17 Amendments of Christofer FJELLNER related to 2015/2233(INI)
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the TiSA negotiations are aimedim at achieving better international regulationconditions for market access and promoting best practices and standards, not lowering domestic regulation;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas any trade agreement must provide more jobs, more rights and lower prices to European consumers and level the playing field for European companies;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the globalisation, servicification and digitalisation both of our economies and of international trade call for policy action to enhance international rulehave spurred unprecedented economic growth and can lead to the globalisation of standards;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas citizens’ trust in EU’s trade policy is a must, which can only be restormaintained by ensuring the highest level of transparency, by maicontainuing constant dialogue with civil society, and by setting clear guidelines in the negotiations;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas data protection is not an economic burden, but a source of economic growth; whereas restorof utmost importance, but can be an economic burden if inappropriately implemented due to hidden protectionism and overburdening bureaucracy; whereas strengthening trust in the digital world is crucial; whereas data flows are indispensable to trade in services;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a – point vii
Paragraph 1 – point a – point vii
vii. to propose specific safeguards for tourists, inter alia in order to strengthen passenger rights, to make international roaming fees transparent, and to limit the abusive fees charged to consumers using their credit cards outside Europe;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point ii
Paragraph 1 – point b – point ii
ii. to ensure reciprocity at all levels; to condition any further commitments beyond the EU’s current level of openness on the other parties’ proportionate offers; to support the use of horizontal commitment- related provisions as a means to set a common level of ambitions, and to take note that such minimum requirements would set clear parameters for countries interested in participating;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point iii
Paragraph 1 – point b – point iii
iii. to exclude the provision of new services from the EU’s commitmentsfuture-proof the agreement to ensure that new services can be included at a later stage;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point v
Paragraph 1 – point b – point v
v. to undertake limited commitments in Mode 1 so as to avoid regulatory arbitrage and social dumping; to ensure that European rules are fully respected when a company provides a service from abroad to European consumersllow cross-border supply of services to facilitate the digitalisation and servicification of the economy, acknowledging that such commitments can only be fruitful in an appropriately regulated environment;
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point vii
Paragraph 1 – point b – point vii
vii. to take a cautiousomprehensive approach in Mode 4, while bearing in mind thatas the EU has an clear offensive interest in the inward and outward movement of highly-skilled labour; to acknowledge that the labour clause maintains the legal obligation of foreign service providers to comply with EU and Member State social and labour legislation, as well as with collective agreements; to enter into ambitious commitments for those cases which underpin Mode 3 commitments;
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point xi
Paragraph 1 – point b – point xi
xi. to ensure, in line with Article 167(4) TFEU and with the UNESCO Convention on the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions, that the parties preserve their right to adopt or mainta that the Union and its Member States maintain the possibility to preserve and develop their capacity to define any measure with respect to the protection or promotion of cultural and linguistic diversity; to explicitly exclude audiovisual services, media and publishing from the scope of the agreement, irrespective of the technology or distribution platform usedd implement cultural and audiovisual policies for the purposes of preserving their cultural diversity;
Amendment 322 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c – point -i (new)
Paragraph 1 – point c – point -i (new)
-i. to ensure that TiSA is in alignment with the EU's previous commitments, allowing for the full functioning of the digital ecosystem, and promoting the cross-border data flows processed for legitimate purposes; to ensure that provisions under TiSA shall not prevent service suppliers of the parties or customers of those suppliers from electronically transferring information internally or across borders, accessing publicly available information, or accessing their own information stored in other countries; to ensure that TiSA prohibits any requirements on ICT service suppliers to use local infrastructure, or establish a local presence, as a condition of supplying services;
Amendment 337 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c – point ii
Paragraph 1 – point c – point ii
ii. to acknowledge that data protection is not a trade barrier, but a fundamental right, enshrined in Article 39 TEU and Article 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, as well as in Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but can be abused to create illegitimate trade barriers, as seen with some of our trading partners; to acknowledge that GATS Article XIV, which fully exempts the existing and future EU legal framework for the protection of personal data from these negotiations, will be replicated in the TiSA core text;
Amendment 371 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c – point vi
Paragraph 1 – point c – point vi
vi. to ensure that the provisions of the final agreement are consistent with existing and future legislation at EU level, including the Connected Continent Package, the General Data Protection Regulation and the 16 measures embedded in the communication on the Digital Single Market; to safeguard net neutrality and to guarantee that the EU retains its ability to limit the transfer of personal data from the EU to third countries where the rules of the third party do not meet EU adequacy standards and where alternative avenues, such as binding corporate rules or standard contractual clauses, are not used by companies;
Amendment 409 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point iv
Paragraph 1 – point d – point iv
iv. to oppose any provisions regarding visas and other entry procedures except those aimed at increasinge transparency and to streamlininge administrative procedures; to set requirements to ensure that temporary service providers return home for visa applications;
Amendment 449 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point e – point v
Paragraph 1 – point e – point v
v. while stressing the need to increase worldwide access to financial services, to exclude cross-border financial services from the EU’s commitments until there is convergence in financial regulation at the highest level, except in very limited and justified casto strive for a convergence in financial regulation at the highest level, whilst stressing the need to increase worldwide access to financial services;
Amendment 479 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f – point vi
Paragraph 1 – point f – point vi
vi. to strike the right balance betweenpromote the liberalisation of the competitive postal sector and the protection of national monopolies; therefore to prevent anti- competitive cross- subsidisation and to ensure the recognition of universal service obligations as defined by each party;