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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 2014 - 2019

Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

2014/2228(INI)

26.2.2015

AMENDMENTS 1 - 226

Draft opinion Dita Charanzová (PE544.489v01)

on the recommendations to the European Commission on the negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade Investment Partnership (TTIP) (2014/2228(INI)

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Amendment 1 Dita Charanzová

Draft opinion Paragraph -1 a (new)

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-1a. Addresses, in the context of the ongoing negotiations on TTIP, the following recommendations to the Commission:

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Amendment 2 Dita Charanzová

Draft opinion Paragraph -1 – point a (new)

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(a) regarding political priorities:

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Amendment 3 Pascal Durand, Igor Šoltes

Draft opinion Paragraph 1

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1. Demands that the main outcome of the deleted negotiations be an ambitious and comprehensive agreement, bringing a significant market opening for EU companies, including SMEs;

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Amendment 4 Lucy Anderson

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1. Demands that the main outcome of the deleted negotiations be an ambitious and comprehensive agreement, bringing a significant market opening for EU companies, including SMEs;

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Amendment 5 Dita Charanzová

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1. Demands that the main outcome of the 1. to ensure that the main outcome of the negotiations be an ambitious and negotiations be an ambitious and comprehensive agreement, bringing a comprehensive agreement, bringing a significant market opening for EU significant market opening for EU companies, including SMEs; companies, including SMEs;

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Amendment 6 Mylène Troszczynski

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1. Demands that the main outcome of the 1. Urges that the outcome of the negotiations be an ambitious and negotiations be an ambitious agreement,

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Amendment 7 Daniel Dalton

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Amendment 8 Csaba Molnár

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Amendment 9 Ivan Jakovčić

Draft opinion Paragraph 1

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Amendment 10 Olga Sehnalová

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1. Demands that the main outcome of the 1. to ensure that the main outcome of the negotiations be an ambitious and negotiations be an ambitious and comprehensive agreement, bringing a comprehensive agreement, bringing a significant market opening for EU significant benefits for the citizens, companies, including SMEs; consumers, workers and EU companies, including SMEs; is convinced that these benefits shall be delivered equally;

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Amendment 11 Anna Maria Corazza Bildt

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1. Demands that the main outcome of the 1. Demands that the main outcome of the

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Amendment 12 Theodoros Zagorakis

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Amendment 13 Evelyne Gebhardt

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1. Demands that the main outcome of the 1. Demands that the main outcome of the negotiations be an ambitious and negotiations be an ambitious and comprehensive agreement, bringing a comprehensive agreement which protects significant market opening for EU the European model of the social market companies, including SMEs; economy as provided for by the EU Treaties, leads to a significant improvement for citizens, consumers and employees, and brings a market opening for EU companies, including SMEs;

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Amendment 14 Dennis de Jong

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1. Demands that the main outcome of the 1. to ensure that the main outcome of the negotiations be an ambitious and negotiations be an agreement, bringing a comprehensive agreement, bringing a significant market opening for EU significant market opening for EU companies, including SMEs; companies, including SMEs;

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Amendment 15 Nicola Danti

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1. Demands that the main outcome of the 1. Demands that the main outcome of the negotiations be an ambitious and negotiations be an ambitious and comprehensive agreement, bringing a comprehensive agreement resulting in the significant market opening for EU creation of a transatlantic area that is companies, including SMEs; closely integrated in both political and economic terms and bringing a significant market opening for EU companies, in particular SMEs, through the removal of all non-sensitive tariffs in a short space of time, a significant reduction in the countless non-tariff barriers currently in place and far-reaching and detailed regulatory cooperation;

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Amendment 16 Marlene Mizzi

Draft opinion Paragraph 1

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1. Demands that the main outcome of the 1. Demands that the main outcome of the negotiations be an ambitious and negotiations lead to a deep, comprehensive agreement, bringing a comprehensive, ambitious high-standard significant market opening for EU trade and investment agreement, bringing companies, including SMEs; a significant market opening and new opportunities for EU companies, in particular SMEs and directly benefitting European consumers by placing consumers' interest at the heart of this trade deal;

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Amendment 17 Ulrike Müller

Draft opinion Paragraph 1

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1. Demands that the main outcome of the 1. Demands that the main outcome of the negotiations be an ambitious and negotiations be an ambitious and comprehensive agreement, bringing a comprehensive agreement, bringing a significant market opening for EU significant market opening for EU companies, including SMEs; companies, particularly SMEs, and taking adequate account of the concerns felt by the community at large regarding lowering of standards to the detriment of consumers, protection of public services, the proposed cooperation system and ISDS;

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Amendment 18 Helmut Scholz, Jiří Maštálka

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1. Demands that the main outcome of the 1. Demands to suspend the TTIP negotiations be an ambitious and negotiations and calls on the Commission comprehensive agreement, bringing a to conduct a public consultation on the significant market opening for EU content and goals of the negotiation; companies, including SMEs;

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Amendment 19 Mylène Troszczynski

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new)

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1a. Urges, given the scale of the impact which the TTIP would have on the lives of ordinary Europeans, that a referendum be held in all the EU Member States and that its outcome should be final and should determine whether the negotiations continue or are halted;

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Amendment 20 Marc Tarabella

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1a. Takes the view that public and collective services, such as water, health,

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social security and education, should be excluded from the scope of the TTIP;

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Amendment 21 Evelyne Gebhardt

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new)

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1a. Calls for more comprehensive participation and involvement of European consumer protection organisations in the negotiations, with the aim of attaining the best possible standards of consumer protection;

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Amendment 22 Helmut Scholz, Jiří Maštálka

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new)

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1a. to make publicly accessible the consolidated text versions combining EU and US positions on draft chapters and thereby providing for debate in parliaments and society; to make similar transparency efforts for other ongoing major trade negotiations;

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Amendment 23 Marc Tarabella

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1b. Regards it as essential that European consumers’ associations should be involved in the negotiations, so as to ensure that better account is taken of consumers’ interests;

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Amendment 24 Dita Charanzová

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2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should 2. to aim that TTIP should not only cut not only cut down barriers but also aim at down barriers but also aim at promoting promoting European high levels of European high levels of consumer consumer protection; observes that in most protection; observes that in most sectors sectors EU and US standards and EU and US standards and regulatory regulatory environments ensure this high environments ensure this high level; level; considers, therefore, that considers, therefore, that approximating approximating our regulations represents a our regulations represents a unique chance unique chance to establish high-quality to establish high-quality standards and laws standards and laws for consumers which for consumers which will be the de facto will be the de facto international standards; international standards;

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Amendment 25 Mylène Troszczynski

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2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should 2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should not only cut down barriers but also aim at not cut down barriers but above all promoting European high levels of promote European high levels of consumer consumer protection; observes that in most protection; observes that in most sectors sectors EU and US standards and EU standards and regulatory environments regulatory environments ensure this high are very different from those in the US level; considers, therefore, that and do not necessarily ensure this high approximating our regulations represents a level; considers, therefore, that the task of unique chance to establish high-quality approximating our regulations must be standards and laws for consumers which undertaken very carefully; will be the de facto international standards;

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Amendment 26 Marc Tarabella

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2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should 2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should not only cut down barriers but also aim at not only cut down barriers but also aim at promoting European high levels of promoting European high levels of consumer protection; observes that in most consumer protection; observes that in most sectors EU and US standards and sectors EU and US standards and regulatory environments ensure this high regulatory environments ensure this high level; considers, therefore, that level; considers, therefore, that approximating our regulations represents a approximating our regulations represents a unique chance to establish high-quality unique chance to establish high-quality standards and laws for consumers which standards and laws for consumers which will be the de facto international standards; will be the de facto international standards; emphasises the importance of retaining the precautionary principle in the EU and of guaranteeing a high level of consumer protection by leaving the EU free to impose more stringent standards;

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Amendment 27 Daniel Dalton

Draft opinion Paragraph 2

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2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should 2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should not only cut down barriers but also aim at not only cut down barriers but also aim at promoting European high levels of promoting high levels of consumer consumer protection; observes that in most protection; observes that in most sectors sectors EU and US standards and EU and US standards and regulatory regulatory environments ensure this high environments ensure this high level; level; considers, therefore, that considers, therefore, that approximating approximating our regulations represents a our regulations represents a unique chance unique chance to establish high-quality to establish high-quality standards for standards and laws for consumers which consumers, which could form a new global will be the de facto international benchmark in terms of consumer standards; protection;

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Amendment 28 Csaba Molnár

Draft opinion Paragraph 2

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2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should 2. Finds that the economic advantages not only cut down barriers but also aim at inherent in the TTIP stem primarily from promoting European high levels of the removal of non-tariff barriers; is consumer protection; observes that in most convinced, however, that TTIP should not sectors EU and US standards and only cut down barriers but also aim at regulatory environments ensure this high promoting European high levels of level; considers, therefore, that consumer protection; observes that in most approximating our regulations represents a sectors EU and US standards and unique chance to establish high-quality regulatory environments ensure this high standards and laws for consumers which level; considers, therefore, that will be the de facto international standards; approximating our regulations represents a unique chance to establish high-quality standards and laws for consumers which will be the de facto international standards;

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Amendment 29 Ivan Jakovčić

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2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should 2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should not only cut down barriers but also aim at not only cut down barriers but also aim at promoting European high levels of promoting European high levels of consumer protection; observes that in most protection of consumers rights; observes sectors EU and US standards and that in most sectors EU and US standards regulatory environments ensure this high and regulatory environments ensure this level; considers, therefore, that high level; considers, therefore, that approximating our regulations represents a approximating our regulations represents a unique chance to establish high-quality unique chance to establish high-quality standards and laws for consumers which standards and laws for the protection of will be the de facto international standards; consumers rights which will be the de facto international standards;

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Amendment 30 Olga Sehnalová

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2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP 2. to ensure that TTIP negotiations aim at should not only cut down barriers but also promoting European high levels of citizens aim at promoting European high levels of protection, including health, safety, the consumer protection; observes that in most environment, consumer and worker's sectors EU and US standards and rights; observes that in most sectors EU regulatory environments ensure this high and US standards and regulatory level; considers, therefore, that environments ensure this high level; approximating our regulations represents a considers, therefore, that approximating unique chance to establish high-quality our regulations represents a unique chance standards and laws for consumers which to establish high-quality standards and laws will be the de facto international standards; for consumers which will be the de facto

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international standards;

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Amendment 31 Sergio Gutiérrez Prieto

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2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should 2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should not only cut down barriers but also aim at not only cut down barriers but also aim at promoting European high levels of promoting high levels of consumer consumer protection; observes that in most protection and respecting high levels of sectors EU and US standards and quality and safety and the principle of regulatory environments ensure this high reciprocity, safeguarding our labour, level; considers, therefore, that social, health and environmental approximating our regulations represents a standards, as well as public services of unique chance to establish high-quality general interest; observes that in most standards and laws for consumers which sectors EU and US standards and will be the de facto international standards; regulatory environments ensure a high level; considers, therefore, that approximating our regulations represents a unique chance to establish high-quality standards and laws for consumers which will be the de facto international standards;

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Amendment 32 Biljana Borzan

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PE549.407v01-00 16/109 AM\1051458EN.doc EN regulatory environments ensure this high standards and regulatory environments level; considers, therefore, that ensure this high level; considers, therefore, approximating our regulations represents a that approximating our regulations unique chance to establish high-quality represents a unique chance to establish standards and laws for consumers which high-quality standards and laws for will be the de facto international standards; consumers which will be the de facto international standards;

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Amendment 33 Pascal Durand, Igor Šoltes

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2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP 2. ensure that TTIP does not ultimately should not only cut down barriers but also reduce the high levels of protection aim at promoting European high levels of enjoyed by consumers in Europe and the consumer protection; observes that in most United States or call into question the sectors EU and US standards and ability of the public authorities on both regulatory environments ensure this high sides of the Atlantic to adopt or modify the level; considers, therefore, that rules which govern the marketing of approximating our regulations represents a products or the provision of services, unique chance to establish high-quality public procurement and the protection standards and laws for consumers which and development of public services; given will be the de facto international standards; that in most sectors EU and US standards and regulatory environments ensure this high level, ensure, therefore, that any approximation of our regulations does not come at the expense of high-quality standards and laws for consumers which could become the de facto international standards;

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Amendment 34 Robert Rochefort

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2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should 2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should not only cut down barriers but also aim at not only cut down barriers but also aim at promoting European high levels of promoting European high levels of consumer protection; observes that in most consumer protection; observes that sectors EU and US standards and according to the TFUE (Treaty on the regulatory environments ensure this high functioning of the EU), the EU level; considers, therefore, that shall ensure this high level; considers, approximating our regulations represents a therefore, that approximating our unique chance to establish high-quality regulations represents a unique chance to standards and laws for consumers which establish high-quality standards and laws will be the de facto international standards; for consumers which will be the de facto international standards; stresses that such approximation must preserve the level of protection of existing standards and not preclude adopting future high standards;

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Amendment 35 Davor Ivo Stier

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2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should 2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should not only cut down barriers but also aim at not only cut down both tariff and non- promoting European high levels of tariff barriers but also aim at promoting consumer protection; observes that in most European high levels of consumer sectors EU and US standards and protection; observes that in most sectors regulatory environments ensure this high EU and US standards and regulatory level; considers, therefore, that environments ensure this high level; approximating our regulations represents a considers, therefore, that approximating unique chance to establish high-quality our regulations represents a unique chance standards and laws for consumers which to establish high-quality standards and laws will be the de facto international standards; for consumers which will be the de facto international standards;

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Amendment 36 Nicola Danti

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2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should 2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should not only cut down barriers but also aim at not only cut down barriers but also aim at promoting European high levels of promoting European high levels of consumer protection; observes that in most consumer protection; observes that in most sectors EU and US standards and sectors EU and US standards and regulatory environments ensure this high regulatory environments ensure this high level; considers, therefore, that level; considers, therefore, that approximating our regulations represents a approximating our regulations, on the unique chance to establish high-quality basis of the highest standards in each standards and laws for consumers which sector, represents a unique chance to will be the de facto international standards; establish high-quality standards and laws for consumers which will be the de facto international standards;

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Amendment 37 Marco Zullo

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2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should 2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should not only cut down barriers but also aim at not only cut down barriers but also aim at promoting European high levels of promoting European high levels of consumer protection; observes that in most consumer protection; observes that in some sectors EU and US standards and key sectors there are disparities between regulatory environments ensure this high EU and US standards and regulatory level; considers, therefore, that environments; considers, therefore, that the approximating our regulations represents a adjusting regulations that set lower unique chance to establish high-quality standards represents a unique chance to standards and laws for consumers which establish high-quality standards and laws will be the de facto international standards; for consumers which will be the de facto international standards;

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Amendment 38 Matteo Salvini

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2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should 2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should not only cut down barriers but also aim at not only cut down barriers but also aim at promoting European high levels of promoting European high levels of consumer protection; observes that in most consumer protection; observes that in most sectors EU and US standards and sectors EU standards and regulatory regulatory environments ensure this high environments ensure this high level; level; considers, therefore, that considers, however, that approximating our approximating our regulations represents a regulations would be very unlikely to offer unique chance to establish high-quality an opportunity to establish high-quality standards and laws for consumers which standards and innovative laws for will be the de facto international consumers; standards;

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Amendment 39 Dennis de Jong

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2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should 2. to aim that TTIP should not only cut not only cut down barriers but also aim at down barriers but also aim at promoting promoting European high levels of European high levels of consumer consumer protection; observes that in most protection; observes that in most sectors sectors EU and US standards and EU and US standards and regulatory regulatory environments ensure this high environments ensure this high level; level; considers, therefore, that considers, therefore, that approximating approximating our regulations represents a our regulations must serve to establish unique chance to establish high-quality high-quality standards and laws for standards and laws for consumers which consumers and to develop these into will be the de facto international standards; international standards;

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Amendment 40 Lucy Anderson, Catherine Stihler

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2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should 2. Is convinced that TTIP should aim at not only cut down barriers but also aim at promoting European high levels of promoting European high levels of consumer, social, safety and consumer protection; observes that in labour protections which will be the de most sectors EU and US standards and facto international standards; regulatory environments ensure this high level; considers, therefore, that approximating our regulations represents a unique chance to establish high-quality standards and laws for consumers which will be the de facto international standards;

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Amendment 41 Marlene Mizzi

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2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should 2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should not only cut down barriers but also aim at not only cut down barriers but also promoting European high levels of safeguard the European high standards of consumer protection; observes that in most labour rights, consumer protection and sectors EU and US standards and healthcare; observes that in most sectors regulatory environments ensure this high EU and US standards and regulatory level; considers, therefore, that environments ensure this high level; approximating our regulations represents a considers, therefore, that approximating unique chance to establish high-quality our regulations represents a unique chance standards and laws for consumers which to establish even higher quality standards will be the de facto international standards; and laws for consumers which will be the de facto international standards;

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Amendment 42 Josef Weidenholzer

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2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should 2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should not only cut down barriers but also aim at not only cut down barriers but also aim at promoting European high levels of promoting and guaranteeing the high level consumer protection; observes that in most of consumer protection in Europe; sectors EU and US standards and observes that in many sectors EU and US regulatory environments ensure this high standards and regulatory environments level; considers, therefore, that ensure this high level; considers, therefore, approximating our regulations represents a that approximating our regulations in these unique chance to establish high-quality fields represents a unique chance to protect standards and laws for consumers which and further develop high-quality standards will be the de facto international standards; and laws for consumers which will be the de facto international standards;

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Amendment 43 Liisa Jaakonsaari

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2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should 2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should not only cut down barriers but also aim at not only cut down barriers but also aim at promoting European high levels of promoting European high levels of consumer protection; observes that in most consumer protection, transparency and sectors EU and US standards and access to information; observes that in regulatory environments ensure this high most sectors EU and US standards and level; considers, therefore, that regulatory environments ensure this high approximating our regulations represents a level; considers, therefore, that unique chance to establish high-quality approximating our regulations represents a standards and laws for consumers which unique chance to establish high-quality will be the de facto international standards; standards and laws for consumers which

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will be the de facto international standards;

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Amendment 44 Ulrike Müller

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2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should 2. Is convinced, however, that TTIP should not only cut down barriers but also aim at not only cut down barriers but also aim at promoting European high levels of promoting European high levels of consumer protection; observes that in most consumer protection; observes that in most sectors EU and US standards and sectors EU and US standards and regulatory environments ensure this high regulatory environments ensure this high level; considers, therefore, that level; considers, therefore, that approximating our regulations represents a approximating our regulations could unique chance to establish high-quality represent a unique chance to establish standards and laws for consumers which high-quality standards and laws for will be the de facto international standards; consumers which will be the de facto international standards;

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Amendment 45 Philippe Juvin

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standards and laws for consumers which approximating our regulations represents a will be the de facto international standards; unique chance to establish high-quality standards and laws for consumers which will be the de facto international standards;

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Amendment 46 Olga Sehnalová

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2a. to ensure that equal access to information for all interested stakeholders during all stages of the negotiations is guaranteed;

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Amendment 47 Biljana Borzan

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2a. Calls on the Commission to maintain the highest possible level of transparency of the negotiations, including access to the negotiating texts, and consultation with civil society throughout the process;

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Amendment 48 Evelyne Gebhardt

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2a. Stresses the democratic legitimacy of the European Parliament and calls, therefore, for TTIP not to call into question the primacy of political decision- making; calls, in this context, for that primacy to be respected in the negotiations on ISDS;

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Amendment 49 Róża Gräfin von Thun und Hohenstein, Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz

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2a. Calls, therefore, for establishing a roaming free area between EU and US, in order to facilitate traveling, buying, working and living for EU and US citizens;

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Amendment 50 Marlene Mizzi

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2a. Reiterates the importance of the European Parliament's role having the last word in ratification of trade agreement; Notes that the European Parliament will only give its

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consent to a fair transatlantic and investment agreement that respects and promotes European values, stimulates sustainable growth, support the creation of high-quality jobs and contributes to the well-being of all European citizens;

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Amendment 51 Josef Weidenholzer

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2a. Stresses that there are fields in which no uniform European standards yet exist and in which therefore there is no basis for negotiating on approximation in TTIP; notes that this is particularly true in the fields of copyright, protection of personal data and data encryption; calls for these fields not to be discussed in TTIP until standards relating to them exist for the European internal market;

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Amendment 52 Helmut Scholz, Jiří Maštálka

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2a. Considers that the very high level of European protection standards which exist for the general public in the European Union should be regarded as an attainment deserving of the utmost protection, and that the statutory

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standards which exist in the EU Member States, for example regarding product safety, social protection and the protection of health, the environment, the climate, food and animal welfare, as well as consumer protection and data protection rights, should on no account be lowered but rather, where possible, improved; believes that it should be ensured that these protection standards can in future be optimised and adapted unilaterally by a Member State in the light of the latest findings without any restriction;

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Amendment 53 Olga Sehnalová

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2b. to ensure that discrimination towards consumers based on their nationality or place of residence is not allowed;

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Amendment 54 Biljana Borzan

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2b. Calls on the Commission to conduct Sustainable Impact assessment on TTIP;

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Amendment 55 Josef Weidenholzer

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2b. Stresses the right of all contracting parties to take regulatory action on the internal market to protect consumers; emphasises that TTIP must not undermine this right; calls, therefore, for the protection of investors’ interests to be performed by the ordinary courts;

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Amendment 56 Helmut Scholz, Jiří Maštálka

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2b. Calls for all important questions of detail relating to the agreement to be decided in the negotiations, and considers it necessary to reject the proposal that regulatory issues should be subsequently referred to specially established groups of experts, bypassing the democratic legislative process;

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Amendment 57 Olga Sehnalová

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2c. to assess properly the prospects for mutual job creation but also where job losses might occur;

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Amendment 58 Josef Weidenholzer

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2c. Stresses the need to involve consumer protection organisations in the negotiations in order to ensure maximum protection of consumers’ interests;

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Amendment 59 Olga Sehnalová

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2 d. to safeguard the EU's exclusive competence on vehicle type-approval with respect to the EU's vehicle safety legislation;

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Amendment 60 Lucy Anderson

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3. Insists, while respecting the freedom of deleted governments to protect public services, that EU service providers must have full market access to liberalised services in the US, under transparent rules at both federal and sub-federal levels;

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Amendment 61 Dita Charanzová

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3. Insists, while respecting the freedom of 3. to insist, while respecting the freedom of governments to protect public services, that governments to protect public services, that EU service providers must have full market EU service providers must have full market access to liberalised services in the US, access to liberalised services in the US under transparent rules at both federal and under transparent rules at both federal and sub-federal levels; sub-federal levels; calls on the Commission to ensure the non- discriminatory treatment of European service providers;

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Amendment 62 Sergio Gutiérrez Prieto

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3. Insists, while respecting the freedom of 3. Insists, while respecting the freedom of governments to protect public services, that governments to protect public services, that

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EU service providers must have full market EU service providers must have full market access to liberalised services in the US, access to liberalised services in the US, under transparent rules at both federal and under transparent rules at both federal and sub-federal levels; sub-federal levels, on an equal footing with local providers, on the basis of the reciprocity principle;

Or. es

Amendment 63 Virginie Rozière

Draft opinion Paragraph 3

Draft opinion Amendment

Or. fr

Amendment 64 Evelyne Gebhardt

Draft opinion Paragraph 3

Draft opinion Amendment

3. Insists, while respecting the freedom of 3. Insists, while respecting the freedom of governments to protect public services, States to provide, organise, protect and that EU service providers must have full finance public services, that EU service market access to liberalised services in the providers must have full market access to US, under transparent rules at both federal liberalised services in the US, under and sub-federal levels; transparent rules at both federal and sub- federal levels;

Or. de

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Amendment 65 Pascal Durand, Igor Šoltes

Draft opinion Paragraph 3

Draft opinion Amendment

3. Insists, while respecting the freedom of 3. safeguard the freedom of governments governments to protect public services, that to protect and develop public services, to EU service providers must have full define their scope, to organise and fund market access to liberalised services in the them as they see fit, and to choose and US, under transparent rules at both federal change the method of provision and the and sub-federal levels; ownership arrangements, in keeping with the subsidiarity principle; as regards the sectors explicitly included in the scope of the agreement, ensure that EU service providers have full market access to liberalised services in the US, under transparent rules, set by the authorities in the place of provision, at both federal and sub-federal levels;

Or. fr

Amendment 66 Andreas Schwab

Draft opinion Paragraph 3

Draft opinion Amendment

3. Insists, while respecting the freedom of 3. Insists, while respecting the freedom of governments to protect public services, that governments to protect public services, that EU service providers must have full market EU service providers must have full market access to liberalised services in the US, access to liberalised services in the US, under transparent rules at both federal and under transparent rules at both federal and sub-federal levels; sub-federal levels; calls for a legal framework to be created with federal states which have regulatory powers, in order in the long term to facilitate mutual recognition of professional qualifications in certain sectors in the federal state

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concerned;

Or. de

Amendment 67 Josef Weidenholzer

Draft opinion Paragraph 3

Draft opinion Amendment

3. Insists, while respecting the freedom of 3. Insists, while respecting the freedom of governments to protect public services, States to provide special protection for that EU service providers must have full public services and services of general market access to liberalised services in the interest, that EU service providers must US, under transparent rules at both federal have full market access to liberalised and sub-federal levels; services in the US, under transparent rules at both federal and sub-federal levels;

Or. de

Amendment 68 Ulrike Müller

Draft opinion Paragraph 3

Draft opinion Amendment

3. Insists, while respecting the freedom of 3. Insists, while respecting the freedom of governments to protect public services, that governments to protect public services, that EU service providers must have full market EU service providers must have full market access to liberalised services in the US, access to liberalised services in the US, under transparent rules at both federal and under transparent rules at both federal and sub-federal levels; sub-federal levels, and there must be no scope for a ratchet clause making it no longer possible to revert to the provision of services by the State once public services have been liberalised;

Or. de

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Amendment 69 Helmut Scholz, Jiří Maštálka

Draft opinion Paragraph 3

Draft opinion Amendment

3. Insists, while respecting the freedom of 3. to respect the freedom of governments governments to protect public services, to protect public services; to make that EU service providers must have full sure that public services are excluded market access to liberalised services in the from the scope of negotiations; to US, under transparent rules at both federal ensure that service providers shall be and sub-federal levels; given market access to liberalised services under the precondition that they are in possession of the requested qualification, and under transparent rules at both federal and sub-federal levels;

Or. en

Amendment 70 Dita Charanzová

Draft opinion Paragraph 3 – point a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

(a) regarding full and transparent access for EU service providers - no barriers to mobility of professionals;

Or. en

Amendment 71 Pascal Durand, Igor Šoltes

Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

3a. given the importance, for local and

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regional authorities in particular, of maintaining high-quality public services, seek a global exemption from the scope of the TTIP for all public services and urge the two Parties to give a clear undertaking to that effect in a joint declaration;

Or. fr

Amendment 72 Dennis de Jong

Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

3a. to ensure that any granting of access to service markets shall not undermine workers’ rights, and that enforcement of workers’ rights on these markets is sufficient, in accordance with and making full use of the measures included in and possible under directive 2014/67/EU;

Or. en

Amendment 73 Dita Charanzová, Andreas Schwab

Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

3a. to keep in mind that TTIP should not endanger the high quality of EU public services and to use the same safeguarding measures found in other FTAs to protect them, notably by keeping the freedom for the EU and Member States to regulate;

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Or. en

Amendment 74 Helmut Scholz, Jiří Maštálka

Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

3a. to apply a positive list approach when negotiating chapters on trade in services; to reject in general a negative list approach, as well as so-called ratched clauses;

Or. en

Amendment 75 Pascal Durand, Igor Šoltes

Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

3b. ensure that the exemption for public services is not confined to sovereign tasks, such as public security, but covers all services of general interest which receive any form of public support, in particular social services, health, education, culture and postal services;

Or. fr

Amendment 76 Helmut Scholz, Jiří Maštálka

Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new)

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Draft opinion Amendment

3b. Considers it necessary to ensure that the right of self-government of municipal and local authorities is preserved as one of the core aspects of the right of municipal self-administration and that it remains possible, without reservation, to restore local authority control in the light of local circumstances and on the basis of the wishes of the local electorate;

Or. de

Amendment 77 Pascal Durand, Igor Šoltes

Draft opinion Paragraph 3 c (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

3c. urge that all sectors excluded from the scope of the EU Services Directive, in particular health, social and audiovisual services, should also be excluded from the scope of the TTIP negotiations;

Or. fr

Amendment 78 Helmut Scholz, Jiří Maštálka

Draft opinion Paragraph 3 c (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

3c. Considers that it should be made clear to the negotiating partner that public services as referred to in Paragraph 19 of the EU negotiating directives means those which, according to the case-law of the

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contracting party or member concerned, are subject to specific regulatory regimes or which are distinguished by specific obligations imposed on service-providers at national, regional or local level in the public interest; notes that they include, for example, water and energy supply, disposal of waste and effluent, emergency services, public health and social care, local public transport, housing construction and town planning and urban development measures;

Or. de

Amendment 79 Pascal Durand, Igor Šoltes

Draft opinion Paragraph 3 d (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

3d. ensure that all water-related services (production, distribution and treatment) are excluded from the scope of the TTIP;

Or. fr

Amendment 80 Helmut Scholz, Jiří Maštálka

Draft opinion Paragraph 3 d (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

3d. Considers that a horizontal exemption from all obligations arising from the principle of market access and national treatment should be secured for public services as referred to in Paragraph 19 of the EU negotiating directives and, in addition, with reference to public services,

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that, for the benefit of the contracting parties, a reservation should be entered for all sectors and all existing and future measures which limit the number of services and service-providers, impose specific obligations on service-providers and regulate the provision of these services in the public interest;

Or. de

Amendment 81 Pascal Durand, Igor Šoltes

Draft opinion Paragraph 3 e (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

3e. as regards purely commercial services, ensure that the negotiations are based on a positive list of sectors which are included, rather than a negative list, and ensure that it is possible at any time for the public authorities to re-establish public control over liberalised sectors;

Or. fr

Amendment 82 Helmut Scholz, Jiří Maštálka

Draft opinion Paragraph 3 e (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

3e. Rejects further opening-up, particularly for educational services with mixed funding, inter alia in the field of pre-school education, schools and higher education, as well as adult education and further education, as the multilateral GATS agreement already contains more

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than enough provisions on liberalisation;

Or. de

Amendment 83 Pascal Durand, Igor Šoltes

Draft opinion Paragraph 3 f (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

3f. ensure that the TTIP does not call into question the principle of ‘economic needs tests’, which are useful regulatory tools for the public authorities in some sectors;

Or. fr

Amendment 84 Helmut Scholz, Jiří Maštálka

Draft opinion Paragraph 3 f (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

3f. Considers that it should be made clear to the negotiating partner that it must remain possible for Member States, regions and municipalities to adopt any regulatory and financial measure to protect or promote cultural diversity, media freedom and pluralism, and the preservation or development of audiovisual and other corresponding services in order to serve the democratic, social and cultural needs of each society, irrespective of the technology used or the distribution platform; considers it vital to preserve the sovereignty of the Member States with regard to cultural and media matters by means of a clear derogation for culture and the media;

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Or. de

Amendment 85 Dennis de Jong

Draft opinion Paragraph 4

Draft opinion Amendment

4. Calls for mutual recognition of deleted professional qualifications between the Parties and for the abolition of work permit requirements for high-skilled workers in sectors covered by TTIP, so as to create maximum mobility of professionals between the EU and the US;

Or. en

Amendment 86 Dita Charanzová

Draft opinion Paragraph 4

Draft opinion Amendment

4. Calls for mutual recognition of 4. to ensure mutual recognition of professional qualifications between the professional qualifications between the Parties and for the abolition of work Parties and for the promotion of mobility permit requirements for high-skilled across the Atlantic through the workers in sectors covered by TTIP, so as facilitation of entry for high-skilled to create maximum mobility of professionals in sectors covered by TTIP; professionals between the EU and the US;

Or. en

Amendment 87 Daniel Dalton

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Draft opinion Paragraph 4

Draft opinion Amendment

4. Calls for mutual recognition of 4. Calls for mutual recognition of professional qualifications between the professional qualifications between the Parties and for the abolition of work Parties, but especially at a state level in the permit requirements for high-skilled US and for the examination of the workers in sectors covered by TTIP, so as possibility of facilitating the movement to create maximum mobility of of highly-skilled workers in sectors professionals between the EU and the US; covered by TTIP, so as to create maximum mobility of professionals between the EU and the US;

Or. en

Amendment 88 Pascal Durand, Igor Šoltes

Draft opinion Paragraph 4

Draft opinion Amendment

4. Calls for mutual recognition of 4. Ensure that any progress made between professional qualifications between the the Parties as regards mutual recognition Parties and for the abolition of work of professional qualifications in no way permit requirements for high-skilled undermines the ability of the public workers in sectors covered by TTIP, so as authorities of a worker’s country of to create maximum mobility of residence to lay down rules and professionals between the EU and the US; procedures in this area, so as to encourage mobility of professionals between the EU and the US without compromising the application of the general interest rules laid down by the competent authorities;

Or. fr

Amendment 89 Evelyne Gebhardt

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Draft opinion Paragraph 4

Draft opinion Amendment

4. Calls for mutual recognition of 4. Calls for mutual recognition of professional qualifications between the professional qualifications between the Parties and for the abolition of work permit Parties and for the abolition of work permit requirements for high-skilled workers in requirements for workers in sectors sectors covered by TTIP, so as to create covered by TTIP, so as to create maximum maximum mobility of professionals mobility of professionals between the EU between the EU and the US; and the US;

Or. de

Amendment 90 Lucy Anderson, Catherine Stihler

Draft opinion Paragraph 4

Draft opinion Amendment

4. Calls for mutual recognition of 4. Calls for mutual recognition of professional qualifications between the professional qualifications in sectors Parties and for the abolition of work covered by TTIP, so as to create maximum permit requirements for high-skilled mobility of workers between the EU and workers in sectors covered by TTIP, so as the US; to create maximum mobility of professionals between the EU and the US;

Or. en

Amendment 91 Josef Weidenholzer

Draft opinion Paragraph 4

Draft opinion Amendment

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requirements for high-skilled workers in requirements for qualified workers in sectors covered by TTIP, so as to create sectors covered by TTIP, so as to create maximum mobility of professionals maximum mobility of these professionals between the EU and the US; between the EU and the US;

Or. de

Amendment 92 Ulrike Müller

Draft opinion Paragraph 4

Draft opinion Amendment

4. Calls for mutual recognition of 4. Calls for national rules on the professional qualifications between the limitation of access to regulated Parties and for the abolition of work professions in Europe also to be preserved permit requirements for high-skilled in the context of TTIP, as they are workers in sectors covered by TTIP, so as guarantors of high standards of quality to create maximum mobility of assurance, do not stand in the way of our professionals between the EU and the US; dynamic economic development and, inter alia, are the basis for the dual training system which is respected worldwide;

Or. de

Amendment 93 Dita Charanzová

Draft opinion Paragraph 4 – point i (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

(i) to promote, in parallel to the negotiations, that the EU-US enter into talks towards an additional agreement lifting work permit requirements, so as to create maximum mobility of professionals between the EU and the US;

Or. en

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Amendment 94 Biljana Borzan

Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

4a. Insists on maintaining the highest level and protection of workers’ rights and encourages exchange of good practices between the Parties on the issue;

Or. en

Amendment 95 Evelyne Gebhardt

Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

4a. Recalls, with regard to market access in the field of services in the European Union, the special character of the tradition of services of general interest in the European Union, particularly in the field of water supply; observes in this connection that the introduction of a positive list in this field is a better way of affording comprehensive protection to public services of general interest and taking account of future developments at all levels of policy-making;

Or. de

Amendment 96 Andreas Schwab

Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new)

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Draft opinion Amendment

4a. Make an exception for local authority measures under the CETA agreement and for the definition set out in the CETA agreement for social, education and health services for publicly-financed services to be incorporated in the TTIP;

Or. de

Amendment 97 Dariusz Rosati, Adam Szejnfeld, Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz, Róża Gräfin von Thun und Hohenstein, Eva Paunova

Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

4a. Stresses the importance of the mobility package, including visa facilitation for services and goods providers from all EU countries, in order to ensure equal opportunities for European and US companies and professionals;

Or. en

Amendment 98 Evelyne Gebhardt

Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

4b. Calls on the Commission to respect the country of destination principle in the area of market access for services; only on this basis are comprehensive consumer protection and security of implementation for providers possible;

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Or. de

Amendment 99 Dita Charanzová

Draft opinion Paragraph 5 – point a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

(a) regarding fair and transparent procurement at all levels;

Or. en

Amendment 100 Marc Tarabella

Draft opinion Paragraph 5

Draft opinion Amendment

5. Urges the Commission to ensure that Does not apply to English text. European companies, including SMEs, are not discriminated against when tendering for public contracts on the US market at all government levels, and to ensure transparent access at a level equal to or higher than that applying to US companies today in Europe under the new EU procurement rules;

Or. fr

Amendment 101 Daniel Dalton

Draft opinion Paragraph 5

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Draft opinion Amendment

5. Urges the Commission to ensure that 5. Urges the Commission to ensure that European companies, including SMEs, are European companies, including not discriminated against when tendering SMEs, have the ability to tender for public for public contracts on the US market at all contracts on a non-discriminatory basis on government levels, and to ensure the US market at all government levels, transparent access at a level equal to or including in the fields of public higher than that applying to US companies utilities, and to ensure transparent access at today in Europe under the new EU a level equal to or higher than that applying procurement rules; to US companies today in Europe under the new EU procurement rules; in this regard, asks that the Commission examine the possibility of EU companies being granted exemptions from Buy America clauses in federal, and where possible, state legislation;

Or. en

Amendment 102 Csaba Molnár

Draft opinion Paragraph 5

Draft opinion Amendment

5. Urges the Commission to ensure that 5. Urges the Commission to ensure that European companies, including SMEs, are European companies, including SMEs, are not discriminated against when tendering not discriminated against when tendering for public contracts on the US market at all for public contracts on the US market at all government levels, and to ensure government levels, and to ensure transparent access at a level equal to or transparent access at a level equal to or higher than that applying to US companies higher than that applying to US companies today in Europe under the new EU today in Europe under the new EU procurement rules; procurement rules; asks the Commission to facilitate market access for EU SMEs in the United States and to establish a communication channel to ensure SMEs are well informed about the results of the TTIP negotiations;

Or. hu

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Amendment 103 Dita Charanzová

Draft opinion Paragraph 5

Draft opinion Amendment

5. Urges the Commission to ensure that 5. to ensure that European goods, services European companies, including SMEs, are and economic operators, including SMEs, not discriminated against when tendering are not discriminated against in the US for public contracts on the US market at public procurement market at any level all government levels, and to ensure of government, and to ensure transparent transparent access at a level equal to or access at a level equal to that applying to higher than that applying to US companies US companies today in Europe under the today in Europe under the new EU new EU procurement rules; procurement rules;

Or. en

Amendment 104 Pascal Durand, Igor Šoltes

Draft opinion Paragraph 5

Draft opinion Amendment

5. Urges the Commission to ensure that 5. Ensure that the new European rules European companies, including SMEs, are adopted when the public procurement not discriminated against when tendering directives were revised are safeguarded for public contracts on the US market at all and promoted in the negotiations, in government levels, and to ensure particular as regards SMU access to transparent access at a level equal to or public procurement, the use of award higher than that applying to US companies criteria based on value for money, not the today in Europe under the new EU lowest prices, the setting-aside of procurement rules; contracts for social economy operators, the possibility for contracting authorities to cooperate as inter-municipal associations and the thresholds below which public procurement is not subject to European or international rules; guarantee that European companies are not discriminated against when tendering

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for public contracts on the US market at all government levels, and enjoy transparent access at a level equal to that applying to US companies today in Europe under the new EU procurement rules;

Or. fr

Amendment 105 Sergio Gutiérrez Prieto

Draft opinion Paragraph 5

Draft opinion Amendment

5. Urges the Commission to ensure that 5. Urges the Commission to ensure that European companies, including SMEs, are European companies, particularly SMEs, not discriminated against when tendering are not discriminated against when for public contracts on the US market at all tendering for public contracts on the US government levels, and to ensure market at all government levels, and to transparent access at a level equal to or ensure transparent access at a level equal to higher than that applying to US companies or higher than that applying to US today in Europe under the new EU companies today in Europe under the new procurement rules; EU procurement rules;

Or. es

Amendment 106 Matteo Salvini

Draft opinion Paragraph 5

Draft opinion Amendment

PE549.407v01-00 50/109 AM\1051458EN.doc EN procurement rules; procurement rules; stresses that, should the Commission be unable to secure a genuine opening up of the US public procurement sector, Parliament will under no circumstances give its consent to the agreement;

Or. it

Amendment 107 Nicola Danti

Draft opinion Paragraph 5

Draft opinion Amendment

5. Urges the Commission to ensure that 5. Urges the Commission to take an European companies, including SMEs, are ambitious approach to the chapter on not discriminated against when tendering public procurement, with a view to for public contracts on the US market at all remedying, in line with the principle of government levels, and to ensure reciprocity, the major disparity currently transparent access at a level equal to or existing in the degree of openness of the higher than that applying to US companies two public procurement markets and to today in Europe under the new EU significantly opening up the US market procurement rules; on the basis of the international undertakings entered into under the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) and of the removal of the restrictions currently applying at federal, state and administrative level alike in the United States; emphasises, in particular, the need for it to be guaranteed that undertakings entered into by the US federal authorities will be honoured by the states and administrative agencies as well, that European companies, including SMEs, are not discriminated against when tendering for public contracts on the US market at all government and administrative levels, and that they are afforded transparent access at a level equal to or higher than that applying to US companies today in Europe under the new EU procurement rules;

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Or. it

Amendment 108 Lucy Anderson, Catherine Stihler

Draft opinion Paragraph 5

Draft opinion Amendment

5. Urges the Commission to ensure that 5. Urges the Commission to publish European companies, including SMEs, are negotiating text concerning public not discriminated against when tendering procurement; calls on the Commission to for public contracts on the US market at all ensure that European companies, including government levels, and to ensure SMEs, are not discriminated against when transparent access at a level equal to or tendering for public contracts on the US higher than that applying to US market at all government levels, and to companies today in Europe under the new ensure equal and transparent access; EU procurement rules; stresses that services that are privatised must not be prevented from returning to public ownership; in this respect calls on the Commission to avoid the use of "ratchet" clauses in TTIP;

Or. en

Amendment 109 Philippe Juvin

Draft opinion Paragraph 5

Draft opinion Amendment

5. Urges the Commission to ensure that 5. Urges the Commission to ensure that European companies, including SMEs, are European companies, including SMEs, are not discriminated against when tendering not discriminated against when tendering for public contracts on the US market at all for public contracts on the US market at all government levels, and to ensure government levels, and to ensure transparent access at a level equal to or transparent access at a level equal to or higher than that applying to US companies higher than that applying to US companies today in Europe under the new EU today in Europe under the new EU procurement rules; procurement rules in order to counterbalance the existing asymmetric

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situation where European companies have only access to 32 % of public contracts in the US;

Or. en

Amendment 110 Daniel Dalton

Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

5a. Demands that TTIP builds on the outcome of the Government procurement Agreement (GPA) in terms of coverage, rules and disciplines and that it simplifies and streamlines procedures while providing for increased transparency;

Or. en

Amendment 111 Pascal Durand, Igor Šoltes

Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

5a. enforce the right of contracting authorities, when awarding public procurement contracts, to give preference to local suppliers, with a view to minimising the impact on the environment;

Or. fr

Amendment 112 Andreas Schwab

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Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

5a. Ensure that all provisions on public procurement and the award of concessions which have recently been brought up to date at EU level are complied with, in particular the exemption for the emergency services;

Or. de

Amendment 113 Evelyne Gebhardt

Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

5a. Given the legislation on public procurement in the EU which came into force in 2016 and possible reciprocal open market access for public procurement, calls for the achievements of the new directive on public procurement not to be neglected; points out, therefore, that there is no distinction in the US between temporary concessions and one-off jobs when public contracts are awarded; points out that the fundamental principles for public in-house consultations, public- public cooperation and public-private partnership management systems should be clearly defined and exempted from the Public Procurement Directive, in both the general economy and public utilities (water, energy, transport and the post office); and points out that the MEAT criteria applied in the legislation enable social, labour law, quality and environmental perspectives to be used as award criteria and are therefore

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particularly significant;

Or. de

Amendment 114 Dennis de Jong

Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

5a. to ensure that any procedures in the context of regulatory co-operation fully respect the legislative competences of the European Parliament and of the Council in accordance with the EU Treaties and do not delay, directly or indirectly, the European legislative process;

Or. en

Amendment 115 Lucy Anderson, Catherine Stihler

Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

5a. Calls on the Commission to define any liberalisation obligations according to a positive list system as used in GATS; stresses that any negotiations based on a negative list system must exempt public services from liberalisation obligations;

Or. en

Amendment 116 Dita Charanzová, Andreas Schwab

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Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

5a. with regard to the fact that public procurement represents a substantial part of the EU's and other trading partners' economies and therefore is a key economic interest for the EU, to underline that it must be part of any final comprehensive TTIP agreement;

Or. en

Amendment 117 Helmut Scholz, Jiří Maštálka

Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

5a. Ensure that the standard-setting aspects of European public procurement law are not put in jeopardy as seems to be the case particularly with regional implementation, for example the attention paid to compliance with labour-law, social and collective standards, green procurement policies or taking into account SMEs, which ensure that other criteria such as social and sustainable aspects can be taken into account when awarding the contract to the best bidder, not just the price;

Or. de

Amendment 118 Pascal Durand, Igor Šoltes

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Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

5b. ensure that public-private partnerships are excluded from the scope of the negotiations, given their importance for the public authorities as a tool, in particular in the area of local development;

Or. fr

Amendment 119 Dennis de Jong

Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

5b. to ensure that any procedures in the context of regulatory co-operation do not undermine or delay, directly or indirectly, the legislative procedures of Member States;

Or. en

Amendment 120 Andreas Schwab

Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

5b. Clarify that freedom to decide on the form of service provision remains unaffected and that the ratchet clause contained in the services chapter cannot therefore be applied to services awarded

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by the contracting authority to a private third party by means of a procurement contract and provided after the end of the contract by that authority as proprietary or in-house transactions;

Or. de

Amendment 121 Helmut Scholz, Jiří Maštálka

Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

5b. Guarantee that exceptions from EU procurement law as currently provided for in the various procurement and concession guidelines (thresholds, in- house, intermunicipal cooperation, sectoral exceptions such as for the water sector or emergency services) remain;

Or. de

Amendment 122 Pascal Durand, Igor Šoltes

Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

5c. ensure that concession contracts are excluded from the scope of the negotiations, given their importance for the public authorities as a tool, by virtue of the long periods for which they are generally concluded;

Or. fr

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Amendment 123 Dennis de Jong

Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

5c. to provide information on the way agreements by either the USA or the EU with third countries may affect regulatory co-operation and, in particular, to clarify how these agreements would interact, if they provide for similar forms or regulatory co-operation;

Or. en

Amendment 124 Dita Charanzová

Draft opinion Paragraph 6

Draft opinion Amendment

6. Stresses that, while safeguarding the 6. to stress that, while safeguarding the protection achieved by EU standards and protection achieved by EU standards and regulations, TTIP should go beyond the regulations, TTIP should go beyond the WTO Technical Barriers to Trade WTO Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement, in areas such as conformity Agreement, in areas such as conformity assessment, product requirements, or assessment, product requirements, or standards, as well as providing for standards, as well as providing for transparency in the preparation and transparency in the preparation and availability of technical regulations; availability of technical regulations;

Or. en

Amendment 125 Pascal Durand, Igor Šoltes

Draft opinion Paragraph 6

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Draft opinion Amendment

6. Stresses that, while safeguarding the 6. To maintain the protection achieved by protection achieved by EU standards and EU standards and regulations and the regulations, TTIP should go beyond the possibility for the EU legislator, in WTO Technical Barriers to Trade accordance with the principle of Agreement, in areas such as conformity democratic accountability, to continue to assessment, product requirements, or adopt and improve these standards and standards, as well as providing for regulations as it sees fit, especially in the transparency in the preparation and areas of the environment, social matters, availability of technical regulations; health, safety, consumer protection and cultural diversity, and in particular as regards conformity assessment, product requirements, or standards, as well as in the preparation and availability of technical regulations;

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Amendment 126 Andreas Schwab

Draft opinion Paragraph 6

Draft opinion Amendment

6. Stresses that, while safeguarding the 6. Stress that, while safeguarding the protection achieved by EU standards and protection achieved by EU standards and regulations, TTIP should go beyond the regulations, TTIP should go beyond the WTO Technical Barriers to Trade WTO Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement, in areas such as conformity Agreement, in areas such as conformity assessment, product requirements, or assessment, product requirements, or standards, as well as providing for technical standards, as well as providing transparency in the preparation and for transparency in the preparation and availability of technical regulations; availability of technical regulations;

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Amendment 127 Virginie Rozière

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Draft opinion Paragraph 6

Draft opinion Amendment

6. Stresses that, while safeguarding the 6. Stresses that, while safeguarding the protection achieved by EU standards and protection achieved by EU standards and regulations, TTIP should go beyond the regulations for consumers, social rights WTO Technical Barriers to Trade and the environment, TTIP should go Agreement, in areas such as conformity beyond the WTO Technical Barriers to assessment, product requirements, or Trade Agreement, in areas such as standards, as well as providing for conformity assessment, product transparency in the preparation and requirements, or standards, as well as availability of technical regulations; providing for transparency in the preparation and availability of technical regulations;

Or. fr

Amendment 128 Marco Zullo

Draft opinion Paragraph 6

Draft opinion Amendment

6. Stresses that, while safeguarding the 6. Stresses that, while safeguarding the protection achieved by EU standards and protection achieved by EU standards and regulations, TTIP should go beyond the regulations, TTIP should go beyond the WTO Technical Barriers to Trade WTO Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement, in areas such as conformity Agreement, in areas such as conformity assessment, product requirements, or assessment, product requirements, or standards, as well as providing for standards, as well as providing for transparency in the preparation and transparency in the preparation and availability of technical regulations; availability of technical regulations, and should at the same time ensure that the regulatory systems are fully compatible and reciprocal;

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Amendment 129 Sergio Gutiérrez Prieto

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Draft opinion Paragraph 6

Draft opinion Amendment

6. Stresses that, while safeguarding the 6. Stresses that, while safeguarding the protection achieved by EU standards and protection achieved by EU standards and regulations, TTIP should go beyond the regulations, guaranteeing the right of the WTO Technical Barriers to Trade EU and its Member States to legislate to Agreement, in areas such as conformity ensure suitable levels of protection, TTIP assessment, product requirements, or should go beyond the WTO Technical standards, as well as providing for Barriers to Trade Agreement, in areas such transparency in the preparation and as conformity assessment, product availability of technical regulations; requirements, or standards, as well as providing for transparency in the preparation and availability of technical regulations;

Or. es

Amendment 130 Liisa Jaakonsaari

Draft opinion Paragraph 6

Draft opinion Amendment

6. Stresses that, while safeguarding the 6. Stresses that, while safeguarding the protection achieved by EU standards and protection achieved by EU standards and regulations, TTIP should go beyond the regulations, TTIP should go beyond the WTO Technical Barriers to Trade WTO Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement, in areas such as conformity Agreement, in areas such as conformity assessment, product requirements, or assessment, product requirements, or standards, as well as providing for standards, as well as providing for transparency in the preparation and transparency in the preparation and availability of technical regulations; availability of technical regulations and development of product standards; European companies should be able to consult one US information point that can provide information about standards across all sectors;

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Amendment 131 Helmut Scholz, Jiří Maštálka

Draft opinion Paragraph 6

Draft opinion Amendment

6. Stresses that, while safeguarding the 6. to evaluate options for alternatives to protection achieved by EU standards and TTIP as for example negotiating separate regulations, TTIP should go beyond the or sectoral agreements on issues such as WTO Technical Barriers to Trade conformity assessment, product Agreement, in areas such as conformity requirements, or standards, providing for assessment, product requirements, or transparency regarding technical standards, as well as providing for regulations; transparency in the preparation and availability of technical regulations;

Or. en

Amendment 132 Dita Charanzová

Draft opinion Paragraph 6 – point i (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

(i) regarding transatlantic standards as global standards:

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Amendment 133 Dita Charanzová, Andreas Schwab

Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

6a. to firmly defend the work of the EU in

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standardisation and to promote its principles, namely coherence, transparency, openness, consensus, voluntary application, independence from special interests and efficiency;

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Amendment 134 Dita Charanzová

Draft opinion Paragraph 7

Draft opinion Amendment

7. Calls for the setting-up of an ambitious 7. to set-up an ambitious and effective and effective cooperation mechanism cooperation mechanism aimed at creating aimed at creating common standards where common standards where possible in possible in existing procedures, and to existing procedures, and to ensure that ensure that there is no unintended there is no unintended divergence in future divergence in future standards in key standards in key sectors with the belief that sectors; believes that EU-US common EU-US common standards should be standards should be promoted in all promoted in all international forums; international forums;

Or. en

Amendment 135 Daniel Dalton

Draft opinion Paragraph 7

Draft opinion Amendment

7. Calls for the setting-up of an ambitious 7. Calls for the setting-up of an ambitious and effective cooperation mechanism and effective cooperation and aimed at creating common standards where dialogue mechanism aimed at creating possible in existing procedures, and to common standards where possible in ensure that there is no unintended existing procedures, and to ensure that divergence in future standards in key there is no unintended divergence in future sectors; believes that EU-US common standards in key sectors; believes that EU- standards should be promoted in all US common standards should be promoted

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Or. en

Amendment 136 Csaba Molnár

Draft opinion Paragraph 7

Draft opinion Amendment

7. Calls for the setting-up of an ambitious 7. Calls for the setting-up of an ambitious and effective cooperation mechanism and effective cooperation mechanism aimed at creating common standards where aimed at creating common standards where possible in existing procedures, and to possible in existing procedures, and to ensure that there is no unintended ensure that there is no unintended divergence in future standards in key divergence in future standards in key sectors; believes that EU-US common sectors; therefore proposes the standards should be promoted in all establishment of a Transatlantic international forums; Regulatory Council to promote Transatlantic harmonisation; believes that EU-US common standards should be promoted in all international forums; at the same time, considers it important for the Commission to pursue the negotiations with maximum transparency and proposes the launch of a European information campaign to keep EU citizens well informed;

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Amendment 137 Pascal Durand, Igor Šoltes

Draft opinion Paragraph 7

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7. Calls for the setting-up of an ambitious 7. To ensure that cooperation aimed at and effective cooperation mechanism creating common standards where possible aimed at creating common standards where in existing procedures and in key sectors possible in existing procedures, and to covered by TTIP does not lead to the ensure that there is no unintended setting-up of a mechanism which divergence in future standards in key undermines the right of the competent sectors; believes that EU-US common authorities to regulate; to promote standards should be promoted in all stringent quality, safety and consumer international forums; protection standards which, wherever possible, are common to the EU and the US, in all international forums;

Or. fr

Amendment 138 Robert Rochefort

Draft opinion Paragraph 7

Draft opinion Amendment

7. Calls for the setting-up of an ambitious 7. Calls for the setting-up of an ambitious and effective cooperation mechanism and effective cooperation mechanism aimed at creating common standards where aimed at creating common standards where possible in existing procedures, and to possible in existing procedures, and at ensure that there is no unintended establishing a dialogue between divergence in future standards in key regulators on technical procedures to sectors; believes that EU-US common ensure that there is no unintended standards should be promoted in all divergence in future standards in key international forums; sectors covered by TTIP; believes that EU- US common standards should be promoted in all international forums;

Or. en

Amendment 139 Andreas Schwab

Draft opinion Paragraph 7

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Draft opinion Amendment

7. Calls for the setting-up of an ambitious 7. Set up an ambitious and effective and effective cooperation mechanism cooperation mechanism aimed at creating aimed at creating common standards where common technical standards where possible in existing procedures, and to possible in existing procedures, and ensure ensure that there is no unintended that there is no unintended divergence in divergence in future standards in key future standards in key sectors in the belief sectors; believes that EU-US common that EU-US common standards should be standards should be promoted in all agreed and promoted in particular in international forums; innovative fields and all international forums;

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Amendment 140 Virginie Rozière

Draft opinion Paragraph 7

Draft opinion Amendment

7. Calls for the setting-up of an ambitious 7. Calls for the setting-up of an ambitious and effective cooperation mechanism and effective cooperation mechanism aimed at creating common standards where aimed at creating common standards where possible in existing procedures, and to possible, and without undermining ensure that there is no unintended protection of consumers, social rights or divergence in future standards in key the environment, in existing procedures, sectors; believes that EU-US common and to ensure that there is no unintended standards should be promoted in all divergence in future standards in key international forums; sectors; believes that EU-US common standards should be promoted in all international forums;

Or. fr

Amendment 141 Sergio Gutiérrez Prieto

Draft opinion Paragraph 7

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7. Calls for the setting-up of an ambitious 7. Calls for the setting-up of an ambitious and effective cooperation mechanism and effective cooperation mechanism aimed at creating common standards aimed at facilitating the mutual where possible in existing procedures, and recognition of standards with a similar to ensure that there is no unintended level of protection where possible in divergence in future standards in key existing procedures, and to ensure that sectors; believes that EU-US common there is no unintended divergence in future standards should be promoted in all standards in key sectors; believes that EU- international forums; US common standards need to be established on the basis of the highest level of protection; believes that EU-US common standards should be promoted in all international forums;

Or. es

Amendment 142 Lucy Anderson, Catherine Stihler

Draft opinion Paragraph 7

Draft opinion Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 143 Liisa Jaakonsaari

Draft opinion Paragraph 7

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Draft opinion Amendment

7. Calls for the setting-up of an ambitious 7. Calls for the setting-up of an ambitious, and effective cooperation mechanism transparent and effective cooperation aimed at creating common standards where mechanism aimed at creating common possible in existing procedures, and to standards where possible in existing ensure that there is no unintended procedures, and to ensure that there is no divergence in future standards in key unintended divergence in future standards sectors; believes that EU-US common in key sectors; believes that EU-US standards should be promoted in all common standards should be promoted in international forums; all international forums;

Or. en

Amendment 144 Ulrike Müller

Draft opinion Paragraph 7

Draft opinion Amendment

7. Calls for the setting-up of an ambitious 7. Calls for the setting-up of an ambitious and effective cooperation mechanism and effective cooperation mechanism, the aimed at creating common standards where remit of which must not, however, extend possible in existing procedures, and to beyond guaranteeing the reciprocal ensure that there is no unintended exchange of information prior to drawing divergence in future standards in key up new regulations, and which shall not sectors; believes that EU-US common imply obligations for national and standards should be promoted in all regional authorities unless the same rules international forums; being complied with by the US and shall be aimed at creating common standards where possible in existing procedures and shall ensure that there is no unintended divergence in future standards in key sectors; believes that EU-US common standards should be promoted in all international forums;

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Amendment 145 Philippe Juvin

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Draft opinion Paragraph 7

Draft opinion Amendment

7. Calls for the setting-up of an ambitious 7. Calls for the setting-up of an ambitious and effective cooperation mechanism and effective cooperation mechanism aimed at creating common standards where aimed at creating common standards where possible in existing procedures, and to possible in existing procedures, and at ensure that there is no unintended establishing a dialogue between divergence in future standards in key regulators on technical procedures to sectors; believes that EU-US common ensure that there is no unintended standards should be promoted in all divergence in future standards in key international forums; sectors; believes that EU-US common standards should be promoted in all international forums;

Or. en

Amendment 146 Helmut Scholz, Jiří Maštálka

Draft opinion Paragraph 7

Draft opinion Amendment

7. Calls for the setting-up of an ambitious 7. to set up an ambitious and effective and effective cooperation mechanism cooperation mechanism between the US aimed at creating common standards where Congress and the European possible in existing procedures, and to Parliament, aimed at creating the ensure that there is no unintended highest common standards where possible divergence in future standards in key in existing procedures, and to ensure that sectors; believes that EU-US common there is no unintended divergence in future standards should be promoted in all standards in key sectors; to promote high international forums; common standards in all international fora;

Or. en

Amendment 147 Dita Charanzová

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Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

7a. to work with their US colleagues towards the mutual recognition of accredited conformity assessment bodies following internationally agreed standards;

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Amendment 148 Pascal Durand, Igor Šoltes

Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

7a. To safeguard the role of the European Parliament in the EU legislative process, including as regards impact assessments and delegated and implementing acts, and its right to verify implementation of such legislation;

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Amendment 149 Dennis de Jong

Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

7a. to ensure that standards remain affordable in the EU, in particular for SMEs; to emphasise that common EU-US standards can only follow after regulatory convergence, based on a system aimed at

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a single standard.

Or. en

Amendment 150 Lucy Anderson

Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

7a. Stresses that the success of sectors covered by TTIP depends upon a safe and secure workforce; calls on the Commission therefore to ensure the ratification and full and effective implementation of the eight core conventions of the International Labour Organisation by all parties involved in TTIP negotiations; urges the Commission to promote social dialogue with the full involvement of trade unions, to ensure a strong partnership between workers and employers;

Or. en

Amendment 151 Helmut Scholz, Jiří Maštálka

Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

7a. Insist that investment protection provisions and dispute resolution mechanisms in the investor-state relationship between the EU and the US (ISDS) which circumvent normal legal channels involve high risk, discriminate against domestic businesses and should therefore be rejected; stress that

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European legislation must not be encroached upon by a transatlantic free trade agreement and that legal action must continue to be taken in national courts; ensure that political and administrative measures – particularly regarding retrospective claims for damages – drawn up according to the principles of democracy and the rule of law are not jeopardised by courts of arbitration;

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Amendment 152 Dita Charanzová

Draft opinion Paragraph 7 b (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

7b. to ask the EU-US administrations to grant standards assessment bodies authorisation to conclude bi/multi-lateral cooperation agreements between themselves, in order to facilitate the implementation of TTIP and to allow potential enhanced cooperation beyond the scope of the TTIP negotiations;

Or. en

Amendment 153 Dita Charanzová

Draft opinion Paragraph 8

Draft opinion Amendment

8. Emphasises that internationally agreed 8. to emphasise that internationally agreed standards, where existing and up-to-date, standards, where existing and up-to-date, should be adopted by the US and the EU, should be adopted by the US and the EU,

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for example in the electronic devices for example in the electronic devices sector; sector;

Or. en

Amendment 154 Andreas Schwab

Draft opinion Paragraph 8

Draft opinion Amendment

8. Emphasises that internationally agreed 8. Emphasise that in the ISO and IEC standards, where existing and up-to-date, standardisation bodies, internationally should be adopted by the US and the EU, agreed standards, where existing and up-to- for example in the electronic devices date, should be adopted by the US and the sector; EU, for example in the electronic devices sector;

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Amendment 155 Pascal Durand, Igor Šoltes, Julia Reda

Draft opinion Paragraph 8

Draft opinion Amendment

8. Emphasises that internationally agreed 8. To emphasise that internationally agreed standards, where existing and up-to-date, standards, where existing and up-to-date, should be adopted by the US and the EU, should be adopted by the US and the EU, for example in the electronic devices for example in the electronic devices sector; sector, and that they must be consistent with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union;

Or. fr

Amendment 156 Inese Vaidere

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Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

8a. Stresses that the standards safeguarding the protection of the consumer health and food safety are fundamental to the EU and should be uphold in the agreement; TTIP should include the consideration of other legitimate factors than science in food policy making;

Or. en

Amendment 157 Marc Tarabella

Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

8a. Considers that net neutrality and data protection should be guaranteed across the board and regarded as a key issue in the TTIP negotiations;

Or. fr

Amendment 158 Evelyne Gebhardt

Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

8a. Stresses the political competence of the European Parliament in product standards, consumer protection and product safety and accordingly calls on

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the Commission to conduct a more thorough investigation in the area of regulatory cooperation of the impact on the right of the European institutions and the Member States to regulate, with particular regard to the European development model of the competitive social market economy;

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Amendment 159 Pascal Durand, Igor Šoltes

Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

8a. To reject the ISDS dispute settlement mechanism in that it would in fact lead to justice being privatised and would undermine the right of the competent authorities to regulate by exposing them to the threat of legal proceedings by private investors; to reject ISDS in particular in the light of the threat it would pose to the legal certainty of public procurement contracts in the EU;

Or. fr

Amendment 160 Andreas Schwab

Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

8a. Follow up on the objectives of common standard-setting while ensuring the consistency of the European standardisation mechanism, which is the

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basis for the internal market for goods and services, and at the same time take account of the fact that the US standardisation system gives a higher status to individual interests, which makes it difficult to bring it into line with the European mechanism;

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Amendment 161 Dita Charanzová

Draft opinion Paragraph 9

Draft opinion Amendment

9. Recalls the aim to continue to guarantee 9. to aim to continue to guarantee a high a high level of product safety within the level of product safety within the Union Union; considers that TTIP should not while eliminate unnecessary duplication of question this requirement, but should testing that causes a waste of resources, in eliminate unnecessary duplication of particular on low-risk products; to ensure testing that causes a waste of resources, in the recognition by the US of self- particular on low-risk products; demands declaration of conformity on products, the recognition by the US of self- where allowed by EU law; declaration of conformity on products, where allowed by EU law;

Or. en

Amendment 162 Olga Sehnalová

Draft opinion Paragraph 9

Draft opinion Amendment

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testing that causes a waste of resources, in requirement; demands the recognition by particular on low-risk products; demands the US of self-declaration of conformity on the recognition by the US of self- products, where allowed by EU law; declaration of conformity on products, where allowed by EU law;

Or. en

Amendment 163 Virginie Rozière

Draft opinion Paragraph 9

Draft opinion Amendment

9. Recalls the aim to continue to guarantee 9. Recalls the aim to continue to guarantee a high level of product safety within the a high level of product safety within the Union; considers that TTIP should not Union; considers that TTIP should uphold question this requirement, but should this requirement, but may make it possible eliminate unnecessary duplication of to eliminate unnecessary duplication of testing that causes a waste of resources, in testing that causes a waste of resources, in particular on low-risk products; demands particular on low-risk products; demands the recognition by the US of self- the recognition by the US of self- declaration of conformity on products, declaration of conformity on products, where allowed by EU law; where allowed by EU law;

Or. fr

Amendment 164 Marco Zullo

Draft opinion Paragraph 9

Draft opinion Amendment

9. Recalls the aim to continue to guarantee 9. Recalls the aim to continue to guarantee a high level of product safety within the a high level of product safety within the Union; considers that TTIP should not Union; considers that TTIP should not question this requirement, but should question this requirement, but should eliminate unnecessary duplication of eliminate unnecessary duplication of testing that causes a waste of resources, in testing, in particular on low-risk products; particular on low-risk products; demands demands the recognition by the US of self-

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Or. it

Amendment 165 Pascal Durand, Igor Šoltes

Draft opinion Paragraph 9

Draft opinion Amendment

9. Recalls the aim to continue to guarantee 9. To ensure, in view of the aim to a high level of product safety within the continue to guarantee a high level of Union; considers that TTIP should not product safety within the Union, that TTIP question this requirement, but should does not question this requirement and that eliminate unnecessary duplication of testing and market surveillance measures testing that causes a waste of resources, in are based on the precautionary principle, particular on low-risk products; demands that they are necessary and that they do the recognition by the US of self- not lead to a waste of resources, in declaration of conformity on products, particular on low-risk products; to call for where allowed by EU law; the recognition by the US of self- declaration of conformity on products, where allowed by EU law;

Or. fr

Amendment 166 Dita Charanzová

Draft opinion Paragraph 9 – point a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

(a) regarding make technical barriers to transatlantic trade history

Or. en

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Amendment 167 Helmut Scholz, Jiří Maštálka

Draft opinion Paragraph 9 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

9a. Make clear to the negotiating partner that the precautionary principle is one of the fundamental principles of European environmental, health and consumer protection policy and is the basis for prompt, proactive negotiations to avoid putting the health of people, animals and plants at risk and damaging the environment; ensure that the negotiations do not result in the diluting of the precautionary principle which operates in the EU, particularly in the areas of environmental, health, food and consumer protection;

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Amendment 168 Dita Charanzová

Draft opinion Paragraph 10

Draft opinion Amendment

10. Supports the establishment of a 10. to support the establishment of a mandatory structural dialogue and mandatory structural dialogue and cooperation between regulators, in cooperation between regulators, in complete respect of regulatory autonomy, complete respect of regulatory autonomy, in particular in the engineering sector, in particular in the engineering sector, comprising electrical and mechanical comprising electrical and mechanical machinery, appliances and equipment; machinery, appliances and equipment; to stresses that this should involve early stress that this should involve early warning mechanisms and exchanges at the warning mechanisms and exchanges at the time of preparation of regulations; believes time of preparation of regulations; to keep that regulatory divergences are the central in mind that regulatory divergences are the non-tariff barrier (NTB) to trade, and that central non-tariff barrier (NTB) to trade, regulators should explore ways to promote and that regulators should explore ways to

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Or. en

Amendment 169 Daniel Dalton

Draft opinion Paragraph 10

Draft opinion Amendment

10. Supports the establishment of a 10. Supports the establishment of a mandatory structural dialogue and mandatory structural dialogue and cooperation between regulators, in cooperation between regulators, as well as complete respect of regulatory autonomy, the confirmation of best regulatory in particular in the engineering sector, practices, in complete respect of regulatory comprising electrical and mechanical autonomy, in particular in the engineering machinery, appliances and equipment; sector, comprising electrical and stresses that this should involve early mechanical machinery, appliances and warning mechanisms and exchanges at the equipment; stresses that this should involve time of preparation of regulations; believes early warning mechanisms and exchanges that regulatory divergences are the central at the time of preparation of regulations; non-tariff barrier (NTB) to trade, and that believes that regulatory divergences are the regulators should explore ways to promote central non-tariff barrier (NTB) to trade, compatibility, such as mutual recognition, and that regulators should explore ways to harmonisation or alignment of promote compatibility, such as mutual requirements; recognition, harmonisation or alignment of requirements;

Or. en

Amendment 170 Csaba Molnár

Draft opinion Paragraph 10

Draft opinion Amendment

10. Supports the establishment of a 10. Supports the establishment of a mandatory structural dialogue and mandatory structural dialogue and

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cooperation between regulators, in cooperation between regulators under the complete respect of regulatory autonomy, auspices of the Transatlantic Regulatory in particular in the engineering sector, Council, in complete respect of regulatory comprising electrical and mechanical autonomy, in particular in the engineering machinery, appliances and equipment; sector, comprising electrical and stresses that this should involve early mechanical machinery, appliances and warning mechanisms and exchanges at the equipment; stresses that this should involve time of preparation of regulations; believes early warning mechanisms and exchanges that regulatory divergences are the central at the time of preparation of regulations; non-tariff barrier (NTB) to trade, and that believes that regulatory divergences are the regulators should explore ways to promote central non-tariff barrier (NTB) to trade, compatibility, such as mutual recognition, and that regulators should explore ways to harmonisation or alignment of promote compatibility, such as mutual requirements; recognition, harmonisation or alignment of requirements;

Or. hu

Amendment 171 Pascal Durand, Igor Šoltes

Draft opinion Paragraph 10

Draft opinion Amendment

10. Supports the establishment of a 10. To see to it that in the establishment of mandatory structural dialogue and a structural dialogue and cooperation cooperation between regulators, in between regulators, including on technical complete respect of regulatory autonomy, procedures linked to delegated and in particular in the engineering sector, implementing acts in the sectors TTIP comprising electrical and mechanical covers, regulatory autonomy is fully machinery, appliances and equipment; upheld, something which may be achieved stresses that this should involve early through exchanges between the warning mechanisms and exchanges at competent authorities when the the time of preparation of regulations; regulations are drawn up; to make sure, believes that regulatory divergences are however, that this cooperation does not the central non-tariff barrier (NTB) to increase the administrative burden on EU trade, and that regulators should explore and Member State institutions by adding ways to promote compatibility, such as unnecessary procedures or structures, mutual recognition, harmonisation or that it does not slow down the legislative alignment of requirements; process and that it does not create a risk of regulatory standstill; to make sure that regulators study ways to promote compatibility, such as harmonisation or alignment upwards of requirements, as

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regulatory divergences, when they do not reflect public interest explicitly set by the competent authorities, may be a non-tariff barrier (NTB) to trade;

Or. fr

Amendment 172 Robert Rochefort

Draft opinion Paragraph 10

Draft opinion Amendment

10. Supports the establishment of a 10. Supports the establishment of a mandatory structural dialogue and mandatory structural dialogue and cooperation between regulators, in cooperation between regulators, limited to complete respect of regulatory autonomy, the sectors covered by TTIP and in in particular in the engineering sector, complete respect of regulatory autonomy; comprising electrical and mechanical welcomes an improved regulatory machinery, appliances and equipment; cooperation; stresses that this should stresses that this should involve early involve early warning mechanisms and warning mechanisms and exchanges at the exchanges at the time of preparation of time of preparation of regulations; believes regulations; believes that regulatory that regulatory divergences are the central divergences are the central non-tariff non-tariff barrier (NTB) to trade, and that barrier (NTB) to trade in the engineering regulators should explore ways to promote sector, comprising electrical and compatibility, such as mutual recognition, mechanical machinery, appliances and harmonisation or alignment of equipment, and that regulators should requirements; explore ways to promote compatibility;

Or. en

Amendment 173 Dennis de Jong

Draft opinion Paragraph 10

Draft opinion Amendment

10. Supports the establishment of a 10. to support the establishment of a

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mandatory structural dialogue and structural dialogue and cooperation cooperation between regulators, in between regulators, in complete respect of complete respect of regulatory autonomy, regulatory autonomy, in particular in the in particular in the engineering sector, engineering sector, comprising electrical comprising electrical and mechanical and mechanical machinery, appliances and machinery, appliances and equipment; equipment; to stress that this should stresses that this should involve early involve early warning mechanisms and warning mechanisms and exchanges at the exchanges at the time of preparation of time of preparation of regulations; believes regulations; that regulatory divergences are the central non-tariff barrier (NTB) to trade, and that regulators should explore ways to promote compatibility, such as mutual recognition, harmonisation or alignment of requirements;

Or. en

Amendment 174 Evelyne Gebhardt

Draft opinion Paragraph 10

Draft opinion Amendment

10. Supports the establishment of a 10. Supports the establishment of a mandatory structural dialogue and mandatory structural dialogue and cooperation between regulators, in cooperation between regulators, in complete respect of regulatory autonomy, complete respect of regulatory autonomy, in particular in the engineering sector, in particular in the engineering sector, comprising electrical and mechanical comprising electrical and mechanical machinery, appliances and equipment; machinery, appliances and equipment; stresses that this should involve early stresses that this should involve early warning mechanisms and exchanges at the warning mechanisms and exchanges at the time of preparation of regulations; believes time of preparation of regulations; believes that regulatory divergences are the central that regulatory divergences are the central non-tariff barrier (NTB) to trade, and that non-tariff barrier (NTB) to trade, and that regulators should explore ways to promote regulators should explore ways to promote compatibility, such as mutual recognition, compatibility, such as harmonisation or harmonisation or alignment of alignment of requirements; requirements;

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Amendment 175 Virginie Rozière

Draft opinion Paragraph 10

Draft opinion Amendment

10. Supports the establishment of a 10. Supports the establishment of a mandatory structural dialogue and mandatory structural dialogue and cooperation between regulators, in cooperation between regulators, in complete respect of regulatory autonomy, complete respect of regulatory autonomy, in particular in the engineering sector, in particular in the engineering sector, comprising electrical and mechanical comprising electrical and mechanical machinery, appliances and equipment; machinery, appliances and equipment; stresses that this should involve early stresses that this should involve early warning mechanisms and exchanges at the warning mechanisms and exchanges at the time of preparation of regulations; believes time of preparation of regulations; believes that regulatory divergences are the central that regulatory divergences are the central non-tariff barrier (NTB) to trade, and that non-tariff barrier (NTB) to trade, and that regulators should explore ways to promote regulators should explore ways to promote compatibility, such as mutual recognition, compatibility, while ensuring that harmonisation or alignment of equivalence at the very least is guaranteed requirements; in regard to protection of consumers, social rights and the environment;

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Amendment 176 Sergio Gutiérrez Prieto

Draft opinion Paragraph 10

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that regulatory divergences are the central that regulatory divergences are the central non-tariff barrier (NTB) to trade, and that non-tariff barrier (NTB) to trade, and that regulators should explore ways to promote regulators should explore ways to promote compatibility, such as mutual recognition, compatibility and regulatory symmetry, harmonisation or alignment of such as mutual recognition, regulatory requirements; convergence, harmonisation or alignment of protection requirements at the highest level;

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Amendment 177 Liisa Jaakonsaari

Draft opinion Paragraph 10

Draft opinion Amendment

10. Supports the establishment of a 10. Supports the establishment of a mandatory structural dialogue and mandatory structural dialogue and cooperation between regulators, in cooperation between regulators, in complete respect of regulatory autonomy, complete respect of regulatory autonomy, in particular in the engineering sector, in particular in the engineering sector, comprising electrical and mechanical comprising electrical and mechanical machinery, appliances and equipment; machinery, appliances and equipment; stresses that this should involve early stresses that this should involve early warning mechanisms and exchanges at the warning mechanisms and exchanges at the time of preparation of regulations; believes time of preparation of regulations; believes that regulatory divergences are the central that regulatory divergences are the central non-tariff barrier (NTB) to trade, and that non-tariff barrier (NTB) to trade, and that regulators should explore ways to promote regulators should explore ways to promote compatibility, such as mutual recognition, compatibility, such as mutual recognition, harmonisation or alignment of harmonisation or alignment of requirements; requirements; Highlights, however, that regulatory cooperation must be transparent and the European Parliament should oversee and contribute to the work of future institutions, such as, the Regulatory Cooperation Body;

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Amendment 178 Helmut Scholz, Jiří Maštálka

Draft opinion Paragraph 10

Draft opinion Amendment

10. Supports the establishment of a 10. to discuss the existing structural mandatory structural dialogue and dialogues and cooperation cooperation between regulators, in frames between regulators, and to complete respect of regulatory autonomy, deplore the low level of results of those in particular in the engineering sector, well paid negotiators while calling comprising electrical and mechanical on negotiators to deliver in accordance machinery, appliances and equipment; with their mandate, and in complete stresses that this should involve early respect of regulatory autonomy, in warning mechanisms and exchanges at particular in the engineering sector, the time of preparation of regulations; comprising electrical and mechanical believes that regulatory divergences are machinery, appliances and the central non-tariff barrier (NTB) to equipment; to defend the view that trade, and that regulators should explore existing regulatory divergences often have ways to promote compatibility, such as a background in different cultural and mutual recognition, harmonisation or political approaches and that their value alignment of requirements; may be higher than their costs as non- tariff barrier (NTB) to trade; to encourage legislators to explore ways to promote compatibility, such as democratic harmonisation procedures or alignment of requirements;

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Amendment 179 Evelyne Gebhardt

Draft opinion Paragraph 10 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

10a. Recalls that in the area of TBT, particular attention needs to be paid to the EU’s market surveillance systems, as this is the only way in which the high consumer protection standards in the EU and the precautionary principle can be

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safeguarded; with reference to these reasons, draws Parliament’s attention to the fact that this can only be achieved on both sides of the Atlantic through a high degree of standardisation horizontally and in specific sectors such as the automobile sector;

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Amendment 180 Dennis de Jong

Draft opinion Paragraph 10 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

10a. to ensure that the structural dialogue between EU and US institutions may not limit, either directly or indirectly, the right of initiative of the European Commission, as laid down in the EU Treaties;

Or. en

Amendment 181 Helmut Scholz, Jiří Maštálka

Draft opinion Paragraph 10 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

10a. Oppose the suggestion for more extensive regulatory cooperation which would allow trade and investment partners and corporations in the pre- legislative or legislative phase of the legislative procedure of the EU or the US, the Member States or federal states and municipal and regional authorities to have a privileged say in, or the

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opportunity to delay or stop, legislative procedures by calling for impact analyses of legislation on trade and investments;

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Amendment 182 Dita Charanzová

Draft opinion Paragraph 11

Draft opinion Amendment

11. Considers that the recognition of 11. to remember that the recognition of equivalence of the greatest possible equivalence of the greatest possible number of vehicle safety regulations would number of vehicle safety regulations would be one of the most important achievements be one of the most important achievements of TTIP; stresses that this will require of TTIP and that this will require verifying verifying that the EU and US regulations that the EU and US regulations provide for provide for a similar level of protection; a similar level of protection; to stress that believes that this must be a step towards this must be a step towards full regulatory full regulatory convergence for the sector; convergence for the sector; to urge the urges the strengthening of EU-US strengthening of EU-US cooperation in the cooperation in the framework of the United framework of the United Nations Nations Economic Commission for Europe Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), especially regarding new (UNECE), especially regarding new technologies; technologies;

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Amendment 183 Daniel Dalton

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verifying that the EU and US regulations verifying that the EU and US regulations provide for a similar level of protection; provide for a similar level of protection; believes that this must be a step towards believes that this must be a step towards full regulatory convergence for the sector; full regulatory convergence for the sector; urges the strengthening of EU-US urges the strengthening of EU-US cooperation in the framework of the United cooperation in the framework of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), especially regarding new (UNECE), especially regarding new technologies; technologies as well as in other international standard setting fora;

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Amendment 184 Pascal Durand, Igor Šoltes

Draft opinion Paragraph 11

Draft opinion Amendment

11. Considers that the recognition of 11. To verify that EU and US regulations equivalence of the greatest possible provide for equivalent levels of protection, number of vehicle safety regulations would as harmonisation or convergence be one of the most important achievements upwards of the greatest possible number of of TTIP; stresses that this will require vehicle safety regulations would be one of verifying that the EU and US regulations the most important achievements of TTIP, provide for a similar level of protection; and this would be a step towards full believes that this must be a step towards regulatory convergence for the sector; to full regulatory convergence for the sector; advocate the strengthening of EU-US urges the strengthening of EU-US cooperation in the framework of the United cooperation in the framework of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), especially regarding new (UNECE), especially regarding new technologies; technologies;

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Amendment 185 Dennis de Jong

Draft opinion Paragraph 11

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Draft opinion Amendment

11. Considers that the recognition of 11. to remember that the recognition of equivalence of the greatest possible equivalence of the greatest possible number of vehicle safety regulations would number of vehicle safety regulations would be one of the most important achievements be one of the most important achievements of TTIP; stresses that this will require of TTIP and that this will require verifying verifying that the EU and US regulations that the EU and US regulations provide for provide for a similar level of protection; a similar level of protection, without believes that this must be a step towards lowering the level of protection in full regulatory convergence for the sector; the EU; to stress that this must be a step urges the strengthening of EU-US towards full regulatory convergence for the cooperation in the framework of the United sector; to urge the strengthening of EU-US Nations Economic Commission for Europe cooperation in the framework of the United (UNECE), especially regarding new Nations Economic Commission for Europe technologies; (UNECE), especially regarding new technologies;

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Amendment 186 Evelyne Gebhardt

Draft opinion Paragraph 11

Draft opinion Amendment

11. Considers that the recognition of 11. Considers that the recognition of equivalence of the greatest possible equivalence of the greatest possible number of vehicle safety regulations would number of vehicle safety regulations would be one of the most important achievements be one of the most important achievements of TTIP; stresses that this will require of TTIP; stresses that this will require verifying that the EU and US regulations verifying that the EU and US regulations provide for a similar level of protection; provide for a similar level of protection; believes that this must be a step towards believes that this must be a step towards full regulatory convergence for the sector; full regulatory convergence for the sector; urges the strengthening of EU-US however, calls attention to the fact that, cooperation in the framework of the United particularly in the area of car safety Nations Economic Commission for Europe features, there are considerable (UNECE), especially regarding new differences between American and technologies; European products; urges the strengthening of EU-US cooperation in the framework of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

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(UNECE), especially regarding new technologies;

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Amendment 187 Virginie Rozière

Draft opinion Paragraph 11

Draft opinion Amendment

11. Considers that the recognition of 11. Considers that the recognition of equivalence of the greatest possible equivalence of the greatest possible number of vehicle safety regulations would number of vehicle safety regulations would be one of the most important achievements be one of the most important achievements of TTIP; stresses that this will require of TTIP, provided that protection of verifying that the EU and US regulations consumers, social rights and the provide for a similar level of protection; environment is guaranteed; stresses that believes that this must be a step towards this will require verifying that the EU and full regulatory convergence for the sector; US regulations provide for a similar level urges the strengthening of EU-US of protection; believes that this must be a cooperation in the framework of the United step towards full regulatory convergence Nations Economic Commission for Europe for the sector; urges the strengthening of (UNECE), especially regarding new EU-US cooperation in the framework of technologies; the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), especially regarding new technologies;

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Amendment 188 Dita Charanzová

Draft opinion Paragraph 11 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

11a. to underline that TTIP should not prevent additional regulatory cooperation beyond its agreed provisions and should provide for mechanisms for the

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possible deepening, updating or expanding such provisions;

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Amendment 189 Dita Charanzová

Draft opinion Paragraph 12

Draft opinion Amendment

12. Stresses that SMEs are 12. to stress that SMEs are disproportionately affected by NTBs, disproportionately affected by NTBs, which TTIP must seek to reduce or which TTIP must seek to reduce or eliminate completely; urges that a coherent eliminate completely, and that a coherent framework be established to allow SMEs framework should be established to allow to raise NTB issues with the appropriate SMEs to raise NTB issues with the authorities; appropriate authorities;

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Amendment 190 Csaba Molnár

Draft opinion Paragraph 12

Draft opinion Amendment

12. Stresses that SMEs are 12. Stresses that SMEs are disproportionately affected by NTBs, disproportionately affected by NTBs, which TTIP must seek to reduce or which TTIP must seek to reduce or eliminate completely; urges that a coherent eliminate completely; urges that a coherent framework be established to allow SMEs framework be established to allow SMEs to raise NTB issues with the appropriate to raise NTB issues with the appropriate authorities; authorities; asks the Commission to set up information channels to keep SMEs well informed;

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Amendment 191 Pascal Durand, Igor Šoltes

Draft opinion Paragraph 12

Draft opinion Amendment

12. Stresses that SMEs are 12. Given that SMEs are disproportionately disproportionately affected by NTBs, affected by NTBs, which TTIP must seek which TTIP must seek to reduce or to reduce or eliminate, to urge that a eliminate completely; urges that a coherent coherent framework be established to allow framework be established to allow SMEs SMEs to raise NTB issues with the to raise NTB issues with the appropriate appropriate authorities; authorities;

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Amendment 192 Sergio Gutiérrez Prieto

Draft opinion Paragraph 12

Draft opinion Amendment

12. Stresses that SMEs are 12. Stresses that SMEs are disproportionately affected by NTBs, disproportionately affected by NTBs; urges which TTIP must seek to reduce or that a coherent, accessible and transparent eliminate completely; urges that a coherent framework be established to allow SMEs framework be established to allow SMEs to raise NTB issues with the appropriate to raise NTB issues with the appropriate authorities; authorities;

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Amendment 193 Nicola Danti

Draft opinion Paragraph 12

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Draft opinion Amendment

12. Stresses that SMEs are 12. Stresses that SMEs are disproportionately affected by NTBs, disproportionately affected by NTBs, which TTIP must seek to reduce or which TTIP must seek to reduce or eliminate completely; urges that a coherent eliminate completely; urges that a coherent framework be established to allow SMEs framework be established, possibly to raise NTB issues with the appropriate through the inclusion in the agreement of authorities; a specific chapter on SMEs and the establishment of practical arrangements and mechanisms to allow SMEs to raise NTB issues with the appropriate authorities;

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Amendment 194 Virginie Rozière

Draft opinion Paragraph 12

Draft opinion Amendment

12. Stresses that SMEs are 12. Stresses that SMEs are disproportionately affected by NTBs, disproportionately affected by NTBs, which TTIP must seek to reduce or which TTIP must seek to reduce or eliminate completely; urges that a coherent eliminate completely, while ensuring that framework be established to allow SMEs equivalence at the very least is guaranteed to raise NTB issues with the appropriate as regards protection of consumers, social authorities; rights and the environment; urges that a coherent framework be established to allow SMEs to raise NTB issues with the appropriate authorities;

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Amendment 195 Dita Charanzová

Draft opinion Paragraph 12 – point a (new)

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Draft opinion Amendment

(a) regarding customs and trade facilitation, in particular for SMEs

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Amendment 196 Helmut Scholz, Jiří Maštálka

Draft opinion Paragraph 12 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

12a. to reflect that only a small percentage of the more than 20 Million SMEs in the EU are involved in international trade and that for them progress in further developing the European common market is of much higher priority; to caution against expectations that the creation of a transatlantic market would rapidly open new export opportunities for SMEs or ease market access requirements; to raise the issue that SMEs may be negatively affected by increased competition from large companies targeting their markets;

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Amendment 197 Dita Charanzová

Draft opinion Paragraph 13

Draft opinion Amendment

13. Expects the agreement to make it easier 13. to expect the agreement to make it for SMEs to participate in transatlantic easier for SMEs to participate in trade and reduce costs by modernising, transatlantic trade and reduce costs by

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Amendment 198 Pascal Durand, Igor Šoltes

Draft opinion Paragraph 13

Draft opinion Amendment

13. Expects the agreement to make it 13. To ensure that the agreement makes it easier for SMEs to participate in easier for SMEs to participate in transatlantic trade and reduce costs by transatlantic trade and reduce costs by modernising, digitising, simplifying and modernising, digitising, simplifying and streamlining procedures, and by raising the streamlining procedures, and by raising the de minimis threshold for customs duties de minimis threshold for customs duties and non-randomised controls; and non-randomised controls;

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Amendment 199 Evelyne Gebhardt

Draft opinion Paragraph 13

Draft opinion Amendment

13. Expects the agreement to make it easier 13. Believes that the agreement should for SMEs to participate in transatlantic make it easier for SMEs to participate in trade and reduce costs by modernising, transatlantic trade and reduce costs by digitising, simplifying and streamlining modernising, digitising, simplifying and procedures, and by raising the de minimis streamlining procedures, and by raising the threshold for customs duties and non- de minimis threshold for customs duties randomised controls; and non-randomised controls;

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Amendment 200 Matteo Salvini

Draft opinion Paragraph 13

Draft opinion Amendment

13. Expects the agreement to make it easier 13. Has strong doubts as to whether the for SMEs to participate in transatlantic agreement will make it easier for SMEs to trade and reduce costs by modernising, participate in transatlantic trade; digitising, simplifying and streamlining procedures, and by raising the de minimis threshold for customs duties and non- randomised controls;

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Amendment 201 Marlene Mizzi

Draft opinion Paragraph 13

Draft opinion Amendment

13. Expects the agreement to make it 13. Expects that TTIP includes a specific easier for SMEs to participate in chapter on SME's, which aims to make it transatlantic trade and reduce costs by easier for SMEs to participate in modernising, digitising, simplifying and transatlantic trade and reduce costs by streamlining procedures, and by raising the modernising, digitising, simplifying and de minimis threshold for customs duties streamlining procedures, eliminate double and non-randomised controls; certification requirements and by raising the de minimis threshold for customs duties and non-randomised controls;

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Amendment 202 Dita Charanzová

Draft opinion Paragraph 13 a (new)

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13a. to strongly supports the idea of creating, as it exist in the EU, a free US online helpdesk for SMEs where smaller firms can find all the information they need to export to, import from or invest in the US, including on customs duties, on taxes, on regulations, on customs procedures and on market opportunities;

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Amendment 203 Pascal Durand, Igor Šoltes, Julia Reda

Draft opinion Paragraph 13 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

13a. To make sure that the question of intellectual property rights, including copyright, trademarks and patents, is not included in the negotiations, as neither the Member States nor the EU have adopted comprehensive harmonisation measures for these matters;

Or. fr

Amendment 204 Dita Charanzová

Draft opinion Paragraph 13 b (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

13b. to address customs issues that go beyond the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) rules and stress that, in order to achieve real administrative

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burden removal, there is a need to work towards a minimum degree of regulatory alignment on customs and border-related policies and practices;

Or. en

Amendment 205 Pascal Durand, Igor Šoltes, Julia Reda

Draft opinion Paragraph 13 b (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

13b. To make sure that data protection is not included in the negotiations, so as to abide by Articles 7 and 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union;

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Amendment 206 Pascal Durand, Igor Šoltes, Julia Reda

Draft opinion Paragraph 13 c (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

13c. To make sure that measures on encryption are not included in the negotiations, so that the European Union’s high standards can be updated and constantly improved;

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Amendment 207 Dita Charanzová

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Draft opinion Paragraph 14 b (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

14b. regarding clear rules of origin

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Amendment 208 Dita Charanzová

Draft opinion Paragraph 14

Draft opinion Amendment

14. Considers that the EU and the US 14. to establish common rules to define the need to establish common rules to define origin of products, and that such rules the origin of products, and that such rules should be clear and easily applicable and should be clear and easily applicable and should consider current and future trends in should consider current and future trends in production. production.

Or. en

Amendment 209 Daniel Dalton

Draft opinion Paragraph 14

Draft opinion Amendment

14. Considers that the EU and the US need 14. Considers that the EU and the US need to establish common rules to define the to establish common rules to define the origin of products, and that such rules origin of products, and that such rules should be clear and easily applicable and should be clear and easily applicable and should consider current and future trends in should consider current and future trends in production. production as well as future possible cumulation with countries with which the EU and US have free trade agreements;

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Amendment 210 Anna Maria Corazza Bildt

Draft opinion Paragraph 14

Draft opinion Amendment

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Amendment 211 Biljana Borzan

Draft opinion Paragraph 14

Draft opinion Amendment

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Amendment 212 Pascal Durand, Igor Šoltes

Draft opinion Paragraph 14

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Draft opinion Amendment

14. Considers that the EU and the US need 14. To make sure that the EU and the US to establish common rules to define the establish common rules to define the origin origin of products, and that such rules of products ensuring that such rules are should be clear and easily applicable and clear, easily applicable, support fair trade should consider current and future trends and consider current and future trends in in production. production.

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Amendment 213 Sergio Gutiérrez Prieto

Draft opinion Paragraph 14

Draft opinion Amendment

14. Considers that the EU and the US need 14. Considers that the EU and the US need to establish common rules to define the to establish common rules to define the origin of products, and that such rules origin and labelling of products, should be clear and easily applicable and respecting designations of origin and should consider current and future trends in protected geographical indications, and production. that such rules should be clear and easily applicable and should consider current and future trends in production.

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Amendment 214 Theodoros Zagorakis

Draft opinion Paragraph 14

Draft opinion Amendment

14. Considers that the EU and the US need 14. Considers that the EU and the US need to establish common rules to define the to establish common rules to define the origin of products, and that such rules origin of products and their appropriate should be clear and easily applicable and labelling and that such rules should be should consider current and future trends in clear and easily applicable and should production. consider current and future trends in production; stresses in this regard, the

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need to safeguard successful schemes such as the EU geographical indications, which have contributed substantially to consumer protection and the provision of clear and succinct information regarding product origin.

Or. en

Amendment 215 Nicola Danti

Draft opinion Paragraph 14

Draft opinion Amendment

14. Considers that the EU and the US need 14. Considers that the EU and the US need to establish common rules to define the to establish common rules to define the origin of products, and that such rules origin of products, and that such rules should be clear and easily applicable and should be clear and easily applicable and should consider current and future trends in should consider current and future trends in production. production; views the negotiations as an opportunity to move towards high common standards for compulsory origin marking of products that will afford consumers genuine guarantees and create a level playing field for economic operators with regard to access to the two markets.

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Amendment 216 Marco Zullo

Draft opinion Paragraph 14

Draft opinion Amendment

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Amendment 217 Matteo Salvini

Draft opinion Paragraph 14

Draft opinion Amendment

Or. it

Amendment 218 Adam Szejnfeld

Draft opinion Paragraph 14 – subparagraph 1 (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

14. Expects, in view of the EU’s legitimate interest in developing the internal market and maintaining the competitiveness of Member State economies, proper account to be taken during the negotiations between the EU and the United States of key issues such as trade in energy resources, including oil and natural gas.

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Amendment 219 Dita Charanzová

Draft opinion Paragraph 14 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

14a. to guarantee that the final agreement includes provision preventing the illegitimately use of EU denominations of geographical indications, which would mislead consumers;

Or. en

Amendment 220 Dennis de Jong

Draft opinion Paragraph 14 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

14a. Stresses that, since the EU did not harmonise in a comprehensive manner intellectual property rights, including copyright, trademarks and patents, the European Commission should not discuss these issues in TTIP;

Or. en

Amendment 221 Marlene Mizzi

Draft opinion Paragraph 14 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

14a. Transparency, civil society involvement and public outreach

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Notes the decision of the Council of the European Union to publish the EU negotiating directives for the ongoing TTIP negotiations; equally notes the decision of the Commission to publish more EU negotiating texts and to allow broader access to other documents in the context of the TTIP negotiations; nevertheless considers that further steps are needed to continue the current efforts to further increase transparency, promote closer engagement with the Member States and various stakeholders and in particular with civil society given the potential impact the agreement will have on the lives of the European citizens;

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Amendment 222 Anna Maria Corazza Bildt

Draft opinion Paragraph 14 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

14a. Emphasise the need for consumers to be well informed and that a plethora of different labelling is not in consumer's best interest; Therefore, calls on the Commission to introduce smart labelling as part of negotiations;

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Amendment 223 Helmut Scholz, Jiří Maštálka

Draft opinion Paragraph 14 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

14a. Stress to the negotiating partner that

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most Member States oppose the cultivation, import and processing of genetically modified organisms (GMOs);

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Amendment 224 Helmut Scholz, Jiří Maštálka

Draft opinion Paragraph 14 b (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

14b. Ensure that, for reasons of consumer and health protection for the agricultural sector, special rules will be drawn up according to which the import of certain products to the EU will not be permitted, in particular for products which do not comply with the EU Labelling Directive; products comprising or made out of GMOs; animals treated with growth hormones; the placing on the market of food from cloned animals, and for food treated with products which are or will be banned in the EU;

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Amendment 225 Helmut Scholz, Jiří Maštálka

Draft opinion Paragraph 14 c (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

14c. Make it clear that agro-biodiversity is the basis of food production and ensure that trade agreements result in neither restrictions on old seeds or a weakening of our traditional crops nor obstructions to high-quality, ecologically-focused

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agriculture;

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Amendment 226 Helmut Scholz, Jiří Maštálka

Draft opinion Paragraph 14 d (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

14d. Include a revision clause in the agreement to enable the impact of the arrangements agreed to be checked and where necessary changed and to be able to terminate the agreement;

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