9 Amendments of Patricia LALONDE related to 2017/2193(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the EU's share of the New Zealand market has shrunk by 4% over the last 20 years, but European exports to New Zealand have been rising constantly since 2009;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas the New Zealand and EU economies are largely composed of SMEs, which this Agreement must allow to expand internationally more easily;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas 70% of EU imports from New Zealand consisted of agricultural products in 2016, while 90% of EU exports to New Zealand were of industrial products;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas in the joint declaration issued on 29 October 2015, the President of the European Commission, the President of the European Council and the Prime Minister of New Zealand undertook to negotiate a deep and comprehensive free trade agreement based on high-quality norms and standards, with a view to encouraging sustainable growth and long-term investment, creating new business and trade opportunities and generating employment for both sides;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that the European Union and New Zealand are among the world's front-runners in the field of sustainable environmental policies, and that in this respect they have the opportunity to negotiate and implement a highly ambitious sustainable development chapter;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Emphasises that an ambitious agreement must address, in a meaningful way, investment, trade in goods and services (drawing on recentEuropean Parliament recommendations as regards reservations of policy space and sensitive sectors), digital services and e- commerce, public procurement, energy, state-owned enterprises, competition, regulatory issues such as sanitary and phytosanitary barriers, as well as technology research and support for innovation;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point d
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 and promote their international expansion;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point g
Paragraph 14 – point g
(g) A balanced outcome in the agriculture and fisheries chapters which gives due consideration to the interests of all European producers and consumers, for instance by introducing appropriate quotas in the most sensitive sectors, safeguard clauses where these are required, and mechanisms for the yearly monitoring of the impact of New Zealand imports on the European market and industries for the most sensitive agricultural products; considers that only then can it boost competitiveness and be beneficial to both consumers and producers;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point g a (new)
Paragraph 14 – point g a (new)
(ga) Considers that the conclusion of a free trade agreement with New Zealand must be such as to allow the EU better access, indirectly, to the South-East Asian and Chinese markets, to the benefit in particular of the EU's outermost regions in the Pacific;