Activities of Eleonora FORENZA related to 2017/2057(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on a European Parliament recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the European External Action Service on the negotiations of the modernisation of the trade pillar of the EU-Chile Association Agreement PDF (368 KB) DOC (67 KB)
Amendments (17)
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Citation 15 a (new)
Citation 15 a (new)
– having regard to the IWGA Report The Indigenous World 2016 in relation to Chile1, 1 http://www.iwgia.org/publications/search- pubs?publication_id=740
Amendment 7 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas, despite the efforts of the Chilean government, several obstacles and restrictions to the right of free association and in particular to the right of workers to freely belong to a trade union association as well as to the right to strike and limitation on collective bargaining are still present in the Chilean legislation from the past dictatorship; whereas the current EU-Chile AA does not consider obligations to enforce labour legislations nor commitments to implement ILO conventions;
Amendment 8 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the current AA lacks, among chapters, a trade and sustainable development chapter (TSDC) as well as obligations to enforce labour or environmental legislation and commitments to implement international instruments (like multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) or ILO Conventions or the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), or the promotion of good practices in either area, such as corporate social responsibility (CSR) or sustainability assurance;
Amendment 19 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital J
Recital J
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital P
Recital P
P. whereas Chile has bilateral investment treaties (BITs) with 17 EU Member States, the content of which does not reflect the latest developments and best practice in investment policy, whereas the EU and Chile are fully fledged “etat de droit” with developed and recognized judiciary systems that can ensure a full set of guarantees and remedies for all the economic actors involved and which would be replaced and cease to apply once an agreement containing an investment chapter between the Union and Chile enters into force;
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point c
Paragraph 1 – point c
(c) to consider it important and necessary to seek to modernise the EU- Chile AA, in particular its trade component, in the spirit of reciprocity, mutual benefit and balance, and to note the consistent support for a modernisation expressed by the EU-Chile JPC, as well as the fact that the JCC welcomed the steps taken towards an update;
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point g
Paragraph 1 – point g
(g) to ensure that a modernised AA guarantees, throughout the entire text, and enshrines, explicitly and unequivocally, the right and the ability of the parties to adopt and apply their own laws and regulations in the public interest, in order to achieve legitimate public policy objectives such as the protection and promotion of human rights, public health, social services, public education, safety, the environment, public morals, social or consumer protection, privacy and data protection, and the promotion and protection of cultural diversity;
Amendment 48 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point h
Paragraph 1 – point h
(h) on the negotiations on trade in goods, to seek ambitious improvements to market access across tariff lines, lifting unnecessary barriers, while respecting that there are a number of sensitive agricultural, manufacturing and industrial products which should be given appropriate treatment, for example though tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) or allocated adequate transition periods; to include a usable and effective bilateral safeguard clause enabling the temporary suspension of preferences, if, as a result of the entry into force of the modernised AA, a rise in imports causes or threatens to cause injuries to sensitive sectors;
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point j
Paragraph 1 – point j
(j) on trade in services, to consider that the potential of the service sector is not fully accomplished in the current AA, and that a modernised AA should address unnecessary barriers to market access and provide national treatment via a positive list schedule excluding any 'ratchet' or 'standstill' clause which would, respectively, prevent parties from increasing the level of regulation in particular service sectors already liberalized at the moment of the signature, and prevent them from reregulating service sectors once they are liberalised; to consider that commitments should be taken building on the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and that rules should be updated as necessary to account for new developments;
Amendment 70 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point s
Paragraph 1 – point s
(s) to recall that corruption undermines human rights, equality and social justice, and is a major non-tariff barrier to trade impeding economic growth; to explicitly commit the parties, and to include a specific section on measures, to combat corruption in all its forms and implement international standards and multilateral anti-corruption conventions going beyond solely voluntarily commitments;
Amendment 72 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point t
Paragraph 1 – point t
(t) to consider that openness of strong public procurement marketsprovisions in the agreement with high social standards such as decent work, compliance with social and labour rights, social inclusion (including persons with disabilities), equal opportunities, accessibility design for all, taking account of sustainability criteria, including ethical trade issues and wider voluntary compliance with corporate social responsibility (CSR), simplified procedures and transparency for bidders, including those from other countries, can also be effective tools to combat corruption and foster integrity in public administration while providing value for money to taxpayers, in terms of the quality of delivery, efficiency, effectiveness and accountability; to deliver in a modernised AA improved access to public procurement markets, including at sub-central level, and transparent procedures based on national treatment, impartiality, and fairness as well as preserving local entities’ capacity to pursue public interest;
Amendment 75 #
(ua) to ensure that the treaty provisions do not harm the possibility to revise the current model of water management and lead toward the return to the public ownership of water and the recognition to water access as a human right;
Amendment 77 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point w
Paragraph 1 – point w
(w) to consider that negotiations on investment may be an opportunity to make progress towards a necessary international reform of the dispute settlement regime, to seek a commitment by all parties to put an end to investor-to- state dispute settlement (ISDS) based on ad hoc private arbitration, and to replace it with a public investment court system (ICS) with an appeal mechanism, with a view to preserving the right to regulate to achieve legitimate public policy objectives, prevent frivolous litigation and guarantee all democratic procedural guaranteeAcknowledging the high level of investment protection offered by the legal systems of both parties, to consider not necessary the insertion of a specific investment chapter and in particular the inclusion of provisions such as ISDS or Investment courts that would have a detrimental impact on the protection of public interests, such as the right to access to justice (with particular attention to SMEs), judicial independency, transparency and accountability, while pursuing the establishment of a multilateral investment court (MIC)alth and the environment, and on the fair and non- discriminatory access to justice;
Amendment 84 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point x
Paragraph 1 – point x
(x) to ensure that the modernised AA contains a robust and ambitious TSDC that includes binding and enforceable provisions, subject to dispute settlement mechanisms, with the possibility of imposing sanctions in case of breach with the possibility to appeal and seek redress through a complaints procedure open for social partners and civil society;; considers that the TSDC should cover, among other things, the parties’ commitment to adopt and maintain in their national laws and regulations the principles enshrined in core ILO conventions and to effectively implement up-to-date ILO instruments, especially the Governance Conventions, the Decent Work Agenda, ILO Convention n°169 on the rights of indigenous peoples, the Convention on Equal Opportunities and Equal Treatment for Men and Women Workers, the Convention on Domestic Workers, and the Workers with Family Responsibilities Convention, as well as labour standards for migrant workers;
Amendment 91 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point y
Paragraph 1 – point y
(y) to ensure, with reference to the progress achieved by Chile in bilateral trade negotiations with Uruguay and Canada, that the parties include a specific chapter on trade and gender equality that specifically contains clear and measurable targets, beyond the adherence of the parties and their respect for international human rights, labour and social standards, foreseeing active measures aiming to enhance opportunities for women to benefit from the opportunities provided by the AA; to ensure, inter alia, that the parties commit to collect disaggregated data allowing for thorough ex ante and ex post analysis on the impact of the modernised AA on gender equality, to pursue an enhanced access to social and reproductive health services, participation of women enterprises (particularly micro-enterprises and SMEs) in public procurement....
Amendment 97 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point a d
Paragraph 1 – point a d
(ad) to accept that the negotiations must result in strong and enforceable provisions covering the recognition and protection of all forms of intellectual property rights, including ambitious provisions on geographical indications (GIs) building upon but extending those contained in the existing AA, ensuring an enhanced enforcement and the possibility to add new GIs; to ensure that any IPR-related provisions must not undermine access to affordable essential medicines under domestic public health programmes and both parties’ capacity to exclude methods of medical treatment from patentability;
Amendment 101 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point a e a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point a e a (new)
(ae a) to include representatives of indigenous populations in the negotiation as well as in the monitoring bodies of the agreement, especially in aspects and chapters affecting their territories and natural resources particularly in the case of extractive industry investments;