33 Amendments of Maria HEUBUCH related to 2016/2094(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)
Citation 7 a (new)
– having regard the October 2012 Council Conclusions on "The roots of democracy and sustainable development: Europe's engagement with Civil Society in external relations",
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8
Citation 8
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 a (new)
Citation 12 a (new)
– having regard to the Joint Staff Working Document on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment: Transforming the Lives of Girls and Women through EU External Relations 2016-2020 (SWD(2015) 182 final) and to the Council Conclusions of 26 October 2015 in which the respective Gender Action Plan 2016-2020 is endorsed,
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas a revision of the European Consensus on Development is timely and necessary considering the changed external framework - including the adoption of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris COP 21 Agreement on climate change, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on financing for development and the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation, new or increasing global challenges such as climate change and, the context of migration, more diversified developing countries, emerging donors and new global actors, and internal EU changes including those arising from the Treaty of Lisbon, the Agenda for Change and the EU Global Strategy on Foreign and Security Policy;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas European Union development policy is an important complement to Member State development policy which should focus on areas of comparative advantage and on ways in which the global role of the EU as an organisatcharacterised by a multitude of actors, which leads to inefficiencies and reduced effectiveness; whereas efforts to better divide labour among the Commission can further the objectives of its development policyd Member States in their development assistance need to be increased;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the EU has created strong conditionalities between development assistance and cooperation from beneficiary countries on migration issues; whereas this is a clear violation of internationally agreed, including by the EU, development effectiveness principles;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas the European Commission is refocusing its development policies under the new prism of migration management; whereas migration issues constitute often a short-term EU priority; whereas European Union development cooperation policy shall have as its primary objective the reduction and, in the long term, the eradication of poverty, as set out by Article 208 TFEU and be based on development effectiveness principles which state that partner country ownership of priorities is key to effective development;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses the importance of the European Consensus on Development in providing a joint and coherent position at both EU and Member State levels on the objectives, values and principles and main aspects of development cooperation; believes that the Consensus acquis and in particular its holistic approach and the clear primary objective of fighting poverty must be safeguarded in its revision; recalls that Member State and EU-level development policies should reinforce and complement each otherstresses that a clear definition of development policy based on the primary focus of the fight against poverty combined with stringent respect for development effectiveness principles like alignment to partner countries' priorities, untied aid, ownership and partnership is a precondition for Parliament's support to a new Consensus;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recognises the importagrets that the European Union Global Strategy has redefined the treaty concept of a clear European external strategy requiring coherence of policiepolicy coherence for development into a strategy where development is used for policy coherence in other areas, notably on peace and security, migration, trade, the environment and climate change, humanitarian assistance and development cooperation and trade and that this approach also figures in the Commission's proposal for a new Consensus; reiterates, however, that development objectives are goals in their own right; recalls the treaty-based obligation enshrined in Article 208 TFEU to ‘'take account of the objectives of development cooperation in the policies that it implements which are likely to affect developing countries’'; strongly underlines that Parliament will not accept a new Consensus with a watered-down concept of development policy as foreseen in the EU Global Strategy;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recognises the special role of the good governance dimension of sustainable development; callsUnderlines that the key feature of the Agenda 2030 is the recognition onf the EU to strengthen the balance between economic, social and environmental domains by putting in placinterdependence between the 17 goals, and the need to pursue all of them in an effective mand supporting the right mechanisms and processes of good governancener; stresses that this precludes giving any goal a special priority;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses the importance of the principle of democratic ownership, giving developing countries the primary responsibility for their own development but also allowing national parliaments and political parties, regional and local authorities, civil society and other stakeholders to fully play their respective roles alongside national governments; strongly regrets in this context that the EU is conducting more and more an EU interest driven development policy, notably in the context of migration policies;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Underlines the importance of plural and inclusive democracy, and calls for the EU to promote a level playing field for political parties and a dynamic civil society in all its actions, including through capacitizen-driven, participatory monitoring and accountability mechanisms at the sub- national, national and regional level; recognises that consultation with civil society-building and through dialogue with partner countries to allow sufficient civil society spa is one of the crucial factors to have success in all programming sectors, in order to achieve inclusive governance;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Stresses that upholding the rights of women and girls, including their sexual and reproductive health and rights and eliminating violence and discrimination against them, including the harmful practices of child, early and forced marriage, and female genital mutilation, are essential to realizing their human rights;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Requests that the Consensus shall confirm the EU's commitment to allocate 20% of its ODA to human development;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. In the light of demographic growth, most notably in Africa and in the LDCs, taking into account the fthe relative slow demographic transition in Africa, with reduced average family sizes but in a slower pacte that of the 21 countries with the highest fertility, 19 are in Africa, that Nigeria is the country with the world’s fastest-growing population, and that by 2050 more than half of global population growth is expected to be in Africa and this is a problem forn in other regions, the resulting increase of the African share in global population growth until 2030 and the challenges this creates for achieving sustainable development goals in Africa; suggests that EU development cooperation should put more emphasis on programmes that address this topic; calls therefore on the EU to champion sexual and reproductive rights worldwide as well as to promote scale-up of universal access to voluntary contraception and family planning services;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Stresses the need for tailor-made development strategies, locally owned and designed, to take into consideration specific challenges faced by individual countries or by groups of countries such as the Small Island Developing States (SIDS), fragile states and Land Locked Developing countries (LLDCs);
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Welcomes the progress made but calls for further efforts by the EU and its Member States towards joint programming and implementaction in order to pool resources, improve the in-country division of labour, reduce transaction costs, avoid overlaps and aid fragmentation, and promote country ownership of development strategies and alignment to partner countries' priorities; calls on the EU and its Member States to further coordinate their actions with other donors and organisations;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Reiterates that Official Development Assistance (ODA) should remain the backbone of EU development policy; recalls the EU’s commitment to achieving the ODA target of 0.7 % of GNI by 2030; stresses the importance of other countries, developed and emerging, also scaling up their ODA provision; underlines the important role of ODA as a catalyst for change and a lever for the mobilisation of other resources; recalls the EU's commitment to mobilise resources for climate action in developing countries towards developed countries' commitment to mobilise $100bn/year and to maintain a doubling of biodiversity funding to developing countries;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Believes that addressing the SDGs will require financing and action for development going beyond ODA and public policies; stresses the need for domestic as well as international and for private as well as public financing, and for policies linking public and private pro- development action and inducing an environment promoting growth and its equitable distribution through national budge; highlights the risks of private financing in developing countries, which is often not conducive to sustainable development and underlines the urgent need for legally binding international framework on business and human rights;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. The EU and its Member States should also look at the spill over impact on developing countries of their own tax arrangements and laws, and undertake reforms needed to ensure European companies making profits in developing countries pay their fair share of tax in those countries;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. StressNotes the need forinstruments of blending and public-private partnerships in order to leverage financing beyond ODA, but underlines the need for these to be limited to certain sectors in order not to erode universal access for all to quality essential public services, to be based on transparent criteria and to clearly demonstrate their additionality and positive developmental impact; underlines that financed projects should respect national development objectives, internationally recognised social and environmental standards, the needs and rights of local populations, and the principles of development effectiveness; recognises in this regard that traditional land use, for example by smallholders and pastoralists, is usually not documented but needs to be respected and protected; reiterates that enterprises involved in development partnerships should respect the principles of corporate social responsibility (CSR);
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Considers it indispensable that the new Consensus should make reference to a strong EU commitment to put in place a legally binding international framework to hold companies accountable for their malpractice in the countries where they operate, since they impact all areas of society – from profiting from child labour to the absence of a living wage, from oil spills to mass deforestation, from harassment of human rights defenders to land grabbing;
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Underlines the key importance of internal and external policy coherence for development (PCD) in achieving the SDGs; reiterates the need for further efforts by EU institutions and Member States to take account of development cooperation objectives in all internal and external policies likely to affect developing countries, to find effective mechanisms to implement and evaluate PCDuse existing best practices at Member States level to implement and evaluate PCD, ensure PCD is implemented with a gender sensitive approach, and to include all stakeholders in this process;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30a. Recalls that the nexus connecting trade, economic development and poverty reduction does not function automatically; recalls that historical evidence demonstrates the need to protect domestic producers from cheap foreign imports during nascent economic development; accordingly, reiterates that the Commission should demonstrate flexibility with developing countries and explore more flexible ways to achieve WTO-compatible asymmetrical market access, including through waivers from WTO rules; underlines that unilateral trade preferences to the benefit of developing countries which are not least developed countries are still existing in order to favour development; considers as well that the new Consensus should contain a reference to the EU commitment to promote fair and ethical trade schemes with small producers in developing countries;
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 b (new)
Paragraph 30 b (new)
30b. Recalls that trade agreements should be a leverage to promote around the world values like sustainable development, human rights, fair and ethical trade and the fight against corruption; urges the EU to set up its trade agreements so as to foster responsible investor behaviour and guarantee effective compliance with international human rights laws; warns against developing a double standard policy regarding the rights and obligations of corporations; recalls that the CSR voluntary approach has failed to tackle human rights and environmental abuses of Transnational Corporations; henceforth, reiterates that corporate actors must be obliged to respect international and domestic law and be held accountable where they are found in breach; stresses that EU assistance to governments of third countries in implementing social and environmental regulation is a necessary complement to advancing the CSR of European business worldwide;
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Believes that synergimutually adapted approaches between the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) and development instruments need to be fostered in order to find the right balance between conflict prevention, conflict resolution and post-conflict rehabilitation and development; stresses that external policy programmes and measures to this end have to be comprehensive, tailor-made toe need to increase the very limited CSDP financing in theis country situation and, when financed through means foreseen for development policy, correspond to core development objectives as defined under ODA; underlines that the core tasks of development cooperation remain to support countries in their endeavour to create stable and peaceful states that respect good governance, the rule of law and human rights, and to seek to establish sustainable functioning market economies with the purpose of bringing prosperity to the peopleext in order to allow its wider use among others to the benefit of development in line with PCD; regrets the very important diversion of development money for years in order to finance security policy measures and stresses that new non development related financing instruments should be put in place for security policies;
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Stresses the central role of development cooperation in addressing the root causes of forced migration, such as state fragility, conflicts, insecurity and marginalisation, poverty and human rights violpoverty as a long term root cause of migrations; calls therefore for migration-linkedincreasing the means to development assistance to focus on promoting inclusion and economic opportunities, democracy- building, good governance and the rule of law, and policy space for civil socieand to respect internationally agreed development effectiveness principles in order to enhance the fight against poverty;
Amendment 277 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
Amendment 297 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
Paragraph 40
40. Strongly believes that the global presence of the EU and its Member States makes them well placed to continue to play a leading international role in addressing global public goods and challenges (GPGC); calls for a GPGC chapter to be included in the revised Consensus, clearly outlining the priority areas to be tackled, among them insecurity and state fragility, migration, health and educationwhich are increasingly under stress, disproportionately affecting the poor; calls for global public goods and environmental challenges to be mainstreamed across the Consensus, clearly outlining the priority areas to be tackled, among them the fight against all forms of inequality, health and education, women's rights, including their reproductive health rights, demographic challenges and urbanisation, the environment, energy and climate change, the right to food security, nutrition, and new technological challenges, barriers and opportunities;
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 a (new)
Paragraph 40 a (new)
40a. Recalls that small scale and family farming, which is the most common agricultural model worldwide, plays a key role in the fulfilment of the SDGs: it contributes substantially to food security, to the fight against soil erosion and biodiversity loss, and to the mitigation of climate change, while providing jobs; stresses that the EU should henceforth promote worldwide sustainable agriculture focussing on agro-ecological practices, peasants' rights and informal seed systems as a means of ensuring food security and a decent life and fair income for farmers;
Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 b (new)
Paragraph 40 b (new)
40b. Recalls the crucial role forests play in climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation and considers therefore that the new Consensus should recognise this fact and the need to strengthen measures that contribute to good forest governance;
Amendment 327 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 12
Subheading 12
Amendment 328 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
Paragraph 41