12 Amendments of Charles GOERENS related to 2014/2228(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph A
Paragraph A
A. Stresses that EU trade and development policies are interlinked and that Article 208 of the Lisbon Treaty establishes the principle of policy coherence for development, requiring that the objectives of development cooperation be taken into account in polThe Committee on Development (a) calls on the Commission to take account of: - Article 208 of the Lisbon Treaty, which sets out the parameters of development cooperation; - the Partnership Agreement between the members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part, signed in Cotonou, on 23 June 2000; - Council Regulation (EC) No 1528/2007 of 20 December 2007 applying the arrangements for products originating in certain states which are part of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States provided for in agreements establishing, or leading to the establishment of, Economic Partnership Agreements; - the negotiations that have been in progress since 2002 on the Economic Partnership Agreements with the ACP Group of States, subdivided into six regions: the Caribbean, Central Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa, the Pacific Island States, the Southern African Development Community and West Africa; - Commission Regulation (EU) No 1063/2010 of 18 November 2010 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 laying down provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing the Community Customs Code, and in particular Articiles that are likely to affect developing countries; 66 to 97 thereof, relating to the generalised system of preferences (GSP); - Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences and the Everything But Arms initiative (EBA), - the WTO rules and the conclusions of the 2013 Bali Conference, which gave new momentum to the multilateral system to relaunch the Doha Round negotiations;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph A a (new)
Paragraph A a (new)
Aa. Stresses that EU trade and development policies are interlinked and that Article 208 of the Lisbon Treaty establishes the principle of policy coherence for development, requiring that the objectives of development cooperation be taken into account in policies that are likely to affect developing countries;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph A b (new)
Paragraph A b (new)
Ab. Urges that the TTIP should contribute to strengthening the acquis of the Cotonou Agreement, take account of the new guidelines to be defined for the post- 2020 framework and allow the parties to the Agreement to pursue their objectives, in particular the signing of the finalised Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), which are intended to establish a secure framework for flows of trade and investment between the EU and the ACP;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph A c (new)
Paragraph A c (new)
Ac. Points out that the EPAs offer the developing countries the conditions needed to experience the benefits of globalisation as soon as possible, that they make a substantial contribution to promoting regional integration in the ACP countries and that they serve both as a catalyst for growth and a mechanism for strengthening good governance and thus contribute to the sustainable development of the developing countries;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1. - Point (d) - Subpoint (i.)
Paragraph 1. - Point (d) - Subpoint (i.)
i.) to specify the role and the legal quality of the Regulatory Cooperation Council’s findings, taking into consideration that any direct application of its recommendations for the relevant EU instances would imply a breach of the law- making procedures laid down in the Treaties, and to ensure that no standards are lowered inside the European legal framework;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1.- Point (d) - Subpoint (ii.)
Paragraph 1.- Point (d) - Subpoint (ii.)
ii.) while the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) is an appropriate tool to protect investors and assure that investments are treated in a fair and non- discriminatory way, to oversee that it does not undermine the capacity of European, national and local authorities to legislate their own policies, in particular social and environmental policies, and therefore respect the constitutional framework of the Member Statesrecognising that investment protection is necessary, to explore viable, transparent alternatives to investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms (ISDS), inspired, for example, by the dispute settlement mechanism in place within the WTO;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph B a (new)
Paragraph B a (new)
Ba. Urges the Commission’s Directorate- General for Trade to establish a permanent dialogue with the Directorate- General for International Cooperation and Development, with a view to analysing the TTIP’s impact on the developing countries;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1. - Point (d) - Subpoint (ii.) d (new)
Paragraph 1. - Point (d) - Subpoint (ii.) d (new)
ii.)d to ensure the ECJ's exclusive jurisdiction over the definitive interpretation of European Union law, enforcing the general principles of the legal framework of the EU;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph C a (new)
Paragraph C a (new)
Ca. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the TTIP does not have the effect of excluding the developing countries, that it does not undermine their ability to take part in all stages of the production, processing and marketing of products and that it will on the other hand enable them to boost their efforts to diversify;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1.- Point (e) - Subpoint (iv.)
Paragraph 1.- Point (e) - Subpoint (iv.)
iv.) to implement the recommendations of the European Ombudsman from 6 January 2015 to further enhance the legitimacy and transparency of the negotiating process by fully complying with the rules on public access to documents, by making available relevant documents in all the official languages of the EU on its website more proactively and comprehensively, and by ensuring more balanced and transparent public participation;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1.- Point (e) -subpoint (iv.) - a (new)
Paragraph 1.- Point (e) -subpoint (iv.) - a (new)
iv.)a - calls, therefore, on the Commission to support and continue negotiations with the Council to unblock the amendment to Regulation (EC) Nº 1049/2001 regarding public access to documents;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph D a (new)
Paragraph D a (new)
Da. Urges the European Union to ensure that the ACP countries do not suffer preference erosion and trade diversion;