9 Amendments of Brando BENIFEI related to 2014/2228(INI)
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point i a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point i a (new)
(i a) to ensure that TTIP will provide for an important contribution in fostering new high-quality jobs, decent work, the enhancement of social protection and public health, the increase of wages, especially minimum wages, the improvement of public welfare as well as the highest standards of environmental sustainability;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point ii
Paragraph 1 – point ii
(ii) to ensure that TTIP includes comprehensive provisions on labour laws and policies that are consistent with the core ILO Conventions and the Decent Work Agenda, with a commitment to promote higher standards and, furthermore, to ensure that where disputes arise labour provisions will have a conditional dimensaiming at the effective ratification, implementation and enforcement of the eight core conventions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Decent Work Agenda, with a commitment to promote higher standards. Steps must be taken to ensure that neither of the parties will encourage trade or investment by weakening labour laws. Where disputes arise labour provisions must be subject to a dispute settlement mechanism, including the possibility of imposing trade sanction;s.
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point iii
Paragraph 1 – point iii
(iii) to ensure that the horizontal dimensions of labour and social provisions are recognised and fully integrated into all relevant operational parts of the agreement (such as investment, trade in services, regulatory cooperation and public procurement) to ensure a coherent and comprehensive approach to trade and sustainable development;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point iii a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point iii a (new)
(iii a) to ensure that employees, through their trade unions, have a right to full divulgation of information regarding financial conditions and capitals of companies where they work, particularly in case of merger and acquisition of multinational companies. Therefore, the negotiators shall explore the adoption of transatlantic mechanisms in line with employees' tools of information, consultation and participation provided for the European Union such as the European works councils.
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point iv
Paragraph 1 – point iv
(iv) to ensure that civil society can make a meaningful contribution to implementing relevant TTIP provisionsthe implementation of and compliance with labour provisions must be subject to a monitoring process, which involves the social partners and civil society;
Amendment 139 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point x
Paragraph 1 – point x
(x) to ensure that statistical projections on job losses/gains, and on sectors, affected are constantly updated so that timely intervention can be undertaken by the Commission to support affected sectors, regions or Member States. The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund should be adapted to mitigate the potential negative impacts of the TTIP;
Amendment 142 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point x a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point x a (new)
(x a) to take steps to ensure that regulatory cooperation does not restrict the right of governments and the European Parliament to legislate in the public interest. Steps must be taken to ensure that regulatory cooperation does not lead to the weakening of labour standards, including health and safety standards. It must be ensured that labour and social standards are not treated as non-tariff barriers. Stakeholders, including social partners, should be included in the process of regulatory cooperation in a balanced representation.
Amendment 143 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point x a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point x a (new)
(x a) TTIP's public procurement provisions should: • respect the freedom of public authorities at all levels to organise public services as they wish, including through in-house and public-public cooperation; • include a binding social clause in the procurement chapter, cross referenced with the fundamental ILO Conventions as is the case in the EU public procurement Directives, and with appropriate enforcement mechanism (in order to guarantee the respect for social legislation and collective agreements); • encourage public authorities to integrate the full-range of quality, social and environmental criteria in public contracts in order to drive sustainable and fair growth (and not to award contracts on the basis of "lowest price").
Amendment 155 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point x c (new)
Paragraph 1 – point x c (new)
(x c) to ensure that governments have the opportunity to adopt socially and ecologically responsible procurement policies. Procurement provisions should not prevent governments from addressing societal and environmental needs. In addition, public procurement policies should be in line with ILO Convention 94 regarding labour clauses in public contracts.