Activities of Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER related to 2015/2105(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on a new forward-looking and innovative future strategy on trade and investment
Amendments (7)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises that trade and investment policies must be aimed at creating sustainable growth, based on domestic demand, and high-quality, decent jobs, and that future trade agreements should be drawn up in such a way as to form part of an industrial strategy based on fair competition and reciprocity;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls for the European Union's trade policy to be inspired by the Havana Charter of 24 March 1948, Articles 3 and 4 of which provide that no country should maintain a persistent structural surplus or deficit in its balance of payments;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses the need for targeted protectionism to be applied to strategic industrial sectors;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the importance of preventing the EU’s trading partners from engaging in anti-competitive practices, including social or environmental dumping, or the dumping of cheap products in Europe, as this could de-stabilise European industry; calls to this end for the anti-dumping and anti-subsidy procedures to be speeded up and for the estimated harm done to European industry to be evaluated in such a way as to have the strongest deterrent effect possible;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the importance ofat it is vital to preventing the EU’s trading partners from engaging in anti-competitive practices, including social or environmental dumping, or the dumping of cheap products in Europe, as this could de- stabilises European industry and contributes to the relocation of production;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to encourage European research bodies to engage more actively with potential partners outside the EU; , while at the same time cautioning against possible industrial espionage targeting European strategic industries;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Notes the requirement in the Commission’s ‘Investment Plan for Europe’ to boost investment within the EU, and; considers trade strategies to be an essential means of achieving this goal., however, that no boosting of investments can be effective within EMU;