4 Amendments of Patrizia TOIA related to 2017/0224(COD)
Amendment 79 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)
Recital 7 a (new)
(7a) In assessing the mechanism for controlling foreign direct investment, care should be taken to verify the proper functioning of the internal market through measures to prevent downward competition between companies and between Member States regarding tax and remuneration and reward socially responsible company purchasing policies that ensure sustained employment and decent pay.
Amendment 85 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8 a (new)
Recital 8 a (new)
(8a) It is necessary to ensure that the European industrial sector can compete on a fair and equal footing at global level, ensuring reciprocity also in public procurement and, more generally, in all trade relations. These reciprocal conditions must also be guaranteed with regard to direct investments inside the EU.
Amendment 109 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) A mechanism which enables Member States to cooperate and assist each other where a foreign direct investment in one Member State may affect the security or public order of other Member States should be set up. Member States should be able to provide comments to a Member State in which the investment is planned or has been completed, irrespective of whether the Member States providing comments or the Member States in which the investment is planned or has been completed maintain a screening mechanism or are screening the investment. The comments of Member States should also be forwarded to the Commission. The Commission should also have the possibility, where appropriate, for example if asked to do so by a Member State, to issue an opinion to the Member State in which the investment is planned or has been completed, irrespective of whether this Member State maintains a screening mechanism or is screening the investment and irrespective of whether other Member States have provided comments.
Amendment 287 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Where a Member State considers that a foreign direct investment is likely to affect projects or programmes of Union interest, it shall ask the Commission shall issue an opinion addressed to the Member State in which the foreign direct investment is planned.