Activities of Heidi HAUTALA related to 2016/2099(INI)
Legal basis opinions (0)
Amendments (5)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Considers that all EIB activities should clearly contribute to the fulfilment of the Agenda 2030 and the development effectiveness agenda; regrets that ex-ante and ex-post assessments of supported projects according to non-financial criteria like development, environmental, human rights, gender and social aspects of the projects are hardly existing on the contrary to other major public banks; recalls that the EIB is for example still financing non-renewable energy projects;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls on the EIB to develop its capacity to assess projects according to their impact on the Agenda 2030 and to report on project selection according to key criteria like contributions of the projects to sustainable development, including social, gender and environmental criteria;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Calls on the EIB to align its support to projects in line with beneficiary countries' development priorities;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Welcomes the current work of EIB to develop a gender strategy; emphasises the overriding importance of supporting the role of women in the labour markets;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Regrets that many of the private equity instruments the EIB is using as financial intermediaries are located in tax havens and secrecy jurisdictions and also regrets the lack of transparency regarding beneficial ownership information; reiterates its previous call to the bank to reinforce its due diligence activities so as to improve the quality of information on ultimate beneficiaries and to more effectively prevent transactions with financial intermediaries with a negative record in terms of transparency, fraud, corruption, organised crime, money laundering and harmful social and environmental impacts or registered in offshore financial centres or tax havens which resort to aggressive tax planning;