10 Amendments of Fabio Massimo CASTALDO related to 2014/2228(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Believes that the United States is one of the EU’s key strategic partners; 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 Partnership; underlines that the TTIP will have a positive impait is unclear whether the TTIP will have a positive impact on jobs and growth in the two economies, but has serious concerns that it will result in a lowering of EU consumer protect ion jobs and growth for the two economies, which have both been hit by the crisistandards;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Article 1.- Point (d) - Subpoint (ii.)
Article 1.- Point (d) - Subpoint (ii.)
ii.) whileto modify the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) is an appropriate tool to protect, since granting jurisdiction to a private arbitration tribunal is not an appropriate tool to protect citizens, the Member States and investors, and assure that investments are treated in a fair and non- discriminatory way, to oversee that is the independence and impartiality of the judge cannot be guaranteed – elements which are inalienable rights enshrined in the constitutional traditions common to the Member States and in Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, to propose the creation of a permanent, joint US-EU tribunal composed of members with demonstrated experience, who fulfil the aforesaid criteria and are proven to have no conflicts of interest, nominated by the respective legislative assemblies on a three-year mandate which may be renewed only once (based on the system employed by the International Criminal Court), and to guarantee that this settlement does not undermine in any way the capacity of European, national and local authorities to legislate their own policies, in particular social, health, food and environmental policies, and therefore respect the constitutional framework of the Member States;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes the TTIP’s strategic importance inpotential impact in terms of strengthening and shaping global trade and economic governance, based on the vaut believes that the EU, which consistently includes shared by the EU and the US, particularly in an increhuman rights clauses in its trade agreements, should, given the scope of this agreement, make human rights an issue by askingly multipolar world; notes that its impact woul the United States to abolish capital punishment and gto beyond the bilateral implications by facilitating the establishment of common regularatify a number of important international human rights instruments, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocol to the Conventions and rules that could later be adopted at global levelgainst Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Article 1. -Point (e) - Subpoint (iii.)
Article 1. -Point (e) - Subpoint (iii.)
iii.) while a certain extent of confidentiality is necessary for effective negotiations on a trade agreement of such high economic and political importance, to continue its effort to render TTIP negotiations moretruly transparent and accessible to the public, as European institutions should be at the forefront of promoting transparency, and thus request, as a precondition for continuing negotiations and so that these are conducted on mutually reciprocal basis, that the United States follow the example of the European Union and make its position papers public;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Article 1.- Point (e) - Subpoint (iii.) a (new)
Article 1.- Point (e) - Subpoint (iii.) a (new)
iii) a. to make documents relating to the outcome of negotiations fully accessible to the public at the end of every round;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1.- Point (e) -subpoint (vi.) -b- (new)
Paragraph 1.- Point (e) -subpoint (vi.) -b- (new)
vi)b . in accordance with the principle of sincere cooperation between the European institutions, enshrined in Article 13 (2) of the TEU, to undertake to present the objectives of negotiations to the appropriate parliamentary committee prior to each individual round;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that the EU’s energy supply largely depends on foreign sources; emphasises the considerable contribution the TTIP could make to the EU’s energy supply diversification and to its energy security by, inter alia, lifting licensing requirements for US gas exports; and that this vulnerability should be remedied by placing a strong focus on research and the use of renewable energies; emphasises that the TTIP, which would involve, inter alia, lifting licensing requirements for US gas exports, cannot be seen as a viable energy supply diversification opportunity, as it would result in dependency on a single country, the United States, which uses environmentally questionable natural gas extraction methods; points, lastly, to the environmental risks that the conversion of shale gas at regasification facilities located in the EU would entail;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Points out that the inclusion of an ISDS clause in the TTIP agreement would result in a loss of jurisdiction for Member States and would shift the balance of power between states and private firms and give the interests of private investors precedence over the public good; draws attention to the findings of the Commission’s public consultation which were published in early January and which confirmed the opposition to both the inclusion of an ISDS clause in the TTIP and to the agreement as a whole; maintains that the ISDS clause should not be included in the agreement under any circumstances;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the fact thatRegards the steps the Commission is taking steps aiming to improve the transparency of the negotiations as inadequate; points out that the negotiations are taking place mostly behind closed doors, with scant regard for the views of the general public and civil society groups.
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission to suspend the negotiations on the TTIP agreement, in the light of the controversy surrounding those negotiations, including as regards the possible inclusion of an ISDS clause and the process's lack of transparency;