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Elena VALENCIANO, Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Sorin MOISĂ, Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Citation 32 a (new)

– having regard to the Africa Human Development Report 2016 "Accelerating Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Africa"1e __________________ 1eUNDP, Africa Human Development Report 2016: http://www.undp.org/content/dam/undp/li brary/corporate/HDR/Africa%20HDR/Af HDR_2016_lowres_EN.pdf?download

2017/10/26
Committee: INTA FEMM

Elena VALENCIANO, Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Sorin MOISĂ, Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Citation 32 b (new)

– having regard to the OCDE report "Enhancing Women’s Economic Empowerment through Entrepreneurship and Business Leadership in OECD Countries" (2014)1f __________________ 1fOCDE technical report "Enhancing Women’s Economic Empowerment through Entrepreneurship and Business Leadership in OECD Countries": http://www.oecd.org/gender/Enhancing% 20Women%20Economic%20Empowerme nt_Fin_1_Oct_2014.pdf

2017/10/26
Committee: INTA FEMM

Elena VALENCIANO, Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Sorin MOISĂ, Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Citation 32 c (new)

– having regard to the results of the most recent high-level international debates on gender and trade, with particular attention to those organised under the umbrella of the EU and the WTO/UNCTAD/ITC, including the "International Forum on Women and Trade", organised jointly by the European Commission and the International Trade Centre (Brussels, June 2017)1g or, earlier, the annual plenary session of the Parliamentary Conference on the WTO, on "Trade as a vehicle of social progress: The gender perspective" (Geneva, June 2016)1h and the WTO plenary session "What future for the WTO? Trade and Gender: Empowering Women through Inclusive Supply Chains" (Geneva, July 2015)1i; __________________ 1gInternational Forum on Women and Trade, Brussels, June 2017 see European Commission's website: http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/inde x.cfm?id=1632 1h Parliamentary conference on the WTO, Plenary Session, "Trade as a vehicle of social progress: The gender perspective", Geneva, June 2016, see WTO's website for programme and audio: https://www.wto.org/english/forums_e/par liamentarians_e/ipuconf2016_e.htm 1iWTO session "What future for the WTO? Trade and Gender: Empowering Women through Inclusive Supply Chains", Geneva, July 2015: https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/deve l_e/a4t_e/global_review15prog_e/global_r eview15prog_e.htm

2017/10/26
Committee: INTA FEMM

Elena VALENCIANO, Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Sorin MOISĂ, Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Citation 32 d (new)

– having regard to the increasing international efforts to promote gender equality though trade policies -such as the UNCTAD programme on gender and development1j (which includes studies on the impact of trade on women; a teaching packet on trade and gender, online training or the creation of the status of "Gender Champions") and the World Bank, which since 2016, in each of their 14 working areas has a gender strategy; __________________ 1jUNCTAD's Website: http://unctad.org/en/Pages/DITC/Gender- and-Trade/Trade,-Gender-and- Development.aspx

2017/10/26
Committee: INTA FEMM

Elena VALENCIANO, Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Nicola DANTI, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Sorin MOISĂ, Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)

-A. whereas Art. 8 of the TFEU commits the EU to eliminate inequalities and to promote equality and combat discrimination, among others, on the grounds of sex, when defining and implementing its policies and activities;

2017/10/26
Committee: INTA FEMM

Elena VALENCIANO, Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Sorin MOISĂ, Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A a (new)

-Aa. whereas gender discussions should concern both men and women equally and whereas engagement and partnership between the public sector and private sector stakeholders, at international and local levels, are key to promote the necessary awareness and synergies to promote gender equality and women empowerment;

2017/10/26
Committee: INTA FEMM

Elena VALENCIANO, Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Sorin MOISĂ, Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A b (new)

-Ab. whereas there is abroad consensus that a fair, open and rules-based international trade plays a vital role in shaping economic and social performance and prospects of countries around the world, especially those of developing countries; whereas trade is instrumental in empowering women and supporting communities and women's fully-fledged participation in the economy is essential for growth; whereas studies show that empowering women could add a quarter to world’s GDP, that helping women is essential as much from economic as social and poverty eradication perspectives, due to their role in families and communities; whereas, however, trade policies lacking an appropriate gender focus, may further entrench or exacerbate existing gender biases and discrimination;

2017/10/26
Committee: INTA FEMM

Elena VALENCIANO, Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Sorin MOISĂ, Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A c (new)

-Ac. whereas, therefore, synergy between different policies, domestic and external, is crucial to achieve gender equality and women empowerment, including issues such as property rights, access to finance, education and vocational training, corporate behaviour, government procurement, digital gap, cultural bias;

2017/10/26
Committee: INTA FEMM

Elena VALENCIANO, Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, Maria NOICHL, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Sorin MOISĂ, Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A d (new)

-Ad. whereas the relationship between international trade and gender is complex and demands a deep understanding of economic and social dynamics, as well as of specific local contexts, in order to develop efficient trade policies to pursue economic development and poverty reduction, while also promoting women’s empowerment and gender equality;

2017/10/26
Committee: INTA FEMM

Elena VALENCIANO, Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Sorin MOISĂ, Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)

Ac. whereas economic development and gender equality frequently go hand- in-hand; whereas there is a broad understanding that societies where gender inequalities are lower, also tend to grow faster;

2017/10/26
Committee: INTA FEMM

Elena VALENCIANO, Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Sorin MOISĂ, Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas the European Commission has announced its commitment to ensure that the future trade negotiations to modernise the current Association Agreement between Chile and the EU will include, for the first time in the EU, a specific Chapter on Gender and Trade;

2017/10/26
Committee: INTA FEMM

Elena VALENCIANO, Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Sorin MOISĂ, Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas the Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) and GSP+ system~~s aim to~~ include a human rights conditionality aimed at ensureing the ratification and implementation of human and labour rights conventions ~~in developing countries~~;

2017/10/26
Committee: INTA FEMM

Elena VALENCIANO, Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Sorin MOISĂ, Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

Ga. whereas the garment sector employs mainly women, whereas it is important to recall that 289 people perished in a blaze in Karachi, Pakistan, in September 2012, in the same year, a fire at the Tazreen Fashions factory, in Bangladesh, caused the death of 117 people and injured more than 200 workers and, the Rana Plaza's structural failure, in 2013, resulted in 1.129 casualties and caused injuries to approximately 2 500 people, in the same country, all of which were garment factories;

2017/10/26
Committee: INTA FEMM

Elena VALENCIANO, Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Sorin MOISĂ, Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

Ha. whereas multilateral platforms and intergovernmental fora, such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Women20 (W20), are crucial for fostering gender-related discussion and action among experts and for providing a good basis for consensus-building;

2017/10/26
Committee: INTA FEMM

Elena VALENCIANO, Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, Maria NOICHL, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Marita ULVSKOG, Sorin MOISĂ, Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Calls on the EU and its Members States to systematically carry out ex-ante and ex-post evaluations of trade policies from a gender perspective, with an improved methodology, clear and measurable indicators, allowing to assess the possible effects of EU trade policies on gender equality and women empowerment as well as to consider possible offensive and defensive interests to defend, throughout entire process of trade negotiations, from negotiation to execution; stresses that all impact assessments and evaluations of EU Trade Agreements and trade policies should be supported by sufficient and adequate gender disaggregated data and a detailed analysis at regional, national, as well as sectorial levels, with particular attention to women in most vulnerable socio- economic sectors; stresses that the results of the gender-focused analysis should be incorporated into trade negotiations, foreseeing the necessary strategies and measures to compensate losses and imbalances;

2017/10/26
Committee: INTA FEMM

Elena VALENCIANO, Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Marita ULVSKOG, Sorin MOISĂ, Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Calls on the European Commission and the Council to ensure that EU trade and investment agreements include a specific Chapter on Trade and Gender Equality and Women Empowerment, building on existing examples such as the Chile Uruguay and Chile-Canada FTAs, and that it specifically foresees the commitment by the parties to promote gender equality and women empowerment, beyond the condition to adhere and the obligation to implement international human rights, labour and environmental instruments and standards on women's rights and gender equality, which shall be addressed in TSDC; to ensure that it includes, among others, the commitment of the parties: - to adopt, maintain and implement effectively gender equality laws, regulations and policies, including the necessary active measures to promote gender equality and women empowerment; - to promote public knowledge of the international humans rights law, as well as national laws, regulations and best practices on women's rights and gender equality; - to mainstream gender equality and women's rights in all their policies, including trade-related policies; -to defend and promote a gender-sensitive trade policy in all trade negotiations and relevant international platforms and fora, including at the multilateral, regional and national level; - to evaluate systematically the impact of the parties' trade policies and agreements on gender quality, on the basis of disaggregated data and an adequate methodology, with clear and measurable indicators; - to ensure an improved participation of women in decision-making bodies, both in the public and private sectors; - to facilitate women's economic participation, by removing barriers, from regulatory, to procedural and cultural (including laws on access to land or inheritance) and to take the necessary active measures to improve their access to credit, land, information, networks, as well as technical assistance, particularly to small farmers and women-MSMEs, among other purposes, to help them comply with rules and standards and expand their businesses; - to promote the establishment of specific help-desks to support women-led enterprises wishing to participate in international trade, with a view to facilitating information and counsel and, particularly, for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs); - to promote enhanced participation of women enterprises in public procurement, building on the experience of ‘Chile Compras’; - to seek to strengthen government support to services, technologies, infrastructures, such as Internet, and custom services of particular importance for women empowerment, with particular attention to the needs of rural women, small farmers and MSMEs; - to support the participation and to guarantee the labour rights of women in WTO Mode 4 opportunities; - to ensure the involvement of women organisations and gender equality experts in all phases of trade negotiations, from trade negotiating teams, to expert advisory group and joint consultative committees in charge of monitoring the application of trade agreements, which should include periodical substantial discussions on gender and trade in its agenda, in a specific consultative committee; - to carry out bilateral cooperation activities to improve the capacity and conditions for women to fully benefit from the opportunities of the trade agreement and, to this aim, to establish a trade and gender joint committee, to determine and facilitate cooperation and supervise its application, guaranteeing appropriate participation of private stakeholders, including experts and civil society organizations active in the field of gender equality and women empowerment, guaranteeing a wide representation, by community and sector, thought accessible means of consultation (such as electronic discussions) beyond structured dialogues;

2017/10/26
Committee: INTA FEMM

Elena VALENCIANO, Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Marita ULVSKOG, Sorin MOISĂ, Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Underlines the urgent need to adopt gender-sensitive binding human rights regulations ~~on an international level to regulate transnational companies (TNCs) and other companies; welcomes the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights~~; welcomes the on-going negotiations on a binding International Treaty on Human Rights and transnational companies (TNCs) and other companies, welcomes the involvement of the EU in the process, calls on the Commission and Member States to engage constructively in these negotiations and to encourage trading partners to equally engage; likewise, welcomes the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, calls on EU Member States to elaborate national action plans taking women's rights into particular consideration and calls on the Commission to use trade negotiations to encourage our trade partners to do so;

2017/10/26
Committee: INTA FEMM

Elena VALENCIANO, Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Marita ULVSKOG, Sorin MOISĂ, Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls on European Commission, the Council and Member States to actively engage in, and support efforts to organise regular gender-related discussion and action, with a view to improve awareness and the basis for consensus-building;

2017/10/26
Committee: INTA FEMM

Elena VALENCIANO, Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Marita ULVSKOG, Sorin MOISĂ, Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Calls on the Commission, the Council and the Member States to further work within the ILO towards the implementation and to work towards reinforcement of international labour standards for decent work on global value chains, with a particular focus on women;

2017/10/26
Committee: INTA FEMM

Elena VALENCIANO, Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, Maria NOICHL, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Nicola DANTI, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Sorin MOISĂ, Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. ~~Notes that IPR provisions in trade have a significant impact on women’s health which must be taken carefully into consideration~~Calls on the Commission and the Council to ensure that IPR provisions in trade agreements take due account of women's rights, particularly their impact on women’s health, including access to affordable healthcare and medicines, which must be taken fully into consideration; further, calls on the Commission and the Council to promote the protection of IPR in negotiations, particularly the protection of Geographical Indications (GI), as a tool particularly important for rural women empowerment; further, it calls the Commission, the Council and Member States to reconsider the extension of protection to non-agricultural products, bearing in mind not only that this can be a very useful tool to promote women empowerment in both in developed and developing countries, but also that the EU has already agreed to protect non- agricultural GI products in FTAs;

2017/10/26
Committee: INTA FEMM

Elena VALENCIANO, Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Marita ULVSKOG, Sorin MOISĂ, Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7b. Calls on the Commission to explore further how EU policies and trade agreements can promote women´s economic empowerment and female participation in areas such as in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and how to close gender gaps in access to, and in the use of, new technologies;

2017/10/26
Committee: INTA FEMM

Elena VALENCIANO, Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Marita ULVSKOG, Sorin MOISĂ, Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Calls for binding measures to combat exploitation and improve working conditions for women in the export- oriented industries, in particular the garment and textile manufacturing and agriculture sectors where trade liberalisation has contributed to precarious labour rights and gender wage gaps; Believes that these frameworks should enable a harmonic cooperation with international organisation as the UN, the WTO, the ILO and the OECD, establishing common definitions, to allow for more clear and coordinated actions and evaluations; in this regard, values the 'Compact for Continuous Improvements in Labour Rights and Factory Safety in the Ready-Made Garment and Knitwear Industry in Bangladesh' (the Sustainability Compact) as a step forward in regards to the monitoring activity, which should be subject of full compliance;

2017/10/26
Committee: INTA FEMM

Elena VALENCIANO, Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Marita ULVSKOG, Sorin MOISĂ, Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Calls on the Commission, the Council and Member States, to promote agreements at multilateral level to expand the protection granted by gender-sensitive EU laws such as the Conflict Minerals Regulation;

2017/10/26
Committee: INTA FEMM

Elena VALENCIANO, Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Marita ULVSKOG, Sorin MOISĂ, Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)

12b. Calls on the European Investment Bank (EIB) to ensure that companies participating in projects co-financed by the EIB shall be required to adhere to the principle of equal pay and pay transparency and to the principle of gender equality as set out in Directive 2006/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council1k __________________ 1k Directive 2006/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council1a of 5 June 2006 on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation (OJ L 204, 26.7.2006, p. 23)

2017/10/26
Committee: INTA FEMM

Elena VALENCIANO, Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Marita ULVSKOG, Sorin MOISĂ, Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)

16b. Calls the EU, the Council and commits itself to ensure that the Secretariats of the EU Institutions with responsibility over trade policies and negotiations have the means and the technical capacity to elaborate gender analysis of trade rules and to incorporate a gender perspective into the entire process of negotiations, from inception, to application and evaluation; to ensure the necessary expertise among EU officials, including by appropriate training; to ensure the involvement of women, as well as gender expertise, in the EU trade negotiating teams, including, for each relevant round of negotiation, an expert on gender with thorough knowledge of the different policy sectors concerned;

2017/10/26
Committee: INTA FEMM

Elena VALENCIANO, Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Marita ULVSKOG, Sorin MOISĂ, Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 d (new)

16d. Calls on the European Commission, the Council and Member States to recognise and support international efforts to promote the inclusion of gender perspectives into trade policies and programmes, such as, for example the "She Trades" initiative of the International Trade Centre, which is aimed to connect 1 million women entrepreneurs to markets by 20201h; __________________ 1h International Trade Centre's webpage on the "She Trades" initiative: http://www.intracen.org/itc/women-and- trade/SheTrades/

2017/10/26
Committee: INTA FEMM

26 Amendments of Sorin MOISĂ related to 2017/2015(INI)

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