6 Amendments of Maria ARENA related to 2017/2057(INI)
Amendment 47 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point h
Paragraph 1 – point h
(h) on the negotiations on trade in goods, to seek ambitious improvements to market access across tariff lines, lifting unnecessary barriers, while respecting that there are a number of sensitive agricultural and industrial products which should be given appropriate treatment, for example though tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) or, allocated adequate transition periods or excluded, as necessary; to include a usable and effective bilateral safeguard clause enabling the temporary suspension of preferences, if, as a result of the entry into force of the modernised AA, a rise in imports causes or threatens to cause injuries to sensitive sectors;
Amendment 51 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point j
Paragraph 1 – point j
(j) on trade in services, to consider that the potential of the service sector is not fully accomplished in the current AA, and that a modernised AA should address unnecessary barriers to, while applying a positive list schedule to both market access and provide national treatment via a positive list schedulecommitments; to consider that commitments should be taken building on the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and that rules should be updated as necessary to account for new developments;
Amendment 60 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point n
Paragraph 1 – point n
(n) to ensure and explicitly foresee that the modernised AA does not prevent the parties’ ability to define, regulate, provide and support public services in the public interest, that it will by no means require governments to privatise any service nor preclude governments from expanding the range of services they supply to the public, and that it will not prevent governments from providing public services previously supplied by private service suppliers or from bringing back under public control services that governments have previously chosen to privatise; therefore to reject the application of ratchet and standstill clauses;
Amendment 61 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point o
Paragraph 1 – point o
(o) to consider that the modernised AA include for financial services a prudential carve-out building upon that contained in the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) to enshrine the policy space for the parties to regulate their financial and banking sectors with a view to ensuring the stability and integrity of the financial system; to include safeguard measures and general exceptions with regards to capital movements and payments, to be applied when these may cause, or threaten to cause, serious difficulties for the smooth operation of the economic and monetary union or the balance of payments of the EU; with regard to the exponential financial innovation worldwide, to base the inclusion of financial services in the modernised AA on the system of positive lists; to adopt a narrow definition of investments, so as to exclude the products which have a high potential to carry undeclared money;
Amendment 64 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point p
Paragraph 1 – point p
(p) to mandate the inclusion of a tax good governance clause and binding transparency standards that reaffirms the parties’ commitment to implement international standards in the fight against tax evasion, avoidance and elusion, in particular the relevant OECD recommendations on taxation (such as the initiative on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting), and that includes obligations for country-by- country reporting, automatic exchanges of information and the establishment of public registers of beneficial ownership;
Amendment 80 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point w
Paragraph 1 – point w
(w) to consider that negotiations on investment may be an opportunity to make progress towards a necessary international reform of the dispute settlement regime, to seek a commitment by all parties to put an end to investor-to-state dispute settlement (ISDS) based on ad hoc private arbitration, and to replace it with a public investment court system (ICS) with an appeal mechanism, with a view to preserving. The recourse to national and European competent courts should be favoured. If a public investment court system (ICS) is created it should have an appeal mechanism, strict rules on conflict of interest, a code of conduct enforceable by the President of the International Court of Justice and sanctions in case of non- compliance, consider investors’ obligations, avoid regulatory chill, preserve the right to regulate to achieve legitimate public policy objectives, prevent frivolous litigation and guarantee all democratic procedural guarantees, such as the right to access to justice (with particular attention to SMEs), judicial independency, transparency and accountability, while pursuing the establishment of a multilateral investment court (MIC);