Procedure

EU/Vietnam Investment Protection Agreement

2018/0358(NLE)·8th term·AFET / DEVE / INTA·NLE - Non-legislative enactments·In progressAwaiting final decision

Subjects: Bilateral economic and trade agreements and relations

Rapporteur (the Member appointed to lead Parliament's work on this text): BOURGEOIS Geert (ECR)

Summary

The dossier is the EU/Vietnam Investment Protection Agreement. Several amendments decline consent or recommend rejection or postponement of the Council decision, raising concerns about labour rights, human rights and the environment, the absence of a prior human rights impact assessment, the lack of due diligence and binding corporate social responsibility provisions, and the Investment Court System as a separate mechanism for foreign investors, calling for monitoring and grievance mechanisms.

Procedure timeline

Committee amendments tabled
10 Jan 2019 – 26 Nov 2019
In progress — not yet concluded

Amendments

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Members

tabled at least one

Committee(s)

10 Jan 2019 – 26 Nov 2019

Dates

Plenary votes

1 roll-call votes

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12 Feb 2020Passedoutcome from totals
On the consent procedure (Parliament approves or rejects the text as a whole)
Official label: Procédure d'approbation · what was voted ↗
407 for188 against53 abstentions55 did not vote
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