2 Amendments of Miguel VIEGAS related to 2017/2193(INI)
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Believes that an ambitious, balanced and comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA) which respects vulnerable sectors of European agriculture, such as dairy and sheep and goat meat, can be of mutual benefit, offering opportunities for European producers and advancing the EU’s position as a key player on the global market free trade agreement (FTA) could pose a further threat to European producers and consumers, bearing in mind the impact of the free trade agreements signed in recent years;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses that any trade agreement can only be built on a basis of mutual advantages without discrimination against any economic sector and must take into account the interest of all European producers and consumers by imposing quotas, safeguard clauses and effective measures to regulate markets in the most vulnerable sectors, including the possibility of the suspension of the agreements in the event of manifest damage to European producers. In this sense, any solution based on a logic of trade liberalisation must be rejected from the outset;