Activities of Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN related to 2014/2233(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
External impact of EU trade and investment policy on public-private initiatives (A8-0182/2015 - Jan Zahradil) ES
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the external impact of EU trade and investment policy on public-private initiatives in countries outside the EU
Amendments (7)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recognises that private investments and finance are likely to be the key engine for growth, which is projected to be approximately 5 % in developing countries in the coming years; eEmphasises that the future public-private partnerships (PPPs) within the post-2015 development agenda must have a greater focus on poverty reduction;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 e (new)
Paragraph 2 e (new)
2e. Rejects public-private partnerships (PPPs) as a mechanism which is used to enforce developing countries to privatise state-run utilities and transfer the responsibility for improving public services into private hands;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Underlines that developing governments' capacities as regulator must be strengthened to successfully achieve a sustainable development based on distributive and social justice; stresses that, opposite to the negative impacts of PPPs, which allow private partners to have their risk almost completely covered by governments by transferring the business risk to the public sector, the increase of the public-public partnership is a mechanism to rehabilitate or improve government-operated infrastructure enterprises;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Warns that the PPPs projects make it impossible to achieve the goal of food sovereignty as the PPPs harm to small farmers by requiring developing countries to change their policies to facilitate the expansion of agribusiness and land grabbing in exchange of investment;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Notes that PPPs projects are opening up developing countries' health sector to the private sector what means a diversion of the scare public funds from primary healthcare services instead of strengthening the universal public healthcare delivery systems;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7