Activities of Vittorio AGNOLETTO
Plenary speeches (79)
Draft Commission Regulation on REACH, as regards Annex XVII (debate)
Democratic process in Turkey (debate)
One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
EU Annual report on human rights - French initiative at the UN on the decriminalisation of homosexuality (debate)
HIV/AIDS: Early Diagnosis and Early Care (debate)
EU-Russia relations (debate)
Evaluation of EU sanctions as part of the EU's actions and policies in the area of human rights (debate)
Situation in Georgia (debate)
Stabilisation of Afghanistan: challenges for the EU and the international community (debate)
Creation of a Roma fingerprints database in Italy (debate)
Turkey's 2007 progress report (debate)
Human Rights in the World 2007 and the EU's policy on the matter - EU Election Observation Missions (debate)
Lebanon (debate)
Situation in Tibet (debate)
The European Union's role in Iraq (debate)
A European strategy on the Roma (debate)
1 December 2007: World AIDS Day (debate)
Proclamation of consensus on humanitarian aid - The European Union and Humanitarian Aid (debate)
Production of opium for medical purposes in Afghanistan (debate)
Equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin (debate)
TRIPS agreement and access to medicines (debate)
TRIPS agreement and access to medicines (debate)
MDGs at the Midway Point (vote)
Conclusions of the G8 meeting - MDGs at the Midway Point (debate)
Roaming on public mobile networks (debate)
Common Foreign and Security Policy 2005 (vote)
Situation in Nigeria (debate)
The economic partnership agreements (debate)
Non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament (debate)
Preparation for the European Council (14-15 December 2006) (continuation of debate)
AIDS
European communication policy (vote)
Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), cluster bombs and conventional weapons (debate)
Situation in Darfur (debate)
Turkey's progress towards accession (debate)
Situation in the Middle East (debate)
Suspension of negotiations on the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) (debate)
Increase in racist and homophobic violence in Europe (debate)
Human rights in Tunisia (debate)
Explanations of vote
Human Rights in the World in 2005 and EU policy (vote)
Human Rights in the World in 2005 and EU policy (debate)
EC-Morocco Fisheries Partnership Agreement (debate)
WTO Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong (debate)
The development impact of Economic Partnership Agreements (debate)
62nd session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNHCR, Geneva) (debate)
State of the European footwear sector one year after liberalisation (debate)
Forced prostitution in the context of world sports events – EU measures against trafficking in human beings and the launch of an anti-trafficking day (debate)
The Human Rights and Democracy Clause (debate)
The Human Rights and Democracy Clause (vote)
Homophobia in Europe
WTO Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong
Explanations of vote
"Secret detention centres" in Europe
Opening of negotiations with Turkey - Additional Protocol to the EEC-Turkey Association Agreement
Council Question Time
Medicinal products for paediatric use
EU/Iraq - A framework for engagement
Patentability of computer-implemented inventions
Transatlantic relations
Council Question Time
Doha Development Agenda
Small arms (UN prepcom)
Human rights in the world 2004 and the EU's policy
The Roma in the European Union
One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
Foreign policy / Security
Area of freedom, security and justice
Review of the Non-proliferation Treaty Nuclear arms in North Korea and Iran
Services in the internal market/Patentability of computer software
One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
Human rights (Geneva, 14 March to 22 April 2005)
EU aid for tsunami victims in Asia
EU drugs strategy (2005-2012)
Turkey's progress towards accession
World Aids Day
Arms sales
One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
Situation in Iraq
Reports (1)
REPORT Report on the human rights and democracy clause in European Union agreements PDF (257 KB) DOC (199 KB)
Opinions (2)
OPINION The evaluation of EU sanctions as part of the EU's actions and policies in the area of human rights
OPINION on the European Union and humanitarian aid
Written declarations (3)
Amendments (25)
Amendment 179 #
2008/2331(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 b (new)
Paragraph 31 b (new)
31b. Takes the view that public health cannot be protected unless every person staying on the territory of a Member State – under whatever circumstances – is allowed access to treatment; maintains that each Member State must therefore guarantee that every person staying on its territory, regardless of the circumstances, will receive treatment in an emergency or in essential cases, on the understanding that this will not lead to any report to the authorities and that the costs charged will be comparable to those borne by needy citizens of the Member State concerned:
Amendment 34 #
2008/2135(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Is very concerned by the lack of transparency and democracy in this process of negotiation; considers that the text of the negotiations should be made public, and a transparent, accountable and consultative negotiation process should be adopted before continuing any negotiation;
Amendment 54 #
2008/2135(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Regrets that India maintains the principle of asymmetry; urges the Commission to push for a reciprocal, symmetrical FTAStresses that the commitments must reflect the different levels of social and economic development of the two parties;
Amendment 63 #
2008/2135(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Notes that India is concerned about the lack of harmonisation of micro-biological standards in the EU, implications of REACH, costly certificates and conformity procedures; stresses that these issues must be but considers that necessary, reasolved in the FTA, calls on both parties to ensure that regulation and NTB's do not get in the way of tradenable and justified regulations, on both sides, are in no way an obstacle to an increase in trade exchanges;
Amendment 74 #
2008/2135(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Points out that service liberalisation must in no way hinder the right to regulate services, and especially to maintain and develop strong public services, an essential element for development, social justice and democracy;
Amendment 119 #
2008/2135(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Welcomes India's commitment to a strong IPR regime; encourages its rigorous implementation and enforcementConsiders that IPR should not be part of the negotiation, unless they are oriented to improving access to medicines, as well as protection of biodiversity and traditional knowledge;
Amendment 123 #
2008/2135(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. RegretConsiders that the Indian Patent Amendment Act does not contain any provision on data exclusivity; notes that lack of data protection and exclusivity are major concern for EU pharmaceutical companies in IndiaCommission should not request data exclusivity, - as requested by the pharmaceutical industry -, because that would be a TRIPS + measure that would create another monopoly on medicines, and would be an effective barrier to safe, effective and affordable generics;
Amendment 12 #
2008/2031(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas, with regard to international relations and the promotion of the political objectives included in the various founding Treaties, the European Union obtains more meaningful results when it proposes 'positive measures' to its partners on economic and trade issues, and 'political measures to support and encourage' political processes designed to promote more democracy and the rule of law in a given country,
Amendment 23 #
2008/2031(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. urges the Commission and the Member States not to propose association agreements - even with human rights clauses - to governments of countries where massive human rights violations are being committed, according to reports by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations;
Amendment 24 #
2008/2031(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that often, developing countries upon which sanctions have been imposed often do not have the necessary resources tofinancial and human resources to defend their own position in an appeal to the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Mechanism and; calls on the Commission to take action inat the WTO to change this state of affairensure that such countries have access to existing appeal procedures;
Amendment 34 #
2008/2031(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes also that sanctions can have symbolic value as an expression of the EU's moral condemnation of the actions of the regime to which sanctions are applied, thus giving added visibility and credibility to EU foreign policy; considers that that credibility is vitiated by an obvious policy of double standards which ensures that the same kind of breaches of international law are not reflected in the same kind of 'restrictive measures';
Amendment 50 #
2008/2031(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Considers that a sanctions policy leads de facto to the isolation of the country concerned but should under no circumstances isolate the population; stresses, therefore, that any sanctions taken against government authorOpposes the application, in all circumstances, of blanket, indiscriminate sanctions to any country, since this approach simply entails the total isolation of the population and not of the elities swhould systematically be coupled with political and financial support for civil society in the relevant countryse anti-democratic behaviour, breaching the founding principles of the United Nations, it is intended to punish;
Amendment 54 #
2008/2031(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Stresses, in this context, the political importance of the quite simply disastrous and bankrupt historical experience of the policy of sanctions against Iraq that the United States imposed on the international community; points out, in this connection, that hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians died as a result of the direct and collateral effects of that embargo;
Amendment 95 #
2008/2031(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
Paragraph 43
43. Notes that both the autonomous EU anti-terrorist sanctions and the EU implementation of Security CouncilStresses the legal importance and political significance of the recent rulings by the European Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance concerning the 'EU anti- terrorist sanctions ablacklist', which have ordered the subject of several cases before the Court of First Instance and the Court of Justiceremoval from those lists of organisations which have been included on them in a legally irregular manner, in contravention of human rights and the principles of the rule of law;
Amendment 84 #
2007/2198(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Asks the Commission to act accordingly in order to instil social and environmental considerations into the reform of antidumping rules during the WTO negotiations, based on the international fundamental social and environmental standards that already exist;
Amendment 140 #
2007/2198(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Calls on the Commission to increase the transparency and predictability of the procedure of TDI investigations in the EU, to accelerate and simplify procedures, as well as to facilitate the accessibility of TDIs for SMEs, as they constitute the majority of the European industrial sector;
Amendment 164 #
2007/2198(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Urges the Commission to guarantee that the process of decision-making in TDI investigations is based on transparent and objective standards;
Amendment 178 #
2007/2198(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 b (new)
Paragraph 32 b (new)
32b. Calls for real and strong involvement of the European Parliament, in order to improve the credibility and transparency of the trade defence policy in general and of TDIs in particular;
Amendment 181 #
2007/2198(INI)
33a. If the Treaty of Lisbon is ratified, the European Parliament will have co- decision power in TDI matters; therefore requests the Commission not to introduce any kind of changes to the TDI procedures before the ratification of the Treaty;
Amendment 198 #
2007/2198(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 a (new)
Paragraph 37 a (new)
37a. Stresses that, given that TDIs are a concept developed within the WTO mandate, it can hardly be advisable to engage in a process of unilateral revision of such instruments: reciprocity, as well as parallel steps towards their revision, on a multilateral level, namely on the part of the major EU trading partners, should be a precondition for this initiative; recalls that for the time being TDIs are the sole instruments in international trade law to address unfair trading practices;
Amendment 201 #
2007/2198(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38 a (new)
Paragraph 38 a (new)
38a. Asks the Council to demonstrate solidarity when dealing with TDIs, in order to guarantee that European industry and its workers are effectively protected when confronted with unfair competition;
Amendment 7 #
2007/2184(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas when the current WTO round was launched in Doha, Qatar in 2001, it was officially named the “Doha Development Agenda,” emphasising the priority of helping developing and poor countries gain more from trade liberalisation, and this priority was a consequence of the global solidarity that emerged in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks,
Amendment 8 #
2007/2184(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas despite that ensuing moment of enlightenment, many of the major players, including the United States and the European Union, soon gave short shrift to the development agenda and reverted to their traditional priority of gaining market access for their own competitive firms and sectors,
Amendment 11 #
2007/2184(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas today, two and a half years after the WTO Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong (2005) and with no evidence of any substantial advancement in the Doha Round negotiations, we have the historical opportunity to set talks on a better course to achieve the agreed objective of rebalancing trade rules so that developing and poor countries can benefit more, and we could do it by opening a debate on the principles that have driven the WTO so far and questioning the lack of democracy that this organisation has shown from 1995 onwards,
Amendment 18 #
2007/2184(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Declares itself in favour of a fair and just international trade system and a completely new multilateral organisation where basic human rights always come before financial and industrial interests;