12 Amendments of Joachim SCHUSTER related to 2017/2083(INI)
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas the 2015 ‘Trade for All strategy’ sets out the EU's commitment to binding and enforceable Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD);
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the European Union to focus on supporting projects which will havsupport a sustainable and immediate impacnclusive development oin the creation of decentAfrica in order to create the jobs, the fight against poverty, protection of at Africa needs, to reduce poverty, strengthen environment, improving the business climate, the management of public finances, transparency in the management of natural resources (in particular in mining and energy production), and the fight against corruption and illegal capital flows away from the continent;al protection and make use of the opportunities created thereby for the European Union
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Urges the EU always to take account of the different levels of development among African countries and to support measures which enhance production and processing capacity, particularly in agriculture; stresses in this context the need for any trade agreement or unilateral trade arrangement between the EU and African countries or regional groupings to provide for sufficiently asymmetrical liberalisation schedules, protections for infant industries, development-supportive rules of origins and effective safeguard clauses;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Urges the EU always to take account of the different levels of development among African countries and to support measures which enhance production and processing capacity, particularly in agriculture; as well as taking the varying expectations of the African states and regions into consideration;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the EU to support Africa’s ambitions of creating a genuine intra- African market and avoid taking steps which might hinder these ambitions; stresses that interim Economic Partnership Agreements with individual countries that are members of regional customs and economic unions should not become permanent in the absence of ratified region-to-region EPAs;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the EU to support Africa’s ambitions of creating a genuine intra- African market and avoid taking steps which might hinder these ambitions; with the help of trade policy and the existing regional Economic Partnership Agreements to create functioning inner African markets and to use the possibilities of international trade;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. insists on a structured and well- financed civil society monitoring process concerning the existing and future trade agreements between the EU and Africa in order to be able to counteract negative consequences of the agreements;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. points out that the successes of the regional Economic Partnership Agreements and the post-Cotonou agreement are highly dependent on the transparent information policy and dialogue with civil society of the European Commission and its counterparts in African states since transparency gives small and medium sized participants of the economy the chance to reap the benefits of the agreements;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls for the principles of policy coherence for development to be fully incorporated in the EU’s trade relationship with Africa, which entails the inclusion of enforceable ‘Trade and Sustainable Development’ clauses in all EU trade agreements with African countries, in line with the commitment undertaken by the European Commission in the ‘Trade for All' strategy;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. expects the European Union to make strategic plans for cooperation in a dialogue with Africa in the future in order to make sure that the national development plans, the continental free trade zone and the implementation of the Agenda 2063 is not being disrupted by the European trade-, agricultural-, fisheries-, environmental- and tax policy;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. expects additionally the development of a strategy for the fight against corruption and illegal capital flight from Africa and insists that the development of the regional African markets is being taken into consideration in the future;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. insists that the aid for trade global review makes sure that least developed countries and fragile states benefit more from the effects of development cooperation than in the past;