Activities of Marian HARKIN related to 2015/2038(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Social and environmental standards, human rights and corporate responsibility (A8-0217/2016 - Eleonora Forenza)
Amendments (7)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for the ILO’s eight core labour standards and the four ILO Priority Conventions for the industrialised countries to be systematically includrespected and implemented in all bilateral EU trade agreements;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for closer cooperation at multilateral level with a view to achieving genuine coordination betweenwith the international organisations WTO and ILO;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for a strengthening of the chapter on sustainable development in bilateral agreements through the provision of a complaints proceduremonitoring and reporting mechanism open to the social partners;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for sustainable impact assessments and human rights impact assessments to be carried out, at bilateral level, before, during and after the negotiations the negotiations, as well as for an ex-post systematic monitoring and evaluation to be applied; takes the view, also, that negotiators should take into account to a greater extent the priorities and concerns that emerge from these impact studies;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to include systematically in all free trade agreements negotiated with non-EU countries a series of social standards that include the full implementation ofare in keeping with the ILO’s Decent Work Agenda;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission to proactively and constructively engage with the OECD and the ILO to develop a global approach to improving working conditions in the garment sector;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission to create incentives and promote the uptake of corporate social responsibility (CSR), which must complement and under no circumstances replace labour and environmental laws;