15 Amendments of Sylvie GOULARD related to 2014/2228(INI)
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1. - Point (d) - Subpoint (i.)
Paragraph 1. - Point (d) - Subpoint (i.)
i.) to specify the role and the legal quality of the Regulatory Cooperation Council’s findings, taking into consideration that any direct application of its recommendations for the relevant EU instances would imply a breach of the law- making procedures laid down in the Treaties, and to ensure that no standards are lowered inside the European legal framework;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1.- Point (d) - Subpoint (ii.)
Paragraph 1.- Point (d) - Subpoint (ii.)
ii.) while the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) is an appropriate tool to protect investors and assure that investments are treated in a fair and non- discriminatory way, to oversee that it does not undermine the capacity of European, national and local authorities to legislate their own policies, in particular social and environmental policies, and therefore respect the constitutional framework of the Member Statesrecognising that investment protection is necessary, to explore viable, transparent alternatives to investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms (ISDS), inspired, for example, by the dispute settlement mechanism in place within the WTO;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1. - Point (d) - Subpoint (ii.) d (new)
Paragraph 1. - Point (d) - Subpoint (ii.) d (new)
ii.)d to ensure the ECJ's exclusive jurisdiction over the definitive interpretation of European Union law, enforcing the general principles of the legal framework of the EU;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph c
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph c
c. take immediate action to include restrictions on state aid in the agreement; propose greater transparency within state aid rules and within the allocation of state aid; acknowledge the particular statute of Defense but believes that Defense spendings must not be misused, leading to abuse and unfair funding through this channel or expenditure which is in fact state aid;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1.- Point (e) - Subpoint (iv.)
Paragraph 1.- Point (e) - Subpoint (iv.)
iv.) to implement the recommendations of the European Ombudsman from 6 January 2015 to further enhance the legitimacy and transparency of the negotiating process by fully complying with the rules on public access to documents, by making available relevant documents in all the official languages of the EU on its website more proactively and comprehensively, and by ensuring more balanced and transparent public participation;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1.- Point (e) -subpoint (iv.) - a (new)
Paragraph 1.- Point (e) -subpoint (iv.) - a (new)
iv.)a - calls, therefore, on the Commission to support and continue negotiations with the Council to unblock the amendment to Regulation (EC) Nº 1049/2001 regarding public access to documents;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph d
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph d
d. take immediate action to ensure that market access negotiations on financial services are combined with upward convergence in financial regulation; support high international standards in on- going cooperation efforts in other international fora; provided that they respect transparency and fairness; ensure that cooperation efforts do not limit each partner's ability to adopt regulatory and supervisory decisions appropriate to their respective economic and financial systems, including their ability to ban financial products and activities, as long as it does not favour regulatory arbitrage nor does it unfairly restrict competition;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph e
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph e
e. take immediate action to ensure that aggressive tax planning, and distortion of competition by e.g. moving of headquarters across the Atlantic to obtain competition- distorting conditions, are addressed; calls on the TTIP to include and implement the OECD's recommendations on tax havens, tax avoidance and Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS);
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph g
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph g
g. take immediate action to ensure reciprocal market access for European companies to public contracts and public procurement in the United States; underlines that anthe current imbalance of market access to public contracts and public procurement in the United States compared to in the European Union constitutes unfair competition;
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph i
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph i
i. propose the introduction of a national court systems-first principle, to be supplemented with mediation and intergovernmental dispute mechanisms in legal disputes in order to ensure easier access and lower litigation costs than those offered by current ISDS- mechanisms, benefitting especially SMEs (having fewer resources available than large corporations), thus creating more equal competition conditionexplore viable alternatives to dispute settlement mechanisms; stress that any and all dispute mechanisms set in place within the TTIP-framework must uphold full transparency and be subject to democratic principles and scrutiny;
Amendment 112 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph i a (new)
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph i a (new)
ia. include the FACTA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) into the TTIP making it reciprocal, less costly and less administrative;
Amendment 115 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph i b (new)
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph i b (new)
ib. include a mandatory country-by- country reporting regime for corporates;
Amendment 121 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph j
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph j
j. acknowledge the importance of state- owned enterprises for certain crucial servicesarticle 345 of the TFEU stating that "the treaties shall in no way prejudice the rules in Member States governing the system of property ownership";
Amendment 130 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph k
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph k
Amendment 144 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph l
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph l