17 Amendments of Emmanuel MAUREL related to 2018/2262(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Takes note that a EU-Switzerland agreement has been initialled on 7 December 2018. Calls on the Commission to send the document agreed to Parliament without delay. Notes that the EU is Switzerland’s main trading partner, accounting for 52 % of its exports, and Switzerland is the EU’s third-largest trading partner, accounting for 7 % of its trade;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Stresses the need for European negociators to understand and to firmly take into account, while negociating and even after any agreement has been struked, that arrogance, threats and ultimatums will always lead to the opposite of the goals initially looked for »
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Notices that the Swiss Federal Council did not officially approve the so- called« Institutionnal Framework Agreement » and that it has decided, before any approval by the Swiss Parliament or the Swiss people themselves, to submit the draft agreement to national stakeholders, consistent with Swiss democratic traditions and constitionnal principles
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1 c. Protests vigorously against the lack of respect normally due to Members of the European Parliament by the Commission, which has not transmitted the draft agreement to the Committee for Foreign Affairs and to the Committee for International Trade, even though the document is finalized for more than two months
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1 d. Understands completly Swiss preventions against any attempt to undermine its social legislation, particularly Swiss laws known as « flanking measures », and calls for a very cautious examination on this issue from both parties, in order to reach a real « win-win » agreement,
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1 e. Notes that Switzerland is among the oldest European nations, known for long for its constant wish to preserve its independence, freedom and sovereignty, which has never prevented its people to trade with other countries and to share common values, especially with its neighbours;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 f (new)
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1 f. considers that no ratification of a framework agreement is possible only if Switzerland takes tough measures to be removed from the list of "non cooperative countries on fiscal issues";
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 g (new)
Paragraph 1 g (new)
1 g. considers that the EU should not request the application of the rule of free and undistorted competency and the prohibition of necessary subsidies;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Acknowledges the need for an Institutional Framework Agreement, as the EU-Switzerland relationship is based on a complex system of 120 sector-specific agreements, but that this agreement should not include the dismantling of the necessary social protections for Swiss and foreign workers, among others regarding the postponement of the age of retirement, the wages, or the reduction of the social security;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Is aware that there is no comprehensive services agreement in place between the EU and Switzerland and that services are only partially covered through the Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons (AFMP), showing that there and that the framework agreement initialled that has been leaked is pnotential for further development covering this gap; considers that the EU should not sign an agreement if Switzerland is not improving its treatment for migrants originated in the EU and putting an end to its national preference policy;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that Switzerland takes in the highest percentage of cross-border workers from the EU and calls on the EU and the Swiss Government to improve measures under the AFMP by including a ‘charter for cross-border workers’ that sets out binding provisions covering, inter alia, basic employment rights, working and commuting conditions, transfer of unemployment benefits and double taxation issues; deplores that according to the leaks documents the new agreement would reduce from 8 to 4 the delay for the announcement of posted workers, what is making impossible the surveillance of their working conditions, and would have a negative impact on the structure of the job market, and on salaries;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. calls on the parties to organize as soon as possible an interparliamentary meeting of legislators of both the EU and Switzerland parties in order to discuss all matters related to this agreement;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. . Understands that the new set of rules known as « dynamic update », which do not comply Switzerland to an « automatic update » of its legislation on matters adressed by the agreement, are nevertheless a serious move towards a jurisdictionnal integration of Swiss law into European law »
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9 b. Acknowledges the right included in the agreement for Switzerland to participate to the « decision shaping », without the right to participate to the « decision making », only granted to EU members.
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9 c. Expects that Switzerland, in case of a ratification of this agreement, will have to take tough and painful measures in order to deeply reform its State subsidies system »
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 d (new)
Paragraph 9 d (new)
9 d. Hopes that Switzerland is fully aware that by accepting such an important reform of its State subsidies for matters adressed by the agreement, it won’t have no other choice than progressively give them all up (except those allowed by European law) in the next moves made under the institutionnal framework »
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 e (new)
Paragraph 9 e (new)
9 e. Calls the European Council and the Commission to keep Switzerland part of the2021-2027 Program for Research and Innovation, even in the case of a refusal to approve the agreement within the end of spring »