Activities of Elmar BROK related to 2014/2228(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) (debate) DE
Negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) (debate) DE
Amendments (12)
Amendment 8 #
i.) to specify the role and the legal quality of the Regulatory Cooperation Council’'s findings, taking into consideration that any direct application of its recommendations for the relevant EU instances would imply a breach of the law-making procedures laid down in the Treaties; As TTIP is expected to be a ‘living agreement’, to which additional sectoral annexes may be added in the future, it is appropriate to ensure that this mechanism will guarantee the possibility for parliamentary oversight so as to ensure that the EP and the US Congress are informed, and that they can initiate and shape the regulatory dialogue foreseen by TTIP, respecting the legislative parliamentary rights.
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point i
Paragraph 1 – point i
i) to ensurdetermine that TTIP will make a significant positive contribution to creating more and better jobs and set ambitious global trade standards for sustainable development and labour;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1. - Point (d) - Subpoint (ii.)
Paragraph 1. - Point (d) - Subpoint (ii.)
ii.) while the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) is an appropriate tool to protect investors and assure that investments are treated in a fair and non- discriminatory way, to oversee that it does not undermine the capacity of European, national and local authoritieparliaments to legislate their own policies, in particular social and environmental policies, and therefore respect the constitutional framework of the Member States and the EU;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point ii
Paragraph 1 – point ii
ii) to ensure that TTIP includes comprehensivdoes not contravene the provisions on labour laws and policies that are consistent withof 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 also have a conditional dimension;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1- Point (e) -subpoint (iv.)
Paragraph 1- Point (e) -subpoint (iv.)
iv) to implement the recommendations of the European Ombudsman from 6 January 2015 to further enhance the legitimacy and transparency of the negotiating process by fully complying with the rules on public access to documents, by making available relevant documents on its website more proactively and comprehensively, and by ensuring more balanced and transparent public participation by their national parliaments;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1.- Point (e) -subpoint (iv.) - b (new)
Paragraph 1.- Point (e) -subpoint (iv.) - b (new)
iv)b - to check legally what a mixed-type agreement is and what it means politically
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point iii
Paragraph 1 – point iii
iii) to ensure that the horizontal dimensions ofexisting labour and social provisions are recognised and fully integrated into all relevant operational parts of the agreementof partner countries and of the EU are recognised and safeguarded to ensure a coherent and comprehensive approach to trade and sustainable development;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point iv
Paragraph 1 – point iv
iv) to ensure thatwork towards a situation where civil society can also make a meaningful contribution to implementing relevant TTIP provisions;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point v
Paragraph 1 – point v
v) to take immediate steps to safeguard the right of EU governments and of the US government to legislate, organise, set quality and safety standards for, manage and regulate public services;
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point vii
Paragraph 1 – point vii
vii) to take steps to promote the uptake of create incentives for voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR), which must be additional to and not replace existing labour and environmental laws;
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point viii
Paragraph 1 – point viii
viii) to guarantee that agreement on any dispute-settlement mechanism must take into accountconsideration the results of the public consultation on investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), must be fully transparent and democratically accountable, must retain the possibility of dealing with the disputes in court and must not hinder legislators from passing and enforcing laws in the area of employment policy for their countries;
Amendment 125 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point ix
Paragraph 1 – point ix
ix) to take steps to embed a ‘posinegative listing’ approach in the agreement;