1 Amendments of Louis MICHEL related to 2016/2151(DEC)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
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1. Recalls that 2015 was the target year for the Millennium Development Goals and for the EU'’s collective commitment to raise official development assistance (ODA) to 0,7 % of combined gross national income (GNI); deplores the fact that EU collective ODA reached only 0,47% of GNI and that the target was therefore missed despite a considerable increase; notes further that, according to data published by the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee, the ODA from Union institutions decreased in 2015; recalls the Commission's proposal for a new European Consensus on Development which clearly reaffirms the Union's collective commitment to increase to 0.7% the share of GNI devoted to ODA, as well as the specific targets set for the least developed countries; regrets the late publication of the Commission’s annual report on external assistance; calls on the Commission to expedite the publication of its overdue Annual EU Accountability Report on Financing for Development for 2015;