Activities of Heidi HAUTALA related to 2018/2166(DEC)
Legal basis opinions (0)
Amendments (5)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Is very worried by an ongoing trend in Commission proposals to ignore legally binding provisions of Regulation (EU) No 233/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council1a when it comes to Official Development Assistance (‘ODA’) eligible expenditure and eligible countries for Development Cooperation Instrument (‘DCI’) spending; recalls that legality of EU spending is a key principle of sound financial management and that political considerations should not take precedence over clearly spelled out legal provisions; recalls that DCI is first and foremost an instrument designed to fight poverty; ___________________ 1a Regulation (EU) No 233/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2014 establishing a financing instrument for development cooperation for the period 2014-2020 (OJ L 77, 15.3.2014, p. 44).
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Regrets that in every annual activity report since 2012, the Commission’s Directorate General for International Cooperation and Development had to issue a reservation on the regularity of underlying transactions which points to serious internal management deficiencies;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Highlights the highly negative findings by the European Court of Auditors on Public-Private Partnerships1 (‘PPPs’) and the Court’s recommendation “not to promote a more intensive and widespread use of PPPs” inside the Union; calls on the Commission to take this recommendation fully into account when dealing with PPPs in developing countries where the environment for successful implementation of PPPs is even more difficult than inside the EU; _________________ 1a. Special report Nr 9/2018: Public Private Partnerships in the EU: Widespread shortcomings and limited benefits
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that the EU is collectively committed to provide 0.7 % of Gross National Income as Official Development Assistance (‘ODA’); regrets that the EU and its Member States, in 2017, have not made progress towards reaching this goal, with the overall EU ODA decreasing from 0.51% to 0.50% and several countries decreasing their ODA.; recalls the commitment to provide 0.15-0.20% ODA/GNI to Least Developed Countries (‘LDCs’) in the short-term and to reach 0.20% until 2030;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Given the shift in aid modalities from direct grants to trust funds and blended finance, including through the European Fund for Sustainable Development, invites the Council, Commission and European Investment Bank to adopt an inter-institutional agreement with the European Parliament on transparency, accountability and parliamentary scrutiny on the basis of the policy principles set out in the New European Consensus on Development;