2 Amendments of Judith SARGENTINI related to 2017/2146(DEC)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Regrets the repeated occurrence of procurement rules’ errors in EDF spending1a;underlines that this is an on- going problem which the European Court of Auditors has been highlighting for years; calls on the Commission to address this problem, which risks becoming even more important due to accelerated tenders within the EU-Africa Emergency Trust Fund; _________________ 1aAnnual report on the activities funded by the 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th European Development Funds for the financial year 2016, ECA.
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Highlights the primary importance for an effective EU development policy of internationally agreed development effectiveness principles subscribed to by the Union, such as ownership, untied aid, mutually agreed conditionality’s, alignment to beneficiary countries’ priorities; regrets a worrying trend by the Union to ignore those principles and give preference to projects more guided by short term political Union interests, as in the case of the EU-Africa Emergency Trust Fund; considers this to be a threat to fulfilling development objectives;