2020/2117(INI) Trade related aspects and implications of COVID-19
Next event: Indicative plenary sitting date, 1st reading/single reading 2021/07/05
Lead committee dossier:
Next event: Indicative plenary sitting date, 1st reading/single reading 2021/07/05
Progress: Awaiting committee decision
Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Lead | INTA | VAN BREMPT Kathleen ( S&D) | ASIMAKOPOULOU Anna-Michelle ( EPP), RAFAELA Samira ( Renew), BRICMONT Saskia ( Verts/ALE), HAIDER Roman ( ID), ZAHRADIL Jan ( ECR), SCHOLZ Helmut ( GUE/NGL) |
Committee Opinion | DEVE | ASIMAKOPOULOU Anna-Michelle ( EPP) | Charles GOERENS ( RE), Miguel URBÁN CRESPO ( GUE/NGL), Beata KEMPA ( ECR), Gianna GANCIA ( ID), Benoît BITEAU ( Verts/ALE), Mónica Silvana GONZÁLEZ ( S&D) |
Committee Opinion | AGRI | AMARO Álvaro ( EPP) | Elsi KATAINEN ( RE), Pina PICIERNO ( S&D), Bronis ROPĖ ( Verts/ALE), Krzysztof JURGIEL ( ECR), Elena LIZZI ( ID), Chris MACMANUS ( GUE/NGL) |
Lead committee dossier:
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RoP 54
Legal Basis:
RoP 54Events
2021/07/05
Indicative plenary sitting date, 1st reading/single reading
2021/03/19
EP - Committee draft report
Documents
2021/03/10
EP - AMARO Álvaro (EPP) appointed as rapporteur in AGRI
2020/09/17
EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
2020/05/28
EP - ASIMAKOPOULOU Anna-Michelle (EPP) appointed as rapporteur in DEVE
2020/04/28
EP - VAN BREMPT Kathleen (S&D) appointed as rapporteur in INTA
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Amendments | Dossier |
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2020/2117(INI)
2021/03/16
DEVE
85 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph -1 (new) -1. whereas the Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the vulnerability of the global supply chain, notably in food and health, and the need to build regional value chains and boost regional integration;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Emphasises that the pandemic has affected different sectors of the economy in different ways, hitting small firms hardest and leading to particularly significant reductions in sales of vehicles, chemical products and machinery;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Commission to mount an assertive and coordinated international trade policy response geared towards a multilateral, resilient , fair and sustainable recovery in developing countries; calls on the Commission to deepen EU-Africa trade relations through a review of the impact of its economic partnership agreements
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Commission to mount an assertive and coordinated international trade policy response geared towards a multilateral, resilient and sustainable recovery in developing countries
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Commission to mount an assertive and coordinated international trade policy response geared towards a multilateral, resilient and sustainable recovery in developing countries; calls on the Commission to deepen EU-Africa trade relations through economic partnership agreements, while making the most of the EU’s Aid for Trade Strategy; calls on the Commission and Members States to boost their targeted support for pan-African and sub-regional trade integration arrangements and to ensure that their financial and technical assistance responds to African needs and priorities at all levels, helps to foster regional value chains and production networks, diversify their productive capacities and integrate into regional and global value chains;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Commission to mount an assertive and coordinated international trade policy response geared towards a multilateral, resilient and sustainable recovery in developing countries; calls on the Commission to deepen EU-Africa trade relations through economic partnership agreements, while making the most of the EU’s Aid for Trade Strategy, in order to provide sustainable investment opportunities for Africa and thus offer an alternative development model; calls on the Commission also to remain committed to concluding trade agreements and continuing negotiations with Latin American and Asian partners;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Commission to mount an assertive and coordinated international trade policy response geared towards a multilateral, resilient and sustainable recovery in developing countries; calls on the Commission to deepen EU-Africa trade relations through economic partnership agreements, while making the most of the EU’s Aid for Trade Strategy and actively accompany Africa's regional, economic and political integration through the realization of the African Continental Free Trade Area, and by supporting the African Agenda 2063;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Commission to mount an assertive and coordinated international trade policy response geared towards a multilateral, resilient and sustainable recovery in developing countries; calls on the Commission to deepen EU-Africa trade
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph -1 a (new) -1a. Welcomes the commitment made by the Commission in its Communication “Trade Policy Review - An Open, Sustainable and Assertive Trade Policy “ of 18 February 2021 to make its trade policy coherent with its overarching objective of green transformation of the economy, towards a climate neutral, environmentally sustainable, resource efficient and resilient economy by 2050;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Commission to mount an assertive and coordinated international trade policy response geared towards a multilateral, resilient and sustainable recovery in developing countries; calls on the Commission to deepen EU-Africa trade relations through economic partnership agreements, while
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Welcomes the Commission’s intension to strengthen the enforcement mechanism of Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) chapters and to launch a comprehensive early review in 2021 of the 15-point action plan on the effective implementation and enforcement of TSD Chapters in trade agreements; underlines the need to ensure that no provisions in the FTAs undermine the objectives and standards enshrined in the TSD chapters;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Recalls that the EU trade policy and relations with developing countries must be based on the fundamental values of the EU and contribute first and foremost to achieving sustainable growth, job creation, promotion of human rights and the eradication of poverty;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Encourages the
Amendment 24 #
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Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Encourages the EU and the Member States to help developing countries and regions to keep their borders open and to set up ‘green corridor mechanisms’ to allow the unhindered flow of essential goods, agri-food products
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Encourages the EU and the Member States to help developing countries and regions to keep their borders open and to set up ‘green corridor mechanisms’ to allow the unhindered flow of essential goods, agri-food products and humanitarian aid across borders, while taking, at the same time, decisive action to mitigate and adapt to climate change, protect the environment and strong social and labour policies;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Encourages the EU and the Member States to help developing countries
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Encourages the EU and the Member States to help developing countries and regions to keep their borders open and to set up ‘
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Encourages the EU and the Member States to help developing
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Notes that COVID-19 has caused
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Underlines that the COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the violations of fundamental rights at work, poor working conditions, lack of fair wages, irregular or excessive working time, discrimination, as well as gender-based violence and harassment; calls on the EU and its Member States to make real progress in the commitment to elaborate the UN binding treaty on business and human rights and enforce the ILO Conventions on decent work in supply chains; calls on the EU to oversee the enforcement of the labour standards set out in the eight core ILO Conventions in developing countries, and to assist them in establishing and reinforcing initiatives, notably partnership programmes, to strengthen the labour inspection systems and to collect more data on how international labour standards address decent work deficits in the global supply chains in order to close identified governance gaps;
Amendment 31 #
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Invites the Commission to adapt its trade policy in order to help developing countries to boost the resilience and diversification of their value chains at a global, regional and local level, including reshoring and nearshoring, and points out that reshoring must be based on a comprehensive approach and take into account international trade, industry and the internal market;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Invites the Commission to adapt its trade policy in order to help developing partner countries to boost the resilience and diversification of their value chains at a global, regional and local level, including reshoring and nearshoring, in order to be better prepared for future systemic shocks;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Invites the Commission to
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Underlines that the post COVID- 19 recovery is a unique opportunity to re- set sustainable growth; calls on the Commission to present its review of the 15-point Action Plan on TSD Chapters, with the briefest of delays; expects the review to urgently address the enforceability of TSD commitments which have proven to be lacking, taking as a minimum recent advances in enforceability, namely the ability for the EU to tackle any non-compliance by partners;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls on the Commission to launch an EU Action Plan that focuses on shaping sustainable global supply chains, promoting human rights, social and environmental due diligence standards and transparency, which takes the experiences and lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic into account, and to update its 2006 Communication on ‘Promoting decent work for all – the EU contribution to the implementation of the decent work agenda in the world’;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Stresses that agricultural export subsidies cause enormous damage to local producers, destroy local markets in LDCs and exacerbate their dependence on foreign imports, with a negative impact on food security in particular during the COVID-19 pandemic; calls on the Commission to actively participate in WTO negotiations to abolish agricultural export subsidies, in line with the “Nairobi Package” adopted at the WTO's Tenth Ministerial Conference in 2015;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Notes that COVID-19 has caused an unprecedented health, economic, social and humanitarian crisis on a global scale, with asymmetric effects for least developed countries (LDCs);
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5.
Amendment 41 #
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Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5.
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5.
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Welcomes the commitment shown by the EU and its Member States in tackling the wider impact of COVID-19, in particular through the Coronavirus Global Response and COVAX initiatives; acknowledges the commitment of the Commission to make the COVID-19 vaccine a global public good and requests adequate measures for the global challenges of shortages, insufficient manufacturing capacity and the gap between COVAX objectives and their financing; calls on the Commission to coordinate with the
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Welcomes the commitment shown by the EU and its Member States in tackling the wider impact of COVID-19, in particular through the Coronavirus Global Response and COVAX initiatives; calls on the Commission to coordinate with the World Health Organization and the African Union in order to scale up vaccine production for developing countries and to make vaccines affordable and universally available;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Welcomes the commitment shown by the EU and its Member States in tackling the wider impact of COVID-19, in particular through the Coronavirus Global Response and COVAX initiatives, which demonstrate our solidarity with the least developed countries; calls on the Commission to coordinate with the World Health Organization and the African Union in order to scale up vaccine production for developing countries;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Welcomes the commitment shown by the EU and its Member States in tackling the wider impact of COVID-19, in particular through the Coronavirus Global Response
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Welcomes UN Secretary-General’s call to ensure equal, affordable and rapid access to COVID-19 vaccines globally; urges the Commission to take a leading role in the WTO TRIPS Council debates on avoiding barriers to access to vaccines and transfer of technology by promoting consensus in the flexibilization of TRIPS obligations; requests to consider compulsory licensing and implementation of Regulation (EC) No 816/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on compulsory licensing of patents relating to the manufacture of pharmaceutical products for export to countries with public health problems as a means to boost EU cooperation with developing countries facing COVID-19;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Points out that the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in developing countries, especially LDCs, faces unprecedented challenges due to a lack of logistical capacity, poor transportation and storage, including breaks in the cold chain integrity, and fragile healthcare systems; calls on the Commission to actively support LDCs in the handling and transportation of COVID-19 vaccines in line with international regulatory requirements and ensure that there is no delay in the attainment of mass immunisation against COVID-19 in these countries;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Notes that COVID-19 has caused an unprecedented health, economic, social and humanitarian crisis on a global scale, with asymmetric effects for least developed countries (LDCs)
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Deeply regrets that the EU has opposed the proposal of India and South Africa for a temporary waiver on patents and IPRs for COVID-19 vaccines and treatments at the WTO, a proposal supported by all developing countries; urges the EU to change this approach and to support the request for a temporary waiver on IPRs on COVID-19 vaccines and treatments;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Is deeply worried that financing constraints and limitations in the supply of vaccines will prevent many LDCs from completing mass immunisation against COVID-19 until 2023 or even later; considers that waiving the patents on the vaccines that have been developed with massive public funding would increase the production of vaccines in all countries that have sufficient industrial capacity and would raise the purchasing capacity of COVAX due to the price lowering of vaccines that such a measure would entail; calls on the Commission to support the proposal of India and South Africa for a temporary waiver of Sections 1, 4, 5 and 7 of Part II of the TRIPS Agreement in order to ensure that vaccines are available in all developing countries in the shortest term possible;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Requests to provide to the Commission-Parliament Contact Group an oversight over the decision making in the COVID-19 response, including the negotiation of Advance Purchase Agreements (APAs); requests the inclusion of DEVE Committee representatives in the Commission- Parliament Contact Group to provide adequate input for an EU Global vaccination strategy that is prepared for challenges such as the deployment of the vaccine in countries with insufficient medical infrastructure, production of vaccines in developing countries, a humanitarian buffer of vaccines and risk reduction and preparedness against new strains of the virus;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Regrets that pharmaceutical companies have chosen not to engage with the WHO COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP), an initiative that aims to encourage the voluntary contribution of IP, technologies and data to support global sharing and scale-up of manufacturing and supply of COVID-19 health technologies and that despite huge public funding, there is no tool for the EU and its Member States to force pharmaceutical companies to engage in such mechanism.
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Urges the
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Urges the Commission to identify the appropriate measures to ensure that this pandemic does not precipitate a food crisis in the developing world;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Urges the Commission to identify the appropriate measures to ensure that this pandemic does not precipitate a food crisis in the developing world; supports actions to facilitate trade with a view to promoting
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Urges the Commission to make food security one of its priorities and to identify the appropriate measures to ensure that this pandemic does not precipitate a food crisis in the developing world; stresses that the legitimate demand to reduce the pressure placed by agriculture on the environment must be pursued in such a way, and at such a pace, as to ensure food security for all citizens in developing countries, as well as in the EU; supports actions to facilitate trade with a view to promoting food safety and sanitary and phytosanitary measures in response to COVID-19;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Notes that COVID-19 has caused an unprecedented health, economic, social and humanitarian crisis on a global scale, with asymmetric effects for least developed countries (LDCs) and low- and middle- income countries (LICs and MICs), especially for people in poverty or at risk of poverty; calls for the
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Calls on the Commission to consider the implications of COVID-19 and its impact on achieving the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals; accordingly, urges the Commission to re- adapt its trade policy in line with its global development policy accordingly to ensure that economies and societies are rebuilt better, more sustainable, more resilient and more socio-economically equal after the pandemic; stresses that tackling inequalities must become central to the EU’s post-COVID-19 global strategy, including its trade agenda, to make sure that progress on reducing poverty, education, public health, gender equality and climate action is not lost due to the pandemic;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Recalls that seed diversity is vital in building the resilience of farming to climate change; recalls that farm-saved seeds are estimated to account for over 80% of farmers’ total seed requirements in some African countries; calls for the EU to support intellectual property rights regimes that enhance the development of locally adapted seed varieties and farmer- saved seeds, in line with the provisions of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA), which safeguards the rights of farmers to maintain genetic resources for purposes of food security and climate change adaptation;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Notes that the vital restrictions on trade and international transport imposed by national governments in an effort to contain the spread of the pandemic have led to breaks in international trade flows and value chains, and in the provision of technical support to developing countries, causing social and economic damage;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 b (new) 6b. Recalls that the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services will undermine progress in approximately 80 % of the assessed targets for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); regrets that dispute settlement systems covering biodiversity and trade provisions in Multilateral Environment Agreements are not binding, unlike the WTO enforcement system, which de facto embodies the supremacy of commercial law over biodiversity; in particular, recalls that current WTO rules limit the possibility of EU Member States of raising tariffs on products that have a negative impact on biodiversity; against this backdrop, welcomes the commitment of the Commission to prioritise effective implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity in trade and investment agreements; and calls on the Commission to advocate reform of the WTO along this line;
Amendment 64 #
6b. Calls on the Commission to consider the geopolitical and commercial repercussions of the shift to online trading during the pandemic, which has increased further the volume of transactions accounted for by the main digital platforms, which are supplied by a relatively small number of large firms mainly located in China and the United States;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7.
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Considers that COVID-19 has accelerated the shift towards digitalisation, which presents opportunities to facilitate international trade, to reduce face to face processes and allow for efficient logistics and strategic stockpiling with enormous potential, in particular for developing partner countries; underlines that developing countries and LDCs trail behind in the digital economy and calls on the Commission to collaborate with developing partner countries in order to facilitate digital infrastructure, establish policy strategies and harmonise regulatory frameworks for
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls on the Commission to collaborate with developing partner countries
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls on the Commission to collaborate with developing partner countries in order to
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Notes that COVID-19 has caused an unprecedented health, economic, social and humanitarian crisis on a global scale, with asymmetric effects for least developed countries (LDCs) whose high vulnerability is linked to poor economic diversification and high dependency on export of raw materials; calls for the EU to tailor its commitments and approach to developing countries and LDCs accordingly;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls on the Commission to collaborate with developing partner countries in order to facilitate digital infrastructure, as well as to accord strategic importance to digital trade, establish policy strategies and harmonise regulatory frameworks for e-commerce
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Considers that the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development dictates that we work in a multilateral context and coordinate policies at the international and national levels to deal with the enormous challenges to these aspirations resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and to factor in the Sustainable Development Goals in the rebuilding and restructuring of international trade networks;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Welcomes the commitment of the Commission to reinforce the sustainability dimension of existing and future trade agreements; accordingly, calls for a fully- fledged sustainability ex-ante and ex-post impact assessment of EU FTAs;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 b (new) 7b. Welcomes the Commission’s commitment to make compliance with the Paris Agreement an “essential clause” of the EU trade agreements; stresses that, in order to be enforceable, the environmental objectives of the EU’s free trade agreements (FTAs) must be clear, quantifiable, verifiable, based on robust, transparent and inclusive ex-ante sustainable impact assessments and include sanctions for non-compliance;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 b (new) 7b. Stresses the importance of using strategic foresight in order to improve developing countries’ preparedness and resilience to any future shocks and health crises, including the emergence of new disease mutations and future pandemics, aiming to develop future-proof strategies and responses;
Amendment 75 #
7b. Deplores the fact that the economic and social effects of the pandemic are being felt to a disproportionate degree by women, a state of affairs which may reverse decades of progress in the areas of gender equality and female emancipation;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 c (new) 7c. Welcomes the Commission's commitment to engage the EU to pursue a strong environmental agenda at the WTO, notably by taking initiatives that promote climate and sustainability considerations in the remit of the WTO; recalls that the objective of sustainable development should become the overriding principle guiding the work of the WTO, whose rules and operations should be designed accordingly, using the Agenda 2030 and Paris Agreement commitments as a minimum benchmark;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 c (new) 7c. Emphasises the need to make gender equality and female emancipation integral to trade measures and development programmes, in order to ensure that women are not disproportionately affected by future crises as well;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 c (new) 7c. Urges the Commission to take account of the fact that trade measures affect women and men differently and to identify new entrepreneurial and employment opportunities for women and curb any negative gender-related effects;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 d (new) 7d. Believes that parties to the Paris Agreement should have policy space to implement climate response measures in fulfilment of current and future National Determined Contributions (NDC), without risking trade retaliation measures from trading partners; however, stresses the need to take into account the adverse impact of climate-related trade restrictions on developing countries and to take appropriate actions to mitigate them, such as climate funding, insurance, technology transfer and capacity building, in line with UNFCC related commitments and the principle of “common but differentiated responsibilities” (CBDR);
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Underlines the link between deforestation and the risks of new zoonotic pandemics; recalls how trade liberalization is one of the causes of increased deforestation, and calls on the commission to avoid signing free trade agreements that could contribute to deforestation;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 d (new) 7d. Welcomes the decision taken at the 24th session of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) to set as a priority theme ‘Harnessing science, technology and innovation to bridge the gap regarding the third Sustainable Development Goal’;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 e (new) 7e. Stresses the need to account for the carbon “embodied” in imported goods and services; along this line, calls on the EU to take steps to re-launch discussions within the WTO on process and production methods to enable products to be differentiated in terms of their carbon footprint, energy footprint or technological standards; insists that such initiative should be accompanied by measures facilitating technology transfer both for climate adaptation and mitigation to accommodate the needs of developing countries;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 e (new) 7e. Emphasises that science and technology offer great potential to meet the challenges posed by the health, economic and social crisis caused by the pandemic and that this potential can best be exploited by enhancing innovation schemes and multilateral cooperation in global science and innovation networks;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 f (new) 7f. Underlines that Intellectual Property Rights may hinder transfer of cleaner technologies; recalls that WTO- TRIPS flexibilities could contribute significantly to the transfer of climate- friendly technologies; calls on the EU to take the lead in the identification of the salient barriers to the dissemination of technologies in developing countries to address climate change and to strive to promote the adoption of a Declaration on “IPR and Climate Change” comparable to the Doha Declaration of 2001 on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health, to foster the legal transfer of climate- friendly technology to developing countries, in compliance with the Paris Agreement and the UNFCCC, notably the principle of Common But Differentiated Responsibilities (CBDR);along this line, takes the view that EU FTAs with developing countries should include provisions that promote technology transfer and enable local content requirements in their public procurement and investment policies;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 f (new) 7f. Acknowledges that scientific and technological progress can make it easier to integrate the value generated by producers in developing countries into global chains; takes the view that, if they are to enhance and build on competitive advantages, open innovation models call for cooperation between firms and external partners; calls, with a view to creating an environment conducive to innovation, for cooperation between a range of actors, including local producers and multinational companies, in order to develop the capabilities needed to take up, assimilate, adapt and disseminate existing know-how and technologies;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 g (new) 7g. Calls on the Commission to actively work within the WTO in order to promote multilateral rules for sustainable management of Global Value Chains, including mandatory supply chain due diligence.
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Emphasises that the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a number of obstacles to sustainable development, but has also revealed new opportunities for trade and development;
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