3 Amendments of Florian PHILIPPOT related to 2017/2146(DEC)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
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1. Supports the use of budget support but urges the Commission to better define the development outcomes to be achieved in each case and above all to enhance control mechanisms concerning recipient States’ conduct in the fields of corruption, respect of human rights, rule of law and democracy; notes the Court’s Special Report 35/2016 on the use of budget support for domestic resource mobilisation (DRM) in sub-Saharan Africa, which finds that the Commission’s ex- ante analyses of DRM are not sufficiently detailed and do not follow its own guidelines, that the Commission often fails to assess tax exemptions and illicit capital outflows and does not properly consider extraction dividends and whether royalties for access to natural resources have been paid; is concerned about the Commission’s low and sometimes not relevant use of DRM conditions in budget support contracts; calls on the Commission to improve its ex post evaluation of action financed by budget support, which will enable the most effective kinds of intervention in the field of development to be more precisely determined in the future; in addition, stresses that those Member States facing budgetary problems (in particular the net contributors), being unable to achieve the official development assistance objectives they have set, would be in great difficulty if EU budget support did not respond to these basic requirements of transparency and evaluation.
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
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3. Looks forward to being fully informed and consulted on the mid-term review of the 11th EDF which is supposed to take into account Agenda 2030 and a new European Consensus on Development but which should also fully respect the principles of development effectiveness reconfirmed at the Nairobi High Level Forum of the Global Partnership, in particular ownership of priorities by recipient countries; urges this mid-term review to analyse the synergies observed between the development aid delivered by the EDF and that delivered by each Member State in their development aid policies, so that it will be properly taken into account.
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
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4. Stresses that given the funding gap required to reach the ambitious development goals, the private sector might play a crucial role, as long as the funding it provides is strictly limited and monitored, in particular to ensure that it does not correspond to hidden commercial interests or inadmissible attempts to influence Member States’ policies; notes that blending might be a useful vehicle for leveraging additional resources, provided that its use is duly justified, its added value is demonstrated and it meets development effectiveness principles.