2016/2301(INI) | [ParlTrack]

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. whereas the EU is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights; whereas its action on the international scene, including its trade policy ‘shall be guided by [these] principles’1 and shall be aligned with development policy objectives according to the principle of policy coherence for development; _________________ 1 Treaty on European Union.

Amendment 10 #

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Recital A b (new)

A b. Whereas a lack of regulations within global supply chains have contributed to the undermining of labour rights, particularly freedom of association and collective bargaining;

Amendment 11 #

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Recital A c (new)

A c. Whereas several international guidelines, such as the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the ILO Tripartite declaration of principles concerning multinational enterprises and social policy, the OECD Guidelines for multinational enterprises and the UN Global Compact aim at preventing human rights abuses;

Amendment 12 #

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Recital A c (new)

A c. whereas one of the main challenges for developing countries is to climb up the global value chain through economic diversification, which necessitates fair and pro-development global trade rules;

Amendment 13 #

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Recital A d (new)

A d. whereas GSP and GSP+ trade incentives provide better market access to developing countries in exchange for respect of labour, environmental and social standards;

Amendment 14 #

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Recital A e (new)

A e. whereas Export Processing Zones (EPZs) as part of global value chains are often characterized by exemptions from labour laws and taxes and face severe problems related to decent work and trade union restrictions;

Amendment 15 #

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Paragraph 1

1. Notes that the increasing globalisation of value chains enhances the importance of the role played by corporations in the enjoyment of human rights; notes also that corporate behaviour can strongly affect development, in either a positive or negative manner; but notes with concern that there has been little progress in the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human rights, in a context where existing standards, principles, and mechanisms for redress on business and human rights are fragmented in international law;

Amendment 16 #

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Paragraph 1

1. Notes that ~~the~~ increasing globalisation and the complexity of value chains enhances the importance of the role played by corporations in the enjoyment of human rights and environmental sustainability; notes also that corporate behaviour can strongly affect development and human wellbeing, in either a positive or negative manner;

Amendment 17 #

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Paragraph 1

1. Notes that the increasing globalisation of value chains enhances the importance of the role played by corporations in the enjoyment ~~of human~~and respect of human rights, including children's rights; notes also that corporate behaviour can strongly affect development, in either a positive or negative manner;

Amendment 18 #

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Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Emphasises that the globalisation of value chains has helped developing countries to integrate into the global economy, reduce poverty and boost jobs, while at the same time boosting production capacity, including by diffusing technology and skills.

Amendment 19 #

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Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Notes that the EU trade policy can be a tool towards fighting the negative effects of corporate behaviour, corruption, tax avoidance, social dumping and child labour;

Amendment 2 #

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Recital A

A. whereas the EU is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights; whereas its action on the international scene, including its trade policy ‘shall be guided by [these] principles’1 , and shall aim at the fulfilment of the SDGs; _________________ 1 Treaty on European Union.

Amendment 20 #

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Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Points out that reliable access to raw materials without disrupting the market is important for global competitiveness.

Amendment 21 #

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Paragraph 2

2. Is deeply concerned by cases of human rights violations, especially those related to the most vulnerable groups such as women, and threats to environmental sustainability, committed as a result of corporations’' management decisions, as well as those corporate actions benefiting from third parties present or past human rights violations such as land grabs or displacements;

Amendment 22 #

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Paragraph 2

2. Is deeply concerned by cases of human rights violations committed as a result of corporations’ management decisions and reiterates the need to lift any barriers victims of human rights violations face with regards to seeking legal aid;

Amendment 23 #

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Paragraph 2

2. Is deeply concerned by cases of labour and human rights violations committed as a result of corporations’' management decisions; recalls that business enterprises should establish operational-level grievance mechanisms for workers impacted by their operations, including in EPZs;

Amendment 24 #

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Paragraph 2

2. Is deeply concerned by cases of human rights violations ~~committed~~that are occurring as a result of some corporations’ management decisions;

Amendment 25 #

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Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Notes that the use in the global supply chain of non-standard forms of employment, including subcontracting and informal work, has weakened collective agreements, while the presence of child labour and forced labour in some global supply chains is acute in the lower segments of the chain, particularly in portions of supply chains linked to informal economy; recalls equally that women are disproportionately represented in low-wage jobs, lack access to social protection measures, including maternity protection, and are too often subject to discrimination as well as sexual harassment;

Amendment 26 #

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Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Is deeply concerned about the fact that transnational corporations strongly benefit from the international trade system and the many existing legal loopholes, in order to escape accountability for environmental crimes and human rights violations that their operations result in; is deeply concerned about the EU trade policy, which promotes special privileges for investors without any obligations;

Amendment 27 #

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Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. calls on the Commission to ensure that all EU funded development projects, including blending projects, are not only fully aligned with the internationally agreed development effectiveness principles, but that they also fully respect the principle of free, prior and informed consent as established in the ILO Convention No. 169;

Amendment 28 #

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Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Stresses the importance of implementing, enforcing or transposing existing laws on regional, national and international levels;

Amendment 29 #

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Paragraph 3

3. Reaffirms the urgent need to act in a continuous, effective and coherent manner at national, European and global level, in order to address effectively the legal problems resulting from the extra- territorial dimension of companies and of their conduct, and the related uncertainty as to where the liability for human rights violations lies; acknowledges, in this regard, the progress made since the establishment of the Bangladesh Sustainability Compact and calls on the Commission to expand such frameworks to other sectors and to enhance corporate social accountability and mandatory due diligence initiatives that expand the existing EU timber regulation, the new EU regulation on conflict minerals, into other sectors such as the garment sector.

Amendment 3 #

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Recital A

A. wWhereas the EU is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights; whereas its action on the international scene, including its trade policy ‘shall be guided by [these] principles’1 ; _________________ 1art. 208 TFEU on policy coherence for development ensures that all external policies including trade should be coherent with development policies and its goal of eradicating poverty; Treaty on European Union.

Amendment 30 #

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Paragraph 3

3. Reaffirms the urgent need to act in a continuous, effective and coherent manner at national, European and global level, in order to address effectively the legal problems resulting from the extra- territorial dimension of companies and of their conduct, and the related uncertainty as to where the liability for human rights violations lies; invites the Commission to undertake, as a first step, a thorough examination, in consultation with civil society, of existing barriers to justice in cases brought before Member State courts for alleged abuses to human rights committed by EU enterprises or within their supply chain in third countries;

Amendment 31 #

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Amendment 32 #

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Paragraph 3

3. Reaffirms the urgent need to act in a continuous, effective and coherent manner at national, regional, European and global level, in order to address effectively the legal problems resulting from the extra- territorial dimension of companies and of their conduct, and the related uncertainty as to where the liability for human rights violations lies;

Amendment 33 #

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Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Supports all global anti-corruption initiatives, including the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), the Kimberley Process, the International Conference on the Great Lakes Regions (ICGLR), the principles set out in the United Nations Global Compact for businesses, the OECD guidelines for multinational enterprises and the OECD due diligence guidance for responsible supply chains of minerals from conflict- affected and areas.

Amendment 34 #

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Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. recalls the 2030 SDG agenda and calls on the Commission to transparently communicate the reference to each SDG concerned in the reporting; calls on the Commission and the Member States to use trade to promote sustainable development and good governance according to the principles of policy coherence for development;

Amendment 35 #

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Paragraph 3 b (new)

3 b. underlines the importance of inclusive and sustainable approaches as agreed in the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development, notably those on sustainable production, sustainable consumption and decent work;

Amendment 36 #

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Paragraph 4

4. ~~Welcomes the~~Stresses that businesses, in their international activities, must take account of the need to comply with fundamental values and standards, in particular human rights; in that context, welcomes businesses' existing practice of incorporating responsibility for respecting human rights into the binding contractual obligations between companies and their clients and suppliers; notes that such requirements can, in most cases, be enforced by judicial means;

Amendment 37 #

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Paragraph 4

4. ~~Welcomes the practice of incorporating responsibility for respecting h~~Reiterates its call for the setting-up of a mandatory and enforceable regulatory framework, based on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human rRights ~~into the binding contractual obligations between companies and their clients and suppliers; notes that such requirements can, in most cases, be enforced by judicial mean~~, on the way corporations comply with human rights and obligations with respect to social and environmental standards;

Amendment 38 #

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Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Calls on the Commission to continue to include the ratification of core ILO standards, health and safety inspection standards, and freedom of assembly and association in discussions on continued preferential trade with countries linked to the global supply chain for the garment sector, and to strengthen human rights, labour and environmental conventions under the Generalised System of Preferences; calls on the EU to ensure that human rights conditions linked to unilateral trade preferences such as GSP or GSP+ are effectively implemented and monitored;

Amendment 39 #

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Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Stresses that EU trade and investment agreements concluded with developing countries should be consistent with SDGs; reiterates the right of developing countries to regulate investment so as to ensure obligations and duties for all investors, including foreign ones, with the aim of protecting human rights, labour and environmental standards;

Amendment 4 #

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Recital A a (new)

A a. whereas global value chains (GVCs) have become an important feature of global production patterns, and whereas their complexity affirms the need for increased and proactive engagement in the EU and abroad to ensure their adequate management for inclusive and sustainable growth;

Amendment 40 #

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Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. encourages the Commission and Member States to include specific measures in Free Trade Agreements with developing countries in order to support their social and environmental standards; calls on the Commission to introduce tariff preferences for proven sustainably- produced goods in the forthcoming reform of the GSP / GSP+ rules;

Amendment 41 #

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Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Regrets that gender inequality is prominent in the GVCs, where women are increasingly employed but still overrepresented in low skilled tasks and low wages;

Amendment 42 #

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Paragraph 4 b (new)

4 b. considers that the EU must include binding provisions in its trade agreements for improving the lives of workers, and stresses that a clause promoting the ratification and implementation of ILO conventions and the Decent Work Agenda, must be included in both bilateral and multilateral trade agreements;

Amendment 43 #

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Paragraph 5

5. Warmly welcomes the drafting of a binding UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights and reiterates its calls for the Member States and the EU itself to promote and participate in this process; calls on the Commission to introduce a legislative proposal on binding due diligence obligations for supply chains aligned with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and several sector-specific OECD guidelines and set up comprehensive labelling measures in order to guarantee enhanced consumer information on the content and origin of the final products sold in the EU market throughout their supply chain;

Amendment 44 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

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Paragraph 5

5. Warmly welcomes the drafting of a binding UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights ~~and reiterates its calls for the Member States and the EU itself to promote and participate in this process~~which clearly sets out how governments and businesses must protect and uphold human rights at every stage of the supply chain, regardless of the country in which production takes place, and reiterates its calls for the Member States and the EU itself to support the adoption of those guidelines and assist with their implementation;

Amendment 45 #

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Paragraph 5

Amendment 46 #

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Paragraph 5

5. Warmly welcomes the drafting of a binding UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights and reiterates its calls for the Member States and the EU itself to promote and proactively participate in this process;

Amendment 47 #

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Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that human rights conditions linked to unilateral trade preferences such as GSP or GSP+ are effectively implemented and monitored; to this end, calls on the Commission to better reflect ILO reports and its supervisory bodies findings in its monitoring and evaluation activities and to better liaise with local agencies of ILO and the United Nations in the beneficiary country to fully take into account their views and their experience;

Amendment 48 #

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Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. encourages the International Labour Organization, enterprises and other stakeholders to work towards a binding legal convention, regulating Global Value Chains, which will include adequate remedy mechanisms for workers when their rights are violated, establish legal accountability for the actions of the corporations and their subcontractors, and include mandatory due-diligence and transparency obligations;

Amendment 49 #

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Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Welcomes the many promising initiatives taken by the private sector, such as codes of conduct, labelling, self- assessment and social audits, which have significantly contributed to recent improvements in human rights and workers' rights standards in global supply chains;

Amendment 5 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

A a. whereas the ‘Trade for All’ communication bases EU trade policy on three key principles – effectiveness, transparency and values – and has a dedicated section on responsible management of supply chains;

Amendment 50 #

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Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Recognises the UN Global Compact, the ISO 26000 standard on social responsibility, the ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises as tools which can mobilise responsibility in the business activities of enterprises;

Amendment 51 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Reiterates its call on the EU and Member States to establish binding rules to ensure that large companies operating in their jurisdiction identify, prevent, mitigate and account for their adverse human rights and environmental impacts throughout their operations and value chains, wherever occurring;

Amendment 52 #

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Paragraph 5 b (new)

5 b. Calls on companies, whether European or not, to carry out human rights due diligence and to integrate their findings into internal policies and procedures, with resources and authority assigned accordingly and duly implemented; stresses that this requires sufficient resources be allocated; stresses that transparency and communication regarding measures taken to avoid human rights abuses in third countries are crucial to allow for proper democratic oversight and to allow consumers to make fact-based choices;

Amendment 53 #

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Paragraph 5 b (new)

5 b. Stresses the need to improve the effectiveness of social and environmental conditionality in bilateral and regional agreements through a greater involvement and consultation of social partners and civil society in the negotiations and implementation of labour provisions and a systematic use of comprehensive ex ante and ex post "trade sustainability impact assessments", including on human rights;

Amendment 54 #

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Paragraph 5 b (new)

5 b. Is deeply concerned by the attitude taken by the EU as regards the negotiations to improve the accountability framework at the international level, through its non-cooperative approach with respect to the United Nations Intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights;

Amendment 55 #

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Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Stresses that the coordination and exchange of information and best practices can help to make private and public value chain initiatives more effective;

Amendment 56 #

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Paragraph 5 c (new)

5 c. Warmly welcomes OECD sectorial due diligence guidelines that constitute a global approach to improve transparency and accountability of global value chains, and calls on the Commission to introduce mandatory due diligence proposals based on OECD guidelines;

Amendment 57 #

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Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to compel companies using raw materials or commodities that might have originated from conflict-affected areas ~~(for example, so-called conflict minerals)~~ to disclose their sourcing and use of such materials; welcomes in this regard the new conflict mineral regulation recently adopted and urges the Commission to come up with legislative proposals for binding due diligence in other sectors such as garments;

Amendment 58 #

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Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Member States to compel companies using raw materials or commodities that might have originated from conflict-affected areas (for example, so-called conflict minerals) to disclose their sourcing and use of such materials and to guarantee their traceability in a transparent manner;

Amendment 59 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. ~~Calls on the Member States to compel~~Takes the view that the new conflict minerals regulation is a good due diligence model for companies using certain raw materials or commodities ~~that might have originated from conflict-affected areas (for example, so-called conflict minerals) to disclose their sourcing and use of such materials~~from conflict areas, and takes the view that this practice could also be extended to other raw materials, where reasonable;

Amendment 6 #

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Recital A a (new)

A a. Whereas trade agreements should acknowledge the right of developing countries to regulate, and should be a leverage to promote values like sustainable development, human rights, fair and ethical trade;

Amendment 60 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6 a. Recalls the Commission Communication ''A stronger role of the private sector in achieving inclusive and sustainable growth in developing countries'', underlining the need for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), private sector engagement and responsible management of GVCs in achieving inclusive and sustainable economic growth, as well as business opportunities;

Amendment 61 #

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Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Points out that in this area, in addition to the import and export of minerals and metals, transparent arrangements governing operating rights and customs duties are vital to the development of conflict or high-risk zones;

Amendment 62 #

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Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls on the Commission to step up initiatives relating to businesses' social responsibility and due diligence across the whole supply chain;

Amendment 63 #

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Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Stresses, therefore, the need to draw up an overview of existing corporate social responsibility measures being implemented by European businesses, in order to be able to identify good practices more effectively and contribute to the creation of a common action framework at European level;

Amendment 64 #

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Paragraph 7 a (new)

7 a. Calls on the EU and Member States to urgently take the appropriate steps to tackle the legal, procedural and institutional obstacles to access effective remedies faced by victims of business- related human rights violations;

Amendment 7 #

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. Whereas the absence of ethical behaviour in business is a consequence of the powerlessness or non-existence of impartial public authorities acting in the general interest of citizens;

Amendment 8 #

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Recital A b (new)

Ab. Whereas there is an obligation on producer countries in particular to create appropriate legal and economic conditions for businesses to operate and find a place in global supply chains; they must also be able to implement international standards and norms, including drawing up, implementing and enforcing appropriate legislation, particularly in the area of establishing the rule of law and combating corruption;

Amendment 9 #

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Recital A b (new)

A b. whereas the EU and its Member States, being collectively the world's largest market and the leading provider of Aid for Trade with more than a third of total EU Official Development Assistance (ODA) supporting trade related needs, can leverage this position to make GVCs more sustainable and inclusive in particular in those markets in which the poorest make their living;

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2017/05/02 FEMM 16 amendments...

Amendment 1 #

Draft report
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas gender equality perspective is often overlooked in the analysis of global value chains; Whereas according to the ILO 20.9 million people (55% women and girls) were victims of forced labour globally in 2012 and 90% of them are exploited in the private economy, by individuals or enterprises;

Amendment 10 #

Draft report
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Calls for the binding application of the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) core labour standards and of its Decent Work Agenda, given that ILO standards are particularly relevant to improving gender equality because of their principles of non-discrimination on the grounds of sex and equal pay for men and women, as well as international environmental protection commitments in EU preferential trade agreements;

Amendment 11 #

Draft report
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Calls for a broad-based effective and transparent participation of women and women’s rights organisations and trade unions, into the policy framework of the GVCs;

Amendment 12 #

Draft report
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Highlights international trade and EU´s trade policies on Global Value Chains should count with gender expertise and assessment in order to evaluate and address the gender implications and gaps of their terms;

Amendment 13 #

Draft report
Paragraph 1 d (new)

1d. Stresses that the EU and Member States, when negotiating trade agreements, should be concerned with not only improving global social and environmental standards and a fairer and equitable global model of trade, but also with promoting gender equality within the GVCs by ensuring adequate work conditions and rights for women throughout their supply chains, and to avoid sourcing material from conflict areas where there is widespread gender- based violence;

Amendment 14 #

Draft report
Paragraph 1 d (new)

1d. Supports the introduction of gender budgeting in international EU´s trade to be aligned with the EU´s trade policy key principles of effectiveness, transparency and values; stresses gender budgeting is an important strategy to address and advance gender equality; notes gender budgeting requires increased gender expertise;

Amendment 15 #

Draft report
Paragraph 1 f (new)

1f. Warns against the negative impacts of trade expansion and liberalisation on the quality of employment, as well as the risk of increasing labour trafficking of persons; stresses that women tend to be the ones suffering most and that very often in the case of women, labour trafficking of persons runs in parallel with sexual trafficking and femicides;

Amendment 16 #

Draft report
Paragraph 1 g (new)

1g. Proposes that international trade and EU´s trade policies on Global Value Chains should include and develop a specific strategy to formally protect individuals who denounce practices of femicides, labour trafficking of persons and sexual trafficking and to defend the victims of the latter; stresses these denouncers should be given a similar recognition and protection as requested in the case of “whistle-blowers”, in the field of international and EU trade;

Amendment 2 #

Barbara MATERA

Draft report
Recital A b (new)

Aa. whereas the fragmentation of production structured around the GVC can enhance the role of women in the economy because of the wide range of opportunities that it creates;

Amendment 3 #

Draft report
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas women comprise the majority of workers in certain segments of the garment, horticulture, mobile phone and tourism global supply chains but they tend to be more concentrated in low-wage or low-status forms of employment than men leading to gender segregation in types of occupations and activities, gender gaps in wages and working conditions, and gender-specific constraints in access to productive resources, infrastructure and services;

Amendment 4 #

Barbara MATERA

Draft report
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas transparency is a key factor to reduce discrimination, exploitation and abuses;

Amendment 5 #

Barbara MATERA

Draft report
Recital A c (new)

Ac. whereas due to the complex nature of GVC there is a lack of statistics that doesn’t allow to have a clear picture of the role played by women;

Amendment 6 #

Draft report
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Calls for a comprehensive analysis on the differences and inequalities in the framework of global value chains: (i) gender differences in time use, mainly resulting from women’s primary responsibility for reproductive work; (ii) gender differences in access to productive inputs and resources, particularly land, credit, training, and networks; and (iii) gender differences stemming from market and institutional failures and discrimination;

Amendment 7 #

Draft report
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Understands EU trade policy should be a tool to address gender challenges and promote gender equality; notes that the EU and Member States should integrate a gender perspective in international trade as well as EU’s trade policies on Global Value Chains, to better understand and tackle the gender implications of trade;

Amendment 8 #

Florent MARCELLESI

Draft report
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Calls for obligatory gender impact assessments to be included in any analysis of global value chains, including the gender dimension of available environmental impact assessments;

Amendment 9 #

Draft report
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Calls on the EU and Member States to elaborate and include a gender impact assessment, and a gender risk evaluation in international and EU trade to evaluate the potential positive impact on gender equality (such as the improvement of the quality of service and production for women, create quality, safe and dignified employment for women...); and on the other hand, the possible risks that may negatively affect women and gender equality related issues, in order to introduce preventive measures;

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2017/05/12 AFET 61 amendments...

Amendment 1 #

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the EU is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights; whereas its action on the international scene, including its trade policy 'shall be guided by [these] principles', shall be aligned with development policy objectives and its goal of eradicating poverty according to the principle of policy coherence for development, shall aim at the fulfilment of the SDGs, and shall be transparent;

Amendment 10 #

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Paragraph -1 b (new)

-1b. Points out that global value chains contribute to enhancing international core labour, environmental, social and human rights standards, including establishment and enforcement of occupational health and safety measures, educational opportunities, impartial institutions, and corruption reduction; underlines that global value chains stand for a unique opportunity for sustainable progress, especially in developing countries;

Amendment 11 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 a (new)

-1a. Emphasises that the growth of global value chains, as a result of increasing globalisation, offers both opportunities and challenges;

Amendment 12 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 b (new)

-1b. Notes that the increasing connection between economies and societies has led to economic benefits, both in and outside the European Union; recognises, however, that there have also been negative effects and stresses that the Union and its Member States should make every effort to mitigate these;

Amendment 13 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 c (new)

-1c. Reiterates that in an increasingly interconnected world a strong EU and an ambitious trade policy are essential to be able to shape globalisation and to strengthen the global rules-based system; stresses that the changes in the global economy make it ever more crucial that European businesses are able to access third country markets on fair and equal terms;

Amendment 14 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 a (new)

-1a. Emphasises that the globalisation of value chains can help developing countries to integrate into the global economy, reduce poverty and create jobs, while at the same time boosting production capacity, including by diffusing technology and skills; but notes with concern that the use in the global supply chain of non-standard forms of employment, of informal work, and of some forms of subcontracting has weakened collective agreements; condemns the presence of child labour and forced labour in some global supply chains, which is acute in the lower segments of the chain, particularly in portions of supply chains linked to informal economy; recalls, equally, that women are increasingly employed but still overrepresented in low-skilled tasks and low wages, that they lack access to social protection measures, including maternity protection, and that they are too often subject to discrimination as well as sexual harassment;

Amendment 15 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 b (new)

-1b. Notes that the increasing globalisation and the complexity of value chains enhances the importance of the role played by corporations in the enjoyment of and respect for human rights, including children's rights, and environmental sustainability; notes also that corporate behaviour can strongly affect development and human wellbeing, in either a positive or negative manner; but notes with concern that, existing standards, principles and mechanisms for redress on business and human rights are still fragmented in international law and there has been little progress in the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which were agreed unanimously in the UN with the full support of EU Member States and on the road towards binding rules on corporate liability;

Amendment 16 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 a (new)

-1a. Believes that the lack of regulation within global supply chains has contributed to the undermining of labour rights, particularly freedom of association and collective bargaining;

Amendment 17 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 c (new)

-1c. Points out that reliable access to raw materials is important for global competitiveness and emphasizes at the same time that one of the main challenges for developing countries is to climb up the global value chain through economic diversification, which necessitates fair and pro-development global trade rules;

Amendment 18 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 d (new)

-1d. Is deeply concerned by cases of human rights violations and threats to environmental sustainability, committed as a result of some corporations' management decisions, as well as those corporations benefitting from human rights violations such as land grabs or displacements, also committed by third parties;

Amendment 19 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Commission to further promote the ratification and effective implementation of the core ILO conventions, with a special focus on the eradication of child labour and forced labour, as well as full compliance by EUuropean and international companies with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises; recommends strengthening the role of OECD National Contact Points and their cooperation with independent national and regional human rights institutions with a view to improving the governance of global value chains;

Amendment 2 #

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the share of global value chains in worldwide manufacturing and trading patterns continues to increase; whereas globalisation should be a lever to the economic development and integration of developing countries into the world economy in order to raise prosperity and strengthen human rights for all; whereas the EU should play a more active role in obtaining an adequate, fair, transparent and sustainable management of global value chains;

Amendment 20 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Commission to further promote the ratification and effective implementation of several international guidelines, conventions and rules on business and human rights such as the UN Guiding principles on Business and Human Rights, the United Nations Global Compact for businesses, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, the Kimberley Process and the core ILO conventions, with a special focus on the eradication of child labour ~~and~~, forced labour, corruption and unethical working conditions as well as full compliance by EU companies with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and the sector-specific OECD guidelines such as the due diligence guidance for responsible supply chains of minerals from conflict- affected areas; recommends strengthening the role of OECD National Contact Points and their cooperation with independent national and regional human rights institutions with a view to improving the governance of global value chains;

Amendment 21 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Commission to further promote the ratification and effective implementation of the core ILO conventions, with a special focus on the eradication of child labour and forced labour, on combating human trafficking, on the promotion of gender equality, non- discrimination and freedom of association, as well as full compliance by EU companies with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises; recommends strengthening the role of OECD National Contact Points and their cooperation with independent national and regional human rights institutions with a view to improving the governance of global value chains;

Amendment 22 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Commission to further promote the ratification and effective implementation of the core ILO conventions, with a special focus on the eradication of child labour and forced labour, as well as full compliance by EU companies with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights; recommends strengthening the role of OECD National Contact Points and their cooperation with independent national and regional human rights institutions with a view to improving the governance of global value chains;

Amendment 23 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Commission to further promote the ratification and effective implementation of the core ILO conventions, with a special focus on the eradication of child labour and forced labour, as well as full compliance by EU companies having any sort of attachment with the EU with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises; recommends strengthening the role of OECD National Contact Points and their cooperation with independent national and regional human rights institutions with a view to improving the governance of global value chains;

Amendment 24 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Recommends strengthening the role of OECD National Contact Points and their cooperation with independent national and regional human rights institutions with a view to improving the governance of global value chains; underlines the importance of effective enforcement by judicial means, including access to remedies for victims;

Amendment 25 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Urges the Commission to develop an EU-wide ~~mandatory~~ due diligence system and invites EU Member States to integrate measures to strengthen due diligence in global supply chains in their national action plans on business and human rights;

Amendment 26 #

James CARVER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

Amendment 27 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Urges the Commission to develop an EU-wide mandatory due diligence system and invites EU Member States to integrate measures to strengthen due diligence in global supply chains in their national action plans on business and human rights; reiterates its calls on the EU and Member States contained in the Report on Corporate Liability for serious human rights abuses in third countries, approved with an overwhelming majority in October 2016, to ensure that large companies and their subcontractors operating within their supply chain in jurisdiction of Member States as well as in third countries would identify, prevent, mitigate and account for their adverse human rights and environmental impacts throughout their operations and value chains, wherever occurring, also by establishing binding rules and removing existing barriers to justice in cases brought before Member State courts for alleged abuses to human rights committed by enterprises having any link with the EU; regrets that almost no action has been taken by the Commission during these months and no follow-up has been given to the Parliament on the same resolution; encourages ILO enterprises and other stakeholders to work towards the same direction;

Amendment 28 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Urges the Commission to develop an EU-wide mandatory due diligence system and ~~invites EU Member States to~~therefore calls the Commission to come up with proposals to extend the existing EU - timber regulation and the new EU - regulation on conflict minerals to other sectors and in particular those sectors where human rights abuses take place, invites EU Member States to implement appropriate legislation integrate measures to strengthen due diligence in global supply chains in their national and regional action plans on business and human rights; stresses the importance of the exchange of information and best practices on due diligence and transparency between Member States which contribute to fairer and more sustainable global value chains; calls on companies and enterprises to integrate and carry out the principles of human rights due diligence in their daily business operations;

Amendment 29 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

Amendment 3 #

Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas global value chains have become an important feature of global production patterns; whereas a lack of GVC regulations has been one of the elements undermining labour rights; whereas the GVC complexity affirms the need for increased and proactive engagement in the EU and abroad to ensure their adequate management for inclusive and sustainable growth;

Amendment 30 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls on the EU and Member States to step up their dialogue with third countries on the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, including the encouragement of more states to adopt national actions plans; renews its call to the EU and its Member States to participate constructively in the 3rd session of the Inter-Governmental Working Group on a binding UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights in October 2017 and to actively contribute to the discussions on key elements, including the relation of the UN treaty with trade agreements, human rights due diligence, enforcement, access to remedy, and the role of corporations in the drafting of the treaty;

Amendment 31 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Warmly welcomes the drafting of a binding UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights, in order to clearly set out a mandatory and enforceable regulatory framework on how governments and businesses must protect and uphold human rights and their obligations with respect to social and environmental standards at every stage of the supply chain, regardless of the country in which production takes place and the nationality of the corporation;

Amendment 32 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Reiterates its call on the Member States and the EU itself to promote and proactively participate in this process; calls on the Commission to introduce a legislative proposal on binding due diligence obligations for supply chains aligned with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and several sector-specific OECD guidelines and set up comprehensive labelling measures in order to guarantee enhanced consumer information on the content and origin of the final products sold in the EU market throughout their supply chain;

Amendment 33 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls on the Member States to protect individuals from companies violations of international law, improve the legal framework, create monitoring mechanisms and drive the improvement of domestic regulation of human rights as well as ensuring policy coherence;

Amendment 34 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)

2c. Notes that EU trade policy can be a tool for fighting the negative effects of state and corporate behaviour, corruption, tax avoidance, social dumping and child labour, and calls on the Commission to ensure that all EU funded development projects, including blending projects, are not only fully aligned with the internationally agreed development effectiveness principles, but that they also fully respect the principle of free, prior and informed consent as established in the ILO Convention No. 169;

Amendment 35 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)

2d. Is concerned about the fact that some transnational corporations benefit from the international trade system and the existing legal loopholes, in order to escape accountability for environmental crimes and human rights violations that their operations result in; calls on the EU trade policy to avoid promoting special privileges for investors without any obligations; stresses the importance of implementing, enforcing or transposing existing laws on regional, national and international levels;

Amendment 36 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Recalls that the EU has taken the lead to include Trade and Sustainable development in trade agreements and has a number of incentive based tools, such as the Generalised Scheme of Preferences, in order to link trade and development, sustainable growth and values;

Amendment 37 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to systematically include in all EU trade and investment agreements respect for internationally recognised principles and guidelines as set out under point 25(d) of the EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy; insists on a systematic use of comprehensive ex ante and ex post "trade sustainability impact assessments", including on human rights;

Amendment 38 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Requests that the Commission provide support for and strengthen effective implementation, enforcement and monitoring of the commitments of GSP+ beneficiaries, including through multi- stakeholder projects and civil society participation; insists that scorecards are made public and that the GSP+ dialogues are transparent, providing for involvement and participation of CSOs; calls for the establishment of a mechanism that can be used by individuals or groups who have been negatively affected by the implementation of GSP, GSP+ and EBA schemes;

Amendment 39 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that human rights conditions linked to unilateral trade preferences such as GSP or GSP+ are effectively implemented and monitored; to this end, calls on the Commission to better reflect ILO reports and its supervisory bodies findings as well as reports by the relevant UN human rights mechanisms in its monitoring and evaluation activities and to better liaise with local agencies of ILO and the United Nations in the beneficiary country to fully take into account their views and their experience;

Amendment 4 #

Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)

Ac. whereas the EU and its Member States, being collectively the world's largest market and the leading provider of Aid for Trade, can and should leverage this position to make GVCs more sustainable and inclusive and to promote values like sustainable development, human rights, fair and ethical trade, in particular for the poorest populations; whereas trade agreements should acknowledge the right of developing countries to regulate in the public interest;

Amendment 40 #

James CARVER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the ~~Commission and~~ Member States to promote sustainable public procurement by applying specific requirements on human rights compliance and transparency for suppliers and their international supply chains;

Amendment 41 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote sustainable public procurement by applying specific requirements on human rights compliance, particularly regarding the promotion of gender equality and European competition rules, and transparency for suppliers and their international supply chains;

Amendment 42 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission ~~and~~, the Member States and regional and local authorities to promote sustainable public procurement by applying specific requirements on human rights and International Law compliance and transparency for suppliers and their international supply chains;

Amendment 43 #

James CARVER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

Amendment 44 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission to ~~swiftly submit a legislative proposal~~launch an initiative with the aim of setting up comprehensive labelling measures in order to guarantee enhanced consumer information ~~on the content and origin of products sold on the EU market throughout their supply chain~~;

Amendment 45 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. ~~Calls on the Commission to swiftly submit a legislative proposal with the aim of setting up comprehens~~Stresses that effective labelling measures ~~in order to guarantee enhanced consumer~~should be used to give consumers enhanced information on the content and origin of products sold on the EU market ~~throughout their supply chain~~;

Amendment 46 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission to swiftly submit a legislative proposal with the aim of setting up comprehensive labelling measures in order to guarantee enhanced consumer information on the content and origin of products sold on the EU market ~~throughout their supply chain~~; stresses the importance of public awareness campaigns in order to prevent and combat human rights violations throughout the global value chains to raise public awareness and to achieve a switch in consumers' behaviour towards an 'abuse-free' shopping - behaviour;

Amendment 47 #

Georgios EPITIDEIOS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission to swiftly submit a legislative proposal with the aim of setting up comprehensive labelling measures in order to guarantee enhanced consumer information on the content and origin of products sold on the EU market throughout their supply chain and to ensure that products whose production involves under-age labour are not admitted to the European market;

Amendment 48 #

László TŐKÉS, Ádám KÓSA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission to swiftly submit a legislative proposal with the aim of setting up accessible and comprehensive labelling measures in order to guarantee enhanced consumer information on the content and origin of products sold on the EU market throughout their supply chain;

Amendment 49 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

Amendment 5 #

Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)

Ad. whereas several international conventions, guidelines and rules aim at preventing human rights abuses; whereas there is an obligation on countries to implement them and to create appropriate legal and economic conditions for businesses to operate and find a place in global supply chains;

Amendment 50 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls on the EU Delegations in partner countries and local civil society actors in particular, human rights organisations and defenders to raise understanding of the challenges companies face when operating in countries where the state fails to meet its duty to protect human rights;

Amendment 51 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

Amendment 52 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Stresses the need for ~~binding contractual agreements on human rights between companies and~~strong human rights clauses in trade and political agreements that the EU closes with their ~~suppliers along the entire value chain; underlines the importance of effective enforcement by judicial means, including access to remedies for victims.~~d countries; notes that the political will to actually use those clauses when necessary is essential;

Amendment 53 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Stresses the need for binding contractual agreements on human rights between companies and their suppliers along the entire value chain; underlines the importance of effective enforcement by judicial means, including access to remedies for victims.; invites the Commission to undertake a thorough examination, in consultation with civil society, of existing barriers to justice in cases brought before Member State courts for alleged abuses to human rights committed by EU-based enterprises or within their supply chain in third countries;

Amendment 54 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Stresses the need for binding contractual agreements on human rights and environmental protection measures between companies and their suppliers along the entire value chain; underlines the importance of effective enforcement by judicial means, including access to remedies for victims.

Amendment 55 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Stresses the need for binding contractual agreements, enforced by judicial means, on human rights between companies and their suppliers along the entire value chain; underlines the importance of effective enforcement by judicial means, including access to remedies for victims.;

Amendment 56 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

Amendment 57 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Reaffirms the urgent need to act in a continuous, effective and coherent manner at national, regional, European and global level, in order to address effectively the legal problems resulting from the extra-territorial dimension of companies and of their conduct, and the related uncertainty as to where the liability for human rights violations lies;

Amendment 58 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Observes with concern that Export Processing Zones as part of global value chains are often characterized by exemptions from labour laws and taxes and face severe problems related to decent work and trade union restrictions;

Amendment 59 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7b. Recalls that business enterprises should establish operational-level grievance mechanisms for workers impacted by their operations, including in Export Processing Zones (EPZs), and reiterates its call to lift any barriers victims of human rights violations face with regards to seeking legal redress; in this regard, reiterates its call on the EU and Member States to take the appropriate steps to tackle the legal, procedural and institutional obstacles to access effective remedies faced by those victims;

Amendment 6 #

Draft opinion
Recital A e (new)

Ae. whereas GSP and GSP+ trade incentives provide better market access to developing countries in exchange for respect of labour, environmental and social standards;

Amendment 60 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7b. Recalls that business enterprises should establish operational-level grievance mechanisms for workers impacted by their operations, including in Export Processing Zones;

Amendment 61 #

Louis MICHEL, Petras AUŠTREVIČIUS, Hilde VAUTMANS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)

7c. Notes that the use in the global supply chain of non-standard forms of employment, including subcontracting and informal work, has weakened collective agreements, while the presence of child labour and forced labour in some global supply chains is acute in the lower segments of the chain, particularly in portions of supply chains linked to the informal economy; recalls that women are disproportionately represented in low- wage jobs, lack access to social protection measures, including maternity protection, and are too often subject to discrimination as well as sexual harassment;

Amendment 7 #

Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas the lack of ethical behaviour in business is also a consequence of a lack of good governance, the powerless or non - existence of impartial public authorities acting in the general interest of citizens, whereas corruption and the lack of transparency at any stage of the global value chain could have a negative impact on the promotion of human rights;

Amendment 8 #

Draft opinion
Recital A f (new)

Af. whereas the lack of ethical behaviour in business is also a consequence of the powerlessness or non- existence of impartial public authorities acting in the general interest of citizens; whereas, among other, Export Processing Zones (EPZs) as part of global value chains are often characterized by exemptions from labour laws and taxes and contribute to generating severe problems related to decent work and trade union restrictions;

Amendment 9 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 a (new)

-1a. Highlights that trade and human rights reinforce each other, and business community has an important role to play in offering positive incentives in terms of promoting human rights, democracy, and corporate responsibility; welcomes that women are being an essential part and one of the main beneficiaries of global value chains resulting in more inclusive societies;

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2017/06/07 INTA 296 amendments...

Amendment 1 #

Alessia Maria MOSCA, Emmanuel MAUREL, Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Agnes JONGERIUS, Eric ANDRIEU, David MARTIN, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)

- Having regard to Article 5 of the Treaty of the European Union,

Amendment 10 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas Article 207 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) stipulates that the EU’s trade policy must be built on the principles and objectives of EU external policy; whereas Article 208 of the TFEU establishes the principle of policy coherence for development and sets the eradication of poverty as the main objective; whereas the ‘Trade for All’ communication bases EU trade policy on three key principles – effectiveness, transparency and values – and has a dedicated section on the responsible management of supply chains;

Amendment 100 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Emphasises that trade policy must ensure European competitiveness and a level playing field for European businesses and facilitate upward convergence on standards; calls on the Commission to ensure coherence between the EU’s ~~trade and industrial policies, and to promote the European reindustrialisation strategy and the transition towards a low-carbon economy~~policies of trade, growth, environmental protection and public health;

Amendment 101 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. welcomes the entry into force of the Trade Facilitation Agreement, which if properly implemented, will simplify and modernise customs procedures making it easier for developing countries that generally have larger border barriers to integrate into the global trading system;

Amendment 102 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Believes that further integration of the EU into global value chains must not be to the detriment of the European social and regulatory model and the promotion of sustainable growth;

Amendment 103 #

Maria ARENA, Emmanuel MAUREL, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, David MARTIN, Eric ANDRIEU, Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Sorin MOISĂ, Agnes JONGERIUS, Nicola DANTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Reiterates its call to the Commission and Member states to adopt reinforced trade defence instruments to combat unfair commercial practices, taking into account social and environmental dumping

Amendment 104 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2 a (new)

Welcomes the entry into force of the Trade Facilitation Agreement, which if properly implemented, will simplify and modernise customs procedures making it easier for developing countries that generally have larger border barriers to integrate into the global trading system;

Amendment 105 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission to actively promote further reforms of the WTO in order to define and enforce multilateral rules for the sustainable management of GVCs; which should in particular include: - mandatory supply chain due diligence and transparency requirements, building on the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human rights; - a social protection floor, including minimum living wages;

Amendment 106 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission to actively promote further reforms of the WTO in order to define and enforce multilateral rules for the sustainable management of GVCs; Calls on the Commission to establish within the WTO a group of "very good friend of labour and environmental standards" in order to promote an agreement tackling social and environmental dumping along GVCs also within the framework of the WTO;

Amendment 107 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission to actively promote further reforms of the WTO in order to increase transparency and also to define and enforce multilateral rules for the sustainable management of GVCs;

Amendment 108 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission to ~~actively~~use negotiations to promote further reforms of the WTO in order to define and enforce multilateral rules for trade, including the sustainable management of GVCs;

Amendment 109 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission to actively promote further reforms of the WTO ~~in order to define and enforce multilateral rules for the sustainable management~~to promote sustainability of GVCs;

Amendment 11 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the ‘Trade for All’ communication bases EU trade policy on three key principles – effectiveness, transparency and values – and has a dedicated section on the responsible management of supply chains, reminding also its complexity, the necessity of thinking prospectively and for the involvement of a range of public, private and civil society actors and the use of a mix of soft and innovative tools and legislative changes;

Amendment 110 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission to actively ~~promote further reforms of~~work within the WTO in order to define and ~~enforce~~agree on multilateral rules for the sustainable management of GVCs;

Amendment 111 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Asks the Commission and the Member States to continue to engage actively in all multilateral world forums about Business, GVCs, Human and Labour Rights, Economic Growth and Sustainable Development, promoting the European values enshrined in the Treaties and bearing in mind the necessity for the protection of the particular characteristics of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs);

Amendment 112 #

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Welcomes the ongoing negotiations on a binding UN Treaty for Transnational Corporations and Human Rights; calls for the EU to engage constructively in these negotiations and to contribute to the development of concrete proposals including access to remedies; is convinced that, meanwhile, an EU-wide mandatory due diligence scheme should be inserted into all EU trade and investment agreements;

Amendment 113 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Is of the opinion that international binding rules for Multi National Companies (MNCs) are necessary; Welcomes the ongoing negotiations on a binding UN Treaty for Transnational Corporations and Human Rights; calls for the EUuropean Commission and Member States to engage constructively in these negotiations and to put all its efforts into achieving a positive result;

Amendment 114 #

Alessia Maria MOSCA, Emmanuel MAUREL, Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Agnes JONGERIUS, Eric ANDRIEU, David MARTIN, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

Amendment 115 #

3. Welcomes the on-going negotiations on a binding UN Treaty for Transnational Corporations and Human Rights; calls for the EU and the Member States to engage constructively in these negotiations;

Amendment 116 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Welcomes the ongoing negotiations on a binding UN Treaty for Transnational Corporations and Human Rights; ~~calls for the EU to engage constructively~~Expects the EU to play an active role in these negotiations;

Amendment 117 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Welcomes the ongoing negotiations con ~~a binding UN Treaty for Transnational Corporations and Human Rights;~~cerning the improvement of Human Rights at an UN level and calls for the EU to engage constructively in these ~~negotiation~~debates;

Amendment 118 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Calls on the Member States to accelerate the application and effectiveness of the National Action Plans (NAPs) implementing the UN Guiding Principles (UN GP) on Business and Human Rights; underlines that 8 out of the 13 NAPs already approved are from EU Member States and welcomes the fact that 11 more EU NAPs are being drafted; asks the Commission to assist and promote the implementation of these UNGP;

Amendment 119 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3 b. Welcomes the convergence of the international standards on Business and Human Rights, particularly between the UNGPs and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises;

Amendment 12 #

Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Agnes JONGERIUS, Emmanuel MAUREL

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the ‘Trade for All’ communication bases EU trade policy on three key principles – effectiveness, transparency and values ~~– and has a dedicated section~~; whereas this communication has a dedicated section on responding to the rise of global value chains and also on the responsible management of supply chains;

Amendment 120 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work within the ILO towards the adoption of a new international labour standard for decent work on GVCs, requiring in particular all companies to undertake on-going risk management of the impact of their activities on the human rights of workers and communities and take appropriate measures to prevent, mitigate and provide remedy to those affected by these activities;

Amendment 121 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Welcomes the integral inclusion of Decent Work and the four pillars of the ILO Decent Work Agenda in the UN SDGs; Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work within the UN and ILO towards the ~~adop~~effective application of ~~a new~~these international labour standard ~~for decent work~~s on GVCs;

Amendment 122 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 (new)

National legislation Stresses the importance of implementing, enforcing and transposing existing laws on GVCs at regional, national and international levels;

Amendment 123 #

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3

Corporate ~~accountability and due diligence~~responsibility

Amendment 124 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3 a (new)

States that voluntary corporate social responsibility and self-regulatory mechanisms have in too many situations not led to a sufficient due diligence policy of MNCs and a proactive identification and mitigation of human rights and environmental risks;

Amendment 125 #

Alessia Maria MOSCA, Emmanuel MAUREL, Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Sorin MOISĂ, Agnes JONGERIUS, Eric ANDRIEU, David MARTIN, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Acknowledges the ~~smart mix of regulatory and voluntary action, but recall~~importance of the existence of clear international rules on CSR, GVCs and due diligence; welcomes the smart mix of regulatory and voluntary actions which are being implemented and have been increasing during last years, underlining the good results which have been obtained by these actions; notes that voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR) possibly is not enough and might creates unfair competition for suppliers that have chosen to comply with international labour and environmental standards; reiterates its call for the Commission to include the possible consideration of developing GVC transparency strategies and rules, including through legislation on due diligence in specific sectors, initiating this process by presenting an in depth assessment of the current system and if needed consider additional initiatives; suggests that the EU Institutions and the Member States should initiate a common reflection on the systematic inclusion of binding and enforceable rules, associated sanctions, remedies and ~~independent~~ monitoring mechanisms;

Amendment 126 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Acknowledges the smart mix of regulatory and voluntary action, but recalls that voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR) creates unfair competition for suppliers that have chosen to comply with international labour and environmental standards; reiterates its call for the systematic inclusion of binding and enforceable rules, associated sanctions, remedies and independent monitoring mechanisms; therefore reiterates its call for binding due diligence obligations to be put in place; Stresses that mandatory human rights due diligence should follow the steps required in the UN Guiding Principles and the OECD Guidelines related to the proactive identification of risks to human rights, the drawing up of rigorous and demonstrable action plans to prevent or mitigate these risks, adequate response to known abuses, and transparency;

Amendment 127 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Acknowledges the smart mix of regulatory and voluntary action, but recalls that voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR) creates unfair competition for suppliers that have chosen to comply with international labour and environmental standards; reiterates its call for the systematic inclusion of ~~binding and enforceable rules, associated sanctions, remedies and independent monitoring mechanisms~~enforceable rules, remedies and independent monitoring mechanisms; stresses, therefore, the need to draw up an overview of existing CSR measures being implemented by European businesses, in order to be able to identify good practices more effectively and contribute to the creation of a common action framework at European level;

Amendment 128 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

Amendment 129 #

Alessia Maria MOSCA, Emmanuel MAUREL, Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Agnes JONGERIUS, Eric ANDRIEU, David MARTIN, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ

Amendment 13 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital Aa (new)

Aa. Whereas today free trade has come under increasing public scrutiny and concerns about the inequitable distribution of the benefits and loads of trade have brought to the forefront a largely shared view that trade policy needs to put social and environmental values, as well as transparency and accountability at its core;

Amendment 130 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Acknowledges the smart mix of regulatory and voluntary action, ~~but~~ recalls that voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR) ~~creates unfair competition for suppliers that have chosen to comply with international labour and environmental standard~~should remain the norm for businesses’ management of sustainability in supply chains; reiterates its call for the systematic inclusion of binding ~~and enforceable rules, associated sanctions, remedi~~rules and independent monitoring mechanisms;

Amendment 131 #

Amendment 132 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Acknowledges the smart mix of regulatory and voluntary action, ~~but~~and recalls that voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR) c~~reates unfair competition for suppliers that have chosen to~~ould give companies a competitive advantage to other suppliers by complying with international labour and environmental standards; reiterates its call for ~~the systematic inclusion of binding and enforceable rules, associated sanctions, remedies and~~ independent monitoring mechanisms;

Amendment 133 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Acknowledges the smart mix of regulatory and voluntary action, but recalls that voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR) may creates unfair competition for suppliers that have chosen to comply with international labour and environmental standards; reiterates its call for the systematic inclusion of binding and enforceable rules, associated sanctions, remedies and independent monitoring mechanisms;

Amendment 134 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Acknowledges the smart and effective mix of regulatory and voluntary action, ~~but~~and recalls that voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR) creates unfair competition for suppliers that have chosen to comply with international labour and environmental standards; reiterates its call for the systematic inclusion of binding and enforceable rules, associated sanctions, remedies and independent monitoring mechanismallows businesses to find their own dynamic and innovative measures; stresses that coordination, sharing of information and exchange of best practices may contribute to increasing efficiency of private and public value chain initiatives and achieve positive results;

Amendment 135 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. welcomes the fact that most recently concluded trade agreements contain specific provisions committing the parties to promote CSR; regrets however that not all EU trade agreements benefit yet from the inclusion of such provisions; calls on the Commission to give more prominence to such provisions and promote also the uptake of sectorial OECD guidelines and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and human rights; emphasises the need to engage civil society in a formal way in the implementation process through structures set up under Trade and Sustainable Development chapters; calls on the Commission to support the work of international standardization bodies such as the International Standardization Organization -ISO 2600- and the Global Reporting Initiative, in order to encourage businesses to report on sustainability and value-creation throughout the supply chain

Amendment 136 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Believes that an effective approach includes the active engagement with all stakeholders and with all parts of the supply chain. Furthermore, local governments should be encouraged to work with stakeholders and to arrive at viable solutions to mitigate the risk of human and labour rights violations; is convinced that the EU approach needs to build on, enhance, and bring together existing initiatives at both an EU and international level, as well as harnessing other policy tools in order to contribute to increasing efficiency over the long term;

Amendment 137 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls on the Commission to update its approach to corporate social responsibility with a view to strengthening labour and environmental standards and, in particular, insisting on the inclusion of CSR provisions in the trade and investment agreements negotiated by the EU;

Amendment 138 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Welcomes the initiatives taken by European businesses in the field of CSR; recalls, however, that these actions can only be seen as complementary and hence not substitutes for the responsibilities of governments to fight human rights abuses, social and environmental dumping, and unfair trading practices;

Amendment 139 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5 b. Stresses the importance of implementation, enforcement or transposition of already existing legislation at regional, national and international levels;

Amendment 14 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas global value chains (GVCs) are a complex, technology driven and rapidly changing reality, which have become a key feature of today’s global economy; whereas, on the one hand, GVCs offer new prospects for ~~growth, development and job~~economic growth, sustainable development, job creation and for the involvement of civil society organisations such as Business Associations, Unions or ONGs, but on the other hand, their extremely complex nature, lack of transparency and dilution of liabilities ~~has~~can lead to a higher risk of human rights violations;

Amendment 140 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

~~6. Regrets that the disclosure of non- financial information by large companies has not yet been extended to cover all actors operating in GVCs;~~deleted

Amendment 141 #

Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Agnes JONGERIUS, Emmanuel MAUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

~~6. Regrets that the disclosure of non- financial information by large companies has not yet been extended to cover all actors operating in GVCs;~~deleted

Amendment 142 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Re~~grets~~calls that the European Parliament requested in 2010 that companies should publish their CSR balance sheets, the introduction of due diligence requirements for all undertakings, and the consolidation of the CSR concept on the basis of a harmonised definition of the relations between parent companies in order to establish the legal liability of each them; therefore takes note with satisfaction that the disclosure of non-financial and diversity information will be required from large companies as from 2017 according to the Non- Financial Reporting Directive; regrets however that the disclosure of non- financial information by large companies has not yet been extended to cover all actors operating in GVCs;

Amendment 143 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. ~~Regret~~Underlines that the disclosure of non- financial information by large companies ~~has not yet been extended to cover all actors operating in GVCs~~can also potentially hinder voluntary CSR efforts instead of advancing them;

Amendment 144 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. ~~Regret~~Notes that the disclosure of non- financial information by large companies has not yet been extended to cover all actors operating in GVCs;

Amendment 145 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. ~~Welcom~~Notes the green card initiative launched by some national parliaments following the adoption of the French bill on MNCs’ duty of care; ~~calls on the Comm~~notes that the French Constitutional Council found certain provission ~~to work on a legislative proposal for mandatory~~s of the French law on MNC’s duty of care to violate the French Constitution; recalls that any proposed legislation on corporate due diligence ~~for EU companies operating both in and outside the EU~~in value chains must be fully compatible with the principle of proportionality;

Amendment 146 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Welcomes the green card initiative launched by some national parliaments following the adoption of the French bill on MNCs’ duty of care; calls on the Commission to work on a legislative proposal for mandatory duty of corporate due diligence for EU companies operating both in and outside the EU without repeating the errors of the French law on penalty arrangements rejected by the French Constitutional Council;

Amendment 147 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Welcomes the green card initiative launched by some national parliaments following the adoption of the French bill on MNCs’ duty of care; ~~calls on the Commission to work on a legislative proposal for mandatory corporate due diligence for EU companies operating both in and outside the EU;~~

Amendment 148 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. ~~Welcom~~Notes the green card initiative launched by some national parliaments following the adoption of the French bill on MNCs’ duty of care; recalls ~~on the Commission to work on a legislative proposal for mandatory corporate due diligence for EU companies operating both in and outside the EU~~the European Parliament former resolutions asking the Commission to include the possible consideration of developing legislation on due diligence in specific sectors;

Amendment 149 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. ~~Welcom~~Notes the green card initiative launched by some national parliaments following the adoption of the French bill on MNCs’ duty of care; calls on the Commission to ~~work on a legislative proposal for mandatory corporate due diligence for EU companies operating both in and outside the EU~~step-up work on the EU corporate social responsibility strategy;

Amendment 15 #

Frédérique RIES

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas global value chains (GVCs) have become a key feature of today’s global economy; whereas, on the one hand, GVCs offer new prospects for growth~~, development and jobs, but on the o~~ for firms in a production chain, enabling them to focus on specific tasks whilst increasing their ~~hand, their complex nature, lack of transparency and dilution of liabilities has led to a higher risk~~degree of interdependence at the same time; whereas GVCs are also giving rise to new challenges in the areas of governance and transparency, the fair distribution of industrial clusters and the more stringent monitoring of human rights ~~violations~~;

Amendment 150 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. ~~Welcom~~Notes the green card initiative launched by some national parliaments following the adoption of the French bill on MNCs’ duty of care; calls on the Commission to ~~work on a legislative proposal for mandatory~~further improve the system of incentive-based corporate due diligence for EU companies operating both in and outside the EU;

Amendment 151 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Welcomes the green card initiative launched by some national parliaments following the adoption of the French bill on MNCs’ duty of care; calls on the Commission to work on a legislative proposal for ~~mandatory~~ corporate due diligence for EU companies operating both in and outside the EU;

Amendment 152 #

8. Recalls that CSR policies should take into account the special characteristics of micro- and small enterprises and be flexible enough to ensure that they are not made subject to disproportionate burdens; invites the Commission, therefore, to establish a specific helpdesk for MSMEs and to support them with tailored capacity-building programmes; considers that MNCs could play a constructive role in partnering with MSMEs;

Amendment 153 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Recalls that CSR policies should take into account the special characteristics of micro- and small enterprises; stresses that successfully and broadly implemented aspects of CSR should be made binding in order to protect responsible companies from unfair competitors;

Amendment 154 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Recalls that CSR policies should take into account the special characteristics of micro- and small enterprises, so as not to impose a very heavy administrative burden;

Amendment 155 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Recalls that CSR policies should take into account the special characteristics of ~~micro- and small~~small and medium-sized enterprises;

Amendment 156 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Recalls that CSR policies ~~should~~must take into account the special characteristics of ~~micro- and small~~ small and medium-enterprises;

Amendment 157 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Recalls that CSR policies should take into account the special characteristics of ~~micro- and small enterprise~~MSMEs;

Amendment 158 #

Maria ARENA, Emmanuel MAUREL, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, David MARTIN, Eric ANDRIEU, Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Agnes JONGERIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Welcomes the many promising initiatives taken by the private sector, such as codes of conduct, labelling, self- assessment and social audits, which have significantly contributed to recent improvements in human rights and workers' rights standards in global supply chains;

Amendment 159 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8 a. Calls on the EU to step up international cooperation and legislative coherence regarding end of life products and materials at the very end of the GVC and help partner countries develop stronger national regulations and enforcement capacities ;calls on the EU to ensure that traceability applies to this spectrum of the GVC;

Amendment 16 #

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas global value chains (GVCs) have become a key feature of today’s global economy; whereas, on the one hand, GVCs ~~offer new prospects for growth, development and job~~have helped developing countries to integrate into the global economy, reduce poverty and create jobs, while at the same time boosting production capacity, including by diffusing technology and skills, but on the other hand, their complex nature, lack of transparency and dilution of liabilities has led to a higher risk of human rights violations;

Amendment 160 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Notes that the current public procurement directive makes it possible to set up social and environmental criteria; urges the Commission to update the public procurement directive from voluntary to binding obligations on environmental and social standards;

Amendment 161 #

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8b. Notes that the Commission and other EU institutions could by their public procurement policies have a major influence on the CSR behaviour of companies and other private partners; urges these institutions to lead by example and to implement a sustainable procurement policy in which they only offer service and product contracts to tenders with the highest environmental and social standards;

Amendment 162 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8b. Stresses that the coordination and exchange of information and best practices can help to make private and public value chain initiatives more effective;

Amendment 163 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – introductory part

9. ~~Calls on~~Welcomes the new trade and investment strategy for the European Union “Trade for All”; asks the Commission to address in its trade policy and FTAs, when appropriate, the challenges associated with ~~the rise of~~ GVCs by taking into consideration the following measures;

Amendment 164 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – introductory part

9. Calls on the Commission to address in its trade and investment policy and FTAs the challenges associated with the rise of GVCs by taking the following measures;

Amendment 165 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – introductory part

9. Calls on the Commission to address in its trade policy and FTAs the challenges associated with the rise of GVCs by ~~taking the following measures;~~:

Amendment 166 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point a

a) implementing fully Parliament’s recommendations of 2010 and 2016 with respect to TSD chapters in FTAs, including by developing an upgraded TSD chapter model with binding and enforceable provisions; and particularly with following features:

Amendment 167 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point a

a) ~~implementing fully Parliament’s recom~~ensuring effective implemendtations of ~~2010 and 2016 with respect to TSD chapters in FTAs, including by developing an upgraded TSD chapter model with binding and enforceable provisions;~~TSD chapters in FTAs

Amendment 168 #

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point a

a) effectively implementing ~~fully Parliament’s recommendations of 2010 and 2016 with respect to~~ TSD chapters in FTAs, including by developing an upgraded TSD chapter model with ~~binding and enforceable provis~~provisions based on multilateral conventions including the eight core ILO conventions and the multilateral environmental agreements and avoiding any approach that includes sanctions;

Amendment 169 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point a

Amendment 17 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas global value chains (GVCs) have become a key feature of today’s global economy; whereas, on the one hand, GVCs offer new prospects for growth, development and jobs, but on the other hand, their complex nature, lack of transparency and dilution of liabilities has led to a higher risk of human rights violations; whereas the fragmentation of production structured around the GVC can enhance the role of women in the economy because of the wide range of opportunities that it creates;

Amendment 170 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point a

a) implementing fully Parliament’s recommendations of 2010 and 2016 with respect to TSD chapters in FTAs, including by developing an upgraded TSD chapter model ~~with binding and enforceable provisions~~s, more effective monitoring and implementation of these chapters is crucial;

Amendment 171 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point a

(a) implementing fully Parliament’s recommendations of 2010 and 2016 with respect to TSD chapters in FTAs, including by developing an upgraded TSD chapter model ~~with binding and enforceable provisions~~;

Amendment 172 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point a a (new)

aa) before a) - strengthening ex-ante Trade Sustainability Impact Assessments (TSIAs), adding assessment requirements on human rights and on gender, and making ex-post TSIAs with civil society input mandatory and publicly available;

Amendment 173 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point b

b) including enforceable anti- corruption and whistle-blower protection provisions in all future FTAs; in this regard, stresses that signatory parties of trade agreements should take measures to promote active participation of the private sector, of the civil society organisations as well as of the domestic advisory groups in the implementation of the anti-corruption programmes and clauses in international trade and investment deals

Amendment 174 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point b

b) including, enforceable anti- corruption and whistle-blower, protection provisions ~~in all~~, when feasible, in future FTAs;

Amendment 175 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point b

b) including enforceable anti- corruption ~~and whistle-blower protection provis~~provisions within the competence of the European Unions in all future FTAs;

Amendment 176 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point b

b) including ~~enforceable~~ anti- corruption ~~and whistle-blower protection~~ provisions in all future FTAs;

Amendment 177 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point b

b) including enforceable anti- corruption ~~and whistle-blower protection~~ provisions in ~~all~~ future FTAs;

Amendment 178 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point b

(b) including ~~enforceable~~ anti- corruption and whistle-blower protection provisions in all future FTAs;

Amendment 179 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point c

~~c) including standstill clauses fixing a minimum level for social, environmental and safety standards in all EU FTAs;~~deleted

Amendment 18 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas global value chains (GVCs) ~~have~~are about to become a key feature of today’s global economy; whereas, on the one hand, GVCs ~~offer new prospects for growth, develop~~will profoundly change employment forms and conditions, the consequences of which on workers' rights, empowerment of ment and ~~jobs, but on the other hand,~~women and gender equality are yet to be analysed; on the other hand, it is already clear that their complex nature, lack of transparency and dilution of liabilities ~~has led~~leads to a higher risk of human rights violations;

Amendment 180 #

Emmanuel MAUREL, Eric ANDRIEU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point c

~~c) including standstill clauses fixing a minimum level for social, environmental and safety standards in all EU FTAs;~~deleted

Amendment 181 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point c

c) including standstill clauses fixing a minimum level for social, environmental and safety standards in all EU FTAs, thus preventing the Parties from lowering their social, environmental and safety norms in order to promote exports and attract investments;

Amendment 182 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point c

(c) including ~~standstill clauses fix~~in all EU FTAs ambitious undertakings a ~~minimum level for social~~s regards labour, environmental and safety standards in a~~ll EU FTAs~~ form to be determined with the partners (ratchet clause, standstill clause, thresholds, etc.);

Amendment 183 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point c

c) including the possibility for the introduction of standstill clauses fixing a minimum level for social, environmental and safety standards in all EU FTAs;

Amendment 184 #

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point c

(c) including standstill clauses fixing a minimum level for social, environmental ~~and safety~~, safety and animal welfare standards in all EU FTAs;

Amendment 185 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point c

c) including standstill clauses fixing a minimum level for social, food safety, environmental and safety standards in all EU FTAs;

Amendment 186 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point c

c) ~~including standstill clauses fixing a minimum level for~~continue promoting social, environmental and safety standards in all EU FTAs;

Amendment 187 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point c

c) including standstill clauses defixning a minimum level for social, environmental and safety standards in all EU FTAs;

Amendment 188 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point c

c) including ~~standstill clauses fixing a minimum level~~effective monitoring mechanisms for social, environmental and safety standards in ~~all~~ EU FTAs;

Amendment 189 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point d

d) including provisions on cooperation in the fight against money laundering, tax evasion and tax avoidance in FTAs, which are duly reflected in market opening requirements for financial services;

Amendment 19 #

Emmanuel MAUREL, Eric ANDRIEU

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas global value chains (GVCs) have become a key feature of today’s global economy; whereas, on the one hand, GVCs offer new prospects for growth, development and jobs, but on the other hand, their complex nature, lack of transparency and dilution of liabilities has led to a higher risk of human and labour rights violations, factual impunity for environmental crimes, and large scale tax avoidance and fraught;

Amendment 190 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point d

d) including provisions on tax transparency (including key transparency standards of the OECD) and cooperation in the fight against money laundering, tax evasion and tax avoidance in FTAs;

Amendment 191 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point d

(d) including provisions on cooperation into promote tax transparency and the fight against money laundering, tax evasion and tax avoidance in FTAs;

Amendment 192 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point d

d) including provisions onto enhance cooperation ion the fight against money laundering, tax evasion and tax avoidance in FTAs;

Amendment 193 #

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

d) including provisions on cooperation in the fight against money laundering, tax ~~evasion~~fraud and tax ~~avoidance~~evasion in FTAs;

Amendment 194 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point e

e) supplementing all these provisions with supporting measures for developing countries and rigorously monitoring their implementation in conjunction with the national parliaments and civil society and including complaint and appeal procedures;

Amendment 195 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point e

e) supplementing all these provisions with supporting measures for ~~developing~~our partner countries and rigorously monitoring their implementation in conjunction with the national parliaments and ~~civil society~~all interested stakeholders;

Amendment 196 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point e

(e) supplementing all these provisions with supporting measures for developing countries and rigorously monitoring their implementation in conjunction with the national parliaments, firms and civil society;

Amendment 197 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point e

e) supplementing all these provisions with supporting measures for developing countries and rigorously monitoring their implementation in ~~conjunction with the~~cluding through inputs from national parliaments and civil society;

Amendment 198 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point e

Amendment 199 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – subparagraph 1 (new)

Recalls the key role SMEs can play in GVCs on one hand, and the benefits of increased integration of SMEs into GVCs on the other; calls on the Commission to include SME Chapters in all future trade agreements; further calls on the Commission in this context to evaluate existing support structures available to SMEs wanting to access GVCs, to review and, if necessary, update the strategy "Small Business, Big World" from 2011 to further facilitate SMEs engagement in GVCs;

Amendment 2 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)

- having regard to its resolution of 16 May 2017 on the evaluation of external aspects of customs performance and management as a tool to facilitate trade and fight illicit trade;

Amendment 20 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

Amendment 200 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point e a (new)

e a) increasing link between priorities agreed bilaterally for the implementation of sustainable development chapters of FTAs and the funding support from the EU development cooperation programmes;

Amendment 201 #

Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Agnes JONGERIUS, Emmanuel MAUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9 a. Underlines that GVCs often include production and services in Export Production Zones (EPZs), where labour and environmental rights are restricted; suggests to dedicate special chapters in FTAs on minimum requirements in accordance with ILO and international environmental conventions for production and services in EPZs to allow for their inclusion into the benefits of FTAs and other forms of preferential trade agreements;

Amendment 202 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9 a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that social and environmental standards subscribed to in FTAs apply throughout the territory of trade partners, including in Export Processing Zones (EPZs);

Amendment 203 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9 a. calls on the Commission to ensure that social and environmental standards subscribed to in FTAs apply throughout the territory of trade partners

Amendment 204 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 4 a (new)

Creating more prominent role for private sector initiatives

Amendment 205 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Emphasizes the achievements of private sector engagement; the private sector needs to pursue sustainability strategies not only to prevent damage to their reputation, but also because it offers them new opportunities and reduces their dependence on scarce resources;

Amendment 206 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9b. Stresses the crucial role of consumer (and effects of bad publicity);no consumer wants continue buying products made by children, exploited men and women or products that caused major environmental damage;

Amendment 207 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)

9c. Calls on the European Commission to find new ways how to support private sector efforts to make global value chains more sustainable, to develop inclusive business models and related private sector multi- stakeholder partnerships;

Amendment 208 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 4 b (new)

Funding

Amendment 209 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 d (new)

9d. Emphasises that smart mix between private and public funding is needed to promote sustainable global value chains: this should build on the existing structures and programmes that have proven successful in promoting responsible business conduct.

Amendment 21 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas global value chains (GVCs) have become a key feature of today’s global economy; whereas, on the one hand, GVCs offer new prospects for growth, development and jobs~~, but on the other hand, their complex nature, lack of transparency and dilution of liabilities has led to a higher risk of human rights violation~~; whereas GVCs offer the possibility to reap the benefits of differences in comparative advantage in different processes;

Amendment 210 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5

Labelling, traceability and customs data

Amendment 211 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5

~~Labelling~~Transparency

Amendment 212 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Calls the EU to work towards the introduction of a mandatory ‘social and environmental traceability’ labelling system along the entire production chain for products sold on the EU market, in compliance with the WTO TBT Agreement;deleted

Amendment 213 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. ~~Calls the EU to work towards~~Underlines that the EU could promote the introduction of an mandatory international ‘social and environmental traceability’ labelling system ~~along the entire production chain~~ for products sold oin ~~the EU~~international markets, in compliance with the WTO TBT Agreement;

Amendment 214 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Calls the EU to work towards the introduction of a ~~mandatory~~ ‘social and environmental traceability’ labelling system ~~along the entire production chain~~ for products sold on the EU market, in compliance with the WTO TBT Agreement;

Amendment 215 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Calls on the EU to work towards the ~~introduction of a mandatory~~further development of the EU eco- labelling system to improve ‘social and environmental traceability’ ~~labelling system~~ along the entire production chain for products sold on the EU market, in compliance with the WTO TBT Agreement;

Amendment 216 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Calls the EU to ~~work towards the introduction of a mandatory~~analyse adequate and efficient solutions for a transparent ‘social and environmental traceability’ labelling system along the entire production chain for products sold on the EU market, in compliance with the WTO TBT Agreement;

Amendment 217 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Calls the EU to work towards the introduction of ~~a mandatory~~ ‘social and environmental traceability’ labelling system along the entire production chain for products sold on the EU market, in compliance with the WTO TBT Agreement;

Amendment 218 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Calls on the EU to work towards the introduction of a ~~mandatory~~ ‘social and environmental traceability’ labelling system along the entire production chain for products sold on the EU market, in compliance with the WTO TBT Agreement;

Amendment 219 #

Bernd LANGE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10 a. Calls on the Commission to support the awareness and uptake of existing Fair Trade schemes, as mentioned in the EU's "Trade for All" strategy, both in the framework of the EU plan for sustainability and the European Consensus for Development

Amendment 22 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas global value chains (GVCs) ~~have becom~~are a key feature of today’s global economy; whereas~~, on the one hand, GVCs offer~~ GVCs provide many benefits and new prospects for growth, development and jobs~~, but on the other hand, their complex nature, lack~~; whereas due to their complex nature, GVCs also present challenges ofn transparency and ~~dilution of liabilities has led to a higher risk of human rights violations~~responsibility, which need to be addressed;

Amendment 220 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

~~11. Calls for improved labelling legislation on the origin of products entering the EU market;~~deleted

Amendment 221 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. C~~alls for improved~~onsiders that an in-depth and comprehensive study is needed to determine if labelling legislation on the origin of products entering the EU market could be improved to increase transparency in the context of GVCs;

Amendment 222 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls for ~~improved~~the unblocking of the mandatory labelling legislation on the origin of products entering the EU market, or for other legislation to be brought forward that ensures full traceability;

Amendment 223 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls for ~~improved~~an impact assessment and a feasibility study about a possible labelling legislation on the origin of products entering the EU market;

Amendment 224 #

Alessia Maria MOSCA, Emmanuel MAUREL, Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Sorin MOISĂ, Agnes JONGERIUS, Eric ANDRIEU, David MARTIN, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls for improved, clear labelling legislation on the origin of products entering the EU market;

Amendment 225 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11 a. stresses the need for harmonised rules and a reinforced EU coordination and supervision of the application of import duties by Member States (including conventional, anti-dumping and countervailing duties) on all types of commodities and goods, especially involving false declarations of origin (in both preferential and non-preferential regimes) and undervaluation and wrong description of goods;

Amendment 226 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

~~12. Calls on the Member States to disclose to the public upon request the customs data collected from parties trading in products or goods imported into the EU;~~deleted

Amendment 227 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

~~12. Calls on the Member States to disclose to the public upon request the customs data collected from parties trading in products or goods imported into the EU;~~deleted

Amendment 228 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

~~12. Calls on the Member States to disclose to the public upon request the customs data collected from parties trading in products or goods imported into the EU;~~deleted

Amendment 229 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Member States to disclose to the public upon request, while making sure to safeguard confidential information, the customs data collected from parties trading in products or goods imported into the EU;

Amendment 23 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

B a. Whereas participation in GVCs is beneficial for SMEs in terms of growth and internationalisation;whereas according to the Eurobarometer survey "Internationalisation of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises" from 2015, only 31% of SMEs in the EU were involved in business outside the Internal Market over the last three years; whereas many SMEs face difficulties securing access to international and EU-based GVCs; whereas trade policy and trade agreements can help overcome current barriers and challenges SMEs face in accessing GVCs;

Amendment 230 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Commission to make it mandatory for the Member States to disclose to the public upon request the customs data collected from parties trading in products or goods imported into the EU;

Amendment 231 #

12. Calls on the Member States to ~~disclose to the public upon request the customs data collected from parties trading in products or goods imported into the EU~~ensure an efficient functioning of all customs operations;

Amendment 232 #

Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Agnes JONGERIUS, Emmanuel MAUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Member States to disclose to the public ~~upon request~~, on the internet, the customs data collected from parties trading in products or goods imported into the EU;

Amendment 233 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Reaffirms the urgent need to effectively address human rights abuses by transnational corporations when they appear, and to address the legal problems resulting from the extra-territorial dimension of companies in particular through the establishment of joint legal liabilities throughout supply chains; calls on Member States to take appropriate steps to tackle the financial and procedural hurdles faced in civil litigation by victims of human rights infringements;

Amendment 234 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Invites the Commission to submit a proposal on the extension of jurisdictional rules under the Brussels I Regulation to third-country defendants in cases brought against companies with a clear link with one Member State or companies for which the EU is an essential outlet;deleted

Amendment 235 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

Amendment 236 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

Amendment 237 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. ~~Invites the Commission to submit a proposal~~Encourages reflexion on the extension of jurisdictional rules under the Brussels I Regulation to third-country defendants in cases brought against companies with a clear link with one Member State or companies for which the EU is an essential outlet;

Amendment 238 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13 a. Urges the Commission to elaborate data on barriers currently limiting or preventing access to remedies and propose legal terms and practical ways for victims how to overcome these limitations with respect to European companies operating outside and inside the boundaries of the European Union;

Amendment 239 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7

~~Gender equality and c~~Children’s rights

Amendment 24 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

B a. whereas the development of global value chains further contributes to services integration into the production of goods; whereas a lot of value of imported goods has been added through services from importing countries;

Amendment 240 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Deplores the fact that gender is not mentioned in the Trade for All strategy; calls on the Commission to ensure that gender perspective is included and mainstreamed in trade policy, the Aid for Trade strategy, and all future FTAs and impact assessments; calls on the Commission to collect gender- disaggregated data and take gender into account in GVC analysis;deleted

Amendment 241 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

Amendment 242 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Deplores the fact that gender is not mentioned in the Trade for All strategy, and calls on the Commission to take this matter into account when conducting the mid-term assessment and revision of its strategy; calls on the Commission to ensure that gender perspective is included and mainstreamed in trade policy, the Aid for Trade strategy, and all future FTAs and impact assessments; calls on the Commission to co~~llect gender- disaggregated data and take gender into account in GVC analysis;~~ ntinue its talks and negotiations with a view to ensuring that the WTO takes gender equality into account in its trade policy; calls on the Commission to collect gender- disaggregated data and take gender into account in GVC analysis; welcomes the fact that the issue of gender equality is being addressed in the negotiations on updating the EU-Chile agreement and will be dealt with in the future updated agreement;

Amendment 243 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Deplores the fact that gender is not mentioned in the Trade for All strategy; calls on the Commission to ensure that the gender perspective is included and mainstreamed in trade and investment policy, the Aid for Trade strategy, and all future FTAs and impact assessments; calls on the Commission to collect gender- disaggregated data ~~and take gender into account in GVC analysi~~for GVCs, taking into account women's empowerment beyond access to salary, factors leading to violence against women and social factors such as parental leave and health with a view to elaborate legal forms to overcome negative side effects of GVCs;

Amendment 244 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. ~~Deplor~~Welcomes the fact that gender ~~is not mentioned~~equality is firmly established in all EU Policies as stated in Article 8 of the TFEU; Nevertheless, there is no mention to gender in the Trade for All strategy; calls on the Commission to ensure that gender perspective is included and mainstreamed in trade policy, the Aid for Trade strategy, and all future FTAs and impact assessments; calls on the Commission to collect gender- disaggregated data, especially in the agricultural sector and take gender into account in GVC analysis;

Amendment 245 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. ~~Deplores~~Takes note of the fact that gender isaspects of trade are not mentioned in the Trade for All strategy; calls on the Commission to ensure that gender perspective is included and mainstreamed in trade policy, the Aid for Trade strategy, and all future FTAs and impact assessments; calls on the Commission to collect gender- disaggregated data and take gender into account in GVC analysisvaluate the effects of EU trade policy on equality between women and men;

Amendment 246 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. ~~Deplores the fact that gender is not mentioned~~Highlights the necessity of introducing a gender perspective and focusing on women empowerment in particular in the Trade for All strategy; calls on the Commission to ensure that gender perspective is included and mainstreamed in trade policy, the Aid for Trade strategy, and all future FTAs and impact assessments; calls on the Commission to collect gender- disaggregated data and take gender into account in GVC analysis;

Amendment 247 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Calls for a comprehensive analysis on the differences and inequalities in the framework of global value chains: (i) gender differences in time use, mainly resulting from women’s primary responsibility for reproductive work; (ii) gender differences in access to productive inputs and resources, particularly land, credit, training, and networks; and (iii) gender differences stemming from market and institutional failures and discrimination;

Amendment 248 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Underlines that non-traditional labour forms, such as subcontracting and informal work are a very common, if not the main feature of production and services in GVCs, that these forms often escape ILO and other standards, and that they are disproportionally carried out by women and children; underlines that particular attention has to be paid to the development of a gender perspective in countervailing remedies and regress options;

Amendment 249 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)

14b. Understands EU trade policy should be a tool to address gender challenges and promote gender equality; notes that the EU and Member States should integrate a gender perspective in international trade as well as EU’s trade policies on Global Value Chains, to better understand and tackle the gender implications of trade;

Amendment 25 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

B a. Whereas trade policy must contribute to ensure a transparent production process throughout the value chain, as well as compliance with fundamental environmental, social and safety standards;

Amendment 250 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)

14c. Calls on the EU and Member States to elaborate and include a gender impact assessment and a gender risk evaluation in any EU trade agreement or in any analysis of global value chains. These assessments will evaluate potential positive and negative effects on gender equality that will be considered in order to introduce preventive measures.EU trade authorities should count with gender equality experts for producing these analysis;

Amendment 251 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 d (new)

14d. Calls for the binding and enforceable application of the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) core labour standards and of its Decent Work Agenda, given that ILO standards are particularly relevant to improving gender equality because of their principles of non-discrimination on the grounds of sex and equal pay for men and women, as well as international environmental protection commitments in EU preferential trade agreements;

Amendment 252 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 e (new)

14 e. Calls for a broad-based effective and transparent participation of women and women’s rights organisations and trade unions, into the policy framework of the GVCs;

Amendment 253 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 f (new)

14 f. Stresses that the EU and Member States, when negotiating trade agreements, should be concerned with not only improving global social and environmental standards and a fairer and equitable global model of trade, but also with promoting gender equality within the GVCs by ensuring adequate work conditions and rights for women throughout their supply chains, and to avoid sourcing material from conflict areas where there is widespread gender- based violence;

Amendment 254 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 g (new)

14 g. Supports the introduction of gender budgeting in international EU´s trade to be aligned with the EU´s trade policy key principles of effectiveness, transparency and values; stresses gender budgeting is an important strategy to address and advance gender equality; notes gender budgeting requires increased gender expertise;

Amendment 255 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 h (new)

14h. Warns against the negative impacts of trade expansion and liberalisation on the quality of employment, as well as the risk of increasing labour trafficking of persons; stresses that women tend to be the ones suffering most and that very often in the case of women, labour trafficking of persons runs in parallel with sexual trafficking and femicides;

Amendment 256 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 i (new)

14i. Proposes that international trade and EU´s trade policies on Global Value Chains should include and develop a specific strategy to formally protect individuals who denounce practices of femicides, labour trafficking of persons and sexual trafficking and to defend the victims of the latter; stresses these denouncers should be given a similar recognition and protection as requested in the case of “whistle-blowers”, in the field of international and EU trade;

Amendment 257 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Underlines the importance of the ratification of ILO Conventions No. 182 on the worst forms of child labour and No. 138 on the minimum age for admission to employment and work by the Countries which haven’t done it; recalls the EU is committed to eradicating the worst forms of child labour at a global level, as this arises from our values, which include the prohibition of child labour in our external action as enshrined in Article 21 TEU; Reiterates its call for the strengthening of import and supply chain controls to ensure that only forced labour free and child labour- free products enter the EU market; calls on the Commission and the Member States to vigorously defend this proposal in all international forums;

Amendment 258 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Reiterates its call for the strengthening of import and supply chain controls to ensure that only child labour- free products enter the EU market; stresses the importance of including the objective of combating forced labour and child labour in EU trade agreements in the form of chapters on sustainable development, so that both parties are committed to achieving it; draws attention to the need for the EU to contribute at international level to the discussions with the ILO, the OECD, the United Nations and the WTO in order to make progress in combating forced labour and child labour;

Amendment 259 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Calls on the Commission to step- up its commitment to eliminate child labour and promote universal implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, ILO Conventions No 138 on Minimum Age and No 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour; Reiterates its call for the strengthening of import and supply chain controls to ensure that only child labour- free products enter the EU market;

Amendment 26 #

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas EU trade policy must strengthen Europe’s place in global supply chains, but must also be a tool with which to establish clear rules and liabilities for governments and multinational companies (MNCs) in order to ensure compliance with the UN Sustainable Development Goals; Whereas sustainability and transparency are not only a matter of values but should also be seen as real drivers of increased added value in global trade and investment in the context of Global Value Chains

Amendment 260 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Reiterates its call for the strengthening of import and supply chain controls to ensure that only child labour- free products enter the EU market; Emphasizes against this background that the aim of child labour free products could only be achieved if this goes hand in hand with the establishment of minimum living wages of the child’s family members;;

Amendment 261 #

Bernd LANGE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Reiterates its call for the strengthening of import and supply chain controls to ensure that only child labour- free products enter the EU market; including support to existing initiatives working to support Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and small farmer organizations to gain a larger share of value in GVS, such as Fair Trade

Amendment 262 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Reiterates its call for the strengthening of import and supply chain controls to ensure that only child labour- free products, as defined by the International Labour Organisation, enter the EU market;

Amendment 263 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Reiterates its call for~~the~~ harmonisation and strengthening of import and supply chain controls to ensure that only child labour-free products and those not resulting from other forms of modern slavery enter the EU market;

Amendment 264 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Reiterates its call for the strengthening of effective import and supply chain controls to ensure that only child labour- free products enter the EU market;

Amendment 265 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15 a. Strongly supports the Council Conclusions of 20 June 2016 to encourage “the High Representative and the Commission to explore how the EU can step up its contribution to the realisation of UN SDG target 8.7 which calls for measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms.”

Amendment 266 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 8

DGlobal value chains and development prospects for developing countries

Amendment 267 #

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. ~~Not~~Underlines that GVCs are an extremely important opportunity for firms in developing countries, particularly MSMEs to develop a link with the global economy; stresses that ~~complementary~~specific policies and accompanying measures are key to making this a reality in our trade partners, particularly policies aimed at eliminating the so-called ‘context costs’ or to help these companies escalating in the added value scale and expanding their participation in Global Value Chains;

Amendment 268 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Notes that GVCs are an opportunity for firms in developing countries to develop a link with the global economy; stresses that complementary policies and accompanying measures are key to making this a reality; States that the application of the current GSP and GSP+, without binding rules on MNCs on human and labour rights and environmental protection, favours especially the MNCs and does not automatically lead to a higher welfare position of the country’s average citizens;

Amendment 269 #

Frédérique RIES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Notes that GVCs are an opportunity for firms in developing countries to develop a link with the global economy and thus become integrated into production networks; stresses that complementary policies and accompanying measures ~~are key to making this a reality~~(environment conducive to FDI, targeted industrial policies, facilitating imports, better connectivity, etc.) are needed to make GVCs a driving force for development;

Amendment 27 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas EU trade policy must maintain the multilateral system as its cornerstone, it also must strengthen Europe’s p~~lace~~osition in global supply chains, ~~but must also be a tool with which~~and promote tools to establish clear rules and liabilities for governments and ~~multinational~~also for companies ~~(MNCs)~~ in order to ensure compliance with the UN Sustainable Development Goals;

Amendment 270 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

Amendment 271 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. ~~Notes that GVCs are an opportunity for firms in developing countries to develop a link with~~Underlines the contribution of sustainable global value chains to the prosperity of developing countries and their integration in the global economy; stresses that complementary policies and accompanying measures are key to making this a reality;

Amendment 272 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

Amendment 273 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 – subparagraph 1 (new)

Notes that many developing countries are limited in their capacity and resources to effectively enforce compliance with social and environmental standards and regulations; calls on the EU to strengthen capacity building and provide governments of partner developing countries with technical assistance whenever possible and needed

Amendment 274 #

Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Agnes JONGERIUS, Emmanuel MAUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16 a. urges the Commission to recognise established sustainability criteria and minimum requirements for the detection and certification systems on the basis of international conventions, such as the core labour standards of the International Labour Organization or the protection of biodiversity; calls on the Commission to make full use of the provisions of Regulation (EU) 978/2012 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences, with view to limit the scope for arbitrary decisions and enhance the credibility of GSP+ in adopting a delegated act to clarify the definitions of a "serious failure to effectively implement" an international conventions and "serious and systematic violation of principles" contained in an international convention

Amendment 275 #

Bernd LANGE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16 a. Calls on the Commission to support the effective participation of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Global Value Chains (GVCs), by supporting partnerships between SMEs and small farmer groups in developing countries that aim to secure a larger share of value for producers, while ensuring a high level of social, environmental and human rights protection, such as Fair Trade

Amendment 276 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16 a. Calls on the European Commission to ensure that human rights conditions linked to unilateral trade preferences granted under the General Scheme of Preferences (GSP) are effectively enforced and monitored, and that procedures foreseen for cases of possible non-compliance with these conditions are implemented, in full compliance with the GSP Regulation;

Amendment 277 #

Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Agnes JONGERIUS, Emmanuel MAUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)

16 b. Calls on the Commission to make full use of the provisions of Regulation (EU) 978/2012 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences, with view to limit the scope for arbitrary decisions and enhance the credibility of GSP+ in adopting a delegated act to clarify the definitions of a "serious failure to effectively implement" an international conventions and "serious and systematic violation of principles" contained in an international convention;

Amendment 278 #

Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Agnes JONGERIUS, Emmanuel MAUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Expects the GSP mid-term review to clarify definitions and include additional tariff preferences for sustainably produced products; takes the view that trade policy must be a way to encourage the EU’s partner countries to adopt higher social, labour and environmental standards and therefore calls on the Commission to implement corrective measures such as the inclusion of CSR in the revision in the GSP Regulation in order to ensure compliance by transnational corporations with national and international legal obligations in the areas of human rights, labour standards and environmental rules

Amendment 279 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Expects the GSP mid-term review to clarify definitions and include additional tariff preferences for sustainably produced products; takes the view that trade policy must be a way to encourage the EU’s trade partners to adopt higher social, labour and environmental standards; believes that this objective requires a revision of the GSP Regulation, in particular to include CSR conditions within its scope, in order to ensure compliance by transnational corporations with national and international legal obligations in the areas of human rights, labour and environmental standards;

Amendment 28 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas EU trade policy must strengthen Europe’s place in a system of fair global supply chains, but must also be a tool with which to establish clear rules and liabilities for governments and multinational companies (MNCs) in order to ensure compliance with the UN Sustainable Development Goals;

Amendment 280 #

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Expects the GSP mid-term review to clarify definitions and include ~~additional tariff preferences for sustainably produced products~~preferences for services; underlines that any preferences for products based on their way of production must be fully compatible with WTO law; asks the Commission to evaluate the incentives for GSP+ beneficiaries to comply with the relevant conventions in the latter part of the current GSP programme;

Amendment 281 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Expects the GSP mid-term review to clarify definitions and include additional tariff preferences for sustainably produced products; Calls for special attention towards the Export Processing Zones where labour rights and trade unions rights are often violated; urges the Commission in close cooperation with the ILO to address this issue in the review of GSP;

Amendment 282 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Expects the GSP mid-term review to clarify definitions ~~and~~, include additional tariff preferences for sustainably produced products and bring about proposals for substantive improvements of the GSP+ regime, with a more transparent establishment of the scorecards, monitoring and measures taken, involving civil society actors, and with clear remedy mechanisms;

Amendment 283 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Expects the GSP mid-term review towill clarify definitions and ~~include additional tariff preferences for~~provide incentives for trade in sustainably produced products;

Amendment 284 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Expects the GSP mid-term review to clarify definitions and ~~include additional tariff preferences for~~further contribute to sustainabl~~y produced~~e productsion;

Amendment 285 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17 a. Calls on the Commission to support the effective participation of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Global Value Chains (GVCs), by supporting match-making and partnerships amongst SMEs and between EU SMEs and small farmer groups in developing countries that aim to secure a larger share of value, while ensuring a high level of social, environmental and Human Rights protection, such as Fair Trade

Amendment 286 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17 a. Calls on the Commission to incorporate commitments on services in 'Mode 5' in future FTAs to ensure the competitiveness of the European service providers;

Amendment 287 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Notes that simplified, effective and preferential RoO are key in the context of GVCs; calls on the Commission to ensure RoO coherence across FTAs and consistency with the transparency and accountability objectives laid out in this resolution;

Amendment 288 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Notes that preferential RoO are key in the context of GVCs; ~~calls on the Commission to ensure RoO coherence across FTA~~recognises that inflexibility and complexity of RoOs can~~d consistency with the transparency and accountability objectives laid out in this resolution~~ hamper the efficiency of trade patterns;

Amendment 289 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18 a. Intellectual property rights and data flows Welcomes the Commission’s commitment to protect the entire spectrum of IPRs including patents, trademarks, copyright, designs, geographical indications (GIs), marking of origin and pharmaceuticals, while ensuring access to affordable medicines, both at WTO level and through FTAs; calls on the Commission to take further action on the possible extension of geographical indication protection to non- agricultural products, as it happens already in several third countries via different legal systems; calls for an open and inclusive process for improved cooperation with third partners to combat fraud and counterfeit goods that take advantage of trust in trademarks and brand names;

Amendment 29 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas EU trade policy must strengthen Europe’s place in global supply chains~~, but must also be a tool with which to establish clear rules and liabilities for governments and multinational companies (MNCs) in order to ensure compliance wit~~; whereas trade policy can also be a tool to help governments and business pursue international commitments, such the UN Sustainable Development Goals;

Amendment 290 #

Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Agnes JONGERIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18 a. Recognises that digital innovation and data flows are crucial drivers of the services economy and an essential element of the GVC of traditional manufacturing companies and therefore forced localisation requirements should be curbed to the extent possible within and outside Europe while accommodating necessary exemptions based on legitimate public purposes such as consumer protection and the protection of fundamental rights; recalls that data flows protection and the right to privacy are not a trade barrier but fundamental rights, enshrined in Article 39 TEU, Articles 7 and 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union as well as Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Amendment 291 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18 a. Recognises that digital innovation and data flows are crucial drivers of the services economy and an essential element of the GVCs in traditional manufacturing sectors; believes therefore that forced localisation requirements should be curbed to the extent possible within and outside the EU while accommodating necessary exemptions based on public purposes such as consumer protection and the protection of fundamental rights; recalls that data flows protection and the right to privacy are not a trade barrier but fundamental rights, enshrined in Article 39 TEU, Articles 7 and 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union as well as Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;

Amendment 292 #

18a. Calls on the Commission, to the extent possible, to use multilateral RoOs as preferential RoOs in FTAs; calls on the Commission when designing specific preferential RoOs in FTAs to lower requirements of value added, and allow for change of tariff subheading and “single transformation” as a RoOs;

Amendment 293 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)

18b. Asks the Commission, specifically in the case of negotiations on FTAs with countries currently benefiting from GSP and EBA preferences, to ensure that RoOs design do not divert economic processes;

Amendment 294 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 c (new)

18c. Considers that increased cumulation in FTAs should not be seen as tool for back-door liberalisation but rather as a tool to make countries specialise in economic activities according to the logic of comparative advantage;

Amendment 295 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 d (new)

18 d. Asks the Commission to evaluate the consequences of the use of Trade Defence Instruments, by the EU and by third countries, on effective integration of EU businesses into GVCs;

Amendment 296 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the European External Action Service ~~and~~, the World Trade Organisation and UNCTAD.

Amendment 3 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)

- Having regard to its Resolution of XX/XX 2017 on the “State-of-play of the implementation of the Sustainability Compact in Bangladesh”

Amendment 30 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas EU trade ~~policy must strengthen Europe’s place in global supply chains, but must also~~and investment policy must be a tool with which to establish clear rules and liabilities for governments and multinational companies (MNCs) in order to ensure compliance with the UN Sustainable Development Goals;

Amendment 31 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

C a. Whereas the distinction between imports and exports is blurred in a world of fragmented production networks as the imported inputs account for a significant proportion of exports and tariffs cumulate each time when intermediate inputs are traded across borders; whereas efficient customs and border procedures are especially important in this context;

Amendment 32 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

C a. Whereas global responsible management of GVCs is essential to align trade policy with the European values as enshrined in the Treaties; whereas both the Commission and the Member States have been in the forefront of these debates worldwide;

Amendment 33 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)

C b. Whereas the Council underlined in its May 2016 conclusions “the need for continued advocacy for the uptake of internationally agreed principles, guidelines and initiatives on CSR/RBC such as the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the UN Global Compact, the ILO Tripartite Declaration on Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy, and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, including in non-OECD member countries, also contributing to anti-corruption efforts by creating more open and transparent business environments”;

Amendment 34 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital Cc (new)

Cc. Whereas voluntary due diligence and GVC transparency schemes are being used and promoted worldwide by the Economic and Social partners and ONGs, producing substantive and positive results;

Amendment 35 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C d (new)

C d. Whereas the EU has already given important steps towards a more responsible management of GVCs, worldwide, with specific partners- such as the Bangladesh Sustainability Compact and the Labour Rights Initiative with Myanmar, and on specific issues- such as the conflict minerals initiative, illegal logging regulations, sustainability criteria for biofuels, corporate reporting on supply chain issues, corporate transparency on payments made to governments by extractive and logging industries, as underlined in the Trade for All Communication;

Amendment 36 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas ~~GVCs in~~ services ~~pose specific challenges, in particular with respect to the digital economy, data flows and data protection~~are playing a greater role in GVCs, in particular for manufacturing production; whereas the increased integration of services into GVCs will require agreements supporting the digital economy, including the free flow of data;

Amendment 37 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas there is an obligation on producer countries in particular to create appropriate legal and economic conditions for businesses to operate and find a place in global supply chains; whereas they must also be able to implement international standards and norms, including drawing up, implementing and enforcing appropriate legislation, particularly in the area of establishing the rule of law and combating corruption;

Amendment 38 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas the EU ~~should respond even more effectively to~~must continue to protect social and environmental ~~dumping and un~~standards and promoting fair tradeing practices, a~~nd ensure~~s well as a level playing field;

Amendment 39 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas the EU should respond even more effectively to ~~social and environmental dumping and unfair~~unfair competition and trade practices, and ensure a level playing field;

Amendment 4 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 a (new)

- having regard to the Commission staff working document of 24 April 2017 entitled ‘Sustainable garment value chains through EU development action’,

Amendment 40 #

Maria ARENA, Emmanuel MAUREL, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, David MARTIN, Eric ANDRIEU, Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Sorin MOISĂ, Agnes JONGERIUS

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

E a. Whereas the EU is the world’s largest exporter and importer of goods and services taken together, the largest foreign direct investor and the most important destination for foreign direct investment (FDI).Whereas the EU should use this strength to benefit both its own citizens and those in other parts of the world, particularly those in the world’s poorest countries.

Amendment 41 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

E a. whereas the European Parliament considers social dumping as a conscious strategy involving the lowering of wage and employment standards, driven by companies seeking to gain a competitive advantage over other market participants;

Amendment 42 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)

E b. whereas according to the ILO, 21 million people in the world are victims of forced labour, many of them exploited in GVCs; whereas forced labour in the private economy generates US$ 150 billion in illegal profits per year;

Amendment 43 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas the EU has developed binding corporate due diligence regulations in specific sectors such as timber and conflict minerals; whereas some Member States have also developed legislation, such as the UK Modern Slavery Act ~~and~~, the French ~~bill~~Law on the duty of care of MNCs; wh~~ereas Parliament has repeatedly called for the EU to~~ich only applies to the largest French companies (more than 5000 workers) and the Dutch Child Labour Due Diligence Bill (approved recently on 7/02/2017 by the Dutch Parliament but not yet by the Senate); whereas the European Union have developed Initiatives aiming at promoting due diligence, and former European Parliament Resolutions have called for the EU to include the possible consideration of develop aing binding ~~framework on corporate~~legislation in specific sectors on due diligence;

Amendment 44 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas the EU has developed binding corporate due diligence regulations in sectors such as timber and conflict minerals; whereas some Member States have also developed legislation, such as the UK Modern Slavery Act and the French bill on the duty of care of MNCs; ~~whereas Parliament has repeatedly called for the EU to develop a binding framework on corporate due diligence;~~

Amendment 45 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

Amendment 46 #

Emmanuel MAUREL, Eric ANDRIEU

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas the EU has developed binding ~~corporate due diligence regulations in sectors~~regulations in the area of corporate due diligence in sectors with high risks for human rights abuses, such as timber and conflict minerals; whereas some Member States have also developed legislation, such as the UK Modern Slavery Act and the French bill on the duty of care of MNCs; ~~whereas Parliament has repeatedly called for the EU to develop a binding framework on corporate due diligence;~~

Amendment 47 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

F a. Whereas, following the adoption of the French bill on duty of care for multinationals, a green card initiative has been launched by several national parliaments, calling for duty of care for EU-based companies towards individuals and communities whose human rights and local environment are affected by the companies' activities;

Amendment 48 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas most, but not all, recently concluded EU trade and investment agreements contain trade and sustainable development (TSD) chapters; whereas such chapters have displayed differences in their level of ambition in successive EU trade agreements; whereas labour and environmental standards are not limited to Trade and Sustainable Development Chapters but must be effective throughout all areas of trade agreements;

Amendment 49 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas most, but not all, recently concluded EU trade and investment agreements contain trade and sustainable development (TSD) chapters; whereas the example of the EU's FTA with South Korea has shown that the dialogue- centred approach was not sufficient to address severe violations of the freedom of association, and to protect workers fighting for their rights in trade unions from state persecution;

Amendment 5 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 25 a (new)

- having regard to the UN International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families,

Amendment 50 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas most, but not all, recently concluded EU trade and investment agreements contain trade and sustainable development (TSD) chapters; which require the parties to the agreement to give undertakings as regards the safeguarding of human rights, compliance with labour and environmental standards and corporate social responsibility;

Amendment 51 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas ~~most, but not all, recently concluded EU trade and investment agreements contain~~the Trade for All Strategy has stated that the Commission will promote ambitious trade and sustainable development (TSD) chapters in all trade and investment agreements;

Amendment 52 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas ~~most, but not all, recently concluded~~recent EU trade and investment agreements ~~contai~~systematically include chapters on trade and sustainable development (TSD) ~~chapters~~;

Amendment 53 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas most~~, but not all,~~ recently concluded EU trade and investment agreements contain trade and sustainable development (TSD) chapters;

Amendment 54 #

Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Agnes JONGERIUS, Emmanuel MAUREL

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

Ga. Whereas the particular situation of Export Processing Zones (EPZs), which, in some countries, are exempt from local labour laws, forbid union activity and do not provide legal redress to workers, which is not in compliance with ILO standards;

Amendment 55 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

Ga. Whereas Export Processing Zones (EPZs) in some countries are exempt from local labour laws, ban or limit union activity and do not provide legal redress to workers, which constitutes clear violations of ILO standards;

Amendment 56 #

Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Agnes JONGERIUS, Emmanuel MAUREL

Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)

Gb. Whereas, due to its global mandate, expertise and experience, the ILO, in collaboration with its Members, is well placed to lead global action for decent work in global supply chains; whereas the ILO Committee on Decent Work in Global Supply Chains called for assessing the failures which lead to decent work deficits in global supply chains and reflecting on initiatives and standards needed to promote decent work and facilitate the reduction of decent work deficits in global supply chains;

Amendment 57 #

Alessia Maria MOSCA, Emmanuel MAUREL, Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Agnes JONGERIUS, Eric ANDRIEU, David MARTIN, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas a global holistic approach to corporate liability for human rights abuses is needed in the context of GVCs; Whereas the EU has positioned itself as a front runner in reforming the investors to state dispute settlement mechanism, notably through the development of a Multilateral Court System, and equal progress is expected in other critical areas of concern such as setting up a mechanism to enforce investors obligations in relation to Human Rights;

Amendment 58 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas a multilateral, global holistic approach to corporate liability for human rights abuses ~~is needed in the context of GVCs~~and environmental sustainability is needed in the context of world trade and particularly in GVCs and therefore it's important that the EU continues to lead these debates worldwide;

Amendment 59 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas a global holistic approach to corporate ~~liability for human rights abuses is needed in the context of GVC~~social responsibility is needed where all stakeholders have a role to play in mitigating the risks of violating human, labour and environmental rights;

Amendment 6 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 25 b (new)

- having regard the new ILO Protocol on Forced Labour,

Amendment 60 #

Maria ARENA, Emmanuel MAUREL, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, David MARTIN, Eric ANDRIEU, Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Agnes JONGERIUS

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas a global ~~holistic~~and sustainable approach, t~~o corporate liability for~~hat takes into account potential human rights abuses, is needed in the context of GVCs;

Amendment 61 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

H a. Whereas the he UN Environment Programme estimates that up to 90% of e- waste is dumped in Africa, with a large proportion of this coming from the EU; whereas despite the EU's commitment to policy coherence and promoting sustainable development in third countries, many EU rules are being circumvented so that tonnes of e-waste are falsely declared as second-hand goods and exported to developing countries, being falsely described as plastic or scrap metal; whereas this poses serious public health risks, severe environmental degradation and a barrier to development;

Amendment 62 #

Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Agnes JONGERIUS, Emmanuel MAUREL

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

Ha. whereas production in GVCs takes place in different jurisdictions with different levels of human rights protection and social, labour and environmental law enforcement; whereas victims of human rights abuses involving international companies face multiple obstacles to accessing judicial remedies;

Amendment 63 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

H a. whereas production in GVCs takes place in different jurisdictions with different levels of human rights protection and social, labour and environmental law enforcement; whereas victims of human rights abuses involving transnational companies may face multiple obstacles to accessing judicial remedies;

Amendment 64 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

Amendment 65 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas gender equality in all EU policies is firmly established in Article 8 of the TFEU; whereas trade and investment agreements affect women and men differently owing to structural gender inequalities; whereas gender equality perspective is often overlooked in the analysis of global value chains; whereas according to the ILO 20.9 million people (55% women and girls) were victims of forced labour globally in 2012 and 90% of them are exploited in the private economy, by individuals or enterprises;

Amendment 66 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas gender equality in all EU policies is firmly established in Article 8 of the TFEU; ~~whereas trade and investment agreements affect women and men differently owing to structural gender inequalities;~~

Amendment 67 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas gender equality in all EU policies is firmly established in Article 8 of the TFEU; whereas trade and investment agreements might affect women and men differently owing to structural gender inequalities;

Amendment 68 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

I a. whereas women comprise the majority of workers in certain segments of the garment, horticulture, mobile phone and tourism global supply chains but they tend to be more concentrated in low-wage or low-status forms of employment than men leading to gender segregation in types of occupations and activities, gender gaps in wages and working conditions, and gender-specific constraints in access to productive resources, infrastructure and services;

Amendment 69 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

Ia. Whereas according to Article 3(3) TUE, the Union shall protect the rights of the child; whereas all Member States ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child;

Amendment 7 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 32

— having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Children’s Rights and Business Principles developed by UNICEF, the UN Global Compact and Save the Children13 , _________________ 13 http://childrenandbusiness.org

Amendment 70 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

Amendment 71 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

Amendment 72 #

Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Emmanuel MAUREL

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas EU Member States are the world’s largest exporters of financial services, and the sector is of strategic importance in the EU’s trade policy; whereas the inclusion of provisions relating to financial services in ~~trade agreement~~EU External Agreements, including FTAs has raised some concerns regarding their potential negative effects in terms of money laundering and tax evasion and avoidance;

Amendment 73 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas the inclusion of provisions relating to financial services in trade agreements has raised concerns regarding their potential negative effects in terms of money laundering and tax evasion and avoidance; Whereas trade and investment agreements offer a good opportunity to increase cooperation in the fight against corruption, money laundering, tax fraud and tax evasion and avoidance

Amendment 74 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

Amendment 75 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas the inclusion of provisions relating to financial services in trade agreements ~~has raised concerns regarding their potential negative effects~~ increases the importance of considering t~~erms of~~ools that tackle money laundering and tax evasion and avoidance;

Amendment 76 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas labelling is a useful tool to enable the EU consumer to make informed choices; Whereas, beyond the price and the origin, social and environmental criteria should also be systematically made available to EU consumers; whereas such criteria can technically be developed in consistency with the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) laying down conditions for the production process to enable the sale of a product

Amendment 77 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas labelling is a useful tool t~~o enable~~hat allows the EU consumer to make more informed and adequate choices;

Amendment 78 #

K. whereas labelling is, under certain circumstances, can be a useful tool to enable the EU consumer to make informed choices;

Amendment 79 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas transparent and informative labelling iscould be a useful tool to enable the EU consumer to make informed choices;

Amendment 8 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 33 a (new)

- Having regard to the Council Conclusions on responsible global value chains (GVCs) of 12th May 2016;

Amendment 80 #

Frédérique RIES

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas labelling is generally a useful tool to enable the EU consumer to make informed choices;

Amendment 81 #

Alessia Maria MOSCA, Emmanuel MAUREL, Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Sorin MOISĂ, Agnes JONGERIUS, Eric ANDRIEU, David MARTIN, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas ~~labelling is a useful tool to enable the~~more transparency in GVCs is key to help EU consumers to make informed choices;

Amendment 82 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

K a. whereas the full observance of human rights in the production chain and full respect of food safety standards of goods released for free circulation in the European market should be respected by both States and enterprises and whereas the burden of responsibility should not only lay on consumers, whose choice is constrained by both individual resources (economy, time, knowledge) and external elements (information, offer);

Amendment 83 #

Maria ARENA, Emmanuel MAUREL, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, David MARTIN, Eric ANDRIEU, Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Sorin MOISĂ, Agnes JONGERIUS, Nicola DANTI

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

Ka. whereas Rules of Origin (RoO) have become increasingly important in the context of GVCs in which the production spans across several countries; whereas lax rules of origin can create additional hurdles towards establishing full transparency and accountability throughout supply chains;

Amendment 84 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

K a. Whereas Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) form an important part of the GVCs, and play an important role in promoting economic growth, sustainable development, quality jobs and keeping the population from moving away from their regions;

Amendment 85 #

Alessia Maria MOSCA, Emmanuel MAUREL, Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Sorin MOISĂ, Agnes JONGERIUS, Eric ANDRIEU, David MARTIN, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

~~L. whereas making customs data on imports entering the EU publicly available would increase GVC transparency and accountability;~~deleted

Amendment 86 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas better, harmonised and more efficient customs procedures in Europe and abroad help facilitate trade and meet respective trade facilitation requirements, and help prevent forgeries and illegal, dumped and counterfeit goods from entering the single market, which undermines EU economic growth, and seriously exposes EU consumers; whereas making customs data on imports entering the EU publicly available would increase GVC transparency and accountability;

Amendment 87 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. Whereas better, harmonised and more efficient customs procedures in Europe and abroad help facilitate trade and meet respective trade facilitation requirements, and help prevent forgeries and illegal and counterfeit goods from entering the single market, which undermines EU economic growth and seriously exposes EU consumers; whereas making customs data on imports entering the EU publicly available would increase GVC transparency and accountability;

Amendment 88 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas making customs data on imports entering the EU publicly available would increase GVC transparency and accountability; whereas due to the complex nature of GVC there is a lack of statistics that doesn’t allow to have a clear picture of the role played by women; whereas transparency is a key factor to reduce discrimination, exploitation and abuses;

Amendment 89 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas ~~making customs data on imports entering the EU publicly available would increase GVC transparency and accountabilit~~efficient customs operations are vital for GVC transparency;

Amendment 9 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 33 b (new)

- Having regard to the Council Conclusions on Child Labour (20 June 2016)

Amendment 90 #

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas ~~making~~improved access to customs data on imports entering the EU ~~publicly available~~ would increase GVC transparency and accountability;

Amendment 91 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)

La. Whereas in the recent Commission Reflection Paper on Harnessing Globalisation the Commission acknowledges that Europe must act in order to more fairly share the benefits of globalisation in line with the principles of solidarity and sustainability

Amendment 92 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)

L a. whereas the GSP+ is a key EU trade policy instrument accompanied by stringent monitoring mechanism to promote human and labour rights, environmental protection and good governance in vulnerable developing countries

Amendment 93 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)

L a. Whereas the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPRs) could provide for effective further integration into GVCs;

Amendment 94 #

Anne-Marie MINEUR, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Helmut SCHOLZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)

La. whereas differences in customs practices hamper the detection of abuses along the production chain;

Amendment 95 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1 a (new)

Notes that the current European trade policy has not led to increased equality worldwide; urges the Commission to work towards a trade policy that first and foremost benefits people and workers by improving the labour, environmental and food safety standards; therefore urges the Commission to stop prioritising investors’ rights over people’s rights;

Amendment 96 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1 a (new)

Underlines that GVCs do not end when the product reaches the consumer, but include waste and how it is treated; urges to take into account the full lifecycle of products and enlarge the perspective on GVCs to legal provisions on the dismantlement of waste without harming persons or the environment and including the cost into the product or service;

Amendment 97 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Emphasises that trade policy ~~must ensure~~shall aim to provide leverage as well as creating a level playing field for ~~European~~ businesses ~~and~~which facilitate upward convergence on standards; calls on the Commission to ensure coherence between the EU’s trade and industrial policies, and to promote the European reindustrialisation strategy and the transition towards a low- carbon economy;

Amendment 98 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Emphasises that trade and investment policy must ensure a level playing field for European businesses and facilitate upward convergence on standards; calls on the Commission to ensure coherence between the EU’s trade, investment and industrial policies, and to promote the European reindustrialisation strategy and the transition towards a low- carbon economy;

Amendment 99 #