6 Amendments of William (The Earl of) DARTMOUTH related to 2009/2201(INI)
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the Commission to remember that CSR was originally a voluntary activity by responsible companies intended to ensure that their impact was beneficial to the Member States and states in which they operate and to recognise that, in this context, maintaining the voluntary principle and having organisations choose to act at their discretion is the best method to ensure the most productive outcomes;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Notes that legal requirements, regulation and bureaucratic procedure can have a particularly damaging impact on SMEs as they attempt to grow with limited resources and / or enter new markets, and therefore calls upon the Commission to ensure that any actions which arise from this report do not add to the bureaucratic burden particularly on SMEs or have a deleterious impact upon their entrepreneurial initiatives;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Notes that the imposition of legal requirements from supra-national bodies can reduce the functioning of electoral democracy and calls on the Commission to ensure that the terms of all international agreements which it seeks to implement do not reduce the democratic rights of self-determination of any of the parties to the agreement;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 point g a (new)
Paragraph 12 point g a (new)
ga. a particular focus on the impact of the employment of children and child labour practices;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Points out, that if the impact of the introduction of a CSR legal requirement as a mandatory element in European Union FTAs is to displace industries and commercial activities from the Member States or the Member State's trading partners where standards are high, to countries with laxer regimes, this is then damaging to all of employment, tax revenue, climate concerns and prosperity and therefore calls upon the Commission to ensure that no perverse incentives and unintended consequences are generated;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Advocates once again the establishment within the WTO of a Trade and Decent Work Committee, along the lines of the Trade and Development Committee, which would provide a forum for the discussion, in particular, of the issues of labour standards, especially as they relate to the employment of children, and CSR as they relate to international trade; proposes once again a revision of the dispute settlement procedure, so that in cases involving possible breaches of international environmental or labour agreements special groups (panels) or the appeal body can ask the competent international organisations to draw up opinions, which would then be published;