Activities of Franz OBERMAYR related to 2015/2105(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
A forward-looking and innovative future strategy for trade and investment (A8-0220/2016 - Tiziana Beghin) DE
Amendments (13)
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the Commission’s attempts to increase transparency and openness at all stages of trade negotiations, such as the Commission’s TTIP transparency initiative; acknowledges that, after a number of requests from Parliament, the Commission enhanced the transparency of negotiations by providing all Members of the European Parliament and of the national parliaments access to classified negotiating documents and providing more information to stakeholders; rRegrets the still existing lack of transparency in trade negotiations, especialls that enlarged access to classified information by Members of Parliament in the TTIP negotiations has strengthened parliamentary scrutiny, thereby allowing Parliament to assume its responsibility under the CCP even better; calls therefore for a widening of the Commission’s transparency initiative to extend its key elements to all ongoing trade negotiationy in TTIP and TiSA talks;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Recalls that the ILO estimates that 865 million women around the world, if better supported, could contribute more robustly to economic growth; notes that women-owned businesses represent an underutilised lever to boost competitiveness, accelerate business and sustain growth; states that trade policy can have differing gender impacts across the various sectors of the economy; regrets that the Commission does not address the gender dimension of trade agreements in its ‘Trade for All’ communication; calls on the Commission to step up its efforts to ensurecalls on the Commission to adequately consider that both women and men can take advantage of the benefits of trade liberalisation and be protected from its negative effects;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Notes that the improvements were achieved at the 10th WTO Ministerial Conference in Nairobi in 2015; recognises the differences among WTO members on how to proceed as regards the Doha Round, including the need to consider new approaches to solve outstanding issues; welcomes the interest of some WTO members in starting to address new negotiating areas; believes that the outcome of the Nairobi Ministerial Conference provides an opportunity to give new life to the WTO’s negotiating function; urges the Commission to take the initiative in reforming and strengthening the WTO in order to ensure greater effectiveness, transparency and accountability were limited, especially concerning improvements for LDCs; urges the commission not to use WTO talks as an excuse to further curtail competences of the member states in matters of international trade;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Emphasises that the EU is to continue to support the joint initiative of the European Parliament and of the Inter- Parliamentary Union to develop a parliamentary dimension to the WTO in order to strengthen the democratic legitimacy of global trade policy; believes however, that democratic legitimacy can only be guaranteed by implementing measures of direct democracy into trade talks and WTO issues;
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Underlines, in the context of the current talks on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the EU- Japan FTA, the high importance of focusing on core sensitive issues such as the protection of geographical indications (GIs) and, public procurement, the safeguarding of consumer protection standards, labour rights and national jurisprudence when negotiating FTAs;
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Calls on the Commission to start negotiations fpay more an investment agreement with Taiwan in parallel with the one with China; underlines that, in the context of the migration challenges, special focus should be put on the post-Cotonou framework; asks for further impetus to be given to negotiating FTAs with both Australia and New Zealandttention to public opinion before involving in further trade negotiations;
Amendment 295 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Strongly opposes the granting of MES to China, as it is not fulfilling, for the time being, the EU’s five technical criteria for defining a market economy; underlines the importance of defining a common European strategy to reinvigorate and apply the anti-dumping procedures on various products suffering from the strong trade distortion caused by Chinese exporting companies; refers in this context especially to the heavy and partly unfair competition the European heavy industry had to face vis-à-vis their Chinese competitors during the last years;
Amendment 315 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Recalls that the EU plays a leading role in the services sector; stresses that the opening up of new market opportunities must be an essential element of the EU’s international trade strategy; stresses that including services in trade agreements is of the utmost importance, as it gives opportunities to European companies and domestic employees;
Amendment 322 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
Amendment 331 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to use trade policy to tackle new forms of digital protectionism and to set rules for e-commerce and cross-border data flows in compliance with EU data protection and privacy law; believes that much more needs to be done to create a climate favourable to e-commerce and entrepreneurship within the EU; stresses that ensuring regulatory cooperation, mutual recognition and harmonisation of standards in the digital trade sector is vitaldata protection is vital to the acceptance of EU digital trade policy;
Amendment 358 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
Paragraph 42
42. Stresses the importance of further debate with stakeholders and Parliament on the Commission’s proposal for the Investment Court System in order to better clarify its impact on the ‘right to regulate’, the annual costs for the EU budget and its compliance with the EU legal order, the power of the EU courts in particular, and more specifically the EU competition rulesUrges the Commission to abandon their plans on an Investment Court system;
Amendment 367 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
Paragraph 43