Activities of Gay MITCHELL related to 2010/2204(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the ECA special reports in the context of the 2009 Commission discharge
Amendments (7)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Regrets that EDF support for regional integration has not yet been wholly effective, mainly due to African authorities' lack of capacity, overlapping membership of African regional economic organisations, and leading to the duplication of efforts and dispersion of resources, as well as inadequate support and coordination from Commission delegations, principally due to lack of resources;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls, accordingly, on the Commission to step up capacity-building for East African and West African regional economic organisations and their institutions, including support for parliaments and local civil society, and actively to encourage convergence between regional blocs with a view to eliminating overlapping membership over time, whilst taking care to respect partner countries' ownership of the process;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Insists that the EU should not pressure African states to sign up to Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) any faster or which cover a greater range of i, in the ongoing negotiations, enable Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) to contribute to strengthening regional integration processues than they want to, and that the EU should avoid undermining existing regional groupings by agreeing EPAs with individual countriand to be compatible with World Trade Organization rules and practices;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. InvitesCalls on the Commission to provide particular support for smaller states, especially least-developed countries, that are heavily dependent on regionacontinue its funding for regional programmes, otherwise known as Intra-ACP Programmes, which cover several or all economic 'giants', such as Nigeria in West Africauntries in a particular region;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Is concerned that the Court of Auditors found the Commission's selection processes to be insufficiently transparent andat there are difficulties translating the strict legal requirements to select partners objectively and that monitoring of the effectiveness of aid implemented through UN bodies is inadequateransparently into practical criteria to support decision making;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to monitor more thoroughly UN-implemented aid projects to ascertain more reliably their actual impact and cost-effectiveness;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Urges the Commission to increase the amount of information on the implementation of the EDF at national and regional level in the ACP countries and to ensure better visibility for all EU- funded activities overseas.