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I voted in favour of the resolution on EU trade negotiations with Japan as the EU and Japan represent together more than a third of world GDP and more than 20 % of world trade.
Japan’s capacity to remove non-tariff barriers (NTBs) and obstacles to market access in public procurement is a precondition for launching negotiations on the EU-Japan free trade agreement (FTA). We underline that the free trade agreement must be comprehensive, ambitious and fully binding in all its commercial provisions, as it must lead to genuine market openness.
For an FTA to be truly advantageous to the EU’s economy, the Council should establish a clear timetable and include the following aspects in the Commission’s negotiating directives: significant concessions on public procurement guaranteeing market access for European companies in strategic Japanese sectors including railways and urban transport and the same degree of openness as that of the EU’s public procurement markets, and the removal of barriers that inhibit market access for European SMEs. At the same time, in the light of the March 2011 disaster, heavy emphasis must be placed on energy cooperation and enhanced market access in environmental goods and services."@en1
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