6 Amendments of Reinhard BÜTIKOFER related to 2014/2228(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Believes that the United States is the EU's key strategic partner; stresses that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is the most significant recent EU-US project and willthat could reinvigorate the transatlantic partnership as a whole, beyond its trade aspects provided that negotiations are carried out in an open and transparent manner and all stakeholders are involved in the process at all stages; emphasises that its successful conclusion is of high geopolitical importance at a moment when the US is pivoting to Asia and concluding the Trans- Pacific Partnership; underlines that the TTIP will have apotential positive impact of TTIP on jobs and growth for the two economies, which have both been hit by the crisi must not undermine EU social, health and environmental standards;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 f (new)
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1f. Stresses the need to ensure that existing standards of environmental, health and consumer protection are not reduced to a lower common denominator; warns of engaging in mutual recognition of standards where this could entail the lowering of standards because the levels of protection are too far apart; recalls that the European treaties enshrine the precautionary principle for all legislation and rule implementation which therefore excludes mutual recognition agreements with the US for market access in sectors such as chemical, pharmaceutical and food safety standards;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes the TTIP's strategic importance in strengthening and shaping global trade and economic governancambition in the TTIP negotiations to refocus away from a multilateral approach and towards a bilateral effort in setting global standards; warns against the based on the values shared by the EU and the US, particularly in an increasingly msumption that TTIP could and should serve as an instrument to implement a containment strategy vis- à-vis China; notes that the establishment of common regulatipolar world; notes that its impact would goon and rules in transatlantic trade should be used to move beyond their bilateral dimplications by facilitating the establishment of common regulations and rules that could later be adopted atension with the intent of later integrating them into multilateral regulations and rules on a global levelscale;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights that the conclusion of the TTIP creates the prospect of a broad economic space, which would include third countries with which the EU and the US have close trade and economic relsuch as Turkey, EEA countries, Mexico and Canada which have no voice in the ongoing TTIP negotiations;
Amendment 70 #
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 energyhydrocarbons supply diversification and to its energy security by, inter alia, lifting licensing requirements for US gas exports; considers, however, of the utmost importance to strengthen the cooperation as regards the promotion and the transition to low carbon economies on both sides of the Atlantic and adopt and implement common strategies to fight climate change;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the fact that the Commission is taking steps aiming to improve the transparency of the negotiationslate steps taken by Commission aimed at improving the transparency of the negotiations; believes that further and substantial steps are needed to improve the transparency of the process, in particular the timely access to consolidated negotiation documents for Parliamentarians and the interested public.