13 Amendments of Marisa MATIAS related to 2014/2228(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph a
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph a
a. take immediate action to ensure that a comprehensive and ambitious agreement is reached on the TTIP enhancing fair competition on both sides of the Atlanticsuspends all actions with regards to the TTIP agreement in view of guaranteeing the adequate democratic scrutiny of the citizens of the options, at both European and national level;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph b
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph b
b. take immediate action to ensure that free and fair competition on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as market access,any dispositions in the Treaty are subordinated to the right of the EU and its Member-States to define the levels of protection and that any such policy is not secured at the cost of social cohesion or the delivery of critical infrastructure or public services and is addressed on the basis of maintaining the highest standards possible within theand is done so with regard to existing levels of protection, especially within areas such as health and safety, education, consumer, labour and environmental legislation;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph c
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph c
c. take immediate action to include restrictions on state aid in the agreement; propose greater transparency within state aid rules and within the allocation of state aidallow individual member states use more state aid to vulnerable sectors of industry and allow for more proactive public sector enterprises. ;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph d
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph d
d. take immediate action to ensure that market accessongoing negotiations on financial services are combined with upward convergence in financial regulation; support high international standards in on-going cooperation efforts in other international foraand any eventual Agreement are used as an opportunity to improve and enforce higher standards through regulatory convergence;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph e
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph e
e. take immediate action to ensure that aggressive tax planning, and distortion of competition by e.g. moving of headquarters across the Atlantic to obtain competition-distorting conditions, are addressedprevent fiscal competition, namely through the dumping in the taxation of profits and financial gains and maintenance of offshores and other fiscally privileged zones;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph f
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph f
f. take immediate action to ensure that systematic movement of capital across the Atlantic, in order to avoid tax payments in the country of production and/or sale of goods or services, is addressedprohibited or subject to heavy taxation within the realm of TTIP;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph g
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph g
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph h
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph h
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph i
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph i
i. propose the introduction of a national court systems-first principle, to be supplemented with mediation and intergovernmental dispute mechanisms in legal disputes in order to ensure easier access and lower litigation costs than those offered by current ISDS- mechanisms, benefitting especially SMEs (having fewer resources available than large corporations), thus insists on the protection of democratic powers of legislators and takes immediate action to ensure the removal of any investor - state dispute settlement body (ISDS) as any interference from non- democreating more equal competition conditions; stress that any and all dispute mechanisms set in place within the TTIP-framework must uphold full transparency and be subject to democratic principlesc or non -EU bodies, contravenes democratic principles of sovereignty, transparency and scrutiny;
Amendment 123 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph j
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph j
j. acknowledge the importance of state- owned enterprises for certain crucial services; and calls for immediate action in order to ensure that specific and identifiable provisions for the protection of State Owned Enterprises are prioritised;
Amendment 137 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph k
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph k
k. stress the need to uphold the EU’s tradition for organisfor each Member State to organise its own public services, to prioritise funding itsfor public services, and calls for an exclusion of public services from the agreementimmediate action to make provisions to allow flexibility to bring public services back into public control;
Amendment 145 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph l
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph l
l. propose that there should be no obligation in TTIP to expose sensitive sectors to competitiontake immediate action in order to table additional vulnerability provisions which will allow for the exclusion of susceptible sectors from any final trade agreement; any agreed provisions should be made in tandem with consultation with relevant stakeholders and interested committees.
Amendment 155 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph l a (new)
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph l a (new)
la. ensure that the application of the Lisbon Treaty Article 218.10 (TFEU) which provides that the European Parliament shall be immediately and fully informed at all stages of the procedure;