Strasbourg, 25/11/2010 (Agence Europe) - The own initiative report by Tokia Saïfi (EPP, France) on Human rights, social and environmental standards in international trade agreements, which was adopted by 531 votes to 18, with 44 abstentions, in plenary session on Thursday 25 November, calls for greater cooperation between the relevant international organisations, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO), and, once an international agreement on climate has been negotiated and signed, a genuine World Environmental Organisation to be set up, to which cases of environmental dumping could be referred. The report proposes, too, that a carbon inclusion mechanism complete the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, in order to combat the risk of CO2 emissions being transferred to third countries and to put imports on the same footing as European goods. This is the first time the Parliament has supported such a mechanism. Saïfi also calls for better use to be made by the EU of bilateral free trade agreements, through the systematic inclusion, not only of human rights clauses, but also of a chapter on sustainable development. Arrangements would be complemented by a series of specifically tailored social and environmental standards in accordance with the level of environmental and social development of each of the EU's trading partners. (E.H./transl.rt)