Awaiting committee decision
2018/0091M(NLE) EU/Japan Economic Partnership Agreement
Next event: Vote scheduled in committee, 1st reading/single reading 2018/11/05 more...
Lead committee dossier: INTA/8/13727
Next event: Vote scheduled in committee, 1st reading/single reading 2018/11/05 more...
- Indicative plenary sitting date, 1st reading/single reading 2018/12/10
Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Opinion | ENVI | MÉLIN Joëlle (ENF) | |
Lead | INTA | SILVA PEREIRA Pedro (S&D) | WAŁĘSA Jarosław (EPP), KAMALL Syed (ECR), HIRSCH Nadja (ALDE), SCHOLZ Helmut (GUE/NGL), BUCHNER Klaus (Verts/ALE), BEGHIN Tiziana (EFD) |
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2018/12/10
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2018/11/05
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2018/09/13
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
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2018/07/05
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
Documents
Amendments | Dossier |
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2018/0091M(NLE)
2018/09/06
ENVI
24 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Notes that the aim of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European Union and Japan is to create a free trade area involving the two parties, a new free trade area to be added to the many others which have recently been established or are under negotiation;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Notes that the pressure exerted on biodiversity and the environment by increased production in the food and feed sector is a cause for concern;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Notes that the EPA does not include any binding commitments in relation to the environment and sustainable development;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 c (new) 3c. Notes that the EPA seeks to liberalise services on the basis of negative lists;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 d (new) 3d. Notes that the European Parliament has expressed its objections to animal cloning and the importation of such animals for food, while in Japan it is permitted;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 e (new) 3e. Notes that Japanese rules are more restrictive than those in the EU as regards radioactivity in food;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls for the chapter on sustainable development to be made binding by subjecting it to a complaints and penalty system through an inter-state dispute settlement mechanism, to ensure that transnational companies comply with social and environmental standards;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Calls for the agreement expressly to recall the EU's opposition to the practice of whaling, which is permitted in Japan;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls for the EPA to apply the WTO principle of positive lists in order to guarantee that public services are protected; regrets that the agreement provides for an almost total liberalisation of the financial sector and that this may affect all future attempts to harmonise fiscal and social standards in the EU;
Amendment 19 #
5a. Regrets that Japan has still not ratified ILO Convention No 105 concerning the abolition of forced labour or ILO Convention No 111 concerning discrimination in respect of employment and occupation and that the negotiations on the agreement did not bring about any changes to this situation;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Notes that with every such new major trade deal, there are accompanying probably major negative environmental impacts, especially in the transport sector, given the increase in traffic flow on land, on sea and in the air; urges that these impacts should be independently measured and costed against any perceived financial gains;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls for the EPA to be amended to make food labelling compulsory until such time as bans have been imposed on imports of cloned meat and
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls for the EPA to be amended to make systematic food labelling compulsory until such time as bans have been imposed on imports of cloned meat and/or the traceability of
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7.
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Condemns the fact that, in spite of the European Parliament's position on whaling, this issue was not up for discussion and that the negotiations on this agreement did not provide an opportunity for the EU to demand that Japan comply with the relevant international moratorium;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 b (new) 7b. Rejects the proposal for a Council Decision on the conclusion of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European Union and Japan.
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Regrets that the representatives of the Commission and the Council went to Japan in July 2018 to sign the free trade agreement between Japan and the European Union before the European Parliament could even consider the final agreement;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Regrets that the agreement was negotiated in the utmost secrecy and that only minimal information was submitted to the European Parliament or made public;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. Deplores the fact that the chapter on sustainable development was drafted in vague terms and does not include any binding measure or penalty in case of failure to comply with its provisions;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 d (new) 1d. Deplores the fact that, generally speaking, EU objectives concerning the fight against climate change, environmental protection and the preservation of biodiversity are not binding objectives in the final agreement;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 e (new) 1e. Regrets that a private or international investor-state dispute settlement court has once again been negotiated by the Commission; demands that all negotiations still under way on this issue be immediately closed;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Emphasises that Japan is the world’s largest timber importer and thus plays a part in increasing the risk of illegal deforestation, which is detrimental in view of the current challenges posed by climate change and reduction of biodiversity;
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