Activities of Thomas MANN related to 2014/2228(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) (debate) DE
Amendments (11)
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point i
Paragraph 1 – point i
i) to ensure that TTIP will make a significant positive contribution to safeguarding and creating more and better jobs in the EU and set ambitious global trade standards for sustainable development and labour; not only in Europe and the USA, but worldwide as best practice;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point ii
Paragraph 1 – point ii
ii) to guarantee, across all chapters of TTIP, that the agreement under no circumstances leads to the weakening, circumvention or invalidation of European Union standards in the following areas: workers’ rights, working conditions, social security, social inclusion and social protection, health and safety in the workplace, professional training, professional qualifications, free movement of workers and pensioners, social dialogue, antidiscrimination in the workplace and on the employment market; furthermore, 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 dimension;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point ii – point a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point ii – point a (new)
ii a) If final elements of the TTIP agreement should endanger or stand in the way of standards in these areas, the European Commission must inform the responsible Committee on Employment and Social Affairs of the European Parliament of this immediately in order to allow consultation to take place and decisions to be taken;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point iii
Paragraph 1 – point iii
iii) to ensure that the horizontal dimensions of labour and social provisions of the EU are recognised and fully integrated into all relevant operational parts of the agreement to ensure a coherent and comprehensive approach to trade and sustainable development; it should be strictly ensured that national licensing regulations for professions which have professional employment categories, as well as the master craftsman’s certificate, retain their binding nature;
Amendment 66 #
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 provisions; to this end, at the EU level a TTIP advisory committee should be set up, to which representatives of trade unions, social, environmental and consumer-protection organisations and of the cultural sphere will belong and which will consult on the further development and optimisation of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point iv a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point iv a (new)
iv a) is of the firm conviction that the contracting parties must undertake to apply the following ILO fundamental principles, as laid down in the ILO Declaration of 1 June 1998: freedom of association and the recognition of the right to collective bargaining; elimination of forced or compulsory labour; abolition of child labour, and elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point vi a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point vi a (new)
vi a) expects considerable benefits for small and medium-sized enterprises, in particular on account of the planned removal of non-tariff trade barriers and in the service sector;
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point vii
Paragraph 1 – point vii
vii) to take steps to promote the uptake of voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR), which must be additional to and not replace existing labour and environmental laws; in particular, SMEs must not be compelled to adopt CSR; their voluntary contribution is exemplary;
Amendment 105 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point vii a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point vii a (new)
vii a) expressly praises companies – in particular medium-sized companies – for their voluntary charitable CSR engagement and will also protect this and give it particular support in the context of TTIP; it is convinced that in a free society SMEs must not be forced to act in a charitable manner;
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point vii b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point vii b (new)
vii b) condemns corporate corruption and tax evasion; urges the Commission to include these issues in the debate about TTIP;
Amendment 116 #
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 notunder no circumstances restrict or hinder legislators from passing laws in the area of employment policyand social policy, and it must be examined how rules ensuring the impartiality of arbitrators can be developed;