Activities of Salvatore CICU related to 2014/2228(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) (A8-0175/2015 - Bernd Lange) IT
Negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) (debate) IT
Amendments (12)
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to maintain the objective of including a specific energy chapter, whose scope would include industrial raw materials, in the TTIP which, as this could significantly increase the EU’s energy security;
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
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 and the industrial raw materials sector, with appropriate measures maintaining current tariff rates over the longest possible period after the entry into force of the TTIP;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas agriculture is of fundamental importance and is a sensitive sector in the TTIP negotiations, the European Commission must continue negotiations in this regard with the aim of guaranteeing better access to the American market in different sectors, resolving the issue of non-tariff barriers while also protecting the interests of sensitive sectors in the EU.
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the wellbeing of businesses, ordinary citizens, workers and consumers has to be the benchmark for a trade agreement; whereas TTIP should be a model for a good trade agreement responding to these requirements;
Amendment 150 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Requests that the Commission facilitate more active participation of EU firms in US public procurement on a basis of reciprocity, as this can contribute to stimulating private-sector innovation and to the emergence of new, high-growth innovative companies and sectors;
Amendment 193 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
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 on a basis of reciprocity 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.
Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point i
Paragraph 1 – point b – point i
(i) to ensure that the market access offers in the different areas are equally ambitious and reflect both parties’ expectations, as market access for industrial goods, agricultural products, services and public procurement is equally important in all cases and a balance is needed between the different proposals for these areas;; to also ensure that market access in the different areas represents a genuine opportunity, in particular for SMEs, for which the barriers to transatlantic trade are sometimes insurmountable, and which, precisely due to their small or medium size, are not capable of facing the challenges posed by internationalisation.
Amendment 334 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point iii
Paragraph 1 – point b – point iii
(iii) to keep in mind that there are important offensive interests for the EU in the services sector, for instance in the areas of engineering, telecommunications and transport services, as well as offensive interests in the agri-food sector;
Amendment 358 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point iv
Paragraph 1 – point b – point iv
(iv) to increase market access for services according to the ‘posinegative list approach’ whereby services that are to be opened up to foreign companies are explicitly mentioned and new services are exincluded while ensuring that possible standstill and ratchet clauses only apply to non- discrimination provisions and allow for enough flexibility to bring services back into public control;
Amendment 547 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c – point i
Paragraph 1 – point c – point i
(i) to ensure that the regulatory cooperation chapter promotes an effective, pro- competitive economic environment through the facilitation of trade and investment while developing and securing high levels of protection of health and safety, consumer, labour and environmental legislation and of the cultural diversity that exists within the EU; negotiators on both sides need to identify and to be very clear about which regulatory measures and standards are fundamental and cannot be compromised, which ones can be the subject of a common approach, which are the areas where mutual recognition based on a common high standard and a strong system of market surveillance is desirable and which are those where simply an improved exchange of information is possible, based on the experience of one and a half years of ongoing talksseveral years of talks in a variety of forums dedicated thereto, including the Transatlantic Economic Council and the High Level Regulatory Cooperation Forum;
Amendment 759 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point xiv
Paragraph 1 – point d – point xiv
(xiv) to ensure that foreign investors are treated in a non-discriminatory fashion and have a fair opportunity to seek and achieve redress of grievances, which can be achieved without the inclusion of an an improved ISDS mechanism; s. Such a mechanism is not necessary in TTIP given the EU’s and the US’ developed legal systems; a state-to- state dispute settlement system and the use of national courts are the most appropriate tools to address investment disputeswould provide investors with the opportunity to assert their rights before national courts or through the international arbitration mechanism ISDS; however, such a mechanism shall not permit investors to assert their rights simultaneously before a national court or an international arbitrator;
Amendment 792 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point xv
Paragraph 1 – point d – point xv
(xv) to ensure that TTIP includes an ambitious Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) chapter that includes strong protection of precisely and clearly defined areas of IPR, including enhanced protecreinforced recognition and recogniprotection of European Geographical Indications (GIs), and reflects a fair and efficient level of protection such as laid out in the EU’s and the US’s free trade agreement provisions in this area, while continuing to confirm the existing flexibilities in the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), notably in the area of public health; with regard to public health and existing EU legislation, reaffirms the importance of prohibiting the entry of goods such as hormone-treated meat onto the European market; additionally urges the European Commission to defend the agri-food heritage of the EU from counterfeiting, given that it is an expression of territorial identity;