Activities of Jan KELLER related to 2014/2228(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) (A8-0175/2015 - Bernd Lange) CS
Amendments (19)
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point i
Paragraph 1 – point i
(i) to ensure that TTIP will make a significant positive contribution to creating more and betterdecent jobs and set ambitious and enforceable global trade standards for sustainable development and labour;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point ii
Paragraph 1 – point ii
(ii) to ensure that TTIP includes comprehensive provisions on labour laws and policies that are consistent with the core ILO Conventions and the Decent Work Agenda, with a commitment to promote higher standards and, furthermore, to ensure that where disputes arise labour provisions will have a conditional dimensaiming at the effective ratification, implementation and enforcement of the eight core conventions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Decent Work Agenda, with a commitment to promote higher standards. Steps must be taken to ensure that neither of the parties will encourage trade or investment by weakening labour laws. Where disputes arise labour provisions must be subject to a dispute settlement mechanism, including the possibility of imposing trade sanction;s.
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point ii
Paragraph 1 – point ii
(ii) to ensure that TTIP includes comprehensive provisions on labour laws and policies that are consistent with the core ILO Conventions and the Decent Work Agenda, with a commitment to promote higher standards and, furthermore, to ensure that where disputes arise labour provisions will have a conditional dimensionaiming at the effective ratification, implementation and enforcement of the eight core conventions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Decent Work Agenda as a binding condition of the agreement, with a commitment to promote higher standards. It must be ensured that trade or investment is not encouraged through the weakening of labour laws. Where disputes arise labour provisions must be subject to a dispute settlement mechanism, including the possibility of imposing trade sanctions. In this respect the relevant information derived from ILO supervisory bodies should be taken into account;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point iii
Paragraph 1 – point iii
(iii) to ensure that the horizontal dimensions of labour and social provisions are recognised and fully integrated into all relevant operational parts of the agreement (such as investment, trade in services, regulatory cooperation and public procurement) to ensure a coherent and comprehensive approach to trade and sustainable development;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point iv
Paragraph 1 – point iv
(iv) to ensure that civil society can make a meaningful contribution to implementing relevant TTIP provisionsthe implementation of and compliance with labour provisions must be subject to a monitoring process, which involves the social partners and civil society;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point v
Paragraph 1 – point v
(v) to take immediate steps to safeguard the right of EU governments to legislate, organise, set quality and safety standardsensure an adequate carve-out of sensitive services such as public services, social services and public utilities (including water, health, social security systems and education) allowing national and local authorities enough room for, manage and regulatoeuvre to legislate in the public servicinterest;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point v a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point v a (new)
(v a) to ensure that ratchet and standstill clauses do not apply to public and social services. The possibility of a re- nationalisation and re-municipalisation of services must be safeguarded.
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point vi
Paragraph 1 – point vi
(vi) to ensure that the specific challenges faced by SMEs and micro-companies are fully taken into account;
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point viii
Paragraph 1 – point viii
Amendment 110 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point viii
Paragraph 1 – point viii
(viii) to guarantee that agreement on any dispute-settlement mechanism must take into account the results of the public consultation on investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), must be fully transparent and democratically accountable and must not hinder legislators from passing laws in the area of employment policoppose the inclusion of ISDS in TTIP. In agreements with countries that have fully functioning legal systems and in which no risks of political interference in the judiciary or denial of justice have been identified, ISDS is not necessary;
Amendment 127 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point ix
Paragraph 1 – point ix
(ix) to take steps to embed a ‘positive listing’ approach in the agreement;with respect to the liberalisation of services in the agreement, whereby services that are to be opened up for foreign companies are explicitly mentioned and new services are excluded
Amendment 136 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point x
Paragraph 1 – point x
(x) to ensure that there are realistic statistical projections on job losses/gains, and on sectors, affected and these are constantly updated so that timely intervention can be undertaken by the Commission to support affected sectors, regions or Member States.
Amendment 139 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point x
Paragraph 1 – point x
(x) to ensure that statistical projections on job losses/gains, and on sectors, affected are constantly updated so that timely intervention can be undertaken by the Commission to support affected sectors, regions or Member States. The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund should be adapted to mitigate the potential negative impacts of the TTIP;
Amendment 142 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point x a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point x a (new)
(x a) to take steps to ensure that regulatory cooperation does not restrict the right of governments and the European Parliament to legislate in the public interest. Steps must be taken to ensure that regulatory cooperation does not lead to the weakening of labour standards, including health and safety standards. It must be ensured that labour and social standards are not treated as non-tariff barriers. Stakeholders, including social partners, should be included in the process of regulatory cooperation in a balanced representation.
Amendment 147 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point x a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point x a (new)
Amendment 152 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point x b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point x b (new)
(x b) to ensure that the place of work principle is guaranteed. National labour and social law as well as collective agreement provisions must be upheld in the case of temporary posting and placement of workers; the conditions of temporary postings and placement should be well defined in the TTIP;
Amendment 155 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point x c (new)
Paragraph 1 – point x c (new)
(x c) to ensure that governments have the opportunity to adopt socially and ecologically responsible procurement policies. Procurement provisions should not prevent governments from addressing societal and environmental needs. In addition, public procurement policies should be in line with ILO Convention 94 regarding labour clauses in public contracts.
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a – point iv a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point a – point iv a (new)
(iva) to ensure that TTIP contains a clause allowing either of the parties to denounce the agreement;
Amendment 762 #
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 withoutle benefiting from no greater rights than domestic investors; to oppose 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 use of national courts are the most appropriate tools to address investment disputin TTIP, as other options to enforce investment protection are available, such as domestic remedies;