15 Amendments of Tiziana BEGHIN related to 2015/2105(INI)
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Insists that sustainability impact assessments including human, social and environmental rights for any trade policy initiative are conducted, allowing not only for an ex-ante but also for an ex-post evaluation;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Rejects any further liberalisation of the GATS Mode 4 commitments; recalls that Mode 4 commitments must only apply to the movement of highly skilled professionals;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that labour standards, including the eight fundamental International Labour Organisation conventions, must be equ have to be an essential part of EU-trade agreements and must be equally and horizontally implemented in all chapters of trade agreements, and that these agreements must include a revision clause allowing a party to leave the agreement or to suspend commitments in the event of infringements of labour and social standards;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission to include not only legally binding but also enforceable Sustainable Development chapters in all EU trade and investment agreements;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that the Domestic Advisory Groups handling the infringements of social clauses of trade agreements must have sufficient financing and that they must consist of a balanced representation of labour and business organisations from civil society; calls on the Commission to take measures to improve the work of the DAGs such as providing financial resources, prior information and the possibility of using more advanced media in order to facilitate civil society participation;
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Opposes granting MES to China as it is not fulfilling, for the time being, the EU five technical criteria for defining a market economy;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Commission to improve policy coherence for development in trade policy, in particular as it relates to public health. Urges the Commission to develop a comprehensive "access to medicines-policy" across policy areas such as trade, development, research and innovation and public health, which support the effective implementation and realisation of Sustainable Development Goal 3;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Calls on the Council to meet their commitments to the Doha Declaration by ensuring that the Commission's mandate explicitly excludes pharmaceutical-related TRIPS-plus provisions which negatively affect public health and access to medicines, such as data exclusivity, patent extensions and limitation of grounds for compulsory licenses within the framework of future bilateral and regional trade agreements with developing countries or when developing countries engage in accession to the WTO;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Believes that trade policy must ensure a transparent production process throughout the value chain, as well as compliance with fundamental environment, social and safety, safety and animal welfare standards; stresses the need for mandatory due diligence throughout the supply chain; welcomes the Commission’s desire to work closely with the ILO and the OECD to develop a global approach to improving working conditions in the garment sector and invites the Commission to propose legislation on due diligence standards for the textile supply chain; calls on the Commission to ensure the welfare of live animals exported outside the EU according to EU legislation and animal welfare standards of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE); underlines the importance of identifying and assessing new sectoral or geographic opportunities for additional responsible supply chain partnerships; looks forward to the Commission’s upcoming communication on CSR;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Believes that new technologies and the internet provides new tools for traceability of products along the supply chain;
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Underlines, in the context of the current talks on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the EU- Japan FTA, as well as of the other negotiations the EU is undertaking or will launch, the high importance of focusing on core sensitive issues such as the protection of geographical indications (GIs) and public procurement when negotiating FTAs;
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Calls on the Commission to start as early as possible negotiations for an investment agreement with Taiwan in parallel with the one with China; underlines that, in the context of the migration challenges, special focus should be put on the post-Cotonou framework and on supporting the creation of a Continental Free Trade Area for Africa, integrating regional economies and boosting local growth, employment and innovation; asks for further impetus to be given to negotiating FTAs with both Australia and New Zealand;
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Calls on the Commission not to take any measures without a prior deep and comprehensive impact assessment tackling all the possible effects and consequences on employment, growth and the environment; urges the Commission to take into account the results of the counter public consultations launched by several Members of the Parliament in order to define the best option to follow; urges the Commission not to move to the "standard methodology" (i.e. starting the normal value determination from Chinese prices and costs) in relation to imports from China; to maintain separate anti- dumping rules for imports from countries to which the WTO applies special rules and to coordinate with its major trading partners on how best to ensure that all provisions of Section 15 of China's Protocol of Accession to the WTO other than subparagraph 15 (a)(ii) are able to be given full meaning under their domestic laws;
Amendment 341 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Is aware that the inclusion of provisions relating to financial services in trade agreements has raised concerns regarding their potential negative effects where money laundering, tax fraud, tax evasion and avoidance are concerned; supports the Commission in its fight against corruption; insists that clauses onan Anti- corruption, money laundering and tax fraud Chapter shall be included in all trade and investment agreements and their clauses fully incorporated in public procurement negotiations;
Amendment 365 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42 a (new)
Paragraph 42 a (new)
42a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that dispute settlement clauses exclude pharmaceutical intellectual property from their scope;