Activities of Gay MITCHELL related to 2009/2149(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Financing instrument for development cooperation (short presentation)
Reports (1)
REPORT on Regulation (EC) 1905/2006 establishing a financing instrument for development cooperation: lessons learned and perspectives for the future PDF (210 KB) DOC (126 KB)
Amendments (8)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas, in accordance with the joint Declaration on Democratic Scrutiny and Coherence of External Actions and the Declaration of the Commission on the Democratic Scrutiny and Coherence of External Actions attached to the Interinstitutional Agreement on budgetary discipline and sound financial management, the Commission committed itself ‘to take due account of the position of the European Parliament when implementing the strategies’,
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
Recital F b (new)
Fb. whereas Article 290 of the TFEU states that a legislative act may delegate to the Commission the power to adopt non- legislative acts of general application to supplement or amend certain non- essential elements of the legislative act,
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Regrets that the committee set up under Article 35 of the DCI did not react to Parliament’s resolutions signalling that the Commission exceeded its implementing powers; urges the Member States to assume their responsibilities and to ensure, in close collaboration with Parliament, that the measures proposed by the Commission are in full compliance with the DCI prescriptions;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Considers that many country and regional strategy papers do not allocate sufficient resources to the DCI’s overarching goal of poverty eradication in the context of sustainable development, and that many documents lack clear indications of how far the proposed actions will contribute to the MDGs targets;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls for closer coordination between the Commission and Members States, so as to achieve the Treaty prescription of Article 210 TFEU, and supports the development of joint European strategy papers; believes that all EU programming documents for each country and region should include detailed and up-to-date donor matrices, as well as a special chapter on EU aid effectiveness, specifying actions taken to increase donor coordination, harmonisation and complementarity and improve division of labour amongst donors and particularly amongst EU Member States;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Believes that support for vulnerable groups (women, people with disabilities, young and unemployed people, indigenous people), as well as for gender mainstreaming and for other ‘cross- cutting issues’ must be enhanced; insists that the DCI successor instrument requires clear benchmarks in programming documents to ensure that the impact of EU interventions in these areas can be measured;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Stresses that a new thematic programme on ‘Investing in People’ must put a focus on, but not be limited to, the achievement of those MDGs which are most off track, and in countriewith particular attention to countries and regions with critical MDG indicators;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Believes that the new instrument should provide for a differentiated approach to funding for civil society organisations and local authorities; stresses the need to address the problem of over-subscription of the current programme and to respect the right of initiative of the organisations themselves; calls for the results of the Structured Dialogue to be fully reflected in the definition of the role of non-state actors and local authorities in the future instrument and the proposed aid modalities;