8 Amendments of Pablo ZALBA BIDEGAIN related to 2013/2740(RSP)
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
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2. Recalls its firm conviction that development should be at the heart of the process and promotesCalls for a trade agenda based on free and fair trade for the benefit of all; stresses the importance of taking full account of the special needs and interests of developing countries and LDCs in the negotiations; reiterates the imperative of ensuring that the principle of special and differential treatment (S&DT) constitutes an integral part of all layers of the negotiations, reflecting the varying economic development levels of WTO members as set out in paragraph 44 of the Doha Ministerial Declaration; considers that meaningful S&DT provisions should be made more precise, subject to periodic reviews and targeted;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
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3. Believes that trade liberalisation is a necessary but not in itself sufficient tool to ensure sustainable economic growth and development, as it needs to be accompanied by appropriate flanking policies encompassing macro- and micro economic interventions, education and training, institutional reforms and social policies so as to maximise and distribute better the benefits of trade reforms and effectively counterbalance any negative effects;
Amendment 20 #
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4. Stresses that WTO Members have recognised that as manythere are still some countries that do not have the human, institutional and infrastructural capacity to participate effectively in international trade, the multilateral system needs to be accompanied by improvements in trade capacity which is an essential complement to the Doha Development Agenda;
Amendment 23 #
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5. Emphasises in this context the important role played byrole that the Aid for Trade Initiative has played and regrets that for the first time since its launch in 2005 the amount of the commitments were reduced in 2011 due to the financial crisis, which resulted in less support to large projects in economic infrastructure with commitments in the transport and energy sector falling;
Amendment 28 #
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6. Draws attention to the Fourth Aid for Trade Review Conference held in July 2013 in Geneva where the participants identifiedich showed the benefits which developing countries draw from global value chains and regrets that there are still trade-related constraints that prevent developing country firms from linking to or moving up value chains, namely inter alia inadequate infrastructure, high transportation and shipping costs, inadequate access to trade finance, inability to attract foreign direct investment, lack of comparative advantage and high market entry costs;
Amendment 32 #
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7. Recognises the importance of the agricultural sector to developing countries and notes the proposals made by the G33 group of countries on the issue of food security; believes that the EU should support measures which restore food stocks for developing countries in the wake of the harmful speculation and price volatility in recent years; believes that the EU should support measures addressing food security which are not trade distorting; recalls that in this regard the EU should ensure coherence between the various EU policies as enshrined notably in Articles 207 and 208 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, namely development policy, the CAP and the common commercial policy, taking account of the needs and concerns of both EU Member States and those of developing countries;
Amendment 36 #
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8. Considers that an agreement on trade facilitation would bring significant benefits to all WTO members and, above all to developing countries and also to relevant economic operators by enhancing transparency and legal certainty and reducing the administrative costs and the length of customs procedures, which would in turn enable them to fully seize the opportunities provided by the growing prevalence of regional and global supply chains; points out that sufficient capacity building and technical assistance hasshould continue to be made available to developing countries in order to enable them to increase their production capacities so that they can benefit from a bigger share of the value added in global value chains;
Amendment 47 #
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11. Welcomes the revision of the WTO plurilateral government procurement agreement (GPA) as agreed in March 2012 and looks forward to its entry into force; believes that clearer and more stringent rules for award procedures will foster transparency in public procurement and, together with the extended coverage of goods and services and entities, will provide greater opportunities for its signatories; calls on WTO Members, in particular developing countries and current observers of the GPA, to consider joining the agreement, in order to take advantage of the new provisions for developing countries increasing flexibility and to reap its benefits;