64 Amendments of Agnes JONGERIUS related to 2014/2228(INI)
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point i
Paragraph 1 – point i
(i) to ensure that TTIP will make a significant positive contribution to creating more and betterdecent jobs and set ambitious and enforceable global trade standards for sustainable development and labour;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point ii
Paragraph 1 – point ii
(ii) to ensure that TTIP includes comprehensive provisions on labour laws and policies that are consistent with the core ILO Conventions and the Decent Work Agenda, with a commitment to promote higher standards and, furthermore, to ensure that where disputes arise labour provisions will have a conditional dimensaiming at the effective ratification, implementation and enforcement of the eight core conventions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Decent Work Agenda, with a commitment to promote higher standards. Steps must be taken to ensure that neither of the parties will encourage trade or investment by weakening labour laws. Where disputes arise labour provisions must be subject to a dispute settlement mechanism, including the possibility of imposing trade sanction;s.
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point ii
Paragraph 1 – point ii
(ii) to ensure that TTIP includes comprehensive provisions on labour laws and policies that are consistent with the core ILO Conventions and the Decent Work Agenda, with a commitment to promote higher standards and, furthermore, to ensure that where disputes arise labour provisions will have a conditional dimensionaiming at the effective ratification, implementation and enforcement of the eight core conventions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Decent Work Agenda as a binding condition of the agreement, with a commitment to promote higher standards. It must be ensured that trade or investment is not encouraged through the weakening of labour laws. Where disputes arise labour provisions must be subject to a dispute settlement mechanism, including the possibility of imposing trade sanctions. In this respect the relevant information derived from ILO supervisory bodies should be taken into account;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas an ambitious and balanced agreement with the US may support the reindustrialisation of Europe and help achieve the 2020 target for an increase of the EU’'s GDP generated by industry from 15 % to 20 %; whereas it has the potential to create opportunities especially for SMEs, micro enterprises, according to the definition of Recommendation COM 2003/361/CE, clusters and enterprises networks which suffer more from non- tariff barriers (NTBs) than larger companies; whereas an agreement between the two biggest economic blocs in the world has the potential to create standards, norms and rules which will be adopted at a global level, which would serve to the advantage of third countries as well;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point iii
Paragraph 1 – point iii
(iii) to ensure that the horizontal dimensions of labour and social provisions are recognised and fully integrated into all relevant operational parts of the agreement (such as investment, trade in services, regulatory cooperation and public procurement) to ensure a coherent and comprehensive approach to trade and sustainable development;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point iv
Paragraph 1 – point iv
(iv) to ensure that civil society can make a meaningful contribution to implementing relevant TTIP provisionsthe implementation of and compliance with labour provisions must be subject to a monitoring process, which involves the social partners and civil society;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point v
Paragraph 1 – point v
(v) to take immediate steps to safeguard the right of EU governments to legislate, organise, set quality and safety standardsensure an adequate carve-out of sensitive services such as public services, social services and public utilities (including water, health, social security systems and education) allowing national and local authorities enough room for, manage and regulatoeuvre to legislate in the public servicinterest;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point v a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point v a (new)
(v a) to ensure that ratchet and standstill clauses do not apply to public and social services. The possibility of a re- nationalisation and re-municipalisation of services must be safeguarded.
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point v a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point v a (new)
(v a) to ensure that the possibility of a re- nationalisation and re-municipalisation of services must be safeguarded.
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point vi
Paragraph 1 – point vi
(vi) to ensure that the specific challenges faced by SMEs and micro-companies are fully taken into account;
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point viii
Paragraph 1 – point viii
Amendment 109 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point viii
Paragraph 1 – point viii
(viii) to guarantee that agreement on any dispute-settlement mechanism must take into account the results of the public consultation on investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), must be fully transparent and democratically accountable and must not hinder legislators from passing laws in the area of employment policoppose the inclusion of ISDS in TTIP. In agreements with countries that have fully functioning legal systems and in which no risks of political interference in the judiciary or denial of justice have been identified, ISDS is not necessary;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas many economic impact studies on TTIP should be taken with caution as they are built on computable general equilibrium economic models with very optimistic predictions about the capacity of the EU and the US to reduce regulatory barriers to trade; whereas the TTIP alone will not resolve economic problems in the EU and no false hopes and expectations should be raised in that respectthe real impact of TTIP on both EU and US economies is difficult to assess and hard to predict while negotiations are still ongoing; whereas there are contradictory economic impact studies on TTIP and they should be taken with caution as regards the capacity of the EU and the US to reduce regulatory barriers, unnecessary or unjustified, to trade and to support economic growth and job creation; whereas the TTIP alone will not resolve economic problems in the EU and no false hopes and expectations should be raised in that respect; whereas hopes and expectations on TTIP should be commensurate to the level of ambition that will be reached sector by sector in the negotiation;
Amendment 127 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point ix
Paragraph 1 – point ix
(ix) to take steps to embed a ‘positive listing’ approach in the agreement;with respect to the liberalisation of services in the agreement, whereby services that are to be opened up for foreign companies are explicitly mentioned and new services are excluded
Amendment 134 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point x
Paragraph 1 – point x
(x) to ensure that statistical projections on job losses/gains, and on sectors, affected are constantly updated so that timely intervention can be undertaken by the Commission to support affected sectors, regions or Member States, through allocations of Cohesion Policy funds and European Globalization Adjustment fund adapted and budgetary reinforced beforehand any conclusion of the agreement.
Amendment 136 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point x
Paragraph 1 – point x
(x) to ensure that there are realistic statistical projections on job losses/gains, and on sectors, affected and these are constantly updated so that timely intervention can be undertaken by the Commission to support affected sectors, regions or Member States.
Amendment 142 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point x a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point x a (new)
(x a) to take steps to ensure that regulatory cooperation does not restrict the right of governments and the European Parliament to legislate in the public interest. Steps must be taken to ensure that regulatory cooperation does not lead to the weakening of labour standards, including health and safety standards. It must be ensured that labour and social standards are not treated as non-tariff barriers. Stakeholders, including social partners, should be included in the process of regulatory cooperation in a balanced representation.
Amendment 145 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point x a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point x a (new)
(x a) to take steps to ensure that regulatory cooperation does not restrict the right of governments and the European Parliament to legislate in the public interest. Steps must be taken to ensure that regulatory cooperation does not lead to the weakening of labour standards, including health and safety standards. It must be ensured that labour and social standards are not treated as non-tariff barriers or technical barriers to trade. Stakeholders, including social partners, should be included in the process of regulatory cooperation in a balanced representation.
Amendment 147 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point x a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point x a (new)
Amendment 152 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point x b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point x b (new)
(x b) to ensure that the place of work principle is guaranteed. National labour and social law as well as collective agreement provisions must be upheld in the case of temporary posting and placement of workers; the conditions of temporary postings and placement should be well defined in the TTIP;
Amendment 155 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point x c (new)
Paragraph 1 – point x c (new)
(x c) to ensure that governments have the opportunity to adopt socially and ecologically responsible procurement policies. Procurement provisions should not prevent governments from addressing societal and environmental needs. In addition, public procurement policies should be in line with ILO Convention 94 regarding labour clauses in public contracts.
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas the EU's commitment to the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions and the Article 167 of the TFEU ensure and preserve the right of the EU and its Member States to establish and to implement cultural policies, as well as measures aimed at the protection and promotion of cultural diversity; whereas the United States are not signatories to the UNESCO convention;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G c (new)
Recital G c (new)
Gc. whereas agriculture is at the heart of wider strategic issues such as food safety, sustainable development, societal choices and collective preferences and that the agricultural sectors in the EU and US differ considerably in many areas, such as consumer health aspects and food safety standards, including GMOs and hormone-treated meat;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a – point i
Paragraph 1 – point a – point i
(i) to ensure that TTIP negotiations lead to a deep, comprehensive, ambitious, balanced and high-standard trade and investment agreement that would promote sustainable growth with shared benefits across EU Member States, support the creation of high-quality jobs for European workers, directly benefit European consumers by ensuring a high level of existing and future labour, social and environmental standards, fight tax evasion, tax avoidance and tax havens, increase international competitiveness, and open up new opportunities for EU companies, in particular SMEsmicro and SMEs, and contribute to attracting more foreign investments in the EU; the content of the agreement is more important than the speed of the negotiations, which should in any case take into account the developments in the global international arena;
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a – point ii
Paragraph 1 – point a – point ii
(ii) to emphasise that while the TTIP negotiations consist of negotiations on three main areas – ambitiously improving reciprocal market access (for goods, services, investment and public procurement at all levels of government), reducing NTBs and enhancing the compatibility of regulatory regimes, and developing common rules to address shared global trade challenges and opportunities – all these areas are equally important to be included in a comprehensive package; TTIP should be ambitious and binding on all levels of government on both sides of the Atlantic, the agreement should lead to lasting, fair, genuine market openness on a reciprocal basis and trade facilitation on the ground, and should pay particular attention to structural means of achieving greater transatlantic cooperation while upholding regulatory standards and preventing social and environmental dumping, including through a structured system of pre and post impact assessment and evaluation procedures, including a precise gender assessment;
Amendment 307 #
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, raw materials, energy, agricultural products, services and public procurement is equally important in all cases and a balance is needed between the different proposals for these areas;
Amendment 321 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point ii
Paragraph 1 – point b – point ii
(ii) to aim at the elimination of all duty tariffs, while respecting sensitive products on both sides; on sensitive products, asks the Commission to provide an assessment of the concessions undertaken in all agreements already concluded and those under negotiation; sensitive products should be subject to a special and differential treatment which should consist on either maintaining the current tariff lines or excluding them from the negotiations;
Amendment 339 #
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 areaensure that the TTIP will in no way compromise Protocol No 26 TFEU which states that the shared values of the European Union in respect of services of general economic interest include in particular: the essential role and the wide discretion of national, regional and local authorities in providing, commissioning and organising services of general economic interest as closely as possible to the needs of the users; the diversity between various services of gengineering, telecommunications and transport serviceeral economic interest and the differences in the needs and preferences of users that may result from different geographical, social or cultural situations; a high level of quality, safety and affordability, equal treatment and the promotion of universal access and of user rights;
Amendment 363 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point iv
Paragraph 1 – point b – point iv
(iv) to increase market access for servicesensure that negotiations on services liberalisation must be pursued according to the ‘´positive list approach’ ‘whereby services that are to be opened up to foreign companies are explicitly mentioned and new services are excluded 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 controlo which liberalisation commitments apply are explicitly mentioned; the use of any form of ´negative list approach ‘and the incorporation of standstill and ratchet clauses is rejected;
Amendment 397 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point vi
Paragraph 1 – point b – point vi
(vi) to ensure an adequate carve-out of sexplicit exclusion of public services from the scope of application of TTIP as referred to in article 14 TFEU, through the introduction of an extensitive services such as public services and public utiliticarve-out in the core text of the agreement of all public services, current and future, covering all non-economic Services of General Interest as well as Services of General Economic Interest (including water, healthbut not limited to water, health, social services, social security systems and education) allowing, to ensure that national and local authorities enough room for manoeuvre to legislate in retain the full ability to introduce, adopt, maintain or repeal any measures with regards to the commissioning, organisation, funding and provision of public services as provided in article 106 TFEU and Protocol 26 TFEU; this exclusion should apply whether the services in question are organised as a monopoly, operating under exclusive rights or otherwise, and whether public interest; aly and privately funded and/or organised; notes the joint declaration reflecting negotiators’' clear commitment to exclude these sectors from the negotiations would be very helpful in this regard; ;
Amendment 411 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point vi a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point b – point vi a (new)
(via) in particular, to adhere to the provisions of Article 168 TFEU: "Union action shall respect the responsibilities of the Member States for the definition of their health policy and for the organisation and delivery of health services and medical care. The responsibilities of the Member States shall include the management of health services and medical care and the allocation of the resources assigned to them;
Amendment 427 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point vii
Paragraph 1 – point b – point vii
(vii) to combine market access negotiations on financial services with convergence in financial regulation on the highest level, in order to support the introduction of necessary regulation to prevent financial crises and in order to support ongoing cooperation efforts in other international forums, such as the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision; to ensure that these cooperation efforts do not limit the EU and member states regulatory and supervisory sovereignty, including their ability to ban certain financial products and activities;
Amendment 445 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point viii
Paragraph 1 – point b – point viii
(viii) to ensure that the EU’s acquis on data privacy is not compromised through the liberalisation of data flows, in particular in the area of e-commerce and financial services; to ensure that no commitments on data flows are taken up before European data protection legislation is in place; to guarantee that any possible commitment taken on data flow is matched by extensive provisions on local presence and local content; therefore, recommends that the Commission takes immediate action to incorporate in the agreement a comprehensive, unambiguous and legally binding horizontal clause that fully exempts EU rules on the protection of personal data from all chapters of TTIP, with a reference to Article XIV of the GATS, and without any condition;
Amendment 453 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point viii a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point b – point viii a (new)
(viiia) to aim at the mutual recognition of professional qualifications in order to enable EU and US professionals to practice on either side of the Atlantic and to facilitate mobility of investors, professionals, high-skilled workers and technicians between the EU and the US in sectors covered by TTIP;
Amendment 472 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point x
Paragraph 1 – point b – point x
(x) to keep in mind that, as specified in the mandate, the agreement shouldall not riskcontain any provisions that prejudicinge the Union’'s cultural and linguistic diversity, including in; to therefore ensure that the audiovisual and cultural services sector, and thats well as existing and future provisions and policies in support of the cultural sector, in particular in the digital world, are kept out of the scope of the negotiations in accordance with the principle of technological neutrality, are kept out of the scope of the negotiations; to exclude subsidies or government support to audiovisual, educational and cultural services and its industries, including "digital products", from any commitments taken in chapters related to telecommunication, investment or e- commerce;
Amendment 489 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point xi
Paragraph 1 – point b – point xi
(xi) to ensurake an ambitious approach to the tchat account is taken of the discrepancies in thepter on public procurement, with a view to remedying, in line with the principle of reciprocity, the major disparity currently existing in the degree of openness of the two public procurement markets on both sides of the Atlantic andand to significantly opening up the US market, still ruled under the Buy American Act of 1933 on the basis of the international undertakings entered into under the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) and of the removal of the restrictions currently applying at federal, state and administrative level alike in the United States; emphasises, in particular, the need to guarantee that undertakings entered into by the US federal authorities will be honoured at all political and administrative levels; to ensure that account is taken of the huge interest on the part of European companies in obtaining, notably SMEs, in obtaining non- discriminatory access to public contracts in the US both at federal and state level, for example for construction services, traffic infrastructure and goods and services while respecting sustainability criteria for procurement on both sides, inter alia; to ensure the compliance of the chapter with the new EU public procurement and concession package entering into force in 2016directives, notably as regards the definition of public-cooperation, exclusions, SMEs access and the use of the MEAT criteria;
Amendment 491 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point xi
Paragraph 1 – point b – point xi
(xi) to ensure that account is taken of thtake into account that while discrepancies in the openness of public procurement markets on both sides of the Atlantic and the huge interest on the part of European companies in obtaining access to public contracts in the US both at federal and state leexist a further opening of public procurement markets would reduce policy space for governments as public procurement can be an important means to promote macro-economic objectivels, for example for construction services, traffic infrastructure and goods and services while respecting sustainabilitysuch as local development; in any case it must be unequivocally ensured that the application of social and environmental criteria for public procurement on both sides, inter alia the new EU procurement and concession package entering into force in 2016and the right to ´in-house’ provision as well as inter-municipal cooperation on both sides will not be restricted;
Amendment 507 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point xii
Paragraph 1 – point b – point xii
(xii) to ensure that public authorities have the opportunity to adopt socially and ecologically responsible procurement policies, and that procurement provisions do not hinder the ability of public authorities to address societal and environmental needs; to ensure that public procurement policies are kept in line with ILO Convention 94 regarding labour clauses in public contracts; to promote EU-US cooperation at the international level in order to promote sustainability standards for public procurement, inter alia in the implementation of the recently revised Government Procurement Agreement;
Amendment 524 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point xiv
Paragraph 1 – point b – point xiv
(xiv) to ensure that the negotiations on rules of origin aim at reconciling the EU and US approaches; givenwhile guaranteeing the cnonclusion of the negotiations for the Comprehensive Economic and T-cumulation of already granted concessions in other trade Aagreement (CETA) between EU and Canada and the potential upgrade of the EU-Mexico free trade agreement, the possibility and scope of cumulation will need to be considereds in order not to weaken the protection of sensitive products;
Amendment 546 #
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 EUsecures the highest level of protection of health and safety including food safety and quality, consumer, labour and environmental legislation and of the cultural diversity that exists within the EU while promoting an effective, pro- competitive economic environment through the facilitation of trade and investment; to reject any downward harmonisation of standards, or the mutual recognition of non-equivalent standards; to ensure that regulatory cooperation does not undermine the state's right to regulate; to ensure that the process of regulatory cooperation is designed in the most transparent and inclusive way possible, involving in particular social partners; negotiators on both sides need to identify and to be very clear about which regulatory meastechnical procedures 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 talks; negotiators should ensure that regulatory cooperation will not translate in a slowdown of legislative processes and that it will not cover sectors excluded from the negotiation nor national or sub-central regulatory acts;
Amendment 560 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c – point i a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point c – point i a (new)
(ia) to take into account the fact that non- tariff barriers (NTBs) constitute one of the main issues in the negotiations for the EU; to ensure that negotiations in this area are conducted with the highest standards of transparency, including an inventory of all NTBs that are likely to be lifted by the agreement; recalls that certain non-tariff barriers in Europe are directly linked to European citizens' collective preferences and lifestyles, and should therefore be kept;
Amendment 569 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c – point ii
Paragraph 1 – point c – point ii
(ii) to base negotiations on SPS and TBT measures on the key principles of the multilateral SPS and TBT agreements; to aim in the first place at increasing transparency and openness, strengthening dialogue between regulators and strengthening cooperation in international standards-setting bodies; to recognise, in negotiations on SPS and TBT measures, the right of both parties to assess and to manage risk in accordance with the level either deems appropriate in order to protect human, animal or plant life or health; to respect and uphold the sensitivities and fundamental values of either side, such as the EU’s precautionary principleensure the consideration of other legitimate factors than risk assessment in food policy making, such as the farm to fork approach, and to verify, control and audit the implementation of their own SPS standards; to respect and uphold the sensitivities and fundamental values of either side, such as the EU’s precautionary principle and to ensure that parties will preserve the right to conduct a hazard- based approach, particularly with regards to cosmetics and chemicals;
Amendment 593 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c – point iii
Paragraph 1 – point c – point iii
(iii) with regard to the horizontal regulatory cooperation chapter, to give priority to fostering bilateral cooperation between regulatory bodies through enhanced information exchange and to promote the adoption, strengthening and timely implementation of international instruments, on the basis of successful international experiences such as, for instance, ISO standards or under the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe’'s (UNECE) World Forum for Harmonisation of Vehicle Regulations (WP.29); to establish that the prior impact assessment for the regulatory act, as defined in the horizontal provisions on regulatory cooperation, should also measure and prioritise the impact on consumers and, the environment next toand gender relations over its impact on trade and investment; to handle the possibility of promoting regulatory compatibility with great care and only without compromising legitimate regulatory and policy objectives;
Amendment 610 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c – point v
Paragraph 1 – point c – point v
(v) to fully respect the established regulatory systems on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as the European Parliament’'s role within the EU’'s decision-making process and its democratic scrutiny over EU regulatory processes when creating the framework for future cooperation while at the same time being vigilant about a balanced involvement of stakeholders within the consultations included in the development of a regulatory proposal; in order to avoid that neither Party exercise any veto power before any regulatory proposal has been officially tabled by the other Party; to specify the role, the composition and the legal quality of the Regulatory Cooperation Council, taking into consideration that any direct and compulsory application of its recommendations would imply a breach of the law-making procedures laid down in the Treaties; to also oversee that it fully preserve the capacity of national, regional and local authorities to legislate their own policies, in particular social and environmental policies;
Amendment 634 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point ii
Paragraph 1 – point d – point ii
(ii) to ensure that the sustainable development chapter is binding and enforceable and aims at the full and effective ratification, implementation and enforcement of the eight fundamental conventions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and their content, the ILO’s Decent Work Agenda and the core international environmental agreements; provisions should be aimed at improving levels of protection of labour and environmental standards; an ambitious trade and sustainable development chapter should also include rules on corporate social responsibility based on the Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and a clearly structured civil society involvement;
Amendment 640 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point ii
Paragraph 1 – point d – point ii
(ii) to ensure that the sustainable development chapter aims atis binding and enforceable and makes the full and effective ratification, implementation and enforcement of the eight fundamental conventions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and their content, the ILO’s Decent Work Agenda and the core international environmental agreements a condition of the agreement; provisions should be aimed at improving levels of protection of labour and environmental standards; an ambitious trade and sustainable development chapter should also include rules on corporate social responsibility based on the Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and a clearly structured civil society involvement;
Amendment 649 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point iv
Paragraph 1 – point d – point iv
(iv) to ensure that labour and environmental standards are made enforceable, by building on the good experience of the EU-Korea free trade agreement and good and effective practices in the US’s free trade agreements and national legislation; to ensure that the implementation of and compliance with labour provisions is subjected to an effective monitoring process, involving social partners and civil society representatives; to ensure that the trade and sustainable development chapter is subject to the general dispute settlement mechanism contained in the future agreement;
Amendment 653 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point iv a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point d – point iv a (new)
(iva) requests the inclusion of a human rights clause used in many agreements to ensure that the principles of human rights and democracy are applied.
Amendment 656 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point iv b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point d – point iv b (new)
(ivb) stresses that trade agreements must under no circumstances be allowed to undermine labour and social law and collective agreement provisions. Possible negotiations on mode IV must be bound to functioning cross-border cooperation in administration and justice in Labour and Employment Law issues as a condition for the guarantee of collective agreement wages and working conditions. It must be possible to make any lack of enforcement by the contractual parties subject to dispute settlement including sanctions.
Amendment 665 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point v a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point d – point v a (new)
(va) to ensure that the place of work principle is guaranteed. National labour and social law as well as collective agreement provisions must be upheld in the case of temporary posting and placement of workers; the conditions of temporary postings and placement should be well defined in TTIP;
Amendment 669 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point vi
Paragraph 1 – point d – point vi
(vi) to ensure that the economic, social, territorial and environmental impact of TTIP is examined through a thoroughcomprehensive trade sustainability impact assessment with clear involvement, consultation and participation of stakeholders and civil society, as well as local and regional authorities; asks the Commission to conduct comparative in- depth impact studies for each Member States;
Amendment 681 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point vii
Paragraph 1 – point d – point vii
(vii) to ensure that in course of the negotiations the two sides examine ways to facilitate natural gas and oil exports, so that TTIP would abolish any existing export restrictions on energy between the two trading partners, thereby supporting a diversification of energy sources aiding the development a more secure energy mix;
Amendment 697 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point viii
Paragraph 1 – point d – point viii
(viii) to ensure that the right of either partner to govern the exploration and exploitation of energy sources as well as the right to govern production of energy remains untouched by any agreement, but that non- discrimination is applied once exploitation is decided; to keep in mind that nothing in the agreement should undermine legitimate national collective preferences, such as the prohibition of hydraulic fracturing, in accordance with the precautionary principle; access to raw materials as well as to energy should also be granted on a non-discriminatory basis for companies from either the EU or the US and quality standards for energy products must be respected;
Amendment 704 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point ix
Paragraph 1 – point d – point ix
(ix) to ensure that TTIP supports the use and promotion of green goods and services, thereby tapping into the considerable potential for environmental and economic gains offered by the transatlantic economytransition to a low-carbon, secure and competitive energy system. The transition of the energy system will only be possible with a significant development of renewable energy sources and reduction of energy demand through energy efficiency, thereby tapping into the considerable potential for creating new jobs in the "green economy", fostering economic growth and protecting the environment;
Amendment 714 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point x
Paragraph 1 – point d – point x
(x) to ensure that TTIP serves as a forum for the development of common ambitious sustainability standards for energy production, always taking into account and adhering to existing standards on both sides; to steps up efforts for research and innovation, including in Energy R&I, and explore ways of cooperating with large scale energy research and development projects, such as the U.S, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), to help increase energy innovation in this field for both sides; to ensure that TTIP also serves as a forum for the exchange of knowledge and information to collect data and address barriers hindering the uptake of low- carbon and environmentally friendly technologies;
Amendment 735 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point xii
Paragraph 1 – point d – point xii
(xii) to ensure that, should TTIP contains a comprehensive chapter on investment it includinges provisions on both market access and investment protection; thean investment chapter should aim at ensuring non- discriminatory treatment for the establishment of European and US companies in each other’s territory, while taking account of the sensitive nature of some specific sectors; it should also address investors' obligations and responsibilities by referring, inter alia, to the OECD principles for multinational enterprises, the OECD Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) action plan and to the UN principles on Business and human rights as benchmarks;
Amendment 745 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point xiii
Paragraph 1 – point d – point xiii
(xiii) to ensure that investment protection provisions are limited to post- establishment provisions and focus on non- discrimination and fair and equitable treatment; standards of protection and definitions of investor and investment should be drawn up in a precise manner; stresses that substantive provisions shall, inter alia, protect the right to regulate in the public interest, clarify the meaning of indirect expropriation and prevent unfounded or frivolous claims; free transfer of capital should be in line with the EU treaty provisions and should include a prudential carve-out in the case of financial crises;
Amendment 762 #
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 withoutle benefiting from no greater rights than domestic investors; to oppose the inclusion of an ISDS mechanism; 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 disputin TTIP, as other options to enforce investment protection are available, such as domestic remedies;
Amendment 791 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point xv
Paragraph 1 – point d – point xv
(xv) to ensure that TTIP includes an ambitious balanced Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) chapter that includes stronga limited amount of protection of precisely and clearly defined areas of IPR, including enhanced protection and recognition 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 by ensuring affordable prices for medicines, medical devices and health services; to ensure that patents are excluded from diagnostic, therapeutic and chirurgical methods; to ensure strong protection and recognition of European Geographical Indications (GIs), which guarantee the origin and the full traceability of products for consumers and protect the know-how of producers;
Amendment 803 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point xv a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point d – point xv a (new)
(xva) to include in the negotiations the agreement on wine between the EU and the United States concluded in 2006, and to remove in this sectoral agreement the 17 designations on semi-generic names;
Amendment 826 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point e – point i
Paragraph 1 – point e – point i
(i) to continue ongoing efforts to increase transparency in the negotiations by making more negotiation proposals available to the general publicimplement all the recommendations of the European Ombudsman to further enhance the legitimacy and transparency of the negotiating process by fully complying with the rules on public access to documents; to continue ongoing efforts to increase transparency in the negotiations by making more negotiation proposals available more proactively and comprehensively to the general public on its website, and by ensuring more balanced and transparent public participation;
Amendment 836 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point e – point ii
Paragraph 1 – point e – point ii
(ii) to translate these transparency efforts into meaningful practical results, inter alia by reaching meaningful arrangements with the US side to improve transparency, including access to all negotiating documents, inter alia consolidated texts and minutes from meetings, in order to allow Members of Parliament and the Member States to develop constructive discussions with stakeholders and the public; parties to the negotiations should justify any request not to disclose a negotiating proposal;
Amendment 844 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point e – point iii
Paragraph 1 – point e – point iii
(iii) to promote an even closer engagement with the Member States with the aim of forging their active involvement in better communicating the scope and the possible benefitimplications of the agreement for European citizens and in order to ensure a broad, fact-based public debate on TTIP in Europe with the aim of exploring the genuine concerns surrounding the agreement;
Amendment 860 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point e – point iv a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point e – point iv a (new)
(iva) to fully involve National Parliaments and keep them regularly informed on the negotiations, especially since, given the scope of the ambition for the agreement, it is likely TTIP will be considered a 'mixed- type' agreement and thus require a ratification process in EU Member States including, in some cases, at the regional level;