Activities of Lorenzo FONTANA related to 2014/2228(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) (A8-0175/2015 - Bernd Lange) IT
Amendments (6)
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas ongoing negotiations on international trade agreements, including the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), and also the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), also clearly touch upon international data flows and data processing, including the processing and transfer of personal data, and whereas that data is ever more sensitive and increasingly important for the lives of EU citizens;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph B
Paragraph B
B. Notes that, although the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiation mandate is now public in part, its wording is so general that its content and possible spillover effects on developing countries are still not known; calls for a thorough analysis, when TTIP provisions are clearer, of its likelypotential impact oin low income countries and the future sustainable development goalswith close trade links to the EU;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 2 – point 1 (new)
(1) Therefore considers that the EU institutions should make it clear in the negotiations that data protection is no minor issue, but is in fact a key priority in terms of respect for EU citizens;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls that Article XIV of the General Agreement on Trade and Services (GATS) clearly refers to privacy and data protection as an exception which cannot be considered a trade barrier; stresses that EU data protection legislation cannot be deemed an ‘arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination’ in the application of Article XIV of the GATS; stresses that a comprehensive and unambiguous horizontal clause that fully exempts EU rules on the protection of personal data at all counterpart levels from the agreement should be incorporated, without any condition that it must be consistent with other parts of the TTIP;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that personal data can be transferred outside the Union only if the provisions on third-country transfers in EU data protection laws are respected; recalls that the Commission can only negotiate on provisions which touch upon the flow of personal data provided that the full application of EU data protection rules is guaranteed and respected; is seriously concerned about the TiSA draft text, which would completely undermine all EU rules and safeguards for the transfer of personal data to third countries;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph F
Paragraph F
F. Sees, however, the potential of the TTIPHopes that the TTIP will serve to promote the highestr global standards of this century on decent work, environmental protection, and food and product safety.