Activities of Evelyn REGNER related to 2014/2228(INI)
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Amendments (11)
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point ii
Paragraph 1 – point ii
(ii) to ensure that TTIP includes comprehensive provisions on labour laws and policies that are consistent with the core ILO Conventions and the Decent Work Agenda, with a commitment to promote higher standards and, furthermore, to ensure that where disputes arise labour provisions will have a conditional dimensionaiming at the effective ratification, implementation and enforcement of the eight core conventions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Decent Work Agenda as a binding condition of the agreement, with a commitment to promote higher standards. It must be ensured that trade or investment is not encouraged through the weakening of labour laws. Where disputes arise labour provisions must be subject to a dispute settlement mechanism, including the possibility of imposing trade sanctions. In this respect the relevant information derived from ILO supervisory bodies should be taken into account;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point iv
Paragraph 1 – point iv
(iv) to ensure that civil society can make a meaningful contribution to implementing relevant TTIP provisionsthe implementation of and compliance with labour provisions must be subject to a monitoring process, which involves the social partners and civil society;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point e
Paragraph 1 – point e
e. Calls on the Commission to ensure that foreign investors from the EU are not disadvantaged in the USA, including in relation to investors from other third States (such as Canada, Mexicoare treated in a non- discriminatory fashion and have a fair opportunity to seek and achieve redress of grievances, Cwhina, India and TPP States), which already now, or in future on the basis of negotiations currently under way, enjoyle benefiting from no greater rights than domestic investors; to oppose the inclusion of ISDS in TTIP, as other options to enforce investorment protection and have access to mechanisms for the settlement of disputes between States and investorre available, such as domestic remedies;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point v
Paragraph 1 – point v
(v) to take immediate steps to safeguard the right of EU governments to legislate, organise, set quality and safety standardsensure an adequate carve-out of sensitive services such as public services, social services and public utilities (including water, health, social security systems and education) allowing national and local authorities enough room for, manage and regulatoeuvre to legislate in the public servicinterest;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point v
Paragraph 1 – point v
v) to take immediate steps to safeguard the right of EU governments to legislate, organise, set quality and safety standards for, manage and regulate public services; public services (including, but without limitation, in the areas of education, social services, health services, water supply, sewage disposal, waste disposal, social security, railways and public transport, energy, cultural and audiovisual services) should therefore be unambiguously excluded from the entirety of the scope of the agreement. The development of a general exclusion clause for the purposes of excluding public services from the agreement will be decisive in this regard; further, to ensure that negotiations relating to liberalisation of services are pursued exclusively in accordance with a positive listing approach, whereby those services which have been approved for liberalisation should be expressly specified and negative lists and ‘standstill’ or ‘ratchet’ clauses should not be applied;
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point viii
Paragraph 1 – point viii
Amendment 121 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point viii a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point viii a (new)
(viii a) to oppose the inclusion of ISDS in TTIP. In the agreement with the United States of America that have fully functional legal systems and where no risk of political interference in the judiciary or denial of justice has been identified, ISDS is not necessary.
Amendment 142 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point x a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point x a (new)
(x a) to take steps to ensure that regulatory cooperation does not restrict the right of governments and the European Parliament to legislate in the public interest. Steps must be taken to ensure that regulatory cooperation does not lead to the weakening of labour standards, including health and safety standards. It must be ensured that labour and social standards are not treated as non-tariff barriers. Stakeholders, including social partners, should be included in the process of regulatory cooperation in a balanced representation.
Amendment 147 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point x a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point x a (new)
Amendment 149 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point x a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point x a (new)
x a) to ensure that fundamental principles of human rights and democracy are preserved in all of the contractual agreements; steps should therefore be taken to include a human rights clause in the agreement;
Amendment 762 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point xiv
Paragraph 1 – point d – point xiv
(xiv) to ensure that foreign investors are treated in a non-discriminatory fashion and have a fair opportunity to seek and achieve redress of grievances, which can be achieved withoutle benefiting from no greater rights than domestic investors; to oppose the inclusion of an ISDS mechanism; such a mechanism is not necessary in TTIP given the EU’s and the US’ developed legal systems; a state-to- state dispute settlement system and the use of national courts are the most appropriate tools to address investment disputin TTIP, as other options to enforce investment protection are available, such as domestic remedies;