Activities of Jaromír ŠTĚTINA related to 2017/0242(COD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council providing further macro-financial assistance to Georgia
Amendments (3)
Amendment 24 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) A pre-condition for granting the Union’s macro-financial assistance should be that Georgia respects effective democratic mechanisms – including a multi-party parliamentary system exerting an effective oversight of the executive – and the rule of law, and guarantees respect for human rights. The assistance should be conditional upon a strong commitment and concrete measures to ensure an independent and impartial judiciary and to sustain the conditions for a pluralistic and free media environment. In addition, the specific objectives of the Union’s macro-financial assistance should strengthen the efficiency, transparency and accountability of the public finance management systems in Georgia, and promote structural reforms aimed at supporting sustainable and inclusive growth, employment creation and fiscal consolidation. Both the fulfilment of the preconditions and the achievement of those objectives should be regularly monitored by the Commission and the European External Action Service throughout the life-cycle of the macro-financial assistance. The Commission should provide a publicly available assessment on the fulfilment of the pre-conditions clearly indicating the benchmarks used.
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1
Article 2 – paragraph 1
1. A pre-condition for granting the Union’s macro-financial assistance shall be that Georgia respects effective democratic mechanisms –, including a multi-party parliamentary system – and the rule of law, andexerting an effective oversight of the executive, and the rule of law, the independence of judiciary, pluralistic and free media environment, and that it guarantees respect for human rights.
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission, in accordance with the advisory procedure referred to in Article 7(2), shall agree with the Georgian authorities on clearly defined economic policy and financial conditions, focusing on structural reforms and sound public finances, to which the Union’s macro- financial assistance is to be subject, as well as democracy and the rule of law related conditions, such as measures for strengthening the independence of judiciary and pluralistic and free media environment, to be laid down in a Memorandum of Understanding (“the "Memorandum of Understanding”) which shall include a timeframe for the fulfilment of those conditions. The economic policy and financial conditions set out in the Memorandum of Understanding shall be consistent with the agreements or understandings referred to in Article 1(3), including the macroeconomic adjustment and structural reform programmes implemented by Georgia with the support of the IMF.