14 Amendments of Karima DELLI related to 2014/2228(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
- having regard to the Commission's impact assessment report on the future of EU-US trade relations, published on 12 March 2013
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 A (new)
Paragraph -1 A (new)
A. whereas the Commission acknowledged in its impact assessment report on the future of EU-US trade relations that there are "legitimate concerns" that TTIP could lead both to the displacement of at least one million jobs in the EU and the USA combined and to the "prolonged and substantial" adjustment costs in the EU labour market;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 point –i a (new)
Paragraph 1 point –i a (new)
(-i a). calls on the Commission to address the conclusion of its own impact assessment that TTIP could lead to "prolonged and substantial" dislocation of employment in the EU;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point i
Paragraph 1 – point i
(i) to ensure that TTIP will make a significant positive contribution to creating more and better jobs and set ambitious global trade standards for sustainable development and labour, taking into account that trade is not an end in itself but a means to improve well-being, which could mean suspending the TTIP negotiations until it can be conclusively proven that the Commission's previous estimates of job dislocation are no longer a legitimate concern;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point ii
Paragraph 1 – point ii
(ii) to ensure that TTIP includes comprehensive and binding provisions on labour laws and policies that are consistent with thell levels of government by requiring that the USA ratifies all core ILO Conventions, and the Decent Work Agenda, witho terminate the negotiations if a commitment to promote higtheir standards and,ratification is not fuorthermore,coming; to ensure that where disputes arise labour provisions will have a conditional dimeninformation derived from ILO supervisory bodies will be taken into account where dispute arise on labour provisions;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point iv
Paragraph 1 – point iv
(iv) to ensure that civil society can make a meaningful contribution to implementing relevant TTIP provisionand the concerned public has access to all relevant negotiation texts, including consolidated negotiation text, immediately after such texts have been discussed in negotiating rounds;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point iv a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point iv a (new)
(iv a) to ensure an explicit exclusion of public services as referred to in Article 14 TFEU from the scope of application of TTIP, in order to ensure that national and local authorities have the freedom to introduce, adopt, maintain or repeal any measure with regard to the commissioning, organisation, funding and provision of public services, as provided in Article 168 TFEU (public health) and in Protocol 26 (Services of General Interest) of the EU Treaties;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point v
Paragraph 1 – point v
(v) to take immediate steps to safeguard the right of EU governments to legislate, organise, set quality and safety standards for, manage and regulate public services by not committing public service sectors to further market access liberalization and by filing general Annex-II reservations in the National Treatment schedules regarding all health services in the widest sense communication services, educational services, environmental services, financial services, social services, transport services, and energy services;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point vi
Paragraph 1 – point vi
(vi) to ensure that the specific challenges faced by SMEs are fully taken into accountEuropean SMEs are protected from unfair competition from US companies, which would be enabled to offer products or services at much lower prices due to differences in labour and energy costs and potentially the lowering of standards through regulatory cooperation in TTIP;
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point vi a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point vi a (new)
(vi a) to ensure that any Regulatory Co- operation Council or Forum established under TTIP gives SMEs a voice equal to their share of added value to European GDP (57%)
Amendment 115 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point viii
Paragraph 1 – point viii
(viii) to guarantee that agreement on any dispute-settlement mechanism must fully take into account the results of the public consultation on investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), must be fully transparent and democratically accountabletherefore be restricted to a state-state dispute settlement mechanism only and must not hinder legislators from passing laws in the area of employment policy; is therefore of the firm opinion that a possible TTIP agreement should not contain any investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism, as the given level of investment protection in the EU and in the US is fully sufficient to guarantee legal security;
Amendment 126 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point ix
Paragraph 1 – point ix
(ix) to take steps to embed a ‘'positive listing’' approach in the agreementrelation to both the market access and the national treatment commitments of the agreement's chapter on trade in services and establishment, and to discontinue negotiations on that chapter immediately unless such a positive listing is agreed;
Amendment 144 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point x a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point x a (new)
(x a) to ensure that new European rules adopted through revision of directives on public procurement remain preserved and promoted in the frame of on-going negotiations, particularly in terms of public market access for SMEs, the award criteria based on best value rather than lowest price, the markets for actors in the social economy, the possibility for contracting authorities to cooperate and form intercommunalities, and the thresholds below which the implementation of the procurement is not subject to European or international rules;
Amendment 153 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point x b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point x b (new)
(x b) to ensure that any commitment regarding the liberalization of movement of service personnel (Mode IV) is limited to provisions which are in full respect of related Union law including the EU Directive on Posted Workers and the labour and social conditions therein stipulated;