Activities of Anne-Marie MINEUR

Dennis de JONG, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Marie-Christine VERGIAT

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the right to freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) is a human right inherent to all human beings and a fundamental right of individuals which should be subjected to no kind of discrimination, as enshrined by international and European founding texts, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union;

2018/09/13
Committee: AFET

2018/2155(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas FoRB implies the unlimited right of B. the individual to ~~choos~~have what toever belie~~ve, the right to change one’s religion and convictions without any constraints, and the right to practise and manifest the religion of one’s choice, whe~~f, including theistic, non- theistic and atheistic beliefs, and the right to change one’s religion or belief; whereas FoRB also includes the freedom, either individually or in community ~~and whether~~with others and in private or in public~~; whereas the~~, to manifest~~ation of~~ one’s religion or belief ~~can be expressed~~ in worship, ~~teaching~~observance, practice and observance; whereas FoRB entails the right of believers’ communities to preserve their ethos and to act in accordance with it, and the entitlement for their religious organisations to have recognised legal personality; whereas protecting individuals adhering to any religion or none and effectively addressing violations of FoRB, such as discrteaching; whereas no one shall be subject to coercion which would impair one’s freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of one’s choice; whereas freedom to manifest one’s religion or belief may be subject only to such limintation ~~or legal restrictions based on religion or belief, are primordial conditions to ensure that individuals may enjoy FoRB on an equal basi~~s as are prescribed by law and are necessary to protect public safety, order, health, or morals or the fundamental rights and freedoms of others;

2018/09/13
Committee: AFET

2018/2155(INI)

Dennis de JONG, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Marie-Christine VERGIAT

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas ~~FoRB is~~all human rights and fundamental freedoms are indivisible, is interdependent on and interrelated ~~to fundamental freedoms~~ , and freedom to manifest one’s religion or belief includes and is dependent on elements of mandy other human rights, and ~~is a cornerstone~~fundamental freedoms, such as freedom of expression, and freedom of assembly and association and should be considered a basic human right ~~that~~ protect~~s the core of human dignity~~ing one’s fundamental outlook on life;

2018/09/13
Committee: AFET

2018/2155(INI)

Dennis de JONG, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Marie-Christine VERGIAT

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas respect for FoRB directly contributes to democracy, development, the rule of law, peace and stability; whereas violations of FoRB are increasingly widespread, affect people in all parts of the world and may exacerbate intolerance, often constituting early indicators of potential violence and conflicts;

2018/09/13
Committee: AFET

2018/2155(INI)

Dennis de JONG, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Marie-Christine VERGIAT

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas the EU has promoted FoRB, at international level and through multilateral fora, in particular by taking the lead on thematic resolutions on FoRB at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) and the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and supporting the mandate of and engaging with the UN Special Rapporteur on FoRB, but also through cooperation with ~~those third countries that have similar FoRB guidelines and special envoys, such as the United Stat~~like-minded third countries;

2018/09/13
Committee: AFET

2018/2155(INI)

Dennis de JONG, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Marie-Christine VERGIAT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Stresses that religion or belief ~~is an important undeniable pillar of human identity, greatly impacting individuals and societies, and is therefore a reality that~~for anyone who professes either, is one of the fundamental elements in one conception of life and must not be neglected or denied in policies but requires proper recognition and addressing;

2018/09/13
Committee: AFET

2018/2155(INI)

4. Stresses that, in accordance with Article 21 TEU, the EU and its Member States have pledged to enhance respect for human rights, as a principle guiding EU foreign policy; strongly welcomes the fact that the 2013 EU Guidelines mainstream th~~is fundamental freedom~~e promotion and protection of FoRB into EU foreign policy and external actions, and in this regard calls for ~~its~~ further strengthening activities aimed at awareness raising and implementation of the Guidelines;

2018/09/13
Committee: AFET

2018/2155(INI)

Dennis de JONG, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Marie-Christine VERGIAT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses that, in accordance with Article 17 TEU, the EU is committed to maintaining open, transparent and regular dialogues with churches and religious, philosophical and non-confessional organisations; highlights the supporting effect of these dialogues for respect for other human rights, equal rights for women, children’s rights, as well as for democracy, development, the rule of law, good governance, peace and stability, and environmental and labour standards; ~~stresses that such interreligious and intercultural dialogues are often met by greater openness by some EU international partners and create a starting-point for progress in other areas;~~

2018/09/13
Committee: AFET

2018/2155(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Welcomes the enhancement of the promotion of FoRB in EU foreign policy and external actions over recent years, in particular through the EU Global Strategy for foreign policy and security and the 2015-2019 EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy; ~~welcomes the fact that this enhancement is being met with an increased commitment on the part of many partner countries to comply with the respective Articles 18 of the UDHR and ICCPR~~refers in this respect to the activities of the EU Special Representative for Human Rights who consistently raised FoRB, inter alia, during High Level Human Rights Dialogues with third countries;

2018/09/13
Committee: AFET

2018/2155(INI)

Dennis de JONG, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Marie-Christine VERGIAT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Stresses the importance of linking up efforts to promote FoRB ~~and inter- and intra-religious dialogues with~~with religious and belief literacy in general; recognises in this respect the positive role religious and belief communities and their organisations can play for the pr~~even~~omotion of ~~violent extremism on a complementary and mutually reinforcing basis, in particular within neighbouring and other countries with which the EU has special relations~~development, good governance, humanitarian aid and peace-keeping through reconciliation activities; is convinced of the usefulness of inter- and intra-religious and belief dialogues for the prevention of violent extremism;

2018/09/13
Committee: AFET

2018/2155(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Welcomes the fact that the Special Envoy has developed effective working networks within the Commission, as well as with the Council, ~~and~~ the European Parliament, a~~s well as with~~nd other stakeholders; ~~deplo~~regrets, however, th~~e fact that the Special Envoy’s mandate was not established and consolidated with sufficient~~at due to his place within the Commission, and despite attempts to come to informal arrangements, co-operation between the Special Envoy and the EEAS was not optimal and made it difficult for the Special Envoy to draw upon the EEAS’ human and financial resources;

2018/09/13
Committee: AFET

2018/2155(INI)

Dennis de JONG, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Marie-Christine VERGIAT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the Council and the Commission to strengthen the Special Envoy’s institutional mandate and capacity, by earmarking funding and human resources adequate to the Envoy’s duties, developing a systemic institutionalisation of working networks established by the Special Envoy within all relevant EU institutions or establishing the position of the EU Special Representative for FoRB;deleted

2018/09/13
Committee: AFET

2018/2155(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 – introductory part

12. Calls on the Council and the Commission to cre~~flect on creating the EU Special Representative for FoRB~~ate, beginning during the new legislative term a post for a truly EU Special Envoy on Religion or Belief and Society, working closely together with the EU Special Representative for Human Rights and acting as Special Advisor and in this capacity reporting directly to the High Representative/Vice-President; considers that the competences and mandate of this Special ~~Representative~~Envoy should include:

2018/09/13
Committee: AFET

2018/2155(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 – point e a (new)

(ea) acting as focal point for all issues relating to religion or belief and society insofar as these emerge in the relations with third countries;

2018/09/13
Committee: AFET

2018/2155(INI)

Dennis de JONG, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Marie-Christine VERGIAT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 – point e b (new)

(eb) organising training and awareness-raising activities on religious and belief literacy for staff in the EEAS, including the EU Delegations, and in the Member States’ Ministries of Foreign Affairs, including their embassies;

2018/09/13
Committee: AFET

2018/2155(INI)

~~14. Recommends that the title and mandate of the Special Envoy visibly include the promotion of interreligious dialogue and interfaith cooperation;~~deleted

2018/09/13
Committee: AFET

2018/2155(INI)

Dennis de JONG, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Marie-Christine VERGIAT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Recommends the setting up of a regular advisory working group of Member States’ FoRB institutions and European Parliament representatives together with experts, scholars, and representatives of civil society, ~~including churches and other faith-based organisations,~~ providing advice on FoRB issues to assist the Special Envoy;

2018/09/13
Committee: AFET

2018/2155(INI)

Dennis de JONG, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Marie-Christine VERGIAT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Recommends that the Special Envoy further develops cooperation with counterparts outside the EU, in particular by working in close cooperation with the UN Special Rapporteur on FoRB~~, as well as exploring the possibility of EU-UN joint annual reporting on discrimination against religious minorities, also formulating common proposals on how to put an end to such acts~~;

2018/09/13
Committee: AFET

2018/2155(INI)

Dennis de JONG, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Marie-Christine VERGIAT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Commends, in this respect, the efforts made to date by the EEAS and the Commission to provide training on religious and belief literacy to EU officials and national diplomats; stresses, however, the need for broader and more systematic training programmes which would raise awareness of and increase the use of the EU Guidelines among the EU’s and Member States’ officials and diplomats and strengthen cooperation with the Special Envoy; asks for ~~churches and religious communities and association~~organisations based on religions or beliefs to be involved in this training process; calls on the Commission and the Council to earmark resources for establishing such training programmes;

2018/09/13
Committee: AFET

2018/2155(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Calls on the ~~Commission and the EEAS to produce EU Annual Repo~~HR/VP to submit annual progress reports in respect of the implementation of the EU Guidelines, as parts o~~n FoRB in the world, to be communica~~f the general human rights report , to be submitted to the European Parliament and the Council; notes that the EU Guidelines provide for an evaluation of their implementation by COHOM after a period of three years, and that no such evaluation has been communicated or made public; calls for the evaluation to be made public without delay; considers that the evaluation should highlight best practices, identify areas for improvement, and provide concrete recommendations on implementation in accordance with a specified timeline and milestones subject to regular annual evaluation; calls for the evaluation to be ~~includ~~submitted into the E~~U Annual Reports on FoRB in the world~~uropean Parliament and the Council;

2018/09/13
Committee: AFET

2018/2155(INI)

Dennis de JONG, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Marie-Christine VERGIAT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)

23a. Recommends the EU Special Representative for Human Rights and the Special Envoy to pursue their efforts to bring forward the Istanbul Process on promoting tolerance and inclusion, ending violence and discrimination based on religion or belief, following the UN Rabat Plan of Action and to offer hosting the next round of this process; welcomes the ‘Faith for Rights’ initiative of March 2017 of the OHCHR, that led to the adoption by religious leaders and civil society actors of the Beirut Declaration and its eighteen commitments; recommends the EU institutions to support and mobilise all the actors of the ‘Faith for Rights’ initiative to promote the universal and uniform goals of the Declaration, across the world;

2018/09/13
Committee: AFET

2018/2155(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Stresses that the EU’s policies in the fields of peace, security and conflict prevention and development and cooperation face challenges, for which solutions can be devised with the participation of ~~churches, religious leaders, academics, religious communities and associations or faith-based organis~~religious and belief communities and their associations that are a critical part of civil society; acknowledges the importance of being mindful of the diversity of ~~churches, religious~~religious and belief communities and associations ~~and faith-based organisations~~ which perform actual development and humanitarian work for and with communities; calls on the Council and the Commission to incorporate, where relevant, objectives and activities relating to the promotion and protection of FoRB into the programming of funding instruments linked to those policies, namely the EDF, the DCI, the ENI, the IcSP and the IPA;

2018/09/13
Committee: AFET

2018/2107(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 b (new)

– having regard to Article 208 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union(TFEU),

2018/12/19
Committee: INTA

2018/2107(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 c (new)

– having regard to its resolution of 27 April 2017 on the EU flagship initiative on the garment sector. 1a __________________ 1a Texts adopted, P8_TA(2017)0196.

2018/12/19
Committee: INTA

2018/2107(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 k (new)

– having regard to the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals;

2018/12/19
Committee: INTA

2018/2107(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas Article 207 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU)stipulates that the EU’s trade policy must be built on the principles and objectives of EU external policy; whereas Article 208 of the TFEU establishes the principle of policy coherence for development and sets the eradication of poverty as the main objective; whereas the Commission’s Trade for All communication bases EU trade policy on three key principles – effectiveness, transparency and values;

2018/12/19
Committee: INTA

2018/2107(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union states that the Union must contribute, among other things, to sustainable development, the eradication of poverty and the protection of human rights; whereas Article 21 TEU provides that (i) the EU's action on the international scene must be guided, inter alia, by the universality and indivisibility of human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the respect for human dignity; and (ii)that the EU must define and pursue common policies and actions so as to, inter alia, support human rights;

2018/12/19
Committee: INTA

2018/2107(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas EU trade policy must not undermine, either directly or indirectly, the promotion and protection of human rights and civil space in developing countries; whereas the European Union must internationally promote a trade policy in where people and planet are in the centre;

2018/12/19
Committee: INTA

2018/2107(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)

Eb. whereas there are no concrete and substantial improvements in terms of human rights and social rights and that there are even allegations that the production benefited by the GSP is encouraging land grabbing and the violation of labour and human rights in several of the countries covered by the GSP;

2018/12/19
Committee: INTA

2018/2107(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Motion for a resolution
Recital E c (new)

Ec. whereas the particular situation of Export Processing Zones (EPZs) is such that in some countries they are exempt from local labour laws and forbid or limit union activity, and that workers have no recourse to legal redress there, which constitutes a clear violation of ILO standards; whereas corruption and exemptions from labour laws and taxation in EPZs could have a negative impact on human rights, in particular by undermining decent work and trade unions;

2018/12/19
Committee: INTA

2018/2107(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Motion for a resolution
Recital E c (new)

Ec. whereas GSP might lead to an increased dependence on exportation of raw materials that intensifies the pressure on land and water resources, which could lead more quickly to deforestation and reduction of biodiversity; Whereas GSP could be used as an instrument of political pressure from the developed economies to promote the support of the developing countries in various aspects of their international agendas;

2018/12/19
Committee: INTA

2018/2107(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Motion for a resolution
Recital E e (new)

Ee. whereas gender equality in all EU policies is firmly established in Article 8 of the TFEU; whereas trade and investment agreements tend to affect women and men differently on account of structural gender inequalities; whereas according to the ILO, in 2012 21 million people worldwide, of whom 55 % were women and girls, were the victims of forced labour, with 90 % of these were exploited in the private economy by individuals or enterprises;

2018/12/19
Committee: INTA

2018/2107(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Acknowledges that the GSP scheme has brought economic gains to the beneficiary countries and the EU, with increased exports to the EU and improved preference utilisation rates by EBA and GSP+ beneficiaries, but that in some cases the inequality rate of the countries remains high; urges the EU to work on raising awareness of the GSP rules in the beneficiary countries to promote an even better uptake of the scheme, and to monitor the distribution the wealth eventually produced by the use of the schemes;

2018/12/19
Committee: INTA

2018/2107(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Emphasises that, overall, the GSP scheme appears to have created incentives for ratifying international conventions and has therefore created a better framework for progress; stresses the importance of measures to ensure that GSP enhances positive environmental development; nevertheless, considers these achievements to be too limited and insufficient; stresses that much has to be done in beneficiary countries to achieve a sustainable development model;

2018/12/19
Committee: INTA

2018/2107(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Emphasises that acts of secondary EU law must be both designed and interpreted in line with primary EU law and general principles of EU law; thus, calls for a reform of the GSP Regulation that would lead to bind the European Commission to withdraw GSP treatment from third countries that fail to adequately address established violations of human rights within their jurisdiction;

2018/12/19
Committee: INTA

2018/2107(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Acknowledges the progress on effective implementation through increased monitoring and dialogue between the EU and the beneficiary countries; stresses the need for continued engagement and further improvement of transparency in GSP+ monitoring and better involvement of civil society and trade unions; in this regard calls for the establishment of joint oversight commissions with the participation of local civil society and trade union representatives, private sector and beneficiary government; takes the view that further coordination and burden- sharing between the embassies of Member States in beneficiary countries is required to streamline the monitoring process;

2018/12/19
Committee: INTA

2018/2107(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls on the Commission to address shrinking space for civil society, threats to independent trade unions and obstacles to EU funding to NGOs in monitoring, scorecards, GSP+ dialogues and “Enhanced Engagement”, as these issues are directly related to legal obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and relevant provisions of the International Labour Organisation core conventions, in line with the COM Trade for All communication that bases the EU trade policy on three key principles – effectiveness, transparency and values;

2018/12/19
Committee: INTA

2018/2107(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Suggests that the future reform of GSP+ should take into consideration a progressive phase-in approach, in which tariff reductions would be increased as benchmarks based on achievements in terms of sustainable development are met; emphasize the conditionality of trade preferences to improvements on social and environmental protection;

2018/12/19
Committee: INTA

2018/2107(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Calls on the Commission to lay down specific objectives and benchmarks with regard to the effective implementation of international conventions and systematically include these in the human rights country strategy papers with a view to ensuring consistency and mainstreaming human rights into trade policy;

2018/12/19
Committee: INTA

2018/2107(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 c (new)

6c. Encourages the establishment of an independent and formal complaints mechanism related to the effective implementation of obligations under international conventions under GSP+, in order to take into account all available information, including from reliable local stakeholders;

2018/12/19
Committee: INTA

2018/2107(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 e (new)

6e. Calls on the Commission to include ILO Convention 169 on Indigenous Peoples, within the other fundamental binding conventions to be eligible for GSP, as an essential instrument to curve land grabbing and key human rights violations;

2018/12/19
Committee: INTA

2018/2107(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Takes note of the first safeguard investigation under the regulation and considers that this clause should ensure that the EU’s social, environmental, financial and economic interests are protected while being able to offer preferences for sensitive products; stresses the need to ensure the effective implementation of international conventions by the beneficiary countries in order to prevent increased levels of environmental and social dumping;

2018/12/19
Committee: INTA

2018/2107(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Highlights that the GSP has made the corporate sector more dynamic, resulting in an increased number of women in the labour force in the industries of the export countries that trade with the EU; notes however that despite some limited improvements women continue to be discriminated and is concerned in particular for the condition of women in the Ready Made Garment (RMG) sector;

2018/12/19
Committee: INTA

2018/2107(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Welcomes the effect that the GSP has had on private corporations’ initiatives to adopt cleaner and safer technologies, and the direct positive impact thereof on workers and the environment; takes the view that measures to further encourage this development should be planned; calls consequently on the establishment of due- diligence obligations on EU actors along the value chain in order to ensure a level- playing field among private corporations who have voluntarily engaged in these initiatives and those who have not done so; stresses in this regard that many of the calls that the European Parliament expressed in its resolution of 27 April 2017 on the EU flagship initiative on the garment sector have not been met yet; welcomes the effect that the GSP has had on private corporations’ initiatives to adopt cleaner and safer technologies, and the direct positive impact thereof on workers and the environment; takes the view that measures to further encourage this development should be planned;

2018/12/19
Committee: INTA

2018/2106(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas the political dialogue and cooperation pillar are still not applied as not all Member States have ratified the AA; whereas the non-application of this two pillars involve an imbalance between trade-related issues and political-issues namely EU´s core values such as promotion of democracy and human rights;

2018/10/18
Committee: INTA

2018/2106(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas the human rights situation in several CA countries is worrying;

2018/10/18
Committee: INTA

2018/2106(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Is of the opinion that the AA tries to meet one of its key initial aims as it intends to strengthen the process of regional integration among the CA countries by supporting intra-regional institutions, cooperation and dialogues, contributing to the achievement of TEU art 21, the universal UN´s Agenda 2030 for sustainable development and contributing, under the framework of the principle of Policy Coherence for development as stated in TFUE Article 208, to the complementarity of their productive sectors, facilitating fair cross- border exchanges and fostering regional sustainable economic growth; reiterates that the AA contributes to consolidating the broader strategic dimension of the partnership between the EU and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC); considers it essential to ensure the full entry into force of the AA, which is pending internal ratification by some EU Member States, and the effective and adequate implementation of all the provisions of the trade pillar by both parties;

2018/10/18
Committee: INTA

2018/2106(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Highlights that the development of specific anticorruption and public finance-related provisions are need to surpass the fact that liberalisation of trade in goods and services with developing countries increases the threat of money laundering, and that it is therefore likely to contribute to an increase in illicit financial flows from developing countries to the EU;

2018/10/18
Committee: INTA

2018/2106(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Takes note of the different country reports carried out by the ILO and of the challenges that still remain; calls on the CA countries concerned to eradicate violence against trade unionists, human rights defenders and indigenous peoples, and to take legislative measures to effectively implement ILO fundamental conventions on freedom of association, collective bargaining and non- discrimination, and child labour; stresses the importance of strengthening labour inspections and enhancing social dialogue; is deeply concerned on the deficits on social standards of garment sector industry of some CA countries;

2018/10/18
Committee: INTA

2018/2106(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Recalls that the thresholds established under the Stabilisation Mechanism for Bananas, annexed to the Agreement and applicable until 2020, should ~~not be exceed~~be carefully examined, and that once it expires parties should continue to provide statistics, including on Fair Trade and organic produce;

2018/10/18
Committee: INTA

2018/2098(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Dennis de JONG, Peter van DALEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Reaffirms that freedom of thought, conscience, religion and belief, ~~and~~which includes the rights to apostasy and to espouse atheistic views, must be enhanced unconditionally through support for interreligious and intercultural dialogue; condemns the persecution of and attacks against ethnic and religious groups in 2017; deplores the attempts by state actors to limit freedom of religion and belief, freedom of assembly and freedom of expression by adopting and implementing blasphemy laws, among other means; requests that further action be taken to protect religious minorities, non-believers and atheists, including the victims of blasphemy laws, and calls for the EU and its Member States to increase their engagement in political discussions to repeal such laws; supports the EU’s efforts to implement the Guidelines on the promotion and protection of fother violations of freedom of religion or belief; Calls for the EU to strengthen efforts to implement the Guidelines on the promotion and protection of freedom of religion or belief; Requests that the EEAS publishes its Guidance Note on the Guidelines; calls for the relocation of the Special Envoy on Freedom of rReligion or bBelief outside of the EU from the Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development to the EEAS, to report directly to the HR/VP;

2018/09/06
Committee: AFET

2018/2085(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Is concerned about the incompatibility of the blockchain technology with the right to be forgotten, and stresses that blockchain can pose a serious threat to the privacy of EU citizens;

2018/10/22
Committee: INTA

2018/2085(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)

13b. Remarks that the users of blockchain and blockchain applications should at all times have access to all data related to transactions in which they are directly or indirectly involved;

2018/10/22
Committee: INTA

2018/2085(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Is concerned about the potential environmental costs of the blockchain technology, and stresses that the EU and Member States should always use the Paris Agreement and SDGs as a starting point while researching, developing and facilitating the use of blockchain;

2018/10/22
Committee: INTA

2018/2085(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19a. Expresses its concern about the fact that the blockchain technology is an unregulated practice, vulnerable to market manipulation and other risks, while it remains unclear how accountability mechanisms could be enforced in case of scams, hacks etc.

2018/10/22
Committee: INTA

2018/2085(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22a. Urges the Commission to involve privacy experts and CSOs in its research of the possible applications of blockchain, outlining the consequences of blockchain in the context of international and European privacy protection and rights;

2018/10/22
Committee: INTA

2018/2085(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)

23a. Is sceptical about the application of blockchain technology to the public domain as long as regulatory oversight is not safeguarded;

2018/10/22
Committee: INTA

2018/2037(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

A a. Whereas a broad coalition of NGO's has addressed the structural problems of the CAP, also related to international trade, referring to "an unfair system for farmers, a constant crisis on agricultural markets, a continuous decline in the state of natural resources, failures in delivering on animal welfare, negative public health outcomes, and severe negative impacts beyond Europe's borders"1a; _________________ 1aLetter dated 22nd March 2016 to President Juncker, subject: "CAP Fitness Check - Can the CAP deliver a sustainable European food and farming system?"

2018/03/28
Committee: INTA

2018/2037(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Underlines that EU trade policy can contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the common agricultural policy (CAP), notably ensuring a fair standard of living for the agricultural community and that supplies reach consumers at reasonable prices; stresses that the EU agri-food sector should take advantage of the opportunities for growth offered by exports, given that an estimated 90 % of additional global demand for agri- food products over the next decade will come from outside Europe; stresses that so-called developing countries should have enough opportunities to establish and maintain a strong agri-food sector on their own;

2018/03/28
Committee: INTA

2018/2037(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Notes that the export of agricultural EU products has considerable consequences for the production processes in third countries; urges to phase-out export subsidies in order to avoid further market distortion in so-called developing countries;

2018/03/28
Committee: INTA

2018/2037(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Insists that processes and production methods (PPM) are an essential part of social, economic and environmental standards in global agricultural trade, and encourages the Commission to urge the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to acknowledge PPM as such;

2018/03/28
Committee: INTA

2018/2037(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2 b. Calls on the Commission to incorporate enforceable mechanisms, including sanctions, in Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) chapters in trade agreements;

2018/03/28
Committee: INTA

2018/2037(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Commission, in the context of ongoing and future bilateral trade negotiations with third countries, to approach with the utmost care the liberalisation of market access in sensitive agricultural sectors and to consider transition periods, tariff-rate quotas, appropriate safeguarding measures and the exclusion of the most sensitive products; notes that this predominantly concerns beef, other meat, rice, wheat, other cereals, sugar, and dairy products; emphasizes that this approach reciprocal also applies to third countries, regarding their own sensitive agricultural sectors;

2018/03/28
Committee: INTA

2018/2037(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Notes that the Commission in its reflection paper on “Harnessing Globalization” rightly signals the demand for more fair trade and sustainable and local products as a changing trend in globalization; stresses that EU trade policy can extensively contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and climate goals set in the Paris Agreement; notes that the production of soy and palm oil leads to the destruction of nature, emission of greenhouse gasses and the undermining of land rights for small farmers and indigenous peoples; notes that the import of these products hinders both the aspirations of the European Commission and the sustainability goals agreed upon; foresees that some of the trade agreements the EU is currently negotiating will only increase the production of soy and palm oil and the import of these products to the EU; proposes therefore to introduce import duties on soy and palm oil, promoting European production of protein and oil crops; proposes import duties on biofuels, among others those based on sugar cane; proposes that the EU stimulates the development and use of alternatives for these biofuels, and becomes as self- sufficient as possible;

2018/03/28
Committee: INTA

2018/2037(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4 b. Calls for the prohibition of all forms of seed patenting, in order to protect farmers against the pressure and power of multinationals producing seeds, and to protect local varieties as well as our genetic and cultural heritage;

2018/03/28
Committee: INTA

2018/2037(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4 c. Calls on the Commission to improve the transparency of the supply chain by means of mandatory labelling, possibly by making use of block chain technology; urges the Commission to investigate the possibilities thereof and present its findings to the European Parliament;

2018/03/28
Committee: INTA

2018/2037(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Regrets the lack of progress on domestic support in agriculture at the 11th WTO Ministerial Conference; reiterates that any future EU position on this topic must duly respect the framework of the reformed CAP; invites EU trading partners, in this regard, to make commitments to reducing trade-distorting domestic support; calls on the WTO members that continue to grant export subsidies to implement the Ministerial Decision on Export Competition adopted in Nairobi on 19 December 2015;

2018/03/28
Committee: INTA

2018/2037(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Demands that the Commission stay vigilant and step up the Union’s defensive action towards resolving existing and future market access barriers in third countries, which are increasing, the majority of which affect agricultural products (27 % according to the Commission’s Market Access Database), which in turn relate predominantly to SPS market access measures.deleted

2018/03/28
Committee: INTA

2018/2005(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Notes that in general enforceable regulation for the protection of workers and the environment did not keep pace with the development of increasing globalisation, in which governments' neo- liberal policies have facilitated companies under the pretext of economic growth, leading to profit-maximizing and value for private shareholders, with neglect of the protection of public interests;

2018/07/02
Committee: INTA

2018/2005(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Is concerned the global Labour Income is decreasing, while the rent on capital is increasing, causing a widening gap between income groups and rising inequality on a global scale; notes that the free flow of financial capital is the main cause of these inequalities, and has led to several financial crises; notes that the lack of possibilities of capital controls was one of the root causes of the euro-crises, most evidently in Greece; calls upon the Commission, in collaboration with the Member States and consulting international institutions, to outline the possibilities within the EU and international fora such as the OECD, to introduce forms of capital control;

2018/07/02
Committee: INTA

2018/2005(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Notes the importance of engaging in the restructuring of the world economic order and of respecting the needs of developing countries, while stressing that the aim of fulfilling the SDGs and the conditions of the Paris Agreement must provide the overarching framework; emphasises that EU's trade policy must be secondary to these aims; urges the Commission in its future reports on the implementation of free trade agreements to provide an evaluation, including data, of their impact on the fulfilment of the SDGs and Paris Agreement;

2018/07/02
Committee: INTA

2018/2005(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Reminds the Commission and Member States of their legal obligations on the basis of the Human Rights Conventions and Environmental Agreements; reiterates that these obligations should not be seen as a mere paper exercise; calls on the Commission and Member States to take up their duties to ensure compliance with internationally recognised human rights and environmental norms and standards;

2018/07/02
Committee: INTA

2018/2005(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Finds it incomprehensible that the Commission acknowledges on the one hand the negative consequences of globalisation, but on the other hand pursues its current proposal for a Multilateral Investment Court; calls on the Commission to take note of the serious arguments against the proposed model, mentioning among others the 'regulatory chill', the huge claims against upcoming economies, the lack of investors' obligations and the absence of court- access for third parties;

2018/07/02
Committee: INTA

2018/2005(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Notes that globalisation has given extra opportunities for multinational companies of using loopholes in international law and shifting profits to low-tax jurisdictions rather than paying taxes where they produce and sell; states that these strategies deprive EU governments of tax revenues and contribute to unfairness and the self- fulfilling prophecy that globalisation only benefits the bigger companies and well-off citizens; points out that public country-by- country reports for each country where a multinational company has an activity could be an instrument to tackle tax avoidance;

2018/07/02
Committee: INTA

2018/2005(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Patrick LE HYARIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)

18b. States that despite the Commission's positive view on it, digitalisation will also have its impact on jobs and workers; calls on the Commission to tackle the challenges posed by digitalisation and to come up with a proposal ensuring the same level playing field for all economic players and guaranteeing the enforcement of workers' rights in the digital economy;

2018/07/02
Committee: INTA

2018/2003(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the progress made in FLEGT VPAs; calls on the Commission to strengthen their implementation and to address remaining challenges such as corruption, conflict timber, forest degradation, transparency and the security of tenure for communities as a key principle of land governance; notes that the Commission is also negotiating VPA's with more countries, among others Vietnam; points out that the forthcoming Free Trade Agreement between the EU and Vietnam could have a negative incentive on illegally logged Vietnamese timber; urges the Commission to first have the VPA with Vietnam signed and fully implemented;

2018/03/26
Committee: INTA

2018/2003(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Patrick LE HYARIC

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the progress made in FLEGT VPAs; calls on the Commission to strengthen and speed up their implementation and to address remaining challenges such as corruption, conflict timber, forest degradation, transparency and the security of tenure for communities as a key principle of land governance;

2018/03/26
Committee: INTA

2018/2003(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Patrick LE HYARIC

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Calls on the Commission to explicitly address conflict timber in the FLEGT regulation or bilateral agreements; treating it as illegal; suspending bilateral agreements and notifying Member State authorities without having to wait for UN or EC sanctions;

2018/03/26
Committee: INTA

2018/2003(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Patrick LE HYARIC

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Calls on the Commission to promote a correct allocation of resources by Member States, with harmonised sanctions, and interpretation;

2018/03/26
Committee: INTA

2018/2003(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Patrick LE HYARIC

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Recalls the European Court of Auditors Special Report "EU support to timber-producing countries under the FLEGT action plan" of October 2015, in which is concluded that illegal timber could still be imported into the EU via different Member States and that the EU "should put its own house in order and set an example in tackling illegal logging and the trade of illegally harvested timber";

2018/03/26
Committee: INTA

2018/2003(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Patrick LE HYARIC

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Notes that the EU has regulated the supply chains of timber, fish and conflict minerals, but not yet of forest-risk agricultural commodities; urges the Commission to develop a legal framework to enforce due diligence obligations in the supply chain of these commodities, taking into account besides the environmental impacts, also the human rights impacts of deforestation, like land grabbing, severe intimidations to human rights defenders and slavery-like labour conditions;

2018/03/26
Committee: INTA

2018/2003(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Emphasises the need of expanding and reinforcing the arrangements for preventing, monitoring and verifying environmental and human rights impacts of EU bilateral and multilateral free trade and investment agreements, including via verifiable indicators and independent community-based monitoring and reporting initiatives;

2018/03/26
Committee: INTA

2018/2003(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Patrick LE HYARIC

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Urges the EU to always include enforceable provisions in its TSD chapters to halt illegal logging and forest degradation, including through the possible use of sanctions; calls on the Commission to add such provisions to already concluded FTAs through the revision clause; recalls the importance of tackling the illegal logging for domestic use, which in some countries and sectors exceed the quantity of exports;

2018/03/26
Committee: INTA

2018/2003(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Patrick LE HYARIC

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission to use the GSP to improve the protection of forests in partner countries, including by setting up a complaint mechanism allowing interested parties to submit complaints, which shall take into special consideration the rights of the indigenous peoples, forest- dependent communities, and the rights granted under ILO Convention C169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples where applicable ;

2018/03/26
Committee: INTA

2018/2003(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Patrick LE HYARIC

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Recalls the importance of adequate access to justice, legal remedies, and effective protection for whistleblowers in natural resources exporting countries in order to ensure the efficiency of any legislation or initiative;

2018/03/26
Committee: INTA

2018/0291(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Martin SCHIRDEWAN

Draft legislative resolution
Paragraph 1

1. GDeclines to gives its consent to Samoa’s accession to the agreement;

2018/11/08
Committee: INTA

2018/0256(NLE)

Patrick LE HYARIC, Eleonora FORENZA, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Miguel URBÁN CRESPO, Maria Lidia SENRA RODRÍGUEZ, Barbara SPINELLI

Draft legislative resolution
Citation 5

– having regard to Rule 99(1) and (4),and Rule 108 (6) and (7) of its Rules of Procedure,

2018/11/07
Committee: INTA

2018/0256(NLE)

Patrick LE HYARIC, Eleonora FORENZA, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Miguel URBÁN CRESPO, Maria Lidia SENRA RODRÍGUEZ, Barbara SPINELLI

Draft legislative resolution
Paragraph 1

1. ~~Gives its consent to the agreement;~~Asks to the European Court of Justice to issue a legal opinion whether the agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Union and the Kingdom of Morocco is complying with the European treaties, with the international law and with the 21 December 2016 European Court ruling.

2018/11/07
Committee: INTA

2018/0256(NLE)

Patrick LE HYARIC, Eleonora FORENZA, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ

Draft legislative resolution
Paragraph 1

1. ~~Giv~~Declines its consent to the agreement;

2018/11/07
Committee: INTA

2018/0161(COD)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 a (new)

(3 a) Whereas the Council has noted with concern that “an increasing number of examples of market failure in a number of Member States, where patients access to effective and affordable essential medicines is endangered by very high and unsustainable price levels […] and that individual governments have sometimes limited influence in such circumstances;”1a __________________ 1a Council conclusions on strengthening the balance in the pharmaceutical systems in the EU and its Member States: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press /press-releases/2016/06/17/epsco- conclusions-balance-pharmaceutical- system/

2018/11/12
Committee: INTA

2018/0161(COD)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 b (new)

(3 b) Whereas the European Parliament has expressed that “in many cases, the prices of new medicines have increased during the past few decades to the point of being unaffordable to many European citizens and of threatening the sustainability of national health care systems;”1a __________________ 1a Report on EU options for improving access to medicines (2016/2057(INI): http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getD oc.do?type=REPORT&reference=A8- 2017-0040&language=EN

2018/11/12
Committee: INTA

2018/0101(COD)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Helmut SCHOLZ, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Eleonora FORENZA

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7

(7) Close monitoring of sensitive products, if any, should facilitate a timely decision concerning the possible initiation of an investigation and subsequent application of measures. Therefore the Commission should regularly monitor imports of sensitive products, if any, from the date of provisional application or entry into force of the Agreements, if there is no provisional application. Monitoring should be extended to other sectors upon a duly justified request made by the relevant industry, trade union or civil society organisation.

2018/09/11
Committee: INTA

2018/0101(COD)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Helmut SCHOLZ, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Eleonora FORENZA

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10

(10) Safeguard measures should be applied only to the extent, and for such time, as may be necessary to prevent serious injury and to facilitate adjustment, and should take into account the effects of the extraordinary imports on the performance on the Sustainable Development Goals.' achievement. The maximum duration of safeguard measures should be determined and specific provisions regarding extension and review of such measures should be laid down.

2018/09/11
Committee: INTA

2018/0101(COD)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Helmut SCHOLZ, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Eleonora FORENZA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b

(b) as to cause or threaten to cause serious injury to the Union industry, or as to cause or threaten to cause serious injury to the environment, including that of the producing country, due to the increase of imports to the Union; and,

2018/09/11
Committee: INTA

2018/0101(COD)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Helmut SCHOLZ, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Eleonora FORENZA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b

(b) as to cause or threaten to cause serious injury to the Union industry, or the working conditions in that industry; paying special attention when it affects the SME's on that sector; and,

2018/09/11
Committee: INTA

2018/0101(COD)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Helmut SCHOLZ, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Eleonora FORENZA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2

2. Upon a duly justified request by the concerned Union industry ~~concerned~~, trade union or civil society organisation, the Commission may extend the scope of the monitoring to other sectors, if any, than those mentioned in the Annex.

2018/09/11
Committee: INTA

2018/0101(COD)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Helmut SCHOLZ, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Eleonora FORENZA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1

1. An investigation shall be initiated by the Commission upon request by a Member State, by any legal person or any association not having legal personality acting on behalf of the Union industry, by a concerned trade union or civil society organisation, or on the Commission's own initiative, where there is sufficient prima facie evidence, as determined on the basis of factors referred to in Article 6(5).

2018/09/11
Committee: INTA

2018/0101(COD)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Helmut SCHOLZ, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Eleonora FORENZA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 5

5. The Commission shall evaluate all relevant factors of an objective and quantifiable nature affecting the situation of the Union industry, in particular, the rate and amount of the increase in imports of the product concerned in absolute and relative terms, the share of the domestic market taken by increased imports and changes in the level of sales, production, productivity, capacity utilisation, profits and losses, ~~and~~ employment, wages, and working conditions. This list is not exhaustive and other relevant factors may also be taken into consideration by the Commission for its determination of the existence of serious injury or threat of serious injury, such as stocks, prices, return of capital employed, cash flow, and other factors which are causing or may have caused serious injury, or threaten to cause serious injury to the Union industry, workers or consumers.

2018/09/11
Committee: INTA

2018/0101(COD)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Helmut SCHOLZ, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Eleonora FORENZA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b

(b) to cause or threaten to cause serious injury to the Union industry; or to cause or threaten to cause serious injury to the environment, including that of the producing country, due to the increase in imports to the Union; and,

2018/09/11
Committee: INTA

2018/0101(COD)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Helmut SCHOLZ, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Eleonora FORENZA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b

(b) to cause or threaten to cause serious injury to the Union industry, or the working conditions in that industry; paying special attention when it affects the SME's in that sector; and,

2018/09/11
Committee: INTA

2018/0095M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Emmanuel MAUREL, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. ~~Welcomes~~Takes note of the EU’s new approach to investment protection and its enforcement mechanism (ICS), which ~~has replaced~~is in essential the same as the highly controversial investor- to-state dispute settlement (ISDS); notes that several studies have shown that ICS would bring no changes to the extremely far-reaching rights that are afforded to foreign investors in current investment treaties.

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0095M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Emmanuel MAUREL, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that the agreement will ensure a high level of investment protection while safeguarding the Parties’ right to regulate and pursue legitimate public policy objectives, such as public health and environmental protection;deleted

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0095M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Emmanuel MAUREL, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Notes that there are no safeguards foreseen that would prevent this ICS system from creating regulatory chill effect by threatening a government with an ICS case to prevent unwanted legislation from being developed or passed.

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0095M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Emmanuel MAUREL, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2 b. Acknowledges the right of both parties to introduce legislation on all governmental levels and to pursue public policy objectives.

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0095M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Emmanuel MAUREL, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Welcomes the transparency rules applying to proceedings before ~~the tribunals, which will help to instil public trust in the system~~any and all tribunals;

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0095M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Emmanuel MAUREL, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. ~~Stresse~~Regrets that third parties such as labour and environmental organisations can only contribute to ICS proceedings through amicus curiae briefs; urges the EU and Singapore to make it possible for these organizations to join the proceedings as parties affected.

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0095M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Emmanuel MAUREL, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Recalls that the agreement represents an nominal improvement on the investment protection provisions in CETA, as it incorporates provisions on obligations for former judges, a code of conduct to prevent conflicts of interests and a fully functioning Appellate Tribunal at the time of its conclusion;

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0095M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Emmanuel MAUREL, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7 a. Recalls that the Investment Court System as introduced in CETA is currently pending before the European Court of Justice for an Opinion on its compatibility with the EU treaties and that therefore a signal from the EP on the ICS is at this moment highly counterproductive.

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0095M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Emmanuel MAUREL, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. ~~Welcomes~~Takes note of Singapore’s commitment to the multilateral investment court, a public international court which should be empowered to hear disputes on investments between investors and states that will have accepted its jurisdiction over their bilateral investment treaties, and whose ultimate goal is to overcome the current, unbalanced and fragmented investment protection regime; considers the agreement a crucial stepping . Regrets the fact that there is no respect for domestic courts to hear disputes first. Furthermore, this multilateral investment court is contrary to customary international law and international human rights law, which requires the exhaustion~~e towards that end;~~ of local remedies.

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0095M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Emmanuel MAUREL, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Welcomes the Council’s decision to make public the negotiating directive of 20 March 2018 on the multilateral investment court and calls on the Council to make public all previous and future trade and investment agreement negotiating directives immediately after they are adopted in order to increase transparency and public scrutiny;

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0095M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Emmanuel MAUREL, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Highlights that the agreement will replace the existing bilateral investment treaties between 13 EU Member States and Singapore, which are based on outdated investment protection provisions and include the controversial ISDS; considers that this constitutes an important step in reforming global rules on investment dispute settlement and, it is hoped, will progressively lead to the removal of ISDS from bilateral investment treaties;

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0095M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Emmanuel MAUREL, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

~~13. Encourages the Commission to continue its work on making ICS more accessible to SMEs;~~deleted

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0095M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Emmanuel MAUREL, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the Commission and Singapore to agree stronger sanctions in the event that a member of the tribunals does not comply with the code of conduct, and to ensure that they are in place ~~as soon as~~before this agreement enters into force;

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0095M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Emmanuel MAUREL, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Considers that the approval of this agreement will give the EU more leverage to negotiate similar agreements with the other ASEAN countries with a view to establishing similar rules on investment protection throughout the region;deleted

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0095(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Emmanuel MAUREL, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Draft legislative resolution
Paragraph 1

1. GDeclines to gives its consent to conclusion of the agreement;

2018/11/12
Committee: INTA

2018/0095(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Emmanuel MAUREL, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Draft legislative resolution
Paragraph 1

1. ~~Gives its consent to conclusion of the agreement~~Suspends the consent procedure until the European Court of Justice has delivered its opinion regarding the compatibility of Investment Court System with European Union Treaties, Opinion 1/17;

2018/11/12
Committee: INTA

2018/0093M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Emmanuel MAUREL

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

~~F. whereas Singapore ranks among the easiest countries in the world to do business with and is one of the least corrupt worldwide;~~deleted

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0093M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas more than 10 000 European companies have their ~~regional~~'letterbox' offices in Singapore;

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0093M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Helmut SCHOLZ, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Emmanuel MAUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. ~~Welcomes~~Takes note of the signing in Brussels, on 19 October 2018, of the FTA;

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0093M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Helmut SCHOLZ, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Emmanuel MAUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that negotiations were originally concluded in 2012 and ~~regrets the long~~takes note of the delay in bringing forward the agreement for ratification due to a request for an Opinion from the Court of Justice;

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0093M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Emmanuel MAUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses the economic and strategic importance of this agreement, as Singapore is a hub for the entire ASEAN region and as this will avoid EU exporters being at a competitive disadvantage in respect of businesses from the other CPTPP and RCEP countries;deleted

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0093M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Helmut SCHOLZ, Emmanuel MAUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Is concerned that the Prudential Carve-Out paragraph (article 8.50) is less strong than the one used in CETA, since it does not refer to measures that can be taken to safeguard the security and integrity of an individual financial institution, and asks the Commission for an explanation thereof;

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0093M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Helmut SCHOLZ, Emmanuel MAUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5 b. Is concerned that the phrasing “not […] more burdensome than necessary” in reference to measures that can be taken under the Prudential Carve- Out is highly contestable and poses a serious threat to governments’ right to regulate in order to safeguard the integrity and stability of a Member State’s financial system;

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0093M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Helmut SCHOLZ, Emmanuel MAUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5 c. Is concerned that the Prudential Carve-Out paragraph is not strong enough to enable the EU and governments to refuse the supply of new financial services provided Singapore – being a big supplier of financial services and a tax haven – in order to protect the integrity and stability of the financial system;

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0093M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Helmut SCHOLZ, Emmanuel MAUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 d (new)

5 d. Remarks that the phrasing “each Party shall make its best endeavours” to implement and apply financial regulation and guidelines such as the Basle Committee’s “Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision” is of a noncommittal character,whereas the implementation of these kind of rules and guidelines should always be a prerequisite for concluding any agreement with a Party in order to safeguard the EU’s and Member States’ financial stability;

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0093M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Helmut SCHOLZ, Emmanuel MAUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 e (new)

5 e. Is concerned that the Specific Exceptions paragraph (8.55)explicitly refers to exceptions that can be made regarding the domain of services forming part of a public retirement plan or statutory system of social security, especially since a motivation of allowing these exceptions is lacking;

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0093M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Helmut SCHOLZ, Emmanuel MAUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7 a. Regrets that despite all the efforts to battle tax avoidance and tax dodging, Singapore still remains a tax heaven and that Singapore is ranked 5 in Tax justice Network's Financial Secrecy Index because of its secrecy.

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0093M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Helmut SCHOLZ, Emmanuel MAUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7 b. Notes that intermediation by banks in the setting-up of offshore structures has significantly decreased since 2007, when it was revealed that banks were promoting evasion of the provisions of the European Savings Directive of 2005 on a large scale; notes that reputational and regulatory risks in the aftermath of the financial crisis have also added to the decline in the offshore entities intermediated by banks since 2008; acknowledges, however, that at the global level statistical data do not show a general decline in the funds channelled through tax havens, at least up to 2014, but, rather, a reorganisation of jurisdictions and instruments used; notes that in parallel to the progressive rise in withholding tax levied by Luxembourg, Austria and Belgium (until 2009), from15 % in 2005 to 20 % in 2008 and 35 % in 2011, offshore money was increasingly allocated to letterbox companies in jurisdictions such as the Bahamas, Singapore and Hong Kong; notes, however, that the intermediation business has been taken over by other professions, namely lawyers, as demonstrated in the Panama Papers.

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0093M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Emmanuel MAUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. ~~Welcom~~Notes the fact that only around 190 EU geographical indications will be protected as of the entry into force of the agreement, with the possibility of adding more at a later stage, in view of the fact that Singapore is the fifth largest market in Asia for EU food and drink exports;

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0093M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Underlines that the agreement safeguards the EU’s right to keep and to apply its own standards to all goods and services sold in the EU and upholds the EU’s precautionary principle;

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0093M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Helmut SCHOLZ, Emmanuel MAUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Emphasises that ~~this is a progressive trade agreement and that~~ both Parties committed in the trade and sustainable development (TSD) chapter to ensure a high level of environmental and labour protection;

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0093M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Helmut SCHOLZ, Emmanuel MAUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12 a. Urges both parties to introduce a sanctions based mechanism for the Trade and Sustainable Development Chapter.

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0093M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Helmut SCHOLZ, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Emmanuel MAUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Recalls that the Parties committed to make sustained efforts towards ratifying and effectively implementing the fundamental ILO conventions before entering into force of this FTA; welcomes the information provided so far by the Government of Singapore in relation to its compliance with three outstanding ILO conventions, namely those on Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise, on Discrimination and on Forced Labour, and expects Singapore to further engage with the ILO with a view to progressing towards full alignment with their content and ultimately pursuing their ratification;

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0093M(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Helmut SCHOLZ, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Emmanuel MAUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Calls on the Commission to trigger the general review clause of the agreement as soon as possible in order to strengthen the enforceability of labour and environmental provisions including through a sanctions-based mechanism ~~as a last resort~~;

2018/11/13
Committee: INTA

2018/0093(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Emmanuel MAUREL, Matt CARTHY, Patrick LE HYARIC

Draft legislative resolution
Paragraph 1

1. GDeclines to gives its consent to the agreement;

2018/11/09
Committee: INTA

2018/0091M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas it was estimated in the 2016 Impact Assessment that the agreement would deliver limited positive impacts in terms of GDP, income, trade and employment for both the Union and Japan, adhering to the objective of ‘smart, sustainable and inclusive growth’; whereas the potential success of a trade agreement should rather be assessed on the basis of its contribution to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030;

2018/10/03
Committee: INTA

2018/0091M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas Parliament has monitored these negotiations from the start, having called for transparency and for negotiators to meet the interests of ~~both~~ citizens, civil society and businesses;

2018/10/03
Committee: INTA

2018/0091M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 (new)

Stresses that liberalisation of the financial sector by the EPA is very broad, as it includes all finance-related positions, and all financial products and innovations; recalls that among these products were the particularly toxic assets which were at the centre of the 2008 global financial crisis; warns that in combination with the opaque regulatory cooperation system, which has been agreed by the negotiators and which is aimed at reducing the costs and regulatory burdens for private operators. Underlines the need both in the European Union and Japan for far- reaching and effective financial regulation directed at strengthening control mechanism, guaranteeing transparency and access to information in order to preserve financial market stability.

2018/10/03
Committee: INTA

2018/0091M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Notes ~~positively the ambitious and~~the comprehensive nature of the EPA, which delivers on ~~the~~a number of priorities set out in European Parliament resolution of 25 October 2012 on EU trade negotiations with Japan; deplores that negotiators repeated a number of mistakes made in CETA which were strongly criticised by civil society, amongst which the inclusion of ICS mechanism, no access for the public to EU offers in the negotiations;

2018/10/03
Committee: INTA

2018/0091M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Welcomes the fact that Japan will, notably, grant non-discriminatory access for EU suppliers to the procurement markets of 48 cities, remove the ‘operational safety clause’, which has in practise prevented EU rail suppliers to access the Japanese market, and maximise transparency in tendering for public contracts; insist that in the European Union as well in Japan, public procurement must continue to serve the best interest of the citizens; underlines the importance of access to public services for citizens;

2018/10/03
Committee: INTA

2018/0091M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. ~~Welcom~~Notes that the agreement provides significant export opportunities for EU agri-food products, such as wine, pig meat and cheese~~, and that i~~; warns that a dramatic increase of EU food products entering the Japanese market would put the livelihoods of Japanese farmers and small-scale food producers at stake and emphasises the need for a safety-net of efficient and fast safeguard measures; notes that the agreement protects only 205 European geographical indications out of thousands, and calls for a continuation of talks after three years in order to evaluate the options for increasing the list of protected GIs;

2018/10/03
Committee: INTA

2018/0091M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Highlights the fact that the agreement promotes best practices for providing safe and high-quality food and products for consumers; calls on both partners to ~~mainstream~~enhance consumer protection in the implementation of the agreement and to place the interests of consumers at the heart of the EPA; stresses that the agreement shall under no circumstances jeopardize precise, understandable and EU compliant food labelling;

2018/10/03
Committee: INTA

2018/0091M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Welcomes the commitment to the effective and binding implementation of the Paris Agreement to combat climate change and of other multilateral environmental agreements, as well as to the sustainable management of forests (including fighting illegal logging) and fisheries (combating illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (including the endangered Bluefin tuna) and stop whale hunting); calls on both parties to cooperate closely under the sustainable development chapter to exchange best practices and to strengthen the enforcement of legislation in these matters;

2018/10/03
Committee: INTA

2018/0091M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – subparagraph 1 (new)

Calls upon both parties to suspend the ratification of the EPA until further agreement is reached on binding Trade and Sustainable Development Chapter in a further, more comprehensive negotiation.

2018/10/03
Committee: INTA

2018/0091M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Highlights the fact that the agreement includes the commitment to pursue the ratification of fundamental ILO conventions; regrets that Japan has not yet ratified two ILO core conventions (on discrimination and on the abolition of forced labour) and expects, in light of commitments made in the EPA, concrete progress on the part of Japan towards the ratification of these conventions; calls upon parties to suspend the ratification of the EPA until this ratification, as also called upon by the EU and Japanese trade unions;

2018/10/03
Committee: INTA

2018/0091M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Welcomes the inclusion of a review clause in the chapter on sustainable development and calls on the Commission to trigger this clause ~~as soon as possible~~immediately in order to strengthen the enforceability and effectiveness of labour and environmental provisions, which should include ~~the possibility of~~ sanctions as a last resort;

2018/10/03
Committee: INTA

2018/0091M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Underlines the fact that the EPA maintains the right of Member State authorities to define, provide and regulate public services at local, regional or national level, despite its negative list approach, and that it ~~does not~~should under no circumstance prevent governments from bringing any privatised service back in to the public sector;. Calls upon both parties to protect public water management and to exclude it from the application of market access commitments and non-discrimination clause under the EPA.

2018/10/03
Committee: INTA

2018/0091M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Believes that market access commitments in cross-border services, including e-commerce, maritime transport, postal services and telecommunications, will give a boost to trade in services while safeguarding the pursuit of legitimate policy objectives and human rights due to a redefinition of the notion of public space;

2018/10/03
Committee: INTA

2018/0091M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Stresses that the agreement preserves the sovereign right to regulate the financial and banking sectors for prudential and supervisory reasons; calls on both partners to use the financial regulatory forum to improve the global financial system; calls upon both parties to carry out systematic studies on the impact of the EPA on financial stability and national financial regulation space. Furthermore, calls upon parties to exclude financial regulation from the scope of investment protection arbitration;

2018/10/03
Committee: INTA

2018/0091M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Welcomes key innovative elements such as dedicated chapters to enhance benefits for SMEs and promote corporate social responsibility based on the principles of the G20 and the OECD;. Urges both parties to take a positive and constructive stance in the conclusion of the United Nations Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights.

2018/10/03
Committee: INTA

2018/0091M(NLE)

17. Calls for transparency on the functioning of the regulatory cooperation committee and for a balanced involvement of all stakeholders, notably civil society organisations;. Calls upon full access for Members of the European Parliament and National Parliaments in the preparatory documents of the Regulatory Cooperation Committee. Furthermore, calls upon a transparency register for the participants to the Regulatory Cooperation Committee meetings.

2018/10/03
Committee: INTA

2018/0091M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Calls upon both parties to acknowledge the right of each national, regional and local authority to regulate in the public interest.

2018/10/03
Committee: INTA

2018/0091M(NLE)

18. Takes note that negotiations continue on a separate investment agreement and reiterates that it is unacceptable to return to the old, private ISDS mechanism; in whatever form. Calls upon the parties to rely on the domestic courts for disputes arising from the EPA.

2018/10/03
Committee: INTA

2018/0091M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Notes that the agreement includes a rendezvous clause to assess the issue of cross-border transfer of data provisions within three years; calls on the Commission to fully respect the EU law on data protection and on the protection of privacy and stresses that any future outcome must be subject to the consent of Parliament;. Urges the parties to provide safeguards on data protection and privacy with minimally the protection provided by the EU General Data Protection Regulation.

2018/10/03
Committee: INTA

2018/0091(NLE)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Paragraph 1

1. ~~Gives its~~Does not consent to conclusion of the agreement;

2018/10/08
Committee: INTA

2017/2636(RSP)

Citation 16

— having regard to special paragraph in the ILO Committee on Application of Standards of the ILO Conference of 2016, the ILO High Level Tripartite Mission Report and the 2017 observations of the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations concerning Conventions 87 and 98 - all which demonstrate convincingly the failure of the government to respect the right to freedom of association and to bargain collectively;

2017/05/08
Committee: INTA

2017/2636(RSP)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Helmut SCHOLZ

Citation 16 a (new)

- having regard for the complaint filed in 2017 with the ILO Committee on Freedom of Association concerning the government's crackdown on garment workers in Ashulia in December 2016 and the complaint filed with the UN special mandates concerning the crackdown in Ashulia;

2017/05/08
Committee: INTA

2017/2636(RSP)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Eleonora FORENZA, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Recital A

A. whereas Bangladesh has undergone remarkable development in recent years, the country’s GDP is predicted to grow annually at an average of 6.6 % between 2013 and 2018, while between 2010 and 2013, total trade grew on average 19% per year, whereas in the Human Development Index (HDI) Bangladesh has consistently moved up the ranks since the 1980s;deleted

2017/05/08
Committee: INTA

2017/2636(RSP)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Eleonora FORENZA

Recital C

C. whereas the ready-made industry (RMG) is currently employing 4.2 million people in as many as 5000 factories and indirectly supports the livelihoods of as many as 40 million people – about a quarter of Bangladesh’s population; ~~whereas the RMG industry has importantly contributed to poverty reduction and to empowerment of women; whereas women, mostly from rural areas, represent 80% of the RMG sector in Bangladesh;~~

2017/05/08
Committee: INTA

2017/2636(RSP)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Helmut SCHOLZ

Recital D

D. whereas the EU’s ~~generous~~ unilateral trade preference under the so- called “Everything, but arms” initiative for least-developed countries (LDCs) enshrined in the EU GSP regulation granting tariff-free access for Bangladesh textiles under flexible rules of origins have ~~significantly~~ contributed to ~~this success story~~Bangladesh's sizable exports, including of garments;

2017/05/08
Committee: INTA

2017/2636(RSP)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Helmut SCHOLZ

Recital E

E. whereas these ~~generous~~ trade preferences are enshrined in the EU’s principle to promote fair and free trade, and, therefore, provide for the EU to suspend GSP benefits in most serious cases of human rights violations on the basis of chapter V article 19 point 1 a) of the GSP regulation, which stipulates that preferential treatments may be withdrawn temporarily for [among others]: serious and systematic violation of principles laid down in the conventions listed in Part A of Annex VIII, including the eight ILO fundamental conventions;

2017/05/08
Committee: INTA

2017/2636(RSP)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA

Recital H

H. whereas the current minimum wage of 5 300 BDT (US $ 67) per month has not been increased since 2013 and continues to provide an income below the extreme poverty line set by the World Bank; whereas the minimum wage board has not been convened;

2017/05/08
Committee: INTA

2017/2636(RSP)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Helmut SCHOLZ

Recital I

I. whereas since 21st December 2016, following strikes and demonstrations by Bangladeshi garment workers seeking higher wages, the Bangladeshi authorities have arrested or detained at least 1435 unions leaders and ~~worker rights advocates~~advocates, shut union and NGO offices and put them under police surveillance, and suspended or dismissed 1600 workers for protesting the low wages in the garment industry;

2017/05/08
Committee: INTA

2017/2636(RSP)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Helmut SCHOLZ

Recital K

K. whereas a number of promising initiatives led by a collaboration between labour and the private sector such as the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety (the Accord) have contributed positively to improving supply chain standards and workforce safety over the last 20 years in terms of increasing workers’ rights in the garment supply chain;

2017/05/08
Committee: INTA

2017/2636(RSP)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Helmut SCHOLZ

Recital L

L. whereas the conclusions of successive reviews of the Compact in 2014, 2015 and 2016 ~~are reporting tangible improvements achieved by the Bangladeshi authorities, and are~~ recogniz~~ing~~e the contribution of the Compact in improving health and safety in factories ~~and working conditions~~ in the RMG industry; whereas progress relating to worker’s rights has been more challenging and no substantial progress has been witnessed for the last months in this area;

2017/05/08
Committee: INTA

2017/2636(RSP)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Helmut SCHOLZ

Recital L a (new)

L a. Whereas the ILO has indicated that Bangladesh has made no tangible progress in amending the Bangladesh Labour Act of 2006 and adopted Implementing Rules which create obstacles to the exercise of freedom of association; whereas workers in the garment sector continue to face serious obstacles in registering trade unions; whereas workers have been dismissed for trade union activity without recourse and without sanction of any kind for the employer; whereas workers have been repeatedly subjected to acts of violence, including murder, for exercising trade union activities; and whereas workers in Export Processing Zones have been denied the right to join trade unions;

2017/05/08
Committee: INTA

2017/2636(RSP)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Helmut SCHOLZ

Paragraph 1

1. Stresses that despite the ~~impressive track record on growth and develop~~growth experimented in recent years, Bangladesh needs to urgently do sizable efforts ~~over the long run~~ in order to achieve sustainable and more inclusive economic growth; underlines that structural reforms leading to increase of productivity, further diversification of exports , social justice, workers' rights, environmental protectionand fight against corruption would be essential in this sense;

2017/05/08
Committee: INTA

2017/2636(RSP)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Helmut SCHOLZ

Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) ~~to enhance its level of engagement~~ to improve safety and working conditions and protect workers’ rights in garment sector as a matter of highest priority, to ~~enhance~~ implementat~~ion of~~ legislation on building and factory safety; to continue to raise government funding for labour inspectorate, to continue to recruit and to train more factory inspectors, to provide for conditions to lower the turnover of labour inspectors, to set-up an annual work plan for follow-up inspections of factories subject to remediation and to enlarge building and factory inspections to other sectors;

2017/05/08
Committee: INTA

2017/2636(RSP)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Helmut SCHOLZ

Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. urges the Government of Bangladesh to instate immediately the minimum wage board and institute a shorter frequency of wage review;

2017/05/08
Committee: INTA

2017/2636(RSP)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Helmut SCHOLZ

Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the international brands/retailers and Bangladeshi private sector to ~~stay engaged in order to promote over the long run~~respect the labor laws and to promote responsible business practices ~~and~~including decent working conditions for Bangladeshi garment workers and facilitate transparent ~~and coordinated mechanisms between relevant initiative~~information on which factories are producing the goods; encourages the continuation of the work of the global retailers and brands to adopt a unified code of conduct for factory audit in Bangladesh;

2017/05/08
Committee: INTA

2017/2636(RSP)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Helmut SCHOLZ

Paragraph 8 a (new)

8 a. Calls on the EU to initiate an investigation under the GSP mechanism as a way to ensure meaningful progress on workers’ rights, safety and working conditions, building and factory safety and labour inspections; calls on the EU to commence similar procedures regarding the amendment of 2013 Labour Act to address freedom of association and collective bargaining, promotion of social dialogue, non-arbitrary registration of trade unions, and effective investigation and prosecution of alleged anti-union discrimination, as well as the safeguard of labour legislative frameworks and their full compliance with international standards such as ILO conventions 87 and 89;

2017/05/08
Committee: INTA

2017/2636(RSP)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA

Paragraph 9

9. Supports the Commission's examination of a possible EU-wide initiative on the garment sector-voluntary initiatives and strict codes of conduct shall be its key principles; stresses furthermore that coordination, sharing information and exchange of best practices may contribute to increasing efficiency of private and public value chain initiatives ~~and achie~~but have proven to be insufficient to deliver positive enough results on sustainable development;

2017/05/08
Committee: INTA

2017/2636(RSP)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Eleonora FORENZA, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ

Paragraph 9 a (new)

9 a. supports the efforts of the UN open ended working group with the aim of elaborating a binding UN Treaty on business and human rights; calls upon the Commission and Member States to actively engage in this negotiations;

2017/05/08
Committee: INTA

2017/2193(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Patrick LE HYARIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. ~~Underlines the importance of deepening relations between the EU and the Asia-Pacific~~ Rejects the plans of a free trade agreement between N-Zealand and the EU since the EU's pregvion for economic growth within Europe and stresses that this is reflected in the EU’s trade policy; recognises that New Zealand is a key part of this strategy and that widening and deepening trade relationusly negotiated trade agreements show that the interest of large corporations and investors are prioritized over human rights, food safety, the environment, labour rights can ~~help to meet this goal~~d animal rights;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2193(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Patrick LE HYARIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission to conclude, as soon as possible, its assessments of the potential impact of such a trade deal, with a view to being able to evaluate thoroughly ~~evalua~~the possible gains and losses from the enhancement of the EU- New Zealand trade and investment relationships, for the benefit of citizens and businesses on both sides, including in the outermost regions and the overseas countries and territories; calls on the Commission to also assess the potential impact of such trade deal on the environment and to assess the impact of this trade deal on the goals set in the Paris Climate Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2193(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission to conclude as soon as possible its assessments of the potential impact of such a trade deal, with a view to being able to thoroughly evaluate possible gains and losses from the enhancement of the EU- New Zealand trade and investment relationships, for the benefit of citizens and businesses on both sides, including in the outermost regions and the overseas countries and territories; asks the Commission to make sure all relevant stakeholders are heard in the process of making the assessment;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2193(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission to conclude as soon as possible its assessments of the potential impact of such a trade deal, with a view to being able to thoroughly evaluate possible gains and losses from the enhancement of the EU- New Zealand trade and investment relationships, for the benefit of citizens and businesses on both sides, including in the outermost regions and the overseas countries and territories; calls on the Commission to make this assessment publicly available;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2193(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9 a. Rejects any system that prioritises investors's interests over people's interests;therefore calls on the Commission not to include an Investment Court System in the agreement and rejects the idea to have a separate agreement on Investment Protection;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2193(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Calls on the Commission, when presenting the finalised agreements for signature and conclusion, and on the Council, when deciding on signature and conclusion, to ~~fully respect the distribution of competences between the EU and its Member States~~acknowledge that trade agreements are far-reaching agreements for many sectors and democratic scrutiny in the process is of utmost importance; therefore asks the Commission to ensure the whole agreement will be a mixed agreement;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2193(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the Commission to conduct negotiations as transparently as possible ~~and fully respect best practice as established in other negotiations~~by ensuring all negotiating documents will be made publicly available; requests that the Council make the negotiating mandate public;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2193(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Stresses that an FTA must lead to genuine market openness, and trade facilitation on the ground; and may never lead to lower standards on food safety, labour rights, environmental rules and animal welfare, and should ensure the regulatory freedom to enhance standards; also stresses that this free trade deal should not lead to any increase of CO2 emissions;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2193(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point a

a) Real market access opportunities for both sides to each other’s goods and services market through the elimination of regulatory barriers: nothing in the agreement, however, should prevent either side from regulating to achieve legitimate policy objectives; rejects the inclusion of any standstill or ratchet clauses on services that would severely limit the right to regulate of Member States; considering, in this respect, that no EU trade agreement has ever privatised public services, such as water, education, health and social services, nor decreased our high European health, food, consumer, environmental, labour and safety standards, nor constrained public funding of the arts and culture, education, and health and social services;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2193(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point a

a) Real market access opportunities for both sides to each other’s goods and services market through the elimination of regulatory barriers: nothing in the agreement, however, should prevent either side from regulating to achieve legitimate policy objectives; therefore safeguards for public services and services of general interest should be part of the agreement; considering, in this respect, that no EU trade agreement has ever privatised public services, such as water, education, health and social services, nor decreased our high European health, food, consumer, environmental, labour and safety standards, nor constrained public funding of the arts and culture, education, and health and social services;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2193(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point b

b) The reduction of non-tariff barriers and ~~the strengthening and extension of regulatory cooperation dialogues with binding disciplines to improve respect for international standards and regulatory harmonisation,~~ regulatory harmonisation in particular through the adoption and implementation of the standards set by the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE); is of the opinion that regulatory cooperation, as formulated in previously negotiated free trade agreements, is a danger to our democratic system, asks the Commission to make sure regulatory cooperation in this agreement is subject to full transparency by making p~~articular through the adoption and implementation of the standards set by the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)~~ublicly available the minutes of every meeting including all names of attendees and the organisations they represent; also asks the Commission to ensure balance of stakeholders taking part in the meeting by ensuring civil society organizations like trade unions, environmental organizations and consumer organizations and business representatives have equal access to these meetings;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2193(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point d

d) A separate chapter taking into account the needs and interests of SMEs with regard to market access facilitation issues in order to generate concrete business opportunities; ensure protection of EU small and medium sized service providers from unfair trading practices from service providers from outside the EU, for example by an article ensuring strict supervisory authorities and competition authorities; this article should at least contain the GATS Art. IX on 'Business practices';

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2193(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point g a (new)

g a) An ambitious Sustainable Development chapter that should include standstill clauses setting a minimum level for social, environmental and (food) safety standards, including animal health and welfare;this chapter should also include enforceable anti-corruption and whistle-blower protection provisions;asks the Commission to include effective enforcement mechanisms with the possibility of sanctions in case the commitments in this chapter are not met;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2192(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Patrick LE HYARIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. ~~Underlines the importance of deepening relations between the EU and the Asia-Pacific~~ Rejects the plans of a free trade agreement between Australia and the EU since the EU's pregvion for economic growth within Europe and stresses that this is reflected in the EU’s trade policy; recognises that Australia is a key part of this strategy and that widening and deepening trade relationusly negotiated trade agreements show that the interest of large corporations and investors are prioritized over human rights, food safety, the environment, labour rights can ~~help to meet this goal~~d animal rights;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2192(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Patrick LE HYARIC, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission to conclude, as soon as possible, its assessments of the potential impact of such a trade deal, with a view to being able to evaluate thoroughly the possible gains and losses from the enhancement of the EU- Australia trade and investment relationships, for the benefit of citizens and businesses on both sides, including in the outermost regions and the overseas countries and territories; calls on the Commission to also assess the potential impact of such trade deal on the environment and to assess the impact of this trade deal on the goals set in the Paris Climate Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2192(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Patrick LE HYARIC, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission to conclude, as soon as possible, its assessments of the potential impact of such a trade deal, with a view to being able to evaluate thoroughly the possible gains and losses from the enhancement of the EU- Australia trade and investment relationships, for the benefit of citizens and businesses on both sides, including in the outermost regions and the overseas countries and territories; asks the Commission to make sure all relevant stakeholders are heard in the process of making the assessment;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2192(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Patrick LE HYARIC, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission to conclude, as soon as possible, its assessments of the potential impact of such a trade deal, with a view to being able to evaluate thoroughly the possible gains and losses from the enhancement of the EU- Australia trade and investment relationships, for the benefit of citizens and businesses on both sides, including in the outermost regions and the overseas countries and territories; calls on the Commission to make this assessment publicly available;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2192(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ, Patrick LE HYARIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9 a. Rejects any system that prioritises corporate interests over people's interests;therefore calls on the Commission not to include an Investment Court System in the agreement and rejects the idea to have a separate agreement on investment protection;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2192(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Calls on the Commission, when presenting the finalised agreements for signature and conclusion, and on the Council, when deciding on signature and conclusion, to ~~fully respect the distribution of competences between the EU and its Member States~~acknowledge that trade agreements are far-reaching agreements for many sectors and democratic scrutiny in the process is of utmost importance; therefore asks the Commission to ensure the whole agreement will be a mixed agreement;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2192(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the Commission to conduct negotiations as transparently as possible ~~and fully respecting best practice as established in other negotiations~~by ensuring all negotiating documents will be made publicly available; requests that the Council make the negotiating mandate public;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2192(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Stresses that an FTA must lead to genuine market openness, and trade facilitation on the ground; and may never lead to lower standards on food safety, labour rights, environmental rules and animal welfare, and should ensure the regulatory freedom to enhance standards; also stresses that this free trade deal should not lead to any increase of CO2 emissions;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2192(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point a

a) Real market access opportunities for both sides to each other’s goods and services market through the elimination of regulatory barriers: nothing in the agreement, however, should prevent either side from regulating to achieve legitimate policy objectives;rejects the inclusion of any standstill or ratchet clauses on services that would severely limit the right to regulate of Member States; considering, in this respect, that no EU trade agreement has ever privatised public services, such as water, education, health and social services, nor decreased our high European health, food, consumer, environmental, labour and safety standards, nor constrained public funding of the arts and culture, education, and health and social services;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2192(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point a

a) Real market access opportunities for both sides to each other’s goods and services market through the elimination of regulatory barriers: nothing in the agreement, however, should prevent either side from regulating to achieve legitimate policy objectives;therefore safeguards for public services and services of general interest should be part of the agreement; considering, in this respect, that no EU trade agreement has ever privatised public services, such as water, education, health and social services, nor decreased our high European health, food, consumer, environmental, labour and safety standards, nor constrained public funding of the arts and culture, education, and health and social services;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2192(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point b

b) The reduction of non-tariff barriers and ~~the strengthening and extension of regulatory cooperation dialogues with binding disciplines to improve respect for international standards and~~ regulatory harmonisation, in particular through the adoption and implementation of the standards set by the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE); is of the opinion that regulatory cooperation, as formulated in previously negotiated free trade agreements, is a danger to our democratic system, asks the Commission to make sure regulatory cooperation in this agreement is subject to full transparency by making publicly available the minutes of every meeting including all names of attendees and the organisations they represent; also asks the Commission to ensure balance of stakeholders taking part in the meeting by ensuring civil society organizations like trade unions, environmental organizations and consumer organizations and business representatives have equal access to these meetings;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2192(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point b

b) The reduction of non-tariff barriers and the strengthening and extension of regulatory cooperation dialogues with binding disciplines to improve respect for international standards and regulatory harmonisation, in particular through the adoption and implementation of the standards set by the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE); notes however the differences in regulations and standards between the EU and Australia on many sensitive issues, for example cloning and the use of growth hormones in agriculture, therefore calls on the Commission to set up a list of sensitive issues which are excluded from the regulatory cooperation framework;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2192(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point d

d) A separate chapter taking into account the needs and interests of SMEs with regard to market access facilitation issues in order to generate concrete business opportunities; ensure protection of EU small and medium sized service providers from unfair trading practices from service providers from outside the EU, for example by an article ensuring strict supervisory authorities and competition authorities; this article should at least contain the GATS Art. IX on 'Business practices'.

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2192(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Patrick LE HYARIC, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point g a (new)

g a) An ambitious Sustainable Development chapter that should include standstill clauses setting a minimum level for social, environmental and (food) safety standards, including animal health and welfare;this chapter should also include enforceable anti-corruption and whistle-blower protection provisions;asks the Commission to include effective enforcement mechanisms with the possibility of sanctions in case the commitments in this chapter are not met;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2028(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Recalls that corruption is inextricably linked to harm to human rights, equality, social justice and the environment and urges the Commission to take into consideration this link in all the anti-corruption provisions in trade agreements; consequently calls for the inclusion in trade agreements of binding human rights clauses ensuring that private companies, including transnational corporations, respect human rights and the highest social and environmental standards;

2017/05/10
Committee: INTA

2017/2028(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Emphasises that trade agreements should be seen as a key mechanism for promoting anti-corruption measures and good governance; calls for such agreements to include commitments to multilateral anti-corruption conventions in all trade deals; regrets that trade agreements, when increasing inequality, can consequently provoke corruption;

2017/05/10
Committee: INTA

2017/2028(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls for enhanced transparency obligations for companies as a way to address corruption; underlines the importance of tackling money laundering, tax fraud and tax avoidance in trade agreements, by way of effective measures such as compulsory country-by-country reporting and disclosure of beneficial ownership of companies, trusts or holdings in order to prevent tax base erosion, loss of revenue, and strengthen state building and democratic governance;

2017/05/10
Committee: INTA

2017/2028(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. ~~Insists that EU trade partners lose benefits granted by trade agreements where they fail to comply with anti- corruption commitments or with international standards in the field of anti-corruption; c~~Calls on the Commission to set clear and relevant conditions and performance indicators allowing better assessment and demonstration of results; calls, furthermore, on the Commission to respond firmly, proportionally and quickly where the beneficiary government shows insufficient commitment to comply with what has been agreed.

2017/05/10
Committee: INTA

2017/0224(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 a (new)

Article 1 a Considering the fact that several Member States have questioned the legal basis of the proposal for a regulation within the Council, since the exclusive competence with respect to the common commercial policy to which the Commission refers may be in conflict with the Member States’ competence regarding national security, public order and possibly other areas, the European Parliament urges to justify the legal base for the proposal, and respond to the question and concerns raised by the Member States appropriately.

2018/04/12
Committee: INTA

2017/0224(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 3

3. 'screening' means a procedure allowing to assess, investigate, authorise, condition, prohibit foreign direct investments; We should have in mind that only Member States have the unique authority to investigate, authorise, prohibit or unwind a foreign direct investments;.

2018/04/12
Committee: INTA

2017/0224(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1

1. Member States may maintain, amend or adopt mechanisms to ~~screen~~assess foreign direct investments on the ~~grounds of security or public order, under the conditions and in accordance with the terms set out in this Regulation~~ir own territory on the grounds of national interest, security or public order, or environmental standards and social risks, under the conditions and in accordance with the terms set out in this Regulation. Nationalisation shall be considered a means to employ when job losses, environmental standards and social conditions are at stake.

2018/04/12
Committee: INTA

2017/0224(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. No Member State shall be obliged to supply information especially when it considers its disclosure contrary to its essential national interests.

2018/04/12
Committee: INTA

2016/2301(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 25 a (new)

- having regard to the UN International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families,

2017/06/07
Committee: INTA

2016/2301(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 25 b (new)

- having regard the new ILO Protocol on Forced Labour,

2017/06/07
Committee: INTA

2016/2301(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas global value chains (GVCs) have become a key feature of today’s global economy; whereas, on the one hand, GVCs offer new prospects for growth, development and jobs, but on the other hand, their complex nature, lack of transparency and dilution of liabilities has led to a higher risk of human and labour rights violations, factual impunity for environmental crimes, and large scale tax avoidance and fraught;

2017/06/07
Committee: INTA

2016/2301(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas EU trade policy must strengthen Europe’s place in a system of fair global supply chains, but must also be a tool with which to establish clear rules and liabilities for governments and multinational companies (MNCs) in order to ensure compliance with the UN Sustainable Development Goals;

2017/06/07
Committee: INTA

2016/2301(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

E a. whereas the European Parliament considers social dumping as a conscious strategy involving the lowering of wage and employment standards, driven by companies seeking to gain a competitive advantage over other market participants;

2017/06/07
Committee: INTA

2016/2301(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)

E b. whereas according to the ILO, 21 million people in the world are victims of forced labour, many of them exploited in GVCs; whereas forced labour in the private economy generates US$ 150 billion in illegal profits per year;

2017/06/07
Committee: INTA

2016/2301(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas most, but not all, recently concluded EU trade and investment agreements contain trade and sustainable development (TSD) chapters; whereas the example of the EU's FTA with South Korea has shown that the dialogue- centred approach was not sufficient to address severe violations of the freedom of association, and to protect workers fighting for their rights in trade unions from state persecution;

2017/06/07
Committee: INTA

2016/2301(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)

La. Whereas in the recent Commission Reflection Paper on Harnessing Globalisation the Commission acknowledges that Europe must act in order to more fairly share the benefits of globalisation in line with the principles of solidarity and sustainability

2017/06/07
Committee: INTA

2016/2301(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1 a (new)

Notes that the current European trade policy has not led to increased equality worldwide; urges the Commission to work towards a trade policy that first and foremost benefits people and workers by improving the labour, environmental and food safety standards; therefore urges the Commission to stop prioritising investors’ rights over people’s rights;

2017/06/07
Committee: INTA

2016/2301(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission to actively promote further reforms of the WTO in order to define and enforce multilateral rules for the sustainable management of GVCs; Calls on the Commission to establish within the WTO a group of "very good friend of labour and environmental standards" in order to promote an agreement tackling social and environmental dumping along GVCs also within the framework of the WTO;

2017/06/07
Committee: INTA

2016/2301(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Is of the opinion that international binding rules for Multi National Companies (MNCs) are necessary; Welcomes the ongoing negotiations on a binding UN Treaty for Transnational Corporations and Human Rights; calls for the EUuropean Commission and Member States to engage constructively in these negotiations and to put all its efforts into achieving a positive result;

2017/06/07
Committee: INTA

2016/2301(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3 a (new)

States that voluntary corporate social responsibility and self-regulatory mechanisms have in too many situations not led to a sufficient due diligence policy of MNCs and a proactive identification and mitigation of human rights and environmental risks;

2017/06/07
Committee: INTA

2016/2301(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Recalls that CSR policies should take into account the special characteristics of micro- and small enterprises; stresses that successfully and broadly implemented aspects of CSR should be made binding in order to protect responsible companies from unfair competitors;

2017/06/07
Committee: INTA

2016/2301(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Notes that the current public procurement directive makes it possible to set up social and environmental criteria; urges the Commission to update the public procurement directive from voluntary to binding obligations on environmental and social standards;

2017/06/07
Committee: INTA

2016/2301(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8b. Notes that the Commission and other EU institutions could by their public procurement policies have a major influence on the CSR behaviour of companies and other private partners; urges these institutions to lead by example and to implement a sustainable procurement policy in which they only offer service and product contracts to tenders with the highest environmental and social standards;

2017/06/07
Committee: INTA

2016/2301(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point a

a) implementing fully Parliament’s recommendations of 2010 and 2016 with respect to TSD chapters in FTAs, including by developing an upgraded TSD chapter model with binding and enforceable provisions and sanctions in case these provisions are not met;

2017/06/07
Committee: INTA

2016/2301(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point c

c) including standstill clauses fixing a minimum level for social, food safety, environmental and safety standards in all EU FTAs;

2017/06/07
Committee: INTA

2016/2301(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point e

e) supplementing all these provisions with supporting measures for developing countries and rigorously monitoring their implementation in conjunction with the national parliaments and civil society and including complaint and appeal procedures;

2017/06/07
Committee: INTA

2016/2301(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Reiterates its call for the strengthening of import and supply chain controls to ensure that only child labour- free products enter the EU market; Emphasizes against this background that the aim of child labour free products could only be achieved if this goes hand in hand with the establishment of minimum living wages of the child’s family members;;

2017/06/07
Committee: INTA

2016/2301(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Notes that GVCs are an opportunity for firms in developing countries to develop a link with the global economy; stresses that complementary policies and accompanying measures are key to making this a reality; States that the application of the current GSP and GSP+, without binding rules on MNCs on human and labour rights and environmental protection, favours especially the MNCs and does not automatically lead to a higher welfare position of the country’s average citizens;

2017/06/07
Committee: INTA

2016/2301(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Expects the GSP mid-term review to clarify definitions and include additional tariff preferences for sustainably produced products; Calls for special attention towards the Export Processing Zones where labour rights and trade unions rights are often violated; urges the Commission in close cooperation with the ILO to address this issue in the review of GSP;

2017/06/07
Committee: INTA

2016/2140(INI)

Eleonora FORENZA, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Draft opinion
Recital C

C. whereas all recently concluded EU free trade agreements include ‘'Trade and sustainable development~~’ chapte~~' chapters; whereas such chapters haven´t stop bad practices or human rights abuses and lack binding obligations relating to multinational environmental and labour agreements, specific provisions on human rights and obligations for foreign investors;

2017/01/30
Committee: INTA

2016/2140(INI)

Eleonora FORENZA, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to take into account the special needs of SMEs and base its approach on the scalability principle by supporting them in their fulfilment of OECD Guidelines requirements;

2017/01/30
Committee: INTA

2016/2140(INI)

Eleonora FORENZA, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Recalls that ~~the~~not only traceability ~~and~~, but also transparency of the supply chain is the key to achieving sustained change; recommends that trustworthy, clear and meaningful information on sustainability be made available to consumers; stresses that only binding transparency provisions can set up a level playing field which ensures a fair competition between business avoiding social dumping;

2017/01/30
Committee: INTA

2016/2140(INI)

Eleonora FORENZA, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls for the inclusion in the garment initiative of the obligation for EU companies ensure that fundamental labour rights are respected in supply chains trough the introduction of mandatory due diligence aligned with OECD Guidelines as well as a reporting system with, inter alia, information concerning the list of suppliers as well as of the actions adopted to ensure respect for human rights together with progress reports concerning their implementation and effectiveness;

2017/01/30
Committee: INTA

2016/2140(INI)

Eleonora FORENZA, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Believes that the development of industrial relations and collective bargaining and the establishment of easy- to-access and effective non-judicial grievances mechanisms, a~~ccording to internationally agreed standard~~t the national level to complement judicial avenues for redress, in line with the framework developed by the UN special representative on business and human rights, are among the main guarantees for the proper respect of labour standards and human rights in supplier countries;

2017/01/30
Committee: INTA

2016/2140(INI)

Eleonora FORENZA, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls for the EU and Members states to support the work of the UN's Human Rights Council and of the UNEP on an international treaty that would also improve the effectiveness of corporate social responsibility in the garment sector;

2017/01/30
Committee: INTA

2016/2076(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Is worried that Commissioner Malmström intends to address wildlife issues only via free trade agreements, as is clear from the Trade4All document; calls on the Commission to organise the fight against wildlife trafficking through a broad range of trade measures;

2016/09/05
Committee: INTA

2016/2076(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Recognises that China plays an important role in wildlife trafficking, mainly as a sales market; calls on the Commission to take this into account in its trade relations with China;

2016/09/05
Committee: INTA

2016/2054(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)

– having regard to the outcomes of the Hanoi Conference on Illegal Wildlife Trade

2016/12/09
Committee: INTA

2016/2054(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas wildlife cybercrime poses a serious threat to endangered wildlife species, including elephants, rhinos, reptiles, birds and giraffes

2016/12/09
Committee: INTA

2016/2054(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Strongly supports, therefore, an approach towards wildlife issues that not only upholds the environmental protection objectives of the EU and its trading partners but also allows for the creation of sustainable and legal frameworks that strengthen the ~~positive contribution of trade~~ policy to sustainable development;

2016/12/09
Committee: INTA

2016/2054(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Believes that only an integrated approach to wildlife crime can ultimately be successful in curtailing and eliminating the illegal trade, and that the EU must lead efforts in tackling not only supply-side issues, including development issues on the ground in third countries, but also demand for illegal products in domestic markets;, including online platforms.

2016/12/09
Committee: INTA

2016/2054(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Encourages the Commission to take notice of the US provisions to make it an offence to trade in species taken in violation of the national legislation of third countries.

2016/12/09
Committee: INTA

2016/2054(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Stresses the importance of making the commitments of trade and sustainable development chapters enforceable by submitting them to judicial scrutiny.

2016/12/09
Committee: INTA

2016/0351(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2

(2) Articles 2(7)(a) and 2(7)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2016/1036 stipulate the basis on which normal value should be determined in the case of imports from non-market economy countries. In view of developments with respect to certain countries that are Members of the WTO, it is appropriate that, for those countries, normal value should be determined on the basis of paragraphs 1 to 6a of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2016/1036, with effect from the date on which this Regulation enters into force, and subject to the provisions of this Regulation. In the case of countries acting as non-market economy countries which are Members of the WTO or which ~~are~~, at the date of initiation, are not Members of the WTO and listed in Annex I of Regulation (EU) 2015/7552 , norma1 value should be determined on the basis of paragraph 7 of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2016/1036, as amended by this Regulation. This Regulation should be without prejudice to establishing whether or not any WTO Member is a market economy. This Regulation should be in accordance with the Union's obligations under international law, including the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. _________________ 2 Regulation (EU) 2015/755 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2015 on common rules for imports from certain third countries (OJ L 123, 19.5.2015, p. 33).

2017/05/23
Committee: INTA

2016/0351(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5

(5) It is further appropriate to recall that, with respect to the methodology used in the original investigation and to be used in the review investigation, Article 11(9) of Regulation (EU) 2016/1036 applies. In this context, it is appropriate to clarify that, when examining whether there is an indication that circumstances have changed, due account should be taken of all relevant evidence, including relevant assessment reports regarding the circumstances prevailing on the domestic market of the exporting producers and the evidence on which they are based, which has been placed on the file, and upon which interested parties have had an opportunity to comment. Furthermore relevant free trade agreements with countries whose economy is entrenched with the report country, should be taken account of in the determination of anti- dumping and anti-subsidy measures.

2017/05/23
Committee: INTA

2016/0351(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1

Regulation (EU) 2016/1036
Article 2 – paragraph 6a – point a

(a) In case it is determined~~, when applying this provision or any other relevant provision of this Regulation,~~ that it is not appropriate to use domestic prices and costs in the exporting country due to the existence of significant distortions in the economy as a whole or in sectors of the economy, the normal value shall be based on a price or be constructed on the basis of costs of production and sale reflecting undistorted prices or benchmarks. For this purpose, the sources that may be used include undistorted international prices, costs, or benchmarks, or corresponding costs of production and sale in an appropriate representative country ~~with a similar level of economic development as the exporting country, provided the relevant cost data are readily available~~, and with sufficient level of social and environmental standards, provided the relevant data are readily available including Union costs of production and sale when appropriate. Indirect environmental costs such as CO2 emissions shall be taken into account and estimated as a rate of the total cost for the same amount in the Union; in case of no cooperation from the exporting country, the maximal cost will be applied. The constructed normal value shall include a reasonable amount for administrative, selling and general costs and for profits.

2017/05/23
Committee: INTA

2016/0351(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1

Regulation (EU) 2016/1036
Article 2 – paragraph 6a – point b

(b) Significant distortions affecting to a considerable extent fairness of competition for the product concerned within the meaning of point (a) may be deemed to exist, inter alia, when reported prices or costs, including taxes and the costs of ~~raw materials, are not the result of free market forces as they are affected by government intervention~~primary and secondary raw materials, and labour, and the observation of environmental obligations are affected by government intervention for the purpose of unfair level playing field. In considering whether or not significant distortions exist regard may be had, inter alia, to the potential impact of the following: the market in question is to a significant extent served by enterprises which operate under the ownership, control or policy supervision or guidance of the authorities of the exporting country; state presence in firms allowing the state to interfere with respect to prices or costs; public policies or measures discriminating in favour of domestic suppliers or otherwise influencing free market forces; and access to finance granted by institutions implementing public policy objectiveinterference of the state with respect to prices or costs.

2017/05/23
Committee: INTA

2016/0351(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1

Regulation (EU) 2016/1036
Article 2 – paragraph 6a – point c

(c) WThe~~n appropriate, the Commission services may issue a report describing the specific situation concerning the criteria listed in point (b) in a certain country or a certain sector~~ Commission issues reports, on its own initiative or at the request of a sector industry, a trade union or NGO's, and keeps them updated, describing the specific situation concerning practices of economic, tax, social and environmental dumping in trade partner countries of the European Union, or certain relevant sectors. The Commission shall review its reports at least every two years. Such report and the evidence on which it is based may be placed on the file of any investigation relating to that country or sector. Interested parties, including trade unions and SME's shall have ample opportunity to supplement, comment or rely on the report and the evidence on which it is based in each investigation in which such report or evidence is used. The determinations made shall take into account all of the relevant evidence on the file.

2017/05/23
Committee: INTA

2016/0351(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1

Regulation (EU) 2016/1037
Article 2 – paragraph 6 a – point d

(d) The Union industry and trade unions may rely on the report referred to in point (c) for the calculation of normal value when filing a complaint in accordance with Article 5 or a request for a review in accordance with Article 11. If there is no report yet available, the Commission shall investigate the complaint in accordance with the relevant articles of this Regulation.

2017/05/23
Committee: INTA

2016/0351(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2

Regulation (EU) 2016/1037
Article 2 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1

In the case of imports from countries which are, at the date of initiation, countries acting as non-market economies, including countries that are not members of the WTO and listed in Annex I of Regulation (EU) 2015/755, normal value shall be determined on the basis of the price or constructed value in a ~~market economy third~~n appropriate and similar representative country, or the price from such a third country to other countries, including the Union, or where those are not possible, on any other reasonable basis, including the price actually paid or payable in the Union for the like product, duly adjusted if necessary to include a reasonable profit margin. In case of relevant free trade agreements with countries whose economy is entrenched with the report country, should be taken account of in the determination of anti-dumping and anti- subsidy measures.

2017/05/23
Committee: INTA

2016/0351(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2

Regulation (EU) 2016/1037
Article 2 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 2

An appropriate ~~market economy third~~representative country with a similar level of economic development as the exporting country shall be selected in a not unreasonable manner, due account being taken of any reliable information made available at the time of selection. Account shall also be taken of time-limits; where appropriate, a market economy third country which is subject to the same investigation shall be used.

2017/05/23
Committee: INTA

2016/0351(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2

Regulation (EU) 2016/1037
Article 2 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 3

The parties to the investigation shall be informed shortly after its initiation of the ~~market economy third country envisaged and shall be given 10 days to comment~~appropriate representative country with a similar level of economic development as the exporting country envisaged and shall be given 10 days to comment. The Commission shall also take into account the level of cooperation of the country of origin or export during the investigation and in the case of no cooperation from the exporting country, the maximum cost shall be applied.

2017/05/23
Committee: INTA

2016/0308(COD)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)

(1a) Article 218(8) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union stipulates that the association agreement cannot be ratified because on 6 April 2016 the Dutch people rejected it in a referendum, with 61% of voters voting against it, and the Netherlands Government ought to respect this result.

2017/02/07
Committee: INTA

2016/0295(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5

(5) Considering the emergence of new categories of dual-use items, and in response to calls from the European Parliament and indications that certain cyber-surveillance technologies exported from the Union have been misused by persons complicit in or responsible for directing or committing serious violations of human rights or international humanitarian law ~~in situations of armed conflict or internal repression~~, it is appropriate to control the export of those technologies ~~in order to protect public security as well as public morals~~. These measures should not go beyond what is proportionate. They should, in particular, not prevent the export of information and communication technology used for legitimate purposes, including law enforcement and internet security research. The Commission, in close consultations with the Member States and stakeholders, will develop guidelines to support the practical applications of those controls.

2017/05/16
Committee: INTA

2016/0295(COD)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11

(11) With the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, it has been clarified that the supply of technical assistance services involving a cross-border movement falls under Union competence. It is therefore appropriate to clarify the controls applicable to technical assistance services, and to introduce a definition of those services. For reasons of effectiveness and consistency, controls prior ton the supply of technical assistance services should be harmonised and apply also in order to prevent acts of terrorism and human rights violations.

2017/05/16
Committee: INTA

2016/0295(COD)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23

(23) It is desirable to achieve a uniform and consistent application of controls throughout the Union in order to promote Union and international security and to provide a level playing field for EU exporters. It is therefore appropriate, in accordance with the EU WMD Strategy, to broaden the scope of consultation and information exchange between the Member States and the Commission before an authorisation has been granted, and to introduce tools to support the development of a common export control network throughout the Union, such as electronic licensing procedures, technical expert groups and the setting up of an enforcement coordination mechanism. While customs authorities share certain information with other customs authorities using risk management system in accordance with Union customs rules, it is also appropriate to ensure close cooperation between licensing and customs authorities .

2017/05/16
Committee: INTA

2016/0295(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 13

13. 'large project authorisation' shall mean a global export authorisation granted to one specific exporter, in respect of a type or category of dual-use item which may be valid for exports to one or more specified end users in one or more specified third countries for the duration of a specified project the realisation of which exceeds one year;deleted

2017/05/16
Committee: INTA

2016/0295(COD)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21 – introductory part

21. 'cyber-surveillance technology' shall mean ~~items~~hardware, software and any other items which can be used for surveillance purposes or are specially designed to enable the covert intrusion into information and telecommunication systems with a view to monitoring, extracting, collecting and analysing data and/or incapacitating or damaging the targeted system. This includes items related to the following technology and equipment:

2017/05/16
Committee: INTA

2016/0295(COD)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21 – point e

(e) digital forensics; including devices for the de-codification of encryption, the recovery of hard disks, the circumvention of passwords and the analysis of biometric data.

2017/05/16
Committee: INTA

2016/0295(COD)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)

(ca) for use in a territory or a country which is under occupation as recognised so under international law

2017/05/16
Committee: INTA

2016/0295(COD)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point d

(d) for use by persons complicit in or responsible for directing or committing serious violations of human rights or international humanitarian law in ~~situations of armed conflict or internal repression in~~ the country of final destination, as identified by relevant public international institutions, or European or national competent authorities, and where there is evidence of the use of this or similar items for directing or implementing such serious violations by the proposed end-user;

2017/05/16
Committee: INTA

2016/0295(COD)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1

1. The transit of non-Union dual-use items may be prohibited at any time by the competent authority of the Member State where the items are situated or where the transit occurs, if the items are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for uses referred to in Article 4(1).

2017/05/16
Committee: INTA

2016/0295(COD)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b

(b) global export authori~~sation, including global export authorisation for large projects~~zation;

2017/05/16
Committee: INTA

2016/0295(COD)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 3

3. Individual export authorisations and global export authorisations shall be valid for one year, and may be renewed by the competent authority. ~~Global export authorisations for large projects shall be valid for a duration to be determined by the competent authority.~~

2017/05/16
Committee: INTA

2016/0295(COD)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 3

3. Individual export authorisations and global export authorisations shall be valid for one year, and may be renewed by the competent authority. Global export authorisations for large projects shall be valid for ~~a duration to be determin~~3 years and may be renewed by the competent authority.

2017/05/16
Committee: INTA

2016/0295(COD)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 3 – introductory part

Global export authorisations shall be subject to the implementation, by the exporter, of an effective internal compliance programme prior to export taking place. The exporter shall also report to the competent authority, at least once a year, on the use of this authorisation; the report shall include at least the following information:

2017/05/16
Committee: INTA

2016/0295(COD)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 3 – point d

(d) ~~where known,~~ the end-use and end- user of the dual-use items.

2017/05/16
Committee: INTA

2016/0295(COD)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 6 – point c

(c) not be used if the exporter has grounds to suspect, is aware or has been informed by the competent authority that the items in question are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for any of the uses referred to in Article 4 1 , or if the exporter is aware that the items are intended for the abovementioned uses.

2017/05/16
Committee: INTA

2016/0295(COD)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point b

(b) respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms in the country of final destination as well as respect by that country of international humanitarian law;

2017/05/16
Committee: INTA

2016/0295(COD)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point d – indent 1 (new)

– use in territories under occupation which are recognised as such under international law;

2017/05/16
Committee: INTA

2016/0295(COD)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY

Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – point d

(d) ~~where known,~~ the end-use and end- user of the dual-use items.

2017/05/16
Committee: INTA

2016/0295(COD)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY

Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point b

(b) to ~~enabl~~guarantee the post-shipment verification of exports in third countries;

2017/05/16
Committee: INTA

2016/0205(NLE)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Eleonora FORENZA, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Patrick LE HYARIC

Draft legislative resolution
Paragraph 1

1. GDeclines to gives its consent to conclusion of the agreement;

2016/12/13
Committee: INTA

2016/0000(INI)

Josu JUARISTI ABAUNZ, Kateřina KONEČNÁ, Merja KYLLÖNEN, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 e (new)

3e. Calls on the European Commission to take into account that ETS is failing to put in place the right incentive towards a renewable energy transition;

2016/02/25
Committee: ENVI

2016/0000(INI)

Josu JUARISTI ABAUNZ, Kateřina KONEČNÁ, Merja KYLLÖNEN, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Member States to give priority to renewable energy sources and technologies with the least damaging effects on the environment, ~~and~~ biodiversity and human rights, capitalising on the advantage of a specific geographical and climate situation to secure a beneficial outcome; urges Member States to prioritise the interconnection of the electricity grid with neighbouring countries, and modernize the grid where necessary to guarantee they are fit for renewables;

2016/02/25
Committee: ENVI

2016/0000(INI)

Josu JUARISTI ABAUNZ, Kateřina KONEČNÁ, Merja KYLLÖNEN, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Expresses concern at the fact that progress has slowed in meeting the EU’s 10% target for renewable energy use in the transport sector (especially shipping and aviation) and draws attention to the importance of reaching that goal from the point of view of lowering greenhouse gas emission levels and reducing EU dependency on imported energy; calls on the Commission to promote a legislative framework offering prospects for advanced biofuels in the period after 2020 and, by providing an appropriate incentive to their use, to help open up ‘green’ jobs while averting adverse effects of indirect land- use change;

2016/02/25
Committee: ENVI

2016/0000(INI)

Kateřina KONEČNÁ, Merja KYLLÖNEN, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 h (new)

6h. Calls on the Commission to respect the competence of Member States to decide over their own energy mix, while encouraging cooperation between Member States to learn from best- practices;

2016/02/25
Committee: ENVI

2015/2233(INI)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)

- having regard to Article 8 on the right to Protection of personal data of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union,

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)

- having regard to Principle of Coherence for Development as stated on the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)

- having regard to its resolution on the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) within the WTO, including cultural diversity, adopted on 12 March 2003,

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)

- having regard to its resolution on 8 September 2015 on the follow-up to the European Citizens' Initiative Right2Water,

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas the general EU public is confronted with a big lack of transparency in the TiSA negotiations since the Commission has only made a couple of documents public; whereas the European Commission has published less about the TiSA negotiations than they did for negotiations about trade agreements like TTIP or CETA; whereas Commissioner Malmstrom stated that the transparency model used in the TTIP negotiations would be implemented for all negotiations for trade agreements;

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas not all negotiating countries have ratified the core labour standards from the ILO which include freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining; the effective abolition of child labour; the elimination of all forms of forced or compulsory labour and the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation;

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

Ga. whereas there is a growing public concern about the consequences of TiSA and other free trade agreements, which resulted in the 3.2 million signatures that are collected by the European Initiative against TTIP and CETA;

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)

Ja. whereas the position of the corporate lobby and their influence on the negotiations is not necessarily in agreement with the interests of European citizens and their rights; whereas the corporate lobby seems to have more influence on the negotiation process than civil society;

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a – point i a (new)

ia. Calls on the Commission to stop the negotiations for a TiSA agreements since an agreement like this will endanger EU services standards, public services for EU citizens and the right to regulate of Member States;

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a – point ii b (new)

Iib. to guarantee that decisions and negotiations are taken as closely as possibly to the citizens and assure a consultation by the European Parliament;

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a – point viii

viii. to ~~publish a~~conduct an independent ex-ante sustainability impact assessment and, study on TiSA, during and once the negotiations are finalised, to update it accordingly, taking specific account of its impact on citizens and workers; to request Parliament’s research services to publish a comprehensive and informative study of the scope and potential impact of the TiSA negotiations;

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a – point viii

viii. to publish a sustainability impact assessment ~~and, once the negotiations are finalised, to update it accordingly~~with the greatest urgency and involve the outcomes in the negotiations, taking specific account of its impact on citizens and workers; to request Parliament’s research services to publish a comprehensive and informative study of the scope and potential impact of the TiSA negotiations;

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point i

i. to exclude public services and services of general interest, financial and cultural services from the scope of the negotiations~~, and to seek the further opening of foreign markets in telecommunications, transport and professional services;~~

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point iv

iv. to acknowledge that standstill and ratchet clauses do not apply to market access commitments; calls on the Commission to oppose any type of standstill or ratchet clauses in the whole agreement the ensure the right to regulate of Member States;

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point vi

~~vi. to take an ambitious approach in Mode 3 by seeking the removal of third-country barriers to establishment, such as foreign equity caps and joint venture requirements;~~deleted

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point vi

vi. to take a~~n ambi~~ cautious approach in Mode 3 b~~y seeking the removal of third-country barriers to establishment, such as foreign equity caps and joint venture requirement~~ecause sectors like education, care and other primary needs should always be in public hands;

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point xi b (new)

xib. to ensure that the agreement does not limit the policy space for national, regional and local governments to respond to negative liberalisation experiences and to meet democratic demands for re-regulation (including re- municipalisation);

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point xi c (new)

xic. to ensure that the agreement includes a simplified withdrawal procedure;

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point ii

ii. to recall that Mode 4 commitments only apply to the movement of high-level professionals for a specific purpose, for a limited period of time and under precise conditions stipulated by a contract and by domestic legislation and compelling with all ILO Core Standards and collective bargaining;

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point iv a (new)

iva. to ensure that citizens will not be forced by the authorities or by medical insurance companies to receive medical treatment abroad, unless the medical treatment is not available in the home country;

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point v

v. to seek to horizontally prohibit the requirement of establishing a commercial presence, or of being a resident, as a condition for providing professional services; to limit the scope of the Annex on professional services to the list of commitments made by each Party;deleted

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i a (new)

ia. to exclude financial services from the TiSA negotiations;

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point e – point i b (new)

ib. to ensure that, in the area of financial services, no new commitments will be taken on that would jeopardise any existing or future financial regulation, and that regulators retain the ability amongst others to authorise or deny any new financial product and to impose certain legal forms (e.g. restructuring requirements);

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point e – point iii

iii. to ~~replicate the GATS~~set a prudential carve- out ~~so as to~~mechanism that allows parties to deviate from their trade commitments when th~~is is necessary for prudential reasons~~ey judge that the financial stability is at stake; to take into account that GATS prudential carve-out wording did not allow enough flexibility to be enforceable;

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f – point ii

ii. to seek improved access to foreign markets ~~and a reduction in anti- competitive regulatory practices, most importantly those which are harmful to the environment and reduce the efficiency of transport service~~but to ensure the right to regulate all signatories, whereas regulation is needed to protect workers, environment and the privacy of citizens; to address restrictions in the cabotage sector and to avoid carriers returning empty from their host country, in particular in the Annex on maritime transport;

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f – point vi

vi. to strike the right balance between the liberalisation of the competitive postal sector and the protection of national monopolies; therefore to prevent anti- competitive cross-subsidisation and to ensure the recognition of universal service obligations as defined by each partyimportance of public postal sector and to ensure universality of postal services;

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g – point i

i. to fully preserve European, national and local authorities’ right to regulate; calls on the Commission to make sure that the right to regulate is ensured in all negotiation documents, not only in the preamble;

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g – point ii a (new)

iia. to ensure policy space to implement regulation for the protection of civil society;

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g – point iii

iii. to recognise that the domestic regulation chapter is necessary to prevent parties from implementing disguised trade barriers and imposing unnecessary burdens on foreign companies, in particular when they apply for different types of permitsright to regulate should not be endangered by the domestic regulation chapter; and reject the introduction of "necessity tests" for domestic regulation;

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Patrick LE HYARIC, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g – point v a (new)

va. recalls the superiority of the European Human Charter on Human Rights over any international treaty and calls the European Court of Justice to effectively guaranty this juridical supremacy;

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g – point ix

ix. to maintain the EU practice of carrying out public consultations prior to legislative proposals; to ensure that the outcomes of these consultations will be observed closely during the negotiations;

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Eleonora FORENZA, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point x a (new)

xa. to ensure that universal service is safeguarded, so that for instance people living in remote regions, border areas, islands or mountainous areas enjoy the same standard service and do not pay more that people living in urban areas;

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point h – point ii a (new)

iia. to ensure protection of EU small and medium sized service providers from unfair trading practices from services providers from outside the EU. For example by an article ensuring strict supervisory authorities and competition authorities. This article should at least contain the GATS Art. IX on 'Business practices'.

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point h – point iii a (new)

iiia. to acknowledge that TiSA will be a danger for workers’ rights in Europe since some of the negotiating countries haven't ratified the core labour standards of the ILO; ensure that all signatories of the TiSA agreement have ratified the core labour standards from the ILO which include freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining; the effective abolition of child labour; the elimination of all forms of forced or compulsory labour and the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation;

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i – point iv

iv. to welcome the continuous engagement of the EU institutions with a wide range of stakeholders throughout the negotiation process; to ensure that the negotiators allow equitable access and engagement to all relevant stakeholders;

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2233(INI)

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i – point v

v. to encourage the Member States to involve their national parliaments and to keep them adequately informed about the ongoing negotiations; call on the Council to ensure that TiSA will be a mixed agreement;

2015/11/04
Committee: INTA

2015/2232(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Observes that energy-intensive industries must also contribute, and that a level playing field within the EU is very important in this context;

2016/03/04
Committee: ENVI

2015/2232(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses that the Energy Efficiency Directive triggered many positive developments in the Member States, but that poor implementation is hindering its full potential; calls on Member States to take action to guarantee the effectiveness and the desired impact of the Directive on Energy Efficiency by adjusting implementation where necessary;

2016/03/04
Committee: ENVI

2015/2232(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Points out that the chief weakness of the existing Directive is that most of the measures will expire in 2020 unless the Directive is appropriately amended, which means, inter alia, that its main provisions, in particular Article 7, should be extended not only up to 2030, but also beyond, in which context the current Directive is to be assessed; notes furthermore the necessity of introducing a mid-term review in order to guarantee that the targets will be attained in 2030;

2016/03/04
Committee: ENVI

2015/2232(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Stresses that a high discount rate would reflect the unrealistic assumption that cost- efficient investments in energy efficiency will not happen because of a number of obstacles, whereas it is the duty of political actors and industry itself to overcome obstacles to such investments;

2016/03/04
Committee: ENVI

2015/2232(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Insists that loopholes in the existing Directive, especially in Article 7, must be eliminated, w~~hile keeping flexibility for the Member States to choose among the measures~~ith due regard for the subsidiarity principle;

2016/03/04
Committee: ENVI

2015/2232(INI)

Merja KYLLÖNEN, Kateřina KONEČNÁ, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Josu JUARISTI ABAUNZ, Estefanía TORRES MARTÍNEZ, Lynn BOYLAN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Proposes that the title of Article 7 be changed to ‘energy saving support schemes’ because there is no obligation to save energy for consumers and SMEs, but an obligation for Member States and/or utilities to give incentives. observes moreover that the greatest gains are to be made in energy-intensive industries and utilities, not among consumers;

2016/03/04
Committee: ENVI

2015/2137(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Urgently calls on the Commission and Member States to give priority to achieving the 2020 targets; calls for a multi- stakeholder approach and stresses the vital role of regional and local actors and their full participation in this regard; stresses that greater public awareness of and support for biodiversity are also essential;

2015/11/19
Committee: ENVI

2015/2137(INI)

Merja KYLLÖNEN, Kateřina KONEČNÁ, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Josu JUARISTI ABAUNZ, Estefanía TORRES MARTÍNEZ, Lynn BOYLAN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Commission to improve the guidelines, which should facilitate the optimal application of the directives, in accordance with existing case-law; calls on the Commission to give higher priority to dialogue with Member States and relevant stakeholders, especially land owners and practical operators, and to encourage exchanges of best practices;

2015/11/19
Committee: ENVI

2015/2112(INI)

Benedek JÁVOR, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Seb DANCE, Marco AFFRONTE, Eleonora EVI

Motion for a resolution
Citation 16 a (new)

– having regard to the UNEP Adaptation Gap Report 2014;

2015/06/23
Committee: ENVI

2015/2112(INI)

Benedek JÁVOR, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Seb DANCE, Marco AFFRONTE, Eleonora EVI

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas the Adaptation Gap 2014 Report produced by UNEP highlights the enormous costs of inaction and concludes that the cost of adapting to climate change in developing countries is likely to reach two to three times the previous estimates of $70-100 billion per year by 2050, leading to a significant adaptation funding gap after 2020 unless new and additional finance for adaptation is made available;

2015/06/23
Committee: ENVI

2015/2112(INI)

Benedek JÁVOR, Seb DANCE, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Marco AFFRONTE, Eleonora EVI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Warns against aiming for global emission reduction pathways that allow for significant carbon emissions in 2050 and beyond, as this would imply great risks and relying on unproven, energy intensive and costly technologies to remove and store CO2 from the atmosphere; depending on the level of the overshoot, the ability of such emissions pathways to maintain climate change below 2°C depends on the availability and widespread deployment of biomass to energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and afforestation without plausible land availability, as well as the use of other unknown, yet to be developed, carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies;

2015/06/23
Committee: ENVI

2015/2112(INI)

Benedek JÁVOR, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Marco AFFRONTE, Eleonora EVI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Calls for governments and institutional investors to divest from fossil fuels and, as a matter of urgency, phase out all fossil fuel subsidies;

2015/06/23
Committee: ENVI

2015/2112(INI)

Benedek JÁVOR, Seb DANCE, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Marco AFFRONTE, Eleonora EVI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Considers that finance will play an essential role in finding an agreement at the Paris Conference and that it seems therefore necessary to prepare a credible ‘financial package’ covering both pre- 2020 and post-2020 periods, in order to support greater efforts for greenhouse gas reduction and adaptation to climate change impacts;

2015/06/23
Committee: ENVI

2015/2112(INI)

Benedek JÁVOR, Seb DANCE, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Marco AFFRONTE, Eleonora EVI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Insists on the full respect of the rights of local communities and indigenous peoples particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change; believes that local communities play a key role in the implementation of mitigation and adaptation measures;

2015/06/23
Committee: ENVI

2015/2112(INI)

Benedek JÁVOR, Seb DANCE, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Marco AFFRONTE, Eleonora EVI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)

14b. Takes note of the close links between the Financing for Development Conference, the UN Sustainable Development Goals summit and the 21st Conference of Parties of the UNFCCC in 2015; recognises that the impacts of climate change will seriously undermine attempts to achieve the planned post-2015 sustainable development framework, and that the overall development financing framework will need to be aligned with and able to support a low carbon and climate resilient world;

2015/06/23
Committee: ENVI

2015/2105(INI)

Helmut SCHOLZ, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Patrick LE HYARIC

Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 a (new)

– having regard to the mandate given in June 2014 to the UN Open Ended inter-Governmental Working Group (OEIGWG) to develop a legally binding international instrument on Transnational Corporations and other business enterprises,

2016/04/28
Committee: INTA

2015/2105(INI)

Helmut SCHOLZ, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Patrick LE HYARIC

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas trade negotiations such as ACTA, TTIP, CETA and TiSA have brought European trade policy to the public’s attention, and whereas more and more citizens are worried that European and national regulation and standards could be undermined by the CCP;

2016/04/28
Committee: INTA

2015/2105(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas the centre of wealth generation is clearly shifting eastwards, towards the Asia-Pacific Region with China, which has already surpassed Japan and ~~will probably~~could overtake the US to become the world’s largest economy in 2025, while the gap with most developing countries and the LDCs is increasing, often as an effect of trade liberalisation, illegitimate external debt and structural adjustments;

2016/04/28
Committee: INTA

2015/2105(INI)

Helmut SCHOLZ, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Patrick LE HYARIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. ~~Welcomes~~Takes note of the Commission’s new strategy ‘Trade for all – Towards a more responsible trade and investment policy’~~; regrets the Commission’s delay in presenting a new strategy, given that Parliament requested that a revised mid- and long-term trade strategy be presented by summer 2012~~ but deeply deplores that, despite the growing criticism of the current EU international trade policy by the European citizens, Commission is not redirecting this policy it and proposing concrete steps in order to ensure that international trade is contributing to defend and guarantee, -and not to undermining in favour of corporate companies and investors-, the citizen's social and environmental rights, job creation and defence of quality jobs, public services including health services, family and middle scale farming, food security and sovereignty, cultural diversity and coherence with the development cooperation goals and SDGs;

2016/04/28
Committee: INTA

2015/2105(INI)

Helmut SCHOLZ, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Patrick LE HYARIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to regularly update its ~~trade and investment~~international trade strategy and to publicly present a detailed annual implementation report to Parliament; assessing the impact of this strategy on citizens' rights and interests;

2016/04/28
Committee: INTA

2015/2105(INI)

Helmut SCHOLZ, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Patrick LE HYARIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Welcomes the Commission’s attempts to increase transparency and openness at all stages of trade negotiations, such as the Commission’s TTIP transparency initiative; acknowledges that, after a number of requests from Parliament, the Commission enhanced the transparency of negotiations by providing all Members of the European Parliament and of the national parliaments access to classified negotiating documents and providing more information to stakeholders; recalls that enlarged access to classified information by Members of Parliament in the TTIP negotiations has strengthened parliamentary scrutiny, thereby allowing ParliamentEncourages the Commission to guarantee to all Members of the European Parliament and of the national parliaments and to the public in general, full access to all negotiating documents; recalls that this access would allowing Parliaments and stakeholders to assume ~~its~~their responsibility under the CCP ~~even better~~; calls therefore for a widening of the Commission’s transparency initiative to extend ~~its key elements~~full transparency and possibility for public scrutiny to all ongoing trade negotiations;

2016/04/28
Committee: INTA

2015/2105(INI)

Helmut SCHOLZ, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Eleonora FORENZA, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Patrick LE HYARIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. ~~Stresses that the~~Calls on the Commission to ensure a strong and balanced involvement of civil society and stakeholders, including through appropriate public ~~online~~ consultations, is crucial in order to ~~strengthen the legitimacy of trade policy and to improve its content~~deeply transform and improve the content of the EU's international trade policy and orient it to the defence of citizen's rights, and thereby strengthen its legitimacy;

2016/04/28
Committee: INTA

2015/2105(INI)

Helmut SCHOLZ, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Patrick LE HYARIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Recalls that the CCP ~~is to~~should be conducted in the context of the principles and objectives of the Union’s external action as set out in Article 21 TEU; recalls that the EU’s trade and investment policy must be consistent with other external policies; stresses that the EU has a legal obligation to respect human rights, and should foster the sustainable economic, social and environmental development of trading countries; points out that in ~~some~~most cases trade and investment agreements ~~may~~ have negative effects contrary to the EU’s external objectives as enshrined in the Treaties; is of the opinion that the EU has a responsibility to ~~help~~ tackle ~~any~~the negative impact caused by its CCP;

2016/04/28
Committee: INTA

2015/2105(INI)

Helmut SCHOLZ, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Patrick LE HYARIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. ~~Recognises~~Takes note of the Commission’s ~~effor~~announcements to strengthen sustainable development and promote human rights, labour and social standards and environmental sustainability worldwide through its trade and investment agreements and calls on to present soon concrete and ambitious proposals in this direction; shares the Commission’s view that the EU has a special social responsibility as regards the impact of its trade policies on developing countries and in particular on least-developed countries (LDCs);

2016/04/28
Committee: INTA

2015/2105(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Helmut SCHOLZ, Eleonora FORENZA, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Patrick LE HYARIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)

13b. Calls the Commission to safeguard the right for all countries to regulate and preserve policy space in order to develop infant industries; urges the Commission to ensure that trade agreements and policies do not undermine developing countries strategic economic sectors and do not challenge partner countries efforts to increase the domestic value added in order to upgrade along the global value chain;

2016/04/28
Committee: INTA

2015/2105(INI)

Eleonora FORENZA, Helmut SCHOLZ, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Patrick LE HYARIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 c (new)

13c. Recognizes that universal access to quality public services and common goods such as water and sanitation, education, healthcare and access to medicines is a key component of Member States capacity to guarantee Human and social Rights; therefore calls on the Commission and Member States to refrain from including negative lists in trade deals, nor standstill and ratchet clauses, that threaten states' capacity to reverse achieved liberalisation floors;

2016/04/28
Committee: INTA

2015/2105(INI)

Helmut SCHOLZ, Eleonora FORENZA, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Patrick LE HYARIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Acknowledges that ~~the~~a careful internationaliszation of the world’'s production system ~~has resulted in~~could contribute to new openings for economic development ~~and an employment-based path out of poverty for~~, but so far it has resulted in a huge increase of inequalities and enormous environmental problems, threatening the future of hundreds of millions of people; recalls that, according to the ILO, around 780 million active women and men are not earning enough to be lifted out of poverty; underlines that the expansion of GVCs has created job opportunities but also propelled ~~some~~many supplier firms to ~~ignore~~relocate their economic activities outside the EU in particular to countries that have very low labour standards, do ignore existing labour laws, engage workers in unsafe and unacceptable conditions, demand exhaustive working hours and deny workers their fundamental rights; recalls that these practices create unfair competition for suppliers that are compliant with labour laws and international labour standards and for governments that want to improve wages and living standards; calls on the Commission to improve conditions in GVCs; emphasises that the EU’s further integration into GVCs must be driven by the dual principles of safeguarding the European social and regulatory model and securing and creating sustainable growth and jobs in the EU and for its partners;

2016/04/28
Committee: INTA

2015/2105(INI)

Helmut SCHOLZ, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Patrick LE HYARIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Calls on the Commission to improve the quality of both ex-ante and ex- post assessments; stresses the need to always submit a ~~deep~~comprehensive sustainability impact assessment, including on human, social and environmental rights, for any trade policy initiative; expresses its concern at the lack of interim and ex-post assessments and that the quality of the existing ones is very low, as demonstrated in the European Court of Auditors Special Report 02/2014; insists that high-quality interim and ex-post evaluations be carried out in respect of all trade agreements in order to allow policymakers, stakeholders and European taxpayers to assess whether trade agreements have achieved the intended results; asks the Commission to provide data on the impact of the trade agreements which have been concluded with special regard to SMEs and the creation of jobs; calls on the Commission to put in place a mechanism that allows for suspension of FTAs when social, environmental and/or human rights are violated by Parties;

2016/04/28
Committee: INTA

2015/2105(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. C~~onsiders~~riticizes the increase of plurilateral negotiations at the margin of the WTO or within the WTO such as ACTA, TiSA, the Information Technology Agreement and the Environmental Goods Agreements ~~to be the second-best option~~; emphasises that trade policy should also be used as a tool for increasing the ~~competiveness of~~accessibility of socially and environmentally beneficial products; stresses the importance of multilateralising the ~~‘green goods’ initiative and of considering whether bilateral or unilateral trade agreements could provide premium preferences for environmental good~~plurilateral negotiations at a stage and with a method that gives a chance to all countries to provide inputs on the content of the agreements;

2016/04/28
Committee: INTA

2015/2105(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Underlines, in the context of the current talks on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) ~~and~~, the EU- Japan FTA, ~~the high importance of focusing on core sensitive issues such as the protection of geographic~~and the concluded CETA text do not meet the criteria of the European Parliament as outlined in this report (e.g. social iand~~ications (GIs) and public procurement when negotiating FTAs~~ environmental standards) and should therefore be terminated;

2016/04/28
Committee: INTA

2015/2105(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Insists that trade negotiations follow a tailor-made regional trade strategy, in particular vis-à-vis Asia, Africa and Latin America, which have been identified by the Commission as crucial regions for European economic interests; recalls that Europe and Latin America are natural allies with a combined population of one billion people generating a quarter of global GNP; points out that the potential of this partnership has been insufficiently exploited; welcomes the fact that the Commission’s new trade and investment strategy puts a key focus on Latin America;deleted

2016/04/28
Committee: INTA

2015/2105(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Stresses that further trade liberalisation measures ~~requ~~lead to unfaire t~~he EU to be able to respond even more effectively to unfair trading practices and ensure a level playing field~~rading practices and competition between countries on non-tariff barriers (NTBs) that include labour rights, environmental and public health standards; underlines that TDIs must remain an indispensable component of the EU’s trade strategy; recalls that the current EU trade defence legislation dates back to 1995; stresses that the Union’s trade defence system needs to be modernised urgently; points out that EU trade defence law must be more effective, adapted to today’s challenges and trade patterns, and also increase transparency and predictability; regrets that the TDI modernisation proposal is blocked in the Council; regrets that the Commission does not refer at all to the need for TDI modernisation in its ‘Trade for All’ communication; calls on the Council to boost its efforts regarding TDI modernisation urgently, especially at a time when China is firmly requesting recognition of MES, and asks the Commission to present a new proposal;

2016/04/28
Committee: INTA

2015/2105(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32

32. Regrets that not enough has been done to comprehensively address European industries’ needs and that the EU manufacturing sector is too often placed behind the services and financial sectors; emphasises that trade policy must ensure a level playing field for European industry; calls on the Commission to ensure coherence between the EU’s trade and industrial policies ~~and to promote the development and competitiveness of European industry~~;

2016/04/28
Committee: INTA

2015/2105(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34

34. Recalls that the EU plays a leading role in the services sector; stresses that the opening up of new market opportunities must be an essential element of the EU’s international trade strategy; stresses that including services in trade agreements is of the utmost importance, as it gives opportunities to European companies and domestic employees;deleted

2016/04/28
Committee: INTA

2015/2105(INI)

Helmut SCHOLZ, Eleonora FORENZA, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35

35. Shares the Commission’s view that the temporary movement of professionals has become essential to increasing business internationally; stresses that a labour mobility chapter should be included in all EU trade and investment agreements; recalls however that Mode 4 commitments must only apply to the movement of highly skilled professionals;deleted

2016/04/28
Committee: INTA

2015/2105(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42

42. ~~Stresses the importance of further debate with stakeholders and Parliame~~Calls on the Commission to respect the result of the only official public consultation it carried on ISDS, that brought as its result a rejection by 97 % of the participants o~~n the Commission’s proposal for the Investment Court System in order to better clarify its impact on~~f any ISDS system rejecting any existing or future ISDS or ICS system because it creates a special justice system for investors creating unacceptable double standards for justice, because it challenges in practical terms the ‘right to regulate~~’, the annual~~ of Governments and Parliaments, because it const~~s for the EU~~itutes an enormous threat to public budget, and ~~its compliance with the EU legal order, the power of the EU courts in particular, and more specifically the EU competition rules~~because it is challenging the monopoly of the European judiciary system to interpret EU law; reiterates that investment arbitration systems, whether they names is ISDS or ICS, are not fair and not independent and balanced methods to address disputes between sovereign nations and private investors, as any investor in the EU should respect the reliability of the local judiciary system;

2016/04/28
Committee: INTA

2015/2105(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Helmut SCHOLZ, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Patrick LE HYARIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43 a (new)

43a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to actively support the UN Open Ended Inter-Governmental Working Group (OEIGWG) developing a legally binding international instrument on Transnational Corporations and other business enterprises launched in June 2014;

2016/04/28
Committee: INTA

2015/2105(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Helmut SCHOLZ, Patrick LE HYARIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43 b (new)

43b. Welcomes the progress made since the establishment of the Bangladesh Sustainability Compact and calls Commission to expand binding frameworks to other sectors; urges in this regard the European Commission to enhance due diligence initiatives that complement the existing EU timber regulation, on the proposed EU regulation on conflict minerals, for other sectors; thereby ensuring the EU and its traders and operators live up to the obligation to respect human rights, and the highest social and environmental standards;

2016/04/28
Committee: INTA

2015/2105(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50

50. Shares the OECD’s view that open trade and investment policies need a range of effective flanking policies in order to maximise the gains and minimise the losses; urges the Members States ~~and the Commission~~ to do much more to complement trade opening by a range of supporting measures in order to ensure inclusive growth – such as education, active labour market policies, supporting research and development, infrastructure development and social protection;

2016/04/28
Committee: INTA

2015/2038(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Reiterates ~~its support~~the need for the systematic introduction of human rights clauses in all international agreements between the EU and third countries;

2016/01/25
Committee: AFET

2015/2038(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls, furthermore, on the Commission to systematically monitor the implementation of the human rights clauses and to report regularly to Parliament on partner countries’ respect for human rights; calls on the Commission, in close dialogue with the European Parliament and Council, to suspend agreements if third countries systematically violate human rights;

2016/01/25
Committee: AFET

2015/0148(COD)

Josu JUARISTI ABAUNZ, Anne-Marie MINEUR

Proposal for a directive
Recital 3 a (new)

(3a) In the light of the climate agreement adopted in Paris at the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC, considers that it should be borne in mind that the current and reformed EU ETS will not sufficiently guarantee that emissions fall in accordance with the aim of the agreement; calls, therefore, for other forms of carbon pricing to be investigated, such as a fixed price, so that the unpredictable impact of the market can be taken out of the equation;

2016/08/04
Committee: ENVI

2014/2228(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. ~~Is deeply concerned about the lack of transparency in the negotiations~~Calls for these and other similar negotiations to be conducted with absolute transparency, and urges the Commission to give all Members of the European Parliament access to the negotiation texts, in particular the consolidated ones., as requested in the Report on the European Ombudsman's public consultation in relation to the transparency of the TTIP negotiations of 7 January 2015. __________________ http://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/cas es/correspondence.faces/en/58643/html.bo okmark

2015/02/24
Committee: ENVI

2014/2228(INI)

Helmut SCHOLZ, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Eleonora FORENZA, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Patrick LE HYARIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point vii b (new)

(viib) to take immediate action to prevent fiscal competition, namely through the dumping in the taxation of profits and financial gains and maintenance of offshores and other fiscally privileged zones;

2015/03/30
Committee: INTA

2014/2216(INI)

Dennis de JONG, Peter van DALEN, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Branislav ŠKRIPEK

Motion for a resolution
Citation 27 a (new)

- having regard to the European Social Charter, signed in Turin on 18 October 1961 and revised in Strasbourg on 3 May 1996

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

2014/2216(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)

Na. Whereas Article 18 of the UDHR recognises the freedom of thought, conscience, and religion; whereas the number of incidents relating to the freedom of religion or belief has sharply risen, inter alia, as a consequence of an increasing number of conflicts with a religious dimension;

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

2014/2216(INI)

Dennis de JONG, Peter van DALEN, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Branislav ŠKRIPEK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Reminds the EEAS and the Council, nevertheless, of the challenge of implementation and consequently of the need to evaluate the implementation of the EU Guidelines at the country level; encourages the EEAS and Member States also to engage in continued training and awareness-raising among EEAS and EU Delegation staff, as well as among Member State diplomats, so as to make sure that the EU human rights guidelines have the intended effect in shaping actual policies on the ground; requests the EEAS and Member States to involve, whenever possible, representatives from the European Parliament and from civil society in any such training activities

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

2014/2216(INI)

Dennis de JONG, Peter van DALEN, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Branislav ŠKRIPEK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53 a (new)

53a. Is concerned about the increased violence against religious and belief minorities in many parts of the world; calls for the protection of refugees who have been forced to flee their place of origin as a result of violence and discrimination directed against them on the basis of their religion or belief; expresses the view that in accordance with international human rights instruments, all States have to protect religious and belief minorities against any form of discrimination and violence; encourages the EEAS to establish a horizontal focal point for religion or belief matters;

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

2014/2216(INI)

Dennis de JONG, Peter van DALEN, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Branislav ŠKRIPEK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55

55. Welcomes the adoption during the reporting year 2013 of the EU Guidelines on the promotion and protection of freedom of religion or belief, and calls on the EU institutions and the Member States to pay particular attention to the implementation of these guidelines, both in international and regional forums and in bilateral relations with third countries; commends the new EU High Representative for stating that freedom of religion or belief is one of three human rights priorities; encourages the HR/VP and the EEAS to engage in a permanent dialogue with NGOs, religious or belief groups and religious leaders;

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

2014/2216(INI)

Dennis de JONG, Peter van DALEN, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Branislav ŠKRIPEK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55 a (new)

55a. Welcomes the EU's commitment to promoting the right to freedom of religion or belief within international and regional fora including the UN, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Council of Europe (CoE) and other regional mechanisms; encourages the EU to continue tabling its yearly resolution on freedom of religion or belief at the UN General Assembly and supporting the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief;

2014/12/15
Committee: AFET

2014/2206(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Takes the view that companies should be encouraged to collaborate in a better way in their competitive environment and to work together with public authorities, and believes that this should be done within the Horizon 2020 framework;

2015/03/24
Committee: INTA

2014/2206(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31

31. ADoes not agrees with the Commission’s reasoning for the establishment of the EU Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights, ~~and asks that it be allocated dedicated resour~~but instead suggests that the infringement of Intellectual Property Rights be a charge of the national authorities and the European Patent Offices;

2015/03/24
Committee: INTA

2014/2206(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32

~~32. Points out that the Observatory should be composed in a comprehensive way and should not replicate already existing bodies;~~deleted

2015/03/24
Committee: INTA

2014/2206(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33

~~33. Calls on the Commission to work towards the Observatory maintaining its independence, to ensure that its work is not undermined by real or perceived biases;~~deleted

2015/03/24
Committee: INTA

2014/2206(INI)