5 Amendments of Vittorio PRODI related to 2011/2056(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
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1. Welcomes the proposal for EU dDiplomacy on raw materials and rare earths with the aim of urgently establishing an international regulatory platform and ensuring open global markets to prevent the risk of resource based conflicts;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
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2. Stresses that as part of the EU’s strategic cooperation with relevant key partners such as the USA, Russia, China and Japan, an early- warning mechanism for market distortion and supply shortage should be established and complemented by a monitoring group at EU level comprising representatives of the EU institutions, the Member States and relevant industry sectors;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
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3. Calls for international regulatory standards on sustainable mining and good governance upholding the core, founding principles of human rights, labour rights, dignity and democracy and not infringing on the other countries right to development which should be promoted through relevant fora, such as the G8 and the G20, the WTO, the OECD, UNCTAD, UNEP;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the inclusion of explicit guarantees on market access to raw materials in EU trade agreements and as a prerequisite for membership of the WTO; based on the recognition of growing interdependence between countries; calls for the access to and sustainable governance of raw materials to be included in all EU agreements with relevant third countries;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission, when preparing the new external action instruments for the period after 2013, to include measures to support good governance and sustainable mining in the programmes for the democratic and economic stability of fragile States that are suppliers of raw materials; suggests that these measures be accompanied by impact assessments of possible bottlenecks brought about by availability problems and by possible alternatives;