14 Amendments of Charles GOERENS related to 2015/2233(INI)
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Points out that in a globalised economy, services are playing an increasingly important role and that they are a key sector for investment, innovation, and job creation, making them an essential element of economic growth in developing countries;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Maintains that if developing countries have access to world markets in services, this will consolidate their economic integration and their adjustment to globalisation; calls on the EU to make every effort to encourage them to participate in the negotiations on the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA);
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Notes that TiSA is based on the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), in which all members of the WTO are participants; calls on the EU to take advantage of TiSA to reactivate the discussions on services in the Doha Development Round while safeguarding the provisions on special and differentiated treatment under GATS Article IV;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. RecCalls TiSA’s risks ofon the EU to prevent TiSA from increasing asymmetric international trade relations between participating and non- participating countries;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Rejects TiSA and other macro-trade deals, taking the view that they are a tool for the privatisation of public services and liberalisation of public procurement, such public services and public procurement being key elementsPoints to the benefits of economic liberalisation in the development of the private sector, a key factor for sustainable development; and for ensuring respect for people’s dignity; asks the Commissionsks the Commission to ensure that TiSA does not serve to isolate developing countries or to cement instances of unfair competition adversely affecting them; maintains that TiSA must seek in particular to respect the policy space of developing countries’ governments and parliaments to take decisions in order to ensure internationally agreed standards on labour, the environment and human rights;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the EU to ensure that TiSA does not jeopardise labour mobility in developing countries which, though not part of TiSA, provide services in the area that it covers;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls on the EU to safeguard the achievements of the Cotonou Agreement as regards the partnership between the EU and the ACP countries;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls the Commission to mainstream gender equality and women’s empowerment in its trade policy and to considerforestall the negative impact that TiSA and other trade agreements may have in this respect in developing countries;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Points out that trade in services entails substantial flows of private data from developing countries; calls on the EU to ensure that privacy is respected and to protect personal data from developing countries involved in trade in services between the EU and TiSA parties;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Points to the importance of fighting cybercrime, and asks the EU to allow for the risk that cybercriminal networks might spread within developing countries if cybercriminals were to remain outside the regulatory framework to be established under TiSA; calls on the EU to help the digital world to grow on a sound and secure footing in developing countries;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls the primacy of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union over TiSA and any other international treaty negotiated by the EU, andMaintains that TiSA has to be in accordance with Union law and must not violate the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; calls on the Court of Justice of the European Union to effectively guarantee this juridical supremacycompliance with European law and the EU’s core values;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Maintains that TiSA must continue to exclude audio-visual and cultural services while enabling developing countries to preserve their cultural assets.