Activities of Malcolm HARBOUR related to 2011/2115(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on trade and investment barriers
Amendments (7)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission to engage the customs and responsible authorities of major third country export markets, with the objective of diminishing the use of overly stringent or unnecessary inspection procedures on EU-manufactured or assembled products, as a non-tariff and hidden barrier to trade, such as the US 100% scanning of cargo containers requirement;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses the importance of international standards in boosting global trade and growth particularly in the development of new technologies, and the need to ensure better cooperation between national standardisation bodies at global level, especially in the US, China and Japan;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Regrets the persistent lack of consistency between technical standards which perpetuate barriers to trade; Stresses that the development of new standards should follow an inclusive international approach underpinned by widespread consultation to avoid the emergence of new trade barriers;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Calls on the Commission to better engage with trading partners who do not apply mutual recognition principles for the standards developed by EU standardisation bodies;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2d. Stresses the important role of joint investment in facilitating research and development in long term inward investment projects, and calls on the Commission to continue its promotion of access by third countries to EU Framework Programmes;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Regrets that the public procurement procedures of our principal partners are not as open as those of the European Union; supports the Commission's work to revise EU legislation on public procurement, in particular the introduction of legislationin particular to clarifying the provisions on access by third-country businesses to European public procurement procedures, both to ensure that the conditions governing these procedures are fair and to strengthen the EU's position when negotiating access for European businesses to third-country public procurement procedures; stresses the need for evidence based policy making and a thorough impact assessment as well as an assessment of the relative risks and benefits for EU business and public sector stakeholders, with a view to proposing legislation;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the importance of developing trade relations between the European Union and China; calls, however, on the Commission to maintain a strongpositive stance in negotiations with China on its participataccession into the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA), encouraging China towards greater openness, in order to secure the equal opening of Chinese procurement procedures and equal treatment of European businesses;