Activities of Keith TAYLOR related to 2014/2228(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) (A8-0175/2015 - Bernd Lange)
Amendments (5)
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Recital B p (new)
Recital B p (new)
B p. whereas the US federal law on animal welfare is well below the level of EU regulation, including the lack of legislation on welfare standards for farmed animals before the point of slaughter; whereas unfortunately, animal welfare is not considered by the Commission to be a trade concern in the same way as food safety or animal health for the purposes of import requirements;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point iv a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point iv a (new)
(iv a) to ensure an explicit exclusion of public services as referred to in Article 14 TFEU from the scope of application of TTIP, in order to ensure that national and local authorities have the freedom to introduce, adopt, maintain or repeal any measure with regard to the commissioning, organisation, funding and provision of public services, as provided in Article 168 TFEU (public health) and in Protocol 26 (Services of General Interest) of the EU Treaties;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point v
Paragraph 1 – point v
(v) to take immediate steps to safeguard the right of EU governments to legislate, organise, set quality and safety standards for, manage and regulate public services by not committing public service sectors to further market access liberalization and by filing general Annex-II reservations in the National Treatment schedules regarding all health services in the widest sense communication services, educational services, environmental services, financial services, social services, transport services, and energy services;
Amendment 240 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Calls on the Commission to safeguard the future of European public healthcare services by their explicit exclusion from the scope of application of TTIP, in the same way that there is already a carve-out in TTIP for the audio-visual sector and reflecting the existing carve-out of healthcare services from the Services Directive *; * see recital 22 and Article 2(f) of Directive 2006/123/EC
Amendment 244 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Expresses concern that the published draft EU textual proposal on SPS measures does not make it explicit that the long term goal of aligning regulatory standards with regard to animal welfare should be to raise standards to the highest level rather than lowering them; draws attention to the fact that enforcement mechanisms of animal welfare provisions appear to be lacking; can only accept to include animal welfare matters in the negotiations, provided that the Commission insists on explicit recognition of the need to harmonise standards to the highest level, and to include animal welfare production standards as a requirement for importing goods into the EU;