20 Amendments of Luke Ming FLANAGAN related to 2019/2197(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 a (new)
Citation 17 a (new)
- having regards of its resolution of 5 July 2016 on social and economic standards, Human Rights and corporate impunity;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that since the Commission adopted its latest trade strategy in 2015, entitled ‘Trade for All’, the EU has concluded and started applying a number of new trade agreements, but no quality assessment has been done by Commission on the consequences of those for jobs, diversification and autonomy of the economies, climate change and biodiversity;
Amendment 55 #
3. Insists that EU trade strategy must continue to promote EU interests and values when contending with new challenges worldwide in order to keep and increase the competitiveness of its industras climate change, and viruses, and the necessity to keep a diversify economy; considers, therefore, that an ambitious multilateral and plurilateral agenda, a modern agriculture industry, an adequate industrial strategy and a soon adoption of a carbon tax strategy, the conclusion of win-win trade agreements and their effective implementation and the elimination of unjustified trade barriers constitute the best way to make the EU more competitive in a globalised world;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that choices in our relationshipthe EU must diversify its trade relations, improve trade relations with all partners, including developing and LDCs countries, and with the two other trade superpowers, China and the USA, which represent approximately 30 % of our trade exchanges, are key when it comes to driving EU trade policy;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for a substantive reform of the WTO, based on modernising its rule-book in order to make it more transparent and more effective by providing structural and long-term solutions, and to reorient it in order to face the new and old challenges such as sanitary emergencies, climate change, employment and social justice, economical autonomy and cultural diversity; encourages WTO members to reach an ambitious and balanced agreement on the long-standing issue of fishery subsidies during the ministerial summit in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan and send out a clear signal that the WTO is still able to deliver on its negotiating function;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses that despite recent tensions in transatlantic relations, the EU should continue to work with the USA as a partner, with whom it has to find solutions to trade issues of common interest;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Invites the Commission to find negotiated solutions with the USA, which include the issue of civil aircraft subsidies, and recalls the agreement found on the allocation of higher share in the tariff rate quota for high-quality beef with the purpose of reducing tensions in transatlantic relations while safeguarding EU interests in the agricultural sector, and actively and efficiently opposing the extraterritorial measures adopted against the EU or third partners;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Encourages the Commission to negotiate an fair, good and ambitious investment agreement, which removes all barriers to EU investments including the obligations for investors of both sides, and no ISDS, and looks forward to a possible conclusion of the negotiations by the end of 2020 as agreed in the EU-China Summit in 2019; firmly believes, however, that substance of the agreement should be prioritised over the speed of its conclusion;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Acknowledges the promisingNotes the outcome presented in the Commission’s report regarding the implementation of free trade agreements (FTAs), in particular South Korea, Central and Latin America, Canada, Eastern partners, and African Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) countries; stresses that EU trade agreements have a clear track record of, requests nevertheless the elaboration of independent assessment on the results of the trade agreements using most cases, reaching their primary objective of creating significant opportunities for EU exportdern economical methodologies, and producing qualified assessment, regarding jobs, social rights and environment, gender's on third- country trade marketsrights, as well that economic diversity and autonomy;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Recalls theNotes the announcements of Commission on positive developments of the EU-Canada trade agreement (CETA); notes that during its first full calendar year of implementation, bilateral trade in goods, including agri-food products, grew by 10.3 %, compared to the average of the previous three years; recalls that the EU’s trade surplus with Canada rose by 60 % and created additional opportunities for our exporter but requests quality evaluations, including the business records, but also the consequences for the EU sustainable agriculture, jobs and social rights, economic autonomy, climate change, cultural diversity, and the re-evaluation of the agreement after the COVID-19 crisis;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the European Union to engage more with African countries in order to create an effective and solid partnership that would promote effective sustainable development and growthfood sovereignty in the African continent; stresses that the figures of the recent report of 10 February 2020 on the General Scheme of Preferences (GSP) covering the period 2018-2019 show an increase of the utilisation rate of the preferences by the countries benefitting from the scheme; calls on the Commission to increase its technical and economic aid for developing trade between the EU and African countries as well as among the African countries themselves;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. WelcomNotes the entry into force of the EU-Japan FTA of 1 February 2019 and notes that, according to the first elements given after one year of implementation6 , EU exports to Japan went up by 6.6 % compared to the same period the year before; _________________ 6 https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorn er/detail/en/ip_20_161waits for a quality assessment of the same, after the COVID-19 crisis, including the effects on environment, biodiversity, climate change, sustainable agriculture, economic autonomy and cultural diversity;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls for an ambitious agenda to be pursued when it comes to negotiatingssessment and reorientation after the COVID-19 of the negotiations of new FTAs, in particular with Australia and New Zealand, Tunisia. Morocco and Indonesia; reiterates its call for opening investment negotiations with Taiwan;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Recalls its position expressed in its previous report on the implementation of the CCP; underlines that the 15-point action plan of 27 February 20188 set out by the Commission services represents a good basis for reflection in order to improve thereach an urgent enforcement mechanisms in of the trade and sustainable development (TSD) chapters; _________________ 8 https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/inde x.cfm?id=1803
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Believes that the current system already demonstrates some to be inefficiencyt, as seen for example in the framework of the EU-Korea FTA in which the EU has requested the establishment of a panel following South Korea’s failure to ratify International Labour Organisation (ILO) conventions on workers’ rights, notably on freedom of association and collective bargainingColombia-Peru FTA, EU-Japan (on whales..), or concerning the Korea FTA ;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Notes that the EU trade and investment policy should be used as leverage towards responsible management of supply chains, which include ensuring that businesses uphold human rights, and welcome the declarations by President Von der Leyen and Commissioner Reynders of the presentation of a legislative instrument on due diligence in 2021;
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Recalls that the efforts to keep rules-based trade must play a crucial role in our trade strategy and in this context recalls the adoption on the modernisation of trade defence instruments in 2018, and the new foreign investment screening mechanism; stresses that the new foreign investment screening mechanism should never be a tool for unnecessary protectionism;
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. WelcomesTakes note of the ongoing plurilateral negotiations over key areas of trade in services, namely on domestic regulation for services, on investment facilitation; notes that having a commercial presence in a third country is the dominant mode of supply for trading services and for e- commerce;
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Supports the WTO Joint Statement on Electronic Commerce for global rules on electronic commerce but shares the concerns about the consequences of the development of e-commerce for job and independent retail; calls for openness to a meaningful outcome to facilitate the flow of data across borders and address unjustified barriers to trade by electronic means, in full conformity with EU privacy and data protection law, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)9 , and to make use of the flexibility given by the negotiating directives; _________________ 9 OJ L 119, 4.5.2016, p. 1.
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Notes that SMEs account for approximately 30 % of the EU goods exports; supports the idea that a specific chapter on SMEs should be part of all proposed FTAs, as done in the EU-Japan agreement, and that they should be included when revising existing FTAs; notes that trade barriers and bureaucracy are especially problematic for SMEs that cannot afford the extra work to overcome themwidely opening of public procurement to corporate companies can be especially problematic for genuine SMEs both in the EU and in third countries;