Activities of Heidi HAUTALA related to 2018/2279(INI)
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Amendments (14)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)
Citation 4 a (new)
- having regard to the European Commission's reflection paper "Towards a sustainable Europe by 2030"
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
G a. whereas in the follow-up and review process of the Agenda 2030 at the UN, the EU has not always been united in its voting behaviour, particularly in the area of sexual and reproductive health and rights,
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
H a. whereas the EU, despite having played a leading role in the elaboration of the Agenda 2030, still lacks an implementation strategy for the Sustainable Development Goals,
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)
Recital H b (new)
H b. whereas in 2017, the Commission "White Paper on the future of Europe" did not include sustainable development and the Agenda 2030 as a vision and narrative for a future EU,
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H c (new)
Recital H c (new)
H c. whereas Better regulation had been explicitly mentioned in a Commission communication as too to use for mainstreaming the SDGs in all policy areas; whereas the revised Better Regulation Guidelines as published in July 2017 do not mention the SDGs as overarching policy framework;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Regrets that several Member States have not respected EU positions in their voting behaviour at the UN in the framework of the follow-up and review process of the Agenda 2030; urges Member States to respect article 34 TEU which obliges Member States to uphold the Union's positions in international organisations;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the Union should renew its commitment to being a global frontrunner in implementing the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs, together with its Member States, in line with the principle of subsidiarity and in close cooperation with its international partners; recalls that the EU political engagement should be reflected in the MFF 2021-2027; underlines that the 2030 Agenda must further catalyse a joined-up approach between the EU’s external action and its other policies and coherence across Union financing instruments for a global response and commitment towards sustainable growth and development;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to identify clearly existing gaps in all relevant policies in order to assess what needs to be done by 2030 in terms of EU policies, legislation, statistics and disaggregated data collection, governance and implementation and to submit a full report on those gaps without further delay so as to present a comprehensive strategy before the end of 2019;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. Calls upon the Commission to include monitoring of the SDGs at EU level in the context of the European Semester,
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Stresses the role of development cooperation in supporting implementation of the 2030 Agenda in developing countries; welcomes the mainstreaming of the SDGs into the new European Consensus on Development; recalls that poverty eradication (SDG 1) shall remain the principal objective of EU development cooperation; recalls that SDG 1 and SDG 2 are intrinsically linked; reiterates that despite progress, the current pace and scope of implementation is unlikely to promote the transformational change needed to realise the objectives of SDG 2; calls for increased efforts to follow up on the recommendations of the 2017 HLPF Thematic review of SDG2;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Welcomes the Commission’s commitment to mainstream SDGs into its Better Regulation Agenda and underlines the potential for using the Better Regulation tools strategically in order to evaluate EU policy coherence with regard to the 2030 Agenda; calls on the Commission to revise swiftly the Better Regulation Agenda Guidelines in order to establish an SDG check of all new policies and legislation and to ensure full policy coherence in the implementation of the SDGs, while promoting synergies, gaining co-benefits and avoiding trade-offs, both at Union and Member State level;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Calls on the Conference of Presidents and the Conference of Committee Chairs of the European Parliament to assess the appropriateness of Parliament's current structure with a view to ensuring its ability to effectively and comprehensively monitor across all policy sectors the work towards achieving the SDGs in EU's internal and external policies;
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Highlights the necessity of a transformation of the regulatory framework on companies and finance industry in order to ensure the achievement of genuinely sustainable business conduct and supply chains, in order to ensure the private sector is fully integrated into the global effort of achieving a sustainable future and the Agenda 2030;
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18 a. Calls on the Commission to add data related to the SDGs to the high-value datasets as defined in the Directive on open data and public sector information and to encourage the Member States to publish all reports on the SDGs under a free license;