27 Amendments of Wolf KLINZ related to 2009/2171(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Urges governments in developing countries to diversify their economy through the development of their manufacturing sector and to avoid overburdening businesses – especially SMEs, motors of jobs and growth – with excessive red tape;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Believes that EU Member States should act as role models among developing countries in terms of budgetary discipline, tax collection and good governance;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Insists that donors and partner countries should ensure that agriculture, particularly smallholder farming and small and medium agro-industries, moves up the development agenda;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Supports investment in 'green jobs' and in green industry, for example by developing renewable energy and energy efficiency in poor countries including solar-power systems in poor countries, as a way to provide sustainable sources of energy and, at the same time, create jobs andwhile protecting the environment;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls for a common definition of poverty among the Member States to identify the relevant working fields and the entitled beneficaries with regard to the EU development aid;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Urges G20 nations to carry through on pledges to stamp out tax havens, to tighten up supervision of financial markets and to usher in tax information exchange and; furthermore the G20 should instruct the International Accounting Standard Board to adopt a new standard that includes country-by-country reporting;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Urges the EU to target its aid towards promoting capacity building in areas that will directly benefit partner countries’ economic fabric and create jobs, i.e. developing their productive capacity, building efficient tax systems, fighting corruption, strengthening institutions and civil society, facilitating access to microcredit and other sources of finance, etc.;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Accepts the use of budget support only where there are watertight guarantees that funds will reach their intended destination and satisfy their original purpose and where recipients fulfil human rights and governance criteria; looks forward to more effective auditing of budget support; Calls on the Commission to establish an IT based scoreboard under the scrutiny of the European Parliament to assess the efficency of Community aid in the field of poverty reduction, aducation and job creation, wherby a scoreboard shall be based on the degree of performance of the expected financial ratios and aims;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)
Paragraph 33 a (new)
III - On education 33a. Agrees with the Commission that having a job is the best way to avoid poverty and social exclusion, belives that tackling the education gap in developing countries is one of the most effective strategies for breaking the cycle of poverty and unemployment;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 b (new)
Paragraph 33 b (new)
33b. Welcomes the Education For All - Fast Track Initiative (FTI) and the Commission`s support of it in principle; urges the Commission to clarify what funds for which purposes it currently makes available to the countries covered by this initiative particular in the field of: - Early childhood care and learning, - Free and compulsory primary Education for All, - Learning and life skills for young people and adults, - Adult literacy, - Gender equality, - Quality of education,
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 c (new)
Paragraph 33 c (new)
33c. Recognize that child labour is one of the major obstacles to achieving universal primary education completion and reducing poverty; therefore, the international community should commit to the eradication of child labour as a matter of urgency and dedicated action;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 d (new)
Paragraph 33 d (new)
33d. Calls for a promotion of inter-agency coordination and alignment in education aid and child labour policy through the strengthening of existing mechanisms, including the Global Task Force for Child Labour and Education;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 e (new)
Paragraph 33 e (new)
33e. Urges the Member States to introduce assistance programms for parents in various fields where poverty leads to a lack of knowledge with regard to bringing up children to ensure that children in developing countries have a real opportunity;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 f (new)
Paragraph 33 f (new)
33f. Notes that the quality of mental and physical condition is not merly a question of education, training and new information technologies but also a question of access to water, food and medicine, wherby the EU should pay more attention for free teaching materials, free meals, free school buses and free examinations which are clustered in aid projects all in one; deems it imperative to call for a clear interrelation between school-based projects funded by the EU and food as well as health programms in developing countries;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 g (new)
Paragraph 33 g (new)
33g. Calls on the EU to concentrate its efforts on identifying branches where developing countries have a competitive advantage, whereby the establishment of work-based apprenticeships in these sectors shall be one of the main priorities of EU developing aid;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 i (new)
Paragraph 33 i (new)
IV. Access to the market 33i. Recalls that developing countries are advised that their products must compete in the open market while the same principle is often not applied to the developed world;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 j (new)
Paragraph 33 j (new)
33j. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop a coherent approach which respects the fundamentals of the free market and which gurantees reciprocity in the field of trade;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 k (new)
Paragraph 33 k (new)
33k. Stresses that many developing countries, particular with regard to the agricultural sector, are characterized by subsistence economies; whereas these economies often are the only source of income and living;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 l (new)
Paragraph 33 l (new)
33l. Considers that propping up economically inefficient branches within the European Union at the expense of branches, were developing countries are having a competitive edge, is no suitable way to fight poverty and to foster job creation in these countries;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 m (new)
Paragraph 33 m (new)
33m. Notes that European taxpayers are paying twice, once to subsidize inefficient branches within the European Union at the expense of poor farmers in developing countries while at the same time funding EU projects aiming to alleviate the poverty of the same audience in these countries;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 n (new)
Paragraph 33 n (new)
33n. Stresses that the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), due to its strong protection focus, has a distorting and reverse effect on developing countries and the sustainable handling of financial and natural resources within the European Union;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 o (new)
Paragraph 33 o (new)
33o. Calls for a liberalisation of the EU`s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) which would comprise: - the abolishment of distortionary agriculture protecionism, namly tariffs on agricultural imports from least developing countries which are pushing the prices for these goods over the intervention prices on equal european products; - the step-by-step abolishment of subsidies and quota on agricultural products within the European Union; - the step-by-step abolishment of guranteed intervention prices on agricultural products resulting in surplus production within the European Union and in dumping exports in developing countries and harming their local industries;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 p (new)
Paragraph 33 p (new)
33p. Considers that the Commission should elaborate an assessment of the CAP;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 q (new)
Paragraph 33 q (new)
33q. Urges the Commission in this context to give informations about the following aspects: a) the negative spill-over effects for developing countries and european consumers in general, resulting from the current CAP; b) price instabilities, resulting from intervention prices, subsidies, quota and tariffs on agricultural imports due to the current CAP; c) alternative ways of using the money being blocked for the CAP in favour of innovative and structural reforms which are taking note of the respective advantages among the Member States and developing Countries by avoiding harmful trade-offs;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, and the Commission, the governments of the Member States and the ILO.