10 Amendments of Brando BENIFEI related to 2015/2003(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
Citation 8 a (new)
– having regard to the conclusions of the 17th EU-China summit of 29 June 2015,
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas China has acknowledged the need for the threat of climate change to be addressed and has undertaken to adopt a protocol or other legal instrument that will enable a comprehensive agreement on the issue to be reached at the Paris Climate Change Conference;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
Recital G b (new)
Gb. whereas two massive explosions occurred at a warehouse in the port of Tianjin on August 12th, causing over 150 deaths; whereas another one took place on August 31st at a chemical plant in Dongying;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
O. whereas the Chinese Government acknowledges the importance and even the universality of human rights, but prefers to present this as an aspiration rather than a binding norm for the presentchooses not to regard them as legally binding;
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that President Xi Jinping is trying to give a new attractive face to Chinese politics through an attitude of openness and to impress world leaders by projecting both accessibility and powerful self-confidence; points out, however, that President Xi is not the new attractive face of Chinese politics for the country's civil rights activists, lawyers, journalists, bloggers and academics, who find their freedom curbed in a way not seen since decades; deplores with this regard that China's draft NGO law would tighten the government's control over civil society, intensifying an already existing repression and restriction of political and civil rights;
Amendment 275 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Notes that the explosions on 12 August in Tianjin and on 31 August in Dongying make it urgent for China to seriously address the issue of industrial safety, in particular in relation to corruption and impunity;
Amendment 293 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Underlines the urgency of environmental protection measures, bearing in mind, for example, that in 2014 only eight out of 74 major cities reached the national standard of PM 2.5 air pollution concentrations; warns that the double water crisis (massive pollution combined with increased water usage) could cause major political and social instability; welcomes the fact that under the new environmental protection law local cadres are accountable, also retroactively, for environmental damage caused during their tenure; stresses too that the lack of environmental protection not only fails to prevent environmental damage, but is also a source of unfair competition;
Amendment 306 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Observes that in recent years China's anti-terrorism policy has evolved rapidly from a somewhat reactive ‘defence against terror' approach to a proactive ‘war on terror', along with permanent ‘crisis management' entailing action to an unprecedented extent in affected regions and in society; is deeply concerned about the draft law on counter-terrorism, currently under discussion in China, which may lead to further violations of the rights to freedom of expression, assembly, association and religion, and legitimate human rights abuses in the name of security and the fight against terrorism, in particular in ethnic minority areas, such as Tibet and Xinjiang; calls on China to review its draft counter- terrorism law;
Amendment 323 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Notes with concern that in recent months the value of Chinese share indexes has dropped by a third and there have been hundreds of suspensions of trading owing to excessive falls in share prices – in July around 50% of all companies were the subject of trading suspensions – while emergency liquidity of tens of billions of euro was placed with brokerage companies and extraordinary measures were adopted to support the banking system, including a cut in interest rates, the reduction of bank reserves and the adoption of a share purchase programme to shore up the market;
Amendment 382 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Draws Beijing's attention to the indispensable role of the US and the EU with regard to China's modernisation goals, given its support for Putin against the West;