Activities of Heidi HAUTALA related to 2018/0358M(NLE)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the draft Council decision on the conclusion, on behalf of the Union, of the Investment Protection Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, of the other part
Legal basis opinions (0)
Amendments (6)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Deplores that the European Commission did not carry out a human rights impact assessment on the EU- Vietnam IPA, which contradicts the spirit of the decision of the EU Ombudsman of 2015 as well as the EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy; calls on the European Commission to carry out a human rights impact assessment before the ratification of the IPA takes place;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the enhanced political dialogue between the EU and Viet Nam and the upgraded potential to address human rights concerns in the framework of the institutional mechanisms established under Article 35 of the PCA and Article 13 of the FTA; believes however that those articles do not provide the necessarysufficient tools to address human rights concerns related to the IPA;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Fully supports thea genuine and result-oriented engagement on human rights dialogue between the EU and Viet Nam, which is a very effective way to discuss issues related to human rightincluding within the framework of the bilateral human rights dialogue and other senior level meetings; calls for the strengthening of the annual EU-Viet Nam human rights dialogue witthrough the involvement of local and international civil society and taking into accountindependent local civil society organisations and human rights defenders; stresses in that respect that the European Commission and EEAS need to be particularly attentive to the fact that independent civil society has been harshly repressed and largely operates underground for fear of persecution and retaliations; insists on the importance in raising individual cases and following up on their situation during these dialogues; calls for information received from relevant international organisations to be taken into account in those dialogues;
Amendment 22 #
4a. Regrets the lack of provisions on investors’ obligations, including binding corporate social responsibility standards; calls on the Commission to propose legislation laying down mandatory and enforceable due diligence standards in sectors such as the garment industry;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on the EU and Vietnam to set up, through an additional Protocol to the IPA, an independent monitoring and complaint mechanism on human rights providing affected citizens and local stakeholders with effective recourse to remedy and a tool to address potential negative impacts on human rights arising from the IPA;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5