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Shadow reports (2)
RECOMMENDATION FOR SECOND READING on the Council position at first reading with a view to the adoption of a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1934/2006 establishing a financing instrument for cooperation with industrialised and other high-income countries and territories PDF (214 KB) DOC (152 KB)
REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 1934/2006 establishing a financing instrument for cooperation with industrialised and other high-income countries and territories PDF (371 KB) DOC (373 KB)
Amendments (9)
Amendment 1 #
Article 1 – point 10
Regulation (EC) No 1934/2006
Article 16
Article 16
The financial reference amount for the implementation of this Regulation for the period from 2007 to 2013 shall be EUR 172 million for countries listed in Annex I and EUR 176 million for countries listed in Annex II. The annual appropriations shall be authorised by the budgetary authority within the limits of the financial framework. Care shall also be taken to ensure that the industrialised and other high-income countries and territories listed in Annex I are not placed at a disadvantage by the application of this Regulation to the partner countries listed in Annex II.
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) It is in the CommunityUnion’s interests to further deepen its relations with the developing countries concerned, which are important bilateral partners and players in multilateral fora and in global governance with whom the Community has a strategic interest in promoting diversified links, in particular in areas such as economic, commercial, academic, business and scientific exchanges. It therefore needs a financial instrument that allows the financing of such measures which, by their nature, do not qualify as Official Development Assistance under the criteria established by the OECD (the ODA criteria) but are crucially important in terms of consolidating relations and make an important contribution to promoting the progress and development of the developing countries concerned.
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Recital 5 a (new)
Recital 5 a (new)
(5a) Extending the geographical coverage of Regulation (EC) No 1934/2006 brings the developing countries concerned within the scope of two different external action financial instruments. Care should be taken to ensure that these two financial instruments are kept strictly separate from each other. Measures which fulfil the criteria established by the OECD for official development assistance (ODA) will be financed under Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006, whereas Regulation (EC) No1934/2006 will apply exclusively to measures which do not fulfil those criteria. It is also necessary to ensure that the countries previously falling within the scope of Regulation (EC) No 1934/2006, in other words industrialised and other high-income countries and territories, are not placed at a disadvantage, particularly in financial terms, by the extension of that regulation's geographical coverage.
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Recital 5 b (new)
Recital 5 b (new)
(5b) Since the economic crisis has placed budgets under extreme strain throughout the European Union and the proposed extension embraces countries which sometimes demonstrate a similar level of competitiveness to the Union and have attained an average standard of living which approaches that of some Member States, EU assistance should be proportionate to the efforts made by the recipient countries to comply with ILO international agreements and participate in the general objectives of greenhouse gas emissions reduction.
Amendment 32 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 - point 2
Article 1 - point 2
Regulation (EC) No 1934/2006
Article 1 - paragraph 1
Article 1 - paragraph 1
1. Community financing shall support economic, financial and, technical and cultural cooperation and other forms of cooperation falling within its spheres of competence with industrialised and other high-income countries and territories listed in full in Annex 1 and with the developing countries falling under Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006listed in Annex 2 of this Regulation (hereinafter referred to as 'partner countries') falling under Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006. This Regulation shall be used solely to finance measures which do not fulfil the ODA criteria.
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 - point 2
Article 1 - point 2
Regulation (EC) No 1934/2006
Article 1 - paragraph 2
Article 1 - paragraph 2
2. The primary objective of cooperation with the partner countries and territories referred to in paragraph 1 shall be to provide a specific response to the need to strengthen links and to engage further with them on a bilateral, regional or multilateral basis in order to create a more favourable environment for the development of the relations ofbetween the Community with theseand the partner countries and sterritories and promotep up dialogue while fostering the Community's interests in accordance with its objectives and promoting progress and development in the partner countries.
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 - point 3 a (new)
Article 1 - point 3 a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 1934/2006
Article 4 - point 1
Article 4 - point 1
(3a) In Article 4, point 1 is replaced by the following: "1. The promotion of cooperation, partnerships and joint undertakings between economic, social, cultural, academic and scientific actors in the Community and partner countries;"
Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 - point 3 b (new)
Article 1 - point 3 b (new)
Regulation (EC) No 1934/2006
Article 4 - point 4
Article 4 - point 4
(3b) In Article 4, point 4 is replaced by the following: "4. The promotion of people-to-people links, education and training programmes and intellectual exchanges, particularly at family level, and the enhancement of mutual understanding between cultures and civilisations;"
Amendment 40 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 - point 5
Article 1 - point 5
Regulation No 1934/2006
Article 16
Article 16
The financial reference amount for the implementation of this Regulation for the period from 2007 to 2013 shall be EUR 172 million for countries listed in Annex I and EUR 176 million for countries listed in Annex II. The annual appropriations shall be authorised by the budgetary authority within the limits of the financial framework. Care should also be taken to ensure that the industrialised and other high-income countries and territories listed in Annex I are not placed at a disadvantage by the application of the present regulation to the partner countries listed in Annex II.