5 Amendments of Bernd LANGE related to 2012/0000(RSP)
Amendment 5 #
Recital A
Amendment 8 #
Recital B
B. whereas the European Union is the second biggest trading partner of the Andean regionColombia and Peru and whereas the planned TA provides for total liberalisation of trade in industrial products and fisheries, which could increase both Colombian GDP up to 1.3% and Peruvian GDP by 0.7% in the long term, according to an independent Sustainability Impact Assessment study;
Amendment 20 #
Recital I
I. whereas, despite these vast efforts, in order to achieve the full completion of the high standards set out and claimed by the individual citizens, the organisations of the civil society, the opposition parties and the government, there is still a substantial work to be done both in Colombia and Peru, especially regarding the effective implementation of the new legislative framework which intends to solve old problems yet not totally solved, related to long standing problems of poverty, violence and corruption, civiinternal warmed conflict (more than 50 years, in the case of Colombia), illegal armed groups, drug trafficking, unsolved murders, impunity, lack of labour and civil rights and land dispossession;
Amendment 52 #
Paragraph 10
10. Supports the Colombian government efforts on fighting impunity and murders against trade unionists or HRs defenders, which is translated, for example, in an increase of the number of investigators at the General Prosecutors Office (FGN), that specifically in the case of the investigation of crimes directed against trade unionist grew from 100 investigators in 2010 to 243 investigators in 2011; also according to ILO, between 2010 and June 2011 there were 88 sentences, 483 citizens condemned with crimes against trade unionists and 355 arrests; in this respect, underlines the importance of the "Special Protection Program" (SPP) which gives, at the present, State protection to more than 11.08.500 citizens, including trade unionists (2413%), Municipal Councillors (11%),30%) and HRs defenders (18%) and journalists (45%); this program went from a budget of 10.5 million euros in 20102 to more than 120 million euros in 2011; notes that none of the citizens included in this SPP has been murdered;
Amendment 78 #
Paragraph 16
16. Welcomes the fact that Colombia and Peru have ratified all the 8 Fundamental ILO-conventions plus 3 of the 4 Governance Conventions, as stated by the ILO representative in INTA's Public Hearing on the TA at the European Parliament in Brussels on 29th February 2012; insists on the importance of a swift ratification and effective implementing of all the ILO Fundamental and Governance Conventions, especially C122 in the case of Colombia and C129 in the case of Peru; underlines to all parties the importance of ratifying the ILO Convention 135 on workers' representatives; recallurges in this context that 24 EU Member States still haven't ratified the ILO C169- Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention;