European Parliament 2019-2024

Committee on International Trade

2021/2038(INI)

28.5.2021

AMENDMENTS 1 - 104

Draft opinion Bernd Lange (PE691.423v01-00)

The future of EU-US relations (2021/2038(INI))

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PE693.626v02-00 2/57 AM\1232756EN.docx EN Amendment 1 Liesje Schreinemacher, Karin Karlsbro, Nicola Danti, Svenja Hahn, Samira Rafaela, Urmas Paet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Dita Charanzová, Jordi Cañas, Barry Andrews, Morten Løkkegaard

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-1. Underlines that the European Union and the United States have the most integrated economic relationship in the world, which is also the largest and deepest bilateral trade and investment relationship with bilateral trade in goods and services accounting for more than 1 trillion euros per year; emphasises the importance of reinvigorating our Transatlantic relationship as historic allies and trading partners with the aim of promoting multilateralism, an open rules- based trading system and finding common solutions to pressing global challenges, including the global health crisis; stresses that improved trade relations between the EU and the US will benefit citizens and businesses on both sides of the Atlantic;

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Amendment 2 Liesje Schreinemacher, Karin Karlsbro, Nicola Danti, Svenja Hahn, Samira Rafaela, Urmas Paet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Dita Charanzová, Jordi Cañas, Barry Andrews, Morten Løkkegaard

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-1a. Highlights that the Covid-19 crisis has not reduced but reinforced the need for closer cooperation between the EU and the US, including on the manufacturing and distribution of

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Amendment 3 Liesje Schreinemacher, Karin Karlsbro, Nicola Danti, Svenja Hahn, Samira Rafaela, Urmas Paet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Dita Charanzová, Jordi Cañas, Barry Andrews, Morten Løkkegaard

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1. Identifies trade policy as a strategic 1. Identifies trade policy as a strategic geopolitical tool for the transatlantic geopolitical tool for the transatlantic agenda; highlights the need to identify agenda taking into account that our joint actions based on shared interests and economic relations are also intertwined values in order to contribute to a global with our security interests; therefore sustainable and inclusive economic welcomes the positive signals from the recovery; stresses that ‘workers and Biden administration to strengthen wages’ and more resilient and responsible bilateral relations with the EU, and calls supply chains should be at the core of for renewed cooperation that should bring such an agenda; lasting and concrete results in the years to come; highlights the need to identify joint actions based on shared interests and values in order to contribute to a global sustainable and inclusive economic recovery; emphasises the need to reform the global trading system, so that it improves the global level-playing field and to work together to develop new rules, in particular with regard to unfair trade practices, as unfair competition is heavily affecting our companies and workers; notes that the US trade policy agenda focuses on ‘workers and wages’ and more resilient and responsible supply chains;

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Amendment 4 Reinhard Bütikofer

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1. Identifies trade policy as a strategic 1. Identifies trade policy as a strategic geopolitical tool for the transatlantic geopolitical tool for the transatlantic agenda; highlights the need to identify joint agenda; highlights the need to identify joint actions based on shared interests and actions based on shared interests and values in order to contribute to a global values to contribute to a global sustainable sustainable and inclusive economic and inclusive economic recovery and in recovery; stresses that ‘workers and wages’ particular a coordinated stance vis-à-vis and more resilient and responsible supply Russia and China, as well as common chains should be at the core of such an initiatives as regards the provisions of agenda; global public goods; stresses that ‘workers and wages’ as well as more resilient, sustainable and responsible supply chains should be at the core of such agenda; supports the approach for partnership in leadership with the US, focussed on the pursuit of shared interests and on greening trade; seeks enhanced transatlantic parliamentary cooperation on these issues;

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Amendment 5 Helmut Scholz

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1. Identifies trade policy as a strategic 1. Reiterates its support for the EU's geopolitical tool for the transatlantic new trade strategy designed for achieving agenda; highlights the need to identify its domestic and external policy objectives joint actions based on shared interests and and to promote greater sustainability in values in order to contribute to a global line with its commitment of fully sustainable and inclusive economic implementing the UN Sustainable recovery; stresses that ‘workers and wages’ Development Goals, including through and more resilient and responsible supply the Union's transatlantic agenda; chains should be at the core of such an identifies trade policy as an important agenda; tool for the sustainable and

AM\1232756EN.docx 5/57 PE693.626v02-00 EN inclusive recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and for the green and digital transformations of our economies and towards building a more resilient world; highlights the need to identify joint actions based on shared interests and values; stresses that ‘workers and wages’ and more resilient and responsible supply chains should be at the core of such an agenda;

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Amendment 6 Bernd Lange, Inma Rodríguez-Piñero, Kathleen Van Brempt, Margarida Marques, Paolo De Castro, Pedro Silva Pereira, Joachim Schuster, Miroslav Číž

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1. Identifies trade policy as a strategic 1. Identifies trade policy as a strategic geopolitical tool for the transatlantic geopolitical tool for the transatlantic agenda; highlights the need to identify joint agenda; highlights the need to identify joint actions based on shared interests and actions based on shared interests and values in order to contribute to a global values in order to contribute to a global sustainable and inclusive economic sustainable and inclusive economic recovery; stresses that ‘workers and wages’ recovery; stresses that ‘workers and wages’ and more resilient and responsible supply and more resilient and responsible supply chains should be at the core of such an chains should be at the core of such an agenda; agenda; in this regard encourages both sides to design similar tools to ban forced labour and exploitative labour conditions and to cooperate on improving respect for workers' rights and environmental standards in trade agreements including by building on each other's experience to enforce these provisions more efficiently; encourages both sides to join forces in promoting human rights, environmental and workers' rights also at the multilateral level;

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PE693.626v02-00 6/57 AM\1232756EN.docx EN Amendment 7 Tiziana Beghin

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1. Identifies trade policy as a strategic 1. Identifies trade policy as a strategic geopolitical tool for the transatlantic geopolitical tool for the transatlantic agenda; highlights the need to identify joint agenda; highlights the need to identify joint actions based on shared interests and actions based on shared interests, values in order to contribute to a global common international standards and sustainable and inclusive economic values in order to contribute to a global recovery; stresses that ‘workers and wages’ sustainable and inclusive economic and more resilient and responsible supply recovery; stresses that ‘workers and chains should be at the core of such an wages’, more resilient and responsible agenda; supply chains, the fight against climate change, a safe digital connectivity and the countering of anticompetitive practices should be at the core of such an agenda;

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Amendment 8 Geert Bourgeois

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1. Identifies trade policy as a strategic 1. Emphasizes the US as a crucial geopolitical tool for the transatlantic trading partner and identifies trade policy agenda; highlights the need to identify joint as a strategic geopolitical tool for the actions based on shared interests and transatlantic agenda; highlights the need to values in order to contribute to a global identify joint actions based on shared sustainable and inclusive economic interests and values in order to contribute recovery; stresses that ‘workers and wages’ to a global sustainable and inclusive and more resilient and responsible supply economic recovery; stresses that standards chains should be at the core of such an setting, ‘workers and wages’ and more agenda; resilient and responsible supply chains should be at the core of such an agenda;

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AM\1232756EN.docx 7/57 PE693.626v02-00 EN Amendment 9 Urmas Paet

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1. Identifies trade policy as a strategic 1. Identifies trade policy as a strategic geopolitical tool for the transatlantic geopolitical tool for the transatlantic agenda; highlights the need to identify joint agenda; highlights the need to identify joint actions based on shared interests and actions based on shared interests and values in order to contribute to a global values, as well as on shared risks and sustainable and inclusive economic threats, in order to contribute to a global recovery; stresses that ‘workers and wages’ sustainable and inclusive economic and more resilient and responsible supply recovery; stresses that ‘workers and wages’ chains should be at the core of such an and more resilient and responsible supply agenda; chains should be at the core of such an agenda;

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Amendment 10 Danilo Oscar Lancini, Roman Haider, Marco Campomenosi

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1. Identifies trade policy as a strategic 1. Identifies trade policy as a strategic geopolitical tool for the transatlantic geopolitical tool for the transatlantic agenda; highlights the need to identify joint agenda; highlights the need to identify joint actions based on shared interests and actions based on shared interests and values in order to contribute to a global values in order to contribute to a global sustainable and inclusive economic sustainable and inclusive economic recovery; stresses that ‘workers and wages’ recovery; stresses that ‘workers and wages’ and more resilient and responsible supply and more resilient, shorter and responsible chains should be at the core of such an supply chains should be at the core of such agenda; an agenda;

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PE693.626v02-00 8/57 AM\1232756EN.docx EN Amendment 11 Danuta Maria Hübner, Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou, Seán Kelly, Iuliu Winkler, Gabriel Mato, Jörgen Warborn

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Underscores the necessity to demonstrate the benefits of living in a democracy to citizens, especially those left behind by globalization; in that context, calls on the EU and the US to work together and align their strategies to create investment synergies, particularly to achieve sustainable and inclusive digital and green transitions of their economies;

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Amendment 12 Danuta Maria Hübner, Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou, Seán Kelly, Iuliu Winkler, Daniel Caspary, Gabriel Mato, Jörgen Warborn

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(1) Notes that EU-U.S. common challenges are increasingly non-military in nature and lie within our economic partnership; calls for an increased legislative dialogue between the European Parliament and the U.S. Congress via committee-to-committee interaction and the Transatlantic Legislative Dialogue; suggests the creation of a Transatlantic Assembly, a consultative forum where members of the U.S. Congress and the European Parliament would share legislative initiatives and discuss cooperative actions;

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AM\1232756EN.docx 9/57 PE693.626v02-00 EN Amendment 13 Emmanuel Maurel

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1a. Considers that the recent change of administration in the United States should not, however, slow down the European Union in consolidating its digital sovereignty, its strategic autonomy and its independence regarding choices in the fields of trade and industry;

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Amendment 14 Gabriel Mato

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1a. Stresses that the benefits for the transatlantic relationship of a balanced and mutually beneficial bilateral trade and investment agreement would extend far beyond commercial and economic aspects;

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Amendment 15 Urmas Paet

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PE693.626v02-00 10/57 AM\1232756EN.docx EN 1a. Recalls that the EU and the US economies together account for around half the entire world GDP and for nearly a third of world trade flows;

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Amendment 16 Helmut Scholz, Emmanuel Maurel

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2. Welcomes the US support for the 2. Welcomes the US support for new Director-General of the WTO, the Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to become the new US’s return to the Paris Agreement, the Director-General of the WTO, and calls on WTO tariff rate quota agreement and the the Commission and the Biden temporary suspension of Airbus Boeing administration to be responsive to her tariffs; important reform initiatives, in particular with regard to health; highly appreciates the US’s return to the Paris Agreement, and the commitment that addressing the real threats from climate change shall be vital in U.S. economic diplomacy and trade talks; considers the WTO tariff rate quota agreement a fair result; and expresses its hope that the temporary suspension of Airbus Boeing tariffs creates the space to finally settle this conflict and calls for a rapid and lasting solution on aircraft subsidies;

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Amendment 17 Liesje Schreinemacher, Karin Karlsbro, Nicola Danti, Svenja Hahn, Samira Rafaela, Urmas Paet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Dita Charanzová, Jordi Cañas, Barry Andrews, Morten Løkkegaard

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2. Welcomes the US support for the 2. Welcomes the US's return to the new Director-General of the WTO, the Paris Agreement; also welcomes, the swift US’s return to the Paris Agreement, the conclusion of the WTO TRQ agreement, WTO tariff rate quota agreement and the which was the first agreement with the US temporary suspension of Airbus Boeing under the new Biden administration and tariffs; demonstrates the willingness of this new administration to seek agreements with the EU in the WTO framework;

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Amendment 18 Urmas Paet

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2. Welcomes the US support for the 2. Welcomes the US support for the new Director-General of the WTO, the new Director-General of the WTO, the US’s return to the Paris Agreement, the US’s return to the Paris Agreement, the WTO tariff rate quota agreement and the WTO tariff rate quota agreement and the temporary suspension of Airbus Boeing temporary suspension of Airbus Boeing tariffs; tariffs; considers these steps to lead the way towards a more positive and enhanced transatlantic trade relationship; calls for the consideration of launching negotiations on a possible new free trade agreement between the EU and US;

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Amendment 19 Bernd Lange, Inma Rodríguez-Piñero, Kathleen Van Brempt, Margarida Marques, Paolo De Castro, Pedro Silva Pereira, Joachim Schuster, Miroslav Číž

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2. Welcomes the US support for the 2. Welcomes the US support for the

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Amendment 20 Danuta Maria Hübner, Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou, Seán Kelly, Christophe Hansen, Arnaud Danjean, Iuliu Winkler, Daniel Caspary, Gabriel Mato, Jörgen Warborn

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2. Welcomes the US support for the 2. Welcomes the US support for the new Director-General of the WTO, the new Director-General of the WTO, the US’s return to the Paris Agreement, the US’s return to the Paris Agreement, the WTO tariff rate quota agreement and the WTO tariff rate quota agreement, the temporary suspension of Airbus Boeing temporary suspension of Airbus Boeing tariffs; tariffs, and for opening discussions to address global steel and aluminium excess capacity;

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Amendment 21 Tiziana Beghin

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2. Welcomes the US support for the 2. Welcomes the US support for the new Director-General of the WTO, the new Director-General of the WTO, the US’s return to the Paris Agreement, the US’s return to the Paris Agreement, the WTO tariff rate quota agreement and the WTO tariff rate quota agreement and the temporary suspension of Airbus Boeing temporary suspension of Airbus Boeing

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Amendment 22 Liesje Schreinemacher, Karin Karlsbro, Nicola Danti, Svenja Hahn, Samira Rafaela, Urmas Paet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Dita Charanzová, Jordi Cañas, Barry Andrews, Morten Løkkegaard

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2a. Welcomes the four-month temporary suspension of Airbus Boeing tariffs as a positive step to finding a lasting solution to removing additional tariffs and proposing new rules for civil aircraft subsidies; notes that the suspension of Airbus Boeing tariffs will end in July, and urges that these tariffs are permanently lifted;

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Amendment 23 Helmut Scholz

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2a. Recommends to mutually recognise that state support for both Boeing and Airbus has been strategic and of essential importance for developing this industry in both the U.S. and the EU; calls for enhanced investment and cooperation in the industry to drastically reduce CO2 emissions in air transport;

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PE693.626v02-00 14/57 AM\1232756EN.docx EN Amendment 24 Jordi Cañas

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2a. Considers that the US retaliatory tariffs from October 2019 following the Airbus ruling have had a disproportionate negative effect on EU agri-food products; urges the Commission to work towards a negotiated permanent solution that ensures the permanent removal of the tariffs;

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Amendment 25 Tiziana Beghin

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2a. Stresses the need to work together to fully recover the WTO's appellate body and asks a concrete commitment of the current US administration to appoint the judge and restore its functions;

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Amendment 26 Reinhard Bütikofer on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

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AM\1232756EN.docx 15/57 PE693.626v02-00 EN 2a. Calls for coordinated efforts to achieve ambitious commitments at the UN summits on climate change (COP 26) and biodiversity in 2021;

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Amendment 27 Liesje Schreinemacher, Karin Karlsbro, Nicola Danti, Svenja Hahn, Samira Rafaela, Urmas Paet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Dita Charanzová, Barry Andrews, Morten Løkkegaard

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2b. Notes the move by the Commission to suspend the increase of tariffs against US imports related to the dispute on aluminium and steel; urges the US to remove section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminium and emphasises the need to address the concerns related to the steel and aluminium excess capacity from third countries;

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Amendment 28 Tiziana Beghin

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3. Recognises at the same time that 3. Recognises at the same time that some diverging interests remain; in this some diverging interests remain; in this regard, urges both sides to resolve bilateral regard, urges both sides to resolve bilateral disputes; urges the US to remove unilateral disputes; urges the US to remove unilateral trade measures and refrain from taking trade measures and refrain from taking further ones; urges the removal of section further ones, jointly agreeing to new 232 tariffs on steel and aluminium; calls measures to address overcapacity ; urges for a rapid and lasting solution on aircraft the immediate removal of section 232

PE693.626v02-00 16/57 AM\1232756EN.docx EN subsidies; tariffs on steel and aluminium; calls for a rapid and lasting solution on aircraft subsidies; addresses the concerns on the safety of the data transfer through the EU-US Privacy Shield agreement; reinforces bilateral cooperation in the manufacture and distribution of COVID- 19 vaccines; in this regards, advocate to work together for an efficient TRIPS waiver to demonstrate global leadership towards defeating the current pandemic and ensure trade flows in raw materials;

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Amendment 29 Carles Puigdemont i Casamajó

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3. Recognises at the same time that 3. Recognises at the same time that some diverging interests remain; in this some diverging interests remain; in this regard, urges both sides to resolve bilateral regard, urges both sides to resolve bilateral disputes; urges the US to remove unilateral disputes; urges the US to remove unilateral trade measures and refrain from taking trade measures and refrain from taking further ones; urges the removal of section further ones; urges the removal of section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminium; calls 232 tariffs on steel and aluminium; calls for a rapid and lasting solution on aircraft for a rapid and lasting solution on aircraft subsidies; subsidies; notes that the US did not export any dose of any COVID vaccine until May 2021 while the European Union kept providing for doses since the beginning of vaccine approvals by the EMA; urges both the European Commission and the US to find common ground between their two "reshoring" strategies, namely Build Back Better and the open strategic autonomy, in order not to disrupt existing supply chains between the world's two biggest single markets;

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3. Recognises at the same time that 3. Recognises at the same time that some diverging interests remain; in this some diverging interests remain; in this regard, urges both sides to resolve bilateral regard, urges both sides to resolve bilateral disputes; urges the US to remove unilateral disputes; urges the US to remove unilateral trade measures and refrain from taking trade measures and refrain from taking further ones; urges the removal of section further ones; urges the removal of section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminium; calls 232 tariffs on steel and aluminium; calls for a rapid and lasting solution on aircraft for a rapid and lasting solution on aircraft subsidies; subsidies; calls for the suspension of announced trade retaliation on economic sectors such as footwear in Member States that have implemented a Digital Services Tax (DST) while negotiations are ongoing in the OECD framework; expects both sides to address the EU's concerns regarding the US Buy American Act and the Jones Act;

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Amendment 31 Danuta Maria Hübner, Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou, Seán Kelly, Christophe Hansen, Iuliu Winkler, Daniel Caspary, Gabriel Mato, Jörgen Warborn

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3. Recognises at the same time that 3. Recognises at the same time that some diverging interests remain; in this some diverging interests remain; in this regard, urges both sides to resolve bilateral regard, urges both sides to resolve bilateral disputes; urges the US to remove unilateral disputes; urges the US to remove unilateral trade measures and refrain from taking trade measures and threats for additional further ones; urges the removal of section measures on digital service taxes, and 232 tariffs on steel and aluminium; calls refrain from taking further ones, and focus for a rapid and lasting solution on aircraft on what brings us together; urges the subsidies; removal of section 232 tariffs on steel and

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Amendment 32 Liesje Schreinemacher, Karin Karlsbro, Nicola Danti, Svenja Hahn, Urmas Paet, Marie- Pierre Vedrenne, Dita Charanzová, Jordi Cañas, Barry Andrews, Morten Løkkegaard, Samira Rafaela

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3. Recognises at the same time that 3. Recognises at the same time that some diverging interests remain; in this some diverging interests remain; in this regard, urges both sides to resolve bilateral regard, urges both sides to resolve bilateral disputes; urges the US to remove unilateral disputes; urges the US to remove unilateral trade measures and refrain from taking trade measures and refrain from taking further ones; urges the removal of section further ones; urges the removal of section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminium; calls 232 tariffs as European companies cannot for a rapid and lasting solution on aircraft be considered a national security threat; subsidies; calls for a rapid and lasting solution on aircraft subsidies; and calls for the EU-US Summit in June to be used to seek progress and potentially solve these issues;

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Amendment 33 Reinhard Bütikofer on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

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3. Recognises at the same time that 3. Recognises at the same time that

AM\1232756EN.docx 19/57 PE693.626v02-00 EN some diverging interests remain; in this some diverging interests remain; in this regard, urges both sides to resolve bilateral regard, urges both sides to resolve bilateral disputes; urges the US to remove unilateral disputes; reiterates the EU’s ambition to trade measures and refrain from taking eliminate tariffs for industrial goods further ones; urges the removal of section between the EU and the US; urges the US 232 tariffs on steel and aluminium; calls to remove unilateral trade measures and for a rapid and lasting solution on aircraft refrain from taking further ones; urges the subsidies; removal of section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminium; calls for a rapid and lasting solution on aircraft subsidies;

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Amendment 34 Iuliu Winkler

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3. Recognises at the same time that 3. Recognises at the same time that some diverging interests remain; in this some diverging interests remain; in this regard, urges both sides to resolve bilateral regard, urges both sides to resolve bilateral disputes; urges the US to remove unilateral disputes; urges the US to remove unilateral trade measures and refrain from taking trade measures and refrain from taking further ones; urges the removal of section further ones; urges the removal of section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminium; calls 232 tariffs on steel and aluminium; calls for a rapid and lasting solution on aircraft for a rapid and lasting solution on aircraft subsidies; subsidies; calls for an extension of the current suspension of the retaliatory tariffs, should no agreement on aircraft subsidies be found before the deadline of 11 July 2021;

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Amendment 35 Helmut Scholz, Emmanuel Maurel

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PE693.626v02-00 20/57 AM\1232756EN.docx EN 3. Recognises at the same time that 3. Recognises at the same time that some diverging interests remain; in this some diverging interests remain; in this regard, urges both sides to resolve bilateral regard, urges both sides to frontload disputes; urges the US to remove unilateral resolving of bilateral disputes to 2021; trade measures and refrain from taking urges the US to remove unilateral trade further ones; urges the removal of section measures and refrain from taking further 232 tariffs on steel and aluminium; calls ones; urges the immediate removal of for a rapid and lasting solution on aircraft section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminium; subsidies;

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Amendment 36 Emmanouil Fragkos

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3. Recognises at the same time that 3. Recognises at the same time that some diverging interests remain; in this some diverging interests remain; in this regard, urges both sides to resolve bilateral regard, urges both sides to resolve bilateral disputes; urges the US to remove unilateral disputes; urges the US to remove unilateral trade measures and refrain from taking trade measures and refrain from taking further ones; urges the removal of section further ones; urges the removal of section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminium; calls 232 tariffs on steel and aluminium as a for a rapid and lasting solution on aircraft matter of priority; calls for a rapid and subsidies; lasting solution on aircraft subsidies;

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Amendment 37 Carles Puigdemont i Casamajó

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3a. Acknowledges that the proposal on waiving the patents of COVID vaccines by the US Administration has promoted a response by the EU on this issue; urges the Commission and the US that export

AM\1232756EN.docx 21/57 PE693.626v02-00 EN restrictions of COVID vaccines should be kept to a minimum; acknowledges that waiving intellectual property rights is not enough in order to fight against the COVID pandemic all over the world; considers that COVID vaccine producers and developers, some of them American, should make concrete pledges to increase supply to vulnerable developing countries at production cost; notes that there are WTO rules allowing countries to grant licences to manufacturers even without the consent of the patent-holder;

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Amendment 38 Emmanuel Maurel

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3a. Points out that the US administration has elected to maintain the 'Buy American Act' and accordingly urges the European Union to consolidate and pool its own know-how, uphold industrial and agricultural production quality and ensure the introduction of a legal framework for trading purposes to encourage true reciprocity in access to public procurement, accompanied by statutory provisions allowing contracting authorities to give clearer priority to European Union interests and strategic autonomy under a 'Buy European Act';

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Amendment 39 Jordi Cañas

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3a. Expresses concerns at the United States Trade Representative's list of preliminary retaliation from the 301 investigations on the different EU Digital Services Taxes, which include particularly sensitive manufacturing sectors such as footwear and leather industries, which could potentially end up being excluded from the US market if additional tariffs are adopted;

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Amendment 40 Jordi Cañas

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3b. Urges the Commission and the Member States to speed up and conclude as soon as possible the negotiations in the framework of OECD proposal on Digital Taxation and pursue all necessary means so as to avoid further economic damages to EU companies, particularly SMEs, especially in the context of the COVID-19 recovery strategies;

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Amendment 41 Jordi Cañas

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AM\1232756EN.docx 23/57 PE693.626v02-00 EN 3c. Considers that given the exclusive competence of the EU in the field of the common commercial policy and the US retaliation threats with regards to Digital Taxation laws, a common EU approach is preferable to individual ones at national level, particularly in order to avoid further transatlantic tariff cross-escalation;

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Amendment 42 Danilo Oscar Lancini, Roman Haider, Marco Campomenosi

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4. Calls for enhanced cooperation on deleted WTO reform, including reinstating the appellate body, regulating trade in health products, setting an ambitious environmental agenda, and agreeing on concrete deliverables for the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC12); encourages both sides to stick to multilateral agreements;

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Amendment 43 Bernd Lange, Inma Rodríguez-Piñero, Kathleen Van Brempt, Margarida Marques, Paolo De Castro, Pedro Silva Pereira, Joachim Schuster, Miroslav Číž

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4. Calls for enhanced cooperation on 4. Calls for enhanced cooperation on WTO reform, including reinstating the WTO reform, including the reform of its 3 appellate body, regulating trade in health core functions which entails reforming products, setting an ambitious and reinstating the appellate body as well environmental agenda, and agreeing on as reinforcing the monitoring and

PE693.626v02-00 24/57 AM\1232756EN.docx EN concrete deliverables for the 12th WTO deliberative function among others by Ministerial Conference (MC12); making sure open plurilateral agreements encourages both sides to stick to can be included; urges both sides to multilateral agreements; cooperate on regulating trade in health products, setting an ambitious environmental agenda among others by relaunching the negotiations on the Environmental Goods Agreement; expects both sides to agree on concrete deliverables for the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC12) including an agreement on fisheries, a declaration on trade and health, a work programme for reform of the dispute settlement system, a work programme on industrial subsidies and state owned enterprises as well as substantial progress on e-commerce negotiations; encourages both sides to update WTO rules on state owned enterprises, industrial subsidies and overcapacity as well as technology transfer to efficiently address the challenges posed by China: in this regard also supports expanding the trilateral initiative with Japan; expects both sides to stick to multilateral agreements;

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Amendment 44 Reinhard Bütikofer on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

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4. Calls for enhanced cooperation on 4. Calls for enhanced cooperation on WTO reform, including reinstating the WTO reform including reinstating as soon appellate body, regulating trade in health as possible the appellate body, regulate products, setting an ambitious trade in health products, agree on a TRIPS environmental agenda, and agreeing on waiver for the Prevention, Containment, concrete deliverables for the 12th WTO and Treatment of COVID-19 as a part of Ministerial Conference (MC12); an overarching multilateral framework encourages both sides to stick to for securing a fair and global access to essential medical products for addressing

AM\1232756EN.docx 25/57 PE693.626v02-00 EN multilateral agreements; the ongoing and future pandemics, set an ambitious environmental agenda by working on common proposals, inter alia, on environmental goods, disciplines on subsidies and the phasing-out of fossil fuels’ subsidies, agree on concrete deliverables for MC12; encourages both sides to stick to multilateral agreements;

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Amendment 45 Liesje Schreinemacher, Karin Karlsbro, Nicola Danti, Svenja Hahn, Samira Rafaela, Urmas Paet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Dita Charanzová, Jordi Cañas, Barry Andrews, Morten Løkkegaard

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4. Calls for enhanced cooperation on 4. Welcomes the US support for the WTO reform, including reinstating the new WTO Director General Ngozi appellate body, regulating trade in health Okonjo-Iweala; calls for enhanced products, setting an ambitious cooperation on WTO reform to make the environmental agenda, and agreeing on WTO ready for the green and digital concrete deliverables for the 12th WTO transitions, and address the paralysis of Ministerial Conference (MC12); the WTO appellate body as an urgent encourages both sides to stick to matter; calls for the need to regulate trade multilateral agreements; in health products, develop rules for digital trade, set an ambitious environmental agenda, and agreeing on concrete deliverables for the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC12); encourages both sides to promote multilateral agreements and trade based on rules;

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Amendment 46 Danuta Maria Hübner, Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou, Seán Kelly, Christophe Hansen, Arnaud Danjean, Iuliu Winkler, Daniel Caspary, Gabriel Mato, Jörgen Warborn

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4. Calls for enhanced cooperation on 4. Calls for enhanced cooperation on WTO reform, including reinstating the WTO reform, including reinstating the appellate body, regulating trade in health Appellate Body, regulating trade in health products, setting an ambitious products, setting an ambitious climate and environmental agenda, and agreeing on environmental agenda, concluding the concrete deliverables for the 12th WTO fisheries negotiations, making progress in Ministerial Conference (MC12); the electronic commerce negotiation, and encourages both sides to stick to agreeing on concrete deliverables for the multilateral agreements; 12th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC12); encourages both sides to strive for multilateral agreements or, if not possible, for open plurilateral agreements; calls on the US to renew its commitments to the WTO's Government Procurement Agreement (GPA);

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Amendment 47 Urmas Paet

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4. Calls for enhanced cooperation on 4. Underlines that the WTO remains WTO reform, including reinstating the as the cornerstone of a rules-based, appellate body, regulating trade in health multilateral system for trade; calls for products, setting an ambitious enhanced cooperation on WTO reform, environmental agenda, and agreeing on including reinstating the appellate body, concrete deliverables for the 12th WTO regulating trade in health products, setting Ministerial Conference (MC12); an ambitious environmental agenda, and encourages both sides to stick to agreeing on concrete deliverables for the multilateral agreements; 12th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC12); encourages both sides to stick to multilateral agreements;

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Amendment 48 Tiziana Beghin

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4. Calls for enhanced cooperation on 4. Calls for enhanced cooperation on WTO reform, including reinstating the WTO reform, supporting the WTO Trade appellate body, regulating trade in health and Health Initiative and regulating trade products, setting an ambitious in health products, setting an ambitious environmental agenda, and agreeing on environmental agenda, and agreeing on concrete deliverables for the 12th WTO concrete deliverables for the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC12); Ministerial Conference (MC12); encourages both sides to stick to encourages both sides to stick to multilateral agreements; multilateral agreements;

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Amendment 49 Geert Bourgeois

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4. Calls for enhanced cooperation on 4. Calls for enhanced cooperation on WTO reform, including reinstating the WTO reform, including reinstating the appellate body, regulating trade in health appellate body, regulating trade in health products, setting an ambitious products, setting an ambitious environmental agenda, and agreeing on environmental and digital agenda, and concrete deliverables for the 12th WTO agreeing on concrete deliverables for the Ministerial Conference (MC12); 12th WTO Ministerial Conference encourages both sides to stick to (MC12); encourages both sides to stick to multilateral agreements; multilateral agreements;

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Amendment 50 Helmut Scholz, Emmanuel Maurel

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4a. Welcomes the support expressed by President Joe Biden for a temporary international waiver on the agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights(TRIPS) for all coronavirus-related medical products, including vaccines and treatments; urges partners to work together with all the WTO members to ensure that intellectual property rights such as patents, industrial designs, copyright and protection of undisclosed information do not create barriers to the timely access to affordable medical products including vaccines and medicines or to scaling-up of research, development, manufacturing and supply of medical products essential to combat COVID-19;

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Amendment 51 Reinhard Bütikofer on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

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4a. Welcomes the announcement of the Biden administration to support a temporary TRIPS waiver of patent rights for COVID-19 vaccines and urges the EU to join with the aim of starting as soon as possible text-based negotiations at the TRIPS Council level and achieving an agreement by MC 12; underlines, that, in addition to a TRIPS waiver, the US and the EU need to urgently provide joint endeavours in order to increase and fast- track worldwide access to COVID-19 vaccines, secure the required technology transfers and improve preparedness to future health global emergencies;

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Amendment 52 Helmut Scholz, Emmanuel Maurel

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4b. Welcomes that USTR Katherine Tai took the initiative to speak with Japanese Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu about the global effort to end the pandemic and help the economy recover, and that both discussed the potential waiver of intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines as well as the need to increase production and distribution of vaccines and raw materials around the world;

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Amendment 53 Helmut Scholz

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4c. Calls on the transatlantic partners to support and actively contribute to the UN Secretary-General's call for a global cease fire, including through effective measures against illicit arms trade and enhancing the transparency and accountability of arms trade, including U.S. and EU Member States' arms exports;

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5. Advocates a joint strategic 5. Notes the result of the first high- approach towards China, addressing the level meeting of the EU-US dialogue on roots of unfair trade practices and tackling China, where the two sides reiterated that industrial subsidies, state-owned their relations with China are enterprises and human rights concerns; multifaceted and comprise elements of cooperation, competition, and systemic rivalry; advocates a joint strategic approach with China, establishing a common understanding of what constitutes unfair trade practices in order to agree on measures to end them; recommends to build on the wording of the negotiated text of the Phase I agreement between the U.S. and China, and of the CAI between the EU and China; notes the existence of industrial subsidies in the US and the EU, stresses the need for enormous public and private investment into a successful green and digital transformation of industry; stresses the need for state-owned enterprises to play by the rules when acting in a market environment; stresses the significance of human rights and the imperative for business to adhere to them; points out in this regard the need for a binding due diligence legislation and calls for the US, for OECD members and for China to join and support this approach along global value and supply chains; welcomes the beginning of direct talks between Ambassador Katherine Tai and Vice Premier Liu He, during which they discussed the importance of the trade relationship between the US and China, and the guiding principles of the Biden- Harris Administration’s worker-centered trade policy and her ongoing review of the U.S.-China trade relationship; calls on the EU Commission to continue the high- level Trade and Economic Dialogue with

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Amendment 55 Liesje Schreinemacher, Karin Karlsbro, Nicola Danti, Samira Rafaela, Urmas Paet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Dita Charanzová, Jordi Cañas, Barry Andrews, Morten Løkkegaard

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5. Advocates a joint strategic 5. Advocates for a joint strategic approach towards China, addressing the approach towards China in order to tackle roots of unfair trade practices and tackling unfair trade practice that lead to market industrial subsidies, state-owned distortions and a lack of a level-playing enterprises and human rights concerns; field as a matter of urgency; calls for the EU and the US to find an approach to tackle industrial subsidies and SOEs, forced technology transfers, theft of intellectual property, obliged joint ventures, market barriers and address human rights concerns; urges to build upon the trilateral agreement on industrial subsidies with the US and Japan whilst also developing an autonomous instrument against unfair foreign subsidies; calls for the EU and the US to exchange information on foreign investments in strategic sectors, including on potential hostile takeovers;

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Amendment 56 Tiziana Beghin

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PE693.626v02-00 32/57 AM\1232756EN.docx EN 5. Advocates a joint strategic 5. Advocates a joint strategic approach towards China, addressing the approach towards China through the EU- roots of unfair trade practices and tackling US dialogue on China, recently industrial subsidies, state-owned created, addressing the roots of unfair trade enterprises and human rights concerns; practices and overcapacity, tackling industrial subsidies and their consequences on critical sectors such as steel and aluminium, state-owned enterprises and human rights concerns;

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Amendment 57 Danuta Maria Hübner, Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou, Seán Kelly, Christophe Hansen, Arnaud Danjean, Iuliu Winkler, Daniel Caspary, Gabriel Mato, Jörgen Warborn

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5. Advocates a joint strategic 5. Advocates a joint strategic approach towards China, addressing the approach towards China, addressing the roots of unfair trade practices and tackling roots of unfair trade practices and tackling industrial subsidies, state-owned industrial subsidies, state-owned enterprises and human rights concerns; enterprises, forced technology transfers, and human rights concerns; notes that such issues cannot be solved unilaterally or bilaterally and demand leading a coalition of like-minded partners at the international level within the framework of the WTO;

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Amendment 58 Reinhard Bütikofer on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

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5. Advocates a joint strategic 5. Advocates a joint strategic

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Amendment 59 Bernd Lange, Inma Rodríguez-Piñero, Kathleen Van Brempt, Margarida Marques, Paolo De Castro, Pedro Silva Pereira, Joachim Schuster, Miroslav Číž

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5. Advocates a joint strategic 5. Advocates, wherever possible, a approach towards China, addressing the joint strategic approach towards China roots of unfair trade practices and tackling addressing the roots of unfair trade industrial subsidies, state-owned practices and tackling industrial subsidies, enterprises and human rights concerns; state-owned enterprises and human rights concerns by including a discussion on the US phase one agreement with China and the EU's CAI;

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Amendment 60 Emmanouil Fragkos

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5. Advocates a joint strategic 5. Advocates a joint strategic approach towards China, addressing the approach towards China in order to see roots of unfair trade practices and tackling where the possibilities lie of addressing industrial subsidies, state-owned unfair trade practices and tackling enterprises and human rights concerns; industrial subsidies, state-owned

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Amendment 61 Geert Bourgeois

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5. Advocates a joint strategic 5. Advocates a joint strategic approach towards China, addressing the approach towards China, addressing the roots of unfair trade practices and tackling roots of unfair trade practices and tackling industrial subsidies, state-owned industrial subsidies, state-owned enterprises and human rights concerns; enterprises as well as forced labour and human rights concerns;

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Amendment 62 Carles Puigdemont i Casamajó

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5. Advocates a joint strategic 5. Advocates a joint strategic approach towards China, addressing the approach towards China, addressing the roots of unfair trade practices and tackling roots of unfair trade practices and tackling industrial subsidies, state-owned industrial subsidies, state-owned enterprises and human rights concerns; enterprises and human rights concerns; notes that the Commission will not seek ratification of the Comprehensive Agreement on Investments (CAI) between the EU and China; stresses that a bilateral agreement on investments between the Union and Taiwan should be made before the end of the current legislative term;

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5. Advocates a joint strategic 5. Advocates a joint strategic approach towards China, addressing the approach towards China, addressing the roots of unfair trade practices and tackling roots of unfair trade practices and tackling industrial subsidies, state-owned industrial subsidies, state-owned enterprises and human rights concerns; enterprises and human rights concerns; welcomes the launch of the EU-US dialogue on China to cooperate on topics such as reciprocity, multilateralism, economic issues, human rights, resilience, security and climate change; calls to enhance EU-US coordination and cooperation on China even further;

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Amendment 64 Danuta Maria Hübner, Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou, Seán Kelly, Christophe Hansen, Arnaud Danjean, Iuliu Winkler, Daniel Caspary, Gabriel Mato, Jörgen Warborn

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Draws attention to the importance of having a coordinated position with the US to tackle systemic structural and market distorting practices that endanger the global level-playing field; in that context, considers relevant the work done by the EU, US and Japan to strengthen existing WTO rules on industrial subsidies; urges the EU and the US to pursue this work and lead a coalition of like-minded countries at the WTO with a view to agreeing on new rules;

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Amendment 65 Helmut Scholz, Emmanuel Maurel

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5a. Takes note of the dimension of the investment initiatives of the Biden administration, including the recently enacted 1.9 trillion dollar coronavirus relief package, and a proposed 2 trillion dollar infrastructure initiative, which would together give the federal government a bigger role in the US economy than it has had in generations, accounting for 20% of annual output; points out that this investment will have a potentially trade-distorting impact through its impetus on international competitiveness and innovation potential of U.S. companies, and calls on the EU and its Member States to mirror this investment offensive to avoid falling further behind in development, application and marketing of future-safe technologies and infrastructure;

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Amendment 66 Danuta Maria Hübner, Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou, Seán Kelly, Iuliu Winkler, Gabriel Mato, Jörgen Warborn

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5a. Recognises that unexploited opportunities to remove significant red tape and strengthen the transatlantic

AM\1232756EN.docx 37/57 PE693.626v02-00 EN economic partnership remain; in the context of the ongoing technological race, stresses the importance of a close transatlantic regulatory space for our businesses, especially for emerging digital-, energy-, and climate-related technologies; is convinced of the potential for important investments to develop zero emission and climate neutral products for our EU and US businesses;

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Amendment 67 Reinhard Bütikofer on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

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5a. Expresses its firm belief that the EU and the US should strengthen transatlantic cooperation on rules-based multilateralism and on sustainable connectivity as a response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative; hopes for future cooperation with particular regard to upholding high quality standards for connectivity projects and fostering private sector involvement;

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Amendment 68 Emmanouil Fragkos

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5a. Considers that, in a new era of Euro-American relations, it is in the

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Amendment 69 Bernd Lange, Inma Rodríguez-Piñero, Kathleen Van Brempt, Margarida Marques, Paolo De Castro, Pedro Silva Pereira, Joachim Schuster, Miroslav Číž

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5a. Calls on both sides to use trade as a mean to fight climate change and achieve upward convergence; in this regard urges both sides to cooperate on pricing carbon and in particular to coordinate on the development of a carbon border adjustment mechanism;

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Amendment 70 Danuta Maria Hübner, Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou, Seán Kelly, Christophe Hansen, Arnaud Danjean, Iuliu Winkler, Daniel Caspary, Gabriel Mato, Jörgen Warborn

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5b. In that context, calls for a stronger regulatory partnership through the Trade and Technology Council and encourages both sides to exchange best regulatory practices; urges the EU and the US to pursue their negotiation on conformity assessment to remove financially burdensome non-tariff barriers; stresses the importance for both sides to align and

AM\1232756EN.docx 39/57 PE693.626v02-00 EN lead a coalition of like-minded partners to enhance the use of transatlantic standards by international standards organizations;

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Amendment 71 Bernd Lange, Inma Rodríguez-Piñero, Kathleen Van Brempt, Margarida Marques, Paolo De Castro, Pedro Silva Pereira, Joachim Schuster, Miroslav Číž

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5b. Advocates a joint approach on tackling the COVID-19 crisis among others by increasing the availability and affordability of vaccines; in this regard calls on both sides to refrain from any export restricting measures, enhance production capacity, ensure the proper functioning of supply chains and engage constructively on a potential TRIPS waiver; encourages both sides to increase regulatory cooperation to facilitate essential access to medicines.

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Amendment 72 Danuta Maria Hübner, Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou, Seán Kelly, Iuliu Winkler, Daniel Caspary, Gabriel Mato, Jörgen Warborn

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5c. Calls on the EU and the US to work together and lead efforts to address the issue of vaccine shortage to ensure that vaccines are delivered worldwide and to the greatest number as fast as possible; recalls that the world is facing a global

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Amendment 73 Danuta Maria Hübner, Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou, Iuliu Winkler, Gabriel Mato, Jörgen Warborn

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5d. While recognising the importance to protect European intellectual property rights to maintain businesses’ capacity to innovate, considers relevant to examine all relevant flexibilities within the TRIPS agreement with the aim to increasing global vaccines and vaccine components manufacturing capacity; stresses that finding solutions on intellectual property rights can only be one part of the common global response;

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Amendment 74 Reinhard Bütikofer on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

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6. While promoting dialogue and 6. Emphasizes the need to strengthen common action, calls on the Commission the EU’s autonomous economic to assertively promote the EU’s interests measures; while welcoming transatlantic and react to US unwarranted duties, cooperation with regard to investment extraterritorial sanctions and market screening, banning the importation of

AM\1232756EN.docx 41/57 PE693.626v02-00 EN barriers; products of forced labour, promoting human rights due diligence and addressing WTO-incompatible subsidies, calls on the Commission to assertively promote the EU’s interests and react to US unwarranted duties, extraterritorial sanctions and market barriers; asks the US to ensure that public procurement procedures are transparent, open and predictable based on the principle of equal treatment;

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Amendment 75 Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Liesje Schreinemacher, Samira Rafaela, Nicola Danti

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6. While promoting dialogue and 6. While promoting dialogue and common action, calls on the Commission common action, calls on the Commission to assertively promote the EU’s interests to assertively promote the EU’s interests and react to US unwarranted duties, and react to US unwarranted duties, extraterritorial sanctions and market extraterritorial sanctions and market barriers; barriers; calls on the Commission to draft its proposal on an instrument to deter and counteract coercive actions by third countries to tackle the illicit extraterritorial effects of third countries sanctions and legislations in order to support European companies targeted by these sanctions and who are operating in compliance with international law;

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Amendment 76 Helmut Scholz, Emmanuel Maurel

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6. While promoting dialogue and 6. While promoting dialogue and common action, calls on the Commission common action, calls on the Commission to assertively promote the EU’s interests to assertively promote the EU’s interests and react to US unwarranted duties, and react to US unwarranted duties, and extraterritorial sanctions and market extraterritorial sanctions, urges the US barriers; government to lift the embargo against Cuba and to stand no longer in the way for an implementation of the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement (PDCA) EU - Cuba; calls on the Commission to address the elimination of recently erected US market barriers for olive oil and other EU products, and to seek now solutions that last beyond the election year 2022;

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Amendment 77 Liesje Schreinemacher, Karin Karlsbro, Nicola Danti, Svenja Hahn, Samira Rafaela, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Dita Charanzová, Jordi Cañas, Barry Andrews, Morten Løkkegaard

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6. While promoting dialogue and 6. While promoting dialogue and common action, calls on the Commission common action, calls the Commission to to assertively promote the EU’s interests assertively promote the EU’s interests and and react to US unwarranted duties, react to US unwarranted duties, extraterritorial sanctions and market extraterritorial sanctions and market barriers; barriers, including in public procurement; calls for a dialogue on the Buy American Act and address market access issues for EU companies in public procurement and enhance access to markets for services;

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Amendment 78 Emmanouil Fragkos

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6. While promoting dialogue and 6. While promoting dialogue and common action, calls on the Commission common action, calls on the Commission to assertively promote the EU’s interests to assertively promote the EU’s interests and react to US unwarranted duties, and react to US unwarranted duties, extraterritorial sanctions and market extraterritorial sanctions and market barriers; barriers and to take action regarding imports of not only modified primary products but also their derivatives;

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Amendment 79 Urmas Paet

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6. While promoting dialogue and 6. While promoting dialogue and common action, calls on the Commission common action, calls on the Commission to assertively promote the EU’s interests to promote the EU’s interests and react to and react to US unwarranted duties, US duties, extraterritorial sanctions and extraterritorial sanctions and market market barriers; however, stresses in this barriers; context the European Parliament’s clear position that the Nord Stream 2 project must be halted;

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Amendment 80 Emmanuel Maurel

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6. While promoting dialogue and 6. While promoting dialogue and

PE693.626v02-00 44/57 AM\1232756EN.docx EN common action, calls on the Commission certain common actions, calls on the to assertively promote the EU’s interests Commission to assertively promote the and react to US unwarranted duties, EU’s interests and strategic autonomy as a extraterritorial sanctions and market matter of priority in response to US barriers; unwarranted duties, extraterritorial sanctions and market barriers;

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Amendment 81 Gabriel Mato

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6. While promoting dialogue and 6. While promoting dialogue and common action, calls on the Commission common action, calls on the Commission to assertively promote the EU’s interests to assertively promote the EU’s interests and react to US unwarranted duties, and react to duties, the extraterritorial extraterritorial sanctions and market enforcement of sanction mechanisms barriers; running counter to international law and market barriers created by the US;

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Amendment 82 Tiziana Beghin

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6. While promoting dialogue and 6. While promoting dialogue and common action, calls on the Commission common action, calls on the Commission to assertively promote the EU’s interests to assertively promote the EU’s interests and react to US unwarranted duties, and react to US unwarranted duties, extraterritorial sanctions and market extraterritorial sanctions and market barriers; barriers; wishes to find a proper solution at the up-coming EU-US Summit in July;

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6. While promoting dialogue and 6. While promoting dialogue and common action, calls on the Commission common action, calls on the Commission to assertively promote the EU’s interests to assertively promote the EU’s interests and react to US unwarranted duties, and react to US unwarranted duties, extraterritorial sanctions and market extraterritorial sanctions and market barriers; barriers; urges the US to drop restrictions on exports of COVID vaccines and vaccine components;

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Amendment 84 Danuta Maria Hübner, Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou, Seán Kelly, Arnaud Danjean, Iuliu Winkler, Daniel Caspary, Gabriel Mato, Jörgen Warborn

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7. Encourages both sides to find a 7. Encourages both sides to find a framework for joint action and look for framework for joint action and look for selective agreements; calls for a stronger selective agreements; calls for coordinated regulatory, green and digital partnership approach to critical technologies, a carbon through the Trade and Technology border adjustment mechanism and digital Council and a coordinated approach to and global taxes; critical technologies, a carbon border adjustment mechanism and digital and global taxes.

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Amendment 85 Helmut Scholz

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7. Encourages both sides to find a 7. Encourages both sides to find a framework for joint action and look for framework for joint action and look for selective agreements; calls for a stronger selective agreements; calls for a stronger regulatory, green and digital partnership regulatory, green and digital partnership through the Trade and Technology through an improved direct cooperation of Council and a coordinated approach to the parliamentary chambers of the critical technologies, a carbon border European Union and the US, building on adjustment mechanism and digital and the experiences of the Transatlantic global taxes. Legislators' Dialogue, and striving for a coordinated approach to critical technologies, a carbon border adjustment mechanism and digital and global taxes, and calls on the United States and European Union to work for effective international measures to reshape tax justice and provide public authorities with the means to conduct far-reaching recovery and investment plans by establishing a global minimum effective corporate tax; calls on the partners to more strongly cooperate in ending practices of profit shifting and tax avoidance by global companies and to fight corruption;

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Amendment 86 Liesje Schreinemacher, Karin Karlsbro, Nicola Danti, Svenja Hahn, Samira Rafaela, Urmas Paet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Dita Charanzová, Jordi Cañas, Barry Andrews, Morten Løkkegaard

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7. Encourages both sides to find a 7. Encourages both sides to engage in framework for joint action and look for an ambitious dialogue and find a selective agreements; calls for a stronger framework for joint action and look for regulatory, green and digital partnership selective agreements, such as on trade & through the Trade and Technology Council technology as well as conformity

AM\1232756EN.docx 47/57 PE693.626v02-00 EN and a coordinated approach to critical assessments which will particularly technologies, a carbon border adjustment benefit SMEs; calls for a stronger mechanism and digital and global taxes. regulatory, green and digital partnership through the Trade and Technology Council and a coordinated approach to setting international standards for critical and emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, and digital trade more broadly; welcomes the proposal by the Commission for a Transatlantic AI Agreement to set such standards and develop ethical guidelines; and find common grounds for a CBAM as well as digital and global taxes.

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Amendment 87 Reinhard Bütikofer on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

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7. Encourages both sides to find a 7. Encourages both sides to find a framework for joint action and look for framework for joint action and look for selective agreements; calls for a stronger selective agreements; calls for a stronger regulatory, green and digital partnership regulatory, green and digital partnership through the Trade and Technology Council through the Trade and Technology Council and a coordinated approach to critical and a coordinated approach to critical technologies, a carbon border adjustment technologies and international mechanism and digital and global taxes. standardisation, a carbon border adjustment mechanism as well as digital and global taxes; welcomes in particular the recent proposals from the US administration on a global corporate tax agreement and in particular on a minimum tax on corporate profits; asks the EU to support a high level of ambition as regards the minimum tax rate as initially proposed by the Biden administration;

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PE693.626v02-00 48/57 AM\1232756EN.docx EN Amendment 88 Danilo Oscar Lancini, Roman Haider, Marco Campomenosi

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7. Encourages both sides to find a 7. Encourages both sides to find a framework for joint action and look for framework for joint action and look for selective agreements; calls for a stronger selective agreements; underlines Europe's regulatory, green and digital partnership dependence on American infrastructure through the Trade and Technology Council and tech services and calls for a stronger and a coordinated approach to critical regulatory, sustainable and digital technologies, a carbon border adjustment partnership through the Trade and mechanism and digital and global taxes. Technology Council and a coordinated approach to critical technologies, a CBAM, a regulatory framework for big tech companies as well as digital and global taxes;

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Amendment 89 Tiziana Beghin

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7. Encourages both sides to find a 7. Encourages both sides to find a framework for joint action and look for framework for joint action and look for selective agreements; calls for a stronger selective agreements; calls for the regulatory, green and digital partnership developing of commons standards and a through the Trade and Technology forward-looking strategic dialogue aiming Council and a coordinated approach to to create a stronger regulatory, green and critical technologies, a carbon border digital partnership via the Trade and adjustment mechanism and digital and Technology Council; in this regard, global taxes. underlines the need to find a coordinated approach to critical and emerging technologies, a carbon border adjustment mechanism and digital and global taxes.

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7. Encourages both sides to find a 7. Encourages both sides to find a framework for joint action and look for framework for joint action and look for selective agreements; calls for a stronger selective agreements via the relaunch of a regulatory, green and digital partnership high-level strategic dialogue; calls for a through the Trade and Technology Council stronger regulatory, green and digital and a coordinated approach to critical partnership through the Trade and technologies, a carbon border adjustment Technology Council; calls for a mechanism and digital and global taxes. coordinated approach to critical technologies as well as to digital and global taxes.

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Amendment 91 Jörgen Warborn

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7. Encourages both sides to find a 7. Encourages both sides to find a framework for joint action and look for framework for joint action and look for selective agreements; calls for a stronger selective agreements; calls for a stronger regulatory, green and digital partnership regulatory, green and digital partnership through the Trade and Technology Council through the Trade and Technology Council and a coordinated approach to critical and a coordinated approach to critical technologies, a carbon border adjustment technologies and together investigating a mechanism and digital and global taxes. non-protectionistic carbon border adjustment mechanism.

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Amendment 92

PE693.626v02-00 50/57 AM\1232756EN.docx EN Geert Bourgeois

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7. Encourages both sides to find a 7. Encourages both sides to find a framework for joint action and look for framework for joint action and look for selective agreements; calls for a stronger selective agreements building on the Joint regulatory, green and digital partnership EU-US statement of 25 July 2018; calls through the Trade and Technology Council for a stronger regulatory, green and digital and a coordinated approach to critical partnership through the Trade and technologies, a carbon border adjustment Technology Council, an agreement on mechanism and digital and global taxes. conformity assessment and a coordinated approach to critical technologies, a carbon border adjustment mechanism and digital and global taxes.

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Amendment 93 Carles Puigdemont i Casamajó

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7. Encourages both sides to find a 7. Encourages both sides to find a framework for joint action and look for framework for joint action and look for selective agreements; calls for a stronger selective agreements; calls on a common regulatory, green and digital partnership strategy on Africa in order to through the Trade and Technology Council help strengthen trade, economic and a coordinated approach to critical development and the defence of human technologies, a carbon border adjustment rights and the rule of Law; calls for a mechanism and digital and global taxes. stronger regulatory, green and digital partnership through the Trade and Technology Council and a coordinated approach to critical technologies, a carbon border adjustment mechanism and digital and global taxes.

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AM\1232756EN.docx 51/57 PE693.626v02-00 EN Amendment 94 Helmut Scholz, Emmanuel Maurel

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7a. Recalls the commitments by the Commission for more transparency in trade related talks that emerged from lessons learned during the TTIP negotiations; urges the Commission to implement its commitments in trade transparency policy for any new cooperation with the United States; calls for any proposal sent to the United States to be published to ensure citizens’ trust, and stresses that agenda, minutes and list of participants to the meetings of the different regulatory dialogues should also be made available; calls for the European Parliament to be involved closely in the process and for a strengthening of the transatlantic legislators’ dialogue; calls on the EU and the US to involve civil society better in the further development of the transatlantic relations, and takes the view that a regular transatlantic civil society dialogue should be established for this purpose;

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Amendment 95 Reinhard Bütikofer on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

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7a. Urges the Commission to foster transparency in the framework of any future cooperation with the United States; points out that any proposal sent to

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Amendment 96 Bernd Lange, Inma Rodríguez-Piñero, Kathleen Van Brempt, Margarida Marques, Paolo De Castro, Pedro Silva Pereira, Joachim Schuster, Miroslav Číž

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7a. Calls for a continued and enhanced transatlantic parliamentary dimension on trade including within the framework of the Transatlantic Legislators' Dialogue; calls more specifically for the establishment of a sub- committee on Trade & Technology within the Transatlantic Legislators' Dialogue to complement the executive part of the Trade & Technology Council and to exercise democratic control thereof;

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Amendment 97 Urmas Paet

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7a. Calls for the EU-US enhanced cooperation in the Arctic considering the opening up of new navigation routes and

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Amendment 98 Danuta Maria Hübner, Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou, Seán Kelly, Iuliu Winkler, Gabriel Mato, Jörgen Warborn

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7a. Underlines that stronger partners make for stronger alliances; welcomes efforts being made by both sides to render their supply chains more resilient, especially with regards to critical raw materials; encourages both sides to consider the other as a partner of choice;

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Amendment 99 Danilo Oscar Lancini, Roman Haider, Marco Campomenosi

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7a. Urges the EU and the US sides to strengthen regulatory cooperation on pharmaceuticals in order to allow patients to have easier and faster access to essential medicines in both markets;

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PE693.626v02-00 54/57 AM\1232756EN.docx EN Amendment 100 Danilo Oscar Lancini, Roman Haider, Marco Campomenosi

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7b. Underlines the current challenges the European and US industry are facing and stresses that a global level playing field is needed in order to grant a fair competition on the global market; calls to protect key industries against unfair competition from state-owned or state- subsidised investors and third countries competitors subject to less stringent climate and environment rules with significant inferior labour costs;

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Amendment 101 Bernd Lange, Inma Rodríguez-Piñero, Kathleen Van Brempt, Margarida Marques, Paolo De Castro, Pedro Silva Pereira, Joachim Schuster, Miroslav Číž

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7b. Urges the Commission, as common practice, to be transparent in its cooperation with the United States among others by publishing all proposals that are sent to the United States as well as by guaranteeing the involvement of the European Parliament and civil society in the development of these proposals so as to enhance consumers' and citizens' trust;

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AM\1232756EN.docx 55/57 PE693.626v02-00 EN Amendment 102 Helmut Scholz

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7b. Is mindful of the impact of trade on biodiversity; calls therefore on the two most influential partners in international trade to work actively for an ambitious outcome at the CBDCOP15 in Kunming, in October 2021;

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Amendment 103 Danilo Oscar Lancini, Roman Haider, Marco Campomenosi

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7c. Calls to increase transparency and to improve consumer awareness of agri- food products in both EU and US markets; underlines that particular attention must be paid to new technological and digital innovation tools that can provide a contribution to the traceability of the supply chain and fight counterfeited foods;

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Amendment 104 Danilo Oscar Lancini, Roman Haider, Marco Campomenosi

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7d. Stresses that a few large, mainly US and EU, multinational groups control not only the market of technical means necessary for cultivation and farming, including seeds, but also the purchase and marketing of agricultural products and food. This concentration jeopardizes biodiversity, protection of territorial identity and freedom of choice of consumers, as well as food sovereignty.

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