11 Amendments of Andreas SCHWAB related to 2014/2228(INI)
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Insists, while respecting the freedom of governments to protect public services, that EU service providers must have full market access to liberalised services in the US, under transparent rules at both federal and sub-federal levels; calls for a legal framework to be created with federal states which have regulatory powers, in order in the long term to facilitate mutual recognition of professional qualifications in certain sectors in the federal state concerned;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. to keep in mind that TTIP should not endanger the high quality of EU public services and to use the same safeguarding measures found in other FTAs to protect them, notably by keeping the freedom for the EU and Member States to regulate;
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Make an exception for local authority measures under the CETA agreement and for the definition set out in the CETA agreement for social, education and health services for publicly-financed services to be incorporated in the TTIP;
Amendment 112 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Ensure that all provisions on public procurement and the award of concessions which have recently been brought up to date at EU level are complied with, in particular the exemption for the emergency services;
Amendment 116 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. with regard to the fact that public procurement represents a substantial part of the EU's and other trading partners' economies and therefore is a key economic interest for the EU, to underline that it must be part of any final comprehensive TTIP agreement;
Amendment 120 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Clarify that freedom to decide on the form of service provision remains unaffected and that the ratchet clause contained in the services chapter cannot therefore be applied to services awarded by the contracting authority to a private third party by means of a procurement contract and provided after the end of the contract by that authority as proprietary or in-house transactions;
Amendment 126 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that, while safeguarding the protection achieved by EU standards and regulations, TTIP should go beyond the WTO Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement, in areas such as conformity assessment, product requirements, or technical standards, as well as providing for transparency in the preparation and availability of technical regulations;
Amendment 133 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. to firmly defend the work of the EU in standardisation and to promote its principles, namely coherence, transparency, openness, consensus, voluntary application, independence from special interests and efficiency;
Amendment 139 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for the setting-up ofSet up an ambitious and effective cooperation mechanism aimed at creating common technical standards where possible in existing procedures, and to ensure that there is no unintended divergence in future standards in key sectors; in the believesf that EU-US common standards should be promoted inagreed and promoted in particular in innovative fields and all international forums;
Amendment 154 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Emphasises that in the ISO and IEC standardisation bodies, internationally agreed standards, where existing and up-to- date, should be adopted by the US and the EU, for example in the electronic devices sector;
Amendment 160 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Follow up on the objectives of common standard-setting while ensuring the consistency of the European standardisation mechanism, which is the basis for the internal market for goods and services, and at the same time take account of the fact that the US standardisation system gives a higher status to individual interests, which makes it difficult to bring it into line with the European mechanism;