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8 Amendments of Marco ZANNI related to 2014/2228(INI)

Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph a
a. take immediate action to ensure that a comprehensive and ambitious agreement is reached on the TTIP enhancing fair competition on both sides of the Atlanticthe necessary information is provided and the wishes of the general public are heard on an issue with such wide-ranging implications by including a compulsory referendum stage in the procedure for ratification by the Member States;
2015/03/04
Committee: ECON
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph b
b. take immediate action to ensure that free and fair competition on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as market access, is addressed on the basis of economic indicators that will measure any imbalances generated by the opening up of the market without prior economic, legal, currency or tax harmonisation and of the highest standards possible within the existing levels of protection, especially within areas such as health and safety, consumer, labour and environmental legislation;
2015/03/04
Committee: ECON
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph c
c. take immediate action to include restrictions on state aid in the agreement; propose greater transparency within state aid rules and within the allocation of state aidand extremely severe penalties for states, banks and multinationals that engage in unethical practices such as tax avoidance and tax dumping;
2015/03/04
Committee: ECON
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph e
e. take immediate action to ensure that aggressive tax planning, and distortion of competition by e.g. moving of headquarters across the Atlantic to obtain competition- distorting conditions, are addressprohibited;
2015/03/04
Committee: ECON
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph f
f. take immediate action to ensure that systematic movement of capital across the Atlantic, in order to avoid tax payments in the country of production and/or sale of goods or services, is addresss addressed and discouraged within the TTIP;
2015/03/04
Committee: ECON
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph g
g. take immediate action to ensure competition and reciprocal market access for European companies to public contracts in the United States; underlines that an imbalance of market access to public contracts constitutes unfair competition;
2015/03/04
Committee: ECON
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph h
h. take immediate proactive measures against American protectionism, and address legislation that hinders European market access to the United Statfollow the example set by the United States with protectionist measures, such as Buy American, Buy America and the American Job Act and take equivalent measures to protect the EU single market;
2015/03/04
Committee: ECON
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph i
i. propose the introduction of a national court systems-first principle, to be supplemented with mediation and intergovernmental dispute mechanisms in legal disputes in order to ensure easier access and lower litigation costs than those offered by current ISDS- mechanisms, benefitting especially SMEs (having fewer resources available than large corporations), thus creating more equal competition conditions; stress that any and all dispute mechanisms set in place within the TTIP-framework must uphold full transparency and be subject to democratic principles and scrutiny under which national courts take precedence over mediation and intergovernmental dispute mechanisms in legal disputes;
2015/03/04
Committee: ECON