8 Amendments of Özlem DEMIREL related to 2023/0200(COD)
Amendment 97 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 a (new)
Recital 15 a (new)
(15a) Ukraine will suffer further destruction and disarray while the war continues. Under the continuation of this scenario the long-term effectiveness and logic of the Facility will be undermined. EU Member States shall make all efforts to increase diplomacy and bring about an end to the war so that our support through the Facility can build lasting results and aid Ukraine with sustainable recovery, reconstruction and modernisation.
Amendment 139 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 34 a (new)
Recital 34 a (new)
(34a) The Facility and the reconstruction of Ukraine will not be used by investment funds to benefit their asset portfolios and balance sheets by appropriating Ukraine's public goods, public assets, lands, key industries and infrastructure and facilitating the wide scale privatisation and financialisation of Ukrainian social enterprises by international capital.
Amendment 180 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 47 a (new)
Recital 47 a (new)
(47a) Given the already considerable debt burden faced by Ukraine, at least 50 percent of the Union support through the Facility should be in the form of grants.
Amendment 183 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 48 a (new)
Recital 48 a (new)
(48a) Recalls that Ukraine's debt burden was critical before the Russian invasion and has only worsened during the course of the war, and that in light of the severity of the economic situation in Ukraine, continuing to pay off pre-war debt and debt accrued during the war will severely limit Ukraine's access to public funds for reconstruction and the provision of public goods and services in the interest of upholding the human rights of the Ukranian population, therefore the EU will call on international borrowing institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, development banks, and international financial institutions to cancel Ukraine's external debt.
Amendment 242 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 92
Recital 92
(92) While it is primarily the responsibility of Ukraine to ensure that the Facility is implemented in compliance with applicable standards, taking into account the principle of proportionality and the specific conditions under which the Facility will operate, the Commission should be able to receive sufficient assurance from Ukraine in that regard. To that end, Ukraine should commit in the Plan to improve its current management and control system and to recovering amounts misused, and the committment should be accompanied by an implementation plan, to include timelines, to be agreed with the Commission. Ukraine should establish a monitoring system feeding into an annual progress report. Ukraine should collect data and information allowing the prevention, detection and correction of irregularities, fraud, corruption and conflicts of interests, in relation to the measures supported by the Facility, and this data should be shared with the Audit Board on a monthly basis. The framework agreement and the financing and loan agreements should provide for the obligations of Ukraine to ensure the collection of, and access by the Audit Board and the Commission to, adequate data on persons and entities receiving funding for the implementation of measures of the Ukraine Plan.
Amendment 319 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1
Article 5 – paragraph 1
1. A precondition for the support to Ukraine under the Facility shall be that Ukraine continuereturns to upholding and respecting effective democratic mechanisms, including a multi-party parliamentary system, andreversing the banning of multiple opposition political parties, restoring the multi-party parliamentary system, restores workers collective bargaining rights, reverses bans on opposition media organisations and ceases attacks on press freedom, upholds the rule of law, and to guarantees respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities.
Amendment 462 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 1
Article 26 – paragraph 1
1. Ukraine shall publish data on persons and entities receiving amounts of funding exceeding the equivalent of EUR 2500 000 for the implementation of reforms and investments specified in the Ukraine Plan referred to in this Chapter. Ukraine shall update those data twice a year, in June and December.
Amendment 526 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 34 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 2
Article 34 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 2
In addition, the Audit Board shall adopt recommendations to Ukraine on all cases where in its views competent Ukrainian authorities have not taken the necessary steps to prevent, detect and correct fraud, corruption, conflict of interests and irregularities that have affected or seriously risk affecting the sound financial management of the expenditure financed under the Facility and in all cases where it identifies weaknesses affecting the design and functioning of the control system put in place by Ukrainian authorities. Ukraine shall implement such recommendations, or provide a justification on why it has not done so in a timely fashion. In exceptional cases, a request may be made for an extension of time in which to implement the recommendations, but in all cases this should not exceed six months after the initial recommendation was made.