6 Amendments of Kader ARIF related to 2010/0059(COD)
Amendment 15 #
Draft legislative resolution
Citation 3 a (new)
Citation 3 a (new)
– having regard to the declaration issued by the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly on 1 April 2010 regarding the EU-Latin America bananas agreement and its impact on ACP and EU banana producers;
Amendment 21 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 a (new)
Recital 2 a (new)
(2a) It is important to take account of the declaration issued by the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly on 1 April 2010 in relation to the EU-Latin America bananas agreement and its impact on ACP and EU producers;
Amendment 25 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) The financial assistance measures to be adopted under this programme should aim at supporting the adaptation and/or restructuring reorganisation of areas dependent upon banana exports through sector-specific budget support or project-specific interventions. The measures should aim to provide for social resilience policies, economic diversification or investment to improve competitiveness, where this is a viable strategy, taking into account the results of and experiences gained through the Special System of Assistance to traditional ACP suppliers of bananas7 and the Special Framework of Assistance to traditional ACP suppliers of bananas8.
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 a (new)
Recital 5 a (new)
(5a) The Commission should ensure proper coordination of this programme with the regional and national indicative programmes operating in the beneficiary countries, in particular as regards the achievement of economic, agricultural, social and environmental objectives;
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 b (new)
Recital 5 b (new)
(5b) The Commission has not carried out any assessment of the impact of the agreement concluded within the WTO, the bilateral and regional agreements concluded – or in the process of being concluded – between the EU and a number of Latin and central American countries, or the banana accompanying measures (BAMs).
Amendment 35 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 2
Article 1 – point 2
Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006
Article 17a – paragraph 2
Article 17a – paragraph 2
2. Within the amount referred to in Annex IV, the Commission shall fix the maximum amount available to each eligible ACP banana-supplying country for financing the actions referred to in paragraph 1 on the basis of a set of objective indicators. The indicators shall include trade in bananas with the EU; the importance of banana exports to the economy in the ACP country concerned; and country’s level of development. The measurement of the allocation criteria shall be based on data from years preceding 2009, and on a Commission study assessing the impact on the ACP countries of the agreement reached within the WTO and the bilateral and regional agreements concluded, or in the process of being concluded, between the EU and Latin American countries, which are the leading exporters of bananas.