Activities of Jean-Marie CAVADA related to 2018/2005(INI)
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Amendments (7)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
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1. Believes that Europe faces many challenges linked to globalisation, but it is important to adapt the texts in force in a measured way, on an area-by-area basis, with due respect for national identities and the principles of subsidiarity and proporglobalisation implies many advantages for businesses and citizens; at the same time, globalisation ality so as to take into account the fears expressed by a growing number of citizens about their futureso raises concerns, which need to be addressed by the European Union;
Amendment 9 #
2. Stresses that this adjustment should take place in at least four areas: the protection of intellectual property, the protection of protected geographical indications (PGIs), the taking into account of opinion 2/15 of 16 May 2017 of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and the possible creation of a multilateral court for the settlement of disputes relating to investmentinternational trade plays an important role in how globalisation develops; the legislator, in this regard, should pay special attention to the following areas of jurisdiction among others, which are subjected to international trade agreements: intellectual property rights, including copyright, trademarks and patents, data protection and enhanced transparency obligations, food safety requirements and environmental standards;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
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Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
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4. Stresses that, with regard to PGIs and agricultural Ge importance to further promote the European Union's scheme of geographical Iindications, or AGIs (including wine and cheese), the Union must be determined strictly to control the use of the traditional European designations of origin, especially in negotiating free trade agreementand traditional specialities and to continue concluding respective bilateral agreements with third countries;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
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5. Insists that oRecalls Opinion 2/15 of the CJEU be taken into account, in particular in that it offers a key for the clear divisourt of Justice of the European Union on the allocation of the competences between the European Union and the Member States, ands recalls that, as regards investment protection, the Courtgards the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and Singapore, which consicluders that the protection ofEuropean Union enjoys exclusive competences on all trade related matters except for non-direct foreign investment and the, investor-Sstate dispute settlement mechanism are a competence shared between the Union and the Member States, whereas the protection of direct investment fallresolution, covering all types of investments, and ancillary provisions regarding non-direct foreign investment; welcomes the Court opinion as it creates legal clarity for all future EU agreements within the exclusive competence ofird countries, including with the United Kingdom after its departure from the Union;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
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6. StIn order to addresses the need, in order to protect the public interest, to replace the arbitration courts with a multilateral court to settle investment disputes, and welcomes the fact that the Council has just adopted a negotiating mandate to this effect; limitations of the existing Investor State Dispute Settlement system, welcomes Council's recent mandate given to the European Commission to negotiate, on behalf of the European Union, a Convention establishing a multilateral court for the settlement of investment disputes (MIC); the MIC will serve as a permanent body to settle investment disputes and will be a more transparent, coherent and fair system, which will be extremely beneficial for investors; further welcomes in this regard that the Council has also decided to make the negotiation directives publicly available, which was a longstanding request by the European Parliament in its efforts to push for more transparency in the field of international negotiations;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
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7. Supports, in the light of the above,Welcomes Union initiatives likely to establish a fair and undistorted conditions of competition, without excluding reasonablebalance between undistorted competition and protection measures, such as those already decided on by the Union in the fight against dumping to limit imports of some Chinese producanti-dumping measures as regards third country imports.;