Activities of Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS related to 2014/2228(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) (A8-0175/2015 - Bernd Lange) ES
Amendments (9)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas in its resolution of 23 May 2013 on EU trade and investment negotiations with the United States of America1 , Parliament stressed the importance of several major transport issues, related especially to aviation and maritime, to be addressed and included in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP); __________________ 1 Texts adopted, P7_TA(2013)0227.
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point i
Paragraph 1 – point i
(i) to ensure that TTIP will make a significant positive contributionimmediately suspend the negotiations; and to creating more and better jobs and set ambitious global trade standards for sustainable development and labourfrain from any further attempts of imposing a global model of free trade standards; Believes that any further negotiations between the EU and US need to be subject to a fundamental rethink as called for by the European Trade Union Conference (ETUC);
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Finds regrettable the fact that no transport-related issues were included in the Commission’s negotiating mandate for the TTIP;Asks the Commission to ensure that the negotiations are held in open and transparent manners.
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Reiterates the great importance of the transatlantic transport sector for trade as well as economic growth and jobs; reiterates its call for the negotiations to address in a meaningful way and in the spirit of reciprocity all relevant issues, taking into account existing EU standards;, and to guarantee that European working conditions, level of environmental protection and human health and safety are not compromised.
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that EU companies are hindered as regards market access for major transport infrastructure investments (such as railway projects) due to: (i) regulatory and standardisation barriers; and (ii) ‘Buy America’ provisions2 ; emphasises that this puts EU goods and services at a serious disadvantage; calls upon the Commission to address in the TTIP this protectionism by the US by pushing for the creation of a level playing field and establishing a new level of transparency in procurement with open and predictable procedural requirements. ; and also notes that the assessment of environmental and sosioeconomical impacts of the investments in transport infrastructure must meet the European and Member States standards. __________________ 2Buy America Act, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the Surface Transportation Assistance Act.
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point v
Paragraph 1 – point v
(v) to take immediate steps to safeguard the right of EU governments to legislate, organise, set quality and safety standards for, manage and regulate public servicesunequivocally exclude public services, including Services of General Interest and Services of Non-Economic Interests, as well as rules on public procurement from areas that can be liberalised;
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point vii
Paragraph 1 – point vii
(vii) to take steps to promote the uptake of corporate social responsibility (CSR), which must be additional to and not replace existing labour and environmental laws;
Amendment 111 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point viii
Paragraph 1 – point viii
(viii) to guarantee that agreement on anyno mechanism for investor-state dispute- settlement mechanism must take into accoun(ISDS) will be part of a final agreement; and to respect the results of the public consultation on investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), must be fully transparent and democratically accountable and must not hinder legislators from passing laws in the area of employment policywhich showed wide opposition against ISDS rather than public support of a reformed ISDS; Believes that the ISDS undermines democratically adopted legislation which has been put in place to safeguard public interests;
Amendment 157 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point x b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point x b (new)
(x b) to reject the Regulatory Cooperation Council as it lacks democratic accountability, does not ensure multi- stakeholder representation and does not foresee social impact assessments of how new laws and regulations will affect working and living conditions of citizens;