10 Amendments of Norbert ERDŐS related to 2015/2932(RSP)
Amendment 3 #
Recital B
B. whereas the EU, Australia and New Zealand work together in tackling common challenges across a broad spectrum of issues and co-operate in a number of international fora, including the G20 framework;
Amendment 17 #
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines the importance of the Asia- Pacific region for economic growth within Europe and stressnotes that this ishould be reflected in the European Union's trade policy;
Amendment 21 #
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that the full potential of the Union's bilateral and regional co-operation strategies may only be realised by concluding high-quality FTAs with both Australia and New Zealand while under no circumstances undermining or diverting resources and attention away from the ambition to achieve progress multilaterally or to advance ongoing bilateral negotiations;
Amendment 25 #
Paragraph 4
4. Believes that the negotiation of modern, ambitious, balanced and comprehensive FTAs with Australia and New Zealand is a logical step in deepening the bilateral partnerships, further reinforcing already mature existing bilateral trade and investment relationships, and would helpave mitigate the potential diversionary effects of the recently concluded TPP;
Amendment 32 #
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to study in depth any additional market access opportunities for European economic operators offered by the possible FTAs with Australia and New Zealand during the scoping exercise and to weigh these against any possible defensive interests, also considering that both Australia and New Zealand have already comparatively open marketsvery low tariffs in international comparison;
Amendment 37 #
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines that ambitious agreements between the three advanced economies must address, in a meaningful way, investment, trade in goodsliberalize investment, trade in goods (with appropriate quotas for the most sensitive products and transitional periods for tariff reduction) and services (drawing on recent practice as regards reservations of policy space and sector coverage) and address regulatory issues and rules such as sanitary and phytosanitary measures , e-commerce, public procurement, energy, state-owned enterprises, competition, anti- corruption, and the needs of SMEs and can benefit governance of the. It also needs to contribute to global economyic governance by intensified convergence and cooperation on international standards without lowering any consumer, food safety, animal health and welfare, plant health, environmental or social and labour protection;
Amendment 44 #
Paragraph 7
Amendment 52 #
Paragraph 8
8. Notes that only a balanced outcome in agriculture chapterand fisheries that takes sensitivities duly into account can boost competitiveness and will be beneficial to both consumers and producers in the European Union; calls for the inclusion of effective bilateral safeguard measures to prevent a surge in imports that would cause, or threaten to cause, serious injury to producers;
Amendment 63 #
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Considers a robust and ambitious sustainable development chapter, covering core labour standards and the four ILO priority governance conventions and multilateral environmental agreements an indispensable part of any potential free trade agreement;
Amendment 69 #
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to condition the launch of negotiations with Australia and New Zealand with all parties committing at the outset to conduct negotiations in the mosta transparent way possible, fully respecting best practice as established in other negotiations;