BETA

3 Amendments of Nora BERRA related to 2012/2225(INI)

Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas, in 2010, South-South trade came to account for 23% of world trade; whereas, according to the WTO’s 2011 World Trade Report, preferential South- South agreements represented two-thirds of all such agreements, and North-South agreements only one quarter; whereas, according to the World Investment Report 2012, the emerging economies between them attract almost half of the world’s foreign direct investment (FDI); whereas, nonetheless, in spite of a high economic growth rate, the 49 LDCs still account for only 1.12% of world trade;
2013/01/31
Committee: INTA
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Supports the Commission’s aim of enhancing synergies between trade and development policies; recommends that it award priority, in these policies, to measures aimed at creating jobs, facilitating trade, improving the trade and investment climate, resistance to economic shocks, fiscal governance and diversification of trade and investment flows, and promoting sustainable development; calls on the EU to display greater consistency in the implementation of its trade, agricultural, environmental, energy and development policies;
2013/01/31
Committee: INTA
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Welcomes the WTO’s decision to facilitate accession for LDCs; points to the importance of services for the global economy, but also for development in general; calls on the developed countries and the major emerging countries which are WTO members to use the derogation applicable to services in the case of LDCs and to apply preferential treatment to services and service providers from LDCs;
2013/01/31
Committee: INTA