Activities of Heidi HAUTALA related to 2017/2146(DEC)
Legal basis opinions (0)
Amendments (4)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Regrets the repeated occurrence of procurement rules’ errors in EDF spending1a;underlines that this is an on- going problem which the European Court of Auditors has been highlighting for years; calls on the Commission to address this problem, which risks becoming even more important due to accelerated tenders within the EU-Africa Emergency Trust Fund; _________________ 1aAnnual report on the activities funded by the 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th European Development Funds for the financial year 2016, ECA.
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Highlights the primary importance for an effective EU development policy of internationally agreed development effectiveness principles subscribed to by the Union, such as ownership, untied aid, mutually agreed conditionality’s, alignment to beneficiary countries’ priorities; regrets a worrying trend by the Union to ignore those principles and give preference to projects more guided by short term political Union interests, as in the case of the EU-Africa Emergency Trust Fund; considers this to be a threat to fulfilling development objectives;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Is worried by the European Court of Auditors’ statement2a that there is a serious risk for the Union not to meet its aim of mainstreaming climate change throughout the Union budget and that the goal of spending 20 % of its expenditure for climate-related action will not be met; _________________ 2aSpecial Report No 31/2016 Spending at least one euro in every five from the EU budget on climate action: ambitious work underway, but at serious risk of falling short, ECA, 2016.
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Is worried by the European Court of Auditors’ finding that the Union certification system for the sustainability of biofuels is not fully reliable3a;underlines the potentially negative consequences for developing countries, since, as stated by the Court: “the Commission did not require voluntary schemes to verify that the biofuel production they certify does not cause significant risks of negative socioeconomic effects, such as land tenure conflicts, forced/child labour, poor working conditions for farmers and dangers to health and safety”, and therefore requests the Commission to address this issue; _________________ 3aSpecial report No 18/2016:The EU system for the certification of sustainable biofuels