21 Amendments of Christofer FJELLNER related to 2017/2015(INI)
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)
Recital -A (new)
-A. whereas trade policy serves to promote mutually beneficial economic growth but can at the same also a tool to promote other values of the European Union such as the equality between women and men;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas trade policiesy should aim to reduce socio-economic gaps between the Global North and the Global South in terms of development and wealth, and between women and men, and realise women’s rights by ensuring decent work conditions for women, among other things, to reduce poverty and low development in the Global South, reduce economic inequality between women and men, and contributinge to sustainable and equitable economic development;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that fair and inclusive international trade policiesy require a clearer framework aiming to enhance women’s livelihoods, strengthen gender equality, protect the environment, and promote social justice and international solidarityinternational economic development;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that the overarching purpose of trade policy must be to promote mutually beneficial economic growth; recalls that while trade policy can promote other values that the European Union is pushing for in the multilateral arena there are limits to which global issues that can be solved through trade policy and through trade agreements;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines the urgent need to adopt gender-sensitive binding human rights regulations on an international level to regulate transnational companies (TNCs) and other companies; wWelcomes the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. InsistRecalls that all international trade agreements mustshould include safeguard clauses enabling the contracting parties to regulate and also reverse liberalisation in ordergeneral exceptions allowing parties to take proportionate and non-discriminatory measures to protect fundamental objectives such as gender equality, human right, human rights, fundamental freedoms, public health and, environmental sustainability and essential security interests;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines the need to recognise the rat investment protection mechaniskms inherent in trade BITs and investment agreements mechanisms such as ISDS and ICS, which undermine the capacity of individual governments to change their laws to include measures to promote gender equality, stronger labour and consumer rights and advancement in environmental policiesust include provisions that ensure that measures taken to protect the public interest and that would not constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination cannot constitute de-facto expropriation ;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that IPR provisions in trade can have a significant impact onn impact on public health, including women’'s health which mustshould be taken carefully into consideration;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Underlines that basic public services and goods, such as water andliberalisation of services and public procurement in trade agreements should not infringe on parties' ability to regulate water, sanitation, education and healthcare (notably access toincluding sexual and reproductive health and rights services), should be exempted from the opening up of public procurement and the trade liberalisation agenda, and that safeguards must be put in place to reinforce states’ capacities to provide basic services for all) services according to the public interest;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Insists that binding instruments are needed in EU trade policy to ensure that decent work standards, women’s rights, human rights principles and environmental protection are at the core of all types ofincluded in EU trade agreements and that EU trade policy is coherent with the Union’s overarching aims of sustainable development, poverty reduction and gender equality;
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for all EU trade agreements to include binding clauses, in the form of a stand-alone article,provisions that promote and protect women’s rights, gender equality and gender mainstreaming, based on the Beijing Platform for Action and the SDGs, with an appropriate body appointed or an explicit mechanism in place to monitor compliance;
Amendment 288 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
Amendment 296 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls for EU trade agreements to include provisions on labour and environmental aspects of trade and sustainable development of relevance in a trade and foreign direct investment context, encompassing provisions that promote adherence to and effective implementation of relevant internationally agreed principles and rules, including the core labour standards and fundamental conventions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO); recalls that effective implementation of these standards and conventions can have a positive impact on working conditions for women in the EU and in third countries;
Amendment 301 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. AcknowledgeRecalls that the EU’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) and GSP+ systems need tocan be improved by linking economic incentives to the effective adoption and constant monitoring of core human, gender and labour rights conventions; welcomes the Commission's mid-term evaluation of the GSP in this regard;
Amendment 311 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17