18 Amendments of Jarosław WAŁĘSA related to 2015/2105(INI)
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas – without doubting the contribution of free trade to economic growth - there has not been a serious debate in the European Union about the costs of free trade policies (such as industry adjustments: industrial closures, manufacturing job losses, delocalization of entire industries to third countries, and increased imports) and the overall cost/benefit analysis of free trade policies; the lack of such honest debate leads various stakeholders to question the logic and direction of EU trade policy and EU policies in general, an honest debate would prevent this unfortunate result;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas the European Union's trade policy is one of the most liberal policies in the world, with one of the lowest industrial tariffs globally (with much higher tariffs on industrial goods around the world, including in most developing and growing markets: China, India, South America, and Russia) and – in contrast to most developing countries – strict EU subsidy policies prevent application of state funds to furthering uncompetitive EU industries and keep open government procurement markets, while other trade partners keep subsidizing uncompetitive industries and close their national government procurement markets to EU companies;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas global overcapacity in key industries and the resulting trade imbalance, have begun eroding the trust that EU companies and industries have in the soundness of EU trade policy;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas the speed with which EU trade negotiations are launched and EU trade priorities in such negotiations are formulated prevents many EU citizens and companies from fully participating at the crucial early stages of policy and priorities' formulation;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas doubts are being raised by EU citizens, companies and SMEs on whether large industry associations truly represent the interests of EU citizens, EU companies and generally, the European Union;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas transparency requires that EU institutions verify that positions submitted on behalf of EU industries actually reflect EU industry views;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas rules of origin determine the true extent of trade liberalization, as they determine which goods actually benefit from free trade agreements, but are often missed in public trade policy debates and have not, until now, been subject to an analysis by the European Parliament;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. In order to ensure transparency and preservation of EU trade interests, calls on the European Commission, when conducting industry consultations on trade initiatives, to conduct a pre- screening of EU trade associations, to ensure that their membership, organizational structure and rules of procedure ensure that EU entities, with EU headquarters and centre of business decisions in the EU, have majority vote in adopting positions on trade issues that the European Commission relies on;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the European Commission to study the impact of the rise of global value chains on delocalization, closures, job losses and offshoring in the EU industry, as well as to study whether efficiency gains due to lower labour and regulatory compliance costs in third countries are not globally outweighed by environmental and social costs, as well as emissions related to transportation inherent in global value supply chains;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Insists that the monitoring, evaluation and follow-up of existing agreements become a key priority of the CCP; calls on the Commission to reallocate resources in order to enable DG Trade to better monitor trade agreements which need to be implemented, in particular, asks the European Commission to produce a country-by country report, for all free trade agreements that entered into force in the last 10 years, indicating which EU industries gained and lost due to each FTA (predominantly, but not exclusively, relying on the trade flows with the FTA partners), also identifying the reasons why imports increased for the main sectors that lost market share to FTA imports and whether EU industries affected by these imports warned of such potential effects of the FTA during the negotiation process and why their concerns have been disregarded;
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Calls on the European Commission to create a central database of trade associations at the EU and national level, including umbrella EU associations and their national members, which would all be consulted on trade initiatives; requests the European Commission to investigate the degree to which EU umbrella associations in fact are governed in a way that ensures true representation of EU industry interests and asks the European Commission to consult national associations as well as umbrella associations, and document such consultations;
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 b (new)
Paragraph 25 b (new)
25b. Calls on the European Commission to provide ample time, at the national level as well, for national industries to acquaint themselves with trade proposals of the European Commission and prepare their positions before the Commission begins the negotiations; calls on the Commission to engage in direct consultations with national associations in parallel to consultations with their EU umbrella associations;
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 c (new)
Paragraph 25 c (new)
25c. Calls on the European Commission, after presenting the text of a negotiated free trade agreement for conclusion by the Council and approval of the European Parliament, to present a list of industries that have requested protection from imports or transitional periods for tariff reductions for particular products in the FTA, with an indication of which sectors received such protection and – if they did not – whether the European Commission supported their request for protection and why, and in cases where the European Commission supported such requests but did not secure protection in the final text of the FTA, the reasons why such protection or transitional periods were not possible in the FTA;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 d (new)
Paragraph 25 d (new)
25d. Calls on the European Commission, in cases where it receives conflicting input from various EU stakeholders claiming to represent the same EU industry, to submit a summary of various positions advanced for the FTA with a reasoned analysis on why the merits of one position, and not the other, if any, were included in the EU negotiating position. In this context, the European Commission must analyse and explain, independently, which position better secures jobs and interests of this EU sector submitting the positions and why, before adopting it as the official position of the European Union;
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 e (new)
Paragraph 25 e (new)
25e. Emphasises that full implementation of the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement with the Ukraine should be a priority; emphasises in this regard the need for the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Member States to do their utmost in ensuring its full implementation as soon as possible;
Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32a. Emphasizes the central role that rules of origin play in determining which industries benefit or lose from EU FTAs; recognizing that rules of origin have not been, until now, fully analysed by the European Parliament, asks the European Commission to prepare a report identifying the changes the European Commission has made in the last 10 years, at 4-digit CN level, to their preferred FTA default negotiating position on ROO, explaining the reasons for any changes made;
Amendment 389 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46 a (new)
Paragraph 46 a (new)
46a. Calls on the European Commission to present a report to the European Parliament on dual-pricing and other price-distorting practices of major EU trading partners, with a special focus on energy resources, indicating the economic impact of such practices on EU economy and the steps that the European Commission has taken – at the bilateral, multilateral and WTO level – to eradicate such practices; Calls on the Commission to do its utmost to abolish the practice of dual-pricing and other price-distorting practices in its trade relations with all its trading partners;
Amendment 407 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51
Paragraph 51
51. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to find more sophisticated ways of introducing mitigating measures to redevelop industries and regions that lose out; emphasises that in this respect the European Structural and Investment Funds, and in particular both the European Regional Development Fund and the European Social Fund, can play an outstanding role; points out that the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund could also be an important instrument if reformed and shaped in a way that it is adequately funded; calls on the Commission to increase the scope of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund to provide assistance to EU companies and producers that are negatively affected by trade-related sanctions vis-á-vis third countries or by sanctions of third countries against EU producers and companies; Calls on the Commission to also assist those companies in finding alternative trading opportunities to mitigate or offset the negative economic effects of such sanctions; Calls on the Commission to find alternate means to assist those companies should a change in the scope of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund not materialise within a reasonable time frame;