Activities of Marielle DE SARNEZ related to 2014/2228(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) (A8-0175/2015 - Bernd Lange) FR
Negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) (debate) FR
Amendments (17)
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Emphasises that TTIP must not lower standards on important issues like consumer protection, labour rights or environment, but rather seek to achieve high common standards as a model for the world, as this would strengthen the EU's global economic position, while furthering our values;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that the EU's energy supply largely depends on foreign sources; emphasises the considerable contribution the TTIP could make to the EU's energy supply diversification and to its energy security by, inter alia, lifting licensing requirements for US gas exports; stresses that diversification of fossil fuel sources cannot be a substitute for a strong and ambitious sustainable energy policy, through which the EU should pursue true energy independence;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a – point ii
Paragraph 1 – point a – point ii
(ii) to emphasise that while the TTIP negotiations consist of negotiations on three main areas – ambitiously improving reciprocal market access (for goods, services, investment and public procurement at all levels of government), reducing NTBs and enhancing the compatibility of regulatory regimes, and developing common rules to address shared global trade challenges and opportunities – all these areas are equally important to be included in a comprehensive package; TTIP should be ambitious and binding on all levels of government on both sides of the Atlantic, the agreement should lead to lasting genuine market openness on a reciprocal basis and trade facilitation on the ground, and should pay particular attention to structural means of achieving greater transatlantic cooperation while upholding regulatory standards and the level of consumer protection and preventing social and environmental dumping;
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a – point iii a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point a – point iii a (new)
(iiia) to attempt to make the negotiations lead to a convergence of standards, based on norms of demanding quality and safety, since the European model, with its high quality standards, is not negotiable;
Amendment 300 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
(aa) to consider that this agreement will be ‘win-win’ only if the European Union gives itself the means for greater integration, which involves completion of the Single Market and strengthening of its economic, budgetary, fiscal and political governance;
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point i
Paragraph 1 – point b – point i
(i) to ensure that the market access offers in the different areas are equally ambitious and reflect both parties’ expectations, as market access for industrial goods, agricultural products, services and public procurement is equally important in all cases and a balance is needed between the different proposals for these areas; to ensure also that the sensitive nature of certain products and sectors, particularly agricultural products, is taken into account; to examine and analyse whether it would be appropriate to exclude from the negotiations products judged to be sensitive, for which there is excessive divergence in standards and the conditions for fair competition cannot be ensured.
Amendment 323 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point ii
Paragraph 1 – point b – point ii
(ii) to aim at the elimination of all duty tariffs, while respecting sensitive products on both sides; to agree in particular that appropriate transitional periods and tariff quotas should be negotiated and implemented for agricultural products;
Amendment 473 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point x
Paragraph 1 – point b – point x
(x) to keep in mind that the agreement should respect, protect and not risk prejudicing the Union’s cultural and linguistic diversity, including in the audiovisual and cultural services sector, which is explicitly excluded from the negotiation by the mandate given to the Commission, and that existing and future provisions and policies in support of the cultural sector, in particular in the digital world, are kept out of the scope of the negotiations; ensure that the rights of Member States and the Union to maintain and develop their cultural and audiovisual policies are guaranteed;
Amendment 495 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point xi
Paragraph 1 – point b – point xi
(xi) to ensure that account is taken of the discrepancies in the openness of public procurement markets on both sides of the Atlantic and the huge interest on the part of European companies in obtaining access to public contracts in the US both at federal and state level, for example for construction services, traffic infrastructure and goods and services while respecting sustainability criteria for procurement on both sides, inter alia the new EU procurement and concession package entering into force in 2016; to invite the European Union to introduce a ‘European Business Act’, modelled on the ‘American Business Act’ and supporting the economic development of SMEs and European industry;
Amendment 518 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point xiii a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point b – point xiii a (new)
(xiiia) to ensure a carve-out for the sensitive areas of defence and security from negotiations on access to public contracts, given the risk of creating conditions of unequal competition for the European defence industry, which would run counter to the objectives set by heads of State and Government at the 2013 ‘Defence’ Council
Amendment 571 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c – point ii
Paragraph 1 – point c – point ii
(ii) to base negotiations on SPS and TBT measures on the key principles of the multilateral SPS and TBT agreements and to protect European sanitary and phytosanitary standards and procedures; to aim in the first place at increasing transparency and openness, strengthening dialogue between regulators and strengthening cooperation in international standards-setting bodies; to recognise, in negotiations on SPS and TBT measures, the right of both parties to manage risk in accordance with the level either deems appropriate in order to protect human, animal or plant life or health; to respect and uphold the sensitivities and fundamental values of either side, such as the EU’s precautionary principle;
Amendment 689 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point vii
Paragraph 1 – point d – point vii
(vii) to ensure that in course of the negotiations the two sides examine ways to facilitate natural gas and oil exports, so that TTIP would abolish any existing export restrictions on energy between the two trading partners, thereby supporting a diversification of energy sources and reducing dependence on current sources, while recognising that this cannot be seen as a substitute for an ambitious EU green and sustainable energy policy;
Amendment 705 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point ix
Paragraph 1 – point d – point ix
(ix) to ensure that TTIP supports the use and promotion of green goods and services, including through facilitating the development of these goods and services, thereby tapping into the considerable potential for environmental and economic gains offered by the transatlantic economy;
Amendment 806 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point xv a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point d – point xv a (new)
(xva) to ensure that the agreement guarantees a high level of protection for European Geographical Indications for consumer products and for food, wines and spirits, enabling the producers’ know- how to be preserved;
Amendment 866 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f
Paragraph 1 – point f
(f) to skeek evep on closerly engagementing with Parliament, which will continue to closely monitor the negotiating process and to engage on its part with the Commission, the Member States, and the US Congress and Administration, as well as with stakeholders on both sides of the Atlantic, in order to ensure an outcome which will benefit citizens in the EU, the US and beyond;
Amendment 870 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point f a (new)
(fa) to further develop the dialogue between the representative assemblies of the two parties by means of more regular contact between the members of the European Parliament and the US Congress, particularly in order to face up to the interests and concerns of citizens on both sides of the Atlantic;
Amendment 874 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point f b (new)
(fb) to increase the involvement of national parliaments in monitoring the negotiations, recognising that under Article 207 of the TFEU, their approval is required for the ratification of mixed agreements;