5 Amendments of Catherine BEARDER related to 2011/2068(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the support and preservation of an fair, open and non-discriminatory multilateral trading system and environmental protection cawhich protects local communities and permits development can be compatible with a trading system which seeks to ensure and promote environmental protection, and affirms that the two can even be mutually reinforcing;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that opening up global markets to environmental goods and services creates increased export opportunities, encourages the diffusion of technologies, stimulates innovation and leads to lower prices, higher quality and greater consumer choice; but must also be pursued in a manner which encourages sustainable consumption;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Reasserts that all current bilateral European agreements need to include an ambitious chapter on sustainability, as in the case of the recent Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Korea; that agreement contains a chapter on trade and sustainable development which extends the definition of sustainability beyond the scope of previous agreements and provides for the setting up of a special committee to monitor the implementation of commitments in the environmental field; further underlines that the aspects of a trade deal which deal with sustainability should be considered as being of equal importance as those which pertain to the commercial aspects of the agreement, and should therefore be subject to the same enforcement procedures as the commercial chapters;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Further to this, calls on the European Commission to ensure that in future bilateral trade deals negotiated by the EU, the chapters which deal with sustainability and the environment are not banished to the periphery of the agreement as they have been in the past, but are placed on an equal footing with the commercial aspects of the deal;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Urges the Commission to investigate the introduction of a 'say what you pay' obligation for publicly traded companies operating within Europe, similar to that introduced by the Dodd-Frank anti- corruption legislation in the USA. Such a measure, which would compel companies to disclose exactly how much they pay foreign governments to acquire drilling and mining rights, would ensure that the benefits of the international trade in natural resources would be spread between the developed and developing world, and that the exploitation of natural resources, which often leaves poor countries worse off due to corruption and instability, would be done in a transparent and development-friendly manner.