23 Amendments of Nicolas BAY related to 2014/2228(INI)
Amendment 5 #
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1. Believes thatAcknowledges that, in a world which has now become multilateral, the United States is one of the EU’s key strategic partnpartners among others; stresses that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is the most significant recent EU-US project and will reinvigorate the transatlantic partnership as a whole, beyond its trade aspects; emphasises that its successful conclusion is of high geopolitical importance at a moment when the US is pivoting to Asia and concluding the Trans-Pacific Partnershipconstitutes a danger to European businesses which, in the event of the project’s coming to fruition, would face unfair competition because of the lack of protectionism for our industries, whereas the United States pursues such a policy; emphasises that its successful conclusion would be a serious geopolitical threat to the independence of the Member States at a moment when the US is already seeking to restrict our sovereignty through NATO; underlines that the TTIP willould have a posinegative impact on jobs and growth for the two economies of the EU Member States, which have both been hit by the crisis due to the treatment of international finance by the United States;
Amendment 16 #
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1. Calls on the Commission to maintain the objective of including a specific energy chapter halt the TTIP negotiations immediately, as their only outcome will be to make Europe an economic, financial and political vassal of the USA; concluding the TTIP which could signifis agreement would mean an irreversible loss of economic antly increase the EU’s energy securityd political sovereignty for the states of Europe;
Amendment 20 #
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1. Calls on the Commission to maintain the objective of including a specific energy chapter in the TTIP which could significantly increase the EU’s energy securitydrop the disastrous TTIP project, which the peoples of Europe do not want because they sense that it could threaten their vital interests;
Amendment 29 #
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2. Notes the TTIP’s strategic importance in strengthening and shaping global trade and economic governance based on the values shared by the EU and the US, particularly in an increasingly multipolar worlderror, as TTIP would merely strengthen the principle of global economic governance, which stands for a desire to destroy national sovereignty, first in the economic sphere, which will result in the triumph of an unbridled liberalism which would be contrary to the survival and the interests of peoples; notes that its impactthis wourld go beyond the bilateral implications by facilitatingvernance project is clearly evident in the desire to promote the establishment of common regulations and rules that could later be adopted at global level, to the detriment of all historical, political and geopolitical realism and of democracy;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
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2. Requests that the Commission ensure a policy of frNotes that in all previous examples of agreements between the USA and the European Union, from the SWIFT agreement to the PNR agreement, the end result has been an imbalanced text giving extraterritorial application to US law; the cases that have been trade with respect to fuels, including LNG and crude oilaken against European companies such as BNP Paribas and Alstom have illustrated the US conception of the rule of law and of relations with Europe – namely that US law should apply unilaterally and extraterritorially with no scope for negotiation except about how to bow to the interests of the USA and its multinationals;
Amendment 50 #
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3. Highlights that the conclusion of the TTIP creates the prospect of a broadglobal economic space, which would include third countries with which the EU and the US have close trade and economic relationill also subject EU Member States to unfair competition from third countries; observes that this is the case because the EU and the US have close trade and economic relations with these countries, which are subject to far more flexible rules and standards, whether on health, safety or social aspects;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
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2. Requests that the Commission ensureshould not adopt a policy of free trade with respect to fuels, including LNG and crude oil;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
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Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
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4. Stresses that the EU’s energy supply largely depends on foreign sources; emphasises the considerable contribution Member States’ energy supply ought to depend on strategic choices and bilateral agreements made by each nation state in the light of its own interests; emphasises the fact that the TTIP could damakge to the EU’s energy supply diversification and to its energy security by, inter alia, lifting licensing requirements for US gas exportshe energy security of the Member States while, incidentally, compelling European undertakings to assume a risk by, inter alia, lifting licensing requirements for US gas exports, whereas for example certain European undertakings refuse to exploit shale gas or certain Member States reject this practice;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
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3. Calls on the Commission to work on transatlantic harmonisation ofmaintain national and, under the principle of subsidiarity, European standards and regulations that define the principles of public support for different energy sources; calls on the Commission not to give way to US demands;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
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5. Believes that, in reality, this agreement shouldhas the aim of completing a further stage in the process of subjection of the peoples of Europe to the United States of America; sees evidence of this in the Commission’s desire for TTIP to be accompanied by a deepeningn intensification of transatlantic parliamentary cooperation, and that the strengthening of trade and investment links through the TTIP should lead in the future to an enhanced political framework to improve global cooperation between the EU and the USwhich in reality is intended to result in the establishment of a globalised world government under the control of the United States, the European and Eurasian project being abandoned as part of a confrontation between blocs;
Amendment 85 #
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Amendment 96 #
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6. Welcomes the fact that the Commission is taking steps aiming to improve the transparency of theExpresses its scepticism about the new desire displayed by the Commission to take steps aiming to improve the transparency of the negotiations; points out that, at the same time, citizens, who are supposedly living in a democratic system – that is, a system where they have access to the information required as a basis for taking decisions – do not in this case have access to the documents concerning the negotiations; notes that, furthermore, peoples’ elected representatives are subject to a very strict and rigid procedure for consulting them; recalls, therefore, the antidemocratic character of an agreement negotiated by oligarchs without any public consultation procedure, despite the fact that the peoples of Europe will the first to suffer the damaging consequences of the agreement; calls on the Commission to completely and definitively halt the TTIP negotiations.
Amendment 97 #
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4. Points to the huge differentials between the USA and the EU in energy prices but also in per capita CO2 emissions; calls on the Commission, therefore, to provide energy-intensive sectors in the EU, including the chemicals industry, with appropriate measures maintaining current tariff rates over the longest possible period after the entry into force of the TTIP; if the TTIP comes into force; points out that the USA, concerned primarily with the relentless pursuit of its own interests, has refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol;
Amendment 118 #
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Amendment 138 #
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Amendment 140 #
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6. Requests that the Commission facilitate more active participation of EU Member State firms in US public procurement as this can contribute to stimulating private- sector innovation and to the emergence of new, high-growth innovative companies and sectors; points out that the United States is determined to protect its public procurement markets, of which only 30% are currently open to foreign companies (on account of the 1933 Buy American Act), compared with 95% of European public procurement markets;
Amendment 160 #
Draft opinion
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Amendment 170 #
Draft opinion
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7. Reminds the Commission, while welcomingremaining doubtful about the potential benefits of regulatory alignment and mutual recognition, including the establishment of common principles in standards and technical specifications in the area of ICT, about the importance of maintaining high levels of safety and security, for both producers and consumers;
Amendment 185 #
Draft opinion
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Amendment 186 #
Draft opinion
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8. Reminds the Commission, regarding ICT services, that it is of particular importance that the TTIP ensure a level playing field with equal access for EU service companies to the US market and with an obligation on US service providers to respect the rules applicable to EU companies when providing services in Europe or to European customers.; points out that the United States is determined to protect its public procurement markets, of which only 30% are currently open to foreign companies (on account of the 1933 Buy American Act), compared with 95% of European public procurement markets; doubts whether the United States is prepared to comply with the rules applicable to EU companies when providing services in Europe or to European customers;
Amendment 187 #
Draft opinion
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8. Reminds the Commission, regarding ICT services, that it is of particular importance that the TTIP ensure a level playing field with equal access for EU service companies to the US market and with an obligation on US service providers to respect the rules applicable to EU companies when providing services in Europe or to European customers.; points out that the United States is determined to protect its public procurement markets, of which only 30% are currently open to foreign companies (on account of the 1933 Buy American Act), compared with 95% of European public procurement markets; doubts whether the United States is prepared to comply with the rules applicable to EU companies when providing services in Europe or to European customers;
Amendment 205 #
Draft opinion
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(a) urges the Commission, even though it has not been elected, to listen to the people it claims to serve, rather than the multinationals to whose demands it continues to bow;