4 Amendments of Marielle DE SARNEZ related to 2013/2074(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 25 a (new)
Citation 25 a (new)
- having regard to the Transparency International report entitled ‘ Anti- Corruption Clauses in Development Cooperation Agreements’;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. whereas one of the EU development cooperation objectives is to help third countries establish an open and sustainable economic system; whereas corruption is an obstacle to the achievement of that objective;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
Recital M a (new)
Ma. whereas in the current economic climate it is necessary to ensure optimum use of European funding earmarked for Member States and third countries;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Fully supports the EU’s commitment to embracing and mainstreaming throughout its development policies the concept of democratic ownership, that is the effective and full participation of people in the design, implementation and monitoring of development strategies and policies of donors and partner governments; is of the opinion that such policy fosters involvement of programme beneficiaries and therefore contributes to greater monitoring and accountability in the fight against corruption; encourages the Commission and the Member States to apply the principle that their development aid programmes should be conditional on observance of international anti- corruption rules, and to introduce an anti- corruption clause into public procurement contracts as recommended by the OECD; requests that the Commission continue to foster high levels of aid transparency in machine-readable formats and using a common standard to ensure comparability both with other donors, and also, more particularly, in line with the needs of recipient governments;