3 Amendments of Nirj DEVA related to 2008/2073(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines that the Member States and the Union should strive towards enhanced donor coordination and a better division of labour, which must contribute to greater aid effectiveness and calls on the EU institutions to play a greater coordinating role, whilst leaving room for Member States to pursue policies as identified by their nationally determined priorities;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the fact that the Lisbon Treaty maintains the co-decision procedure in the area of development cooperation; stresses that this means that the Parliament must make full use of its powers to shape the content of the regulations and of its right to democratic scrutiny over all aspects of EU development cooperation policy, and insists, so that the term ‘democratic scrutiny’ does not disappear up its own funnel of irony, that the Lisbon Treaty, in addition to having legal force, must have moral force too, and therefore demands that it be offered to the peoples of Europe for their consent (or rejection);
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Insists that, in order to ensure policy coherence for development, there is a continued need for a specific directorate general for development at the administrative level, responsible for the policy setting, advice and management of EU development cooperation., but demands that this DG leaves a net addition of new Commission personnel of zero, and therefore avoids becoming an excuse for further bureaucratic expansion;