15 Amendments of Marietje SCHAAKE related to 2012/2097(INI)
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Commits itself to continue to raise consistently its expectation that EU institutions and officials, including the EU Special Representative on Human Rights, as well as the country and region specific EU Special Representatives undertake efforts to advance the human rights and business agenda in all EU external relations and actions;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Asks the Commission to include a CSR clause in all bilateral trade and investment agreements signed by the EU, on the basis of principles of CSR as defined and acknowledged at the international level; suggests that this clause contain measures for the implementation and monitoring of these principles, including on the EU level;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Insists, in order to ensure that the implementation of the new EU CSR strategy promotes society's interests, the respect for human rights, and a route to sustainable and inclusive recoveryprogress and development, that the legislative proposal on the mandatory disclosure of non- financial information (including environmental, social, and governance information) of companies ensures transparency by providing a clear, unambiguous, common and predetermined framework, with specific reference to human rights, that is fully aligned with the UN Guiding Principles and based on objective indicators, such as the gender pay gap, and indicators and reporting guidelines referring to disability;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for human rights due diligence standards at EU level, addressing, among other issues, potentially high human rights impact and risk areas such as global and local supply chains, conflict minerals, landgrabbing and outsourcing;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the monitoring of restrictive measures (sanctions, boycotts, embargos), as well as of licensing schemes for dual use items, on the EU level;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Believes cultural content and media companies have a corporate social responsibility in ensuring the fundamental rights of users are protected, and considers that self-regulation and deep packet inspections risks outsourcing police and law enforcement into the hands of private sector (actors);
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls for the development of more effective transparency and accountability standards for EU technology companies in relation to export of technologies that can be used to violate human rights or against the EU's security interest;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Encourages media companies to include transparent journalism standards in their CSR policies, including guarantees of source protection and the rights of whistle blowers.
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls for the development of more effective transparency and accountability standards for EU technology companies in relation to export of technologies that can be used to violate human rights or to act against the EU´s security interest;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls for human rights impact assessments as early as in the research and development phase of new technologies, including scenario studies and considerations of identifying Human Rights by Design standards;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Calls for human rights impact assessments as early as in the research and development phase of new technologies;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Calls for the implementation of the 'know your end user' principle to ensure increased scrutiny and prevention of human rights violations up or down stream in supply chains and production or market flows;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14 c (new)
Paragraph 14 c (new)
14c. Calls for the implementation of ´know your end user´ to ensure the prevention of human rights violations up or down stream in a production or market flow;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14 d (new)
Paragraph 14 d (new)
14d. Calls on the monitoring of restrictive measures (sanctions, boycotts, embargos) on the EU level;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Regrets that the current reform of the Transparency Directive (2004/109/EG) and of the Accounting Directive (2003/51/EG) does not address the issue of corporate social responsibility sufficiently; calls on the Commission to ensure that companies falling under these directives are obliged to publicly report regularly on their CSR activities, particularly in non-EU states.