7 Amendments of Daniel CASPARY related to 2012/2320(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas Regulation 1233/2011 of Parliament and Council on the ‘Application of certain guidelines in the field of officially supported export credits’ specifies annual reporting requirements of the Member States vis-à-vis the Commission and, at the same time, provides for delegating powers to the Commission, enablachieving athe swiftest possible transposition of changes in respective OECD Arrangements into EU law;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas export credit support is often granted to large projects with difficulties in accessing commercial credit due to high environmental or other risks, which Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) need to price accordingly;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines that the annual reports of the Member States, and the Commission’s evaluation of these reports, do not yet satisfy Parliament’s intention to be able to make an assessment as to whether the Member States’ ‘export credit activities’ are in compliance with the Union’s foreign policy goals, as enshrined in Articles 3 and 21 TEU, and the treatment of environmental risks in the calculation of ECA premiums;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Takes note of the statement ofWelcomes the fact – as noted by the Commission in theis annual report attributing– that there is ‘a clear general willingness on the side of the Member States to apply policies to their export credit programmes, whose objectives are in line with the general language of Articles 3 and 21’;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Shares the observation of the Commission in the annual report that ‘it is difficult to define a precise benchmark for measuring compliance in EU law’; rReiterates, however, that Article 21 provisions remain the background against which the policies applied to export credit transactions have to be evaluated;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Notes that Member State ECAs currently report on their evaluation of environmental risks but not on how these are included in the calculation of ECA premiums; considers such reporting to be essential to ensuring a level playing field;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Recommends a sectoral approach in developing the IWG, in order to build the base for horizontal provisions in a second phase that will ensure the common adoption of effective environmental, social and human rand hights standards by OECD and non-OECD ECAs;