Awaiting committee decision
2018/2084(INI) WTO: the way forward
Next event: Vote scheduled in committee, 1st reading/single reading 2018/11/20
Lead committee dossier: INTA/8/13317
Legal Basis RoP 052
Next event: Vote scheduled in committee, 1st reading/single reading 2018/11/20
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2018/2084(INI)
2018/09/03
DEVE
64 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph -1 (new) -1. Stresses that trade liberalization and global competition act over the long run as an engine for economic growth; stresses equally that progressive integration of developing countries into global value chains has significantly contributed to its wealth creation and poverty reduction;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Recalls that trade liberalisation is
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Recalls, however, that trade liberalisation
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Recalls that trade liberalisation
Amendment 13 #
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Stresses the unicity of WTO among international bodies in its ability to punish countries, with the result that countries give precedence to the WTO over UN institutions that cannot penalize them for broken agreements in other fields (such as human rights, labour conditions, health and environmental protection), given the lack of dispute settlement mechanism to enforce those rights; believes that the achievement of the Paris Agreement on climate change and Agenda 2030 implies to reverse the hierarchy of norms so as to make trade an effective tool to achieve SDGs;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Recalls that the lack of integration of human rights norms and standards into global rules governing trade and investment makes it difficult to hold companies accountable; stresses the need to rebalance trade and investment law with human rights law, notably in global supply chains; to this end, calls on the EU to make initiatives in the WTO for the regulation of a specific global supply chain, notably in the garment sector as a first step; in addition, reiterates the importance of the EU being actively involved in the process of the Open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights (OEIGWG) and to uphold the primacy of human rights over trade interests;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls for a trade agenda based on fair trade for the benefit of all, which puts development and social, environmental and human rights at the centre of the process
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls for a trade agenda based on fair trade for the benefit of all, which
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls for a trade agenda based on fair trade for the benefit of all, which puts development and social, environmental and human rights at the centre of the process and has a special focus on the needs of low-income developing countries and least-developed countries; recalls that this strategy is possible only if equilibrium in trade balances and balances of payments is ensured in order to avoid the economic predation which is inherent in the adoption of free trade as the general rule; stresses that this fair trade strategy is contained in the Havana Charter, signed on 24 March 1948;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls for
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Recalls that trade liberalisation
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls for a trade agenda based on
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls for a trade agenda based on fair trade for the benefit of all, which puts development and social, environmental and human rights at the centre of the process and has a special focus on the needs of low-income developing countries and least-developed countries; notes that trade liberalisation, as currently organised, is not compatible with these sustainable development objectives;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls for a trade agenda based on
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls for a world trade agenda based on the principle of fair trade for the benefit of all, which puts
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls for a trade agenda based on
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Urges the EU and its Member States to duly reflect the difficulties met by the developing countries in implementing the obligations under the WTO agreements. These problems include i.e.: (a) the prohibition of investment measures and subsidies, making it harder to encourage domestic industry; (b) import liberalization in agriculture, threatening the viability and livelihoods of small farmers whose products face competition from cheaper imported foods; (c) the negative impact of a high-standard intellectual property right (IPR) regime on access to medicine and transfer of technologies; and (d) increasing pressures on developing countries to open up their services sectors, which could undermine the viability of local service providers;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Reiterates its call on the EU to ensure that its activities with developing countries, both in the field of development and trade, are based on a balanced framework among equal partners, are aligned with the principle of Policy Coherence for Development established in Article 208 TFUE, and are aimed at the promotion and respect of human rights;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Underlines the importance for WTO members who are developing countries to decide on their own pace and sequencing of trade liberalisation according to their level of development;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Rec
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Takes the view that WTO rules and other multilateral trade agreements should enlarge the scope for Special and Differential Treatment to enable a more active use of infant industry promotion tools; in particular, urges the EU and its Member States to secure the principle of “Special and Differential Treatment” (SDT) for all members classified by the World Bank as developing countries;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 c (new) 2c. Highlights that trade agreements can impact negatively on food security in developing countries; regrets that the two instruments proposed by developing countries in the remit of negotiations at the WTO to promote the livelihoods of small farmers, food security and rural development, namely Special Products (SP) and a Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM) have not been established; calls on the EU to support developing countries' demands to protect their food production and to protect their population from the potentially destructive effects of cheap imports, including in the remit of Economic Partnership Agreements;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 c (new) 2c. Regrets that the WTO 11th Ministerial Conference did not secure progress on issues of key importance to developing countries; welcomes however enhanced preferential treatment previously secured at the WTO for LDCs including preferential Rules of Origin and treatment for service providers and emphasises the need to undertake capacity building measures that would allow suppliers from LDCs to benefit from the LDC Services Waiver;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Insists that the WTO should clearly recognise the role that trade can play in contributing to the achievement of the SDGs
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Insists that the WTO should clearly recognise the role that trade can play in contributing to the achievement of the SDGs and the fight against climate change, using the Paris Agreement commitments as a minimum benchmark; underlines, moreover, the importance of ensuring global value chains sustainability and alignment with human rights and social and environmental standards;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Insists that
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Insists that the WTO should clearly, and as a matter of urgency, recognise the role that trade can play in contributing to the achievement of the
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Insists that the WTO should clearly recognise the primordial role that trade
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Insists that the WTOs Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) should have a more developmental focus; recalls the paramount importance of ensuring access to medicines for all, and to this end encourages a more comprehensive use of TRIPS flexibilities as enshrined in the Doha Declaration; expresses its concerns on current trends of seed privatization while undermining people’s right to food; calls on the Commission to further explore and adopt measures against biopiracay;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Expresses its support for the mechanism of Carbon border tax adjustments as an important tool to guarantee fair competition for companies taking action to reduce their climate impact;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Calls on the EU to engage in rebalancing the global system of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in order to foster the legal transfer of climate-friendly technology in developing countries; to this end, calls for the adoption of a Declaration on “IPR and Climate Change”, comparable to the Doha Declaration of 2001 on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health; calls equally for the revision of WTO industrial subsidy rule, which should include waivers or peace clauses on climate relevant products;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 c (new) 3c. Stresses that WTO should be supportive of and not run counter to the Convention of Biological Diversity and the Nagoya Protocol; underlines that the provisions of Art.27.3(b) of TRIPS Agreement, which relates to the patentability or non-patentability of plant and animal inventions, and the protection of plant varieties, have raised serious concerns in developing countries for its consequence on biopiracy; supports the proposal of developing countries to amend the TRIPS agreement so that patent applicants are required to disclose the origin of genetic resources and any traditional knowledge used in the inventions, so as to avoid unappropriated patenting;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 d (new) 3d. Deplores that the obligations under the WTO-Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement (SPA) do not acknowledge the right of States to adopt regulation based on the precautionary principle; urges the EU and its Member States to defend full recognition of this principle in WTO obligations;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Is concerned, in the above context, that bilateral and plurilateral trade agreements could lead to the fragmentation of international trade policy and thus undermine the role of the WTO
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Is concerned, in the above context, that bilateral and plurilateral trade agreements could lead to the fragmentation of international trade policy and thus undermine the role of the WTO; calls, therefore, for the EU and its Member States to make additional efforts to once again place the WTO at the centre of global trade governance; calls for greater transparency in the negotiation of trade agreements and greater involvement of peoples and their political representatives in the processes concerned;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Recalls that trade liberalisation
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Is concerned, in the above context, that bilateral and plurilateral trade agreements could lead to the fragmentation of international trade policy and thus undermine the role of the WTO and have negative consequences for developing countries; calls, therefore, for the EU and its Member States to make additional efforts to once again place the WTO at the centre of global trade governance;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Is con
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 53 #
4. Is concerned, in the above context, that bilateral and plurilateral trade agreements could lead to the fragmentation of international trade policy and
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5.
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Expresses its utmost concern that
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Expresses its utmost concern that
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Considers that the extraterritorial application of US sanctions, as well as the imbalances in international trade, must also lead to negotiations on phasing out the dollarisation of the world economy; considers that the Member States should, to this end, endorse the initiatives undertaken by the BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in this field;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Recalls that trade liberalisation is not positive, per se, in terms of reducing poverty and inequalities, and that it can even have negative effects on sustainable development if it is not properly regulated; underlines, in this context, the potential of the WTO as an efficient rules-based multilateral negotiating forum which provides a platform for open discussion on global trade-related issues; insists that the EU should continue to promote the democratisation of the WTO; regrets that the Commission is responsible for negotiations on free trade agreements with third countries or organisations, and that neither the peoples concerned nor their representatives are involved in these negotiations;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls for the EU to continue to make the case for increasing the importance of the parliamentary dimension of the WTO; calls on WTO members to ensure democratic legitimacy and transparency by strengthening the parliamentary dimension of the WTO; stresses, in this connection, the need to ensure that parliamentarians have better access to trade negotiations and are involved in the formulation and implementation of WTO decisions and that trade policies are properly scrutinised in the interests of their citizens.
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls for the EU to continue to make the case for increasing the importance of the parliamentary dimension of the WTO, in particular by an increased financial and personal support to the responsible secretariat; calls on WTO members to ensure democratic legitimacy and transparency by strengthening the parliamentary dimension of the WTO; stresses, in this connection, the need to ensure that parliamentarians have better access to trade negotiations and are involved in the formulation and implementation of WTO decisions.
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Recalls that trade liberalisation
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Recalls that trade liberalisation is not positive, per se, in terms of reducing poverty and inequalities, and that it can even have negative effects on sustainable development if it is not properly regulated; underlines, in this context, that trade should remain a tool to development goals and not an end in itself; underlines the potential of the WTO as an efficient rules- based multilateral negotiating forum which provides a platform for open discussion on global trade-related issues; insists that the EU should continue to promote the democratisation of the WTO;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Recalls that trade liberalisation is not positive, per se, in terms of reducing poverty and inequalities, and that it can even have negative effects on sustainable development if it is not properly regulated;
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