods, and to simplify customs procedures; is concerned at the scale of production of counterfeit and pirated goods inside China, which remains at an alarmingly high level; calls on the Commission, in cooperation with the Chinese authorities at national and regional level, to continue its fight against counterfeiting;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on China to increase its efforts to rectify the failure to apply IPRs; stresses the importance of harmonising trade policy and regulation at central and regional level in China and of uniform implementation thereof throughout the country;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Points out that China holds sovereign debt of Member States in the eurozone; stresses that this fact has taken on a new political dimension as a result of the serious debt problems within the eurozone; calls on the Commission to start discusscreate, in cooperations with the ECB and Member States on the creation of, a coordinated system to identify which parties hold sovereign debt; wonders about the EU’s capabilities in trade negotiations with China in view of the latter’s contribution to the financial stabilisation of the eurozone;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Is concerned at the lack of unity in Europe on relations with China; calls on the Commission to rationalise the number of institutions responsible for EU-China relations and calls on the Council to agree on a genuine strategy for relations with China; proposes that an annual report be published on assessing compliance by China with its WTO commitments;