4 Amendments of Louis MICHEL related to 2017/2015(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas current EU trade policy lacks a gender equality perspective, as well as obligations to enforce women´s rights conventions; whereas including a gender perspective in trade and investment policies is an essential element of an integrated sustainable development policy framework that combines social and economic measures to ensure fairer and beneficial outcomes for all; Article 8 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) lays down that ‘in all its activities, the Union shall aim to eliminate inequalities, and to promote equality, between men and women’; whereas Articles 207 and 208 TFEU lay down that the Union’s common commercial policy and policy in the field of development cooperation 'shall be conducted in the context of the principles and objectives of the Union’s external action’, and whereas these principles as set out in Article 21 of the Treaty on European Union are: democracy, the rule of law, the universality and indivisibility of human rights and fundamental freedoms, respect for human dignity, the principles of equality and solidarity, and respect for the principles of the United Nations Charter and international law;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Emphasises the need for gender analysis and perspectives to be integrated systematically into trade and investment policies, and into the trade-related capacity building programmes of international finance institutions, donors and intergovernmental organisations, through ex-ante analysis and monitoring, with a view to overcoming the potentially negative gender impacts of different trade measures and instruments;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the need to enhance the participation of women and gender expertsin decision- making at all levels, particularly in trade policy-making and negotiation processes at all levels, and the fact that multi-stakeholder mechanisms should be established to reorient the trade agenda in support of a pro-poor and, so as to ensure greater gender- aware development frameworkness;