23 Amendments of Karin KADENBACH related to 2014/2228(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the EU agricultural sector is a very sensitive and essential part of the TTIP negotiations and one in which the EU, which already enjoys a significant trade surplus with the US, stands to benefit greatly from new or increased market access opportunities;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the free trade agreement is likely to bring few if any benefits for the agricultural sector, and whereas overall agricultural output in the EU is likely to drop by 0.5%;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas the likely negative impact of TTIP poses a threat to rural jobs, and whereas average farm incomes will fall as a result of a loss of competitiveness; whereas this could lead to agricultural production being transferred to countries with less stringent standards;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas respect for European food safety and human and animal health standards will beis a fundamental tenet of the negotiations for European agriculture;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the free trade agreement could make it more difficult to introduce and enhance consumer protection standards in the future; having regard to the importance of introducing and the potential problems in enforcing an EU- wide labelling requirement for foods produced from animals reared on GMO feed;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas industrial animal husbandry is synonymous with widespread damage to the environment, poor working conditions and massive structural change, and whereas increased competition from the United States and more intensive transatlantic trade will speed up that process of change;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Recital C d (new)
Recital C d (new)
Cd. whereas the lack of a positive list means that it will not be possible to restrict the scope of the agreement in the future and that decisions in the areas consumer protection, animal welfare and environmental standards could be taken undemocratically by so-called sectoral coordination bodies or on the basis of regulatory cooperation;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Recital C e (new)
Recital C e (new)
Ce. whereas steps must be taken to ensure that animal welfare standards can be upheld and enhanced in keeping with public attitudes towards health and ethical issues;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Recital C f (new)
Recital C f (new)
Cf. whereas by doing away with tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade a future free trade agreement will put farmers in developing countries under pressure by depriving them of market shares;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Recital C g (new)
Recital C g (new)
Cg. whereas the mutual recognition of sanitary and phytosanitary rules must not give rise to threats to the environment, people and animals, for example as a result of the abolition of checks on imported food and feed;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Recital C i (new)
Recital C i (new)
Ci. whereas giving undertakings the right to bring actions against states will make it more difficult for the democratically elected representatives of the people to put democratic decisions into practice;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point a
Paragraph 1 – point a
a. prioritise an ambitious and balanced result of the negotiations for agriculture, the three mainkey components of which, such as (market access, geographical indications and sanitary and phytosanitary measures), should be tackled early and in parallel in the negotiation process, in order to give Parliament enough time to discuss and evaluate this chapter with stakeholders and European citizens;
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point b
Paragraph 1 – point b
b. firmly commit to the strict preservation of standards on food safety and human and animal health, as defined under EU legislation, and ensure that the enhancement of these standards is in no way hampered in the future and that fundamental values of the EU such as the precautionary principle are not undermined;
Amendment 131 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point c
Paragraph 1 – point c
Amendment 167 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
da. make every effort to provide special protection for agricultural structures in Europe by defining sensitive product areas, since, if tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade were dismantled to too great an extent, the industrial structure of US agriculture would jeopardise smallholder farming in Europe;
Amendment 178 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point d b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point d b (new)
db. inform Parliament and the public as early as possible about a potential list of sensitive products so that all stakeholders have enough time to consider and assess the proposals as soon as possible and before the end of the negotiations;
Amendment 185 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point e
Paragraph 1 – point e
e. secure significantly improved protection of EU geographical indications and better consumer information as an essential element of a balanced agreement, taking the relevant chapter of the CETA with Canada as a good example;
Amendment 206 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 –point e a (new)
Paragraph 1 –point e a (new)
ea. officially remove the investor-to-state dispute settlement procedure from the scope of the negotiations, as was also done in the case of the Australia - United States Free Trade Agreement, for instance, since such an arrangement between two developed economies with developed legal systems is superfluous;
Amendment 210 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point f
Paragraph 1 – point f
f. engage in a fully transparent, timely and comprehensive manner with allthe European Parliament, all national parliaments and the agricultural stakeholders on all aspects of the negotiations.
Amendment 266 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
(1) Calls on the Commission to enshrine in the provisions on regulatory cooperation the prohibition of the lowering of standards and the precautionary principle.
Amendment 295 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
(1) Calls for public and social services to be unequivocally excluded from all provisions of the agreement; moreover there must be no negative lists, hybrid approaches or ‘ratchet clauses’.
Amendment 296 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
(2) Competition in relation to social and environmental standards must be ruled out. Provision should therefore be made for the core labour standards and the more stringent ILO labour standards to be ratified, transposed and applied. In the event of breaches, sanctions must be imposed. Mandatory compliance with the multilateral environmental agreements (Montreal Protocol (ozone), Basel Convention (hazardous wastes), Stockholm Convention (persistent organic pollutants), Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, Convention on Biological Diversity, Rotterdam Convention (hazardous chemicals and pesticides)), including the Kyoto Protocol, must also be ensured.