12 Amendments of Paul MURPHY related to 2013/2052(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. SupporRejects the ongoing negotiations for a PCA and FTA and calls for them to be ambitious, comprehensive and mutually beneficialFTA with Malaysia and insists that the PCA will include strong provisions on the protection of human and labour rights as well as on environmental protection;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Encourages the Malaysian Government to continue its reforms towards building a modern economy, moving up the value chain and becoming a high-income country by 2020sustainable economy that is based on the needs and in the interests of the majority of all people living and working in Malaysia;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that closer economic regional integration of the ASEAN countries needs to be based on fundamental respect for workers' and trade union rights; reiterates that workers' and trade union rights must be universal and applied to all workers and throughout the region, including the Special Economic Zones (SEZ);
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Supports the demand by the Malaysian Trade Union Congress (MTUC) for the introduction of a decent legal minimum wage; is of the opinion that all workers, including migrant workers, women workers and workers in the special economic zones must be entitled to receive at least the minimum wage; insists that European companies operating in Malaysia should by no means attempt to undermine the introduction of a legal minimum wage;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Reminds the Malaysian government to live up to all its obligations under the core ILO Conventions it has ratified, in particular ILO Convention 98 on the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining; calls on the Malaysian government to revoke its denouncement of ILO Convention 105 on the Abolition of Forced Labour and to ratify the core ILO Labour Conventions 87 on Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise and the core convention 111 on Discrimination (Employment and Occupation), insists that ratification of the core ILO conventions must be a minimum requirement by the European Commission before concluding a free trade agreement and a partnership and cooperation agreement with Malaysia;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Is of the strong opinion that any future PCA and FTA agreement with Malaysia must have a strong focus on environmental protection and land rights of indigenous peoples, European companies must not engage in 'land grabbing', which can lead to deforestation and land degradation and are major threats brought about by the strong demand for timber and palm oil on the international market; insists that respect for indigenous peoples' land rights is essential and that the principle of 'The Right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent' (FPIC) needs to be applied;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 e (new)
Paragraph 3 e (new)
3e. Calls on the European Council and Commission to introduce mandatory and enforceable provisions on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), based on the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and the UN guiding principles on business and human rights as well as on the UN Principles for Responsible Investment and the principle of integrated reporting, into a future PCA and FTA agreement; calls on the Council and Commission to establish an effective monitoring scheme with regard to Corporate Social Responsibility that involves trade unions and other civil society stakeholders;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Emphasises the importance of promoting improved access to each other's services markets, given that this plays an ima strong public sector; insists to refrain from further liberalisation and privatisation of the public sector, in particular with regard to essential public utilities, such as water, water distribution, health, public transport ant role in modern economies and generates growth and traded waste collection as those have been proven to have adverse effects on employees and users of public services;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. to refrain from including an investor- state dispute settlement mechanism (ISDS) into a possible future trade and investment agreement with the US and supports the right to regulate in the general interest of society;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses the importance of protecting and enforcing IPR to encourage growth and investment and a knowledge-based economy; recalls that nothing in the agreement may be construed so as to hamper access to medicines; underlines the importance of agreeing on high-levelat IPRs should only be enforced in such cases where IPR infringements would directly have damaging and detrimental effects on patients' health; insists that nothing in the agreement must hamper access to affordable generic medicines; underlines that the protection ofor geographical indications should be pursued in the interest of small producers and consumers as a means of protecting traditional knowledge and know-how and guaranteeing a fair return to farmers;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the European Commission and on the European Council as well as on the Malaysian government to ensure transparency in the PCA and FTA negotiations; insists that public scrutiny is essential when negotiating agreements that will affect large sections of the population; therefore insists that trade unions and other civil society organisations with expertise in the field should be involved in the negotiations on an equal footing and should as a very minimum have access to all relevant documents, including the mandate;