Activities of Dominique BILDE related to 2019/2065(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh European Development Funds for the financial year 2018
Amendments (3)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes the Union’s focus on serious and sound financial management issues and underlines the importance of increasing the attribution of funds aiming to support good governance, democracy and the rule of law in developing countrieseconomic development and poverty reduction, particularly in the least developed countries, stressing that political conditionality must not penalise or seek to penalise the populations of those countries in particular;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the fact that budget support payments financed by the EDF in 2018 amounted to 796 million euros; urges, the Commission, however, to assess more clearly and define the development outcomes to be achieved through budget support in each case and, above all, to enhance control mechanisms concerning recipient Sstates' conduct in the fields of corruption, the respect for human rights, the rule of law and democracy, taking account of the specific situation in each state;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that the design of the European Union Emergency Trust Fund (‘EUTF’) should have a clearer shape and contribute to the financing of actions whose added value and utility have been proven; recalls that the main purpose of the EU trust fund is to resolve the root causes of migration and not provide financing for actions to promote legal migration; is confident that DG DEVCO will follow the recommendations made in the Court of Auditors' Special Report 32/2018;