11 Amendments of Maria HEUBUCH related to 2017/2052(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that the EU’s commitment to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda must guide the preparation of the next multiannual financial framework (MFF) and that the EU’s support for such implementation in developing countries must increaserefore EU development cooperation must keep its focus on long term objectives such as the eradication of poverty, tackling inequality and exclusion, promoting democratic governance and human rights, and enhancing sustainable and inclusive development;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Considers that a dedicated development instrument is the best option for a high quality development policy in the interest of developing countries, particularly the least developed ones, with the primary objective of eradicating poverty while respecting internationally agreed development and aid effectiveness principles;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Emphasises the need to fulfil the EU commitment to allocate 20% of its development spending to both social inclusion and human development;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls for reconfirming the EU commitment to gender mainstreaming in the next MFF and to ensure that policy coherence for development is respected throughout all EU policies;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Calls for the next MFF to be sustainability proofed as a practical way of ensuring policy coherence for development in EU funding decisions; such an approach should ensure that EU internal and external funding is in line with development cooperation objectives and maximises the effectiveness of the whole EU budget by preventing contradictory and wasteful spending;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points to the crucial role of official development assistance (ODA) in least developed countries and fragile states and insists that the EU should honour its commitment to reach 0.20% of ODA/GNI to least developed countries (LDCs) by 2030, in order to leave no one behind; notes its potential to facilitate the mobilisation of financing for development from other sources, private and public, domestic and international; supports the EU’s new efforts at stimulating private investment through blending grants and loans and providing guarantees, provided that they take place in a framework respecting sustainable development criteria, also in countries where the needs are great, but the risks are high; notes that important funding needs will arise as a result;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Recommends that an in-depth assessment of the financial and development additionality and human rights, social and environmental impact of the European Fund for Sustainable Development is conducted before engaging more ODA resources into these types of modalities;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Emphasises that losses of funds for EU development cooperation caused by Brexit must be compensated for; supports the integration of the European Development Fund (EDF) into the EU budget in the context of an overall increase of the total of EU-managed ODA; insists that incorporating the EDF into the EU budget should not lead to a reduction of overall spending for the EU's development assistance;
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Underlines that Heading 4 resources have been very much under strain during the current MFF and that development funds have been increasingly used as a reserve for emerging priorities in other policy fields; calls for the next MFF to foresee sufficient flexibility in order to react to crisis situations, possibly through a global MFF margin, while allowing for full scrutiny by the European Parliament;
Amendment 110 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Highlights that developing countries are most vulnerable and mostly affected by climate change; calls in this context on the Commission to mainstream climate change considerations into all financing instruments and to increase the current goal which foresees that 20 % of all EU financing is spend on climate change related actions;
Amendment 113 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Calls on the EU to scale up its assistance to sustainable agriculture to cope with climate change, targeting its support to small-scale farmers, crop diversification, agro-forestry and agro- ecological practises;