5 Amendments of Alf SVENSSON related to 2011/2115(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the Commission is pushing for a comprehensive investment liberalisation framework with the aim of achieving maximum protection for EU investors; recalls that it is vital that investment treaties provide a better balance between the rights and obligations of investors and host governments; urges the EU not to ban the use of performance requirements (local content, technology transfer, environment sustainability, etc.) as they are often prerequisites to ensure that foreign investment benefits the domestic market;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that higher intellectual property (IP) standards negotiated within bilateral trade agreements erode the flexibilities available to developing countries under the multilateral IP protection regime; calls on the EU fully to respectCalls on the EU to apply wherever possible the TRIPS flexibilities, especially those relating to public health and access to medicines, so as to leave the developing countries policy space to address public interest concerns;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Regrets the fact that, in spite of opposition from developing countries,Notes that the EU is pushing for binding liberalisation commitments in General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) negotiations, thereby undermining the development of the developing countries’ domestic services; calls on the EU fully to respect flexibility mechanisms in the GATS; highlights the fact that without a comprehensive assessment of trade in services, developing; calls on the EU to apply wherever possible the flexibility mechanisms in the GATS; emphasises that liberalisation must not impair the ability of governments to impose performance and quality countries are unable to assess the costs and benefits of GATS liberalisationols on environmental services and service providers;