14 Amendments of Pervenche BERÈS related to 2014/2228(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1. - Point (d) - Subpoint (i.)
Paragraph 1. - Point (d) - Subpoint (i.)
i.) to specify the role and the legal quality of the Regulatory Cooperation Council’s findings, taking into consideration that the regulatory cooperation should respect the EU current constitutional and institutional framework, the capacity of European, national and local authorities to legislate their own policies, in particular social and environmental policies, and that any direct application of its recommendations for the relevant EU instances would imply a breach of the law- making procedures laid down in the Treaties;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1.- Point (d) - Subpoint (ii.)
Paragraph 1.- Point (d) - Subpoint (ii.)
ii.) while the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) is an appropriate tool to protect investors and assure that investments are treated in a fair and non- discriminatory way, to oversee that it does not undermine the capacity of European, national and local authorities to legislate their own policies, in particular social and environmental policies, and therefore respect the constitutional framework of the Member StaTo oppose the inclusion of an ISDS mechanism in TTIP given the EU’s and the US’ developed legal systems and that a state-to-state dispute settlement system, and the use of national courts are the most appropriate tools to address investment disputes;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph b
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph b
b. take immediate action to ensure that free and fair competition on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as market access, is addressed on the basis of the highest standards possible within the existing levels of protection, especially within areas such as health and safety, consumer, labour and environmental legislation, data protection and food policy;
Amendment 35 #
iii.) while a certain extent of confidentiality is necessary for effective negotiations on a trade agreement of such high economic and political importance, to continueto continue and strengthen its effort to render TTIP negotiations more transparent and accessible to the public, as European institutions should be at the forefront of promoting transparency;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph c
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph c
c. take immediate action to include restrictions on state aid in the agreement; propose greater transparency within state aid rules and within the allocation of state aid;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph d
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph d
d. take immediate action to ensure that marketany access negotiations on financial services are combined withlead to upward convergence in financial regulation; support high international standards in on-going cooperation effortsconsiders that the current negotiations must in no way serve to undermine the calls for more stringent international standards which are being made in other international fora;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph h a (new)
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph h a (new)
ha. call on the EU institutions and on the ECB to set up with their US counterparts a committee to monitor the euro/dollar exchange rate, given that the fluctuations in that rate have a much greater impact on many industrial and services sectors than the regulatory factors referred to above, and given that the repercussions go well beyond the transatlantic market, since the dollar zone is not restricted to the United States, but also incorporates many countries in Latin America and Asia, including China, which has maintained a steady dollar parity for many years;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph h b (new)
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph h b (new)
hb. call on the institutions, including the Council, to make, in parallel with the negotiations on TTIP, arrangements for the proper external representation of the eurozone, in order to consolidate the benefits the euro offers;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph i
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph i
i. proppose the introduction of a national court systems-first principle, to be supplemented with mediation and intergovernmental dispute mechanisms in legal disputes in order to ensure easier access and lower litigation costs than those offered by current ISDS- mechanisms, benefitting especially SMEs (having fewer resources available than large corporations), thus creating more equal competition conditions; stress that any and all dispute mechanisms set in placlusion of ISDS mechanisms in trade agreements under which other options for protecting investments are available, whether at domestic or international level; in agreements with countries which have fully functioning judicial systems and in which no risk of political interference within the TTIP-framework must uphold full transparency and be subject to democratic principles and scrutinyjudiciary or denial of justice has been identified, reject ISDS mechanisms;
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Points out that this agreement must not call into question the collective preference of any country with regard to the prohibition of fracking in accordance with application of the precautionary principle;
Amendment 124 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph j
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph j
j. acknowledge the importance of state- owned enterprises for certain crucial services and stress the need to protect collective preferences and uphold the EU tradition whereby states organise their own public services, and call for an exclusion of public services from the agreement;
Amendment 129 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph k
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph k
Amendment 196 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the Commission and on the ECB to set up with their US counterparts a committee to monitor the euro/dollar exchange rate, given that the fluctuations in that rate have a much greater impact on many industrial and services sectors than the regulatory factors referred to above, and that the repercussions go well beyond the transatlantic market in that the dollar zone is not restricted to the United States, but also incorporates many countries in Latin America and Asia, including China, which has maintained a steady dollar parity for many years;
Amendment 213 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Calls on the Commission and the Council to make arrangements, in parallel with the TTIP negotiations, for the proper external representation of the eurozone, in order to consolidate the benefits of the euro for European industry;