24 Amendments of Daniel CASPARY related to 2020/2117(INI)
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I (new)
Recital I (new)
I. whereas the pandemic has exposed the vulnerabilities of global value chains, has created major challenges for international production, especially in combination with rapid technological change and digitization acceleration, and has highlighted the need for enhanced resilience and diversification at a global, regional, and local level;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J (new)
Recital J (new)
J. whereas the COVID-19 outbreak has further increased inequalities and has added to the already growing concern among citizens about job loss in certain sectors, the changing nature of work and the pressure on workers’ wages and rights, and these problems must be addressed in order to retain public support for global trade;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L (new)
Recital L (new)
L. whereas COVID-19 has caused a global pandemic, giving rise to an unprecedented global health, economic, social, and humanitarian crisis, which created bottlenecks and disruptions of an unseen scale to international trade, causing it to plunge as the virus spread and slashing global production and employment, decreasing the level of Foreign Direct Investment, and increasing geopolitical tensions;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M (new)
Recital M (new)
M. whereas the Trade Policy Review needs to be complemented with a realistic strategy to increase EU resilience and strategic autonomy, including tailored policy measures and instruments in the area of domestic production, nearshoring, diversification of suppliers, and stockpiling;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the mainstreaming of the European Green Deal into the communication on the Trade Policy Review (TPR) and calls for a concrete action plan to make this ambition a realityfurther multilateral, rule-based trade;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the incorporation of the Paris Agreement as an essential elat the EU acknowledges the commitments of the Paris Agreement in all trade, investment and partnership agreements; stresses that ratification of the International Labour Organization (ILO) core conventions and respect for human rights are requirements forcommitments reflected in all recently concludinged FTAs; asks for ambitious chapters on gender and on small and medium- sized enterprises (SMEs) to be included in all future trade agreements;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines that the post-COVID-19 recovery is a unique opportunity to set the agenda forenhance sustainable growth; calls on the Commission, therefore, to present its review of the 15-point action plan on TSD chapters without delay; expects the review to address the enforceability of TSD commitments as a matter of urgency, as it is not currently included; recalls, in this regard, the non-paper from the Netherlands and France on trade, social economic effects and sustainable development11 ; suggests that, as a minimum, recent advances in enforceability should be applied to EU trade policy, namely the ability to tackle any non-compliance by partners through unilateral sanctions, including the introduction of tariffs or quotas on certain products or the cross-suspension of other parts of an agreement; __________________ 11 Non-paper from the Netherlands and France on trade, social economic effects and sustainable development, accessed at ‘the Netherlands at International Organisations (permanentrepresentations.nl)’.in a timely manner;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to move away from a “brown/green” product distinction, which dictated “good” and “bad” goods and services, and instead promote life cycle analysis and impact assessments to achieve fair and accurate sustainable trade;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for the EU to take a leading role at a multilateral level to end hmarmfulket- distorting subsidies by advocating transparency and strict regulation and disciplines in trade agreements and at the World Trade Organization (WTO); stresses the importance of drawing up sustainability impact assessments on an ex-ante, intermediate and ex-post basis; stresses the need to develop a comprehensive framework with concrete targets to advance the SDGs, the Green Deal and the ILO Decent Work Agenda in trade and investment agreements; emphasises that new agreements should only be concluded once these targets have been fulfilled and that existing agreements should be revised accordingly;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Emphasises that transparency and dialogue are key to creating support for trade policy; insists that the role and responsibilities of civil society and domestic advisory groups must be clearly defined in the EU’s international agreements and that financial assistance must be accompanied by capacity- building measures to enable it to function effectivelywelcomes the Access2Markets gateway alongside the continuous efforts of the Commission to promote the tool;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses the importance of fairresilient value chains that respect human rights, labour rights and environmental standards; recalls that mandatory due diligence throughout the entire supply chain is a necessary instrument to achieve this; stresses that more attention should be paid to the vulnerable position of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), especially in developing countries, whereas large companies are more likely to overcome a sudden drop in demandcontinued exogenous shocks;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes that global value chains often involve an uneven distribution of risks, particularly in the garment sector; deplores the fact that during the pandemic this uneven distribution has led to European businesses offloading the costs of lower demand onto producers in developing countries by cancelling orders that were already produced and in some cases even shipped; calls on the Commission to engage with local governments, the private sector and civil society to achieve a fairer distribution of risks across the supply chain;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses the importance of ensuring fair competition and a level playing field for European businesses in both the internal market and third-country markets; stresses, in this regard, the importance of trade defence instruments and calls on the Commission to swiftly complete the EU’s trade defence toolbox through legislative proposals in 2021, giving priority to an instrument to tackle distortions caused by foreign subsidies and state-owned enterprises and to working towards overcoming the blockade in the Council as regards the conclusion of negotiations on the International Procurement Instrument12 ; __________________ 12Amended proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 January 2016 on the access of third- country goods and services to the Union’s internal market in public procurement and procedures supporting negotiations on access of Union goods and services to the public procurement markets of third countries (COM(2016)0034).
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Is convinced that openness should go hand in hand with safeguarding our strategic sectors and should be closely connected with an ambitious, forward- looking industrial policy in line with the Green Deal and digital strategy, creating quality jobs and ensuring that Europe plays a crucial role in the production of innovative goods and future services with the aim of enhancing the long-term competitiveness of EU businesses;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Is convinced that the EU is too dependent on a limited number of suppliers for critical goods and services; insists that the EU shouldmust overcome these undesirable dependencies to harness its strategic autonomy via a mix of policies to incentivise companies to stockpile, diversify sourcing strategies and promote nearshoring, which could create new trading opportunities for partners in the Eastern and Southern Neighbourhoods;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Notes that food supply chains for agricultural goods and food remained operational during the pandemic; notes that the Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS), which brings together the principal trading countries of agricultural commodities with the aim of enhancing food market transparency and the policy response for food security, can be regarded as an example of good practice; calls on the Commission to explore whether this model could be used in other value chains as well;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls for incentives for EU businesses to shorten or adjust their supply chains where it is beneficial to do so, with a view to ensuring that external social, environmental and economic costs are fully internalised in the price in line with EU policies such as the Farm to Fork Strategy, the Circular Economy Action Plan, the Biodiversity Strategy and stepping up EU action to protect and restore the world’s foreststhe EU's economy and strategic autonomy;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Underlines that international trade governance has an important role to play in the rapid development of medical treatments and vaccines, the rapid scaling up of production, the development of resilient global value chains and equitable global market access for the whole world; stresses, in this context, that the COVID-19 pandemic must be used to provide impetus for more concerted international cooperation and to boost global preparedness for health emergencies;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Is concerned about the recent rise in export restrictions on vaccines by the main manufacturing countries such as the US, the UK, China and, India and by the EU and emphasises that this might endangers the rapid global scaling up of vaccine production capacity; urges the Commission to engage with producing countries to swiftly eliminate export barriers and to replace the export authorisation mechanism with an export and import notification requirement; insists on having timely and comprehensive access to such data; ; reaffirms that the EU export authorisation mechanism is a temporary measure, only to be used as a very last resort, that should evolve in the long-term into a transparency mechanism; stresses, however, that for the time being a targeted export authorisation mechanism with criteria of proportionality and reciprocity works towards ensuring the safety and well-being of European citizens; emphasises that the increased transparency provided by the EU export authorisation mechanism has increased European citizens trust in the EU’s vaccine rollout and management of the COVID-19 pandemic while demonstrating the EU's cooperative approach as a vaccine export champion;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Underlines that the vaccines against COVID-19 and its variants are a global public good and that multilateral efforts should be focused on ramping up global production capacities and technology transferof Covid-19 vaccine capacities, including in low and middle- income countries; strongly welcomes, in this regard, the Global C19 Vaccine Supply Chain and Manufacturing Summit held on 8 and 9 March 2021 and calls for the establishment of structural platforms to rapidly scale up vaccine production in more countries;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Emphasises that international trade policy must play a proactive role in this endeavour by facilitating trade in raw materials, alleviating shortages of qualified and experienced personnel, and solving supply chain problems and revisiting the global framework for intellectual property rights for future pandemics; insists, in this regard, on a constructive dialogue about a temporary waiver of the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) in order to ensure that countries do not face retaliation over COVID-19 related patent infringements during the pandemic;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Welcomes the TPR’s affirmation of multilateralism and extensive proposals for the necessary in-depth reform of the WTO; shares the Commission’s emphasis on sustainable development in its vision for WTO reform and urges the Commission to bring to bear all efforts to implement a sustainable development agenda; stresses the importance of taking forward the WTO initiative on trade and climatetrategic autonomy, economic recovery and tackling competition-distorting subsidies;
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Shares the suggestion made in the TPR that the G20 should cooperate and take a leading role in achievingcoordinate efforts on their paths towards carbon neutrality worldwide; stresses, however, that in order for this approach to be effective, some G20 members will need to raise their emission reduction commitments;
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Supports the new, forward-looking transatlantic agenda based on common interests and shared values; urges the Commission and the US administration to cooperate closely in order to secure a level playing field and to agree on ambitious social and environmental standards and build on each other’s experience to enforce these more efficiently; calls for joint efforts to overcome the pandemic, speed up the economic recovery and facilitate trade in essential medical goods; reiterates that we should work together to achieve meaningful WTO reform and find common solutions to common problems;