81. Recalls its view that balanced trade agreements can provide rules for globalisation; calls on the Commission, therefore, to ensure that European standards are not put at risk and stresses that trade must play its part in fighting poverty and enhancing development abroad; considers that the elimination of trade and investment barriers worldwide remains a key priority of the EU trade strategy; notes, in this connection, that the Commission’s 2014 Trade and Investment Barriers Report identifies significant and unjustified barriers in the EU’s commercial relations with major third countries; reiterates, therefore, its call on the Com ...[+++]mission to pursue this agenda and to combat unjustified protectionist measures;

29. Considers that the elimination of trade and investment barriers worldwide remains a key priority of the EU trade strategy; notes, in this connection, that the Commission’s 2014 Trade and Investment Barriers Report identifies significant and unjustified barriers in the EU’s commercial relations with major third countries; reiterates, therefore, its call on the Commission to pursue this agenda and to combat unjustified protectionist measures;

81. Recalls its view that balanced trade agreements can provide rules for globalisation; calls on the Commission, therefore, to ensure that European standards are not put at risk and stresses that trade must play its part in fighting poverty and enhancing development abroad; considers that the elimination of trade and investment barriers worldwide remains a key priority of the EU trade strategy; notes, in this connection, that the Commission’s 2014 Trade and Investment Barriers Report identifies significant and unjustified barriers in the EU’s commercial relations with major third countries; reiterates, therefore, its call on the Com ...[+++]mission to pursue this agenda and to combat unjustified protectionist measures;

5. Calls on the Commission and Council to promote international standardisation and the removal of non-tariff and technical barriers to trade, and to further engage with major trading partners, particularly with China on consumer product safety, enforcement of intellectual property rights, health and safety standards and production conditions, in particular in relation to the exploitation of women and children; and with Japan, paying special attention to removing unjustified non-tariff barriers;

the removal of barriers to the finalisation of individual cross-border transactions: how to deal with technical/market practice barriers, taxation and legal barriers.

Removing the outstanding barriers to raising capital on an EU-wide basis.The existence of national rules, which hinder the offering of securities in other Member States, makes such operations extremely costly and is inhibiting pan-EU activity.