Activities of Bernd LUCKE related to 2014/2228(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) (A8-0175/2015 - Bernd Lange) DE
Negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) (debate) DE
Amendments (11)
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph b
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 the highest standards possible within the existing levels of protection, especially guaranteeing high standards within areas such as health and safety, consumer, labour and environmental legislation;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph e
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph e
e. take immediate action to ensure that aggressive tax planning,tax evasion and distortion of competition by e.g. moving of headquarters across the Atlantic to obtain competition-distorting conditions, are addressed;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph g
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph g
g. take immediate action to ensure reciprocal market access for European companies to public contracts in the United Statesto public contracts for European and American companies both in the United States and the European Union ; underlines that an imbalance of market access to public contracts constitutes unfair competition;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph h
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph h
h. take immediaterefrain from proactive measures against perceived American protectionism, and address legislation that hinders European market access to the United States, such as Buy American, Buy Amer; take immediate action to ensure that protectionist measures on both sides of the Atlantica and the American Job Actre reduced;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph i
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph i
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph i a (new)
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph i a (new)
ia. take immediate action to ensure that Member States can opt out of the negotiated ISDS-mechanism; ensure that Member States which opt out of ISDS can contribute a country-specific annex to TTIP in which they may refer to national legislation which protects foreign investors or in which they may commit to other forms of dispute settlement including the possibility of state to state dispute settlement on behalf of investors or arbitration and dispute settlement mechanisms which exist or may be created within the framework of the WTO or as independent international courts;
Amendment 120 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph j
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph j
Amendment 122 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph j
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph j
j. acknemphasize that state-owlnedge the importance of state- owned enterprises for certain crucial services enterprises which provide certain crucial services should not be shielded from competition if it can be shown that competing private enterprises are able to provide the same type of services in approximately the same quality and reliability;
Amendment 131 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph k
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph k
k. stress the need to uphold the EU’s tradition for organising its public services, and call for an exclusion of public servicesemphasize that not all public services need to be provided exclusively by the state and that increasing private competition has often benefited consumers in areas such as telecommunication, education and health services, thus ask that public services not be excluded from the agreement;
Amendment 143 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph l
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph l
Amendment 146 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph l
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph l
l. propose that there should be no obligation in TTIP to expose sensitive sectorsinsist that detailed and convincing reasons must be supplied for classifying sectors as so sensitive that they may be exempted from opening up to competition under TTIP.