8 Amendments of Younous OMARJEE related to 2017/2146(DEC)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the history of the Union’s Member States confers obligations on the Union regarding development in ACP countries and cooperation with the OCTs, which are tied to the Union’s future owing to geopolitics, globalisation and global challenges such as the effects of climate change and demographic change;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 71
Paragraph 71
71. Emphasises that multilateral development banks should contribute in a coordinated and harmonised way to achieve the sector funding of the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals set for 2030, in particular by using effectively blended finance and leveraging private finance to increase the efficiency and impact of aid financing;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 80
Paragraph 80
80. Observes that 106 projects worth a total of EUR 1 589 million were approved, with EUR 594 million contracted and EUR 175 million of paid amounts in 2016 for the better management of migration flows and to address the root causes of irregular migration through the Africa trust fund and related regional windows; nottakes that one of the agreed targets refers to ‘e view that development cooperation policy should not be conditional on well- managed migrations policies’; ;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 17 a (new)
Subheading 17 a (new)
Cooperation with the OCTs
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 85 a (new)
Paragraph 85 a (new)
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 85 b (new)
Paragraph 85 b (new)
85b. Considers that OCTs should benefit from increased attention with regard to political objectives so that they become privileged partners of the European Union in their respective regions, and from greater flexibility regarding access to funding; calls on the Commission to put in place increased synergies with Union internal policies, and to ensure that the OCTs do actually participate in those European Union horizontal programmes for which they are eligible; calls for particular attention to be paid to the specific situation of Mayotte owing to its change in status from OCT to that of an outermost region in 2014;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 85 c (new)
Paragraph 85 c (new)
85c. Once again calls on the Commission to establish by 2020 a specific funding instrument for OCTs which takes into account their special status and their membership of the European family;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 85 d (new)
Paragraph 85 d (new)
85d. Recalls that, given their geographic characteristics, OCTs are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change and loss of biodiversity; calls on the Commission to better integrate resilience, climate change adaptation, biodiversity conservation, energy self-sufficiency and sustainable development in performance indicators for funding in OCTs; also calls on the Commission to propose, as part of the extension of the BEST preparatory action, a permanent mechanism to protect biodiversity, develop ecosystem services and combat the effects of climate change in the EU’s overseas countries and territories;