8 Amendments of Antoni COMÍN I OLIVERES related to 2020/2117(INI)
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to mount an assertive and coordinated international trade policy response geared towards a multilateral, resilient and sustainable recovery in developing countries; calls on the Commission to deepen EU-Africa trade relations through economic partnership agreements, while making the most of the EU’s Aid for Trade Strategy; calls on the Commission and Members States to boost their targeted support for pan-African and sub-regional trade integration arrangements and to ensure that their financial and technical assistance responds to African needs and priorities at all levels, helps to foster regional value chains and production networks, diversify their productive capacities and integrate into regional and global value chains;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Welcomes the Commission’s intension to strengthen the enforcement mechanism of Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) chapters and to launch a comprehensive early review in 2021 of the 15-point action plan on the effective implementation and enforcement of TSD Chapters in trade agreements; underlines the need to ensure that no provisions in the FTAs undermine the objectives and standards enshrined in the TSD chapters;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Underlines that the COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the violations of fundamental rights at work, poor working conditions, lack of fair wages, irregular or excessive working time, discrimination, as well as gender-based violence and harassment; calls on the EU and its Member States to make real progress in the commitment to elaborate the UN binding treaty on business and human rights and enforce the ILO Conventions on decent work in supply chains; calls on the EU to oversee the enforcement of the labour standards set out in the eight core ILO Conventions in developing countries, and to assist them in establishing and reinforcing initiatives, notably partnership programmes, to strengthen the labour inspection systems and to collect more data on how international labour standards address decent work deficits in the global supply chains in order to close identified governance gaps;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to launch an EU Action Plan that focuses on shaping sustainable global supply chains, promoting human rights, social and environmental due diligence standards and transparency, which takes the experiences and lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic into account, and to update its 2006 Communication on ‘Promoting decent work for all – the EU contribution to the implementation of the decent work agenda in the world’;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Stresses that agricultural export subsidies cause enormous damage to local producers, destroy local markets in LDCs and exacerbate their dependence on foreign imports, with a negative impact on food security in particular during the COVID-19 pandemic; calls on the Commission to actively participate in WTO negotiations to abolish agricultural export subsidies, in line with the “Nairobi Package” adopted at the WTO's Tenth Ministerial Conference in 2015;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Points out that the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in developing countries, especially LDCs, faces unprecedented challenges due to a lack of logistical capacity, poor transportation and storage, including breaks in the cold chain integrity, and fragile healthcare systems; calls on the Commission to actively support LDCs in the handling and transportation of COVID-19 vaccines in line with international regulatory requirements and ensure that there is no delay in the attainment of mass immunisation against COVID-19 in these countries;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Is deeply worried that financing constraints and limitations in the supply of vaccines will prevent many LDCs from completing mass immunisation against COVID-19 until 2023 or even later; considers that waiving the patents on the vaccines that have been developed with massive public funding would increase the production of vaccines in all countries that have sufficient industrial capacity and would raise the purchasing capacity of COVAX due to the price lowering of vaccines that such a measure would entail; calls on the Commission to support the proposal of India and South Africa for a temporary waiver of Sections 1, 4, 5 and 7 of Part II of the TRIPS Agreement in order to ensure that vaccines are available in all developing countries in the shortest term possible;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to collaborate with developing partner countries in order to facilitate digital infrastructure, establish policy strategies and harmonise regulatory frameworks for e-commerce.; underlines the need for EU development cooperation to contribute to ensuring that populations have general broadband internet access at affordable prices in LDCs;