24 Amendments of Piernicola PEDICINI related to 2014/2228(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas TTIP is above all about regulation10, about reducing or eliminating non–tariff barriers11, and as such aboutis intrinsically linked to the level of protection of human health and the environment; __________________ 10 See speech by EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström of 11 December 2014 .http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/ 2014/ december/tradoc_152942.pdf 11 See 2014 Report on Technical Barriers to Trade by the US Trade Representative, p. 45.
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas EU environmental policy seeks to ensure a high level of protection and also covers EU legislation on food and human, animal and plant health.
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the US Trade Representative consistently denounces EU standards in these areas as trade barriers even though such standards constitute the basis of EU food safety principles;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas all regulations of business operations, trade conditions and setting of product- and production-standards showed must remain in the hands of democratically controlled bodies and processes
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
C b. Whereas the 'precautionary principle' is a fundamental part of risk management in the EU, while US authorities do not officially endorse this concept as a basis for policy making.
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
C c. Whereas substantial differences exist also in the approach to food safety along the food chain. In the EU, food safety is guaranteed through the integrated "farm- to-fork" approach while the US system, on the other hand, mostly verifies the safety of the end product and therefore is more prone to resorting to pathogen reduction treatments.
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Recital C d (new)
Recital C d (new)
C d. Whereas the aim of Sustainable development provisions in TTIP should be to ensure that trade and environmental policies are mutually supportive, to promote the optimal use of resources in accordance with the objective of sustainable development as well as to strengthen environmental cooperation and collaboration.
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Recital C f (new)
Recital C f (new)
C f. Whereas European consumers are informed of the presence of GMOs in foodstuff thanks to mandatory labelling while in the US, the FDA recognises GMOs as "substantially equivalent" to their non-GMO counterparts.
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Recital C g (new)
Recital C g (new)
C g. Whereas several industry sectors representatives have called for the removal trough the regulatory convergence mechanisms of the EU zero tolerance policy for unauthorised GMOs in food and feed.
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Recital C h (new)
Recital C h (new)
C h. Whereas early consultations mechanisms between the EU and the US, including potentially further impact assessment with extended stakeholder consultations earlier in the legislative process, may lead to delays in or even abandonment of regulations, especially in the fields of environment and consumers protection.
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers it misleading on the part of the Commission to try to appease public concerns about the TTIP by stating that existing standards will not be lowered, as this disregards the fact that many standards have yet to be set in the implementation of existing (framework) legislation (e.g. REACH) or by the adoption of new laws (e.g. cloning); therefore calls the Commission to secure that the level of EU social and labour standards, consumer and public health protection, care for the environment including regeneration of our natural resources, animal welfare, food safety standards and environmentally sustainable agricultural practices, access to information and labelling, culture and medicine, financial market regulation as well as data protection, net neutrality and other digital rights continue to be respected, not "harmonised" down to the lowest common denominator.
Amendment 124 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Is concerned that the TTIP negotiations have already affected Commission proposals and actions relating, for example, to food safety and climate protection (e.g. pathogen meat treatments; implementation of the fuel quality directive); and that TTIP may results in a deregulation of standards safeguarding and serving the public interest.
Amendment 144 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is very concerned that tThe objective of regulatory convergence, including in particular the creation of a Regulatory Cooperation Council, willshould be prevented from leading to the lowering of future EU standards in key areas for the protection of human health, food safety and the environment in light of the significant differences as compared with the US;
Amendment 171 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Agrees with Commissioner Malmström that all areas where the EU and the US have very different rules or approaches should be excluded from the negotiations12 ; __________________ 12See speech by EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström of 11 December 2014.
Amendment 173 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls on the Commission to protect the right of each party to establish its own levels of domestic environmental protection and environmental development priorities, and to adopt or modify them accordingly with its environmental laws and policies,
Amendment 222 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – indent 3 a (new)
Paragraph 5 – indent 3 a (new)
- the placing on EU markets of foodstuffs containing cloned animal meat or products derived from the progeny of cloned animals;
Amendment 224 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – indent 3 a (new)
Paragraph 5 – indent 3 a (new)
- maintains the organisational autonomy in the area of water supply and sanitation: public services such as water services should remain firmly outside of the scope of the TTIP agreement.
Amendment 227 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – indent 3 b (new)
Paragraph 5 – indent 3 b (new)
- limit the consumer’s right to correct information, e.g. revoking rules relating to the traceability of ingredients or labelling;
Amendment 230 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – indent 3 c (new)
Paragraph 5 – indent 3 c (new)
- limit the circulation of and access to generic medicines under national health programmes, to the advantage of large pharmaceutical companies;
Amendment 234 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – indent 3 d (new)
Paragraph 5 – indent 3 d (new)
- enable ingredients which are banned in the EU from being used in cosmetics, in light of broader US regulations;
Amendment 235 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – indent 3 e (new)
Paragraph 5 – indent 3 e (new)
- authorise animal testing of cosmetics, as currently provided for under US rules;
Amendment 237 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – indent 3 f (new)
Paragraph 5 – indent 3 f (new)
- weaken the principle of the protection of the diversity and territoriality of products, to the detriment of the PDO and PGI labels which guarantee the quality and recognisability of EU products;
Amendment 247 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5 c. Calls the Commission to avoid that the TBT Chapter in TTIP restricts EU and its Member States options to adopt measures with the aim of reducing consumption of certain products such as tobacco, foods high in fat, salt and sugar and harmful use of alcohol:
Amendment 249 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5 d. Calls the commission to make sure that TTIP do not lower the GMOs standards at EU and member states level: in this regards the GMO labelling system should be considered a non-negotiable instrument to ensure consumer's right to choose. Furthermore it urges EU negotiators to preserve the right of the European legislators to introduce further regulations on OGMs products including those derived from animals (meat and dairy) fed with GMOs..