5 Amendments of David MARTIN related to 2018/0000M(NLE)
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses the Parties’ commitment to promoting sustainable development, to cooperating to address climate change as well as globalisation and to contributing to the Millennium Development Goals; welcomes Singapore’s ratification of the Paris Agreement on 21 September 2016 and expects it to meet the planned emission reduction targets by 2030;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Welcomes Singapore’s signing on 21 June 2017 of the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement (MCAA) for implementing the global standard for the automatic exchange of information for tax purposes and its notification to the OECD on 30 June 2017 of its intention to activate automatic exchanges under that agreement with all the EU Member States for which there was no bilateral agreement for the same purpose in place; encourages the Parties to make full use of the tax cooperation provisions in the PCA;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for the EU to enter into a dialogue with the Singapore Government on a moratorium on capital punishment with a view to its eventual abolition;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Acknowledges that Singapore has not yet ratified the core ILO conventions on Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise and on Discrimination respectively and denounced the one 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;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Recalls that Article 44 of the PCA would allow the EU to suspend the EU- Singapore free trade and investment protection agreements in case of systematic and serious violations of the human rights and non-proliferation clauses;