Activities of Judith SARGENTINI related to 2015/2317(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the EU 2015 Report on Policy Coherence for Development
Amendments (11)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Recalls Article 208 of the Lisbon Treaty, establishing reduction, and in the long term, eradication of poverty as the primary goal of Union development cooperation policy, and emphasizing that this goal has to be taken into account in all EU policies, including trade policy,
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Regrets that EU unilateral as well as bilateral trade measures, such as the GSP scheme, and in particular the GSP+ scheme, as well as free trade agreements with developing countries, including the EPAs, often do not meet policy coherence criteria in practice and lack satisfactory monitoring, once in force; underlines that these criteria should be much more explicitly enshrined in the terms of reference for ex-ante and ex-post- sustainability impact assessments (SIAs) of these policy measures;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to take measures to prevent thecommission independent and exhaustive studies on potential negative effects of mega trade deals, such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), on developing countries, and to present ways and means to prevent them;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Recalls that tax avoidance and tax evasion by European companies, which carry out economic activities themselves or via subsidiaries in developing countries, have considerable negative effects on national income not only in Europe, but also in those countries, as pointed out by recent OECD and UNCTAD reports, and that monitoring schemes such as country-per-country- reporting should be promoted and more largely applied;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Insists that tariff escalation is in open contradiction to the principle of policy coherence;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Points at the ongoing legislative process concerning conflict minerals and insists that many more natural resources have to be included in similar binding schemes with the aim to increase EU policy coherence;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Is of the opinion that special attention should be paid to globalised value chains, that labour and environmental conditions in these global value chains need clear regulation at all stages of assembling, and that CSR must be further developed in this respect,
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to safeguard the right of countries to regulate and preserve policy space in order to develop infant industries, eventually proclaimed in agreement preambles, and avoid contradictions of this right with concrete policies spelled out in other parts of agreements; urges the Commission to ensure that trade agreements and policies do not undermine developing countries’ efforts to increase the domestic value added in order to upgrade along the global value chains, and asks the Commission to include an evaluation of this aspect into its regular reports on implementation of bilateral agreements;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to develop a complaint mechanism as a basis for sanctions to channel the voices of those whose human rights are jeopardised by EU trade policies and which will form an essential element of the EU’s role in the implementation of the sustainable development goals; thus systematically building on and enlarging the EU focal points on OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises to non-OECD countries;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission to take the Bangladesh Sustainability Compact as an example to exploit and further develop in the future for similar situations in other developing countries;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the EU and its Member States to actively engage with the UN Human Rights Council in its work towards an international treaty that would hold transnational corporations accountable for human rights abuses, and recalls that the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights (the so called Ruggie principles "Protect, Repair, Redress") still fail to be fully implemented in EU policies.