41 Amendments of Dita CHARANZOVÁ related to 2015/2105(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Welcomes the Commission's communication on "Trade for all. Towards a more responsible trade and investment policy";
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)
Citation 2 a (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 8 July 2015 containing the European Parliament's recommendations to the European Commission on the negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP),
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises that, given the EU’'s status as the largest economy in the world, trade is its strongest policy tool for promoting European values abroad while creating jobs and growth at home; notes the Commission's statement that exports support almost one in seven jobs in the single market;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas trade is one of the few instruments available for boosting the economy, generate growth and create jobs without burdening state budgets;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas new-generation trade policy needs to respond to people’s and businesses concerns;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Underlines that trade policy must support European SMEs, both directly through guidance on overcoming non- tariff barriers towards exporting their goods and services, but also indirectly though supporting their role as part of the supply chains of final product exporters; welcomes the strategy's commit to include SME chapters in all future FTAs as well as cross-chapter references to SMEs;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas on-going digital revolution raises new challenges, makes the economy truly global and interconnected and brings new opportunities especially for SMEs;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Welcomes the Strategy's comments on the role foreign direct investments plays in the Member States and the single market and supports all efforts towards encouraging greater FDIs in Europe;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Agrees with the Commission on the need to take a holistic yet ambitious approach to public procurement; calls on the Commission to work to increase market access for European companies abroad while maintaining open access to the single market via the application of the public procurement directive;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the EU’s trade and investment policy must be bolstered not only by ensuring beneficial outcomes in terms of employment and wealth creation for citizens and businesses, but also by guaranteeing the highest level of transparency, engagement and accountability, by maintaining constant dialogue with social partners,all relevant stakeholders and local and regional authorities, and by setting clear guidelines in the negotiations;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Agrees with the Commission that trade policy can work only if Europe continues its focus on better regulation, cutting red tape and increased competition within the single market; asks the Commission to take into account the recommendations of the Parliament as to how to remove non- tariff barriers within the single market in order to ensure free trade both inside and outside the Union's borders;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the TiSA and TTIP negotiations, calls for them to be completed swiftly, and underlines the need to ensure greater market access for European service providers;negotiations on a Trade in Services agreement and underlines that as services are already 70% of the EU's GDP and employment, service providers must be given greater access to markets beyond Europe; at the same time, welcomes the commitment to not require governments to change how they regulate or fund public services; (To be read together with the amendment to 7a, which splits the paragraph into two paragraphs)
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Welcomes the TTIP negotiations and asks the Commission to take into account the Parliament's report and the opinion of the IMCO committee, in particular; calls for the negotiations to be completed as soon as possible and asks the Commission to apply greater pressure on their American counterparts to make proposals and commitments in order to move negotiations forward; (To be read together with the amendment to §7, which splits the paragraph into two paragraphs.)
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Calls for greater international regulatory cooperation, especially with the United States and Japan;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Welcomes the focus of the new strategy on the global digital market which should prevent the development of new barriers in the e-commerce, and in trade of digital goods and services. Believes that this sectors has to be one of the essential components of EU's trade agreement with relevant partners;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the strategy’s focus onfocus given to the Digital Single Market as part of the global digital market and preventing the development of new barriers to trade in digital goods and services; supports, in line with data protection rules, all measures to increase the free flow of data; fully agrees with the statement that regulatory cooperation, mutual recognition and harmonisation of standards are the best tools to address the challenges of the digital economy;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to regularly update its trade and investment strategy and to publicly present by 2017 a detailed annual implementation report to Parliament including reports on progress of the ongoing trade negotiations as well as the negotiations in preparation (such as Mexico, Chile or Taiwan);
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for negotiations – in parallel to trade agreements – on greater mobility for professionals, recognition of professional qualifications, and visa facilitation; asks the Commission to inform the Parliament of the current status of the implementation of the Blue Card directive and if it is working in practice;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Encourages the use and creation of further international technical standards, and all efforts aimed at ensuring the full engagement of our trading partners in international standardisation bodies; does not believe, however, that a lack of a common international standard should prevent a mutual recognition of equivalence, where appropriate, nor work towards common transatlantic technical standards;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the Commission’s attempts to increase transparency and openness at all stages of trade negotiations, such as the Commission’s TTIP transparency initiative; acknowledges that, after a number of requests from Parliament, the Commission enhanced the transparency of negotiations by providing all Members of the European Parliament and of the national parliaments access to classified negotiating documents and providing more information to stakeholders; recalls that enlarged access to classified information by Members of Parliament in the TTIP negotiations has strengthened parliamentary scrutiny, thereby allowing Parliament to assume its responsibility under the CCP even better; calls therefore for a widening of the Commission’s transparency initiative to extend its key elements to all ongoing trade negotiations;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses that a well-functioning and digitised customs control system is needed in order to ease and speed up transfers of goods, especially within global supply chains.; encourages the Commission and the Member States to work together towards the prevention of IPR infringing goods entering the EU and towards IPR enforcement in all trade partners;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Council to publish, where appropriate, all existing and future negotiating mandates as soon as they are adopted;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Welcomes the Commission's actions towards fighting corruption through international trade;
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Notes the ongoing shortage of Commission staff assigned to DG Trade and its negotiating teams; calls on the Commission to guarantee that negotiating teams are assigned the staff needed to ensure that all negotiations can be equally treated and agreements speedily adopted, based on the best available technical knowledge;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls that the CCP is to be conducted in the context of the principles and objectives of the Union’s external action as set out in Article 21 TEU; recalls that the EU’s trade and investment policy must be consistherent with other external policies; stresses that the EU has a legal obligation to respect human rights, and should foster the sustainable economic, social and environmental development of trading countries; points out that in some cases trade and investment agreements may have negative effects contrary to the EU’s external objectives as enshrined in the Treaties must be taken into account by the CPP; is of the opinion that the EU has a responsibility to help tackle anymitigate potential negative impact caused by its CCP;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses that provisions on human rights and social and environmental standards, and a binding chapter on labour rights based on the ILO’s core labour rights and corporate social responsibility (CSR), must form an essential part ofbe taken into account in the EU trade agreements9 ; calls on the Commission to include sustainable development chapters that are not only legally binding but also enforceable in all EU trade and investment agreements; __________________ 9 OJ C 99E, 3.4.2012, p. 31. OJ C 99E, 3.4.2012, p. 31.
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Underlines the importance of effective safeguard mechanisms in trade agreements; calls at the same time for the inclusion of an effective enforcement mechanism for labour and environmental rights to which the human rights clause does not apply; calls for a mechanism according to which civil society representatives, as well as Members of the European Parliament, are able to request that the Commission commence an investigation into violations by a third party of its obligations under an essential elements clause;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 4 a (new)
Subheading 4 a (new)
Notes that with a rise of global value chains the trade policy has to be conceived as open and more comprehensive. The role of EU trade policy is to strengthen Europe's place in global supply chains by supporting the full range of economic activities through which brings values into global chains with special attention to be paid to services.
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. InsistBelieves that the monitoring, evaluation and follow-up of existing agreements become a keyis one of the priorityies of the CCP; calls on the Commission to reallocate adequate resources in order to enable DG Trade to better monitor trade agreements which need to be implemented;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Calls on the Commission to focus in a balanced way on the conclusion of the ongoing trade negotiations, and to show the potential benefits of the concluded trade agreements before launching new FTA negotiations; reminds the Commission to carry out a thorough, impartial and unprejudiced ex-ante evaluation of European interests before deciding on future FTA partners and negotiation mandates;
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Notes that some of the EU trade negotiations are longstanding and therefore invites the Commission to make an inventory of all ongoing negotiations and propose to the Council and the European Parliament a new approach with an aim to achieve a tangible market access for the EU companies in a reasonable timeframe.
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 b (new)
Paragraph 25 b (new)
25b. Stresses that an ambitious EU Trade agenda needs relevant human resources and calls for an assessment of number of DG Trade staff vis-a-vis current EU commitments and negotiations. Believes that, if needed, DG Trade staff should be increased accordingly in order to deliver on the targets set by the Trade for all strategy;
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Reiterates its strong believe that the EU and the US are key strategic partners; stresses that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is the most significant recent EU-US project and should reinvigorate the transatlantic partnership as a whole, beyond its trade aspects; emphasises that successful conclusion of an ambitious agreement is of high political importance;
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Insists that trade negotiations follow a tailor-made regional trade strategy, in particular vis-à-vis Asia, Africa and Latin America, which have been identified by the Commission as crucial regions for European economic interests; recalls that Europe and Latin America are natural allies with a combined population of one billion people generating a quarter of global GNP; points out that the potential of this partnership has been insufficiently exploited; welcomes the fact that the Commission’s new trade and investment strategy puts a key focus on Latin America, including agreements with Mercosur, Chile and Mexico;
Amendment 300 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Strongly opposes the granting of MES to China, as itRecalls that China is not fulfilling, for the time being, the EU’s five technical criteria for defining a market economy, thus cannot be considered as such; underlines the importance of defining a common European strategy to reinvigorate and apply the anti-dumping procedures on various products suffering from the strong trade distortion caused by Chinese exporting companies;
Amendment 350 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
39. Asks the Commission to horizontally address SMEs’ needs in all chapters of trade agreements with a clear goal-oriented policy which should focus on delivery of tangible results and better market access for EU SMEs;
Amendment 352 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39 a (new)
Paragraph 39 a (new)
39a. Invites the Commission to examine further ways how to help SMEs exporting to the third markets; calls in this regard on the Commission to further explore the potential of a renewed market access strategy;
Amendment 406 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51
Paragraph 51