20 Amendments of Judith SARGENTINI related to 2011/2047(INI)
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Insists on the leading role that national parliaments of recipient countries and civil society organisations should play as they are best placed to identify priority sectors, prepare Country Strategy Papers and monitor budget allocations; demands that national parliaments adopt Country Strategy Papers and multiannual budgets in consultation with civil society, prior to policy dialogue with donors in order to empower parliamentarians’ role in decision making;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Is of the view that the EU’s development policy should aim at eliminating obstacles to development, such as dumping of agricultural products, illegitimate debt burden, capital flight and unfair trade and at creating an international environment conducive to fighting poverty, guaranteeing decent incomes and livelihoods as well as the fulfilment of basic human rights, including social and economic rights;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Emphasises that the EU Raw Materials Strategy is a clear example of contradiction between its economic interests and the objective of poverty eradication, which violates the EU obligation on Policy coherence for Development, Art. 208 of the Lisbon Treaty, hindering developing countries’ economic development prospects;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Regrets that the Commission’s Green Paper on EU development policy in support of inclusive growth and sustainable development has not drawn lessons from past decades of its cooperation policy and has failed to put forward proposals to implement Policy Coherence for Development into practice by linking development aid with other EU policy areas, such as agriculture, trade, tax, climate change, investment or access to raw materials;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Observes that a policy solely based on economic growth has shown its limited ability to eradicate poverty and promote social cohesion as demonstrated by the recent financial, climate, energy and food crises; advocates sustainable development, based on fair trade and social justice, which benefits current generations without endangering resource availability to future generations;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Supports efforts to promote industrial development, provided that with full respect for social and environmental standards are observednd considers that EU companies and their affiliates who invest in developing countries should be legally liable in their home countries for violations of human rights, labour and environmental standards;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 f (new)
Paragraph 12 f (new)
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Is of the view that tax revenues are essential for developing countries to meet the basic needs of its citizens, to be less dependent on foreign aid and promote democratic accountability; considers that priority should be given to putting in place effective and viable tax collection systems to ensure sustainable sources of development financing;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Reaffirms the role of a socially and ecologically responsible private sector in stepping up the pace of sustainable development, more particularly, in processing commodities locally, marketing as well as distribution and transport activities;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 c (new)
Paragraph 17 c (new)
17c. Calls on the EU to recognise the right of developing countries to regulate investment, to favour investors that support the partner country’s development strategy, and to give preferential treatment to domestic and regional investors to promote regional integration;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 e (new)
Paragraph 17 e (new)
17e. Calls on the Commission to make a legislative proposal with a similar objective to the new US ‘Conflict Minerals’ Law’ to combat the illegal exploitation of minerals in developing countries, in particular in Africa, which fuels civil war and conflicts, to ensure tractability of imported minerals in the EU market;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 f (new)
Paragraph 17 f (new)
17f. Calls for an analysis and assessment of Public Private Partnerships (PPP) which involve the private sector in development, promoted by the Commission, to draw lessons from this experience before moving to a new policy concept of using public money for leveraging private sector financing;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Urges the Commission to include the fight against abuses of tax havens, tax evasion and illicit capital flight, which represents a figure roughly 10 times that of development aid, as a matter of priority in its development policy by putting in place a binding mechanism which forces transnational corporations to disclose automatically the profits made and the taxes paid in every country where they operate to allow these countries to finance their own development;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Insists that a substantial budget should be devoted to the development of the considerable renewable energy resources in developing countries (solar energy, wind power, geothermal energy and biomass) as this is vital for economic and social development, reduces these countries’ dependency on fossil fuels and decreases their vulnerability to price fluctuation;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Supports more systematic efforts to mainstream climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction measures as climate change policy can not be dissociated from other policies such as trade and agriculture; and calls therefore for a holistic approach, which integrates the environmental dimension in all development programmes and projects;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 c (new)
Paragraph 21 c (new)
21c. Demands the inclusion and implementation of article 8(j) of the Convention on Biological Diversity in country and regional strategy papers, which is a pillar for sustainable development;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 d (new)
Paragraph 21 d (new)
21d. Recognises that deforestation and unsustainable timber import in the EU market has contributed to natural disasters and the vulnerability of poor countries and calls therefore on the EU Commission and Council to integrate in its new development policy strategy a full- scale ban on circulation of illegal timber in the EU;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 f (new)
Paragraph 23 f (new)
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 g (new)
Paragraph 23 g (new)
23g. Urges the Commission to integrate the land grab issue into its policy dialogue with developing countries in order to make Policy Coherence the corner stone of development cooperation at national level as well as at international level and to avoid the expropriation of small farmers and unsustainable use of land and water;