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7 Amendments of Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER related to 2018/2107(INI)

Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on Member States to strengthen compliance with the rules of origin in the context of the GSP+ and EBA systems to prevent fraud by exporters from countries without tariff concessions, such as China and India;
2018/12/03
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the acknowledgement of the need to enhance transparency and accountability by the participation of civil society in monitoring the effective implementation of human rights commitments set out in international conventions; calls on the Commission to consider establishing joint oversight commissions or domestic advisory groups with the participation of local civil society and trade union representatives;
2018/12/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Is concerned about the drop in Africa's share in the total volume of global exports;
2018/12/03
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls that the full potential of the GSP+ scheme to improve the situation with regard to workers’ rights, promotion of gender equality and abolition of child labour and forced labour can only be fulfilled if monitoring of effective implementation of obligatiooverriding aim of any EU trade policy must be to promote and protect the interests of the EU's own citizens uander the 27 conventions is improved and the incentive of trade preferences is accompanied by other support measureat that policy must prioritise the interests of European workers;
2018/12/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to address shrinking space for civil society, threats to independent trade unions and obstacles to EU funding to NGOs in scorecards and GSP+ dialogues, as these issues are directly related to legal obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and relevant provisions of the International Labour Organisation core conventions;deleted
2018/12/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to lay down specific objectives and benchmarks with regard to the effective implementation of international conventions and to include these systematically in the human rights country strategy papers with a view to ensuring consistency and the mainstreaming of human rights into trade policy;deleted
2018/12/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Supports more engagement with least developed countries under the Everything But Arms scheme with regard to preventing and addressing cases of serious and systematic violation of human rights; notes that the threat of withdrawal of trade preferences may in itself not be a sufficient measure to promote real compliance with international human rights principles.deleted
2018/12/07
Committee: AFET