14 Amendments of Alessia Maria MOSCA related to 2015/2059(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 16 a (new)
Citation 16 a (new)
– having regard to its resolutions of 5 July 2016 on a new forward-looking and innovative future strategy for trade and investment (2015/2105(INI),
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 16 b (new)
Citation 16 b (new)
– having regard to the 380th report of the Committee on Freedom of Association of the ILO,
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the new Commission's trade strategy "Trade for all" emphasizes the importance of ensuring the effective implementation of EU free trade agreements including also through the use of their dispute settlement mechanism;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D – indent 10
Recital D – indent 10
– seven special committees, seven working groups and a dialogue on intellectual property were formally established;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Points out that the EU-Korea Free Trade Agreement, like other agreements on free trade, services and investments, hascan have a positive impact on the socio-economic development of the parties to the Agreement, on economic integration, on sustainable development, and on bringing countries and their citizens closer togetherbringing countries and their citizens closer together; emphasizes however that progress on the objectives enshrined in the trade and sustainable development chapter are greatly unsatisfactory with regards to respect for labour rights;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Recalls that commitments taken within the trade and sustainable development chapter are an integral part of the overall package of a Free Trade Agreement;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Notes that the repeated imprisonment of trade unionists is not in line with the commitments made in the Chapter on Trade and Sustainable Development and makes for a retrograde step on labour rights instead of the promised progress;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Points out that the organisers of an otherwise peaceful protest should not be held accountable under the criminal code for the unlawful behaviour of a few individuals during those protests;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the efforts of the Civil Society Forum and of the internaldomestic advisory groups set up in accordance with the provisions set out in the chapter on trade and sustainable development; recalls that both parties are obliged to uphold, promote and implement commitments on core labour rights in their laws and practiceshave committed under Article 13.4 to respect, promote and realize in their laws and practices, the principles concerning the fundamental rights, namely freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining, the elimination of all forms of forced or compulsory labour, the effective abolition of child labour and the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation as well as to make continued and sustained efforts towards ratifying the fundamental ILO Conventions as well as other Conventions that are classified as 'up-to- date' by the ILO;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses that with regard to a complaint by ITUC, KCTU and FKTU against the government of the Republic of Korea, the ILO Committee on Freedom of Association has requested from the Government to abstain from taking any further actions to achieve changes in collective agreements in areas that should rest within the autonomy of the bargaining partners and expected that any guidelines on collective bargaining would be the result of full tripartite consultation;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 – point d
Paragraph 7 – point d
(d) the chapter on trade and sustainable development: ratification and implementation by the Korean party of the fundamental Conventions of the International Labour Organisation; recalls that the South Korean government committed at the occasion of the 4th meeting of the Committee on Trade and Sustainable Development to promptly provide information on its next concrete steps in this regard;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 – point d a (new)
Paragraph 7 – point d a (new)
(da) calls on the Commission to regularly present reports to parliament indicating the effects of the agreement on the European labour market by drawing up a list of all existing EGF-cases related to the FTA with the Republic of Korea;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Supports theWithholds its support for any further deepening of trade and investment relations between the EU and Korea and the involvevia further negotiations or amendments ofn the parties to the Agreement in creating further economic growth and development for the benefit of EU and Korean citizensFTA until the Trade and Sustainable Development chapter is fully implemented in the sense that all provisions and commitments have been translated into national law and are being implemented;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses that in case of negotiations on an investment chapter between the European Commission and the government of the Republic of Korea not to use the old ISDS-method, but to build instead on the proposal, made by the European Commission, of developing a multilateral-investment-court-system;