Amen­dement Hazekamp: aanbe­ve­lingen aan de Europese Commissie voor de onder­han­de­lingen over TTIP (PETI/13)

Jarosław Wałęsa
Recommendations to the European Commission on the negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)

Draft opinion
(2014/2228(INI)

Committee on Petitions

Amendment 44

Marina Albiol Guzmán, Anja Hazekamp
on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group
Ángela Vallina

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

Draft opinion

1. Underlines the importance of developing the trade relationship and bilateral investment between the European Union and the United States of America in order to help growth and employment and generate new economic opportunities;

Amendment

1. Underlines that developing the trade relationship and bilateral investment between the European Union and the United States of America in order to help a sustainable growth and the creation of quality employment and generate new economic opportunities cannot lead to damaging our public services in any way, reducing labour rights, deregulating our legislation in the areas of environmental, food protection and animals welfare, or threaten basic democratic rights such as public participation in decision-making, transparency, or the sovereignty of states to regulate their own economy;