Activities of Antanas GUOGA related to 2015/2233(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Negotiations for the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) (A8-0009/2016 - Viviane Reding)
Amendments (14)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 - point a - point -i a (new)
Paragraph 2 - point a - point -i a (new)
- ia. to ensure that the main outcome of the negotiations be an ambitious and comprehensive agreement that goes beyond the current GATS agreement, bringing a significant market opening for EU companies, including SMEs, while ensuring that the agreement is in line with WTO rules;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 - point a - point -i b (new)
Paragraph 2 - point a - point -i b (new)
- ib. to have high ambitions for TiSA, especially regarding telecommunications, e-commerce, professional qualifications and movement of natural persons; to ensure it is a tool for growth and jobs and lowering unemployment;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 - point a - point -i c (new)
Paragraph 2 - point a - point -i c (new)
- ic. to use TiSA negotiations as a tool to move forward the current Doha Round of multilateral trade talks in services and as a negotiating position for opening of service markets between the Union and global trade partners, including in developing countries;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 - point a - point -i d (new)
Paragraph 2 - point a - point -i d (new)
-id. to accept the request by China to join the negotiations which could mean the agreement allows for the further opening of services in China to EU businesses;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 - point a - point i
Paragraph 2 - point a - point i
i. to ensure the highest level of transparency in the negotiations, in particularcluding by allowing access to documents and by organising athat do not undermine the EU's or other Parties' negotiating positions, as well as continuing organising the consultation wiof the Parliament and civil society;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 - point a - point ii
Paragraph 2 - point a - point ii
ii. to ensure that before considering the removal of barriers, the agreement seeks to create a level playing field in the services sector, and has as its main objective to highlight and maintain the high level of protection of consumers, workers and the environment enshrined in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU)further liberalise global access to services and in particular, to open new markets to EU service providers;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 - point a - point iii
Paragraph 2 - point a - point iii
iii. to ensure thatwhile the TiSA provides reciprocal market access, notwithstanding the right of countries to adopt regulations whicha lack of reciprocity should not be used as a grounds for closing alre duly justified on public policy groundsady open service markets in Europe;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 - point b - point i
Paragraph 2 - point b - point i
i. to ensure that the negotiations maintain and strengthen the fundamental role played by public services and services of general interest in the European Union, which proviinsist, while supporting the continued exclusion of public services from negotiations, that EU service providers should have full market access to liberalised services in TiSA countries; to ensure that the final agreement includes an essential safety net for citizens and contribute to social cohesion, growth and employment clause guaranteeing the non- discriminatory treatment of European service providers;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 - point c - point i
Paragraph 2 - point c - point i
i. to ensure that a positive list of services ready to be placed on the market is presented by the Union in order to protect those services not explicitly referred to from being opened up to competition; increase market access for services according to a "hybrid list approach", using for market access "positive lists", whereby services that are to be opened up to foreign companies are explicitly mentioned and new services are excluded and using "negative list approach" for national treatment;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 - point c - point ii
Paragraph 2 - point c - point ii
ii. to ensure that the negotiations comply with thEuropean goods, services and economic operators, including SMEs, are newot directives on public procurement and concessions, in particular as regards the definition of public-public cooperation, exclusions and SME accesscriminated against in all TiSA public procurement markets for services, at any level of government, and to ensure transparent access at a level equal to that applying to TiSA companies have today in Europe under the new EU public procurement and concessions rules;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 - point c - point iii
Paragraph 2 - point c - point iii
iii. to ensure reciprocity of mutual recognition of professional qualifications, including through the creation of a legal framework and promopromote mobility of professionals including through ambitious provisions on movement on natural persons (Mode 4) in relation to trade in services as well as encouraging cooperation ofn mobility by facilitating the visa for professionals in the sectors covered by the Agreementutual recognition of professional qualifications;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 - point c - point iv a (new)
Paragraph 2 - point c - point iv a (new)
iva. to seek an ambition chapter ensuring the free flow of data - without compromising data protection - in order to support growth in the Digital Single Market;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 - point d - point i
Paragraph 2 - point d - point i
i. to ensure that certain regulated professions are excluded from the agreecommitments;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 - point d - point ii
Paragraph 2 - point d - point ii
ii. to maintain the exclusioncontinue to refrain from issuing any commitments ofn audio- visual and cultural services as it is already the Union policy in regards to the GATS agreement;