Activities of Siôn SIMON related to 2014/2228(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) (A8-0175/2015 - Bernd Lange)
Amendments (10)
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point i
Paragraph 1 – point i
(i) to ensure that TTIP will make a significant positive contribution to creating more and betterquality jobs and set ambitious and enforceable global trade standards for sustainable development and labour;
Amendment 33 #
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 withaiming at the effective ratification, implementation and enforcement of the core ILO Cconventions of the ILO 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 dimension;levels of protection of labour and environmental standards. Where disputes arise labour provisions must be subject to arbitration measures including the possibility of imposing sanctions and penalties.
Amendment 51 #
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 56 #
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 the compliance with labour and social provisions must be subject to a monitoring process, which involves the social partners and civil society equally represented in all countries involved;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point v a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point v a (new)
(v a) to ensure an explicit exclusion of public services as referred to in Article 14 TFEU from the scope of application of TTIP, in order to ensure that national and local authorities have the freedom to introduce, adopt, maintain or repeal any measure with regard to the commissioning, organization, funding and provision of public services, as provided in article 168 TFEU (public health) and in Protocol 26 (Service of General Interest) of the EU Treaties. This exclusion should apply whether the services in question are organized as a monopoly, operating under exclusive rights or otherwise and whether publicly or privately funded and/or provided. Such services include, among others, health and social care services, social security systems, publicly funded education, railway and public transport, water, gas, and electricity services.
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point v b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point v b (new)
(v b) to ensure that ratched and standstill clauses do not apply to any public and social services. The full scope for re- nationalisation and re-municipalisation of services must be safeguarded.
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point viii
Paragraph 1 – point viii
(viii) to guarantee that agreement on anyInvestor-state dispute- settlement mechanism must take into account the results of the public consultation on investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), must be fully transparent and democratically accountable and must not hinder legislators from passing laws in th(ISDS) should be excluded from this agreement, and from CETA and other current EU trade agreements. A State-to- State dispute settlement system and the use of national courts are the most appropriate tools to address investments disputes. In any event, social and labour legislation including that initiated trough collective agrea of employment policy;ements must not be compromised as result of investment disputes.
Amendment 146 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point x a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point x a (new)
(x a) to guarantee that regulatory cooperation would ensure the inclusion of non-regression clauses and does not restrict the rights 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. Stakeholders, including social partners, should be included in the process of regulatory cooperation in a balanced representation. Possible negotiations on mode IV must be bound to functioning cross-border cooperation in administration and justice in Labour and Employment Law issues as a precondition to guarantee the full application of collective agreement wages and working conditions.
Amendment 154 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point x b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point x b (new)
(x b) to ensure that the provisions of the EU public procurement directive and its mandatory social clause must be applied in full in this agreement. Governments must have the opportunity to adopt socially and environmentally responsible procurement policies. Procurement provisions should not prevent governments from addressing societal and environmental needs. In addition, public procurement policies should include reference to ILO Convention 94 and Recommendation 84 regarding labour clauses in public contracts.
Amendment 762 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point xiv
Paragraph 1 – point d – point xiv
(xiv) to ensure that foreign investors are treated in a non-discriminatory fashion and have a fair opportunity to seek and achieve redress of grievances, which can be achieved withoutle benefiting from no greater rights than domestic investors; to oppose the inclusion of an ISDS mechanism; such a mechanism is not necessary in TTIP given the EU’s and the US’ developed legal systems; a state-to- state dispute settlement system and the use of national courts are the most appropriate tools to address investment disputin TTIP, as other options to enforce investment protection are available, such as domestic remedies;