Activities of Fiona HALL related to 2010/2301(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on EU and China: unbalanced trade?
Amendments (3)
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Takes the view that, as the world's largest market, the EU must also continue to be the world leader in terms of developing standards; calls, therefore, for all goods in circulation on the internal market to comply with EU social, environmental and health protection standards; calls on the Commission promptly to propose a scenario for the gradual introduction of a trade conditionality mechanism and/or border adjuurges the Member States to strengthen national market surveillance mechanisms to ensure that any goods that fail to meet the EU standards cannot be found on the EU market; calls on the Commission to assess whether a common EU approach on market surveillance could be appropriate to stmrent measuregthen the current monitoring provisions;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes the scale of Chinese investment in renewable energies, but stresses and energy efficiency, and calls for urgent action and greater commitment to ensure that the EU can still beremains at the cutting edge if it opts ton these fields by focusing its research efforts on rationalefficient resource management and the green economy and to invest in those areaby investing heavily in those areas; warns against the use of trade and investment barriers in green goods as such barriers represent an impediment to the growth of a genuinely global market in green and renewable technologies;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the EU and China to develop partnerships and a more effective exchange of best practice in relation to R&D and industrial cooperation in the various growth areas within the green economy, such as recycling, efficient management ofduced consumption, recycling, efficient and sustainable management of raw materials and rare earth elements throughout the economic cycle, renewable energies and energy efficiency; calls on the EU to step up its efforts to enhance its resource security by research into sustainable alternatives and a more effective implementation of the waste management hierarchy in industrial processes.