15 Amendments of Viviane REDING related to 2014/2228(INI)
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the European Commission's calculations show that services represented 35.5% of EU exports to the US and 42.7% of US exports to the EU in 2013; whereas these figures would largely exceed 50% if the services-related content of exports in goods was taken into account; whereas the majority of foreign direct investments from the EU to the US and from the US to the EU are made in the services sector, an ambitious agreement should recognise the importance of services in transatlantic trade;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas trust is indispensable for ambitious and complex negotiations to succeed; whereas the European Parliament deplores the recent revelations on the hacking of Gemalto SIM Cards; whereas a fresh start can only be achieved by taking bold actions on both sides of the Atlantic to safeguard the fundamental rights of our citizens; whereas these concrete actions must strive to re-instigate trust at both consumer and political level, thereby providing renewed impetus for trade negotiations; whereas due note is taken of recent positive developments in the US administration and in the US Congress such as the proposed enhancement of data protection standards;
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a – point iii
Paragraph 1 – point a – point iii
(iii) to keep in mind the strategic importance of the EU-US economic relationship in general and of TTIP in particular, inter alia as an opportunity to promote the principles and values that the EU and the US share and cherish and to design common approaches to global trade, investment and trade-related issues such as high standards, norms and regulations, in order to develop a broader transatlantic vision and a common set of strategic goals; to bear in mind that given the size of the transatlantic market, TTIP is an opportunity to shape and regularise the international trade order so as to ensure that both blocs thrive in a networked and connected world;
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a – point iv
Paragraph 1 – point a – point iv
(iv) to ensure, especially given the recent positive developments in the World Trade Organisation (WTO), that an agreement with the US serves as a stepping-stone for broader trade negotiations and is not seen as an alternative to the WTO process; bto aim at setting a global level playing field; bilateral and plurilateral trade agreements are always the second-best option and must not prevent improvements on the multilateral level; to ensure synergies with other trade agreements currently being negotiated, in particular TiSA, and with domestic priorities such the achievement of a truly European Single Market;
Amendment 296 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a – point iv a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point a – point iv a (new)
(iva) to respect the constitutional obligation to promote cultural diversity, enshrined in Article 167 paragraph 4 of the TFEU, by clearly and explicitly excluding from the negotiations cultural and creative industries, such as the audio- visual, media and publishing sectors;
Amendment 314 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point i a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point b – point i a (new)
(ia) to ensure that market access negotiations cover all levels of government, which is the common practice in the EU, but regrettably not in the US;
Amendment 349 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point iii a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point b – point iii a (new)
(iiia) to increase access to US telecommunications market for EU suppliers, by seeking the elimination of US foreign equity caps and by ensuring non-prohibitive access to US networks; to send a strong signal in favour of a transatlantic digital economy in the spirit of reciprocal market access and mutually- beneficial level playing field; and to underline that pro-competitive policies incentivise companies to be more efficient, more innovative and to invest more;
Amendment 396 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point vi
Paragraph 1 – point b – point vi
(vi) to ensure an adequate carve-out of sensitive services such as public services and public utilities (including water, health, social security systems and education) allowing national and local authorities enough room for manoeuvre to legislate in the public interest; athe translation of the recently published joint declaration reflecting negotiators’' clear commitment to exclude these sectors from the negotiations into a widely-agreed and unequivocal gold-standard clause would be very helpful in this regard;
Amendment 430 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point vii
Paragraph 1 – point b – point vii
(vii) to combine market access negotiations on financial services with convergence in financial regulation on the highest level, in order to support the introduction of necessary regulation to prevent financial crises and in order to support ongoing cooperation efforts in other international forums, such as the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision; to exclude the provision of financial services in Mode 1 from the EU's commitments in market access until there is regulatory convergence in this area, so as to avoid regulatory arbitrage;
Amendment 447 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point viii
Paragraph 1 – point b – point viii
(viii) to ensure that the EU’'s acquis on data privacy is not compromised through the liberalisation of data flowsin any way, in particular in the area of e-commerce and financial services; to ensure that no commitments on data flows are taken up before European data protection legislation is in placewhile recognising the need for data flows in every sector of our economies, their relevance as the backbone for transatlantic trade and their importance for an open internet, to ensure that no commitments on data transfers, processing and storage, neither horizontal nor sectorial, are taken up before strong data protection legislation is in place on both sides of the Atlantic and before solid data bridges are rebuilt between the two blocs; any related discussion is conditioned on the enactment and implementation of the following regulatory dossiers: the EU's data protection regulation, the US' Consumer Privacy Bill, the US' Freedom Act, the US' Judicial Redress Act so as to finalise the EU-US umbrella agreement, and the finalisation of the reform of EU Safe Harbour via the US' commitment to comply with the necessity criteria attached to national security clauses;
Amendment 454 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point viii a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point b – point viii a (new)
(viiia) to take note of the worrying increase in forced data localisation requirements in the world, which should incentivise the EU and the US to work towards a transatlantic framework aimed at upholding the right to data privacy and security in a non-protectionist fashion;
Amendment 616 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c – point v a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point c – point v a (new)
(va) to fully recognise the right of each party not to engage in transatlantic cooperation, if deemed unnecessary or inappropriate; to define, as in CETA, the nature of the cooperation mechanism as voluntary;
Amendment 761 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point xiv
Paragraph 1 – point d – point xiv
(xiv) to ensure that foreign investors are treated in a non-discriminatory fashion and have a fair opportunity to seek and achieve redress of grievances, which can be achieved without the inclusion of an ISDS mechanism; such a mechanism is not necessary in TTIP given the EU’s and the US’ developed legal systems; a state-to- state dispute settlement system and the u; in the medium-run, a public international Court, with publicly-paid and publicly-appointed judges applying a common set of international courts arerules, is the most appropriate tools to address investment disputes;
Amendment 782 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point xiv a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point d – point xiv a (new)
(xiva) TTIP should include the medium- term perspective of such an international Court;
Amendment 815 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point xvi a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point d – point xvi a (new)
(xvia) to firmly reject catch-all provisions proposed by the US negotiators on e- commerce in TTIP, TiSA and at WTO level, and whose scope is too large and disconnected from explicit reference to the necessary compliance with domestic data protection standards; to firmly reject any extension of the scope of the national security exemption enshrined in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS);