12 Amendments of Pedro SILVA PEREIRA related to 2017/2274(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that Chinathe People's Republic of China, hereinafter PRC, is the EU’s second-largest trading partner and that the EU is Chinathe PRC’s largest trading partner, and that the trade balance has a significant deficit in China’s favour;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that Chinathe PRC is a major global trade player and that this could represent a good opportunity for EU businesses;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on China to act onthe PRC to fulfil the commitments enshrined in China’s Accession Protocol to the WTO and those made by President Xi Jinping’s commitments, as a result of increased trade tensions, to further open up the Chinese market to foreign investors, strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights and level the playing field by making China’s market more transparent and better regulated, and by ceasing all the discriminatory practices against foreign investors, in this respect recalls that those reforms will benefit both Chinese and European businesses, especially MSMEs;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for coordinated cooperation with Chinathe PRC on the Belt and Road Initiative on the basis ofbased on reciprocity, sustainable development, good governance, and open and transparent rules, in particular regarding public procurement; in this respect regrets that the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the European Investment Fund and China’s Silk Road Fund (SRF) and the one signed by the European Investment Bank (EIB), the Asian Development Bank, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the New Development Bank, and the World Bank have not yet improved the business environment for European enterprises and workers;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Supports the on-going negotiations on a comprehensive EU-China PRC Investment Agreement; calls for further reciprocity in market access that were launched in 2013; calls on the Parties to renew efforts to advance in the negotiations aimed at achieving a genuine level playing field for European businesses and workers and to ensure reciprocity in market access; calls for the inclusion of a binding and enforceable Trade and Sustainable Development chapter;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on Chinathe PRC to strive to play a responsible role on the global stage, including giving its active support to the multilateral rules-based trading system and the WTO; in the context of increasing bilateral trade tensions, reiterates the need to pursue multilateral solutions; in this respect calls for the fulfilment of WTO obligations and the protection of its operative mechanisms;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls for the resumption of negotiations, in line with the European Parliament’s resolution, on the Trade in Service Agreement (TiSA) and on the Environmental Goods Agreement (EGA), building on the fruitful EU-PRC cooperation in the fight against climate change and the strong joint commitment towards the implementation of the Paris Agreement;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Regrets that the PRC, despite the conclusion of the procedure on the reform of the European calculation methodology for anti-dumping duties, has not yet withdrawn its case against the EU at the WTO appellate body;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Expresses concern about market access being increasingly conditional on forced technology transfers, as stated in the EU Chamber of Commerce in China’s 2017 position paper;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Takes note with concern of the conclusions of the Commission’s report on the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights in third countries that indicates the PRC as the chief concern; reiterates the need to ensure protection to European knowledge-based economy; calls on the PRC to fight the illicit use of European licences by Chinese companies;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Welcomes the EU-PRC’s 2017 joint announcement over a list of 200 Chinese and European GIs whose protection will be negotiated; however, considering that negotiations were launched in 2010, considers it a very modest result and regrets the lack of progress in this regard;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Expresses concern about industrial overcapacity in Chinathe PRC’s steel sector; recalls the commitments made at the first ministerial meeting of the Global Forum on Steel Excess Capacity in 2017 to refrain from providing market-distorting subsidies. ; regrets that the Chinese delegation has failed to deliver the data on capacity at the Global Forum on Excess Capacity; calls on the PRC to fulfil its commitment to identify and disclose data on its subsidies and support measures to the steel and aluminium industries by June 2018; takes note of the proposed tripartite action by the US, Japan and the EU at the WTO level;