9 Amendments of Carl SCHLYTER related to 2007/2184(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the EU is well-advised to attaches the utmost importance to safeguarding what has so far been achieved by the multilateral trade system and remains firmly committed to the success of the Doha Round,
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to present, as soon as possible, a strongn initiative in Geneva with a view to relaunching this debate; calls on the Commission to make contact informally, in this regard, with other WTO members likely to support such an initiative and with the Director- General of that organisation, and to report to him, by the end of 2008, on the outcome of these consult, aimed at a WTO reform increasing both the democratic legitimacy and the efficiency of the organisations;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Points out that the WTO is the only global organisation with rule-setting functions that is not part of the family of UN organisations, which has negative consequences on the coherence of global trade rules with other globally decided policies, and thus greatly impedes WTO rule-setting that restricts itself to the remit of simple trade policy; calls on the Commission to put this structural dilemma high on the agenda of WTO reform;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Is of the opinion that the single most challenging requirement for consistency between the UN system and the WTO will be the need for the latter to ensure trade rules fully respect human rights law and social and environmental standards;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Suggests that the relevance and applicability of the multilateral trade rules in force should be subject to regular revision with a view to abolishing those which appear to be in conflict with evolving international human rights law, which are obsolete or inapplicable and those which do not meet, or no longer meet, the objectives governing their adoption;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses the importance of the parliamentary dimension of the WTO in order to enhance the democratic legitimacy and transparency of WTO negotiations; stresses the importance of the work done by the Parliamentary Conference on the WTO, which is organised jointly by the European Parliament and the Inter- Parliamentary Union, whose activities could be stepped upunderlines, however, that, ultimately, the legitimacy of the WTO can only derive from statutory changes that make the organisation part of the family of UN- agencies and subject its rule-setting to the basic rights as embodied in the UN Charters;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Considers that the recurrent question of the establishment of a kind of WTO ‘restricted Council’ or ‘Steering Committee’ to prepare and facilitate consensus-based decisions in the General Council should be looked into more closely; stresses that there is a strong need for such a body to be representative, accountable to the entire WTO membership and internally transparent;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Wishes to see the issue of the role of the WTO Secretariat and Director-General carefully considered; queries the limits of an excessively stringent application of, while upholding the principles of the management of the system by the governments of the member countries (the member-driven organisation concept);