8 Amendments of Georgios PAPASTAMKOS related to 2008/2063(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Strongly supports the effective promotion of non-trade concerns, such as the observance of environmental, social and food safety standards, through the pursuit of the CCP at the bilateral, interregional and multilateral level;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Asks for the inclusion of specific paragraphs in such a renewed Framework Agreement that call on the Commission: a. to react to the preconditions Parliament may set for giving its consent to the conclusion of a trade agreement before effectively starting the negotiations; b. to provide Parliament with all the necessary information relating to the CCP and the negotiation of commercial agreements or the negotiation of the commercial components of any agreement, including all proposals and draft proposals for negotiating mandates and/or directives, in sufficient time for Parliament to be able to express its views and for the Commission to be able to take due account of those views; c. with regard to the transparency of operations of the Article 188 N TFEU Committee, to make available all documents to the Parliament’s relevant Committee; d. to include an observer delegation from the Parliament in any negotiation on commercial agreements or commercial components of any other international agreement;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Considers that the wording ‘measures defining the framework for implementing the common commercial policy’ in Article 188 C (2) TFEU implies that the essential elements of the CCP will be included in legislative acts adopted under the ordinary legislative procedure, and that non- essential elements of these acts may be amended or supplemented by the Commission in the form of ‘delegated acts’, if so stated in the basic legislative act, in accordance with Article 249 B TFEU;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Notes that with respect to ‘delegated acts’ the Parliament will have considerable powers, which could go as far as objecting to the entry into force of the delegated act in question, if the main co-decided act so provides;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Considers that uniform conditions for implementing legislative acts in the CCP require the legislative acts to confer implementing powers on the Commission for adopting ‘implementing acts’, in accordance with Article 249 C TFEU; therefore urges Parliament and Council to adopt, before the entry into force of the Treatythe Commission to propose, as soon as possible, a regulation laying down the rules and general principles on implementing acts, and urges the Council to adopt this regulation, as soon as possible after the entry into force of the Treaty;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Stresses that this regulation should call on the Commission to refrain from making substantive changes to basic legislative acts, or from adding details affecting the political will expressed in basic legislative acts, when adopting implementing legislation in the CCP;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the Council to invite Parliament’s representatives to participate in all Coreper II meetings that deal with matters falling within the scope of the ordinary legislative procedure;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Urges the future High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy to consider with Parliament adequate methods of keeping Parliament fully informed of and consulted on the Union’s external action; to further this aim, regular joint meetings between the group of External Relations Commissioners (chaired by the HR/VP) with delegations from the relevant Parliament Committees as well as regular joint meetings between the Council’s working groups, Coreper, PSC, the Article 188C-Committee, and the European Commission with Parliament’s rapporteurs and delegations should become normal practice;