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Activities of Robert STURDY related to 2010/0032(COD)

Plenary speeches (1)

Bilateral safeguard clause in the EU-Korea Free Trade Agreement (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2010/0032(COD)

Shadow reports (1)

REPORT Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council implementing the bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Korea Free Trade Agreement PDF (311 KB) DOC (409 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: INTA
Dossiers: 2010/0032(COD)
Documents: PDF(311 KB) DOC(409 KB)

Amendments (4)

Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)
(7a) The reliability of statistics about all imports from Korea to the EU is therefore crucial to determine the existence of a threat of serious injury to Union industry as a whole or its different sectors from the day of entry into force of the Agreement.
2010/06/10
Committee: INTA
Amendment 49 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 - paragraph c
(c) "threat of serious injury" means serious injury that is clearly imminent; a determination of the existence of a threat of serious injury shall be based on verifiable facts and not merely on allegation, conjecture or remote possibility; forecasts, estimations and analysis made on the basis of factors laid down in article 4, paragraph 5, shall inter alia, be admissible to determine theassess the proven existence of a threat of serious injury;
2010/06/10
Committee: INTA
Amendment 73 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 - paragraph 3 (new)
3. (a) For safeguard measures to be used effectively, the Commission (Eurostat) shall present a quarterly monitoring report to the European Parliament and the Council on updated statistics about imports from Korea impacting sensitive sectors in the EU as a result of the Agreement; (b) In case of a proven threat of injury reported to the Commission by the Union industry, the Commission may consider broadening the scope of the monitoring for other impacted sectors (interested parties);
2010/06/10
Committee: INTA
Amendment 125 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 b (new)
Article 11b Procedure for the application of Article 14 of the Rules of Origin Protocol 1. For the purpose of applying Article 14 (Drawback of, or exemption from, customs duties) of the Protocol concerning the definition of 'originating products' and methods of administrative co-operation of the Agreement (hereinafter the "Rules of Origin Protocol"), the Commission shall monitor closely the evolution of relevant import and export statistics both in value and as appropriate in quantities and regularly share these data with, and report its findings, to the European Parliament, the Council and the Union industries concerned. Monitoring will start from the time of provisional application and data will be shared on a bimonthly basis. In addition to the tariff lines included in Article 14(1) of the Agreement, the Commission will elaborate, in cooperation with the Union industry, a list of key tariff lines that are not specific for automotive, but important for car manufacturing and other related sectors. 2. Upon request of a Member State or on its own initiative the Commission shall immediately examine whether the conditions for invoking Article 14 of the Rules of Origin Protocol are met and report its findings within 10 working days of a request. Following consultations in the framework of the special committee to which Article 207(3), subparagraph 3 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union refers to, the Commission shall request consultations with Korea whenever the conditions of Article 14 of the Protocol of Rules of Origin are met. The Commission shall consider that the conditions are met, inter alia, when the thresholds mentioned in paragraph 3 are reached. 3. A difference of 10 percentage points shall be considered as "significant" for the purposes of application of paragraph 2.1(a) of Article 14 of the Rules of Origin Protocol when assessing the increased rate of imports of parts or components to/into Korea as compared with the increased rate of exports from Korea to the EU of finished products. An increase of 10% shall be considered as "significant" for the purposes of application of paragraph 2.1(b) of Article 14 of the Rules of Origin Protocol when assessing the increase of exports from Korea to the EU of finished products in absolute terms, or relative to domestic production. Increases below these thresholds may also be considered as "significant" on a case-by-case basis.
2010/06/10
Committee: INTA