Activities of Franck PROUST related to 2010/0323(NLE)
Plenary speeches (1)
EC-Uzbekistan Partnership and Cooperation Agreement and bilateral trade in textiles (A8-0332/2016 - Maria Arena) FR
Amendments (10)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas Uzbekistan inherited and kept largely unreformed a state-run agricultural system, whereas other countries in the same region, such as Kazakhstan and to a lesser extent Tajikistan, are modernising their agriculture and addressing many of the problems; whereas genuine agrarian reform and mechanisation will considerably reduce the incidence of forced child labour and water wastage and will make farms more profitable,
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas only independent monitoring can bring out the facts and so far the Uzbek Government has refused access to independent monitoring missions, whereas this refusal constitutes in itself a breach of its commitments and should be reacted to accordingly in order to bring out the facts and inform on the duration of the Autumn Harvest period, the working health conditions of students, their ages and eventually risk punishments for non- obedience,
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
O. whereas, on the basis of the principles and objectives of the Union’s external action, the EU has the moral responsibility to use its leverage, as one of the main trading partners and a major importer of cotton from Uzbekistan, to stop the use of forced child labour in this country, whereas, therefore, the protocol cannot be treated as a purely technical agreement, as long as human rights concerns, such as forced child labour, are raised precisely with regards to cotton harvest,
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital U
Recital U
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 subparagraph (i)
Paragraph 1 subparagraph (i)
(i) Strongly condemn the use of forced and child labour in Uzbekistan;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 subparagraph (iii)
Paragraph 1 subparagraph (iii)
(iii) Urge the Government of Uzbekistan to ensure an end to the usallow an ILO monitoring mission and to ensure that the practice of forced and child labour on the ground and to work closely with the ILO International Program on the Elimination of Child Labouris effectively in the process of being eradicated at national, viloyat and local level;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 subparagraph (iv)
Paragraph 1 subparagraph (iv)
(iv) Contribute through policy dialogue and assistance programmes to market-oriented reforms of Uzbekistan's agricultural sector; offer the EU’s assistance for the transition, ultimately, to a privatised and liberalised farming sector in Uzbekistan, in line with developments in neighbouring countries;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 subparagraph (vi)
Paragraph 1 subparagraph (vi)
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 subparagraph (vii)
Paragraph 1 subparagraph (vii)
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Concludes that it will only consider the consent when the recommendations set out in paragraph 1 are duly addressed by the Commission, the Council and concretely implemented by the Uzbek Government;