Activities of Elena GENTILE related to 2015/2038(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Social and environmental standards, human rights and corporate responsibility - A forward-looking and innovative future strategy for trade and investment (debate) IT
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on implementation of the 2010 recommendations of Parliament on social and environmental standards, human rights and corporate responsibility
Amendments (14)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for the ILO’s eight core labour standards and the four ILO Priority Conventions for the industrialised countries, and also provide incentives for enterprises to enter into CSR commitments and an obligation of diligence for enterprises and groups of enterprises, i.e. an obligation to take proactive measures to identify and prevent any violation of human or environmental rights, corruption or tax evasion, including in their subsidiaries and supply chains, to be systematically included in all bilateral EU trade agreements; point out the importance towards the observance of the mandatory labour minimum standards therein included in order to enable their inclusion into third states’ national law, and, therefore, call on the Commission to forecast monitoring mechanisms;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission to follow up the EU renewed strategy for the period 2011-2014 in the field of the CSR, taking into account to launch a public consultation aimed at the adoption of legislative proposals, notably directives, ruling the corporate social responsibility;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Believes that a business’s tax policy should be considered part and parcel of CSR and that socially responsible behaviour consequently leaves no room for strategies aimed at evading tax or exploiting tax havens;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for aon the Commission to stepping up ofthe efforts in order to enable a full participation of the ILO in the work of the WTO, including granting the ILO observer status in the WTO and the right to speak at WTO ministerial conferences; calls for promoting a fair relevance of the CSR in the trade policy at multilateral level, within the international fora fostering the CSR, notably OECD and ILO, as well as within the WTO;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls forUrges the Commission on a closer cooperation at multilateral level with a view to achieving genuine coordination between the international organisations WTO and ILO, enabling ILO to carry out, in the trade disputes, independent experts’ reports, in order to integrate in the WTO’s activities the labour and decent labour provisions, preventing from jeopardizing the social development;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for a strengthening of the chapter on the sustainable development in bilateral agreements through the provision of a complaints procedure open to the social partners; and calls that such a procedure goes together with well-proportioned sanctions in case of recorded violations in the field of sustainable development or infractions of a part of provisions and labour standards;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Council and the Commission to include a mandatory and enforceable CSR clause in all bilateral trade and investment agreements signed by the EU, which would bind European investors to the principles of CSR as defined at international level, including the 2010 update of the OECD Guidelines, standards defined by the UN, ILO and EU; requests that in the next EU trade agreements with third countries, work safety and health should take a more prominent place as part of the agenda on decent work; calls for the EU technical support for the implementation of these provisions in order not to constitute a trade barrier;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on the Commission, notably its DG Justice, to put forward proposals for better facilitating the access to justice in the EU Courts for the most extreme, egregious cases of human or labour rights violations by European-based businesses or their subsidiaries, subcontractors or business partners, as recommended by the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Business and Human Rights;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Points out the need to include in the CSR new areas such as the organisation of work, equal opportunities and social inclusion, anti-discrimination measures, the development of lifelong education and training; emphasises that CSR should cover, for example, quality of work, equal pay and career prospects and the promotion of innovative projects so as to assist the shift towards a sustainable economy;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Agrees with the view expressed in a recent Commission communication that compliance with applicable law and collective labour agreements is a sine qua non of corporate social responsibility; also believes that socially responsible behaviour must of necessity translate into proper relations with trade unions, in particular respect for trade union rights, a continuous flow of information to workers and their representative organisations, and their involvement in company decision-taking;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission for sustainable impact assessments and human rights impact assessments to be carried out, at bilateral level, before, during and after the negotiations; takes the view, also, that negotiators should take into account to a greater extent the priorities and concerns that emerge from these impact studies; calls, therefore, for promptly informing the EP about the outcomes of such assessments and to follow up with actions involving the EP;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Considers that the lack of respect for international social standards represent a kind of social and environmental dumping harming both businesses and workers; points out that the lacking observance of strict environmental provisions by European businesses in the third countries must be put on the same footing of the observance of workers’ rights, as such a lack jeopardises the health of workers and destroys rural and fishing areas depriving local population of any development chance;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission to submit periodically to the EP and to the Council in the context of trade policy and agreements with third countries an impact assessment of CSR in these agreements, also in order to minimise the impact and to prevent violent conflicts and the violations of human rights;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Calls on the Council to approve as soon as possible the directive on the Union system for supply chain due diligence self-certification of responsible importers of tin, tantalum and tungsten, their ores, and gold originating in conflict-affected and high-risk areas;