2 Amendments of Bernd LANGE related to 2015/2041(INI)
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the fact that the Committee on International Trade (INTA) and the Commission’s Directorate-General for Trade have been collaborating pro-actively to enhance cooperation, establish best practices and improve communication channels, and that this collaboration has been especially useful for monitoring trade negotiations through INTA Standing Rapporteurs and targeted monitoring groups; welcomes recent efforts by the Commission to increase the transparency of trade negotiations; believes, nevertheless, that the Council and the Commission can still improve their working methods to better cooperate with Parliament as regards access to documents, information and decision-making for all issues and negotiations related to CCP (such as information relating to negotiations – including scoping, mandates and evolution of negotiations – provisional application of trade agreements, activities and decisions taken by bodies created by trade and/or investment agreements, expert meetings, and delegated and implementing acts); notes with regrets that afterit took one year of negotiations between the Commission and Parliament to achieve an agreement on access to documents related to the TTIP negotiations, there is still no agreement about access to confidential docu; notes that regulation 1049/2011 on public access to documents grants very broad rights for ordinary citizens in term of access to documents which can go beyond the access that is currently given to Members of the European Parliaments;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that more engagement with civil society and social partners is crucial in order to achieve greater transparency; stresses in this respect the important need for improvement of the functioning of the domestic advisory groups engaged in the implementation of existing trade agreements in terms of working methods, membership and overall resources dedicated by the Commission;