10 Amendments of Jude KIRTON-DARLING 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 27 #
Draft opinion
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas, despite over a decade of negotiations, only one regional EPA has been concluded and fully ratified out of the five foreseen with African regional groupings;
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 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 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 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Stresses that without ownership any EU-Africa strategy cannot succeed; therefore calls on the European Commission to reflect on its repeated failure to convince African countries of the relevance of EPAs; strongly condemns the use of coercion as an instrument to secure approval for EPAs;
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;