52 Amendments of Anja HAZEKAMP related to 2014/2228(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. having regard to the outcome of the public consultation launched by the European Commission about the protection on investment protection and ISDS in the TTIP,
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. having regard to the letter sent by the European Union’s chief negotiator, Ignacio García-Bercero, to his American counterpart, Daniel Mullany, in which, on 5th June 2014, he stated that ‘all documents related to the negotiations will remain closed to the public for up to 30 years’.
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the objective of the TTIP is to increase trade and investment between the European Union and the United States; promote the activities of large multinational corporations in the European Union and the United States, weakening the capacity of the European Union and its Member States to pass legislation which would limit the power these multinational corporations have in a deregulated free market;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the negotiations have attracted unprecedented public interestsocial rejection and public concern, given the potential negative economic, social and political impact of the TTIP;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the Committee on Petitions has received a number of petitions raising concerns aboutmany petitions, most of them expressing their concerns and rejection of the EU-US trade agreement (TTIP); whereas the petitioners’ main concernsareas of concern and rejection are related to risks regarding the quality of food imports, information allegedly collected by the US regarding natural and legal persons (the right of EU citizens to ‘digital self- determination’), transparency, negative economic impact, and protection of investors viaconsequences on employment, public services, social and workers’ rights, animal welfare and the loss of democratic sovereignty due to the Investor- State Dispute Settlement mechanism (ISDS);
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas 97% of the citizens who participated in the public consultation launched by the European Commission about investment protection rejected the inclusion in the TTIP of the ISDS instrument to settle disputes between investors,
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas it is important for Europethe need to get out of the commercial and agriculture to secure a mutually beneficial trade deal with the US in order to advance Europe’s position as a key player on the global marketal export policy is important for European agriculture;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas the import of products which fail to meet EU standards on animal welfare, food safety, human and animal health, put farmers, consumers and animals in the EU at a disadvantage
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas, in the context of these negotiations, more than 90% of the meetings the European Commission has had with social and economic actors have been with the representatives of large corporations and less than 10% of them have been with representatives of unions, NGOs, or social organisations,
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Recital D c (new)
Recital D c (new)
Dc. whereas, after research, the European Ombudsman expressed her concerns about the lack of transparency and public participation in the negotiations of the TTIP,
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Recital D d (new)
Recital D d (new)
Dd. whereas more than one and a half million European citizens, supported by more than 320 civil society organisations, have supported a European Citizens’ Initiative opposing TTIP and CETA.
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas respect for food safety and human and animal health standards will be a fundamental tenet of the negotitrade relations for European agriculture;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Recital D e (new)
Recital D e (new)
De. whereas not all MEPs have the right to access the reading rooms where some of the documents included in the negotiation can be read; and the conditions imposed on those who can access them make a meaningful consultation practically impossible,
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Recital D f (new)
Recital D f (new)
Df. whereas the defence of the interests of European citizens in the negotiations may have been badly affected by the mass surveillance of millions of European citizens, as well as their political representatives, carried out by the United States’ National Security Agency.
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines the importance ofat developing the trade relationship and bilateral investment between the European Union and the United States of America in order to help growth anda sustainable growth and the creation of quality employment and generate new economic opportunities; cannot lead to damaging our public services in any way, reducing labour rights, deregulating our legislation in the areas of environmental, food protection and animals welfare, or threaten basic democratic rights such as public participation in decision-making, transparency, or the sovereignty of states to regulate their own economy,
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas practices such as the treatment of poultry meat with chlorinated products, the treatment of pork meat with organic acid and the use of Somatotropin in bovine are commonly used in the meat and dairy sectors in the US;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Asks the European Commission to terminate the negotiations on TTIP immediately because of the lack of democratic safeguards, transparency, and public participation they entail,
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomesarns that with the objective of reducing unnecessary regulatory incompatibilities between the EU and the USA in relation to goods and services, such as duplication of procedures, inconsistentthe basic guarantees established by European legislation in food safety and pharmaceutical products requirements and double testing;re being put at risk,
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas the use of antibiotics in the EU is more restrictive than in the US and the US has not banned other pharmaceutical products as growth promoters in animals including the use of ractopanima, banned in 160 countries;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls the European Commission to oppose TTIP because of the pernicious political, economic, social and environmental consequences we have been warned about in many petitions,
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls the European Commission to oppose the inclusion of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) in the TTIP if the negotiations were to continue,
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas there is a majority both in the European Parliament and amongst EU citizens which demands a prohibition of products from cloned animals and their descendants;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that regulatory compatibility is to be without prejudice tof public services or the right to regulate in accordance with the level of health, safety, consumer, labour andaccess to medicines, data protection, labour rights, consumers rights, environmental protection, animal welfare and cultural diversity that each side considers appropriate;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Recital C d (new)
Recital C d (new)
Cd. whereas the EU animal welfare standards have no equivalence in the US;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the importance of the mobility package, considering the visa facilitation for European service and goods providers to be one of the key elements in taking full advantage of the TTIP agreement, and requests that it is extended to citizens of third countries residing in the European Union or the United States, while protecting labour rights and securing quality employment throughout the territory;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Recital C h (new)
Recital C h (new)
Ch. whereas existing agreements between the US and the EU, particularly those relating to the recognition by the United States of winemaking practices, recognition of geographical indications for this sector, agreements related to sanitary measures for the protection of public and animal health have not solved today divergent conception of risk analysis;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Recital C i (new)
Recital C i (new)
Ci. whereas the import of products which fail to meet EU standards on animal welfare, food safety, human and animal health, put farmers, consumers and animals in the EU at a disadvantage;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Recital C l (new)
Recital C l (new)
Cl. whereas the approval of TTIP would obstruct efforts to save bee populations, risking irrevocable damage to the quality and quantity of our food supply;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Recital C m (new)
Recital C m (new)
Cm. whereas the approval of TTIP would install a ‘regulatory ceiling’ hampering global pesticide regulation.
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Condemns the lack of transparency and public participation, and the obscurantism that surrounds the negotiations of the TTIP; supports the request of the European Ombudsman that the documents agreed on in the negotiations are published as soon as they are written; and calls the European Commission to reconsider its decision of blocking and rejecting the European Citizens’ Initiative about the TTIP.
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point a
Paragraph 1 – point a
a. prioritise an ambitious and balanced result of the negotiations for agriculture, the three main components of which (market access, geographical indications and sanitary and phytosanitary measures) should be tackled early and in parallel reorientation of trade and agricultural policy by removing the negotiation process, in order to give Parliament enough time to discuss and evaluate this chapter with stakeholders and European citizeagriculture and food out of the negotiations;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Suggests that a more proactive approach to transparency on the part of the Commission could make the negotiating process more legitimate in the eyes of citizeCalls the Commission to publish all documents agreed on in the negotiations, and encourages the Commission to publish documents and make meetingpublish all information available on the TTIP;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Asks the Commission to ensure that the list of TTIP documents available on its dedicated trade policy website is comprehensive and to facilitate the access to this information by holding regular meetings with unions, NGOs, and civil society organisations;
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Highlights the sensitivity of certain areas of negotiation, such as the agricultural sector, where perceptions of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), cloning and consumer healthlabelling information requirements, cloning, environmental requirements and all other consumer and animal health standards are divergent between the European Union and the United States;
Amendment 105 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point b
Paragraph 1 – point b
b. firmly commit to the strict preservation of standards on food safety and, human and animal health and animal welfare, as defined under EU legislation, and ensure that fundamental values of the EU such as the precautionary principle are not undermin, the recognition of animals as sentient beings as enshrined in Article 13 TFEU, and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union are not undermined and will be respected;
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Calls the European Commission to firmly commit to the strict preservation of standards on food safety, human and animal health and animal welfare, as defined under EU legislation, and ensure that fundamental values of the EU such as the precautionary principle, the recognition of animals as sentient beings as enshrined in Article 13 TFEU, and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union are not undermined and will be respected;
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9 b. Calls the European Commission to prevent products that have not been produced in line with EU food safety, human and animal health, and animal welfare standards from entering the EU- market;
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9 c. Calls the European Commission to ensure that products such as GMOs or products coming from cloned animals and their descendants, and with substances banned in the EU, do no enter the EU market or end up in the EU food chain;
Amendment 110 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Emphasises that consumer protection and compliance with higher European quality standards for foods and products should be at the crespond to specific demands and requirementres of the negotiations on the TTIPEuropean citizens.
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Emphasises that respect to each state’s sovereignty and the sovereignty of the European Union itself to pass legislation and regulate the economy must be the core of TTIP negotiations.
Amendment 119 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
ba. prevent products that have not been produced in line with EU food safety, human and animal health, and animal welfare standards from entering the EU-market;
Amendment 125 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point b b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point b b (new)
bb. prevent any interference of non- democratic or non-EU bodies in or prior to the democratic decision making process in the EU regarding any future SPS- measures that might be considered;
Amendment 137 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point c
Paragraph 1 – point c
c. ensure a positive final outcome of the negotiations for agriculture reflecting both the offensive and defensive interests of the EU agricultural sector concerning the abolition or reduction of both tariff and non-tariff barriers, including in particular sanitary and phytosanitary standards andthat trade relations between the EU and the US do not put access to land for feeding local populations at risk; prevent products coming to market with proicedures, so that EU producers make genuine gains s below costs of production, including terms of access to the US markethe correct remuneration of the producers;
Amendment 156 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point d
Paragraph 1 – point d
d. secensure a level playing field, treating as sensitive those products for which direct competition would expose EU agricultural producers to excessive pressure, for example in cases where regulatory conditions and related costs of production in the EU diverge from those in the USthat the precautionary principle is not called into question, as this means the defence of quality standards and food safety demanded by European consumers, and serves as an added value that ensure the maintenance of public health;
Amendment 187 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point e
Paragraph 1 – point e
e. secure significantly improvedthe protection of EU geographical indications and better consumer information as an essential element of a balanced agreement, taking the relevant chapter of the CETA with Canada as a good example;
Amendment 203 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point e a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point e a (new)
ea. not question the aspects relating to the establishment of standards of European public procurement law, as applied in practice, especially at regional and local level, when you take into account, for example, compliance labour and social legislation and collective agreements, GPP, local hiring and prioritize local development, or attention to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), which ensures that, when awarding the contract to the highest bidder, you can weigh in addition to price, other criteria such as social aspects related to sustainability;
Amendment 211 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point f
Paragraph 1 – point f
f. engage in a fully transparent, timely and comprehensive manner with all agricultural stakeholders on all aspects of the negotiations.sure the application of the Lisbon Treaty Article 218.10 (TFEU) which says that the European Parliament shall be immediately and fully informed at all stages of the procedure;
Amendment 218 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point f a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point f a (new)
fa. encourage ambition in the EU trading partners during the negotiations or bilateral talks, to improve their domestic animal welfare legislation to standards better than, or at least comparable to, EU standards on animal welfare;
Amendment 219 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point f a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point f a (new)
fa. ensure that products such as GMOs or coming from cloned animals and their descendants, and with substances banned in the EU do no enter the EU market or end up in the EU food chain;
Amendment 225 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point f b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point f b (new)
fb. ensure a level playing field by introducing a labelling requirement for imported products that are produced by production methods that are not compliant with EU standards on animal welfare, food safety, human and animal health;
Amendment 226 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point f b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point f b (new)
fb. remove regulatory cooperation and any investor-state dispute settlement body (ISDS) as these defy EU standards on animal welfare, food safety, public and animal health, transparency, accountability and traceability.