Activities of Hugues BAYET related to 2014/2228(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) (A8-0175/2015 - Bernd Lange) FR
Amendments (7)
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph b
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph b
b. take immediate action to ensure that free and fair competition on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as market access, is addressed on the basis of the highest standards possible within the existinghilst working for even higher levels of protection, especially within areas such as health and safety, consumer, labour, social rights, regulation on financial services and environmental legislation;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph d
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph d
d. take immediate action to ensure that market access negotiations on financial services are combined with upward convergence in financial regulation, meaning that the treaty and the mechanisms it sets up must have as their primary objective the protection of the public interest, consumers, workers, the environment and democracy, which must explicitly be given precedence over the remedying of trade distortions or the promotion of trade and investment, and must provide the requisite guarantees of transparency and democracy; support high international standards in on- going cooperation efforts in other international fora; ensure that initiatives in the area of regulatory cooperation do not curtail the regulatory and supervisory sovereignty of the EU and its Member States, including their power to ban financial activities and products;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph e
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph e
e. take immediate action to ensure that aggressive tax planning, and distortion of competition by e.g. moving of headquarters across the Atlantic to obtain competition-distorting conditions, are addressedcalls on the Commission to come forward with an anti-BEPS Directive (base erosion and profit shifting) to end harmful competition by businesses, in particular multinationals, who organise their global tax position, often across the Atlantic, in a way that allows profit shifting towards lower tax jurisdictions;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph f
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph f
f. take immediate action to ensure thatinclude legal measures within the TTIP to counter aggressive tax planning via the systematic movement of capital across the Atlantic, in order to avoid tax payments in the country of production and/or sale of goods or services, is addressed within the TTIP;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph g
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph g
g. take immediate action to ensure reciprocal market access for European companies to public contracts in the United States; underlines that an imbalance of market access to public contracts constitutes unfair competition, guarantee that all public contracts lay down binding social, ethical and environmental criteria/guarantee that the more stringent social, ethical and environmental criteria secured by the European Parliament are not watered down and that further progress can still be made towards the systematic use of such clauses;
Amendment 126 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph j
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph j
j. acknowledge theand emphasize the continued importance of state- owned enterprises for certain crucial public services such as public transportation, health care and education;
Amendment 128 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph j a (new)
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph j a (new)
ja. call for due account to be taken of the outcome of the public consultation procedure on investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanisms and for the inclusion of such mechanisms in the TTIP to be rejected.