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6 Amendments of Andreas SCHWAB related to 2015/2233(INI)

Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 - point a - point i
i. to ensure the highest level of transparency in the negotiations, in particular by allowing access to documents and by organising a consultation with Parliament and civil societyrelevant stakeholders throughout the process;
2015/10/19
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 - point a - point iii
iii. to ensure that the TiSA provides reciprocal access, notwithstandingrespects the right of countries to adopt regulations which are duly justified on public policy grounds;
2015/10/19
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 - point b - point i a (new)
ia. to facilitate more active participation of EU businesses, including SMEs, in public procurement globally, as this can contribute to stimulating private-sector innovation and to the emergence of new, high-growth, innovative companies and sectors; to stress that this possibility must not undermine the capacity of EU governments to maintain their public services;
2015/10/19
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 - point b - point ii a (new)
iia. to underline that the public procurement must be part of any final comprehensive agreement given that it represents a substantial part of the EU’s and other trading partners’ economies and therefore is a key economic interest for the EU;
2015/10/19
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 - point c - point i
i. to ensure that a positive list of services ready to be placed on the market is presented by the Union in order to protect those services not explicitly referred to from being opened up to competition; the TiSA does not endanger the high quality of services and to support the current proposal for increasing market access for services according to a "hybrid list approach" and, in accordance with the EU's decision, not to take any market access or national treatment commitments on publicly-funded health and social services, publicly-funded education, water collection, purification, distribution and management services, film, TV and other audio-visual services; to ensure that a positive list of services ready to be placed on the market is presented by the Union in order to protect those services not explicitly referred to from being opened up to competition, whereby services that are to be opened up to foreign companies are explicitly mentioned while ensuring that possible stand-still clause only applies to non-discrimination provisions and allow for enough flexibility to bring services of general economic interest back into public control as well as to take into account the emergence of new and innovative services and using "negative list" for national treatment;
2015/10/19
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 - point c - point ii
ii. to ensure that the negotiations comply with the new directives on public procurement and concessions, in particular as regards the definition of public-public cooperation, exclusions and SME accesw public procurement and concession directives are complied with in the negotiations, in particular as regards the definition of public-public cooperation, exclusions, SMEs access and the award criteria on best value rather than lowest price, the possibility for contracting authorities to cooperate and form intercommunalities, and the thresholds below which the procurement is not subject to EU or international rules;
2015/10/19
Committee: IMCO