1525 Amendments of Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Recalls that trade liberalisation ~~is not~~can play a positive~~, per s~~ role, in terms of reducing poverty and inequalities, and ~~that it can even have negative effects on sustainable development if it is not properly regulated; underlines, in this context,~~in advancing sustainable development if it is accompanied by appropriate policies and institutions that maximise and distribute better the benefits of trade and economic growth; reiterates the importance of promoting policy reforms in the multilateral trading system which support development-related objectives; underlines the potential of the WTO as an efficient rules-based multilateral negotiating forum which provides a platform for open discussion on global trade-related issues; insists that the EU should continue to promote the democratisation of the WTO;

2018/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2018/2084(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls for a trade agenda based on fair trade for the benefit of all, which puts development and social, environmental and human rights at the centre of the process and has a special focus on the needs of low-income developing countries and least-developed countries; highlights in this regard the need of promoting comprehensive, binding and enforceable provisions on social, labour and environmental standards in trade agreements;

2018/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2018/2084(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Underlines the importance for WTO members who are developing countries to decide on their own pace and sequencing of trade liberalisation according to their level of development;

2018/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2018/2084(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Welcomes the entry into force of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement on 22 February 2017 and notes that this agreement should bring significant benefits in particular to developing countries; recalls the importance of providing targeted and sustainable technical, financial and capacity building assistance to support the developing country Members, in particular least- developed countries, to implement the agreement and to adjust to the reform process;

2018/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2018/2084(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)

2c. Regrets that the WTO 11th Ministerial Conference did not secure progress on issues of key importance to developing countries; welcomes however enhanced preferential treatment previously secured at the WTO for LDCs including preferential Rules of Origin and treatment for service providers and emphasises the need to undertake capacity building measures that would allow suppliers from LDCs to benefit from the LDC Services Waiver;

2018/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2018/2084(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Patrizia TOIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls for the EU to continue to make the case for increasing the importance of the parliamentary dimension of the WTO; calls on WTO members to ensure democratic legitimacy and transparency by strengthening the parliamentary dimension of the WTO; stresses, in this connection, the need to ensure that parliamentarians have better access to trade negotiations and are involved in the formulation and implementation of WTO decisions and that trade policies are properly scrutinised in the interests of their citizens.

2018/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2018/2083(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 a (new)

– having regard to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol (A/RES/61/106),

2018/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2018/2083(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Patrizia TOIA

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

Ka. whereas humanitarian innovation must be consistent with the humanitarian principles (humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence) and the dignity principle;

2018/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2018/2083(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Patrizia TOIA

Motion for a resolution
Recital K b (new)

Kb. whereas humanitarian innovation must be conducted with the aim of promoting the rights, dignity and capabilities of the recipient population, and it should be possible for all members of a crisis-affected community to benefit from innovation without discriminatory barriers to use;

2018/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2018/2083(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Motion for a resolution
Recital K c (new)

Kc. whereas under no circumstances should humanitarian digitalisation and innovation lead to intentional harm;

2018/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2018/2083(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Patrizia TOIA

Motion for a resolution
Recital K d (new)

Kd. whereas risk analysis and mitigation must be used to prevent unintentional harm, including those relating to privacy and data security and impacts on local economies;

2018/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2018/2083(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Patrizia TOIA

Motion for a resolution
Recital K e (new)

Ke. whereas experimentation, piloting and trials must be undertaken in conformity with internationally recognised ethical standards;

2018/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2018/2083(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Patrizia TOIA

Motion for a resolution
Recital K f (new)

Kf. whereas the work started at the World Humanitarian Summit for the creation of a global network aimed at addressing critical gaps in capacity and relationships must continue in order to generate a more supportive and enabling environment for innovation efforts that help comply with the humanitarian objectives;

2018/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2018/2083(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Patrizia TOIA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses the imperative that any digital trade strategy must be fully in line with the principle of Policy Coherence for Development (PCD); underlines that access to internet connectivity and digital payment methods are pivotal to enabling digital trade, sustainable development and inclusive growth; notes in this regard the potential of the Trade Facilitation Agreement to supporting digital initiatives in developing countries to facilitate cross- border trade;

2018/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2018/2083(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Patrizia TOIA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls for the development of an action plan in technical innovation for humanitarian assistance to ensure compliance with the legal and ethical principles laid down in documents such as the New European Consensus on Development - 'Our world, our dignity, our future' and ‘Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’;

2018/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2018/2083(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Underlines that all aspects of humanitarian innovation should be subject to evaluation and monitoring, including an assessment of primary and secondary impacts of the innovation process; notes that ethical review and risk analysis should be undertaken prior embarking on humanitarian innovation and digitalisation projects, and should incorporate external or third party experts where appropriate;

2018/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2018/2083(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Patrizia TOIA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)

3c. Calls for the implementation in EU external action of the principles embodied in The Digital Single Market for Europe (DSM) strategy through the support to EU partners’ regulatory frameworks;

2018/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2018/2083(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Patrizia TOIA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls for digitalisation to be incorporated into the national strategies for development of EU Member States;

2018/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2018/2083(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Patrizia TOIA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls for a more concerted and holistic cross-sectoral effort from the international community, including non- state actors such as representatives of civil society, the third sector, private companies and academia, to ensure that the shift towards a more digital economy leaves no one behind;

2018/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2018/2083(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Patrizia TOIA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls for the improvement of political articulation between the EU, the EU Member States and other relevant actors, with a view to enhancing their coordination, complementary and the creation of synergies;

2018/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2018/2083(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Patrizia TOIA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Deplores the persistent digital divides across gender, geography, age, ~~and~~ income, ethnicity, and health condition or disability, among other factors of discrimination, within each country; insists, therefore, that international development cooperation should use digital technologies for greater inclusion of disadvantaged groups;

2018/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2018/2083(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Patrizia TOIA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Calls for increased efforts to address the challenges of digital exclusion through education and training on essential digital skills and initiatives to facilitate the use of ICTs; stresses the importance of e- learning and distant learning to reach remote areas and people of all ages;

2018/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2018/2083(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Patrizia TOIA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls for the introduction of digital literacy in ~~school~~ curricula at all levels of education, from primary school to university, in developing countries, with a view to the acquisition of the skills needed to improve access to information;

2018/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2018/2083(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Patrizia TOIA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Recalls that MSMEs in developing countries make up the majority of businesses and employ the majority of manufacturing and service sector workers; reiterates that facilitating cross-border e- commerce will have a direct impact on improving livelihoods, fostering higher living standards and boosting economic development; reaffirms the contribution that such endeavours could make to gender equality, since a great number of these companies are owned and run by women; stresses the need to reduce legal, administrative and social barriers to women’s entrepreneurship;

2018/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2018/2083(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Patrizia TOIA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Points out that ICT tools can be used for information dissemination during both natural and technological disasters and emergencies, as well as in fragile and conflict affected contexts; highlights that digital technologies can enable low-income communities and other vulnerable communities to have access to quality basic services such as health, education, water and electricity, as well as to humanitarian relief and other public and private services;

2018/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2018/2083(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Patrizia TOIA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Underlines that technological innovation in humanitarian assistance is a priority, most especially in the context of forced displacements, for contributing to sustainable solutions that bring stability and dignity to people’s lives and may facilitate the humanitarian development nexus; welcomes global initiatives to facilitate humanitarian innovation, such as the Global Alliance for Humanitarian Innovation (GAHI), the Humanitarian Innovation Fund (HIF) and UN Global Pulse, and calls for the EU to promote open data and strongly support the global communities of software developers and designers who are building practical open technology with a view to solving international development and humanitarian problems;

2018/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2018/2083(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Patrizia TOIA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Stresses that e-government applications contribute to making public services faster and cheaper to access, improve consistency and citizen satisfaction, facilitate the articulation and activities of civil society, and increase transparency, thus contributing significantly to promoting democratisation and fighting corruption; stresses the vital role of technology and digitalisation for effective fiscal policy and administration, enabling an effective increase in domestic resource mobilisation; insists that it is imperative to create secure digital identities, as this could help determine the numbers of those in need of certain basic services;

2018/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2018/2083(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Patrizia TOIA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Acknowledges the central role of digital technology in ~~access to health services and in training for health workers and~~management of health services, emergency response to epidemics, dissemination of public health campaigns, public access to health services and in training for health workers, support and promotion of basic research, and development of health and e-health information services; calls, therefore, on policymakers to introduce the appropriate policy and regulatory frameworks to scale up e-health projects; asks the Commission to provide the necessary financial resources in this regard;

2018/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2018/2083(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Patrizia TOIA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)

23a. Highlights the importance of digital technologies in the fight against climate change, the improvement of the environment, and the development of renewable energies and agroecology; underlines the need to reduce the ecological impact linked to digitalisation;

2018/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2018/2081(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas education prevents the transmission of poverty between generations;

2018/09/04
Committee: DEVE

2018/2081(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas education plays a pivotal role in achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment;

2018/09/04
Committee: DEVE

2018/2081(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Underlines the importance of supporting countries affected by fragility and conflict to strengthen the resilience of their education systems during and after a crisis in order for children to be able to continue with their education;

2018/09/04
Committee: DEVE

2018/2081(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19a. Reiterates the importance of reinforcing policies and measures promoting education for girls and recalls that girls and young women are particularly vulnerable and that special focus is needed to guarantee their access to all levels of education;

2018/09/04
Committee: DEVE

2018/2081(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Reiterates that only an enabling environment makes quality education possible, including nutritional aspects, health and safety, and access to electricity ~~and water~~, water and adequate sanitation, in order to enable pupils to genuinely benefit from school and to increase completion rates, especially in primary education;

2018/09/04
Committee: DEVE

2018/2081(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Maria NOICHL, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Considers it vital to improve coordination of donors in local groups for education in order to avoid duplication and even conflict of aid efforts; calls on Member States to make more systematic use of joint programming and delegation; recalls that development aid must not be subordinated to a strategy designed to wield influence;

2018/09/04
Committee: DEVE

2018/2046(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Stresses that the SDGs 2030, in particular Goal 3 on health, Goal 4 on education, Goal 5 on gender equality and Goal 13 on climate action require appropriate Union assistance and must be reflected in the budget for 2019, while focusing on long-term efforts to eradicate poverty, as stipulated in Article 208 TFEU;

2018/07/19
Committee: DEVE

2018/2046(BUD)

Arne LIETZ, Maria NOICHL, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Vincent PEILLON, Elly SCHLEIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Emphasises that the Union and its Member States must honour their collective commitment, confirmed in 2015, to raise their ODA to 0,7 % of their GNI by 2030; calls on the Commission and the Member States to present binding timelines for progressive increases towards this level; calls the Member States to exclude the in donor costs out of the ODA calculation; reiterates the commitment made by the Commission to dedicate at least 20% of its total ODA to human development and social inclusion; calls for an increased allocation of its 2019 ODA to health, education and social protection, in order to reach its commitment by the end of the current MFF; stresses in particular the need to promote and protect sexual and reproductive health and rights, thereby countering the Global Gag Rule which was reinstated by the United States government;

2018/07/19
Committee: DEVE

2018/2046(BUD)

Arne LIETZ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Given the dramatic situation in the field of humanitarian aid, insists t~~o mobilise more funds from the emergency aid reserve~~hat the current global humanitarian needs are reflected with a significant funding increase for humanitarian aid budget lines; reiterates that education plays a key role in preventing man-made humanitarian crises by avoiding conflicts and welcomes that already a significant amount of humanitarian aid is spent on education in emergencies; calls, however, for a steady increase of this share and for more support to the Erasmus+ DCI budget line;

2018/07/19
Committee: DEVE

2018/2046(BUD)

Arne LIETZ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Notes the exhaustion of margins and flexibility mechanisms within the Union budget and in the Union’s external action, which are often used to mobilise additional funds to respond unforeseen needs, including humanitarian crises; in relation to this, opposes the Commission’s proposal for the funding of the second tranche of the Facility for Refugees in Turkey (FRT) that has not left sufficient margins under the Heading IV and MFF special instruments for unforeseen humanitarian crisis, due to the unfulfilled commitment by the Members States to contribute with EUR 2 billion by means of bilateral to the FRT; is concerned by the continued mobilisation of the European Development Fund (EDF) reserve to top- up contributions to the Union Trust Fund for Africa, most recently by EUR 500 million; stresses that this transfer of founds not only diverts money away from the EDF objectives of eradicating poverty and promoting sustainable development and towards migration management, but also severely limits the possibility to mobilise additional funds for future humanitarian crises in the ACP region in the coming years; calls again on Member States to increase their contributions to the FRT and the EU Trust Fund for Africa, for which pledged contributions currently amount to EUR 3 billion (before the additional EUR 500 million) from the Union budget and European Development Fund, and only EUR 430 million from EU Member States and other donors;

2018/07/19
Committee: DEVE

2018/2046(BUD)

Arne LIETZ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Recalls the importance to support expenditure directly linked to the achievement of the objectives of the humanitarian aid policy, inter alia, expenditure on technical and administrative assistance;

2018/07/19
Committee: DEVE

2018/2046(BUD)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Elly SCHLEIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4c. Emphasises the importance of maintaining payment appropriations in the humanitarian aid chapter at least on the same level as commitment appropriations, in order to avoid severe and constant lack of funds for payments, complicated urgent interventions and led to the accumulation of unpaid bills, with negative effects also on implementing partners;

2018/07/19
Committee: DEVE

2018/2046(BUD)

Arne LIETZ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 f (new)

4f. Reiterates the importance of focusing on main humanitarian crises, including forgotten humanitarian crises; calls to guarantee humanitarian funding for the following crises: Yemen (22 million people in need of humanitarian aid), Syria crisis including neighbouring countries (more than 13 million people in need of humanitarian assistance inside Syria), as well as for forgotten humanitarian crises such as Sahel (1,6 million children at risk of suffering from severe acute malnutrition and 6.8 million people food insecure) and DRC (13 million people in need and more than 2 million children suffering from severe acute malnutrition);

2018/07/19
Committee: DEVE

2018/2046(BUD)

Arne LIETZ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Elly SCHLEIN, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 g (new)

4g. Highlights the need to guarantee humanitarian and development aid for the Sahel; stresses that chronic poverty, climate change, intensification of conflicts and a nearly lean season this year have resulted in 6.8 million people in need of humanitarian aid in a region with structural fragilities restricting access to basic social services; therefore calls to increase humanitarian and development funding for the region to cover both life- saving interventions and longer term efforts to tackle the root causes of vulnerability to food and nutrition insecurity and to strengthen basic social services;

2018/07/19
Committee: DEVE

2018/2046(BUD)

Arne LIETZ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 h (new)

4h. Stresses that the need to implement the humanitarian/development nexus should be reflected in the budget 2019, in focusing on key sectors such as nutrition; calls therefore on the Commission, and in particular ECHO and DEVCO to close the humanitarian and development gap by dedicating both humanitarian and longer term funding to nutrition in the budget 2019, hence enabling children with severe acute malnutrition to access the treatment in all contexts, emergency and development alike;

2018/07/19
Committee: DEVE

2018/2046(BUD)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Recalls that the effects of climate change have a tangible impact on several aspects of human life and are increasingly being felt in the development countries; calls for an increased allocation in climate action, which better reflects the strong commitment to and increased engagement in climate diplomacy in order to tackle climate change; stresses, that the allocation shall come from other funds than development funding.

2018/07/19
Committee: DEVE

2018/2046(BUD)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Vincent PEILLON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Underscores the importance of pilot projects and preparatory actions; asks for continued support for on-going and new pilot projects and preparatory actions;

2018/07/19
Committee: DEVE

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 a (new)

- having regard to Directive (EU) 2017/541 of the European Parliament and the Council of 15 March 2017 on combating terrorism and replacing Council Framework Decision 2002/475/JHA and amending Council Decision 2005/671/JHA,

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 b (new)

- having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 5 October 2017 on prison systems and conditions (2015/2062(INI)),

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 c (new)

- having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 3 May 2018 on media pluralism and media freedom in the European Union (2017/2209(INI)),

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Elena VALENCIANO, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 d (new)

- having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 1 March 2018 on the situation of fundamental rights in the EU in 2016 (2017/2125(INI)),

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 e (new)

- having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 30 May 2018 on the implementation of Directive 2012/29/EU establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime(2016/2328(INI)),

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 f (new)

- having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 25 November 2015 on the prevention of radicalisation and recruitment of European citizens by terrorist organisations (2015/2063(INI)),

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 g (new)

- having regard to the Opinion of the European Committee of the Regions – Combatting radicalisation and violent extremism: prevention mechanisms at local and regional level,

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Elena VALENCIANO, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 h (new)

- having regard to the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism,

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Elena VALENCIANO, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 i (new)

- having regard to the Council of Europe handbook for prison and probation services regarding radicalisation and violent extremism,

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Elena VALENCIANO, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 j (new)

- having regard to the European Court of Auditors Special report Tackling radicalisation that leads to terrorism: the Commission addressed the needs of Member States, but with some shortfalls in coordination and evaluation,

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Elena VALENCIANO, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Birgit SIPPEL, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Subheading -1 (new)

-1 Fundamental rights

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Elena VALENCIANO, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Birgit SIPPEL, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)

-A. whereas counter-terrorism measures and the protection of freedoms are not conflicting goals, but complementary and mutually reinforcing;

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Birgit SIPPEL, Elena VALENCIANO, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A a (new)

-A a. whereas the Union is founded on the values of human dignity, freedom, equality and solidarity, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, as well as on the principles of democracy and the rule of law; whereas acts of terrorism constitute one of the most serious violations of these universal values and principles;

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Elena VALENCIANO, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A b (new)

-A b. whereas the EU should do the utmost possible to guarantee the wellbeing of its citizens who are endangered by terrorists; whereas Article 6 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights enshrines both the right to liberty and the right to security, which complement each other; so that wherever measures are taken to combat terrorism, the right to liberty must be safeguarded in all cases; whereas Article 10 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights ensures the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion;

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Elena VALENCIANO, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A c (new)

-A c whereas the Charter of Fundamental Rights prohibits discrimination on any ground such as sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age or sexual orientation; and recognises the right of people with disabilities to benefit from measures to ensure their independence, social and occupational integration, and participation in the life of the community; whereas the rights of persons with disabilities in the EU are also protected by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities;

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Elena VALENCIANO, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the security of one Member State is the security of all in the Union; whereas ~~in the last two years~~ the EU and the Member States have made progress in countering the threats posed by terrorism which require a holistic approach, articulating internal and external security and national and European coordination;

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas the national security and intelligence agencies of EU Member States and of some third countries cooperate very effectively through the Counter Terrorism Group (CTG), an informal body outside the EU, and on a bilateral and multilateral basis; whereas the EU has an established complex of structures dealing wholly or in part with terrorism, notably ~~through Europol’s European Counter Terrorism Centre (ECTC)~~through EU Intelligence and Situation Centre (INTCEN), as the gateway for strategic intelligence from the intelligence and security services to the EU, and Europol’s European Counter Terrorism Centre (ECTC), as the central hub for law enforcement information exchange and cooperation in the field of counter terrorism at the EU level;

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas the diverse landscape of regional, national, EU and international actors in the field of terrorism with ~~overlapping~~specific competences and ~~insufficiently delineated~~different mandates, the multitude of formal and informal fora for cooperation and exchange of information, as well as the division of competences ~~between the different regional and national agencies,~~ between law enforcement services and intelligence services and between the EU and the Member States, ~~give rise to difficulties with regard to the coordination~~require consistent efforts in order to provide efficiency and coherence of the response to the terrorist threat;

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas the Commissioner for Security Union is a valued actor in joining up the Commission’'s policy development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation; whereas the establishment of the position of Commissioner for Security Union signals the EU’'s commitment to ~~encouraging~~support cooperation between Member States on issues of EU internal security while fully respecting the status of these matters as national competencies as laid down in the Treaties;

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Elena VALENCIANO, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas in recent years the EU Member States have suffered major terrorist attacks, perpetrated or inspired by jihadist groups such as Daesh, Hezbollah or Al-Qaeda; whereas far right, far left and ethno- nationalist separatist extremism are also matters of concern;

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

K a. whereas the cross-border aspects of the terrorist threat call for a coordinated EU approach by offering cooperation and assistance in the form of capacity-building in third-countries;

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital M

M. whereas Daesh and Al-Qaeda arim to be financially self-reliant and whereas illicit trade in goods, firearms, oil, drugs, cigarettes and cultural objects, among other items, as well as trafficking in human beings, slavery, child exploitation, racketeering and extortion, have become means for terrorist groups to obtain funding; whereas the possible links between organised crime and terrorist groups could constitutes a growing noteworthy security threat~~; whereas these sources could enable the continued funding of future criminal activities by Al-Qaeda, as well as by Daesh following its territorial collapse in Syria and Iraq~~;

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital S

S. whereas the flow of illegal migrants and refugees poses challenges to the integration process, which have already been exploited by extremists and could be further exploited in the future;

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital X

X. whereas experts highlight the positive experience offered by a multi- agency approach, focusing on creating infrastructures that ensure the provision of early-stage support to those vulnerable to radicalisation and their families from different authorities and organisations across multiple levels and emphasising the supportive role of the police, thus strengthening the relationship;

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Elena VALENCIANO, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital Y b (new)

Y b. whereas the promotion of social inclusion and active promotion of democratic values contribute to mitigate the risk of radicalisation through practical measures to address violent extremist ideologies, poverty, discrimination and marginalisation, including the prevention of early school leaving and school exclusion, enhancing equality, social cohesion and encouraging active citizenship;

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital AC

AC. whereas there is a prevalence of Wahhabi and Salafist literature available in certain bookshops and online in Europe, leaving little moderate alternative interpretation available to Muslim communities;

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital AG a (new)

AG a. whereas several recent investigations have shown that the internet and namely social media can play a role as a driver of radicalisation leading to violent extremism as well as a tool for xenophobic groups to disseminate hate speech and illicit content especially among young people;

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital AH a (new)

AH a. whereas combating radicalisation and violent extremism requires close and coordinated collaboration between all concerned actors, at all levels of governance (local, regional and national) as well as with civil society and the private sector;

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital AI

AI. whereas although ~~major~~some progress has been made with regard to removal of online terrorist content, there is a need to scale up the companies’' engagement; whereas the removals are often not complete nor timely or permanent, removing the content from one website but leaving it on another belonging to the same company; whereas effective and comprehensive and transparent reporting by companies has to be improved;

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital AJ

AJ. whereas, in response to larger companies removing more content ~~and doing so at a greater pace~~, Daesh is increasingly using new and/or smaller platforms which are less suited to fast removal of terrorist material; whereas this diversification to smaller platforms makes additional technical support and the sharing of best practices essential to enable, for example, the introduction of platform-agnostic automated tools, such as the database of hashes which can identify online terrorist content with a high degree of accuracy;

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital AK

AK. whereas prisons ~~have become hothouses of extremism, incubat~~magnify and accelerate the threat of radicalisation of offenders, incubating and enabling terroristsm; whereas many of those serving prison sentences will soon be released back into their communities ~~and there are few resources to monitor their activities; whereas prison conditions can play a significant role in heightening or lessening risks of radicalisation~~with particular reintegration needs and high risk of re- offending; whereas there are few resources to monitor their activities and achieve re- entry into society; whereas prison regimes and risk management can play a significant role to mitigate these threats;

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital AL

AL. whereas retention of data is an essential part of the investigative process; whereas ~~police and judicial~~the national competent authorities usually rely heavily on communications data to successfully proceed with their casework; whereas in order for interoperability of information systems to reach its full potential, harmonised data retention regimes across the EU are vital; whereas the necessity of an appropriate data retention regime when it comes to the fight against terrorism was consistently raised during the work of the TERR Committee;

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital AM

AM. whereas the use of encryption by terrorists to protect their communications or stored data represents a considerable challenge for ~~law enforcement,~~the national competent authorities denying access to essential intelligence and evidence; whereas encryption becomes particularly critical when even the responsible online service providers are unwilling or unable to decrypt the communication;

2018/09/18
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital AY

AY. whereas a variety of factors can lead to difficulties in cooperation between the different national, regional and local services within the Member States, such as: overlapping competences and insufficiently delineated mandates; hesitancy to share information as this might result in loss of responsibility or loss of important information flows; legal obstacles when it comes to sharing information between different ~~servic~~authorities or the possibility of using intelligence in court cases; ~~servic~~authorities being obliged to compete with each other for resources; and technical barriers to information exchange;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital AZ

AZ. whereas ~~adjusting the~~the different legal standards applying to information exchange between intelligence and, respectively, the law enforcement authorities isare one of the main challenges ~~that need to be addressed, especially~~, since intelligence often concerns information on people who are not yet suspects in criminal investigations but belong to terrorist networks or are returning FTFs;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital BA

BA. whereas a possible solution could also be offered by the creation of counter- terrorism centres or units within the national territory; whereas such centres allow representatives of the different ~~servic~~national competent authorities to communicate with each other on a regular basis and discuss how best to cooperate and exchange information; whereas this helps build trust between the ~~servic~~national competent authorities and fosters a better understanding of their respective working methods and challenges;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital BB

BB. whereas security services tend to cooperate and exchange information bilaterally or multilaterally - notably through the Counter Terrorism Group (CTG) and with the EU bodies via EU INTCEN, by sharing strategic intelligence; whereas it is necessary to find a practical solution to fill the existing gaps between the parallel tracks of the law enforcement community and the intelligence community, as well as between Europol’'s ECTC and the CTG, in order to allow a more systematic interaction between both communities and ~~an enhanced operational~~more efficient cooperation, while still keeping them separate;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital BD

BD. whereas efficient and systematic cooperation between the Member States and the EU aAgencies, according to their legal mandates, as well as among the agencies in the counter-terrorism field is imperative, especially cooperation between Europol and Eurojust in order to effectively support the efforts to detect, prevent, and investigate and prosecute the perpetrators of a terrorist attack;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital BG

BG. whereas several EU instruments such as Decision 2005/671/JHA, the CT Directive and the Europol regulation require Member States to share information on terrorism with the relevant agencies; whereas increased information sharing with Europol and Eurojust on a regular basis and in a timely and systematic manner, including contextual information, according to their legal mandates, facilitates their work in detecting links between cases and providing an overview of challenges and best practice related to investigations, prosecutions and convictions for terrorist offences;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital BV

BV. whereas social media fundraising, non-profit organisations and small wire transfers ~~are~~could be used as funding methods for Daesh and other terrorist organisations; whereas micro lending platforms are used to facilitate all three of these typologies;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Elena VALENCIANO, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital CA

CA. whereas cyber-attacks on electronic services or through interconnected systems are a key ~~com~~pontent ~~of hybrid threats~~ial tool for cyber terrorism;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital CB

CB. whereas the Commission Comprehensive Assessment of EU Security Policy and the evaluation study of Directive 2008/114/EC in need of revision and updating indicate that: the threat to critical infrastructures is likely to continue to rise, that there is a need to enhance preparation and response capabilities and to revise Directive 2008/114/EC, and that there is an interest in targeting transport infrastructures; whereas a better framework is needed to improve rail security and to address the issue of protection of public areas of transport infrastructures, such as airports and railway stations and also energy production facilities, with particular attention to nuclear power plants;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital CE

CE. whereas the private sector should be involved in the protection and insurance of critical infrastructure and soft targets;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital CG

CG. whereas the Commission, in its communication on the new Multiannual Financial Framework, proposes to significantly increase EU funding for security and defence, including EU internal security;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital CR

CR. whereas the potential crime-terror nexus could also facilitates the access of terrorists to firearms;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital CT

CT. whereas the key regions in the EU’s 's neighbourhood, and more specifically the Balkans, the Caucasus and North Africa, are facing important challenges such as those relating to foreign fighters and returnees management, as well as to home- grown radical cells;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital DA

DA. whereas ~~death~~the aftermath of terrorist attacks destroys families and leaves a legacy of irrevocable sadness, and many of the injured survivors of terrorist attacks suffer disfiguring and life- changing loss of senses and limbs and their plight impacts heavily on close family and community, while too often once the media spotlight has passed, the long-term needs of the victims are neglected;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Elena VALENCIANO, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital DE a (new)

DE a. whereas businesses, including SMEs, can also suffer damage from terrorism such as property damage and business interruption;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital DF

DF. whereas the Union is founded on the values of human dignity, freedom, equality and solidarity, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, as well as on the principles of democracy and the rule of law; whereas acts of terrorism constitute the most serious violation of these universal values and principles;deleted

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Elena VALENCIANO, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital DG

DG. whereas the EU should do the utmost possible to guarantee the physical and psychological integrity of its citizens who are endangered by terrorists; whereas Article 6 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights enshrines both the right to liberty and the right to security, which complement each other;deleted

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Elena VALENCIANO, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Motion for a resolution
Recital DH

DH. whereas the Charter of Fundamental Rights prohibits discrimination on the ground of disability and recognises the right of people with disabilities to benefit from measures to ensure their independence, social and occupational integration, and participation in the life of the community; whereas the rights of persons with disabilities in the EU are also protected by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities;deleted

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Reiterates that while Member States remain first in line to respond to and prevent threats, a clear need exists to fu~~lly recognis~~rther clarify and consolidate the Security Union’'s role in supporting them, providing common solutions and adding value;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Believes that, at this stage, the EU and the Member States should improve cooperation through existing European agencies and Member States~~’ security~~' competent authorities and justice institutions;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission to work with the Member States towards more transparency and a common understanding of threat levels; calls on the Member States to swiftly transmit to the appropriate EU bodies information on the change of the threat level and the rationale behind it;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Member States to monitor all identified foreign terrorist fighters; calls for an effective and appropriate follow-up of the threat posed by returnees, and for this purpose invites Member States to share contextual information about returnees via Europol; calls on the Commission to assist Member States in the establishment of aligned classification systems in order to distinguish between high, medium and low-risk returnees;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls for the creation of an EU ‘Centre of Excellence for Preventing Radicalisation (CoE PR)’, to be embedded in the Commission with adequate financial and human resources; believes its tasks should include coordination, including of funding, and facilitation of cooperation among Member States, policymakers, practitioners (by involving former RAN and ESCN structures), technologists, experts and researchers in the area of preventing and countering radicalisation, exchange of best practices, lighthouse projects and training, also by partnering with key strategic third countries; considers that this centre should also establish methodologies to evaluate and measure the effectiveness of programmes and projects;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Calls on the Member States to establish binding procedures for schools for tackling the challenge of radicalised pupils, and to offer training for teachers with regard to this; stresses the need for involvement of ~~law enforcement and justice bod~~competent authorities in the process of addressing radicalisation;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Underlines the need to achieve automatic, fast and full removal of terrorist content and the need to achieve prevention of upload or streaming of terrorist content; requests the Commission to present a legislative proposal obliging companies to remove terrorist content fully within one hour from upload and to introduce clear and transparent reporting obligations on the incidence of terrorist content and removal rates, as well as sanctions for non-compliance;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Calls for the creation of an online European platform that citizens can use in order to flag terrorist and extremist content online, increasing companies’ capabilities to respond to flagged content;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Calls on Member States to ensure secure, safe and ~~orderly~~just prison conditions and to create specific procedures for radicalised inmates, in order to prevent radicalisation of others, as well as to ensure targeted monitoring and targeted disengagement measures, and to train prison staff accordingly;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32

32. Urges Member States to ~~ensure that they have~~find the adequate means for ensuring the necessary technical equipment (for example mobile devices allowing the police to check the biometrics of a person during on-the-spot checks), software, security systems and qualified staff to make full use of the existing information systems and cooperation mechanisms;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34

34. Urges Member States to adopt the approach of ‘'information sharing by default’' when it comes to sharing CT- related information, among national competent authorities thus exchanging such information as a rule, and refraining from such exchange only in specific cases where circumstances require that it be withheld;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42

42. Calls on Member States to ensure access to VIS for ~~law enforcement authorities involved in CT operation~~their CT competent authorities and for a simplified procedure for such access;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45

45. Calls on the Member States to interconnect their PIUs in order to facilitate the exchange of PNR, data and calls on the Commission to propose technological solutions to make the exchange of PNR data less time-consuming and demanding in terms of human resources by automating the processing of requests from one PIU to another; encourages, therefore, projects such as the ISF project led by the Netherlands to develop PIU.net based upon the established FIU.net; asks the Commission, together with Europol, to support the development of joint targeting rules and risk assessments to be applied by the Member States, in order to enable ~~Europol to search~~searches into the national PNR data with central algorithms;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53

53. Calls on the Member States that have not yet done so to create national counter-terrorism ‘'fusion centres’'/coordination units, ~~as well as coordinated databases, in order to centralise~~in order to facilitate the search, identification and exchange of terrorism-related information and intelligence from all relevant national stakeholders;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55

55. Recommends that Member States provide guidance or a legal framework in national law as to when it is permissible to exchange information ~~between services, and believes that aligning national standards on this issue i~~with other MS' competent authorities and EU agencies as a precondition for an EU-wide solution to the issue of when such information can be used and shared;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56

56. Calls on the Member States to ~~examine~~support the examination of the possibility of better coordination and cooperation between intelligence and law enforcement services at EU level, e.g. by increasingly sending intelligence experts in addition to law enforcement staff to the meetings of the Counter-Terrorism Joint Liaison Team (CTJLT) at Europol~~, which could serve as a blueprint for further cooperation between law enforcement and intelligence~~; calls on the Commission to support the CTJLT, including special funding;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 57

57. Calls on Member States and European stakeholders to continue existing operational capabilities and enhance maximum effective cooperation in the fields of counter-terrorism and EU internal security;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58

58. Calls on Member States to further support the sharing of intelligence through EU INTCEN and calls for Europol to become a veritable hub for law enforcement information exchange and cooperation in the field of counter- terrorism in the EU, if necessary with a stronger mandate;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Elena VALENCIANO, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 88

88. Calls for the mandate of EUNAVFOR MED Operation Sophia to be extended and its territorial scope enlarged with a view to better responding to changing migration patterns such as ghost landings from Tunisia, and for ~~the fight against terrorism to be specifically included~~assessing the possibility to include the fight against terrorism in its mandate;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 97

97. Calls on the Commission to develop, together with Member States and international partners, ways of better monitoring financial flows and identifying users of virtual currencies, electronic wallets and prepaid cards, crowdfunding platforms and online and mobile payment systems in relevant investigations;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 99 a (new)

99 a. Calls on Member States to ensure that cryptocurrency companies fully apply Anti-Money Laundering regulations when users convert cryptocurrencies to real currency;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 99 b (new)

99 b. Stresses the importance of enhancing interaction and exchange of information between investigative authorities and the private sector, namely obliged entities under the EU AML/CFT Directive, to overcome the shortcomings of segregated and incomplete information submitted by suspicious transaction reports; calls on the Commission and Member States to develop dedicated fora for sharing financial information, including on use of virtual currency, including the private sector, under safe channels and EU data protection standards; notes the important role that Europol could play in this regard;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 99 c (new)

99 c. Calls on the Commission to examine the EU regulation virtual currency platforms, and namely exchanges between different virtual currencies, since some Member States have already spearheaded national systems to become global hubs for virtual currency platforms; calls on the Commission to form an expert working group to explore next steps in the EU- wide regulation of virtual currencies; calls on the Commission and Member States to act as global advocates for a coherent and coordinated international regulatory framework around virtual currencies;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 99 d (new)

99 d. Calls on Commission and Member States to mandate and support formal, strategic and sustained operational law enforcement training to enhance capacity in Member States for investigating illicit activity involving virtual currencies; stresses that these efforts should ensure a standard level of law enforcement competency across the EU, so that certain Member States do not fall behind; emphasises the importance of conducting the EU-wide risk assessments of virtual currency activities and of coordinating investigative initiatives to use findings from those assessments to develop strategies for regulatory and law enforcement approaches over the short, medium and long-term;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 99 e (new)

99 e. Calls on Member States to encourage cryptocurrency companies to use analysis tools to assess potential criminal activity associated with the destination and recipient addresses;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 99 f (new)

99 f. Encourages the Commission to carry out an in-depth assessment to evaluate whether features designed to make cryptocurrency users untraceable should be banned;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Elena VALENCIANO, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 100

100. Calls on the Member States which have not yet done so to establish national CIP programmes addressing the issues identified by the Commission, especially in relation to the potential vulnerabilities of critical infrastructures, in its 2006 communication on a European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection which should be revised and updated;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Elena VALENCIANO, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 106

106. Calls for Directive 2008/114 to be revised, in order to: provide similar rules and procedures for ‘operators of essential services’ as in the NIS Directive; ensure that designation of ECIs be done on the basis of an analysis of the systems supporting vital and cross-border services, rather than a sector-by-sector approach, taking due account of the importance of cybersecurity; allow the Commission to designate assets of pan-European services as ECIs; take due account of existing interdependencies; create an obligation to report incidents, conduct stress tests, provide appropriate training at the designated contact points and establish quality requirements as regards business and operational continuity plans in the case of an incident or attack;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Elena VALENCIANO, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 107

107. Recommends that the private sector be involved when devising programmes for the protection of critical infrastructure and soft targets, and highlights the need to develop public-private dialogues to this effect and to develop national and local resilience;

2018/09/12
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 126

126. Calls on the Commission to establish an EU Coordination Centre for victims of terrorism (CCVT), which should provide timely and adequate crisis support in cases of mass attacks in one or several Member States; considers that the role of the CCVT would be to ensure the provision of expertise at EU level by promoting exchange of knowledge and best practices; stresses however the need to extend support and protection measures to indirect victims, like victim’s relatives, eyewitnesses and first responders;

2018/09/13
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 132

132. Calls on the Member States to ensure that the assistance provided to victims of terrorism also encompasses measures such as first aid, psychological support, protection from secondary victimisation, effective access to justice, cash advances to help cover immediate expenses, certified childcare and home support, tax relief schemes or other forms of social benefits and help with transport;

2018/09/13
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Caterina CHINNICI, Tanja FAJON, Birgit SIPPEL, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Ana GOMES, Demetris PAPADAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 139

139. Calls on the Member States to ensure that the necessary data protection safeguards are in place, including appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect the security and confidentiality of personal data; urges the Member States to provide clear rules as to who can access and who consults which data in the systems, ~~to maintain records of consultation and disclosure,~~ and to provide for rights of access, rectification, erasure and restriction, as well as rights to compensation and judicial redress;

2018/09/13
Committee: TERR

2018/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 139 a (new)

139 a. Encourages the Commission to regularly submit reports to the European Parliament and to the Council, assessing the added value of the anti-terrorism legislation; asks that such reports shall also focus on fundamental rights and freedoms, including on non- discrimination, on the rule of law, and on the level of protection and assistance provided to victims of terrorism;

2018/09/13
Committee: TERR

2018/2037(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Recalls the New European Consensus on Development in which the EU and its Member States reaffirm their commitment to Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) across all policies and all areas covered by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;

2018/04/11
Committee: DEVE

2018/2037(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Recalls the EU’s and its Member States’ commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and underlines that coherence of the CAP with the SDGs is crucial; recalls in particular SDG 2 and its associated targets, which aim at ending hunger and malnutrition by 2030,notably by increasing productivity of small-holders and achieving sustainable and climate resilient agriculture and food systems;

2018/04/11
Committee: DEVE

2018/2037(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls for another chapter in the CAP post-2020 legislation regarding its responsibility in development policy issues and stresses on the need to systematically measure the CAP’s impact on developing countries;

2018/04/11
Committee: DEVE

2018/2037(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Urges the Member States to put an end to the goal of an ever more intensified European agriculture and to cease overproduction in the livestock sector through the obligatory introduction of an area-based livestock farming system; consequently urges them to reduce, and ultimately to put an end to, their imports of protein crops from third countries such as Argentina and Brazil, since increased soybean production has led to negative social and environmental impacts, such as biodiversity loss, forced displacement of small farmers and indigenous people, loss of employment and higher level of food insecurity;

2018/04/11
Committee: DEVE

2018/2007(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. SRecalls the need to improve the contribution of finance to sustainable and inclusive growth and to accelerate the shift to a low-carbon and resource efficient economy; stresses the potential of a faster green transition as an opportunity for orienting capital markets towards long- term, innovative and efficient investments; notes that environmental, social and governance (ESG) benefits and risks are not reflected in prices and that this provides a market advantage to unsustainable and short-termist geared finance; stresses that a political and regulatory framework to govern sustainable finance is overdue;

2018/03/02
Committee: ECON

2018/2007(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Underlines that the financial sector has a critical role to play in the process of accelerating the transition towards a low-carbon, more resource- efficient and sustainable economy;

2018/03/02
Committee: ECON

2018/2007(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Stresses that the financial sector as a whole and its core function of allocating capital to benefit society should be governed by the values of equity and sustainability; taking into account environmental, social and governance considerations; emphasises in that respect the instrumental role of economic, fiscal and monetary policy in fostering sustainable finance by facilitating capital allocation, by re-orienting investments towards more sustainable technologies and businesses, to decarbonised and resource- efficient economic activities which are able to reduce the current need for future resources and thereby capable of meeting EU sustainability goals; insists that a substantial price for greenhouse gas emissions is a key component of a functioning and efficient environmental and social market economy;

2018/03/02
Committee: ECON

2018/2005(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Recalls that ODA alone is not sufficient to meet development needs and that ~~the private sector plays an essential role in the realisation of inclusive and sustainable development and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda~~it is necessary to ensure that trade becomes an effective vehicle to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); calls on the EU to increase its financial commitment to Aid for Trade initiatives that are essential for developing countries, in particular Least Developed Countries (LDCs);

2018/06/28
Committee: DEVE

2018/2005(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Stresses that when acting in development, the private sector should abide by shared principles and common values, and that development objectives and effe~~Considers that the private sector should meet its responsibility in contributing to the realization of the 2030 Agenda; stresses that development objectives and effectiveness principles should prevail and recalls the obligations that the private sector is required to fulfill under the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises in terms of transparency and respect of human rights; calls on the Commission to draw up a legislative proposal on binding due diligence obligations for supply chains and to engage in constructive ne~~ss should prevail~~gotiations on the UN binding instrument on business & human rights;

2018/06/28
Committee: DEVE

2018/2005(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the EU to ensure that its activities with developing countries, both in the field of development and trade, ~~promote~~are based on a fair and balanced framework among equal partners and are aimed at the promotion and respect of human rights;

2018/06/28
Committee: DEVE

2018/2005(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Underlines that trade is not an end in itself, but that an inclusive, rules-based, free and fair trade policy if aligned with the SDGs can contribute to poverty eradication~~; recalls~~, reducing inequalities and creation of decent jobs; recalls the need to strengthen the principle of policy coherence for development, requiring that the objectives of development cooperation be taken into account in policies that are likely to affect developing countries; calls on the EU to systematically evaluate the impact of its trade and fiscal policies on developing countries;

2018/06/28
Committee: DEVE

2018/2005(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Reiterates the importance of the multilateral rules-based order as the most effective way to achieve an inclusive global trading system; emphasises the importance of comprehensive provisions on social, labour and environmental standards in trade agreements; and welcomes the Commission’s commitment to include abinding and enforceable chapters on Trade and Sustainable Development ~~in all trade agreement~~; calls for accompanying measures, including financial support, to be implemented in trade agreements concluded with developing countries in order to support their efforts in respecting and implementing internationally agreed social and environmental standards; reiterates its call for more transparency in the trade in natural resources;

2018/06/28
Committee: DEVE

2018/2005(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Recalls that Africa is still marginalized in the global context, calls on the EU to support its ambitions of creating a genuine intra-African market and avoid taking steps which might hinder these ambitions; underlines in this regard the need to maximise the development and the positive impact of migration and mobility;

2018/06/28
Committee: DEVE

2018/2005(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5 b. Calls on the EU to take into account the different level of development and capabilities of developing countries and to support African countries in strengthening its productive and transformation capacities in order to become less dependent on raw materials and simple processed products, enhancing their competitiveness and participation in global markets, and to help create quality jobs particularly strengthening the role of women in the formal and informal economy; stresses the need for any trade agreement with developing countries to provide for sufficiently asymmetrical liberalisation schedules, protection for infant industries, development-supportive rules of origin and effective safeguard clauses;

2018/06/28
Committee: DEVE

2018/2005(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Stresses that Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) ~~are an important instrum~~, if accompanied by appropriate structural measures and duly monitored, have the potential to be an important tool to promote regional integration and the inclusion of the African continent into ~~promote sustainable development through trade, if accompanied by appropriate structural measure~~world trade; stresses the importance of engagement with partner countries to create ownership at government and civil society levels, and strongly condemns the use of coercion as an instrument to secure approval for EPAs;

2018/06/28
Committee: DEVE

2018/2005(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6 a. Deplores the facts that, each year, a sum exceeding total annual ODA is drained out of Africa in the form of illicit financial flows; reiterates its call to create effective tools to combat tax dodging globally and to enhance cooperation on tax matters with developing countries, including domestic resource mobilisation; recalls the need to establish a UN intergovernmental body to engage on an equal footing with developing countries in the reform of global tax rules;

2018/06/28
Committee: DEVE

2018/2005(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6 b. Calls for transparency in trade agreements and for the full involvement of civil societies of the partner countries concerned in the negotiations and implementations of future trade agreements, including the inclusion of structured and well-financed civil society monitoring process;

2018/06/28
Committee: DEVE

2018/2003(INI)

Seb DANCE, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)

– having regard to the Treaties on the Functioning of the EU and the Treaty of Lisbon Art. 208,

2018/05/22
Committee: DEVE

2018/2003(INI)

Seb DANCE, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Citation 28 a (new)

– having regard to the most recent Planetary Boundaries report,

2018/05/22
Committee: DEVE

2018/2003(INI)

Seb DANCE, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

Ha. whereas SDG goal 15 explicitly mentions the need for good forestry management, while forests can play a role helping achieve many of the other SDGs;

2018/05/22
Committee: DEVE

2018/2003(INI)

Seb DANCE, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)

Hb. whereas a European Commission study in 2013 found that EU27 was the largest global net importer of embodied deforestation(between 1990 and 2008), concluding that during that time 9 million hectares of tropical forest had been cleared to provide products such as beef, soya and palm oil to the European market;

2018/05/22
Committee: DEVE

2018/2003(INI)

Seb DANCE, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Acknowledges that forest crime, such as illegal logging, has been estimated to represent a value of 50-152 billion USD globally in 2016, up from 30- 100 billion in 2014 and ranks number one in revenues among environmental crimes. Notes that illegal logging plays a substantial role in financing organized crime and thus significantly impoverishes governments, nations and local communities owing to uncollected revenues 2a. _________________ 2a UNEP, 2017: The Rise of Environmental Crime report

2018/05/22
Committee: DEVE

2018/2003(INI)

Seb DANCE, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Stresses that recognition of tenure rights of peoples e.g. via constitution are not necessarily applied in practice and therefore calls for tenure rights to be respected and that their recognition be a necessary component of the EU’s screening process for the purpose of Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPA) and for individual cases of EU development funding; 11a _________________ 11aFor example a recent case (WaTER project financed by DG DEVCO) of violation of tenure rights of Kenyan indigenous peoples Ogiekand Sengwer despite the recognition of their rights to land in the Kenyan Constitution, particularly Article 63(2)(d)) and in the 2016 Community Land Act

2018/05/22
Committee: DEVE

2018/2003(INI)

Seb DANCE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point e a (new)

(ea) expand the scope of the EU Timber Regulation to cover all products that are or may be made of wood, and that contain or may contain wood;

2018/05/22
Committee: DEVE

2018/2003(INI)

Seb DANCE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Notes that it is well established and uncontested that the conversion of tropical forest to agriculture, plantations and other land uses causes a significant loss of species, and particularly of forest- specialist species;

2018/05/22
Committee: DEVE

2018/2003(INI)

Seb DANCE, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 c (new)

16c. Recalls that sustainable development can only be successful if supply chains are made to be sustainable, and through the use of good management of the lived environment;

2018/05/22
Committee: DEVE

2018/0291(NLE)

Draft legislative resolution
Paragraph 1

1. ~~Declines to give~~Gives its consent to the proposal for a Council decision;

2018/10/19
Committee: DEVE

2018/0272M(NLE)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Strongly supports the FLEGT process with Vietnam since about 45% of Vietnam's land area is forested, and the country has a key role in processing in the timber sector in Southeast Asia; welcomes Vietnam’s commitment to this process and the progress made so far, including the Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA);

2018/12/11
Committee: DEVE

2018/0272M(NLE)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Draws attention to the crucial importance of full stakeholder involvement and of the ~~major~~ role that civil society must ~~be able to play; enco~~play as a fully-fledged actor including the implementation and monitoring of the Agreement; urages the Vietnamese Government to further develop the working methods ~~in relation to~~to ensure transparency and the timely sharing of documents;

2018/12/11
Committee: DEVE

2018/0272M(NLE)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Recalls that the implementation of the Agreement must complement EU commitments to environmental protection and ensure coherence with commitments to prevent mass deforestation.

2018/12/11
Committee: DEVE

2018/0272M(NLE)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Commission to continue its FLEGT-related support to Vietnam and to ensure the integrity of the FLEGT process, in particular through the ~~stamping out~~eradication of illegal timber and the full involvement of civil society in the preparation of measures and monitoring of results; recalls that in order to ensure effective monitoring the Agreement, and its impact on development, the Commission should continue to regularly report-back to Parliament on the implementation.

2018/12/11
Committee: DEVE

2018/0249(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Citation 1

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Articles 77(2) and 79(2)(d) and 80 thereof

2018/11/16
Committee: AFET

2018/0249(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2

(2) Pursuant to Article 80 TFEU, these policies and their implementation should be governed by the principle of solidarity and fair sharing of responsibility, including its financial implications, between ~~the~~all Member States of the European Union.

2018/11/16
Committee: AFET

2018/0249(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9

(9) Financial support from the Union budget is indispensable to the implementation of European integrated border management to support Member States to achieve the objectives of the program, which are largely in their responsibility ,in managing the crossing of the external borders efficiently and in addressing migratory challenges and potential future threats at those borders, thereby contributing to addressing serious crime with a cross-border dimension while acting in full respect of fundamental rights.

2018/11/16
Committee: AFET

2018/0249(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10

(10) To promote the implementation of the European integrated border management defined by its components in accordance with Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2016/1624: border control, search and rescue during border surveillance, risk analysis, cooperation between Member States (supported and coordinated by the European Border and Coast Guard Agency), inter-agency cooperation (including the regular exchange of information), cooperation with third countries, technical and operational measures within the Schengen area related to border control and designed to address illegal immigration and to counter cross- border crime better, use of state-of-the-art technology, quality control and solidarity mechanisms, and to ensure that it becomes an operational reality, Member States should be provided with real, adequate and substantial Union financial support in line with their own needs.

2018/11/16
Committee: AFET

2018/0249(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11

(11) As customs authorities of the Member States have been taking up an increasing number of responsibilities which often extend to the field of security and take place at the external border, ensuring uniformity in carrying out border control and customs control at the external borders needs to be addressed by providing real, adequate and substantial Union financial support to the Member States. This will not only strengthen customs controls but also facilitate legitimate trade, contributing to a secure and efficient customs union.

2018/11/16
Committee: AFET

2018/0249(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15

(15) The instrument should be implemented in full compliance with the rights and principles enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and with the Union’s international obligations as regards fundamental rights and the principle of non-refoulement.

2018/11/16
Committee: AFET

2018/0249(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 13

13. Training in the field of border management carried out with the support of this instrument shall be based on the relevant harmonised and quality-assured European education and common training standards for border and coast guarding as well as for fundamental and human rights respect and protection.

2018/11/16
Committee: AFET

2018/0249(COD)

Elly SCHLEIN, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM

Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 2 – point c

(c) any action concerning third countries, the respect of fundamental and human rights, the complementarity between the actions supported by the instrument and support provided by other Union Funds, in particular those in or in relation to third countries;

2018/11/16
Committee: AFET

2018/0248(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4 a (new)

(4a) The Fund should comply with the UN Agenda 2030 and the commitments at the international level in relation to migration and asylum, notably the Global Compact on Refugees and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.

2018/11/09
Committee: DEVE

2018/0248(COD)

Elly SCHLEIN, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20

(20) An efficient return policy is an integral part of the comprehensive migration approach the Union and its Member States pursue. The Fund should support and encourage efforts by the Member States with a view to the effective implementation and further development of common standards on return, in particular as set out in Directive 2008/115/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council15 , and of an integrated and coordinated approach to return management. ~~For sustainable return policies, t~~The Fund should equally support related measures in third countries~~, such as the reintegration of returnees~~ to facilitate and guarantee safe and dignified return and readmission as well as sustainable reintegration. _________________ 15 Directive 2008/115/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals (OJ L 348, 24.12.2008, p. 98).

2018/11/09
Committee: DEVE

2018/0248(COD)

Elly SCHLEIN, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 30

(30) Measures in and in relation to third countries supported through the Fund should complement other actions outside the Union supported through the Union’s external financing instruments. In particular, in implementing such actions,taken under the Fund in relation with Third countries should be fully coheren~~ce should be sough~~t with the principles and general objectives of the Union’s external action and foreign policy in respect of the country or region in question and the Union international commitments. In relation to the external dimension, the Fund should target support to enhance cooperation with third countries and to reinforce key aspects of migration management in areas of interest to the Union's migration policyCooperation with Third countries should not be intended to support actions that are directly oriented towards development and should not undermine the principle of policy coherence for development, as set out in Article 208 of the TFEU.

2018/11/09
Committee: DEVE

2018/0248(COD)

Elly SCHLEIN, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. The Commission and the Member States shall ensure that actions in relation with third countries are taken in coherence with other actions implemented through Union instruments, respect the principle of policy coherence for development and focus on non- development-oriented measures.

2018/11/09
Committee: DEVE

2018/0248(COD)

Elly SCHLEIN, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM

8. Whenever a Member State decides to implement projects with or in a third country with the support of the Fund, the Member State concerned shall ~~consult~~request the approval of the Commission prior to the start of the project.

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Patrizia TOIA, Elly SCHLEIN, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Considers that the NDICI appears to not substantially contain thcore elements for a more pragmatic implementation of the Union's development cooperation policy ~~and reiterates its position that a single instrument for this policy is necessary and will allow for better cooperation with partner countries and stakeholders~~; notes with concern the lack of explicit reference in the objectives to eradication of poverty , sustainable development, the Sustainable Development Goals and combating inequality; underlines that these priorities must be reflected explicitly in the objectives of the proposed instrument;

2018/09/17
Committee: DEVE

2018/0166R(APP)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Patrizia TOIA, Elly SCHLEIN, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Draws attention to the European Union's international commitments to increase its official development assistance to 0.7% of GNI and to contribute at least0.2% of GNI towards Least Developed Countries by 2030 and to provide new and additional funding for climate action in developing countries; asserts that these commitments must be properly reflected in MFF 2021-2027;

2018/09/17
Committee: DEVE

2018/0166R(APP)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Patrizia TOIA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Elly SCHLEIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Acknowledges the significant efforts made by the EC to increase the allocation given to humanitarian aid budget line in the next MFF. However, notes that this increase does not respond yet to the level of needs, which have more than doubled since 2011;

2018/09/17
Committee: DEVE

2018/0166R(APP)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Elly SCHLEIN, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Welcomes the extension scope and allocation increase of the Emergency Aid Reserve to respond also to internal crises. Reminds that priority should be guarantee to sudden onset humanitarian crises outside the EU;

2018/09/17
Committee: DEVE

2018/0166R(APP)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Patrizia TOIA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5c. Stresses the need to seize the opportunity y of the next MFF to financially support Linking Relief , Rehabilitation and Development operations; underlines that implementing the humanitarian-development nexus requires ensuring complementarity of development and humanitarian activities, and a culture shift from the EU as a donor, towards more operational flexibility and risk taking to support LRRD, people and their communities resilience, early recovery and reconstruction; call for more multi-year planning and funding in EU humanitarian activities, and the systematic introduction of crisis modifiers in EU development activities in order enable EU´s partners to effectively contribute to the nexus implementation;

2018/09/17
Committee: DEVE

2018/0166R(APP)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Elly SCHLEIN, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)

5d. Underlines that the MFF 2021- 2027 must preserve and improve the EP oversight and scrutiny over the use of funds, with a clear mechanism and decision making process for the disbursement of unallocated funds, ensuring the EP impact in the programming and implementation phase of the external financial instruments; reiterates that any proposal for increased flexibility must be balanced by an improvement of transparency and accountability;

2018/09/17
Committee: DEVE

2017/2594(RSP)

Paragraph 5

5. Highlights that building resilience in partner countries is a long-term process and that this therefore needs to be integrated into development programmes; stresses that the new Joint Communication should recognise this and support the promotion of resilience as essential element of the sustainable development strategies of partner countries, particularly in fragile states; notes that these strategies need to be context-specific and in line with the principles of effective development including ~~country~~local ownership and shared accountability to European citizens and those from partner countries; underlines in this regard the important monitoring and scrutiny role of the European Parliament and of national parliaments;

2017/03/29
Committee: DEVE

2017/2594(RSP)

Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Stresses the importance of providing technical assistance to LDCs and fragile states in particular on sustainable land management, conservation of the ecosystems and water supply, being these, fundamental issues in order to achieve benefits for both the environment and the people who depend on it;

2017/03/29
Committee: DEVE

2017/2594(RSP)

Paragraph 10

10. Underlines that the concept of resilience in the external action of the EU should maintain a global geographic scope; notes that fostering resilience should be an objective of the promotion of sustainable development in partner countries and not be limited to geographic areas facing security crises with an immediate impact on the EU; promoting resilience should in any case prioritise and pay particular attention to LDCs and fragile states;

2017/03/29
Committee: DEVE

2017/2586(RSP)

Paragraph 3

3. Welcomes the clear recognition by the new Consensus that the primary objective of EU development policy is the reduction and, in the long term, the eradication of poverty in line with the Article 208 of the TFEU; reiterates that this should be done fully in line with the principles of effective development cooperation: ownership of development priorities by developing countries, focus on results, inclusive partnerships and transparency and accountability; underlines the need to prioritize action on fragile states and global public goods, including climate change.

2017/04/26
Committee: DEVE

2017/2586(RSP)

Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Strongly welcomes the objective to pursue an end to hunger, universal health coverage, universal access to quality education and training, adequate and sustainable social protection and decent work for all, within a healthy environment;

2017/04/26
Committee: DEVE

2017/2586(RSP)

Paragraph 3 b (new)

3 b. Welcomes the commitment to implement a rights-based approach to development cooperation and the promotion of the protection and fulfilment of women's and girls' rights;

2017/04/26
Committee: DEVE

2017/2280(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Recalls that the EU’s external financing instruments (EFIs) are a complex set of tools for the EU to support and enhance its action on the international scene, and that their complexity is coordinated by the Common Implementing Rules Regulation, which ensures a ~~smooth and complementary~~harmonised approach to the implementation of all instruments;

2018/01/24
Committee: DEVE

2017/2272(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Jo LEINEN, Carlos ZORRINHO, Theresa GRIFFIN, Nessa CHILDERS, Nicola CAPUTO, Pavel POC, Soledad CABEZÓN RUIZ, Jytte GUTELAND, Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Elena VALENCIANO, Zigmantas BALČYTIS, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Liliana RODRIGUES, Soraya POST, Miroslav POCHE, Liisa JAAKONSAARI, Eugen FREUND

Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 a (new)

– having regard to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR),

2018/04/25
Committee: AFET ENVI

2017/2272(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Jo LEINEN, Liisa JAAKONSAARI, Elena VALENCIANO, Eugen FREUND, Zigmantas BALČYTIS, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Liliana RODRIGUES, Soraya POST, Carlos ZORRINHO, Theresa GRIFFIN, Nessa CHILDERS, Nicola CAPUTO, Pavel POC, Soledad CABEZÓN RUIZ, Jytte GUTELAND, Nikos ANDROULAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Recalls that the effects of climate change have a tangible impact on several aspects of human life, on peace and security as well as on business models and trade relations, and that these effects are increasingly being felt in the lives of EU citizens, as well as challenging the international community; underlines the increasing urgency of climate action and that addressing climate change requires a joint effort at international level,; urges the Commission and EU Member States to continuously facilitate the multilateral discourse as it constitutes a collective responsibility towards the entire planet, for the current and future generations; notes that the fight against climate change is necessary for the protection of Human Rights;

2018/04/25
Committee: AFET ENVI

2017/2272(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Jo LEINEN, Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Jytte GUTELAND, Soledad CABEZÓN RUIZ, Pavel POC, Nicola CAPUTO, Nessa CHILDERS, Theresa GRIFFIN, Carlos ZORRINHO, Elena VALENCIANO, Eugen FREUND, Zigmantas BALČYTIS, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Liliana RODRIGUES, Soraya POST, Simona BONAFÈ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Reaffirms the EU’s commitment to the Paris Agreement and to the UN Agenda 2030, including the SDGs, and stresses the need to implement the Paris Agreement, in particular its objectives of mitigation, adaptation and redirecting finance flows, among others, and the SDGs both in the EU and globally to develop a more sustainable economy and society; reaffirms the need for an ambitious EU climate policy and its readiness to improve the existing EU National Determined Contribution (NDC) for 2030 as well the necessity of developing a long-term strategy for 2050 in a timely manner;

2018/04/25
Committee: AFET ENVI

19a. Underlines the importance of scientific research for climate political decision making; notes that transboundary scientific exchange is a fundamental component of international cooperation; urges the Commission and the Member States to continuously support scientific organisations that work on climate risk assessment and that aim on estimating the implications of climate change and that offer possible adaption measures for political authorities; urges the EU to use their own research capacities in order to contribute to global climate action;

2018/04/25
Committee: AFET ENVI

2017/2266(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. ~~Points out~~Is aware that IUU fishing is a major economic and environmental problem worldwide, in both marine and freshwater fisheries, threatening the sustainability of fish stocks and food security, and the biodiversity of the world’s oceans; stresses that IUU fishing also undermines fisheries management efforts and constitutes unfair competition for fishers, in particular from artisanal fleets, and others who operate in accordance with the law, with serious social ~~and economic~~, economic and environmental repercussions; notes that high levels of IUU fishing tend to be more frequent in countries with weak governance;

2018/01/30
Committee: DEVE

2017/2266(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Emphasises that developing countries are particularly vulnerable to IUU fishing due to their limited capacity for control and surveillance of their waters, which further destabilises the management of their fisheries; highlights that IUU fishing deprives developing countries of revenue and food, particularly when these activities take place in the same fishing grounds where small-scale local fishers operate;

2018/01/30
Committee: DEVE

2017/2266(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9

9. Is convinced that the fight against IUU fishing requires a multilateral approach and greatly depends on a coherent response at international level, including from flag states, coastal states, port states and market states; takes the view that this response should be based on the uniform application of international law and regulations on IUU fishing and on an extensive and accurate exchange of information; calls on the international community to take similar measures to those adopted by the EU to close markets to IUU-caught fish.;

2018/01/30
Committee: DEVE

2017/2258(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Notes that in their first years of implementation, the DCI and the EDF have enabled the EU to respond to new crises and needs thanks to the broad nature of the instruments’ objectives; notes, however, that a multiplication of crises and the emergence of new political priorities have put financial pressure on the DCI, the EDF and the HAI, have stretched these instruments to their limits and have required the setting-up of new ad hoc mechanisms such as trust funds; recalls the recently adopted European Fund for Sustainable Development, which has been created to provide further leverage capacity;

2018/03/01
Committee: DEVE

2017/2258(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Is satisfied with the simplification, harmonisation and broader implementation modalities introduced in Regulation 236/2014 on common rules for the implementation of the EFIs, which has brought about more effectiveness in the DCI; notes, however, that the implementation procedures, some of them originating from the Financial Regulation, are still perceived as lengthy and burdensome; stresses that the DCI Regulation does not provide details on a monitoring and evaluation system for measuring the instrument's performance;

2018/03/01
Committee: DEVE

2017/2258(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Underlines that more efforts have to be taken in order to ensure greater coherence between geographic and thematic programmes;

2018/03/01
Committee: DEVE

2017/2258(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Notes that the EDF has played an important role in addressing poverty eradication and the attainment of the SDGs; notes, however, that evidence of progress is weaker at regional level and that the EDF has not consistently established solid synergies and coherence across its national, regional and intra-ACP cooperation programmes;

2018/03/01
Committee: DEVE

2017/2258(INI)

Emilian PAVEL, Maria Gabriela ZOANĂ, Andi CRISTEA, Maria GRAPINI, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Daciana Octavia SÂRBU, Răzvan POPA, Dan NICA, Damian DRĂGHICI, Claudiu Ciprian TĂNĂSESCU, Ioan Mircea PAŞCU, Victor BOŞTINARU, Claudia ȚAPARDEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Is of the view that in a context of multiple crises and uncertainty the EFIs need to have sufficient flexibility to be able to adjust swiftly to changing priorities and unforeseen events, and to deliver rapidly on the ground; recommends, to this end, a smart use of the EFIs reserve or the unused funds, more flexibility in the multiannual programming, an appropriate combination of funding modalities and greater simplification at implementation level; also, points out that the balance between long-term commitments to uphold reforms in partner countries and short-term actions should be reviewed;

2018/03/01
Committee: DEVE

2017/2256(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3 a (new)

Enlargement of the Schengen Area 1. Recalls that Romania and Bulgaria’s readiness for joining the Schengen Area was announced on several occasions by the President of the European Commission, and it has also been stated by the European Parliament in its resolution of 8 June 2011, by the Council in its conclusions of 9 and 10 June 2011 and 25 and 26 October 2012, and in the 3rd, 4th, 5th,6th, 7th and 8th bi-annual reports on the functioning of the Schengen Area; 2. Notes that in the European Council of 1 and 2 March 2012, the Heads of State and Government reiterated that all legal conditions had been met for the decision on Romania’s and Bulgaria’s accession to the Schengen Area to be taken, and asked the Justice and Home Affairs Council to adopt its decision in September 2012. However, no decision has been taken until this moment, with postponements on many occasions; 3. We remind that Romania and Bulgaria have successfully fulfilled already in 2011 all relevant criteria and prerequisites, as set by the Schengen evaluation procedures; we believe that additional criteria cannot be imposed on the two Member States; 4. Urges the Council to take the decision concerning the accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the Schengen Area, in line with the Schengen acquis.

2018/03/14
Committee: LIBE

2017/2226(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Highlights, however, the persistent structural problem of insufficient growth of potential output and productivity, flanked by too low a level of investments and wages, leading to persistent social inequalities; underlines the importance of socially-balanced structural reforms in order to achieve social justice, diminish income inequalities and foster convergence towards better outcomes;

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2226(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses the importance of a responsible wage increase at European level in order to boost private consumption as the main support for growth; points out the need to focus on the interaction between monetary, fiscal and incomes (including wage and profit development) policies rather than only fiscal issues;

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2226(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Recalls the importance of public investment for accelerating the pace of reforms and for boosting and leveraging investment in the EU; considers that the policy mix proposed in the AGS 2018 should be further developed to remedy the current decrease in public investment in the EU; highlights that this decrease also affects local and regional authorities, threatening their ability to deliver quality public services;

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2226(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. URecalls the Commission’s efforts to reinforce the role and visibility of social indicators encompassed in the European Semester and calls, when formulating country-specific recommendations and the euro-area recommendation, to take into consideration the existing scoreboard of key employment and social indicators; underlines that the European Semester and the Country-Specific Recommendations should achieve the objectives set out in the Pillar of Social Rights;

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2226(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Insists on the need to develop within the European semester a comprehensive and an ambitious strategy to support investment that enhances environmental sustainability; calls on the Commission, in this respect, to demonstrate how its statement that ‘the SDGs are now fully integrated in the Semester’ (Commission communication of 22 May 2017, COM(2017)0500) is reflected in Annual Growth Survey 2018 and will be reflected in the subsequent Semester process;

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2226(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Welcomes the fact that the AGS 2018 acknowledges the need for efficient and fair tax systems to ensure sustainable finance and reverse the current fall in capital income taxation; recalls that fair and growth-friendly tax systems can diminish inequalities and poverty and boost employment; supports the Commission’s initiatives to achieve increased transparency, a reformed VAT system and a common consolidated corporate tax base;

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2226(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Recalls that the role of the Member States is to guarantee equal opportunity and access to quality education and training; underlines that this requires to invest in both initial and continuing education and training and to upgrade vocational training and strengthen work- based learning, including through quality apprenticeships;

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2226(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Underlines that a fiscal capacity – on top of existing capacities, and not through redeployments that would undermine the vital role currently played by structural funds and cohesion policy – represents a necessary tool for increasing incentives for convergence and to counter asymmetric or symmetric economic shocks; stresses that the fiscal capacity should be complementary and additional to other existing instruments of the EU budget;

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2226(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Is concerned that gaps and discrimination on the labour market remain high throughout the European Union, contributing to differences in remuneration, retirement, participation in decision- making and wealth between men and women and considers that more efforts have to be made in order to improve the participation of women in the labour market, to eliminate gender pay gaps and to promote a better work-life balance for men and women; stresses the importance of preserving high standards in relation to the quality of the proposed employment;

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2226(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Underlines that any further step towards a deepening of the EMU must go hand in hand with stronger democratic ownership, legitimacy, accountability and controls; insists that, to this end, the role of the European Parliament and national parliaments must be strengthened; asks to include trade unions in the negotiation process at both national and European level; urges the launch of the long-awaited negotiation of an interinstitutional agreement (IIA) on the Semester;

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2206(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Deplores the allegations that ODA projects have negatively affected the rights of indigenous peoples; regrets that the REDD+ programme has failed to secure tenure rights for local forest communities; urges the EU to support the inclusion of human rights obligations in all domestic and international mitigation and adaptation instruments; calls on the EU Delegations to reinforce the dialogue with indigenous peoples on the ground further in order to identify and prevent human rights violations;

2018/03/02
Committee: DEVE

2017/2206(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Underlines that particular attention should be given to empowering indigenous women, in particular by strengthening their equal access to productive resources and agricultural inputs;

2018/03/02
Committee: DEVE

2017/2086(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses the need to make ~~climate finance~~the financing of both adaptation to climate change and mitigation of its effects gender-responsive; encourages the private sector and other climate finance mechanisms at national and global level to engage in gender mainstreaming during all phases of the project cycle, namely design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation;

2017/10/20
Committee: DEVE

2017/2086(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Stresses the need to address the gender-differentiated investment risks to sustainable agriculture; calls for the EU to help developing countries reform laws and eliminate practices that restrict women’s ownership of and access to productive resources, advisory or financial services;

2017/10/20
Committee: DEVE

2017/2086(INI)

Norbert NEUSER, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Vincent PEILLON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Recalls the climate change impact on the energy sector and highlights that, within the latter, women and men have different gender-defined roles; emphasizes the need to incorporate gender mainstreaming into energy policies and programmes to improve its effectiveness and efficiency;

2017/10/20
Committee: DEVE

2017/2083(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes this new communication, which aims to impart fresh impetus to the Africa-EU partnership in order to broaden and intensify it, gearing it to prosperity and stability on the two continents, in accordance with the commitments given in subscribing to the SDGs, the new European consensus for development, which serves as guideline for European development policy, the EU Global Strategy on Foreign and Security Policy and Agenda 2063;

2017/09/07
Committee: DEVE

2017/2083(INI)

Norbert NEUSER, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Elly SCHLEIN, Vincent PEILLON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Underlines the need for a stronger political partnership with shared responsibilities between the EU and Africa, that will give greater African ownership on programs and goals based on shared values and interest;

2017/09/07
Committee: DEVE

2017/2083(INI)

Norbert NEUSER, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Elly SCHLEIN, Vincent PEILLON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Underlines within the EU/African partnership the necessity to create decent jobs and ensure decent payment and to link investment to it; calls to comply with ILO standards, including those related to a safe and healthy working environment; stresses the importance to respect and strengthen the role of social partners amongst others in involving them in monitoring, consultation processes, policy making and implementation notably of social, trade and economic policies and to support the organisation and carrying into effect of social dialogue and collective bargaining;

2017/09/07
Committee: DEVE

2017/2083(INI)

Norbert NEUSER, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Maria NOICHL, Vincent PEILLON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)

18b. Recognises the fundamental role of small-scale producers to attain food security; calls for support to notably small-holder farmers and pastoralists through building up and investing in infrastructure that facilitates the regional food supply and diversity of food production and that are in line with the Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems of the CFS, in granting them access to land and water, in preserving healthy water and soil ecosystems and respecting non- documented traditional use thereof, in guaranteeing access to open source seeds in great variety that also contribute to biodiversity, in facilitating participatory land use planning and rangeland management of small-scale producers, and in supporting the establishment of cooperatives;

2017/09/07
Committee: DEVE

2017/2083(INI)

Norbert NEUSER, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Elly SCHLEIN, Maria NOICHL, Vincent PEILLON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20a. Recognises that the increasing population in Africa is both a challenge and an opportunity for the continent and therefore calls on the EU to be committed in promoting appropriate public policies and investments in health, education, and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) to ensure young people are equipped to make informed decisions about their SRH, without which social, economic and environmental resilience cannot be reached;

2017/09/07
Committee: DEVE

2017/2083(INI)

Norbert NEUSER, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Elly SCHLEIN, Vincent PEILLON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21a. Calls on the EU to support Africa to build the capacity of its administrative structure by opening channels for more young Africans participation in the Erasmus+ programme: mobility of staff and students and academic cooperation by providing trainings for teachers in a few key disciplines in order to improve students' skills and education quality and relevance;

2017/09/07
Committee: DEVE

2017/2083(INI)

Norbert NEUSER, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Elly SCHLEIN, Vincent PEILLON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Considers it important to support African countries in establishing effective health systems; in this context, the importance of investing in science, technology and innovation (STI) to tackle the still huge burden of poverty-related and neglected diseases (PRNDs) that disproportionately affect the most marginalised African populations, and thereby addressing the critical need to achieve the SDGs;

2017/09/07
Committee: DEVE

2017/2070(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Maria NOICHL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Reiterates the importance of the multilateral system as the most effective way to achieve an inclusive global trading system; which works in the interest of developing countries; regrets in this regard the failure of the WTO 11th Ministerial Conference to make progress on issues of key importance to developing countries; welcomes however enhanced preferential treatment previously secured at the WTO for LDCs including preferential Rules of Origin and treatment for service providers; further welcomes the extension of the WTO waiver for pharmaceutical products for LDCs until 2033; calls on the Commission, in this regard, to ensure that trade provisions do not hinder access to medicine, and TRIPS+ provisions such as data exclusivity are not included in trade agreements with developing countries;

2018/01/12
Committee: DEVE

2017/2070(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Maria NOICHL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Emphasises the importance of comprehensive provisions on social, labour and environmental standards in trade agreements; urges the Commission to include a sanctions-based, binding and enforceable chapter on Trade and Sustainable Development in all trade agreements; insists strong provisions to tackle tax evasion and avoidance are included in EU FTAs and preferential trade regimes;

2018/01/12
Committee: DEVE

2017/2070(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Welcomes the conclusion of the Regulation on Conflict Minerals1 and calls for its speedy implementation including the accompanying measures; encourages the Commission to introduce greater transparency and accountability in global supply chains, including binding due diligence obligations for supply chains in the garment sector; _________________ 1 Regulation (EU) 2017/821 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2017 laying down supply chain due diligence obligations for Union importers of tin, tantalum and tungsten, their ores, and gold originating from conflict-affected and high-risk areas, OJ L 130, 19.5.2017, p. 1.

2018/01/12
Committee: DEVE

2017/2070(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Recalls that EU trade and development policy must contribute towards regional integration and the incorporation of developing countries into global value chains; calls on the Commission to continue to support the development of the Continental Free Trade Area in Africa through political and technical assistance;

2018/01/12
Committee: DEVE

2017/2070(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Notes the progress on the conclusion and implementation of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) and calls on the Commission to advance dialogue in a spirit of genuine partnership~~; calls~~ in order to address outstanding issues; recalls EPAs are asymmetrical agreements with equal importance given to development and trade aspects; calls in this regard for the timely implementation of accompanying measures including the disbursement of EDF resources;

2018/01/12
Committee: DEVE

2017/2070(INI)

Nicola CAPUTO, Renata BRIANO, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10

10. Stresses the importance of robust monitoring mechanisms in trade agreements with developing countries~~, including~~; recalls that monitoring and enforcement of sustainable development provisions require sustained and comprehensive engagement with civil society organisations including local partners; welcomes the fact that EU monitoring missions are being sent to all GSP+ countries and urges the Commission to carry out a critical assessment of progress reports in order to evaluate the ability of trade preferences to deliver development outcomes;

2018/01/12
Committee: DEVE

2017/2055(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Notes that intensified activities in coastal and marine waters increasingly require the implementation of Maritime Spatial Planning; calls on the Commission to work towards international guidelines on Maritime Spatial Planning and help expand Marine Protected Areas worldwide with funding under Horizon 2020 and LIFE programmes;

2017/05/08
Committee: PECH

2017/2055(INI)

Nicola CAPUTO, Renata BRIANO, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Commends the EU's international leadership in achieving concrete progress in the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) and its strong commitment in implementing effective measures against IUU fishing; recalls the EU's efforts to reinforce its international actions against IUU fishing at bilateral, regional and multilateral level, including by continuing bilateral dialogues with third partners, using vessel tracking instruments and securing greater role for key international agencies such as Interpol; calls on the Member States' authorities to actively support the Commission's work in establishing an electronic tool for management of catch certificates;

2017/05/08
Committee: PECH

2017/2055(INI)

Nicola CAPUTO, Renata BRIANO, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Looks forward to the Commission's proposals on coordinating EU research and observation activities with international partners, and exploring ways to improve research quality inter alia through extending the existing EU research and observation tools and activities, including the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) in order to put in place a shared database, the European Earth Observation Programme (Copernicus), the European Global Ocean Observing System (EuroGOOS) and the Joint Programming Initiative 'Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans' (JPI Oceans), all with the aim of creating an international marine and maritime data network;

2017/05/08
Committee: PECH

2017/2052(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Vincent PEILLON, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Considers that the EU’s commitment to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) worldwide must guide the preparation of the next multiannual financial framework (MFF) ~~and that the EU’s support for such implementation~~ , focusing on long-term objectives such as eradication of poverty, tackling inequality and exclusion, promoting de~~veloping countries must increase~~mocratic governance and human rights, and enhancing sustainable and inclusive development;

2017/12/11
Committee: DEVE

2017/2052(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Vincent PEILLON, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Recalls that EU Development Cooperation has as its primary objective the eradication of poverty as enshrined in article 208 TFEU; calls for the next MFF to maintain the integrity of development and humanitarian aid, which should support the capacity and interests of developing countries in line with internationally agreed development effectiveness principles;

2017/12/11
Committee: DEVE

2017/2052(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Vincent PEILLON, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Underlines, in this context, the need to ~~focus on the health, food, education, water and sanitation, energy, industry, innovation and infrastructure and governance SDG~~increase the level of resources allocated to development cooperation in order to implement Agenda 2030 in an integrated and holistic way; emphasises the need to fulfil EU commitments to allocate 20% of its ODA to social inclusion and human development with a focus on education and health; recalls EU commitment to gender mainstreaming in the next MFF and the need to invest in powerful enablers to sustainable human development such as sexual and reproductive health and rights;

2017/12/11
Committee: DEVE

2017/2052(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Vincent PEILLON, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Underlines, in this context, the need to focus on the health, security, food, education, employment, water and sanitation, energy, industry, innovation and infrastructure and governance SDGs;

2017/12/11
Committee: DEVE

2017/2052(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Points to the crucial role of official development assistance (ODA) in least developed countries and fragile states; notes its potential to facilitate the mobilisation of financing for development from other sources, private and public, domestic and international; supports the EU’s new efforts at stimulating private investment through blending grants and loans and providing guarantees, also in countries where the needs are great, but and recalls EU commitment under the Addis Ababa Action Agenda to reach 0,20% of ODA/GNI to least developed countries, abiding by the pri~~sks are high; notes that important funding needs will arise as a result~~nciple of leaving no one behind;

2017/12/11
Committee: DEVE

2017/2052(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Vincent PEILLON, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls for the next MFF ~~also~~ to reflect the unprecedented needs for humanitarian aid, caused by natural and man-made disasters driven, inter alia, by climate change and human insecurity, conflicts and forced displacement; calls in particular for maintaining a separate instrument for humanitarian aid with its own legal basis, budget and long term funding strategy, as well as a substantial humanitarian aid reserve;

2017/12/11
Committee: DEVE

2017/2052(INI)

Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Elly SCHLEIN, Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Isabelle THOMAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls for the next MFF also to reflect the unprecedented needs for humanitarian aid, caused by natural and man-made disasters driven, inter alia, by climate change and to consider earmarking more resources to the civil protection instrument and equip their use with more flexibility;

2017/12/11
Committee: DEVE

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Believes that the next MFF should enable the Union to provide solutions and emerge strengthened from the crises of the decade: the economic and financial downturn, the phenomenon of migration and refugees, climate change and natural disasters, terrorism and instability, persistent poverty, increasing inequality, to name but a few; underlines that these global, cross-border challenges with domestic implications reveal the interdependency of our economies and societies, and point to the need for joint actions; stresses in this context the obligation to align the EU’s budgetary framework with the Sustainable Development Goals which provide a global roadmap for more sustainable, equitable and prosperous societies within planetary boundaries; recalls that all EU member states and the European Commission itself had signed up the SDG Declaration in November 2015

2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG

2017/2052(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Vincent PEILLON, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Points out the need to reinforce the essential role of the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights in promoting European values worldwide and consolidating human rights and democracy in EU external action;

2017/12/11
Committee: DEVE

2017/2052(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Vincent PEILLON, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Calls for the next MFF to adequately resource the EEAS and EU Delegations, in order to allow them to meet their objectives and obligations in the field of development cooperation and humanitarian aid;

2017/12/11
Committee: DEVE

2017/2052(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Vincent PEILLON, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4c. Calls for the next MFF to be consistent with the objectives of the Paris Agreement, underlines the need of scaling up financing for climate action in developing countries, supporting climate mitigation and adaptation and the protection of biodiversity; calls for effective mainstreaming of climate change and environment issues in EU external financing instruments;

2017/12/11
Committee: DEVE

2017/2052(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Vincent PEILLON, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. ~~Emphasises that losses of f~~Underlines that the United Kingdom’s contribution amoundts ~~for~~to 15 % of the EU’s development cooperation caused by Brexit must be compensated for; supports the integration of the European Development Fund (EDF) into the EU budget in the context of an overall increase the total of EU-managed ODA; aid budget, calls for a review of existing tools and instruments that can allow for a future UK collaboration in EU development policy; emphasises that eventual losses of funds for EU development cooperation caused by Brexit must be compensated for;

2017/12/11
Committee: DEVE

2017/2052(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Vincent PEILLON, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Emphasises that losses of funds for EU development cooperation caused by Brexit must be compensated for; supports the integration of the European Development Fund (EDF) into the EU budget in the context of an overall increase the total of EU-managed ODA; is encouraged by the advantages that budgetisation may bring such as stronger democratic legitimacy of the EDF together with increased efficiency and effectiveness of EU development aid;

2017/12/11
Committee: DEVE

2017/2052(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Reiterates its position that the European Development Fund (EDF) should be integrated into the Union budget; stresses, however, that such integration should be conditional to a geographical allocation of funds based on countries’ needs and an ambitious upward revision of the ceilings to avoid a reduction of the current EDF resources;

2017/12/11
Committee: DEVE

2017/2052(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Vincent PEILLON, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. ~~Draws attention to the ODA commitments entered into by th~~Calls for the next MFF to enforce EU’s and ~~its~~the Member States international commitments, including that of increasing their ODA to 0.7 % of GNI by 2030 in a timely manner; recalls that EU-managed ODA contributes towards the honouring of Member States’ commitments and can significantly increase the development effectiveness of ODA expenditure, including through reduced fragmentation and the facilitation of an incentive-based approach with partner countries.;

2017/12/11
Committee: DEVE

2017/2052(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Vincent PEILLON, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Draws attention to the ODA commitments entered into by the EU and its Member States, including that of increasing their ODA to 0.7 % of GNI by 2030 and points out that the next MFF should take this into account; recalls that EU-managed ODA contributes towards the honouring of Member States’ commitments and can significantly increase the development effectiveness of ODA expenditure, including through reduced fragmentation and the facilitation of an incentive-based approach with partner countries.

2017/12/11
Committee: DEVE

2017/2052(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Believes that a genuine simplification of EU external financing instruments could enhance coherence and facilitate democratic control and scrutiny; stresses however that such simplification should respect European Parliament’s right of scrutiny and development effectiveness principles, and that EU development funding should retain its fundamental objective of poverty eradication, focusing in particular on LDCs and fragile contexts;

2017/12/11
Committee: DEVE

2017/2052(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Vincent PEILLON, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Recalls that the EU budget dedicated to EU external action has constantly been fully mobilised and reinforced, exhausting all available margins to tackle the multiplication of humanitarian and other emergencies around Europe; underlines the need for flexibility to allow funding to be deployed more rapidly in reaction to unforeseen developments and crises; stresses however that greater flexibility should not come at the expense of aid effectiveness principles and aid predictability, in detriment of those instruments designed to serve long- term development goals, or short-cutting parliamentary scrutiny and consultations with partner countries and civil society;

2017/12/11
Committee: DEVE

2017/2052(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Vincent PEILLON, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)

6c. Believes that the promotion of peace, security and justice in developing countries is crucial and recognises the need for security-related expenditure to deliver on SDG 16;reiterates that the creation of a specific and separate instrument in support of capacity building for security and development should avoid the securitization of development instruments and funding;

2017/12/11
Committee: DEVE

2017/2052(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Vincent PEILLON, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 e (new)

6e. Strongly believes that Trust Funds benefitting of development funds, such as the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa, should serve genuine long-term development objectives and respond to partner countries’ development needs; considers that the mobilisation of the EU budget to respond to the migration challenge should be accompanied by a common policy on this field and that actions taken in this area should not come at the expense of EU's development policies;

2017/12/11
Committee: DEVE

2017/2052(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Vincent PEILLON, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 f (new)

6f. Notes that development assistance can play an important role in the area of migration in tackling the causes of forced displacement and enhancing the benefits of migration and mobility for development; considers however that ODA should not be used to cover in-donor refugee costs, the externalisation of migration policies outside EU borders or the costs of returns and readmission to countries of origin; rejects the idea of conditionality of aid based on border control, management of migratory flows or readmission agreements as the basis of partnership and cooperation with third countries;

2017/12/11
Committee: DEVE

2017/2052(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Vincent PEILLON, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 g (new)

6g. Notes the potential role of ODA to facilitate the mobilisation of financing for development from other sources, private and public, domestic and international; supports the EU’s effort at stimulating private investment through blending grants and loans and providing guarantees; stresses, however, that private sector engagement shall abide by strong transparency and accountability standards, bringing in measurable and additional development impact with solid social, environmental and human rights safeguards in place;

2017/12/11
Committee: DEVE

2017/2052(INI)

Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Inés AYALA SENDER, Elly SCHLEIN, Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Soraya POST, Ramón JÁUREGUI ATONDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Union to assume its role in twohree emerging policy areas with internal and external dimensions, which have appeared in the course of the current MFF: ~~on the one hand, by develop~~– by developing and funding a comprehensive asylum, migration and integration policy and addressing the root causes of migration and displacement in third countries and on the other hand, by providing security to European citizens and promoting stability abroad, notably by pooling research efforts and capabilities in the area of defence; on the other hand, promoting stability and safeguarding human rights abroad notably by building capacity in conflict prevention and mediation; – by promoting stability and safeguarding human rights abroad notably by building capacity in conflict prevention and mediation, and development of the adequate infrastructures and logistic capacities which guarantee the needed mobility – by pooling research efforts and capabilities in the area of defence, stresses that actions taken in this areas should not come at the expense of EU’s development policies, preventing diversion of ODA from its main objective of poverty eradication

2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG

2017/2052(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Vincent PEILLON, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 h (new)

6h. Reiterates its unequivocal call for continued and increased EU support and funding for CSOs as development actors in their own right, and for their full and free involvement in political dialogue as well as in programming and implementation across EU cooperation instruments;

2017/12/11
Committee: DEVE

2017/2052(INI)

Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Elly SCHLEIN, Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 54

54. Considers also that, when a certain share of off-budget operations is deemed necessary to achieve certain specific objectives, for example through the use of financial instruments or trust funds, these should be kept at a limited level and duration, be fully transparent, and backed by strong decision- making and accountability provisions;

2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG

2017/2052(INI)

Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Elly SCHLEIN, Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69

69. Calls, therefore, for a substantial increase in the overall budget earmarked for the FP9 programme in the next MFF that should be set at a level of at least EUR 120 billion; considers this level to be appropriate for securing Europe’s global competitiveness, scientific and industrial leadership, for responding to societal challenges, and for helping to achieve the EU’s climate goals and the Sustainable Development Goals;

2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG

2017/2052(INI)

Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Elly SCHLEIN, Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 88 b (new)

88b. Recalls that the EU budget dedicated to EU external action has been constantly mobilised and reinforced, exhausting all available margins to tackle the multiplication of humanitarian and other emergencies around Europe; underlines the need for more flexible procedure to allow funding to be deployed more rapidly in reaction to unforeseen developments and crises; stresses however that greater flexibility should not come at the expense of aid effectiveness and aid predictability, or short-cutting parliamentary scrutiny and consultations with partner countries and civil society;

2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG

2017/2052(INI)

Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Elly SCHLEIN, Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 89

89. Emphasises that substantial additional funding is necessary for the Union to play its role in the framework of its global strategy and of its neighbourhood, development and enlargement policies; draws attention to the commitment by the EU and its Member States to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and to increase their official development assistance (ODA) to 0.7 % of GDP by 2030; expects the next MFF to reflect the unprecedented needs of neighbourhood countries struggling with conflicts and the consequences of the challenges presented by migration and refugees, as well as the needs for humanitarian aid as a result of natural and manmade disasters;

2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG

2017/2052(INI)

Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Elly SCHLEIN, Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 89 b (new)

89b. Recalls that EU Development Cooperation has as its primary objective the eradication of poverty as enshrined in article 208TFEU; calls for the next MFF to maintain the integrity of dedicated instruments for development and humanitarian aid in order to serve the interests of developing countries in line with internationally agreed development effectiveness principles; recalls EU commitments to allocate 20% of its ODA to social inclusion and human development, including sexual and reproductive health and rights, to reach 0,20 % of ODA to Least Developed Countries, to gender mainstreaming and to ensure that Policy Coherence for Development is respected throughout all EU policies;

2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG

2017/2052(INI)

Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Elly SCHLEIN, Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 89 c (new)

89c. Calls for the next MFF to reflect the unprecedented needs for humanitarian aid, caused by natural and man-made disasters driven, inter alia, by climate change, through an increased allocation; underlines that humanitarian aid must be delivered according to the humanitarian principles enshrined in the Treaty and the European Consensus, and in a predictable, timely and flexible manner; calls for a separate instrument and an own budget line for humanitarian aid; draws the attention to the need to avoid any gap between commitment and payment appropriations for humanitarian aid;

2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG

2017/2052(INI)

Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Elly SCHLEIN, Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 90

90. Is ready to consider a streamlined architecture of the external financing instruments, as long as the Commission and the High Representative clearly demonstrate the expected advantages of such changes such as enhanced coherence and democratic scrutiny, and provided that the specificities autonomy and objectives of the underlying Union policies, in particular EU Development Cooperation and Humanitarian aid are respected; notes that such architecture should include a budgetised EDF, a more transparent incorporation of trust funds and facilities guided by the key principles of democratic ownership and development effectiveness, as well as a possible continuation of the External Investment Plan based on its evaluation demonstrating its development additionality and human rights, social and environmental impact; could consider, as part of an overall increase in the external financing instruments, a larger unallocated reserve aimed at increasing in-built flexibility, but stresses that this should not be achieved at the expense of long-term geographic and thematic priorities; in addition, considers that the streamlined architecture calls for proper check and balances and transparency, including an enhanced strategic policy input and scrutiny of implementation by the EP.

2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG

2017/2052(INI)

Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Elly SCHLEIN, Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 90 a (new)

90a. Notes that development assistance can play an important role in the area of migration tackling the causes of forced displacement and enhancing the benefits of migration and mobility for development; considers, however, that ODA should not be used to cover in-donor refugee costs, the externalisation of migration policies outside EU borders or the costs of returns and readmission to countries of origin; rejects the idea of conditionality of aid based on border control, management of migratory flows or readmission agreements as the basis of cooperation with third countries;

2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG

2017/2052(INI)

Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Elly SCHLEIN, Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 90 b (new)

90b. Notes the potential role of ODA to facilitate the mobilisation of financing for development from other sources, private and public, domestic and international; supports the EU’s effort at stimulating private investment through blending grants and loans and providing guarantees; stresses, however, that private sector engagement shall abide by strong transparency and accountability standards, bringing in measurable and additional development impact with solid social, environmental and human rights safeguards in place;

2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG

2017/2052(INI)

Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Elly SCHLEIN, Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 90 c (new)

90c. Reiterates its unequivocal call for continued and increased EU support and funding for CSOs as development actors in their own right, and for their full and free involvement in political dialogue as well as in programming and implementation across EU cooperation instruments;[

2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG

2017/2043(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Commends the role of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) in bridging the investment gap across the EU and supports its extension until 2020; underlines its position in the on-going legislative negotiations that no further cuts should be incurred on existing EU programmes in order to finance this extension; points to persistent differences in the eligibility criteria, regulations, timeframe for reporting and the application of state aid rules, which hinder combined usage of EFSI and ESI Fund and hopes the revision of the Financial Regulation will be performed in a timely manner so as to simplify the combination of financing and avoid competition and overlaps;

2017/06/21
Committee: BUDG

2017/2043(BUD)

Nicola CAPUTO, Biljana BORZAN, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Welcomes the Commission’s proposal to fund the continuation of the Youth Employment Initiative and notes the proposed mobilisation of EUR 233.3 million from the global margin for commitments; calls on the Commission and the Member States to follow the indications of the recent report of the European Court of Auditors (ECA) in order to carry out an impact assessment specifying expected costs and benefits; recalls that any increase in the dedicated allocation for YEI should be matched with the corresponding amounts from the European Social Fund (ESF);

2017/06/21
Committee: BUDG

2017/2043(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45

45. Notes the overall increase in draft budget 2018 for decentralised agencies by +3.1 % (not taking into account assigned revenues) and +146 posts but highlights wide differences between ‘cruising speed’ agencies (-11.2 %) and ‘new tasks’ agencies (+10.5%); assumes that these figures properly reflect the fact that since 2013 most agencies have completed or even exceeded the 5 % staff cuts (some are to complete them in 2018), while staff increases in the same period were confined to agencies dealing with migration and security (+183 posts), financial supervisory agencies (+28 posts) and some agencies entrusted with new tasks (ERA, EASA, GSA) (+18 posts); notes with concern that staff cuts are also applied regardless of increases in some agencies' core tasks, in particular when these are financed by applicant's fees; reiterates its call, as expressed in the 2015 discharge report, to safeguard and where necessary provide additional resources to ensure the proper functioning of the agencies, including the Agencies Network’s Permanent Secretariat (now called Shared Support Office);

2017/06/21
Committee: BUDG

2017/2043(BUD)

Nicola CAPUTO, Biljana BORZAN, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46 a (new)

46 a. Notes EU agencies currently located in the UK will be facing an additional workload and budgetary needs in 2018 as a consequence of the decision of the UK to withdraw from the Union; calls on the Commission to make available additional staff and budget resources in 2018, to ensure that these agencies can both continue to carry out their tasks effectively and launch all required activities in preparation of their relocation in 2019 including significant IT and infrastructure investments; proposes in addition that the agencies, in the spirit of sound financial management, be authorised to maintain a budgetary reserve to respond to unforeseen costs and unfavourable exchange rate fluctuations that may be incurred in 2018 or beyond;

2017/06/21
Committee: BUDG

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)

– having regard to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to the UN human rights conventions and the optional protocols thereto,

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 a (new)

– having regard to the UN Security Council Resolutions 1325, 1820, 1888, 1889, 1960, 2106, 2122 and 2242 on Women Peace and Security,

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 b (new)

– having regard to the European Parliament resolution from the 16th of March 2017 on the EU Priorities for the UN Human Rights Council session in 2017,

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 c (new)

– having regard to the EU Annual Report on human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union´s policy on the matter 2015,

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 d (new)

– having regard to its resolution of 28 April 2016 on attacks on hospitals and schools as violations of international humanitarian law,

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)

– having regard to the revised EU Guidelines on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of the Child - Leave No Child Behind, adopted 6 March 2017,

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas the EU and its Member States were instrumental in shaping the global UN 2030 Agenda, EU remains committed to be a front-runner in mobilizing all means of implementation and a strong follow-up and review mechanism to ensure progress and accountability; that this is reflected in the EU external action and other policies across EU financial instruments;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Soraya POST, Barbara LOCHBIHLER, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas the EU’s security environment is increasingly unstable and volatile owing to a large number of longstanding or newly emerging challenges, including violent conflicts, terrorism, organised crime, unprecedented ~~waves of migration~~migratory pressures and climate change, which are impossible to address at national level and require regional and global responses;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1 a (new)

to support the strengthening of the coherence, synergies and complementarities of the UN peacebuilding architecture and of UN Security Council Resolutions on Women, Peace and Security; to support the implementation of the UN Security Council's resolution 2242 on women, peace and security, which makes women the central component in all efforts to address global challenges, including rising violent extremism, climate change, migration, sustainable development, peace and security;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Soraya POST, Barbara LOCHBIHLER, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1 b (new)

stresses the importance of women's equal and full participation as active agents and the incorporation of a gender analysis in all areas concerning prevention and resolution of conflicts, notably peacekeeping operations, humanitarian operations, post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation processes in line with landmark UNSC resolutions 1325, 1820, 1888, 1889, 1960, 2106, 2122 and 2242 on women, peace and security; calls for the development of indicators to measure progress on the participation of women in peace and security building;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Soraya POST, Barbara LOCHBIHLER, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1 c (new)

to remind of the impact of sexual violence in conflict on the maintenance of peace and security and recalls that sexual violence such as rape is used as a tactic of war and constitutes a war crime, in this context to ensure that safe medical attendance to female war rape victims are provided in line with the Commission's review of its humanitarian aid policy;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph b

(b) to push for stronger multilateral commitments to find sustainable political solutions to current conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa, particularly in Syria, Yemen and Libya; to continue to support UN special envoys’' work, actions and initiatives aimed at solving these conflicts; to call for continued humanitarian, financial and political assistance from the international community in order to address the humanitarian situation and to work towards the immediate cessation of violence; of International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law, including the direct targeting of civil infrastructure and civilian populations; to support efforts deployed by the UN to find a sustainable resolution to the conflict in Syria and to continue to back the EU’'s role in the humanitarian field and the EU’'s regional initiative; to call on all States Parties to the UN Refugee Convention to recognize the Syrian community's right to safety and protection and the obligation of State Parties to offer sanctuary; to support the UN peace plan initiative in Yemen and to tackle the ongoing humanitarian crisis as a matter of urgency; to call for stronger support for the UN-backed government in Libya;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph c

(c) to call for a stronger empowerment of Iraqi institutions and for the need to work towards a more inclusive society and the reintegration of all the ethnic and religious minorities that have been displaced; while engaging the most vulnerable people (i.e. children, youth, women, people with disabilities) at all levels of decision-making;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph h

(h) to further encourage the UN’'s efforts to bring about peace in Afghanistan and to overcome the fragile security environment in the country; to strengthen support for local actors by empowering the most vulnerable (especially children, youth, women) to act as agents of change and create the spaces to engage them in all phases of humanitarian and peacebuilding work;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph i

(i) to strongly condemn the actions of the North Korean leadership that threaten peace and security in the Korean peninsula and beyond; to draw up and implement a ~~strong~~resilient response, supported by a broad and sufficiently robust international consensus, in order to deter the North Korean regime from further developing hostile nuclear capabilities and carrying out extra- territorial assassinations, attacks and kidnappings;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph j

(j) to significantly increase Member State support for UN peacekeeping and peacebuilding operations, in particular by contributing personnel and equipment, and to enhance the EU’'s role as a facilitator in this respect; to ensure better visibility for this support and contribution; to further develop procedures for the use of EU Common Security and Defence Policy in support of UN operations; to support the UNSC reform of its use of veto power when evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity occur;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph k

(k) to continue to support the efforts to further operationalise R2P and to support the UN in continuing to play a critical role in assisting countries in the implementation of R2P and the role of women in peace- building;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph k a (new)

(ka) to promote a broad definition of the human security concept and the Responsibility to Protect principle, bringing it more closely together with human rights, gender equality and human development;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph m

(m) to support the UN in making counter-terrorism a key element of its prevention agenda in line with the EU’'s engagement in preventive measures to combat terrorism and counter violent extremism; to strengthen joint EU-UN efforts in combating the root causes of terrorism, particularly by supporting resilient societies in countering hybrid threats and developing research and capacity-building in cyber defence; to rely on the existing peacebuilding initiatives set up by local ~~partners~~actors (including young peacebuilders in line with the UN Security Council Resolution 2250) to devise, implement, and develop approaches to counter radicalisation and terrorist recruitment;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph n a (new)

(na) to recall that the promotion and protection for human rights and respect for the rule of law are key elements in counter-terrorism policies;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph r

(r) to work towards more effective action against the diversion of and illicit trade in weapons and ammunitions, including small arms and light weapons, in particular by developing a weapons tracking system; to request the UN Members to actively take steps towards global disarmament;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph r a (new)

(ra) to pay special attention to the technological progress in the field of weaponisation of robotics and in particular, on the armed robots and drones and their conformity with the international law; to establish legal framework on drones and armed robots in line with the existing international humanitarian law to prevent this technology to be misused on illegal activities by state and non-state actors;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph s

(s) to call for a strengthening of the global response to migrat~~ion~~ory pressures, by building on the successful UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting to Address Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants of 19 September 2016 and addressing the challenges and security concerns that arise, such as i~~llegal~~rregular migration and human trafficking;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph t a (new)

(ta) to call on all countries to adopt a human rights-based approach to migration, which safeguards the rights of migrants and refugees in migration policies and management, paying particular attention to the situation of marginalised and disadvantaged groups of migrants and refugees, such as women and children; to call on all states to address gender-related violence against women and girls, and stresses the importance of designing migration policy from a gender perspective in order to respond to their particular needs;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph u

(u) to demand that greater efforts be made to prevent irregular migration and to fight people smuggling and human trafficking, in particular by introducing safe and legal routes for migrants and refugees and by combating criminal networks through timely and effective exchange of relevant intelligence; to improve methods to identify and protect victims and to reinforce cooperation with third countries with a view to tracking, seizing and recovering the proceeds of criminal activities in this sector; to insist at UN level on the importance of the ratification and full implementation of the UN Convention against Transnational Organised Crime and the Protocols thereto against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air and to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph u a (new)

(ua) to requests the EU to refrain from the externalisation of the refugee crisis management and to remain coherent with our internal and external policies in order to maintain our credibility;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph v a (new)

(va) to promote, strengthen and mainstream activities supporting equality between women and men; to support measures strengthening leadership and participation of women at all levels of decision-making; to call on states to secure equal representation for women in public institutions and public life, including special attention to the inclusion of minority women;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph v e (new)

(ve) supports the EU's efforts to promote children's rights, in particular by contributing to ensuring children's access to water, sanitation, healthcare and education, by ensuring the rehabilitation and reintegration of children enlisted in armed groups, by eliminating child labour, torture, child witchcraft, trafficking, child marriage and sexual exploitation, and by assisting children in armed conflicts and ensuring their access to education in conflict zones and refugee camps;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5 a (new)

reiterates that indigenous peoples today are among the most disadvantaged and vulnerable groups of people in the world; calls on the international community to recognize and dedicate the means necessary for the special measures required to protect the rights of indigenous peoples and maintain their distinct cultures and way of life; to recognise and protect the exceptional vulnerable situation indigenous human rights defenders have due to climate change and exploitation of their lands;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph v f (new)

(vf) to call for the UN member states, including the EU Member States, to implement the recommendations of the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5 b (new)

reiterates that the Roma people are among the most discriminated against minorities in the world and that the discrimination is getting worse in several countries; reminds that the Roma issue is a global issue as they live on all continents; calls on the UN to install a special rapporteur on Roma issues to raise awareness and to safeguard that the UN programs will also reach the Roma;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph w

(w) to continue to advocate freedom of religion or belief; to call for greater efforts to protect the rights of religious and other minorities; to call for greater protection of religious minorities against persecution and violence; to call for the repeal of laws criminalising blasphemy or apostasy, which serve as a pretext for the persecution of religious minorities and non-believers; to support the work of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief; to actively work for UN recognition of the genocide of religious, ethnic and other minorities committed by ISIL/Daesh, and for referral to the International Criminal Court (ICC) of cases of suspected crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph y

(y) to strengthen the role of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the international criminal justice system in order to promote accountability and to end impunity; to ensure its independence and provide the Court with strong diplomatic, political and financial support, including in the UN; to encourage dialogue and cooperation between the ICC, the UN, the UNSC and the UN´s agencies;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph z

(z) ~~to maintain strong engagement in promoting an end to the death penalty worldwide; to~~recalls the EU's position on zero tolerance for the death penalty and reiterates its long-standing opposition to the death penalty, torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment in all cases and under all circumstances; underlines the importance of the EU continueing to adv~~ocate zero tolerance for the death penalty; to call for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty and to further work towards its universal abolition;~~ ance the moratorium on the death penalty and emphasises once again that the abolition of the death penalty contributes to the enhancement of human dignity;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph aa

(aa) to underline the leading role of the EU in the process that led to the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Agenda 2030) and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the General Assembly in September 2015; to take concrete steps to ensure the efficient implementation of Agenda 2030 and the 17 SDGs as important instruments for prevention and development; as well as a priority for all external and internal action, especially when it comes to development cooperation financing; to recognize the significant role civil society organizations plays to successfully implement Agenda 2030 and to achieve the SDGs; to recognize the instrumental role and impact of the SDG's for international peace and security;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph aa a (new)

(aaa) To increase EU's leading role in leaving no-one behind while ensuring the most vulnerable, especially children, young people, women, people with disabilities, are consulted and engaged in the implementation and monitoring of Agenda 2030; to emphasise the role local actors play in ensuring resilient and peaceful communities as well as a long- term sustaining peace and development;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph aa b (new)

(aab) to urge the EU to seek for cross- national initiatives in promotion and protection of women´s rights; calls for the full implementation of Beijing Platform for Action and the ICPD Programme of Action;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph ab – subparagraph 1 (new)

to participate actively in the debate on the term 'climate refugee', including its recognition of a legal definition in international law or in any legally binding international agreements;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7 a (new)

Business and human rights

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7 b (new)

to further support the work of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on improving accountability and access to remedy for victims of business- related human rights abuse in order to contribute to a fair and more effective system of domestic law remedies, in particular in cases of gross human rights abuses in the business sector; to call on all governments to fulfil their duties in securing respect for human rights, access to justice for victims who face both practical and legal challenges to access remedies at national and international levels, with regard to human rights violations linked to business;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph ad

(ad) to support actively a comprehensive reform of the United Nations Security Council on the basis of a broad consensus in order to better reflect the new world reality and to re-launch the question of the necessity for the EU single seat; to promote the revitalisation of the work of the General Assembly, and improved coordination and coherence of the action of all UN institutions, which should enhance the efficiency, effectiveness, legitimacy, transparency, accountability, capacity and representativeness of the system;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph ad – subparagraph 1 (new)

reminds of the importance of gender and human rights mainstreaming in all UN activates; calls for the dedication of sufficient means to make the UN an example for gender and human rights mainstreamed organisation;

2017/04/06
Committee: AFET

2017/2036(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Recalls that development policy based on law, respect for democratic values and individual rights, freedom of expression and good governance is one of the pillars of the EU’s external action, and this should be clearly reflected in the application of the agreement;

2017/04/26
Committee: DEVE

2017/2035(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Recalls that Parliament emphasised that progress in the negotiation of the EPCA must be linked to progress of political reform, democracy, the rule of law and real progress on respect for human rights, where implementation of the Venice Commission recommendations could play a beneficial role;

2017/09/05
Committee: AFET

2017/2035(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Expects that the EPCA will promote a strengthened rule of law and a more diverse political landscape, a better functioning, independent and impartial judiciary, increased transparency and accountability of the government, improvement in labour laws in line with ILO requirements and the sustainable development of environment, taking into consideration the water resource management;

2017/09/05
Committee: AFET

2017/2035(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Supports Kazakhstan in its efforts to save the Aral Sea in the framework of the action programme of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea;

2017/09/05
Committee: AFET

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 a (new)

(3a) The proposal will empower consumers to make full use of the internal market by enabling them to transfer their pension rights abroad and offering them a greater choice of providers, including in other EU countries.

2018/04/30
Committee: ECON

2017/0143(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14

(14) The portability of personal pension products is a concern for people moving to another EU country while trying to maintain the same product and provider. PEPP providers should have access to the whole Union market with one single product authorisation issued by the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (“EIOPA”), on the basis of a single set of rules.

2018/04/30
Committee: ECON

2016/2903(RSP)

Citation 2

— having regard to Directive 2009/128/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 establishing a framework for Community action to achieve the sustainable use of pesticides2 , and in particular Article 124 thereof; _________________ 2 OJ L 309, 24.11.2009, p.71.

2016/12/15
Committee: ENVI

2016/2903(RSP)

Recital D

D. whereas biological low-risk pesticides may constitute a viable alternative to conventional plant protection products, both for conventional and for organic farmers, and contribute to a more sustainable agriculture, especially if it is based on the implementation of good agronomic practices; whereas some biological pesticides possess new modes of action, which is beneficial with a view to evolving resistance to conventional pesticides and limits the impact on non- target organisms; whereas biological low- risk pesticides should be the preferred option for non-professional users and home gardening;

2016/12/15
Committee: ENVI

2016/2903(RSP)

Recital K

K. whereas Article 12 of Directive 2009/128/EC provides that the use of low- risk plant protection products shall be prioritised in specific areas, such as areas used by the general public and protected areas; whereas some Member States have, for a long time now, prohibited the use of pesticides in these specific areas;

2016/12/15
Committee: ENVI

2016/2903(RSP)

Paragraph 9

9. Stresses the need to revise Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 in order to foster the development, authorisation and placing on the EU market of biological low-risk pesticides; is concerned that the current authorisation process for placing plant protection products on the market is sub-optimal for biological low-risk pesticides; points out that the current registration process for low-risk basic substances sometimes, in practice, acts as a kind of patent, making it difficult to use a product based on the same substance which is not registered in another Member State;

2016/12/15
Committee: ENVI

2016/2325(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Believes pre-existing bilateral relationships between European countries and the United States should be utilised where appropriate in order to strengthen shared security and defence interests, and to enhance vital capabilities to detect, deter, and respond to, emerging threats in space and to deal with security situations such as disaster response, border and maritime surveillance, arms control and terrorist attacks;

2017/04/25
Committee: AFET

2016/2325(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Urges enhanced cooperation between the European Space Agency, NATO, the United States, and countries such as India, in order to improve space policy, including in areas of infrastructure resilience, launch capabilities and security; cooperation would enable Europe's space sector to respond to the changing landscape global competition, in terms of changing markets, actors and technologies;

2017/04/25
Committee: AFET

2016/2325(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9

9. Recognises the increasing synergies between the civil and defence aspects of developing space technology, and encourages the development of dual-use systems consistent with the space security objectives of EU Member States; notes, furthermore, that some Member States already operate dual-use satellite systems supporting civil as well as government/military operations; encourages cooperation with EEAS, EDA, EUSatCen and Member States to explore duals-use synergies in space programmes.

2017/04/25
Committee: AFET

2016/2324(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 16 a (new)

- having regard to the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights,

2017/06/02
Committee: DEVE

2016/2324(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas civil society represents the third sector of society, along with ~~governments and businesse~~the public and private sectors; whereas it comprises non-governmental and non- profit organisations that have a presence in public life, expressing the interests and values of their members or others, based on ethical, cultural, political, scientific, religious or philanthropic considerations;

2017/06/02
Committee: DEVE

2016/2324(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas the EU is the largest donor to local civil society organisations in developing countries and has been a leading actor in the protection of civil society actors and human rights defenders through the use and implementation of a range of instruments and policies, including the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR), the European Endowment for Democracy, the DCI thematic programme for Civil Society Organisations and Local Authorities (CSOs-LAs), the Civil Society Roadmaps implemented in 105 countries and country strategy papers;

2017/06/02
Committee: DEVE

2016/2324(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas an increasing number of governments ~~in developing countries~~ are clamping down in legal or administrative terms on civil society organisations, including by imposing restrictive laws, limits on funding, strict licensing procedures and punitive taxes;

2017/06/02
Committee: DEVE

2016/2324(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas civil society’s ability to act relies on the exercise of ~~three~~ fundamental freedoms, ~~namely~~including the right to freedom of association, freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of expression;

2017/06/02
Committee: DEVE

2016/2324(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Believes that a genuinely independent, pluralistic and vibrant civil society is pivotal to a country’s development and stability, to ensuring democracytic consolidation and respect for human rights, and to building inclusive societies; further recalls that civil society is a key actor in achieving the SDGs;

2017/06/02
Committee: DEVE

2016/2324(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Emphasises the central role played by civil society in developing countries in promoting transparency, accountability and good governance, in particular in the fight against corruption, and its ~~potential implications~~direct impact on country’s economic and human development;

2017/06/02
Committee: DEVE

2016/2324(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Is deeply concerned that the closing down of civil society space in developing countries ~~is being carried out in~~and in particular at the increasingly ~~subt~~complex and ~~sophisticated way~~comprehensive means, which are harder to tackle and range from legislation, administrative, reporting and banking requirements, to the criminalisation and stigmatisation of CSO representatives, defamation, administrative harassment, online repression, censorship, arbitrary detention, torture and assassination;

2017/06/02
Committee: DEVE

2016/2324(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the EU to continue to work towards greater autonomy of the civic space not only ~~by tackling the~~through EU development and human rights policies, but by integrating all other EU internal and external policies, including justice, home affairs, trade and security policies, in accordance with the principle of policy coherence for development;

2017/06/02
Committee: DEVE

2016/2324(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Underlines that tackling shrinking civil society space requires a unified and consistent approach in the EU’s relationship with developing countries, and calls for the EU and Member States to proactively address the root causes of shrinking civil society space, in particular by mainstreaming the promotion of civil society organisations and their participation in bilateral and multilateral cooperation at all stages, including in political dialogues at the highest level, taking into account their different sizes, capacities and expertise;

2017/06/02
Committee: DEVE

2016/2324(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. ENotes the importance of the EU and Members States working with CSOs, the private sector, opposition political parties, governments and local authorities to maintain an open environment for civil society; encourages the EU to become an active facilitator and to promote institutional mechanisms for reinforced dialogues and partnerships ~~among~~in developing countries ~~governments, CSOs, local authorities and the private sector on an enabling civil society environment~~; calls on the Commission to strengthen the role of civil society actors in trade agreement institutions including Domestic Advisory Groups and EPA Consultative Committees;

2017/06/02
Committee: DEVE

2016/2324(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Recalls equally that the private sector is a key partner in achieving the SDGs, and has ~~an important role to play in fostering civic space;~~ responsibilities in fostering civic space including Corporate Social Responsibility reporting, transparency in supply chain due diligence and full recognition and engagement with trade unions;

2017/06/02
Committee: DEVE

2016/2324(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Recalls the importance of regional cooperation to strengthen enabling environments for civil society; encourages developing countries to promote dialogue and best practice of protection of and engagement with civil society;

2017/06/02
Committee: DEVE

2016/2324(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Calls on the EU to strengthen its support for the full participation of minorities including indigenous people and other vulnerable groups in cultural, social, economic and political processes;

2017/06/02
Committee: DEVE

2016/2324(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Underlines the critical role played by women in social progress; calls on the EU to insist on the need for supporting the creation of a safe and enabling environment for ~~women’s CSOs and women’s rights defenders, particularly~~CSOs defending and promoting women’s rights, and in conflict- affected regions;

2017/06/02
Committee: DEVE

2016/2324(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Calls on the EU to take steps to maximise engagement with and support the CSOs through its funding modalities and mechanisms beyond those which currently have on-going contracts;

2017/06/02
Committee: DEVE

2016/2310(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the respect for fundamental freedoms shown at the elections of 11 December 2016; urges all political parties to accept its results in the interest of domestic stability and underlines their responsibility to ensure that there is no backsliding into political crisis; calls for a swift formation of a new, stable and accountable government in order to make use of the mandate to carry on with necessary reforms; considers cross- party ~~cooperation~~and inter-ethnic cooperation, as well as a strong reformist consensus, to be essential for addressing pressing domestic and EU- related challenges;

2017/02/09
Committee: AFET

2016/2310(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Is extremely concerned about the significant shortcomings in the field of the environment, in particular in the area of air and water pollution; calls for a comprehensive policy and strategy on climate action to be developed that is in line with the EU 2030 framework;

2017/02/09
Committee: AFET

2016/2310(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Commends the country for constructive cooperation in addressing the migration crisis; recommends further actions to ensure capacities to combat human trafficking and migrant smuggling; recommends the European Council to open negotiations with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in order to allow deployments of the European Boarder and Coast Guard and make the Agency fully operational as soon as possible;

2017/02/09
Committee: AFET

2016/2309(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the continued steady progress in the accession negotiations, noting that so far 26 chapters have been opened for negotiations and 2 chapters have been provisionally closed; encourages Montenegro to work on meeting all benchmarks and to continue focusing on the fundamentals of the accession process; recalls that it is essential to deliver concrete results with a strong implementation record; believes that a credible enlargement process is necessary to generate transformation and to consolidate stability in all of South-East Europe;

2017/02/08
Committee: AFET

2016/2309(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Notes the attempts by Russia to influence developments in Montenegro; is concerned about the serious incidents that occurred on 16 October 2016, and calls on the Vice-President of the European Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (VP/HR), and on the Commission, to follow closely ongoing investigations by the competent authorities; encourages the Prime Minister to enter a dialogue with the opposition and to clarify remaining open questions; considers it important that relevant services of the Member States share information pertaining to these incidents among themselves and with the VP/HR and the Commission;

2017/02/08
Committee: AFET

2016/2309(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. ~~Not~~Welcomes the adoption of an action plan for fighting money laundering and terrorism financing, and the signing of the Additional Protocol to the Council of Europe’s Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism; stresses the need to continue to develop the track record in organised crime cases, especially as regards trafficking in human beings and money laundering, to ensure stronger inter-agency cooperation and to further intensify regional and international cooperation in the fight against organised crime;

2017/02/08
Committee: AFET

2016/2309(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Welcomes the new strategy to combat violent extremism in 2016-2018, which complements the national strategy for preventing and combating terrorism, money laundering and the financing of terrorism; notes the setting up of a new intelligence unit tasked with identifying and monitoring potential members of violent extremist groups; considers it ~~important~~fundamental to identify people in the early stages of radicalisation in order to prevent them from being recruited by violent extremist groups;

2017/02/08
Committee: AFET

2016/2309(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. While acknowledging CSOs’ involvement in the accession preparations, calls on the competent authorities to further improve CSOs’ access to EU-related information and to ensure that consultations with CSOs are held in a meaningful way, where possible; is deeply concerned that smear campaigns and intimidation attempts have continued against certain CSO activists; calls on the authorities to investigate and clarify the cause of these attempts and to strengthen efforts in order to protect CSO activists;

2017/02/08
Committee: AFET

2016/2306(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Stresses that the European Semester debate is of particular importance in view of the need to find a new development model for structural reforms and selective investments, investing in strategic areas; stresses that the European Semester is one of the means of mainstreaming and integrating environmental concerns into other relevant policies, in line with the approach defined by Article 11 TFEU; reiterates, therefore, that the environmental dimension should play a full role, together with the economic and social dimensions, in the European Semester process to ensure that Member States return to higher growth levels while continuing their path towards the development of sustainable societies;

2016/12/16
Committee: ENVI

2016/2306(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls on the Commission to use the European Semester as an instrument to fulfil EU commitments emanating from the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and in particular to include in the process policies and effective measures addressing climate change, sustainable production and consumption, food security and biodiversity;

2016/12/16
Committee: ENVI

2016/2306(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Recalls that ensuring sustainable growth, climate protection and job creation in the EU means using our resources in a smarter and more sustainable way and reducing dependence on imports of raw materials; considers that the focus should be on waste prevention, greater recycling and re-use of products; stresses that if the reform of waste legislation and the action plan on the circular economy are to advance the transition of the European economy into a circular model, it is essential to integrate recommendations to this effect into the European Semester process to boost competitiveness, create jobs and generate sustainable growth; notes that it is estimated that the circular economy could provide EU companies with savings of about EUR 600 billion per year; reiterates therefore its call for the principles of the circular economy to be incorporated into the European Semester;

2016/12/16
Committee: ENVI

2016/2306(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that the efficient use of resources, reducing foreign energy dependence and the induction of production patterns and more sustainable consumption patterns involves promoting entrepreneurship and job creation and effectively implementing international targets and objectives and diversifying revenue sources, in a context of fiscal responsibility and economic competitiveness; considers that the European Semester should also incorporate reporting on renewable energy, energy efficiency and interconnectivity on the basis of targets set at EU level;

2016/12/16
Committee: ENVI

2016/2306(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses that effective investment in health is an essential condition for economic prosperity and growth promotion, producing results in terms of productivity, labour supply, human capital and public spending.; stresses the importance of the sustainability of the healthcare sector, which plays an important role in the overall economy as it accounts for 8 % of the total European workforce and 10 % of GDP in the EU, and of being able to provide equal access to healthcare services for all citizens, as health is an essential factor for stability, sustainability and further development of Member States and their economies;

2016/12/16
Committee: ENVI

2016/2301(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. recalls the 2030 SDG agenda and calls on the Commission to transparently communicate the reference to each SDG concerned in the reporting; calls on the Commission and the Member States to use trade to promote sustainable development and good governance according to the principles of policy coherence for development;

2017/03/27
Committee: DEVE

2016/2301(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3 b. underlines the importance of inclusive and sustainable approaches as agreed in the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development, notably those on sustainable production, sustainable consumption and decent work;

2017/03/27
Committee: DEVE

2016/2301(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. encourages the Commission and Member States to include specific measures in Free Trade Agreements with developing countries in order to support their social and environmental standards; calls on the Commission to introduce tariff preferences for proven sustainably- produced goods in the forthcoming reform of the GSP / GSP+ rules;

2017/03/27
Committee: DEVE

2016/2301(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Warmly welcomes the drafting of a binding UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights and reiterates its calls for the Member States and the EU itself to promote and participate in this process; calls on the Commission to introduce a legislative proposal on binding due diligence obligations for supply chains aligned with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and several sector-specific OECD guidelines and set up comprehensive labelling measures in order to guarantee enhanced consumer information on the content and origin of the final products sold in the EU market throughout their supply chain;

2017/03/27
Committee: DEVE

2016/2301(INI)

Nicola CAPUTO, Christel SCHALDEMOSE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. encourages the International Labour Organization, enterprises and other stakeholders to work towards a binding legal convention, regulating Global Value Chains, which will include adequate remedy mechanisms for workers when their rights are violated, establish legal accountability for the actions of the corporations and their subcontractors, and include mandatory due-diligence and transparency obligations;

2017/03/27
Committee: DEVE

2016/2272(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)

B a. whereas it is both economically and environmentally necessary to preserve raw materials and limit the production of waste;

2017/03/08
Committee: ENVI

2016/2272(INI)

Nicola CAPUTO, Christel SCHALDEMOSE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Notes the Commission’s Ecodesign Work Plan 2016-2019; welcomes especially the inclusion of product durability and recyclability as a possible environmental standard of its own;

2017/03/08
Committee: ENVI

2016/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)

- having regard to the UN General Assembly Resolution 'Towards the establishment of a multilateral legal framework for sovereign debt restructurings' of 9 September 2014,

2018/01/31
Committee: DEVE

2016/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital –A (new)

-A. whereas addressing the sovereign debt problems of developing countries is an important element in international cooperation and can contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in developing countries;

2018/01/31
Committee: DEVE

2016/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas the composition of developing country debt has evolved in line with the growing importance of private creditors and trading conditions and increased exposure to financial market volatility, which has an impact on the sustainability of debt; whereas, while debt denominated in the national currency effectively eliminates exchange-rate risks, such an option may prove to be unfavourable or untenable where backed by insufficient domestic capital reserves;

2018/01/31
Committee: DEVE

2016/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas, while the UNCTAD principles for responsible sovereign lending and borrowing and the G20 operational guidelines for sustainable financing are undeniably useful for the formulation of regulatory framework provisions, priority must be given to ending irresponsible practices through the introduction of suitable and binding deterrents and penalties;

2018/01/31
Committee: DEVE

2016/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)

Ja. whereas the debt sustainability analysis should not focus solely on economic considerations, such as the prospects for future economic growth of the debtor State and its ability to service its debts, but must take into consideration the impact of the debt burden on the country’s capacity to respect all human rights;

2018/01/31
Committee: DEVE

2016/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas odious debts contracted by regimes parties to facilitate corrupt practices or transactions known by creditors to be illicit are resulting in a substantial burden for the p~~oorer classes~~eople, particularly those who are most vulnerable;

2018/01/31
Committee: DEVE

2016/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Points out that borrowing is an important way of supporting investment, which is vital in order to achieve sustainable development, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs);

2018/01/31
Committee: DEVE

2016/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Is concerned at the substantial increase in both private and public debt in many developing countries and the harmful effect thereof on their ability to finance investment expenditure for health, education, the economy ~~and~~, infrastructure and combating climate change;

2018/01/31
Committee: DEVE

2016/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Points out that structural adjustment plans that were developed in the 1990s for over-indebted countries have seriously compromised the development of basic social services and undermined the ability of those countries~~’ ability~~ to assume their essential responsibilities they have as sovereign nations~~, in combating insecurity and terrorism for example~~ to maintain security;

2018/01/31
Committee: DEVE

2016/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Stresses that debt relief measures must not be liable to impede the provision of basic services and impair respect for all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights, and development in the recipient State;

2018/01/31
Committee: DEVE

2016/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls on the EU and its Member States to actively combat tax havens, tax avoidance and illicit financial flows, which merely increase the debt burden of developing countries, to cooperate with developing countries to combat aggressive tax avoidance, and to seek ways to help developing countries withstand pressures to engage in tax competition, which would damage the mobilisation of domestic revenue for development;

2018/01/31
Committee: DEVE

2016/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls for legislation to be drawn up to prevent the repayment of loans to creditors that have been complicit in granting loans to manifestly corrupt governments;

2018/01/31
Committee: DEVE

2016/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Advocates the drafting of a code of conduct on credit management that is binding on institutional, political and private stakeholders;

2018/01/31
Committee: DEVE

2016/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the Commission to draw up, in the form of a white paper, a genuine strategy designed to save developing countries from excessive debt by adopting a multilateral approach, specifying the rights, duties and responsibilities of all concerned and considering the institutional provisions best suited to to ensuring an equitable and sustainable approach to the problem of debt;

2018/01/31
Committee: DEVE

2016/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Endorses the principles set out by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development for responsible credit policy, which highlight in particular the shared responsibility of creditors and borrowers (UNCTAD Principles on Promoting Responsible Sovereign Lending and Borrowing), as well as the need for parliamentary control, which is an essential component of public funding operations, and calls on the European Union to support the implementation of the UNCTAD Principles; stresses the importance of introducing monitoring and accountability mechanisms in order to ensure full compliance with the principles adopted;

2018/01/31
Committee: DEVE

2016/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point a

(a) create a permanent crisis management mechanism for the developing countries, which can be activated promptly and over the long term;

2018/01/31
Committee: DEVE

2016/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point b

(b) allow the establishment of a multilateral legal framework for the orderly and predictable restructuring of sovereign debt in order to prevent it becoming unsustainable and to achieve greater predictability for investors;

2018/01/31
Committee: DEVE

2016/2241(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Nicola CAPUTO, Eugen FREUND, Nikos ANDROULAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point b a (new)

(ba) Underlines that, in order to ensure sustainability, sovereign debt restructuring negotiations should be completed without delay and efficiently and should lead to a stabilisation of the debtor State’s debt, while safeguarding its sustainable development;

2018/01/31
Committee: DEVE

M. whereas the EU and 23 Member States have joined the Montreux document and whereas the EU is a Member of the Working Group on the International Code of Conduct Association; whereas the EU contributes in the context of the Human Rights Council to the possible development of an international regulatory framework; whereas the EU plays a critical role in promoting national and regional control over the provision and export of various military and security services;

2017/03/20
Committee: AFET

2016/2238(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Nicola CAPUTO, Eugen FREUND

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Underlines that the cost-effective principle of PSCs employment offers mainly benefits in the short-term, especially if a number of socioeconomic variables are not taken into consideration, and should therefore not become the main criteria when dealing with security issues; recalls that accountability and oversight mechanisms are crucial in order to ensure that the legitimacy and potential benefits of PMSCs are fully obtained;

2017/03/20
Committee: AFET

2016/2238(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Nicola CAPUTO, Eugen FREUND, Nikos ANDROULAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Underlines that the employment of PSCs in third countries leads primarily to aspects of social and moral trust, both in relation with the beneficiaries (employers) and with those whom they have to interact with, i.e. the population and authorities of the third countries;

2017/03/20
Committee: AFET

2016/2238(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Emphasises, however, that, particularly in conflict-prone environments, employing a PSC for certain duties can have negative side effects for the EU, especially for its legitimacy, by accidentally associating it with armed actors in a conflict area, with negative repercussions in the case of armed incidents, or by possibly compromising Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) and Security Sector Reform (SSR) efforts through the inadvertent strengthening of local actors; notes in particular the risks posed by uncontrolled sub-contracting;

2017/03/20
Committee: AFET

2016/2238(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Nicola CAPUTO, Eugen FREUND

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Draws attention on the fact that PSCs, besides offering security services, are conducting intelligence activities, as well, that, due to their potentially implications, require efficient regulation and control;

2017/03/20
Committee: AFET

2016/2238(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Nicola CAPUTO, Eugen FREUND, Nikos ANDROULAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Recommends that the European Commission draw up a Green Paper with the objective of involving all stakeholders from the public and private security sectors in a broad consultation and discussion of processes to identify opportunities for direct collaboration more efficiently and to establish a basic set of rules of engagement and good practices; recommends the creation of sector-specific EU quality standards; recommends, therefore, a clarification of the definition of PSCs before setting up an effective regulation of their activities, as the lack of it can create legislative loopholes;

2017/03/20
Committee: AFET

2016/2238(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Nicola CAPUTO, Eugen FREUND, Nikos ANDROULAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 – indent 4 a (new)

– ensure reporting of eventual private military and security companies' irregularities and illegalities;

2017/03/20
Committee: AFET

2016/2238(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Nicola CAPUTO, Eugen FREUND, Nikos ANDROULAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Notes, however, that the evaluation of the performance of PSCs is hampered by the lack of consistent reporting about their use by both EU institutions and Member States’' governments; encourages Member States and EU institutions to provide this information more consistently to allow for a proper assessment of the use of PSCs by their respective budgetary authorities; recommends non-state actors should be actively engaged in the necessary evaluation processes that are crucial for the regulation and oversight of this industry;

2017/03/20
Committee: AFET

2016/2230(INI)

Nicola CAPUTO, José BLANCO LÓPEZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Takes the view that the EU-Cook Islands FPA should effectively promote sustainable fisheries in the Cook Islands waters through adequate EU sectoral support, and pursue two equally important goals: 1) to provide fishing opportunities to EU vessels in the Cook Islands fishing zone, on the basis of the best available scientific advice and respecting the conservation and management measures of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) within the limits of the available surplus; and 2) to promote cooperation between the European Union and the Cook Islands with a view to a sustainable fisheries policy and sound exploitation of fisheries resources in the Cook Islands fishing zone, and to contribute to the sustainable development of the Cook Islands fishing sector, through economic, financial, technical and scientific cooperation while respecting that country’s sovereign options regarding this development;

2016/12/12
Committee: PECH

2016/2230(INI)

Nicola CAPUTO, José BLANCO LÓPEZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Takes the view that the EU-Cook Islands FPA and the relevant protocol should allow bilateral cooperation on the fight against illegal fishing to be strengthened and provide the Cook Islands with the means to finance surveillance programmes, and believes that measures to prevent IUU fishing in the exclusive economic zone of the Cook Islands should be reinforced, including by improved monitoring, control and surveillance through the use of the satellite-based vessel monitoring system, logbooks, inspectors and the implementation of decisions by regional fisheries organisations;

2016/12/12
Committee: PECH

2016/2222(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1 b. Reminds the Commission of its Communication "Addressing the challenges of deforestation and forest degradation to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss" emphasising a holistic approach to tropical deforestation, taking into account of all deforestation drivers, including palm oil production; reminds the Commission of its objective in the UNFCCC negotiations to halt global forest cover loss by 2030 at the latest and to reduce gross tropical deforestation by at least 50% by 2020 compared to current levels;

2017/02/03
Committee: DEVE

2016/2222(INI)

Seb DANCE, Maria NOICHL, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Linda McAVAN

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas palm oil is increasingly being used in processed food, with some 50 % of packaged goods now containing palm oil, and as a biofuel;

2016/12/07
Committee: ENVI

2016/2222(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Recalls that the EU is a major importer of products resulting from illegal deforestation; calls for the immediate termination of EU subsidies for biofuels produced from food crops and for a phase- out of such fuels; stresses the inadequacy of voluntary certification schemes, such as the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), in addressing land grabs and human rights violations; calls for binding regulations on agricultural commodity importers’ supply chains; Expresses its deep concerns that multiple investigations reveal widepsread abuse of basic human rights at a time of establishment and running of palm oil plantations in many countries, including forced evictions, armed violence, child labour, debt bondage or discrimination of indigenous communities;

2017/02/03
Committee: DEVE

2016/2222(INI)

Seb DANCE, Maria NOICHL, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Linda McAVAN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Notes that palm oil can be cultivated responsibly and can make a real contribution to the economic development of a country, offering viable economic opportunities to farmers, provided that no deforestation occurs, that no plantations are established on peat lands, that plantations are managed using modern agroecological techniques to minimise adverse environmental and social outcomes and that land rights, the rights of indigenous communities as well as human rights and workers' rights are respected;

2017/02/03
Committee: DEVE

2016/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas precious tropical ecosystems, which cover a mere 7% of the Earth’s surface, are under increasing pressure from deforestation and the establishment of palm oil plantations, which are resulting in, for example, massive forest fires, the drying up of rivers, soil erosion, loss of groundwater, loss of biodiversity, pollution of waterways and destruction of rare natural habitats, and even causing ecosystems to stop providing basic ecosystem services, which is having a major impact on the global climate;

2016/12/07
Committee: ENVI

2016/2222(INI)

Seb DANCE, Maria NOICHL, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Linda McAVAN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3 b. Notes that latest research proves that agroforestry polycropping applied to palm oil plantations can offer combined benefits in terms of biodiveristy, productivity and positive social outcomes;

2017/02/03
Committee: DEVE

2016/2222(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Calls on the Commission to support the development of new binding regulations for deforestation-free and conflict-free palm oil, backed by appropriate and mandatory due diligence framework and traceability mechanisms throughout the supply chain. These would be imposed on supply chain operators for forest-risk and conflict-risk palm oil commodities and should be aligned with globally adopted best standards and practices.

2017/02/03
Committee: DEVE

2016/2222(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6 a. Calls on the Commission to require all palm oil imports arriving in the EU to be certified according to the established sustainability criteria;

2017/02/03
Committee: DEVE

2016/2222(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6 b. calls on the European Commission to completely phase out the use of biofuels made from food crops after 2020 by making these ineligible to meet all EU 2030 climate and energy targets, in particular of biodiesel that has created an unsustainable demand for palm oil;

2017/02/03
Committee: DEVE

2016/2222(INI)

Nicola CAPUTO, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Michela GIUFFRIDA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls on the Commission, the Member States, and the industry to support the High Carbon Stock (HCS) approach, which makes it possible to determine areas suitable for planting with oil palms, that is to say, degraded lands of little value in terms of carbon storage and their natural environment, thereby promoting sustainable palm oil that can be produced without converting forests or interfering with ecosystems with a high conservation value;

2016/11/21
Committee: AGRI

2016/2222(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls on the Commission to include a ‘no deforestation’ guarantee in trade agreements with palm oil-producing countries;

2016/11/21
Committee: AGRI

2016/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Calls for companies that cultivate palm oil to ~~use~~adopt the High Carbon Stock (HCS) approach, wh~~en developing their plantations~~ich makes it possible to determine areas suitable for plantation with oil palms, which is to say degraded lands of little carbon storage or natural value, thereby promoting sustainable palm oil production without converting forests or interfering with ecosystems of high conservation value; draws attention to the need to create a comprehensive land- use plan that will take into account the land used by local communities for the cultivation of food, peatlands and high conservation value (HCV) land, and will respect the right of communities to use the land on the basis of ‘free prior and informed consent’ (FPIC);

2016/12/07
Committee: ENVI

2016/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on the Commission, in cooperation with the non-profit sector, to launch information campaigns and to provide consumers with comprehensive information on the consequences of the reckless cultivation of palm oil; calls on the Commission to ~~ensure that information confirming that a product is not linked to deforestation is provided to consumer~~inform consumers on the sustainability of products by means of a special indication to be affixed ton the product;

2016/12/07
Committee: ENVI

2016/2222(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Calls on the Commission to draw up an action plan to combat deforestation and trade in agricultural commodities, in particular palm oil, obtained by that means;

2016/11/21
Committee: AGRI

2016/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Commission to strengthen environmental measures in its trade agreements with a view to preventing palm oil-related deforestation, including, in particular, an anti-deforestation guarantee in trade agreements with palm oil producing countries;

2016/12/07
Committee: ENVI

2016/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to establish a regulatory framework of strong and enforceable measures to guarantee that none of those forming part of the supply chain, including EU financial institutions and the investments and loans they provide, are involved in deforestation;

2016/12/07
Committee: ENVI

2016/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Commission to develop technologies ~~and~~, strategies and a plan of action to reduce the impact of European consumption on deforestation in third countries;

2016/12/07
Committee: ENVI

2016/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. calls for the clear and transparent labelling of palm oil in processed goods;

2016/12/07
Committee: ENVI

2016/2220(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Emphasises the connections between statelessness and social and economic vulnerability; urges governments in developing countries to prevent denial, loss or deprivation of nationality on discriminatory grounds, to adopt equitable nationality laws and to implement accessible, affordable and non- discriminatory nationality documentation procedures;

2016/12/07
Committee: DEVE

2016/2220(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Invites the European Commission to launch exchanges of good practices among Member States, encourages the active coordination of national statelessness contact points, and welcomes the IBelong Campaign;

2016/12/07
Committee: DEVE

2016/2220(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Patrizia TOIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4 b. Invites Member States to grant protection status to stateless migrants and facilitate their naturalization;

2016/12/07
Committee: DEVE

2016/2219(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Strongly believes that the private sector has a role in ensuring respect of human rights when taking activity in a country and believes that this role can be maximised by the conclusion of more public-private partnerships;

2016/10/13
Committee: DEVE

2016/2219(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Patrizia TOIA, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Warns against the increase of populism and extremism that legitimise breaches of human rights as well as the constitutional abuse of some elected officials to remain in power;

2016/10/13
Committee: DEVE

2016/2219(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Patrizia TOIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Insists that all international agreements negotiated by the EU must include binding and non-negotiable human rights clauses and regrets that the Economic Partnership Agreements negotiated until now fail to meet this standard; notably insists that the future agreement between the ACP and the EU must reinforce the existing dialogue on human rights and enable a system of sanction when failure to respect human rights is demonstrated;

2016/10/13
Committee: DEVE

2016/2219(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Patrizia TOIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Welcomes the creation of new EU instruments to address the root causes of migration but urges for human rights to be at the centre of the programmes that are financed by these instruments; recalls that human rights of migrants must be fully respected in origin, transit and destination countries;

2016/10/13
Committee: DEVE

2016/2204(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Points to the importance of a viable, dynamic rural context in which there is demographic diversity; points also to the importance of creating the opportunities necessary to support young women;

2016/11/21
Committee: AGRI FEMM

2016/2204(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to help set up an accurate database on the economic and social situation of women and their involvement in business in rural areas and to use available data more effectively in order to better tailor policy measures;

2016/11/21
Committee: AGRI FEMM

2016/2204(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Calls for support for women's business and other initiatives, in particular through the promotion of female ownership, businesswomen's networks and easier access to financing for businesswomen in rural areas, including self-employed women, for women in part-time low-paid jobs and for younger women, with a view to placing them in a stronger position on the market;

2016/11/21
Committee: AGRI FEMM

2016/2204(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Notes that, in rural as well as urban areas, it is essential to improve the quality and accessibility of infrastructures, facilities and services meeting daily needs, so as to facilitate work-life balance and preserve rural communities; notes that this would necessitate the inclusion of rural childcare infrastructures (such as ' agroasilo' kindergarten and other pre- school facilities), healthcare services, educational (including lifelong learning) facilities, care homes for elderly and dependent people, sickness and maternity replacement services and local outlets for everyday items and cultural services; calls, therefore, for the provision of such services under the CAP, thereby offering women fresh prospects and opportunities for paid employment and greatly helping to reconcile family and working life;

2016/11/21
Committee: AGRI FEMM

2016/2204(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9b. Calls on the Commission to recognize the importance of extending its digital agenda to rural areas, ensuring that no citizens, especially women, are excluded or isolated and that the digital opportunities are available to all;

2016/11/21
Committee: AGRI FEMM

2016/2204(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)

9c. Urges the Member States to use the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund to remedy the lack of good transport infrastructure in rural areas and implement policies to actively improve access to transport for all, given that transport problems continue to constitute a factor of social exclusion and inequality, primarily for women;

2016/11/21
Committee: AGRI FEMM

2016/2188(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)

-1. Underlines that ESMA's role is essential in order to ensure financial stability, transparency, better integrated and safer financial markets, as well as a high degree of consumer protection in the Union;

2017/01/17
Committee: ECON

2016/2188(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Stresses that, while ensuring that all assignments are carried out in full, ESMA should carefully adhere to the tasks assigned to it by the Union legislator and should not seek to de facto broaden its mandate beyond those assignments; emphasises, in this respect, that, where possible, ESMA needs to pay particular attention to the principle of proportionalityonly sufficient financial resources would allow ESMA to fulfil its mandate independently and efficiently; underlines that an expansion of tasks has to be matched by an expansion of resources;

2017/01/17
Committee: ECON

2016/2188(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Welcomes the initiative reducing the 2015 budget through two subsequent budget amendments, thereby using Union funds rationally; believes that ESMA’s budget still has rationalisation potential; stresses, therefore, that any potential increases in ESMA’s means should be accompanied by adequate rationalisation measures;deleted

2017/01/17
Committee: ECON

2016/2188(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Concludes that ESMA’s financing arrangement is to be reviewed; calls on the Commission to examine the possibility of modifying the current financing arrangement by introducing additional appropriately and proportionately calibrated fees for market participants, ~~possibly replacing in part~~ensuring that it will not depend in the future on the contributions of nthe National cCompetent aAuthorities in order to enhance its autonomy and supervisory action;

2017/01/17
Committee: ECON

2016/2188(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Stresses that, while carrying out its work and in particular when drafting implementing legislation, ESMA needs to regularly and comprehensively inform the Union legislator about its activities;

2017/01/17
Committee: ECON

2016/2187(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)

-1. Underlines that EIOPA's role is essential in order to ensure financial stability, transparency, better integrated and safer financial markets, as well as a high degree of consumer protection in the Union;

2017/01/17
Committee: ECON

2016/2187(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Stresses that, while making sure that all assignments are carried out in full, EIOPA should carefully stick to the tasks assigned to it by the Union legislator and should not seek to de facto broaden its mandate beyond those assignments; emphasises, in this respect that, where possible, EIOPA needs to pay particular attention to the principle of proportionalityonly sufficient financial resources would allow EIOPA to fulfil its mandate independently and efficiently; underlines that an expansion of tasks has to be matched by an expansion of resources;

2017/01/17
Committee: ECON

2016/2187(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

~~4. Believes that the EIOPA budget still has rationalisation potential; stresses, therefore, that any potential increases in EIOPA's means should be accompanied by adequate rationalisation measures;~~deleted

2017/01/17
Committee: ECON

2016/2187(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Concludes that EIOPA’s financing arrangement is to be reviewed; calls on the Commission to examine the possibility to modify the current financing arrangement by introducing appropriately and proportionately calibrated fees for market participants, ~~possibly partly replacing~~ensuring that it will not depend in the future on the contributions of nthe National cCompetent aAuthorities in order to enhance its autonomy and supervisory action;

2017/01/17
Committee: ECON

2016/2187(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Stresses that, while carrying out its work and in particular when drafting implementing legislation, EIOPA needs to regularly and comprehensively inform the Union legislator about its activities;

2017/01/17
Committee: ECON

2016/2187(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5 b. Underlines that EIOPA should supervise more and intervene more, when National Financial Supervisory Authorities do not function properly and even create problems to the markets, as for example the Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority did with the Romanian insurance market;

2017/01/17
Committee: ECON

2016/2186(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)

-1. Underlines that EBA's role is essential in order to ensure financial stability, transparency, better integrated and safer financial markets, as well as a high degree of consumer protection in the Union;

2017/01/17
Committee: ECON

2016/2186(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Believes that ~~the initial budget cuts should not have been implemented by postponing the publication of standard~~only sufficient financial resources would allow EBA to fulfil its mand ~~guidelines or by cutting attendance in BCBS working groups, but b~~ate independently eand~~ing financing of non-core related activities; stresses, therefore, that any potential increases in EBA's means must be accompanied by adequate rationalisation meas~~ efficiently; underlines that an expansion of tasks has to be matched by an expansion of resources;

2017/01/17
Committee: ECON

2016/2186(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Concludes that EBA’s financing arrangement is to be reviewed; calls on the Commission to examine the possibility of modifying the current financing arrangement by introducing appropriately and proportionately calibrated fees for market participants, ~~possibly partly replacing~~ensuring that it will not depend in the future on the contributions of the National Competent Authorities in order to enhance its autonomy and supervisory action;

2017/01/17
Committee: ECON

2016/2186(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Stresses that, while carrying out its work and in particular when drafting implementing legislation, EBA needs to regularly and comprehensively inform the Union legislator about its activities;

2017/01/17
Committee: ECON

2016/2182(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Recognises that the Agency's declarations of interest are transparent, and calls on it to constantly review its internal procedures and to further improve its policies to guarantee independence and transparency in all its fields of activity as regards both outside staff and temporary staff;

2016/12/14
Committee: ENVI

2016/2182(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7b. Notes the discussion platform between the Agency and nongovernmental organisations, as a useful forum for discussing the main issues of interest to civil society;

2016/12/14
Committee: ENVI

2016/2175(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Notes that with regard to its procurement procedures, the Centre has put specific focus on ensuring consistency in all tender documents; emphasises that the Centre’s revised Committee on Procurement, Contracts and Grants is providing an additional quality control mechanism; calls on the Centre in particular to carry out careful checks on conflicts of interest in relation to tenders, procurement, recruitment and contracts in order to strengthen transparency;

2016/12/14
Committee: ENVI

2016/2175(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Asks the Centre to apply strictly the measures pertaining to discretion and exclusion in public procurement, with proper background checks being carried out in every instance, and to apply the exclusion criteria so as to debar companies in the event of any conflict of interest, this being essential to protect the financial interests of the Union;

2016/12/14
Committee: ENVI

2016/2166(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls for the Agency to implement Article 16 of the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union by publishing information about senior officials who have left the service and a list of conflicts of interest on an annual basis;

2016/12/14
Committee: ENVI

2016/2166(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Encourages the Agency further to raise awareness of the conflict-of-interest policy among its staff, alongside ongoing awareness-raising activities and the inclusion of integrity and transparency as an obligatory item to be discussed during recruitment procedures and performance reviews;

2016/12/14
Committee: ENVI

2016/2151(DEC)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Elly SCHLEIN, Maria NOICHL, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Is satisfied with the overall implementation of the LIFE+ operational budget, which amounted to 99,95 % in 2015 for commitment appropriations and 98,93% for payment appropriations; stresses that LIFE+ has helped to increase public awareness and participation in legislation and the implementation of EU environment policy, in addition to improving governance in this sector; notes that in 2015 EUR 225,9 million were committed for action grants, EUR 40 million were used for financial instruments managed by the European Investment Bank and EUR 59,2 million were used for measures intended to support the Commission's role of initiating and monitoring policy and legislation development; notes that EUR 10,2 million were used for administrative support to LIFE and for support to the Executive Agency for Small and Medium- sized Enterprises (EASME);

2016/12/14
Committee: ENVI

2016/2140(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 b (new)

- having regard to the programmes funded by the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women focused on addressing harassment and violence against women in the garment industry6b _________________ 6bhttp://www.unwomen.org/en/trust- funds/un-trust-fund-to-end-violence- against-women

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Elly SCHLEIN, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)

- having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child6a _________________ 6a https://www.unicef.org/crc/

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 a (new)

- having regard to its resolution of 14 December 2016 on the draft Council decision on the conclusion of a Protocol to the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement establishing a partnership between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Uzbekistan, of the other part, amending the Agreement in order to extend the provisions of the Agreement to bilateral trade in textiles, taking account of the expiry of the bilateral textiles Agreement18a , _________________ 18a Texts adopted, P8_TA(2016)0490.

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Elly SCHLEIN, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 c (new)

- having regard to the ILO Programme on Improving working conditions in the Ready-Made garment sector in Bangladesh6c _________________ 6c http://www.ilo.org/dhaka/Whatwedo/Proje cts/safer-garment-industry-in- bangladesh/lang--en/index.htm

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 20 d (new)

- having regard to the Bangladesh Sustainability Compact20d _________________ 20d http://www.ilo.org/global/docs/WCMS_40 8025/lang--en/index.htm

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 20 c (new)

- having regard to the Bangladesh Accord20c _________________ 20c http://bangladeshaccord.org/

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 a (new)

- having regard to the EU's GSP+ scheme9a , _________________ 9a http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2015 /august/tradoc_153732.pdf

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 b (new)

- having regard to the Public Procurement Directive of 26 February 20149b _________________ 9bhttp://eur- lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/24/oj

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 20 a (new)

- having regard to the German Partnership for Sustainable Textiles20a , _________________ 20a https://www.textilbuendnis.com/en/

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 20 b (new)

- having regard to the Dutch Agreement of the Sustainable Garment and Textile20b , _________________ 20b https://www.ser.nl/en/publications/publica tions/2016/agreement-sustainable- garment-textile.aspx

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Elly SCHLEIN, Judith SARGENTINI

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

A a. whereas victims of the three most deadly incidents in the garment sectors (Rana Plaza, Tazreen and Ali Enterprises) have or are in the process to receive compensation for the loss of income; whereas this is in line with ILO Convention 121 and is the result of unprecedented cooperation between brand, trade unions, civil society, governments and the ILO; whereas given the widespread violation of key human rights, actual remedy remains rare;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Elly SCHLEIN, Judith SARGENTINI, Ignazio CORRAO, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

A b. whereas victims of human rights abuses involving European companies face multiple obstacles to access judicial remedies; including procedural obstacles on admissibility and disclosure of evidence, often prohibitive litigation costs, absence of clear liability standards for corporate involvement in human rights abuses, and lack of clarity on the application of EU rules of private international law in transnational civil litigation;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Elly SCHLEIN, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas Article 207 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) ~~require~~demands the EU’'s ~~policies, including trade,~~trade policy to be b~~ased~~uilt on the ~~principles and objectives of the EU’s external action~~EU's external policies and objectives a, concretely those of development cooperation stated in Article 208 ~~TFEU~~; whereas Article 21 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) reaffirms that the EU’'s external actions will be guided by the principles of democracy, the rule of law, the universality and indivisibility of human rights and fundamental freedoms, respect for human dignity, the principles of equality and solidarity, and compliance with the UN Charter and international law;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Ignazio CORRAO, Linda McAVAN

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas most human rights violations in the garment sector are labour- rights related and include the denial of workers fundamental right to join or form a union of their choosing and bargain collectively in good faith; whereas this has led to widespread labour rights violations ranging from poverty wages, child labour, forced labour, arbitrary dismissals, wage theft, unsafe workplaces, violence against women and sexual harassment, to precarious work conditions;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Elly SCHLEIN, Ignazio CORRAO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas initiatives led by the private sector on a voluntary basis, such as codes of conduct, labels, self-assessments and social audits, have to be further enhanced and have not proven to be ~~at all effective~~enough over the last 20 years in terms of increasing workers’ rights, consumer awareness and environmental safety in the garment supply chain;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Judith SARGENTINI, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

E a. whereas multistakeholder initiatives like the German Partnership for Sustainable Textiles or the Dutch Agreement on Sustainable Garment and Textile are bringing stakeholders like the industry, the trade unions, the government and the NGOs at one table; whereas the standards elaborated by the initiatives also reach out to environmental issues; whereas those initiatives have not yet entered the implementation phase, so concrete results are still outstanding; whereas such national initiatives are necessary due to a lack of an EU legislative initiative; whereas there is still a majority of Member States that don't have any initiative;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Maria NOICHL, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Elly SCHLEIN, Ignazio CORRAO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY

Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)

E b. whereas the trend of the garment industry is still going towards fast fashion, which poses an enormous threat and pressure on garment workers in the producing countries;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Recital E c (new)

E c. whereas the German Ministry for Development Cooperation has set the goal, that by 2020 Germany will import 50% of its textiles only according to ecological and social criteria;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Ignazio CORRAO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas the specific characteristics of the garment sector value chains, such as geographically dispersed stages of the production process, ~~low prices,~~different types of garment workers, low prices, high volumes short lead times, subcontracting and short-term buyer-supplier relationships are conducive to reducing visibility, traceability, and transparency over an enterprise’'s supply chain and to increasing the risks of human rights and labour abuses and of environmental damage; whereas transparency and traceability are is a prerequisites for a company’'s accountability and responsible consumption; whereas the consumer has the right to know where a piece of clothing was produced, and in which social and environmental conditions;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Ignazio CORRAO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas the specific characteristics of the garment sector value chains, such as geographically dispersed stages of the production process, low prices, short lead times, subcontracting and short-term buyer-supplier relationships are conducive to reducing visibility and transparency over an enterprise’s supply chain and to increasing the risks of human rights and labour abuses and of environmental damage already in the raw-material production; whereas transparency is a prerequisite for a company’s accountability and responsible consumption; whereas the consumer has the right to know where a piece of clothing was produced, and in which social and environmental conditions;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas women’'s rights are a constitutive part of human rights; whereas gender equality falls within the scope of the chapters of trade agreements on sTrade and Sustainable dDevelopment (TSD); whereas the specific impact of trade and investment agreements affects women and men differently owing to structural gender inequalities~~, and whereas sustainable and inclusive development, growth and trade agreements must include human rights, including from a gender perspective~~;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Judith SARGENTINI, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Elly SCHLEIN, Ignazio CORRAO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

H a. whereas in December 2016 many trade union activists have been arrested in Bangladesh followed by a protest for a living wage and better working conditions, whereas several hundreds of garment workers have been fired following the protests; whereas the right of association is still not respected in the producing countries;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas the garment sector is the sector which has the most sustainability initiatives in progress; whereas few existing initiatives reach the scale needed and need further actions to make a significant impact;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Elly SCHLEIN, Linda McAVAN, Ignazio CORRAO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas in October 2015 the Commission released its new trade strategy ‘'Trade for All’', in which it sets out its aim to use trade agreements and preference programmes as levers to promote around the world, sustainable development, human rights, fair and ethical trade and improve the responsibility of the supply chains as a means of strengthening sustainable development, human rights and good governance in third countries;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Ignazio CORRAO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

K a. whereas the clothing and textile sector in Europe provides for 1.7 million workplaces and generates an output of EUR 166 million; whereas the EU imports about the world's total clothing production; whereas the manufacturing countries are mostly emerging economies;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Elly SCHLEIN, Ignazio CORRAO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY

Motion for a resolution
Recital K b (new)

K b. whereas the garment industry in Eastern Europe, for example Poland, the Czech republic, Slovakia and Croatia, does not comply with ILO standards like a living wage or decent working conditions;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Elly SCHLEIN, Ignazio CORRAO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Stresses that EU trade and investment policies are interlinked with social protection, gender equality, tax avoidance, SMEs, development, human rights and environmental policies; reiterates its call on the Commission and the Member States to guarantee policy coherence for development on business and human rights at all levels, in particular in relation to the Union’'s trade and investment policy;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Acknowledges the increasing attention given to promoting ~~good~~decent working conditions through global supply chains following the Rana Plaza factory collapse, the introduction of the draft French law on mandatory due diligence, the UK anti- slavery bill, the Dutch Agreement on Sustainable Textile and Garment, the German Partnership for Sustainable Textiles, and the statement made by President Juncker at the G7 Summit in favour of ‘'urgent action’' to improve responsibility in global supply chains; acknowledges the Commission’'s commitment towards responsible management of supply chains, including in the garment sector, as outlined in the Communication entitled ‘'Trade for All’'; welcomes the green card initiative in which eight Member States have called for a duty of care by EU-based companies towards individuals and communities whose human rights and local environment are affected by the companies’' activities;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Maria NOICHL, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Elly SCHLEIN, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Supports the Commission's examination of a possible EU-wide initiative on the garment sector; notes, in addition, that the current multiplication of existing initiatives could result in an unpredictable environment for companies; believes that the proposal should address human rights related issues, promote the traceability and the transparency of value chains, enhance conscious consumption, focus on labour rights and gender equality;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Elly SCHLEIN, Ignazio CORRAO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3 b. Believes that the EU consumers have the right to be informed on conformity of garment industry products with sustainability and respect for human rights and environment; believes that EU legislative effort and initiative to this regard on garments should be made visible in the final product;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Judith SARGENTINI, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Elly SCHLEIN, Linda McAVAN, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Commission to present a legislative proposal on binding due diligence obligations for supply chains in the garment sector as soon as possible, aligned with the new OECD guidelines ~~and internationally agreed standards on human rights and social and environmental standards; this proposal should focus on the core problems garment workers fac~~on due diligence in the garment and foot- wear sector, the OECD guidelines for multinational companies, that are importing into the European Union, the ILO resolution on decent work in supply chains and internationally agreed standards on human rights and social and environmental standards; emphasises, that the new OECD guidelines should be the leading principle in the legislative proposal; stresses, that this legislative proposal should include core standards like (occupational health and safety, a living wage, freedom of association, and freedom of collective bargaining, prevention of sexual harassment and violence) a~~nd should~~t the workplace, eliminating forced and child labour; calls on the commission to further address the following matters: key criteria for sustainable production, transparency and traceability, including collection and transparent of data and tools for consumer information, due diligence checks and auditing, access to remedy;, gender equality, supply-chain due diligence reporting; awareness raising~~; notes, however, with concern that a lot more needs to be done and urges the Commission to take further actions which have a direct impact on workers’ lives~~ in the European Union; encourages the Commission to acknowledge other national legislative proposals and initiatives with the same goal as the legislation, once they have been audited and have met the requirements of the European legislation;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Linda McAVAN, Ignazio CORRAO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Calls the Commission to introduce tariff preferences for proven sustainably produced textiles in the forthcoming reform of the GSP / GSP + rules; notes, that the goods would have to undergo a certification on their voluntary basis with regard to their sustainable production method, and corresponding proofs should be submitted during the import into the EU; encourages the Commission to support the efforts of the private sector to bring sustainability into the textile value chain in this way; urges the Commission to recognise established sustainability criteria and minimum requirements for the detection and certification systems on the basis of international conventions, such as the core labor standards of the International Labor Organization or the protection of biodiversity; calls on the Commission to promote the production of Fair Trade products through this instrument of tariff preferences;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Elly SCHLEIN, Linda McAVAN, Ignazio CORRAO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Reiterates its call on the Commission to extend corporate social responsibility and binding due diligence initiatives beyond existing frameworks for the garment sector so as to ensure that the EU and its trading partners and operators live up to the obligation to respect both human rights and the highest social and environmental standards; urges the Commission to pay attention on remuneration and the working conditions in the garment sector in the Eastern Member States of the EU; urges the Eastern Member States to implement the ILO standards in the garment sector;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Elly SCHLEIN, Linda McAVAN, Ignazio CORRAO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Urges the Commission to deliver on its objective to foster improvements in the ready-made garment sector, including through a strong gender focus; calls on the Commission to make gender equality a central focus of its flagship legislative initiative; calls for gender aspect to be mainstreamed in the EU garment initiative; therefore believes that the proposal should promote women empowerment, non-discrimination, gender equality and address the issue of harassments in workplaces as already envisaged by European and international commitments;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Commission to promote actively the use of ecological and sustainably managed raw materials like cotton and to promote ~~enthusiastically~~ the re-use and recycling of garments and textiles within the European Union through specific provisions ~~in its flagship legislative initiative~~;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Maria NOICHL, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Ignazio CORRAO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8 a. Urges the commission to invest in Research and Development (R&D) aiming at building a sustainable alternative sourcing of raw materials for the EU garment sector and the recycling process within the European Union; calls on the Commission to put in place additional resources in institutions in order to follow up on the flagship initiative;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Linda McAVAN, Ignazio CORRAO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Calls on the Commission to put in place specific measures for small and medium-sized European enterprises to have access to ~~tools~~financial and policy tools with particular regard to their capacity to deliver on traceability and transparency, to invest in the sustainability and fairness of their supply chains by, inter-alia, supporting match- making business platforms to connect them with fair trade and ethical fashion importers and suppliers in the EU and in its partner countries;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Believes that it is crucial to ensure increased access to information on the conduct of enterprises; considers it fundamental to introduce a ~~mandatory~~ reporting system and due diligence for ~~EU companies that outsource their production to third countries~~garment products entering the EU market ; believes that responsibility should extend throughout the entire supply chain, including sub- contractors in the formal and informal economy, and commends existing efforts to this effect; believes, however, that the EU is best placed to develop a common framework through legislation on mandatory transnational due diligence and supply chain transparency and traceability;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Stresses the need for collecting and publishing comprehensive data on corporate sustainability performance; in this context, the elaboration of common definitions and standards for the collection, comparison and assessment of statistical data notably on imports~~, and welcomes the holistic approach of the Higg Index in measuring enterprises’ environmental, social and labour impacts~~;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12 a. Calls on the Commission to develop a wide variety of monitoring systems in the EU garment sector using Key performance indicators – encompassing data collection using surveys, audits and data analysis techniques that can effectively measure performance and address their impacts on development, labour rights and human rights in the entire garment supply chain;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)

12 b. Urges the Commission to export the model of the Bangladesh Sustainability Compact into other producing countries like India or Pakistan;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Commission to present a comprehensive strategy on how development, aid for trade and public procurement policies can support a fairer and more sustainable garment supply chain, by promoting best practices and giving incentives to private sector actors that invest in the sustainability and fairness of their supply chains, from the fibre farmer to the final consumer; urges the Commission and the European Institutions to be a role model when it comes to public procurement of textile used in the institutions; calls on the Commission to create guidance for local authorities on social criteria in purchasing textiles following the 2014 Directive on Public Procurement and motivate them accordingly; encourages the Commission to propose a plan so that the majority of public procurement of garments in the EU by 2030 comes from sustainable sources;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2140(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Elly SCHLEIN, Ignazio CORRAO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13 a. encourages the Commission to use the legislation to further implement and promote the SDGs;

2017/02/06
Committee: DEVE

2016/2139(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)

Ma. whereas South-South cooperation continued to grow despite the slowing down of the emerging economies and dropping commodity prices;

2016/10/18
Committee: DEVE

2016/2139(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Believes that the GPEDC ought to play a leading role in ensuring progress on SDG 17, namely on monitoring and accountability, quality and capacity aspects of finance for development, tax and debt sustainability, mobilising the private sector and its responsibility for sustainable development, policy coherence, multi- stakeholder partnerships, south-south and triangular cooperation;

2016/10/18
Committee: DEVE

2016/2139(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Underlines that a monitoring framework anchored on the principles of horizontal development cooperation, i.e. solidarity, mutuality, respect for sovereignty, human rights, inclusiveness, non-conditionality, is crucial towards enhanced accountability and impact of SSDC, particularly in the country level;

2016/10/18
Committee: DEVE

2016/2139(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9b. Urges the EU to honour its longstanding commitments on development effectiveness by supporting sustained global efforts to monitor the implementation of the Busan principles and commitments;

2016/10/18
Committee: DEVE

2016/2139(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Stresses the importance to promote equal partnerships and shared responsibility for development results, including support for implementation of the Istanbul Principles and other voluntary mechanisms;

2016/10/18
Committee: DEVE

2016/2139(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Underlines the importance to enable CSOs to exercise their roles as independent development actors, with a particular focus on an enabling environment, consistent with agreed international rights, that maximizes the contributions of CSOs to development;

2016/10/18
Committee: DEVE

2016/2139(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Urges the Commission to submit reports on EU´s and Member States´ effort and action plans to comprehensively implement the Busan principles on regular basis, at least every 24 months;

2016/10/18
Committee: DEVE

2016/2139(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Underlines the significance of SDG 16 for development effectiveness overall, and warns that development aid cannot effectively fulfil its purpose where there is a lack of respect for human rights and the rule of law, ~~sufficient~~internationally-recognized social, environmental and labour standards and safeguards for the integrity of public institutions and office-holders, and transparency and accountability;

2016/10/18
Committee: DEVE

2016/2139(INI)

Tibor SZANYI, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Cătălin Sorin IVAN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Notes the increasing role of private sector in development cooperation and asks business sector actors to commit to development effectiveness commitments, become increasingly transparent and responsive to all sectors of society, including workers, legislators, regulators, consumers and shareholders, and adhere to existing international human rights commitments such as ILO labour standards, UN Principles on Business and Human rights and the OECD guidelines for multinational enterprises; furthermore asks the private sector to align their efforts to national development plans and with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and to set up reporting and accountability systems on environmental, economic and social impacts of their efforts, in particular on the generation of full and productive employment and decent work for all;

2016/10/18
Committee: DEVE

2016/2100(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)

– having regard to Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014 of 17.06.2014 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the internal market in application of Articles 107 and 108 of the TFEU,

2016/10/24
Committee: ECON

2016/2100(INI)

Tibor SZANYI, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Cătălin Sorin IVAN

Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 b (new)

– having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 of 20.1.2004 on the control of company amalgamations,

2016/10/24
Committee: ECON

2016/2100(INI)

Tibor SZANYI, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Cătălin Sorin IVAN

Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 c (new)

– having regard to the White Paper 'Towards more effective EU merger control' of 9.7.2014,

2016/10/24
Committee: ECON

2016/2100(INI)

Tibor SZANYI, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Cătălin Sorin IVAN

Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 d (new)

– having regard to the European Commission's E-000344/2016, E- 002666/2016 and E-002112/2016 answers to written parliamentary questions,

2016/10/24
Committee: ECON

2016/2100(INI)

Tibor SZANYI, Pervenche BERÈS, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Cătălin Sorin IVAN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Emphasises that corruption in public procurement has serious market distorting effects on European competitiveness; reiterates that public procurement is one of the government activities most vulnerable to corruption; highlights that in certain Member States, EU funded procurement carries higher corruption risks than nationally funded procurement; reminds that tailor-made tender invitations are widely used to limit market competition; calls on the Commission to continue its effort to prevent the misuse of EU funds and stimulate accountability in public procurement; urges the establishment of the European Public Prosecutors' Office with the necessary rights in order to better investigate alleged crimes against EU money;

2016/10/24
Committee: ECON

2016/2100(INI)

Tibor SZANYI, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Cătălin Sorin IVAN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)

3c. Recognises the actions of the Commission against international companies distorting fair competition on the European Single Market; reminds that unfair competition is still one of the main challenges identified by European SMEs; highlights that illegal tax benefits granted by Member State governments to multinational companies generate a highly anti-competitive environment and further degrade the capacity of SMEs for job creation; calls on the Member States to forthwith cease such activities and asks the Commission to actively support the improvement of SMEs' access to markets, the reduction of administrative burdens on SMEs and the promotion of entrepreneurship and skills within the EU;

2016/10/24
Committee: ECON

2016/2100(INI)

Tibor SZANYI, Pervenche BERÈS, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Cătălin Sorin IVAN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 d (new)

3d. Calls on the Member States and the EU institutions to prioritise the strengthening of the post-Brexit Single Market by ensuring full compliance with European competition laws and by further increasing cooperation between Member States on tax issues;

2016/10/24
Committee: ECON

2016/2100(INI)

Tibor SZANYI, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Cătălin Sorin IVAN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 e (new)

3e. Stresses the need for single market rules to be enforced also at the Member States level and for infringements to be dealt to tackle fragmentation of the single market;

2016/10/24
Committee: ECON

2016/2100(INI)

Tibor SZANYI, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Welcomes the Commission's commitment towards a European digital single market and its proposal on geo- blocking and other forms of discrimination based on customers' nationality and place of residence; notes that the proposal only covers online purchases of goods and services therefore calls on the Commission to also address the geo-blocking of audiovisual services;

2016/10/24
Committee: ECON

2016/2100(INI)

Tibor SZANYI, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Cătălin Sorin IVAN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Underlines that collaborative economy platforms have brought into play the idea of challenging existing incumbent, dominant players to create a more competitive environment for consumers and businesses alike;

2016/10/24
Committee: ECON

2016/2100(INI)

Tibor SZANYI, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Cătălin Sorin IVAN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 c (new)

6c. Highlights, the increasing presence of new digitally enabled businesses, in particular internet and mobile phone applications, alongside existing operators has opened up new channels for consumers to find, compare, and select goods and services across the single market. This results in an empowered consumer who seeks to make informed choices based on their personal needs and goals;

2016/10/24
Committee: ECON

2016/2100(INI)

Tibor SZANYI, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7b. There is clearly a need for further deregulation of the taxi and private hire vehicle market in Europe. The present rigid regulation of the number of taxis and private hire vehicles results in poor competition, detrimental to consumers and businesses alike. Therefore the present system should be reformed as quickly as possible across Europe;

2016/10/24
Committee: ECON

2016/2100(INI)

Tibor SZANYI, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Cătălin Sorin IVAN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 c (new)

7c. For decades, national authorities have conferred special rights to taxi operators by granting them exclusive rights, resulting in artificial and unnecessary barriers to competition in the provision of services. Conversely, Member State measures have prevented other sector participants, such as Private Hire Vehicle (PHV) drivers, from operating under equivalent conditions as taxi operators. They have created a dramatic imbalance between supply and demand as evidenced by the difficulties that consumers often face when trying to find an available taxi or PHV. These entry barriers have a negative economical and societal impacts as consumers are facing reduced choice and availability of taxis and PHVs, higher prices, lower quality of service, and longer waiting periods;

2016/10/24
Committee: ECON

2016/2100(INI)

Tibor SZANYI, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 c (new)

20c. Calls on the Commission to propose changes in the Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 to ensure the same protection for air travellers on flights from third country, regardless the fact that the carrier is EU or non-EU carrier;

2016/10/24
Committee: ECON

2016/2099(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)

-1. Welcomes the EIB's development mandates in the ACP region when operating Under its External Lending Mandate; underlines that the focus of EIB's activities should be to have a positive impact on the achievements of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs);

2016/10/12
Committee: DEVE

2016/2099(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 a (new)

-1a. Stresses that the EIB should continue to pay strong attention to the Human Rights impacts of its operations and to reinforce its due diligence at project level in this regard; calls on the EIB to act in strict compliance with the EU treaty obligations, including Article 21 TEU on principles of EU external action, and to ensure its policies and operations are in line with the EU Strategic Framework and Action Plan for Human Rights and the European Charter of Fundamental Rights;

2016/10/12
Committee: DEVE

2016/2099(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Highlights the need for the EIB to ensure that, together with its clients, sound public consultations take place at project level, including via the application of the principle of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC); urges the EIB to consider extending the FPIC to all affected communities in land and natural resource-based investments;

2016/10/12
Committee: DEVE

2016/2099(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Welcomes the adoption of the EIB External Lending Mandate Climate Strategy in December 2015 and the commitment to increase the share of climate-related projects to 35% of its investments in developing countries by 2020; calls on the EIB to ensure this is supported by robust eligibility criteria for climate action and that climate considerations are also mainstreamed into all EIB operations outside of Europe;

2016/10/12
Committee: DEVE

2016/2099(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Welcomes the fact that the European Commission's 2016 External Strategy for Effective Taxation reminds that European legislation prohibits EU funds from being invested in entities in third countries which do not comply with international tax transparency standards and asks the EIB to transpose good governance requirements in their contracts with all selected financial intermediaries; supports the Commission's claim that the EIB needs to go further than the current transparency requirements to ensure fair tax competition; calls therefore on the EIB to establish a responsible taxation policy in 2017, starting from the review of its policy on non-cooperative jurisdictions (NCJ policy) in cooperation with the European Commission;

2016/10/12
Committee: DEVE

2016/2099(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Stresses the need for increased visibility of the bank's involvement in project financing to various projects stakeholders, in particular outside the European Union, which is crucial for local citizens to be aware of their right to appeal and lodge complaints at the Complaints Mechanism Office and the European Ombudsman;

2016/10/12
Committee: DEVE

2016/2099(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Stresses the need for the Resilience Initiative of the EIB to reach a high level of transparency in its operation and to focus on high quality projects with enhanced development impact and genuine additionality.

2016/10/12
Committee: DEVE

2016/2096(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Notes with concern that gender discrimination and inequalities occur in health and social care research in developing countries, thereby affecting the development of appropriate and targeted treatments; recalls that women's different biological and physiological make-up requires proper information about the effect of drugs on their bodies;

2016/09/13
Committee: DEVE

2016/2096(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on governments of developing countries to mainstream gender in mental health policy, and to develop policies and programmes that address both the specific needs of women for mental health treatment and the social origins of psychological distress; notes with concern that, especially in Least Developed Countries, the exclusion of women from biomedical research is often caused by lack of information and awareness campaign, their fulfilment of their role as mothers and caregivers and their lack of decision-making freedom in their household; strongly believes that better balance in gender roles and obligations, income security, access to education, the development of social safety nets and poverty reduction would further redress gender disparities in mental health;

2016/09/13
Committee: DEVE

2016/2096(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls on the European Commission to address the root causes of the failure to include and retain adequate numbers of women in clinical trials and to yield meaningful information about treatment and burden of disease, and to allocate resources for more research, prevention, treatment and support services for women;

2016/09/13
Committee: DEVE

2016/2096(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Notes with concern that the increase in offshoring medicine testing to Africa may result in serious ethical violations; points out that not having access to affordable healthcare or health insurance, as well as access to affordable medicine, gives vulnerable people, particularly women, no other choice than to participate in clinical trials in order to receive medical treatment;

2016/09/13
Committee: DEVE

2016/2076(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital B

B. whereas wildlife protection can, however, have a considerable price for local communities, as ~~some species are dangerous to humans or can destroy plantations and other property or kill livestock; whereas~~ confronting armed poachers can be utterly risky;

2016/07/18
Committee: DEVE

2016/2076(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)

Ba. recognises the intrinsic value of biological diversity and its various contributions to sustainable development and human well-being as enriched in Goal 15 of Agenda 2030;

2016/07/18
Committee: DEVE

2016/2076(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)

Bb. is concerned about the increasing scale of poaching and illegal trade in wildlife and wildlife products and its adverse economic, social and environmental impacts; believes that the fight against poaching requires a EU coordinated response and assistance to countries with limited capacity to protect wildlife; considers the EU can play an extended role in protecting and maintaining wildlife reserves projects in developing countries;

2016/07/18
Committee: DEVE

2016/2076(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. SRecognises that illicit trafficking in wildlife contributes to damage to ecosystems and rural livelihood, including those based on ecotourism, undermines good governance and the rule of law and, in some cases, threatens national stability; stresses the need to responsibly manage the risks associated with combating poaching, which is often perpetrated by heavily armed and well- organised criminal groups;

2016/07/18
Committee: DEVE

2016/2076(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls for actions that enable local actors to directly benefit from engaging in wildlife protection, ~~reduce the costs of living with wildlife,~~ and, in parallel with measures to discourage illicit wildlife- related activities, improve possibilities of earning a living without such involvement;

2016/07/18
Committee: DEVE

2016/2076(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Norbert NEUSER, Linda McAVAN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls for a step change in intelligence-gathering, lawmaking and law enforcement, fighting corruption, in relation to wildlife trafficking in EU Member States and other destination and transit countries.

2016/07/18
Committee: DEVE

2016/2057(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Recalls that Sustainable Development Goal 3, with nine quantitative and four qualitative targets, clearly states that by 2030 everyone should have access to good mental and physical health throughout their lives, which cannot be achieved without efficient and effective investment in new improved prevention, treatment and diagnostic tools; underlines that, each year, 100 million people fall into poverty because of health costs which are disproportionate to their incomes, and that, according to the WHO, over one third of the world’s population, with over 50 % in Africa, does not have access to medicines;

2016/09/09
Committee: DEVE

2016/2057(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Norbert NEUSER, Linda McAVAN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Stresses the importance of developing a comprehensive access to medicines policy that ensures that all EU policies (global public health, development, research and trade) are consistent with, and beneficial for, access to affordable medicines for citizens in the EU and low-and middle-income countries alike;

2016/09/09
Committee: DEVE

2016/2057(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Norbert NEUSER, Linda McAVAN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Urges not to use free trade agreements with low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to introduce TRIPS- plus intellectual property (IP) rules that extend monopoly protection, and not to introduce new IP enforcement rules or investment protection to the detriment of access to medicines;deleted

2016/09/09
Committee: DEVE

2016/2057(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Norbert NEUSER, Linda McAVAN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Welcomes the option for voluntary licensing that allows to produce generic drugs with allowance and adapted remuneration of the originator at reduced prices; reminds that in case of national emergency or other circumstances of extreme urgency TRIPS allows compulsory licensing as enables developing countries to produce generics without consent of the originator; stresses that originators usually grant waivers to LDCs and low income countries that exempts them from TRIPS provisions;

2016/09/09
Committee: DEVE

2016/2057(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Norbert NEUSER, Linda McAVAN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Supports competition in generic medicines within the negotiated rules, which allows broad access to medicines in LMICs; calls, in particular, for the EU to support actively governments that use the available legal measures, including TRIPS safeguards and flexibilities, to protect and promote public health; calls also for the EU to immediately stop targeting countries such as India that have implemented progressive TRIPS-compliant IP policies which promote access to medicines, through its watch-list of ‘priority countries’ in case of emergency;

2016/09/09
Committee: DEVE

2016/2057(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Norbert NEUSER, Linda McAVAN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Stresses that in LMICs limited accessibility of health medical tools is - next to affordability - also linked to issues such as weak distribution systems and insufficient regulatory capacities, and that for most poverty-related and neglected tropical diseases, acceptable, safe and effective vaccines, drugs and diagnostics are still lacking; calls on the Commission and Member States to step up efforts to address this persisting research gap, and to support LMICs in building respective capacities;

2016/09/09
Committee: DEVE

2016/2057(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Norbert NEUSER, Linda McAVAN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that, without basic transparency of research and development costs to originator companies and information on the actual prices paid for medicines across the EU, ~~any discussion on fair medicine prices remains impossibl~~fair pricing is difficult to determine; recalls the Commission’s commitment to greater transparency of EU positions, specific legal proposals, and negotiating texts in the TTIP negotiations;

2016/09/09
Committee: DEVE

2016/2057(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Norbert NEUSER, Linda McAVAN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Urges to take advantage of the ongoing review process of the EU Tiered Pricing Regulation to repeal it unless it can be amended, in close collaboration with the Commission’s Directorates- General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO) and for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTÉ), in order to support all measures that countries have at their disposal to ensureopen a broader and transparent discussion on pricing regulation and strategies that improve access to affordable ~~access to~~ medicines.;

2016/09/09
Committee: DEVE

Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Luigi MORGANO, Andrea COZZOLINO, Roberto GUALTIERI, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Costas MAVRIDES

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 23

(i) the amount of losses to be absorbed in resolution that corresponds to the requirements referred to in Article 92(1)~~(a),(b) and~~ (c) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 and Article 104a of Directive 2013/36/EU of the resolution entity at ~~sub-~~ consolidated resolution group level,

2018/01/31
Committee: ECON

Eduard KUKAN, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 a (new)

Article 20a Exercise of the delegation 1. The power to adopt delegated acts is conferred on the Commission subject to the conditions laid down in this Article. 2. The power to adopt delegated acts referred to in Article 6 shall be conferred on the Commission from the date of entry into force of this Regulation until 31 December 2020. 3. The delegation of power referred to in Article 6 may be revoked at any time by the European Parliament or by the Council. A decision to revoke shall put an end to the delegation of the power specified in that decision. It shall take effect the day following the publication of the decision in the Official Journal of the European Union or at a later date specified therein. It shall not affect the validity of any delegated acts already in force. 4. Before adopting a delegated act, the Commission shall consult experts designated by each Member State in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 13 April 2016 on Better Law-Making. 5. As soon as it adopts a delegated act, the Commission shall notify it simultaneously to the European Parliament and to the Council. 6. A delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 6 shall enter into force only if no objection has been expressed either by the European Parliament or the Council within a period of two months of notification of that act to the European Parliament and the Council or if, before the expiry of that period, the European Parliament and the Council have both informed the Commission that they will not object. That period shall be extended by two months at the initiative of the European Parliament or of the Council.

2017/03/27
Committee: AFET DEVE BUDG

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Nicola CAPUTO, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4

(4) The amount of the Guarantee Fund in surplus exceeding 10% of the Union's total outstanding capital liabilities should be paid back to the general budget of the Union in order to better protect the budget against potential additional risk of default of the EIB financing operations addressing ~~root causes of migration~~migratory pressures stemming from poverty, underdevelopment, inequality, demographic growth, lack of employment and economic opportunities as well as from climate change.

2017/03/03
Committee: DEVE

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Elly SCHLEIN, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2

Regulation (EU) No 230/2014
Article 3a – paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. The services whose provision is eligible for financial assistance under this instrument shall be listed in the Annex. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article ... concerning amendments to the list contained in the Annex.

2017/05/12
Committee: DEVE

2016/0207(COD)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Elly SCHLEIN, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE

Emilian PAVEL, Viorica DĂNCILĂ, Daciana Octavia SÂRBU, Victor NEGRESCU, Maria GRAPINI, Cătălin Sorin IVAN, Victor BOŞTINARU, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sorin MOISĂ, Claudia ȚAPARDEL, Dan NICA

Proposal for a directive
Recital 11

(11) In a competitive internal market, service providers compete ~~not only on the basis of a labour costs but also~~ on factors such as cost, productivity and efficiency, or the quality and innovation of their goods and services.

2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL

2016/0070(COD)

Maria GRAPINI, Emilian PAVEL, Claudia ȚAPARDEL, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a

Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2

For the purpose of this Directive, ‘remuneration’ means all the elements of remuneration rendered mandatory by national law, regulation or administrative provision, collective agreements or arbitration awards which have been declared universally applicable and/or, in the absence of a system for declaring collective agreements or arbitration awards to be of universal application, other collective agreements or arbitration awards within the meaning of paragraph 8 second subparagraph, inthe concept of 'minimum wage’ shall be defined by the national law and/or practice of the Member State to whose territory the worker is posted.

2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO

2016/0070(COD)

Emilian PAVEL, Viorica DĂNCILĂ, Daciana Octavia SÂRBU, Victor NEGRESCU, Maria GRAPINI, Cătălin Sorin IVAN, Claudia ȚAPARDEL, Victor BOŞTINARU, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Claudiu Ciprian TĂNĂSESCU, Dan NICA

Proposal for a directive
Recital 12

(12) It is within Member States' competence to set rules on r~~emuneration~~ates of pay in accordance with their law and practice. However, national rules on r~~emuneration~~ates of pay applied to posted workers must be justified by the need to protect posted workers and must not ~~disproportionately~~ restrict the cross-border provision of services by enabling unfair competition.

2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL

2016/0070(COD)

Maria GRAPINI, Emilian PAVEL, Claudia ȚAPARDEL, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a a (new)

Directive 96/71
Article 3 – paragraph -1 a (new)

(aa) the following paragraph is added: ‘-1a. Service providers are exempted from the obligation to settle the fine for paying less than the minimum wage as set by the law of the host Member State where there is evidence that the host Member State has not met the obligation to publish on the national official single website provided for in Article 5 of Directive 2014/67/EU the constituent elements of remuneration, as per letter (c), or the information is not provided in a clear, transparent and unambiguous manner. Subparagraph 2 of paragraph 7 in Article 3 of Directive 96/71/EC is deleted.’

2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO

Emilian PAVEL, Viorica DĂNCILĂ, Daciana Octavia SÂRBU, Victor NEGRESCU, Maria GRAPINI, Cătălin Sorin IVAN, Victor BOŞTINARU, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Sorin MOISĂ, Claudia ȚAPARDEL, Claudiu Ciprian TĂNĂSESCU, Dan NICA

Proposal for a directive
Recital 14

(14) Laws, regulations, administrative provisions or collective agreements applicable in Member States may ensure that subcontracting does not confer on undertakings the possibility to avoid rules guaranteeing certain terms and conditions of employment covering r~~emuneration~~ates of pay. Where such rules on r~~emuneration~~ates of pay exist at national level, the Member State may apply them in a non-discriminatory manner to undertakings posting workers to its territory provided that they do not disproportionately restrict the cross-border provision of services.

2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Norbert NEUSER

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas humanitarian aid base on needs and the respect of the principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence, as well on the respect on international humanitarian law and the human rights provided by the Geneva Conventions and the additional protocols thereto, must be at the core of all EU external actions; whereas aid independence, i.e. aid that is free from any political, economic or security considerations or any type of discrimination, must prevail;

2016/10/20
Committee: AFET DEVE

2015/2342(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Norbert NEUSER

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas the increase in human mobility, if managed in a safe, orderly, regular and responsible manner, can provide significant benefits, as recognised by the 2030 Agenda, but these are often largely underestimated; whereas the ageing of the European population requires, among other measures, relying on foreign workers in order to guarantee an adequate balance between ~~active~~persons in remunerative work and retired people;

2016/10/20
Committee: AFET DEVE

2015/2342(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Norbert NEUSER

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas the EU has a responsibility to supports its implementing partners to carry out rapid, effective, quality assistance and protection and be accountable to affected-population; in that regard the EU's partners require timely and predictable funding, decisions on allocations of funding for changing or new priorities should give them sufficient time for planning and mitigation measures;

2016/10/20
Committee: AFET DEVE

2015/2342(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Norbert NEUSER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Underlines ~~the fact~~ that we are witnessing in today’´s world an unprecedented level of human mobility, and ~~stresses~~ that one of the most urgent actions the international community must urgently undertake is the strengthening of a common response to address the challenges and opportunities that this phenomenon represents; stresses that this response must be guided by the full protection of the rights and dignity of everyone forced by any circumstance to flee their homes in search of a better and safer life, ; underlines that, though their treatment is governed by separate legal frameworks, refugees and migrants (including migrants in an irregular situation) have the same universal human rights and fundamental freedoms, which need to be safeguarded regardless of their legal status; recalls that the EU must abide by its values and principles in all common policies and promote them in its external relations, recognises that the effects of externalisation of EU migration and asylum policies and the lack of legal avenues to the EU are worrying, and translate in significant abuses at all stages of the migratory and refugee movement; recalls that the external dimension of the EU asylum and migration agenda should be rooted in solidarity and in the principle of protection of the fundamental rights;

2016/10/20
Committee: AFET DEVE

2015/2342(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Norbert NEUSER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Recognises that the humanitarian aid system is dangerously overstretched and that it will never be sufficient to respond to forced displacement crises, ~~in particular~~notably given the protracted nature of a majority of them; welcomes therefore the new policy framework outlined in the Commission communication on ‘"Forced Displacement and Development’" of April 2016 and calls on the EEAS and the European Commission to implement its content within the new Partnership Framework with third countries; notes the importance of promoting closer humanitarian-development links, and the need to engage with different partners – governments, local authorities, civil society, including refugees themselves, and the private sector – to develop targeted evidence-based strategies to tackle this challenge while respecting that humanitarian aid is not a crisis management tool as stated in the EU Consensus for Humanitarian Aid;

2016/10/20
Committee: AFET DEVE

2015/2342(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Norbert NEUSER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses the crucial role of women 5. in cases of forced displacement, not only as they are more vulnerable to certain abuse, but also because of the role they play in responding to emergencies, their socioeconomic contributions and their active participation in conflict resolution and prevention; notes that a focus on women’s empowerment is therefore necessary to address the deeper causes of forced displacement; reiterates the importance of adding a gender and age perspective to the EU policies addressing movements of migrants and refugees;

2016/10/20
Committee: AFET DEVE

2015/2342(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Norbert NEUSER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Expresses concerns regarding the list of identified partners in the foreseen migration compacts include governments with poor human rights records; considers that cooperation with these countries, and making significant payments to such regimes is setting worrying precedents, and risk reinforcing some of the root causes that force people to migrate.

2016/10/20
Committee: AFET DEVE

2015/2342(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Norbert NEUSER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Expresses concerns regarding the quantitative approach in the new Partnership Framework and the related ‘migration compacts’, which see the ‘measurable increases in the number and rate of returns’ as one of the EU’s main goals, as the number of returns clearly depends on the nature of migration flows and on the situations in the countries of origin; stresses that the short-term objectives of the compacts should focus on how best to address the challenges faced by third countries, including by developing legal migration channels such as family reunification, resettlement or humanitarian visas, as a result of which the levels of irregular migration and death tolls in the Mediterranean will decrease;

2016/10/20
Committee: AFET DEVE

2015/2342(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Norbert NEUSER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Underlines that partnership agreements such as mobility partnerships, should ensure that migrants can be received in countries of transit and origin safely, in a manner entirely consistent with their fundamental rights. Stresses that the European Parliament has a clear say in EU readmission and mobility agreements as state in the Lisbon Treaty (Article 79(3) TFEU) and specifically states that the EP must give its consent prior to the conclusion of association and similar agreements (Article 218(6)(v) TFEU) and that shall be immediately and fully informed at all stages of the procedure (Article 218(10) TFEU;

2016/10/20
Committee: AFET DEVE

2015/2342(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Norbert NEUSER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Underlines that EU cooperation assistance is tailored to achieve poverty reduction, the empowerment of individuals and the promotion of the rule of law; recalls that both donors and the governments of aid-receiving countries must work to improve the effectiveness of aid, especially by tackling root cause for migration and strengthening democratic ownership, increasing civil society participation, and improving accountability for the use and distribution of aid; underlines that development assistance should not be made conditional to the willingness and/or capacities of States to engage in migration management activities, including through return and readmission clauses or border controls;

2016/10/20
Committee: AFET DEVE

2015/2342(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Norbert NEUSER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)

15b. Stresses that in order to avoid duplication of effort, maximize the impact and effectiveness of global aid and ensure that the main focus is on development, and not on border control and security to the detriment of migrants, calls therefore on the Commission, to maintain a strong dialogue with local and international NGO, Civil society and local governments in partner countries as well as the UN for design, implementation and evaluation of the migration, displacement and refugee policies;

2016/10/20
Committee: AFET DEVE

2015/2342(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Norbert NEUSER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19a. Call for the trust funds to follow the same rules and regulations applying to EU traditional funding instruments in relation to transparency, equal treatment of partners and capacity to provide predictable and timely funding to partners;

2016/10/20
Committee: AFET DEVE

2015/2342(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Norbert NEUSER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Welcomes the use of common security and defence policy (CSDP) missions such as EUCAP Sahel Niger and EUNAVFOR MED, cooperation with NATO, and EU initiatives such as Europol’s Joint Operational Team (JOT) Mare to gather intelligence and fight smugglers, while underlining that global mobility should not be considered a threat but an opportunity; recommends the use of CSDP tools for early warning (forecasting), mediation and conflict resolution, while stressing the importance of starting to plan for durable solutions as early as possible in conflict situations;

2016/10/20
Committee: AFET DEVE

2015/2342(INI)

Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Norbert NEUSER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21a. Calls on the EU to carefully and systematically evaluate the impact of the actions funded on migration, displacement and refugees base on the quality delivery of humanitarian aid and development aid;

2016/10/20
Committee: AFET DEVE

2015/2341(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Norbert NEUSER

Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)

– having regard to the Bekou Trust Fund established in 2014

2016/04/07
Committee: DEVE

2015/2341(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Norbert NEUSER

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the Bekou Trust Fund has shown positive results in the Central African Republic;

2016/04/07
Committee: DEVE

2015/2341(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Elly SCHLEIN, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Norbert NEUSER, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas Africa continues to experience very high rates of population growth and a slow decline of fertility rates, leading in the near future to a sharp rise of the young working-age populations and great potential social and economic benefits; whereas equipping young people with the education and skills they need to realise their potential and the creation of employment opportunities are essential to foster stability, sustainable economic growth, social cohesion and development in the region;

2016/04/07
Committee: DEVE

2015/2341(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the EUTF is intended to be a development tool that pools resources from different donors in order to enable a quick, flexible, transparent and collective response by the EU to the different dimensions of an emergency situation;

2016/04/07
Committee: DEVE

2015/2341(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Norbert NEUSER, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the EUTF has been conceived in order to assist a band of countries across three African regions (the Horn of Africa; the Sahel and Lake Chad basin; North Africa) that contain some of the most fragile African countries, are affected by migration as countries of origin, transit or destination if not all three, and will draw the greatest benefit from this form of EU financial assistance; whereas the eligible countries’ African neighbours may also benefit, on a case-by-case basis, from Trust Fund projects having a regional dimension with a view to addressing regional migration flows and related cross-border challenges;

2016/04/07
Committee: DEVE

2015/2341(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Norbert NEUSER, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Notes that the EU’s financial allocation for the EUTF for Africa comes mainly from the 11th EDF; stresses that the EUTF was established because the EU budget lacks the resources and the flexibility needed to address crises such as those in question promptly and comprehensively; calls for the EU to agree a more holistic solution in the framework of next year’s revision of the 2014-2020 MFF and the revision of the Financial Instruments in 2016, with a view to increasing the effectiveness and reactivity of humanitarian and development assistance available under the EU budget;

2016/04/07
Committee: DEVE

2015/2341(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Elly SCHLEIN, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Norbert NEUSER, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Stresses the need for contributions by Member States and other different sources; notes that the contributions from the Member States are still too low and do not match up the contribution from the European Commission;

2016/04/07
Committee: DEVE

2015/2341(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Norbert NEUSER, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Strongly underlines that funds from EDF and ODA sources must be devoted exclusively to development ends; recalls that all other expenses related to security, counter-terrorism and border controls, migration management, etc have to be funded from different sources that are pooled in the Trust Fund; ~~stresses the need for contributions by Member States and other different sources, and~~ recalls that leveraging is one of the foremost reasons for the creation of this instrument devoted to such different and heterogeneous ends; condemns any use of ODA sources, even a small percentage, for any purposes different from development;

2016/04/07
Committee: DEVE

2015/2341(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Elly SCHLEIN, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Norbert NEUSER, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Insists that national authorities must be consulted and that they must be full partners as long as there is full guarantee of efficiency and good governance in accordance with the principles of aid effectiveness;

2016/04/07
Committee: DEVE

2015/2341(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Norbert NEUSER, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Considers that the EU Trust Fund for Africa should contribute to the strengthening and improving of local services (health, education, nutrition) and of governance, mainly through community-based projects, and that civil society, non- governmental organisations (NGOs) and international NGOs should play a pivotal role in addressing the root causes of migration and improving local services;

2016/04/07
Committee: DEVE

2015/2341(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Elly SCHLEIN, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Norbert NEUSER, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Regrets the limited engagement of civil society in the discussions, conceptualisation and programming of the Trust Fund; recalls that the issue of creating ownership and a close partnership with a wide range of civil society actors are essential to the implementation of the EUTF;

2016/04/07
Committee: DEVE

2015/2341(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Recalls that regional and local authorities, civil society and NGOs are natural partners for an effective development policy; stresses the need for a stronger cooperation with local authorities and NGOs in states demonstrating unsufficient guarantees of good governance and transparency; calls for respect for the principle of subsidiarity also in this field of action; stresses that NGOs and civil society should be strongly involved in the implementation phase of the EUTF;

2016/04/07
Committee: DEVE

2015/2341(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Norbert NEUSER, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Strongly believes that the Trust Fund should focus not only on macroeconomic issues but also on grassroots projects with the specific aim of improving quality and equity of services, particularly in education and the health sector, which is key to increasing inclusiveness and enhancing the wellbeing of local populations, as it can respond to the needs of vulnerable communities, including minorities, while also being able to provide better and more equitable and sustainable services to the general population;

2016/04/07
Committee: DEVE

2015/2341(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Elly SCHLEIN, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Norbert NEUSER, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Asks the Commission to enhance the transparency of the Fund and underlines that monitoring and evaluation of the projects and programmes financed will be essential, to make sure the Fund serve its purposes helping directly those in need and not financing governments responsible for human rights violations;

2016/04/07
Committee: DEVE

2015/2341(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Recalls that the rules and criteria that govern development aid for projects financed by the Trust Fund must respect Europe’s fundamental values; in this respect, underlines that EU policy regarding cooperation on security, border controls and organised crime with governments that do not respect human rights or the rights of people on the move should include specific provisions aimed at enhancing respect for human rights and the rule of law, with particular attention to women’s rights, sexual and reproductive health and rights, children’s rights, and the rights of minorities and other particularly affected groups;

2016/04/07
Committee: DEVE

2015/2341(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Norbert NEUSER, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Stresses the need to carefully and systematically check how the funds from the EU Trust Fund for Africa are employed and what the EU is actually financing through the Trust Fund, given the extraordinary lack of clarity in its objectives, the lack of solidarity and consensus among Member States, and the clear desire to achieve security goals by means of an instrument theoretically conceived to pursue development ends; in particular, calls on the Council and the Commission to inform Parliament in detail on the specific actions undertaken by both the EU and the African states when employing these funds;

2016/04/07
Committee: DEVE

2015/2341(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Norbert NEUSER, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20a. Recalls the need for a better communication between the Commission, the Member States and the European Parliament in programming and implementing actions of the Trust Fund in general for further planning of potential further Trust Funds

2016/04/07
Committee: DEVE

2015/2341(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Elly SCHLEIN, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Norbert NEUSER, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 b (new)

20b. underlines that the Trust Fund should function only as a complementary flexible and rapid instrument and should not undermine the long-term development cooperation of the European Union;

2016/04/07
Committee: DEVE

2015/2341(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Norbert NEUSER, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Underlines that the lack of involvement of Parliament thus far in the establishment of the Trust Fund should at least give rise to detailed and regular reporting by the Commission on how the African Trust Fund is been implemented, enabling Parliament to play its role of ~~watchdog~~scrutiny;

2016/04/07
Committee: DEVE

2015/2341(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Norbert NEUSER, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Believes that, given the extraordinary flexibility and rapidity proper to a Trust Fund, periodical reporting to Parliament should be undertaken at least once every six months; strongly underlines the need for transparent performance monitoring, evaluation and auditing;

2016/04/07
Committee: DEVE

2015/2341(INI)

Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Norbert NEUSER, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Underlines the need for a thorough monitoring of the implementation of the provisions on ~~the creation of ‘hotspots’,~~ redistribution, replacement in countries of origin, and Member States’ financial commitments, paying particular attention to human rights;

2016/04/07
Committee: DEVE

2015/2326(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Tibor SZANYI, Cătălin Sorin IVAN, Renato SORU, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Ramón JÁUREGUI ATONDO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Considers that the effectiveness of EU law is ~~systematically undermined by its unsatisfactory application by Member St~~fundamental in achieving an "ever closer" Union as enshrined in the TEU; recognizes the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union of same legal value as the Treaties~~; n~~. Notes that thise lack of enforcement ~~is at the root of a number of European crises~~of EU law weakens the EU itself;

2016/03/31
Committee: ECON

2015/2326(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Alfred SANT, Tibor SZANYI, Cătălin Sorin IVAN, Hugues BAYET, Renato SORU, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Ramón JÁUREGUI ATONDO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Notes with concern that 11 directives in the area of banking and finance legislation are being infringed by one or more Member States, with Germany being the only country to comply with all existing legislation in this field, and Austria the only other Member State with fewer than three infringements1 ; __________________ 1 Particularly worrying are the cases of Poland (10 infringements), Luxembourg (9) and Slovenia, Spain and Estonia (8 each).;

2016/03/31
Committee: ECON

2015/2326(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Tibor SZANYI, Cătălin Sorin IVAN, Renato SORU, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Ramón JÁUREGUI ATONDO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Points out that the Late Payments Directive is still not implemented well in 11 Member States, and ~~that the situation is worst in Italy, Cyprus, Spain, Portugal and Greece~~is also correlated to the state of public finances affected by the economic crisis; notes as well that the delay in B2B payments is well above average; points out that also the directive on access to the activity of credit institutions and the prudential supervision of credit institutions and investment firms, wthe~~re the delay in B2B2 payments is well above average3~~ directive on requirements for budgetary framework of the Member States and the directive on consumer rights have not yet been transposed; __________________ 2 Business-to-business. 3 See ‘Transposition and implementation of the Directive on Late Payments in Commercial Transactions’, European Parliamentary Research Service.

2016/03/31
Committee: ECON

2015/2326(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Tibor SZANYI, Hugues BAYET, Renato SORU, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Ramón JÁUREGUI ATONDO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Recalls that ~~non-compliance with the Maastricht criteria, and the lenient enforcement of the Stability and Growth Pact rules by the Commission and the Council before 2010, contribu~~following the global financial crisis which led to a European debt crisis, the EU has further strengthened its economic coordination and banking supervision; stresses the importance of completing the Banking Union, deepening the EMU and creating a CMU that finances the real economy and growth in Europe; invites all Member Stateds to ~~the emergence of the European debt crisis that followed the global financial crisis~~make full use of flexibility within the existing rules of the Stability and Growth Pact as per Commission's Communication COM (0215)12;

2016/03/31
Committee: ECON

2015/2326(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Tibor SZANYI, Renato SORU, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Ramón JÁUREGUI ATONDO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Points out that in 2014 only 10 of the 157 main recommendations made to Member States in the framework of the European Semester were fully implemented or showed substantial progress4 ; ; and believes that, in order to improve implementation, there is a need to better identify clearly articulated priorities at European level as well as to increase genuine public debate, political willingness and commitment at national level, leading to greater relevance and national ownership; welcomes the recommendation on the economic policy of the euro area, proposed by the Commission six months before country- specific recommendations, as a step to deepen policy coordination in the follow- up to the Five Presidents' Report and relevant resolutions of the European Parliament; __________________ 4 Success rate of around 6.5%: Zsolt Darvas and Alvaro Leandro, ‘The Limitations of Policy Coordination in the Euro Area under the European Semester’, Bruegel, November 2015.

2016/03/31
Committee: ECON

2015/2326(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Cătălin Sorin IVAN, Tibor SZANYI, Renato SORU, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Ramón JÁUREGUI ATONDO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Is very concerned by the fact that the Deposit Guarantee Scheme Directive (DGSD) has still not been implemented by 10 Member States~~6 , which undermines the efforts to build a~~, and calls on the Commission to ensure that it is implemented; welcomes the Commission proposal on European Deposit ~~Gua~~Insurantece Scheme, th~~at would complete the Banking Union; __________________ 6Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Slovenia and Sweden; Commission press release, 10 December 2015.~~e third and final pillar of the Banking Union, needed to safeguard deposits throughout Europe;

2016/03/31
Committee: ECON

2015/2326(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Tibor SZANYI, Renato SORU, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Ramón JÁUREGUI ATONDO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Welcomes the European Commission's first proposals in the area of the Capital Markets Union and stresses the importance of encouraging more investments in the real economy;

2016/03/31
Committee: ECON

2015/2326(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Tibor SZANYI, Renato SORU, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Ramón JÁUREGUI ATONDO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the European Investment Bank to evaluate whether the banking systems of Member States that do not comply with the BRDD and the DGSD should be intermediaries in its actions; calls on the European Central Bank to make a similar evaluation regarding the use of emergency liquidity assistance;deleted

2016/03/31
Committee: ECON

2015/2326(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Tibor SZANYI, Renato SORU, Ramón JÁUREGUI ATONDO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10

10. Is of the opinion that financial penalties for non-compliance with EU law should ~~include a multiplier for those Member States for which several procedures are open~~be effective, proportionate and dissuasive;

2016/03/31
Committee: ECON

2015/2326(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Tibor SZANYI, Renato SORU, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Ramón JÁUREGUI ATONDO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Considers that the number of formal infringement procedures decreased also due to the effectiveness of the structured dialogue with Member States via EU Pilot;

2016/03/31
Committee: ECON

2015/2326(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Tibor SZANYI, Hugues BAYET, Renato SORU, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Ramón JÁUREGUI ATONDO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 b (new)

10b. Welcomes the Commission's efforts to improve access to information on the application of the Union Law. Encourages further efforts to enhance transparency;

2016/03/31
Committee: ECON

2015/2317(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Regrets that, although PCD was endorsed in the UN Millennium Declaration4 , the Lisbon Treaty and the Busan Forum on Aid Effectiveness5 , little progress has been made as to its concrete implementation; believes that, especially considering the framework of the 2030 Agenda, more prominence must be given to PCD, which has to be mainstreamed and implemented at an international, national and local level; __________________ 4 http://www.un.org/millennium/declaration/ ares552e.htm 5 http://www.oecd.org/development/effectiv eness/49650173.pdf

2016/03/09
Committee: DEVE

2015/2317(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls for an EU-wide debate on PCD in the framework of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, so as to understand better how the concept might fit with the more universal concept of PCSD; recalls that PCD requires policy changes both in internal and external policies;

2016/03/09
Committee: DEVE

2015/2317(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls for the inclusion of PCSD as a core issue in the coming debates on EU policies, particularly on the Global strategy, and the mid-term review of the Multi-annual Financial Framework;

2016/03/09
Committee: DEVE

2015/2317(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Recalls that PCD must be made a clear priority for the EEAS and the Delegations by further strengthening the EU's policy dialogue with CSOs, local parliaments and other stakeholders, by asking them to gather evidence on lack of either inconsistency or incoherence, by improving PCD references in programming documents and making them operational, and by developing a training programme for all new EEAS staff to ensure that they are able to understand and apply PCD; believes that adequate resources for this task must be allocated;

2016/03/09
Committee: DEVE

2015/2317(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Proposes that in preparation for that summit, the Commission and the EEAS should address a paper to the EU heads of state and government with concrete recommendations on how to implement PCD and how to define more clearly the responsibilities of each EU institution in achieving PCD commitments; believes that such a process should be as inclusive~~, involving~~ as possible, involving local and regional governments, civil society organisations and think-tanks;

2016/03/09
Committee: DEVE

2015/2317(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Considers that the mechanisms used by EU delegations to provide feedback to the Commission’s 2015 PCD Report should be extended to all EU delegations, and that this should become a yearly exercise; c~~onsiders further~~alls on EU delegations to ensure that PCD is~~hould be~~ on the agenda of the respective bilateral meetings and joint assembly meetings, such as the yearly meeting of EU Heads of Delegations in Brussels;

2016/03/09
Committee: DEVE

2015/2317(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Regrets the fact that although impact assessments represent a significant tool for achieving PCD, assessments of development impacts remain few in number; hopes that the Better Regulation Package and its guidelines will improve this situation; believes that impact assessment have to be made public before the policy proposal, in order to open up opportunities for external stakeholders, including CSOs and developing country stakeholders, to comment and put forward evidence-based material that should be taken into account; considers the need to establish more systematic ex-post assessment of the impact of EU policies on developing countries during policy implementation;

2016/03/09
Committee: DEVE

2015/2317(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Calls for more participatory impact assessments, to allow relevant stakeholders, including developing countries, civil society and NGOs to participate effectively in the IA process and give their views;

2016/03/09
Committee: DEVE

2015/2317(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Welcomes the proposal for an independent system within the Union for receiving complaints by people or communities affected by the Union's policies;

2016/03/09
Committee: DEVE

2015/2317(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the Commission to produce a ~~regular analysis of the cost of incoherencies and to~~blacklist of incoherencies and a regular analysis of their cost by developing adequate monitoring and progress-tracking mechanisms on PCD;

2016/03/09
Committee: DEVE

2015/2317(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Emphasises that the EU needs greater harmonisation of migration and asylum policies, both within the Union itself and with its international partners; suggests that a truly efficient and holistic migration policy has to fully integrate EU internal and external policies, in~~cluding~~ particular within EU working structures;

2016/03/09
Committee: DEVE

2015/2317(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Calls for an inclusive approach to tackle the root causes of migration, including local stakeholders in the first instance; emphasises the need to ensure that development and tackling root causes of migration will be the main approaches leading to a sustainable settlement of the current migration crisis;

2016/03/09
Committee: DEVE

2015/2317(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Insists that EU policies which seek to manage migration should be compatible with those that seek to reduce poverty in developing countries and to tackle the root causes of migration; considers that development aid programmes and budgets should not be used for migration control purposes;

2016/03/09
Committee: DEVE

2015/2317(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Underlines that the EU and its Member States remain the most important Aid for Trade donor in the world (EUR 11.7 billion in 2013 - SWD(2015)0128); welcomes the Commission’s aims to make trade agreements development-friendly, while recognising that Official Development Assistance (ODA) is a key source of financing for sustainable development, if mobilised efficiently; recalls the commitment by Member States to make concrete efforts towards the target of 0.7 percent of gross national product (GNP) as ODA to developing countries;

2016/03/09
Committee: DEVE

2015/2317(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Strongly believes that EU trade policy must take into account the realities and development situation of developing countries in order to achieve PCD objectives; recalls the right of development countries to establish their own development strategies without being exposed to unfair competition;

2016/03/09
Committee: DEVE

2015/2317(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Supports an efficient, fair and transparent tax system in line with good governance principles; welcomes the package of tax transparency measures presented by the Commission on 18 March 2015 and the Anti-Tax Avoidance Package presented on 28 January 2016, including its Communication on an external strategy to promote tax good governance internationally; considers that international cooperation is vital for tackling illicit financial flows and tax evasion;

2016/03/09
Committee: DEVE

2015/2317(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Recalls that EU tax policies can have negative impacts on developing countries, and reiterates its call to conduct a spill- over analysis of all national and EU tax policies, in order to assess the impact on developing countries and remove policies and practices which negatively affect them;

2016/03/09
Committee: DEVE

2015/2317(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Calls for an evaluation of the impact of price subsidies for exports, tariffs and trade barriers on developing countries;

2016/03/09
Committee: DEVE

2015/2317(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)

16b. Recalls that efforts to secure access to raw materials from developing countries must not undermine local development and poverty eradication but support developing countries in translating their mineral wealth into real development;

2016/03/09
Committee: DEVE

2015/2317(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)

16b. Calls on the Member States properly to ensure a fair treatment of developing countries when negotiating tax treaties, taking into account their particular situation and ensuring a fair distribution of taxing rights between source and residence countries; calls Member States, in this regard, to adhere to the UN model tax convention rather than the OECD model, to conduct comprehensive impact assessments ensuring that negative impacts are avoided, to desist from reducing withholding tax rates and to ensure transparency around treaty negotiations;

2016/03/09
Committee: DEVE

2015/2317(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Calls on the EU to evaluate systematically the impact of, among others, EU agricultural, trade and energy policies – such as biofuel policy – on food security in the developing world; urges the Commission to continue to concentrate on small- and medium-scale farming, and to promote sustainable and agro-ecological practices; recalls the need to ensure that the deployment of CAP measures do not jeopardise the food production capacity and long-term food security of developing countries; stresses that substantive issues of policy coherence and impact need to be addressed in the ongoing monitoring of the EU’s Food Security Policy Framework (COM(2010)0127);

2016/03/09
Committee: DEVE

2015/2317(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Calls for a consideration of the impact of fisheries agreements on the food security of developing countries;

2016/03/09
Committee: DEVE

2015/2317(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Calls for determined action from the EU in implementing the Paris Agreement6 ; stresses that the EU and the other developed countries must continue to support climate action to reduce emissions and build resilience to climate change impacts in developing countries; recalls the crucial importance of the provision of adequate climate finance in this context; supports the process of EU energy transition and the shift towards renewable energy in this regard; welcomes the proposal to mainstream environmental concerns into development cooperation programmes; __________________ 6 https://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2015/cop2 1/eng/l09r01.pdf

2016/03/09
Committee: DEVE

2015/2317(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Calls for determined action from the EU and governments at all levels in implementing the Paris Agreement6 ; stresses that the EU and the other developed countries must continue to support climate action to reduce emissions and build resilience to climate change impacts in developing countries; recalls the crucial importance of the provision of adequate climate finance in this context; __________________ 6 https://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2015/cop2 1/eng/l09r01.pdf

2016/03/09
Committee: DEVE

2015/2317(INI)

Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Calls on the EU to strengthen its capacities for crisis prevention and to reinforce the synergies between the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) and development instruments, finding a balance between short-term responses to crises and longer-term development strategies; suggests that creating a new instrument dedicated to the development-security nexus might limit incoherencies and increase the efficiency of PCD; calls for the inclusion of governmental and civil society actors' concerns, priorities and policies of the regions and countries concerned into the elaboration of EU strategies for security and development;

2016/03/09
Committee: DEVE

2015/2316(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Considers that migration is a human right enshrined in Article 13 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights; urges the Commission ~~and~~, the EU Member States and the international community to respect this article and ~~all other~~the relevant international obligations concerning refugees and migrants, and to recognise the contribution that refugees and migrants make to our societies; considers that forced migration has root causes (notably economic, political and social reasons) that must be tackled; underlines the need for urgent action to address all human rights violations faced by migrants, which are most acute in situations of pressure due to security challenges and natural disasters; stresses that the EU and its Member States must lead by example in the promotion and the protection of the human rights of migrants, notably within its own borders, in order to be credible when discussing migration and human rights in third countries;

2016/03/30
Committee: DEVE

2015/2316(INI)

Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Elly SCHLEIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Welcomes the integration of migration into the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), namely in SDG 10, which sets the framework for global development policy until 2030; recalls that the States committed to cooperate internationally to ‘ensure safe, orderly and regular migration involving full respect for human rights and the humane treatment of migrants regardless of migration status, of refugees and of displaced persons’; notes that forced displacement is not only a humanitarian issue but also a development challenge, therefore there should be a better coordination between humanitarian and developmental actors; considers that the implementation of the SDGs is an opportunity to reinforce a rights-based approach in the asylum and migration policies and to mainstream migration into development strategies; calls on the international community to adopt measurable indicators of the SDGs on migration, as well as to collect and publish disaggregated data on migrants access to decent work, healthcare and education, especially in developing destination countries, in order to improve migration governance;

2016/03/30
Committee: DEVE

2015/2316(INI)

Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Warns that the human rights of third- country migrants are systematically violated in the EU, at its borders and in its partner countries; stresses that this happens particularly in detention centres, and that migrants are often victims of deportation, illegal refoulement, and violations of their rights to health and education;deleted

2016/03/30
Committee: DEVE

2015/2316(INI)

Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. ~~Calls on the EU and its Member States to assume their responsibilities with respect to forced migration and human rights vi~~Recognises the complexity of the ‘development-migration nexus’, without denying that development can help mitigate forced migration by increasing development cooperation, improving capacity-building, supporting conflict resolautions and promoting th~~ird countries, and to address the root causes both of human rights violations in third countries and of forced migration from third countries to Europe~~e respect of human rights; considers that development aid should address effectively the root causes of migration, either economic, political, social or environmental; stresses that development assistance programmes should not be used for purely migration and border management purposes; notes that EU development policy main objective should be the eradication of poverty;

2016/03/30
Committee: DEVE

2015/2316(INI)

Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Recognises the positive contribution of refugees and migrants to our societies, benefiting destination countries, transit countries, countries of origin - amongst which developing countries; calls on the EU and the international community to identify specific actions that governments can take to amplify the potential of legal migration as a development enabler; stresses that political leadership and strong advocacy are required, especially in destination countries, to combat xenophobia and to facilitate the social integration of migrants;

2016/03/30
Committee: DEVE

2015/2316(INI)

Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Elly SCHLEIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Recalls that the majority of the world’s refugees and migrants are being hosted by developing countries; recognises the efforts carried out by third countries in the reception of migrants and refugees; stresses that the support systems of these countries face critical challenges which may cause severe threats to the protection of a growing displaced population; calls on the EU to pursue policy coherence and to use various policy instruments in its relations with developing countries in order to promote human rights and the rights of migrants, especially of women and children who are particularly vulnerable to violence, trafficking and abuse; in this regard, calls on the EU and its Member States to systematically incorporate migration issues as a component of development programmes and in the political dialogue with third countries, as well as to provide technical assistance to improve national and local-level migrant integration policies, always ensuring the proper involvement of NGOs and civil society;

2016/03/30
Committee: DEVE

2015/2316(INI)

Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)

3c. Urges the EU to integrate the migration dimension in the post-Cotonou framework which will define the future relations between the EU and ACP countries; notes that a greater involvement of third countries in the design and negotiation of GAMM instruments would enhance the ‘partnership’ nature of these instruments, improving their local ownership and their efficiency;

2016/03/30
Committee: DEVE

2015/2316(INI)

Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)

3d. Asks the Commission to enhance the transparency and flexibility of the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa and calls on EU Member States to contribute, at least at the same level as the Commission, to this Fund; underlines that it is essential to make sure, through proper monitoring and evaluation of the programmes, that the Trust Fund serves its purpose, namely helping those in need, fighting bad governance, corruption and promoting the rule of law in African countries;

2016/03/30
Committee: DEVE

2015/2316(INI)

Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Condemns the negative effects of activities by EU multinationals and of EU trade policies in third countries, such as general impoverishment and the systematic violation of human rights through the exploitation of these countries’ human and natural resources; calls on the Commission to urgently present and implement a legally binding international instrument on business activities in third countries and human rights;deleted

2016/03/30
Committee: DEVE

2015/2316(INI)

Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Condemns the use of development funds to finance migration policies, and rejects any instrumentalisation of development cooperation agreements aimed at imposing migration, trade and economic policies in third countries and interfering in their internal affairs and economic planning;deleted

2016/03/30
Committee: DEVE

2015/2316(INI)

Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

~~6. Calls on the EU to put an urgent end to any form of migration agreement with third countries in which governments violate human rights;~~deleted

2016/03/30
Committee: DEVE

2015/2316(INI)

Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Stresses the link between military interventions by EU Member States in third countries and the increase in human rights violations and forced migration; calls on the Commission to present and implement a legally binding regulation that forbids any arms trade with countries in conflict or in which human rights are violadeleted;

2016/03/30
Committee: DEVE

2015/2316(INI)

Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. ~~Calls for the cancellation of the ex~~Insists that sustainable debt solutions, including standards for responsible lending and borrowing, must be facilitated through a multilaternal ~~debt of impoverished countries, as such debt makes it impossible for their governments to develop public policies that guarantee respect for human rights.~~ legal framework for sovereign debt restructuring processes, with a view to alleviating the debt burden and avoiding unsustainable debt in order to create the conditions for the protection of human rights in the long term;

2016/03/30
Committee: DEVE

2015/2276(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the increasingly dangerous and challenging security environment within and outside the Union, characterised by t~~errorist attacks~~he most serious security challenges since the end of the Cold War ranging from conventional military threats to hybrid warfare and mas~~s murder~~ymmetric threats which no Member State can cope with alone, calls for the strengthening of the EU’s security and defence policy to make it a more effective policy instrument and a real guarantee of the safety of EU citizens and the promotion of European interests and values;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFET

2015/2276(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the Union needs to contribute to the fight against ~~terrorism~~security challenges at home and abroad, including by supporting third countries in combating the~~rroris~~m; whereas the Union needs to make its external borders more secure;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFET

2015/2276(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas space capabilities for European security and defence are appropriate for a range of situations, ranging from day-to- day peacetime use to crisis management and ~~even full-scale warfare~~more acute security challenges ; whereas the development of such capabilities is a long- term venture; whereas the development of future capabilities needs to be programmed when current capabilities are being deployed;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFET

2015/2276(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas in the area of defence and security the Union acts among others through such institutions as the European Defence Agency and the EU Satellite Centre;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFET

2015/2276(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Considers that space-based capabilities and services play a key role, among other areas, in the context of European security and defence; is convinced that current and future space- based capabilities and services will provide Member States and the Union with improved operational capacity for the implementation of the common security and defence policy and of other EU policies in areas such as external action, border management, maritime security, agriculture, the environment, climate action, energy security, disaster management, humanitarian aid and transport;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFET

2015/2276(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Believes that the Union should improve space-based communication, situational awareness, precision navigation and Earth observation capabilities, and ensure European non-dependence as regards critical space technologies and access to space; underlines the commitment for non-militarisation of the space;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFET

2015/2276(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Recalls that the Union’s space policy promotes scientific and technical progress, industrial competitiveness and the implementation of all EU policies, including security and defence policy; invites the Council, the VP/HR and the Commission to ensure that European space programmes develop space-based capabilities and services with relevance for European security and defence;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFET

2015/2276(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Considers a holistic, integrated and long- term approach to the space sector at an EU level to be necessary; believes that the space sector should be one of the priorities for the new EU Global Strategy on Foreign and Security Policy, bearing in mind the need to develop EU civil space programmes that can be used for both civil and ~~military~~security and defence purposes;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFET

2015/2276(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses that cooperation between the Commission, the European External Action Service, the European Defence Agency, the European Space Agency and the Member States is crucial to improving European space capabilities and services; takes the view that the Union, namely the VP/HR, should coordinate, facilitate and support such cooperation in the area of security and defence; express its conviction that the European Space Agency should play a significant role in the implementation of security and defence policy;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFET

2015/2276(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Recognises the crucial nature of the relationship between the Union and the European Space Agency; is convinced that the European Space Agency should play a significant role in the implementation of security and defence policy; invites the VP/HR to coordinate and advance the necessary initiatives and efforts to this end;deleted

2016/03/01
Committee: AFET

2015/2276(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Is convinced that the EU-USNATO relationship in the field of security and defence policy should be further developed; considers that ~~EU-US~~transatlantic cooperation on future space-based capabilities and services for security and defence purposes would be mutually beneficial; notes the work undertaken towards the third US Offset Strategy; calls for increased cooperation with the Japan Space Agency; urges the Union to take this development into account when preparing its own Global Strategy on Foreign and Security Policy, and to include space-based capabilities for security and defence within the remit of that strategy; invites the VP/HR to discuss with defence ministers the strategic approach to be taken, and to inform Parliament as that debate unfolds;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFET

2015/2276(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. ~~Recalls the need for stronger cooperation between the EU and NATO in the area of security and defence; is convinced~~Expresses its conviction that EU-NATO cooperation should cover the building of resilience by the two bodies and in conjunction with our neighbours, as well as defence investment; considers that cooperation on space-based capabilities and services offers prospects for improving compatibility and synergy between the two frameworks; is convinced that this would also strengthen NATO’'s role in security and defence policy and in collective defence;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFET

2015/2276(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Considers that the EU programmes in the space domain that provide capabilities and services relevant to the Union’'s security and defence policy, including the next stages of evolution of the Copernicus and Galileo systems, ~~need to take~~should take the eventual security- and defence- related requirements into account from their inception; considers that space situational awareness, satellite communication, electronic intelligence and early warning are areas in need of EU-level cooperation in the public and private sectors, continuous investment by, and support for, agencies in the space, security and defence fields, such as the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) Agency;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFET

2015/2276(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. ~~Remains cautiou~~Expresses its deep concerns about the risks associated with privatisation of the space sector;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFET

2015/2276(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Expresses its concerns about the increased cost of the Copernicus and Galileo programmes far beyond the initial budgetary allocations; express its support for the further development of the EU space capabilities while asking for an adequate management of the financial resources;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFET

2015/2276(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Considers that the Union should encourage all actors in the technology and know-how supply chains to turn their attention to space- based capabilities and ~~servi~~dual use technologies with relevances for security and defence, and should promote the development of innovative applications and new business ideas in this area, with a particular focus on small and medium- sized companies and on developing entrepreneurship in this sector; calls for a plan for the use of dual-use space technologies in the space sector, aimed at contributing to the development of the European ~~military~~defence industry and to greater competition;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFET

2015/2276(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Is convinced that EU-level investments in security and defence capabilities foster greater and more systematic European defence cooperation with a view to delivering key capabilities; welcomes, therefore, the European Council conclusions of June 2015; urges the Council, the VP/HR and the Commission to develop the necessary framework for EU-level funding;deleted

2016/03/01
Committee: AFET

2015/2276(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Takes the view that an EU-level ‘'white book’' on security and defence would be the appropriate means of structuring future EU engagement ~~and investment~~ in space-based security and defence capabilities; takes the view that this would also allow coherent development across all capability domains in relation to peace-keeping, conflict prevention and strengthening international security, in accordance with the principles of the United Nations Charter, and the progressive framing of a common EU defence policy;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFET

2015/2275(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Recalls that sexual violence is used as a weapon of war in many conflict areas; stresses that women and girls are especially vulnerable during conflicts; underlines their need for protection, supported by trained armed forces, who are respecting human rights.

2016/02/25
Committee: DEVE

2015/2272(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the aim of the new EU Global Strategy on Foreign and Security Policy to be comprehensive, enhance coherence between internal and external policies and improve coordination between institutions and with Member States; recalls in this context the Treaty obligation to consider Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) and ~~minimise~~to avoid contradictions between development and non-development policies that have an impact on developing countries; calls on the Member States therefore to establish and consolidate systems of coordination between respective Ministries and to further involve national Parliaments in the PCD agenda, and calls on the EU to reinforce a coordination mechanism for identifying the potential implications of policies on development objectives, integrating development aspects into policy initiatives from the outset and introducing a more systematic measurement of impacts and progress as regards PCD;

2016/02/04
Committee: DEVE

2015/2272(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Underlines that the realisation of the Sustainable development cooperation goals – in particular those of promoting good governance, human rights and gender equality, democracy and justice, combating poverty, reducing inequalities and social exclusion, tackling unemployment and barriers to economic growth, and improving health and education – ~~all~~ contributes to address~~ing~~ the root causes of recent security and migration challenges; stresses in this context that in order to address the security-development nexus properly, dedicated mechanisms with ~~flexible~~harmonized financing ~~must be developed~~should be envisaged without jeopardizing and decreasing financing for development in favour of security;

2016/02/04
Committee: DEVE

2015/2272(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Supports the idea of redefining the EU relationship with Africa by upgrading the principle of good governance a~~s an~~nd human rights as essential elements of the post- Cotonou agreement and by building stronger links between EU development, trade, security and migration policies for mutual reinforcement; reiterates its call for budgetisation of the European Development Fund; calls for a fair and ambitious post-2020 EU-ACP partnership that better focuses on common challenges and interests and that is better adapted to make a real change to the security and prosperity of both parties.

2016/02/04
Committee: DEVE

2015/2272(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Believes it is important to enhance the role of developing countries in international fora, such as the UN, in order to ensure a fairer representation of interest.

2016/02/04
Committee: DEVE

2015/2258(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Recalls that around 15 % of the world’s population, or an estimated 1 billion people, live with disabilities and 80% of these people live in low-income countries; underlines that 50 % of disabilities are preventable and directly linked to poverty and also that an estimated 98 % of children with disabilities in the developing world do not attend school;

2016/04/26
Committee: DEVE

2015/2258(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Underlines the fact that poverty is both a cause and a consequence of disability and that poverty is a barrier to accessing basic social services, such as nutrition, health, water and sanitation, and this can lead to disability;

2016/04/26
Committee: DEVE

2015/2258(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the increasingly ~~volatile~~challenging security environment calls for a strengthening of the CSDP to make it a more effective policy instrument, a real guarantee for the safety of EU citizens and for the promotion of European interests and values;

2015/03/03
Committee: AFET BUDG

2015/2258(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1 b. Underlines the fact that persons with disabilities may face additional disability- related costs, higher rates of unemployment and lower incomes, which can put them and their families at higher risk of financial hardship;

2016/04/26
Committee: DEVE

2015/2258(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1 c. Underlines the fact that exclusion from education may lead to lower employment and earning potential among people with disabilities, making these individuals and their families more vulnerable to poverty and limiting national economic growth;

2016/04/26
Committee: DEVE

2015/2258(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)

1 d. Underlines the fact that inability to access and receive appropriate timely health care may result in continuously poor or worsening levels of functioning among people with disabilities, including the development of additional disabling conditions that lead to higher personal and societal medical and productivity costs in the long term;

2016/04/26
Committee: DEVE

2015/2258(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 f (new)

1 f. Underlines the fact that on-going conflicts and natural disasters are also contributing factors to the growing numbers of persons with disabilities;

2016/04/26
Committee: DEVE

2015/2258(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the European Council of December 2013 decided to examine the financial aspects of EU missions and operations, including the review of the Athena mechanism, in order to ensure that procedures and rules enable the Union to be faster, more flexible and efficient in the deployment of EU civilian missions and military operations;

2015/03/03
Committee: AFET BUDG

2015/2258(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses that significant progress has been achieved by the EU regarding the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) but that, as stated by the CRPD Committee, there is still a lot to do in terms of inequality, unemployment and education; also expresses concern regarding sexual violence and other forms of abuse ~~of women~~s against people with disabilities, in particular women and childrens;

2016/04/26
Committee: DEVE

2015/2258(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Stresses the fact that any actions of information, awareness and training represent a fundamental element in order to implement the CRPD Convention;

2016/04/26
Committee: DEVE

2015/2258(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Calls the EU to take the lead on the promotion of the rights of persons with disabilities in the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with its partner countries, regional organisations and at the global level;

2016/04/26
Committee: DEVE

2015/2258(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Notes with concern that despite a combined yearly defence budget of some EUR 190 billion, the Member States are still unable to meet the 1999 Helsinki Headline Goals; recalls the ambitious civilian headline goals set by the EU; calls for the EU to be strengthened as an real actor in defence, and regrets the lack of a clear military doctrine which operationalises the tasks listed in Article 43 TEU (the expanded ‘Petersberg tasks’); strongly advocates closer security and defence coordination and cooperation between Member States and at EU level, in particular pooling and sharing of resources, capabilities and assets;

2015/03/03
Committee: AFET BUDG

2015/2258(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5 c. Recommends the fact that the EU take the lead on disability-inclusive implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and establish a work plan and a mid-term review of the work plan in order to guarantee a monitoring and evaluation mechanism and ensure EU accountability;

2016/04/26
Committee: DEVE

2015/2258(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)

5 d. Stresses the fact that EU should ensure that all EU funded programmes and projects promote, protect and uphold the rights of persons with disabilities and are compliant with the articles of the UN CRPD;

2016/04/26
Committee: DEVE

2015/2258(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 e (new)

5 e. Underlines the necessity to establish mechanisms to collect and monitor disaggregated data by disability, sex, age and other characteristics and that the EU should implement such mechanisms in all EU funded projects and setup a clear timetable for producing disaggregated data across all its programmes;

2016/04/26
Committee: DEVE

2015/2258(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 f (new)

5 f. Stresses the importance that persons with disabilities and their representative organisations should be regularly consulted and participate in decision- making with EU institutions;

2016/04/26
Committee: DEVE

2015/2258(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 g (new)

5 g. Underlines the importance to give a special support to the persons with disabilities in post emergency situations;

2016/04/26
Committee: DEVE

2015/2258(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Welcomes the concrete measures and pragmatic solutions introduced recently by the Commission within the existing framework of financial rules in order to shorten financial procedures; deplores, however, the still significant delays in procuring essential equipment and services to the missions under the CSDP, partially due to the often slow process of adopting decisions by the Council, to a very bureaucratic system of procurement, but also to a certain lack of flexibility of the financial rules, and the resulting negative effect on the missions’ functioning; recalls that the Court of Auditors already criticised this in its 2012 Special Report on the EU assistance to Kosovo related to the rule of law;

2015/03/03
Committee: AFET BUDG

2015/2258(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Urges the Commission to mitigate these shortfalls, and to propose the necessary adaptations to financial rules for civilian CSDP missions, in order to facilitate the rapid ~~and~~, flexible and more efficient conduct of missions, while guaranteeing sound financial management of the EU resources and an adequate protection of the Union’s financial interests; takes the view that the budget implementation powers should be delegated to the Civilian Operation Commander, in the same way that has been done for Heads of EU Delegations;

2015/03/03
Committee: AFET BUDG

2015/2258(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Believes that the chronic constraints of the EEAS/Civilian Planning and Conduct Capability’s administrative budget should be fast alleviated, as the yearly budget allocation remains too small to cater for all planning, conduct and support tasks, notably when more missions are launched almost simultaneously;

2015/03/03
Committee: AFET BUDG

2015/2258(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Takes the view that the permanent CSDP Warehouse, which currently only serves new CSDP civilian missions, should quickly be upgraded by enlarging its scope to include existing missions and by improving the availability of stored equipment, and enlarge, as well, the diversity of the necessary equipment, and that it should be managed by the future SSC;

2015/03/03
Committee: AFET BUDG

2015/2258(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls for better military-civilian synergies where appropriate, notably in the areas of planning and coordination, logistics, transport and the security of missions, while respecting the different chains of command and the different nature of civilian and military missions;

2015/03/03
Committee: AFET BUDG

2015/2258(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Welcomes the review of Crisis Management Procedures (CMP) agreed in 2013, as it led to improvements in the planning and launching of CSDP missions; stresses, however, that much more needs to be done to overcome the persistent ‘silos’ separating different parts of the EU foreign policy machinery;

2015/03/03
Committee: AFET BUDG

2015/2258(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Acknowledges that military operations are financed by the Member States outside the EU budget and that their common costs are covered by the Athena mechanism; underlines that Athena is crucial to the fast deployment of those operations and is an instrument of solidarity between Member States, as well as a major incentive, notably for those lacking financial resources, to contribute to CSDP operations; regrets, however, that the proportion of the common costs remains very low (estimated at around 10-15 % of all costs) and that the ‘costs lie where they fall’ outdated principle further deters Member States from taking an active part and leads to delays or even complete blockages in decision-making; finds that the long-term, better financing of military missions should be ensured;

2015/03/03
Committee: AFET BUDG

2015/2258(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Recalls that the Lisbon Treaty provides the EU with new CSDP provisions which are yet untapped; encourages the Council to make use of Article 44 TEU, enabling a group of willing Member States to go ahead with the implementation of a CSDP task; considers the urgent need for a faster decision making process; takes the view that the ad hoc funding mechanisms for a military operation should cover more than the traditional common costs reimbursed by Athena;

2015/03/03
Committee: AFET BUDG

2015/2258(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Calls on the Council to initiate as soon as possible the setting-up of the start-up fund (foreseen by Article 41(3) TEU) for the urgent and rapid financing of the initial phases of military operations, which could also serve as a strong tool for capacity development; notes that, while civilian missions benefit from a dedicated budget for preparatory measures, the deployment and efficiency of military missions will remain structurally hindered as long as this possibility is not used; strongly encourages Member States to engage in the permanent structured cooperation provided for by Article 46 TEU, which would also considerably strengthen the EU rapid reaction capability;

2015/03/03
Committee: AFET BUDG

2015/2258(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Takes the view that the next European Council on defence should not waste an opportunity to have a deep discussion and produce concrete proposals on reforming the financial arrangements for CSDP missions and operations; in order to make them more efficient, more successful urges the Member States to deliver on the commitments undertaken at the European Council of December 2013;

2015/03/03
Committee: AFET BUDG

2015/2233(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Stresses that EU trade and investment policies are interlinked with EU development policies and have an impact on developing countries; calls for the Commission to respect the principle of Policy Coherence for Development in all trade negotiations; stresses th~~e need to focus on the effective implementation and monitoring of the sustainable development chapters in trade agreements, in line with the Sustainable Development Goal~~at TiSA should incorporate the principles of Aid for Trade strategy; emphasises that the economic prosperity of the EU cannot be detrimental to that of other countries, particularly to the social and economic condition of developing countries;

2015/11/13
Committee: DEVE

2015/2233(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Urges~~Welcomes the present efforts of the EU to increase transparency of its trade agreements; urges, however, the Commission to increase transparency and democratic accountability on the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) negotiation process~~, and on all trade policies,~~ by duly taking into account concerns expressed by trade unions and civil society organisations, including the CSOs of developing countries;

2015/11/13
Committee: DEVE

2015/2233(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Rejects TiSA and other macro-trade agreements on the basis that they are a tool to bypass multilateral and democratic fora in which developing countries are properly represented in order to set global standards; recalls that TiSA, contrary to the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), does not currently have special and differential treatment provisions; urges the Commission to immediately propose such a clause based on GATS Article IV; reiterates the need for a strengthened multilateral approach to global trade that is to be achieved by means of an intensified cooperation between the EU and international bodies such as UNCTAD, G20, WTO and the World Bank;

2015/11/13
Committee: DEVE

2015/2233(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. ~~Rec~~Calls ~~TiSA’s risks of increasing asymmetric international trade relations between countries~~on the Commission to take into account the impact of TiSA on countries that are not part of the agreement, especially developing countries; stresses that to mitigate any potentially negative effects, the EU should intensify its actions to include developing countries into global value chains in services, and to consider a more flexible approach for developing countries when subscribing to the level of ambition of the agreement;

2015/11/13
Committee: DEVE

2015/2233(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Rejects TiSA and other macro-trade deals, taking the view that they are a tool for the privatisation of public services and liberalisation of public procurement, such public services and public procurement being key elements for sustainable development and for ensuring respect fCalls on the Commission to explicitly exclude public services from TiSA, regardless of how the services are funded, organised or ope~~ople’s dignity; ask~~rated; invites the Commission to ~~respect the policy space of developing countries’ governments and parliaments to take decisions in order to ensure internationally agreed standards on labour, the environment and human right~~support and monitor the capacity-building of developing countries in providing sustainable and efficient public services;

2015/11/13
Committee: DEVE

2015/2233(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls the Commission to mainstream gender equality and women’s empowerment in its trade policy and ~~to consider the negative impact that TiSA and other trade agreements may have in this respect in developing countries~~, in light of existing concerns, closely monitor the impact of EU trade agreements on gender equality;

2015/11/13
Committee: DEVE

2015/2233(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Recalls the primacy of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union over TiSA and any other international treaty negotiated by the EU, and calls on the Court of Justice of the European Union to effectively guarantee this juridical supremacy;deleted

2015/11/13
Committee: DEVE

2015/2233(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. ~~Recalls Uruguay’s decision to withdraw~~Invites the Commission to reflect on the recent withdrawal of Uruguay from the TiSA negotiations ~~on the basis of concerns that TiSA could threaten the country’s polic~~and to draw the necessary conclusions by spa~~ce on strategic sectors and services; urges the Commission to take this withdrawal into serious consideration~~ying more attention to the needs of developing countries which are subscribing to TiSA.

2015/11/13
Committee: DEVE

2015/2229(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Encourages the Member States and the EU to really implement a HRBA approach in their development policies and aid, for example by emphasising the importance of human rights, good governance and democracy in budget and sector support dialogues and to ensure democratic ownership, participation of civil society and transparency and accountability of development aid; underlines that, particularly in countries which have poor records both in development and respect for human rights, development aid should be maintained and even strengthened, but should preferably be channelled through civil society organisations and non- governmental local partners, and be systematically monitored, along with governmental commitments to improve the human rights situation on the ground;

2015/10/21
Committee: DEVE

2015/2229(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls for the EU and its delegations to increase their political dialogue with governments in breach of human rights, democracy and the rule of the law, and insists that the political dialogue on human rights between the EU and third countries must cover a more inclusive and comprehensive definition of non- discrimination, inter alia on the basis of religion or belief, sex, racial or ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity.; encourages the EU to consolidate its basic value of solidarity and full respect for human rights, both home and abroad;

2015/10/21
Committee: DEVE

2015/2229(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Urges the Commission and the Member States to ensure that human rights are genuinely protected in the remit of any trade and investment agreements concluded or revised, through binding and non-negotiable human rights clauses; insists that the Commission conducts systematic human rights impact assessments of trade and investment agreements to help ensure effective enforcement of human rights;

2015/10/21
Committee: DEVE

2015/2229(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Stresses the need to link security, development and human rights, as illustrated by the chaotic situations faced by many regions in EU's neighbourhood or vicinity, such as Middle-east, Horn of Africa, North Africa, Sahel, Western and Central Africa;

2015/10/21
Committee: DEVE

2015/2229(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)

6c. Encourages the EU Annual Report on Human Rights to dedicate more importance to the role of development cooperation;

2015/10/21
Committee: DEVE

2015/2203(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Underlines the importance of continuously improving the impact assessment of development cooperation and humanitarian aid projects funded through EU external financial instruments; emphasises the need for an in-depth, accurate and global analysis of the different monitoring and reporting arrangements to avoid any mismanagement, lack of transparency and misappropriation of EU funds;

2016/01/27
Committee: DEVE

2015/2189(DEC)

Maria João RODRIGUES, Anneliese DODDS, Jakob von WEIZSÄCKER, Peter SIMON, Renato SORU, Elisa FERREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Concludes that EIOPA’s mixed financing arrangement is inflexible, burdensome and a potential threat to its independence, especially when 60% of its budget is financed by the competent national supervisory authorities; therefore calls on the Commission to reconsider the financing arrangement in favour of an independent budget line from the budget of the Union and the introduction of fees by market participants.

2016/01/19
Committee: ECON

2015/2127(INI)

Maria João RODRIGUES, Jakob von WEIZSÄCKER, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Anneliese DODDS, Hugues BAYET, Neena GILL, Udo BULLMANN, Elisa FERREIRA, Peter SIMON, Renato SORU, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Takes note of the 2014 EIB A~~nnual~~ctivity Report and the increase by 6.92% to EUR 80.3 billion in the EIB Group’s lending; is very concerned a~~t the increasing~~bout still very high unemployment, inequality and poverty levels, as well as weak investment in Europe and the continuous uncertainty in the financial markets, also in view of a worsening global economic outlook;

2015/11/06
Committee: ECON

2015/2127(INI)

Maria João RODRIGUES, Jakob von WEIZSÄCKER, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Anneliese DODDS, Hugues BAYET, Neena GILL, Udo BULLMANN, Elisa FERREIRA, Peter SIMON, Renato SORU, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Regrets that overall EU investment in 2013 decreased by 13% compared with the pre- crisis period with investment in some countries decreasing 25% and even by as much as 60% in others, creating a dangerous investment imbalance in the EU; is of the opinion that this constitutes a major challenge for the EIB Group and will require extraordinary efforts from its side for the years to come, as part of an overall EU effort to implement a renewed long-term strategy for sustainable, convergent and inclusive growth;

2015/11/06
Committee: ECON

2015/2127(INI)

Maria João RODRIGUES, Jakob von WEIZSÄCKER, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Anneliese DODDS, Hugues BAYET, Neena GILL, Elisa FERREIRA, Peter SIMON, Renato SORU, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Notes the urgent need for an increase in EIB ~~lending activity~~Group investment activity, including innovative financial instruments with greater additional risk-bearing capacity, and for the improvement of its activity in line with Protocol (No 28) on Economic, Social and Territorial Cohesion;

2015/11/06
Committee: ECON

2015/2127(INI)

Maria João RODRIGUES, Jakob von WEIZSÄCKER, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Anneliese DODDS, Hugues BAYET, Neena GILL, Elisa FERREIRA, Peter SIMON, Renato SORU, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the EIB Group to re-examine its strategic planning programme, given the high degree of concentration of funding for the four biggest economies in the EU accounting for more than 45%, and the disproportionate rise in unemployment levels and investment gaps in some other countries which remains at alarming levels, and which ~~could~~ hamper economic convergence in the EU and further damage growth prospects and social cohesion in specific countries and regions in the EU;

2015/11/06
Committee: ECON

2015/2127(INI)

Maria João RODRIGUES, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Anneliese DODDS, Hugues BAYET, Neena GILL, Elisa FERREIRA, Peter SIMON, Renato SORU, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. ~~Takes note of~~Welcomes the establishment of the European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI) and emphasises the need for the EFSI to function in an effective, transparent and fair way, to honour fully the requirement of additionality, and to take into account that priority should be given to projects in strategic sectors, countries ~~in adjustment programme~~where investment gaps have widened most during the economic crisis and regions which have difficulties in attracting funding because ~~of their high risk environment;~~ their geographical or historical disadvantage translates into a higher high risk profile in an economic environment marked by uncertainty; Regrets the selection procedure used to appoint the Managing Director and the Deputy Managing Director and stresses the need to finalise as soon as possible the inter-institutional agreement between the EIB and the Parliament on reporting and on the selection procedure for both positions;

2015/11/06
Committee: ECON

2015/2127(INI)

Maria João RODRIGUES, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Anneliese DODDS, Hugues BAYET, Neena GILL, Elisa FERREIRA, Peter SIMON, Renato SORU, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Urges the EIB Group to develop an increased focus on economic and labour market resilience in the context of technological changes, environmental constraints, globalisation and demographic trends; calls on it to prioritise investment operations with high potential in terms of job creation and environmental sustainability, particularly in areas of greatest need, and to expand its cooperation with other development banks in this direction;

2015/11/06
Committee: ECON

2015/2127(INI)

Maria João RODRIGUES, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Anneliese DODDS, Hugues BAYET, Neena GILL, Elisa FERREIRA, Peter SIMON, Renato SORU, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Calls on the EIB Group to consider strengthening non-financial criteria in its project assessment models, giving greater weight to projects' contribution to sustainable and inclusive development and cohesion in line with Protocol (No 28) on Economic, Social and Territorial Cohesion, while aiming at maximum transparency;

2015/11/06
Committee: ECON

2015/2127(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the EIB to refrain from cooperating with financial partners with a negative track record and to enforce prevention measures against tax havens, fraud and evasion as well as aggressive tax avoidance; calls for these prevention measures to include ensuring that no EIB funding can go to ultimate beneficiaries or financial intermediaries which make use of tax havens or harmful tax practices;

2015/11/06
Committee: ECON

2015/2127(INI)

Maria João RODRIGUES, Jakob von WEIZSÄCKER, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Anneliese DODDS, Hugues BAYET, Neena GILL, Elisa FERREIRA, Peter SIMON, Renato SORU, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the EIB Group to refrain from cooperating with financial partners with a negative track record, particularly in the field of corporate taxation, and to enforce prevention measures against tax havens, tax fraud and tax evasion as well as aggressive tax avoidance; requests a list of outstanding EIB Group transactions involving counterparts established in jurisdictions featuring on the Commission's list of "top 30" tax havens around the world;

2015/11/06
Committee: ECON

2015/2127(INI)

Maria João RODRIGUES, Anneliese DODDS, Jakob von WEIZSÄCKER, Peter SIMON, Renato SORU, Elisa FERREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls on the EIB to adopt an effective and up-to-date Responsible Taxation Policy, to be overseen by a Tax Unit and detailed within an Annual Tax Report; calls for this policy to include regular country tax assessments in order to identify problematic jurisdictions; calls for this policy to involve the EIB actively using its relocation clause and systematically publishing the domicile of funds which benefit from EIB support, as well as the domicile of the ultimate beneficiaries of the funds if they are supported by financial intermediaries;

2015/11/06
Committee: ECON

2015/2127(INI)

Maria João RODRIGUES, Jakob von WEIZSÄCKER, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Anneliese DODDS, Hugues BAYET, Neena GILL, Elisa FERREIRA, Peter SIMON, Renato SORU, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the EIB Group to further enhance transparency and access to information ~~both interna~~for the Parliament and other EU institutions as welly ands for the public, especially regarding the selection, monitoring and evaluation of activities and programmes;

2015/11/06
Committee: ECON

2015/2127(INI)

Maria João RODRIGUES, Anneliese DODDS, Jakob von WEIZSÄCKER, Peter SIMON, Renato SORU, Elisa FERREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9

9. Requests the EIB to increase its reporting to Parliament regarding its decisions, progress achieved and the impact of its lending activities within and outside the EU; requests that this include regular reports to the European Parliament and other stakeholders on the implementation of its Non-Compliant Jurisdiction Policy, including the number of applications which have been turned down for failing to comply with this policy, as well as the number of relocations which have been requested and implemented.

2015/11/06
Committee: ECON

2015/2127(INI)

Maria João RODRIGUES, Jakob von WEIZSÄCKER, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Anneliese DODDS, Hugues BAYET, Neena GILL, Udo BULLMANN, Elisa FERREIRA, Peter SIMON, Renato SORU, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9

9. Requests the EIB Group to increase its reporting to Parliament regarding its decisions, progress achieved and the impact of its lending activities within and outside the EU; calls on the EIB Group to engage in deeper dialogue with the Parliament on all its activities within the same scheme for reporting and accountability as set out in the EFSI regulation and to fully comply with the spirit and letter of the EFSI regulation, notably concerning inter-institutional cooperation with the Parliament.

2015/11/06
Committee: ECON

2015/2112(INI)

Seb DANCE, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Underlines that climate change poses a major threat to poor and least developed countries (LDCs); stresses that failure to limit global warming to 2°C ~~may~~will undermine development gains;

2015/07/10
Committee: DEVE

2015/2112(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Underlines that climate change poses a major threat to poor and least developed countries (LDCs); stresses that failure to limit global warming to 2°C may undermine development gains; and acknowledges that whereas the Paris agreement aims to put the world on a course for not more than a 2°C warming scenario; a 2°C warming scenario will still bring significant loss and damage to environment and communities and more than this will bring catastrophic effects;

2015/07/10
Committee: DEVE

2015/2112(INI)

Seb DANCE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Draws attention to the recent Adaptation Gap report produced by UNEP which estimates that the cost of adapting to climate change in Africa alone, even assuming international efforts keep global warming below 2°C this century, will rise to US$50 billion per year by 2050. Considers that even if all cost- effective adaptation is realised, there will be further ‘residual’ damages where adaptation is no longer possible. Recognises that these residual damages will double the adaptation costs in the period 2030-2050;

2015/07/10
Committee: DEVE

2015/2112(INI)

Seb DANCE, Elly SCHLEIN, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses that in order to reduce GHG emissions in developing countries, it is necessary to put in place mechanisms that would increase the use of efficient, alternative energy sources and industrial capacities with zero or low carbon footprint;

2015/07/10
Committee: DEVE

2015/2112(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Expects the European Commission to assume a pro-active role in negotiations; calls on it to make it clear that the climate challenge is the top strategic priority to this Commission and to organise itself in a way which reflects this, at all levels and across all policy areas.

2015/07/10
Committee: DEVE

2015/2112(INI)

Seb DANCE, Elly SCHLEIN, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)

7c. Calls for a commitment for an allocation of climate finance towards supporting development goals that are at risk of being undermined by climate change, with particular reference to the food security objectives as laid out in the Millennium Development Goals and reiterated in the Post 2015 development Agenda.

2015/07/10
Committee: DEVE

2015/2112(INI)

Seb DANCE, Elly SCHLEIN, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 d (new)

7d. Calls on major developed economies to harness their existing advanced infrastructure to promote, enhance and develop sustainable growth and to commit to support developing countries to build their own capacity to help ensure future economic growth in all parts of the world is achieved at no further cost to the environment.

2015/07/10
Committee: DEVE

2015/2112(INI)

Seb DANCE, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 e (new)

7e. Calls on the EU and its Member States to clearly define the role of private finance in the context of additional leverage of funding, while recognising that this cannot replace the need for public finance, in particular for adaptation, to emphasise the need for transparent reporting and accountability of such finance and to ensure the implementation of relevant social and environmental safeguards;

2015/07/10
Committee: DEVE

2015/2112(INI)

Seb DANCE, Elly SCHLEIN, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 f (new)

7f. Calls on the EU to help settle ongoing discussions around additionality of climate finance to development aid and to stop the diversion of existing aid to climate finance by providing guarantees to developing countries that climate finance that qualifies as ODA will be part of an overall ODA budget that is rising at least at the same rate. Calls for a robust monitoring and accountability framework for effective follow-up of the implementation of climate finance commitments and objectives to help provide clarity on these issues;

2015/07/10
Committee: DEVE

2015/2112(INI)

Seb DANCE, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 g (new)

7g. Stresses the importance of the role that the Development Community, OECD and OECD DAC should play in working closely with stakeholders and relevant organisation to assess and mitigate the worst human impacts of climate change, which are expected to be challenging even below a 2°C warming level.

2015/07/10
Committee: DEVE

2015/2112(INI)

Seb DANCE, Elly SCHLEIN, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 h (new)

7h. Recalls the principle of EU Policy Coherence in this, the European Year for Development, which seeks to take account of development objectives in all policies that are likely to affect developing countries and therefore calls on negotiators to aim with their COP strategy to minimise contradictions and ensure synergy between the EU negotiating position and different EU policies to benefit developing countries and increase the effectiveness of development cooperation.

2015/07/10
Committee: DEVE

2015/2112(INI)

Seb DANCE, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 i (new)

7i. Highlights the importance of policy scrutiny to ensure that policies aimed at mitigating climate change do not inadvertently undermine communities rights to land, water and food; such as in the case of biofuels.

2015/07/10
Committee: DEVE

2015/2112(INI)

Seb DANCE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 j (new)

7j. Recognises and proposes action on the implications of high carbon food sources and related agricultural emissions, such as methane and nitrous oxide; Also calls for action on deforestation arising from change of land use for feed and pasture with an aim to avoid emissions associated with food source markets. Calls for action to be taken to raise awareness of the climate impacts of high impact food production methods and to help businesses and people change behaviour. Demands that side measures, including action on curbing food waste should be part of national mitigation plans, especially in those countries with higher than average levels of consumption;

2015/07/10
Committee: DEVE

2015/2112(INI)

Seb DANCE, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 k (new)

7k. Recalls the importance of monitoring, reporting and reducing maritime and air transport GHG emission reductions, and the need for swift progress and ambition in reaching satisfactory and timely outcomes before 2016, on the part of both the International Maritime Organisation and the International Civil Aviation Organisation, in line with the scale and urgency of the climate challenge; calls for dedicating revenues derived from these to post-2020 international climate finance and the Green Climate Fund;

2015/07/10
Committee: DEVE

2015/2112(INI)

Seb DANCE, Elly SCHLEIN, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 l (new)

7l. Considers that while Less Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States have contributed the least to climate change, they are disproportionately affected by the adverse consequences and are often in a lesser position to mitigate and adapt to these changing conditions. Calls therefore for a strong focus in the Paris agreement for supporting adaptation and mitigation measures for Less Developed Countries through technology transfer and finance.

2015/07/10
Committee: DEVE

2015/2110(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Notes that organised crime has a transnational dimension and encompasses a various range of criminal activities including drug trafficking, smuggling of migrants, money-laundering, trafficking in counterfeit goods, firearms, wildlife and cultural property; highlights the need for a joint action based on accessible information and increased cooperation between the police and the judicial authorities of various Member States and developing countries, which should be assisted by ad hoc joint coordination bodies;

2016/04/07
Committee: DEVE

2015/2110(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Notes that the costs of corruption cannot only be calculated in economic terms, and that these costs are very high, especially in developing countries, which undermines public trust in public authorities and democratic institutions, increases inequalities that disproportionately affect the poorest and most vulnerable, and reduces the effectiveness of development aid;

2016/04/07
Committee: DEVE

2015/2110(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Recalls that illicit financial flows, estimated at $1 trillion a year, are major obstacles to the mobilisation of domestic revenue for development, and drain resources that should be invested in developing countries;

2016/04/07
Committee: DEVE

2015/2110(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Recalls that the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognises the need to fight corruption in all its forms, calling on States to reduce illicit financial flows, bribery and corruption and to build effective, accountable and transparent institutions;

2016/04/07
Committee: DEVE

2015/2110(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)

1d. Calls on the Commission to develop a comprehensive strategy for corruption risk management in developing countries and to implement fully the anti-fraud strategy issued in 2013, especially when implementing EU aid in all its modalities, including the EDF and trust funds, and when delegating development projects to third parties;

2016/04/07
Committee: DEVE

2015/2110(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)

1e. Calls on the EU to support the establishment of strong national systems and institutions to address corruption in developing countries, including central and local government systems, tax authorities, law enforcement agencies, but also NGOs, media and parliaments; stresses that budget support to developing countries should be accompanied by a clear strategy to minimise corruption risks;

2016/04/07
Committee: DEVE

2015/2110(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Stresses that whistleblowing is an essential anti-corruption tool, and that a proper system to protect whistleblowers should be established both inside and outside the EU; stresses in particular a direct reporting mechanisms is needed for citizens in EU aid recipient countries who bring attention to irregularities in EU- funded aid programmes;

2016/04/07
Committee: DEVE

2015/2105(INI)

Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Emphasises that open trade ismust be an engine for growth~~, development and wealth creation~~ and sustainable development; recalls that the countries most integrated into the world economy are also among the richest;

2016/02/22
Committee: DEVE

2015/2105(INI)

Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Stresses that the importance of the potential contribution of trade policy to sustainable development was recently reaffirmed in the Addis Ababa outcome document and in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; recalls that the Sustainable Development Goals include several trade-related targets across a number of policy areas;

2016/02/22
Committee: DEVE

2015/2105(INI)

Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Patrizia TOIA, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Welcomes that the communication "Trade for All" reaffirms the principle of policy coherence for development and aims at 'a more responsible' trade and investment policy, namely by contributing to the SDGs and the inclusive growth in developing countries; welcomes also the commitment to undertake in-depth analysis of the potential effects of new FTAs on LDCs; urges the Commission to put its words into action and to make all EU trade-related instruments consistent with the SDGs;

2016/02/22
Committee: DEVE

2015/2105(INI)

Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Welcomes the advances made at the World Trade Organisation’'s Ministerial Conference in Nairobi, in particular in the area of agriculture (e.g. the elimination of trade-distorting agriculture export subsidies, and progress on market access for the least developed countries (LDCs)); calls on the Commission to support developing and LDCs in the implementation of the Agreement on Trade Facilitation and welcomes, in this regard, EU's initiative of targeting EUR 400 million in funding over five years for supporting trade facilitation reforms and projects such as improving the customs systems of developing and LDCs;

2016/02/22
Committee: DEVE

2015/2105(INI)

Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on the Commission to enforce supply chain due diligence; calls on the Commission to support developing countries to increase their domestic value added in order to upgrade along the global value chains;

2016/02/22
Committee: DEVE

2015/2105(INI)

Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Linda McAVAN, Patrizia TOIA, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses the crucial role of Aid for Trade (AfT) in trade-related capacity-building, technical assistance, business support policies for SMEs and regional integration; notes, however, that without serious efforts by the countries directly concerned and significant improvements in governance, trade cannot – in isolation – help countries to overcome development constraints; calls the EU and its Member States to commit to increase Aid for Trade (AfT) support for developing countries, LDCs, while addressing fair and ethical trade in the upcoming revision of its Aid for Trade strategy, as announced in the communication "Trade for All";

2016/02/22
Committee: DEVE

2015/2105(INI)

Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Elly SCHLEIN, Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Norbert NEUSER, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Recalls that Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) arcan be a key development instrument for helping to alleviate poverty in the long run~~; stresses, however, that their scope is still mainly limited to goods, and that expanding them to services and investment would considerably increase potential for growth~~ and promote human rights; calls on the EU to establish specific monitoring structure in the EPAs dedicated to sustainable development and that ensure the proper involvement of civil society organisations and trade unions as well as to include stronger human rights clauses with coherent means of implementation;

2016/02/22
Committee: DEVE

2015/2105(INI)

Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Regrets that the communication "Trade for All" does not make any reference to the Cotonou Agreement, which expires in 2020; calls on the EU to engage in a broad consultation and dialogue process, including with our ACP countries, about the post-Cotonou framework;

2016/02/22
Committee: DEVE

2015/2105(INI)

Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Elly SCHLEIN, Arne LIETZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Norbert NEUSER, Patrizia TOIA, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Calls on the Commission to include strong and comprehensive sustainable development chapters, which are effectively implemented and enforced, in EU's trade and investment agreements; calls in particular for provisions that ensure human rights, labour rights, environmental and social protection as well as gender equality;

2016/02/22
Committee: DEVE

2015/2104(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Welcomes the cooperation of the EU and the U~~NDP~~nited Nations in promoting shared values and supporting governments, civil society and populations in over 100 countries in important policy areas such as capacity development, institutional development, the fight against corruption, equality between men and women, electoral assistance, crisis prevention and recovery, disaster risk reduction and climate changeto save and improve the lives of millions of people in developing countries and fragile States;

2015/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2015/2104(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. ~~Calls for~~Invites the fEur~~ther deepening and strengthening of the Strategic Partnership between the EU and the UNDP and of its goals of combating poverty and promoting peace, development and human rights~~opean Commission and United Nations specialized agencies, funds and programmes to establish a high-level dialogue on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, with a view to coordinate the policies, programmes and operations of the EU and UN; underlines the importance of disaggregated and accessible data to monitor progress and evaluate the results of the EU-UN partnership;

2015/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2015/2104(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses the importance of EU-UNDP cooperation on aid effectiveness; underlines the commitment of ~~both to~~ the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation and to encourag~~ing~~es all states as well as private- sector actors ~~also~~ to commit to it;

2015/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2015/2104(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls for further EU-UN cooperation in the areas of health, HIV/AIDS, education, food and nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene, child protection, gender equality, social inclusion, climate action, humanitarian aid, migration, human rights, non-discrimination on all grounds, good governance and democracy-building, notably in order to fight corruption, tax evasion and illicit financial flows and support conflict prevention measures;

2015/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2015/2104(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Underlines the importance of the EU- UN partnership to improve the lives of future generations and stresses the special vulnerability of children, as well as their pivotal role in achieving sustainable and equitable development for all; acknowledges the longstanding cooperation between the EU and UNICEF as crucial to protect children in emergencies and achieve all child-related Sustainable Development Goals;

2015/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2015/2104(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Reiterates the fact that the EU must be in the lead of the fight against climate change and further cooperate with UN on this area, taking into account the particular situation of developing countries, notably ahead of the adoption of the SDGs and the agreement in Paris of COP21;

2015/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2015/2104(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5c. Welcomes the EU's support of the Women, Peace and Security agenda at the United Nations, and its commitment to gender equality in external action; considers that the EU should proactively align its approach to conflict with that of the Women, Peace and Security agenda, and specifically its commitment to international humanitarian law;

2015/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2015/2104(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Arne LIETZ, Patrizia TOIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Points to the importance of EU-UN partnership in addressing the root causes and consequences of global refugee crises and humanitarian emergencies; reiterates the fundamental importance of coordinated action by all international actors at the same time as providing technical assistance and mobilising adequate resources;, in order to protect the most vulnerable population, including children; and calls, therefore, for further cooperation and dialogue in the preparation of the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit.

2015/09/03
Committee: DEVE

2015/2095(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Considers that the migration crisis can be addressed only within the context of a European approach and not by bilateral meetings among Members States; ~~calls for a new~~welcomes the European agenda on migration under the leadership of the Commission and the European Council, underpinned by solidarity among the Member States. This agenda m~~igh~~ust include the replacement of the Dublin regulation with a centralised European asylum system;

2015/09/25
Committee: DEVE

2015/2095(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Arne LIETZ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Reiterates the complexity of the development-migration nexus, diverging from the common view of development as a means to reduce, if not eliminate, migration, without denying that development can ~~help mitigate some of the~~significantly contribute to address the root causes of ~~forced~~ migration, ~~such as conflicts or state fragility~~responding to political and economic instability, human rights violations, conflicts, global inequalities, poverty, unemployment and climate change; recalls that emigration rises with economic development until countries reach an upper-middle-income country status (around USD 7000-8000 per capita), at which point it begins to decrease;

2015/09/25
Committee: DEVE

2015/2095(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Arne LIETZ, Patrizia TOIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Considers the issues and problems faced by women migrants in the migration process and its impact on women’s empowerment and human rights to be of major importance; stresses that an explicit gender perspective in migration policies is vital; calls in particular for gender discrimination to be removed in the legal aspects of migration; insists on the need to respect the human and individual rights of the weakest among the migrants, ~~namely~~in particular women and children (including the need for education for migrating and refugee children), and on the need to include these rights in the post-2015 development agenda;

2015/09/25
Committee: DEVE

2015/2095(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Arne LIETZ, Patrizia TOIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Takes note of the creation of an ‘Emergency Trust Fund for stability and addressing root causes of illegal immigration in Africa’ and strongly encourages the Member States to contribute to the Fund in order to effectively help to foster stability and to address the root causes of migration; asks the Commission to enhance the transparency of the Fund and underlines that monitoring and evaluation of the projects and programmes financed will be essential, to make sure the Fund serve its purposes helping directly those in need and not financing governments responsible for human rights violations;

2015/09/25
Committee: DEVE

2015/2095(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Arne LIETZ, Patrizia TOIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission and the EU to fully respect the principle of Policy Coherence for Development (Article 208 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union) in its migration and Mediterranean policies, and in particular in the implementation of its European Agenda on Migration; underlines the need for a more systematic incorporation of the development dimension in migration policies;

2015/09/25
Committee: DEVE

2015/2095(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Arne LIETZ, Patrizia TOIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Recommends an incorporation of migration issues in the dialogue with partner countries and regions, ensuring that cooperation with third countries does not lead to trap migrants in abusive situations or preventing them from accessing fair asylum procedures;

2015/09/25
Committee: DEVE

2015/2095(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Arne LIETZ, Patrizia TOIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Welcomes the November Summit in La Valletta as a real opportunity to discuss solutions to the migration crisis with developing countries; recalls the need for the summit to address not only the fight against human trafficking and the need to secure access to protection and asylum, but also the root causes of migration and the need of stabilisation and development of the African countries concerned;

2015/09/25
Committee: DEVE

2015/2095(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)

6c. Calls for the development of policies and mechanisms to maximize the development impact of remittances, continuing efforts to decrease their costs;

2015/09/25
Committee: DEVE

2015/2067(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Is convinced that the Agreement is a development opportunity that by helping to create a more favourable business environment enhances export competitiveness and brings expanded trade opportunities, in particular to small and medium-sized enterprises and land- locked developing countries, and can attract more private sector investment;

2015/06/03
Committee: DEVE

2015/2067(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Acknowledges that the implementation of the Agreement will improve the conditions for the deepening of regional economic integration, enhance the efficiency of cross-border trade flows and thus increase regional trade exchanges, notably in Africa; notes that regional initiatives should be pursued in line with the WTO Agreement;

2015/06/03
Committee: DEVE

2015/2067(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Recognises that private sector expertise can play a central role in promoting trade facilitation measures and in providing assistance and support for TFA implementation in developing countries; takes note of a planned USAID initiative for a public-private alliance towards this end; calls on the Commission to encourage private sector involvement and to explore possibilities for partnerships with European industries in support of implementing the TFA;

2015/06/03
Committee: DEVE

2015/2067(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Acknowledges that the implementation of trade facilitation reforms has broader development benefits; notes in this context the key role that customs can play in facilitating the expeditious movement of consignments of disaster relief items; stresses that emergency humanitarian assistance should benefit from simplified customs clearance procedures to speed up aid deliveries, and, moreover, be exempt from duties and taxes.

2015/06/03
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas illicit financial flows (IFFs), i.e. all unrecorded private financial outflows involving capital that is illegally earned, transferred or utilised, typically originate from tax evasion activities, trade misinvoicing and abusive transfer pricing, against the principle that taxes should be paid where profits have been generated, and tax evasion and avoidance have been identified as major obstacles to the mobilisation of domestic revenue for development by all major international texts and conferences on financing for development;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Hugues BAYET, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas the need for an increase of domestic revenues has become more pressing due to the financial and economic crisis;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)

Eb. whereas the amount of resources raised by developing countries through domestic revenue mobilisation has been increasing steadily, and important progress has been done in this field with the aid of international donors;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas developing countries still rely heavily on taxes from trade, which exposes national budgets to volatile commodity price, and are having difficulties in compensating for the decline in trade taxes resulting from the current global context of trade liberalisation, and in shifting to other types of domestic resources;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)

Fb. whereas corporate tax revenues constitute a significant share of developing countries' national income, and in the past years developing countries have continually lowered corporate tax rates;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas, comparatively speaking, developing countries raise substantially less revenue than advanced economies (with-a-tax to GDP ratio ranging between 10 to 20%, as opposed to 30 to 40% of OECD economies) and are characterised by extremely narrow tax bases, and there is considerable potential for increasing the tax-to-GDP ratio, especially in the least industrialised countries (LICs);

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas developing countries have been offering various tax incentives and exemptions, which are not transparent and guided by proper cost-benefit analyses and often fail to attract real and sustainable investments, putting developing economies against each other, competing to offer the most favourable tax treatments, and leading to harmful tax competition and a ‘race to the bottom’ that brings greater benefit to multinational corporations (MNCs) than to developing countries;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

Ha. whereas tax havens and secrecy jurisdictions that allow banking or financial information to be kept private, combined with 'zero-tax' regimes to attract capital and revenues that should have been taxed in other countries generate harmful tax competition and particularly affect developing countries, with a loss of an estimated $189 billion of tax revenue annually;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)

Hb. whereas the fiscal treatment of mining investments varies across countries, and arrangements between developing countries' governments and extracting companies are usually ad hoc and negotiated without transparency and clear guidelines, with the risk of hampering tax collection;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Recital H c (new)

Hc. whereas the existence of large informal sectors in developing countries' economies makes broad-based taxation next to impossible, and in countries where a large proportion of the population lives in poverty a considerable share of GDP is not taxable;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

Ia. whereas the amount of aid in support of domestic resource mobilisation is still low, accounting for less than one percent of total ODA in 2011;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Recital I b (new)

Ib. whereas a recent impact assessment carried out by the Netherlands government concluded that the Dutch tax system facilitated avoidance of withholding tax, leading to foregone dividends and interest from withholding tax revenues in developing countries in the range 150-550 million euros per year;1 b __________________ 1b'Evaluation issues in financing for development Analysing effects of Dutch corporate tax policy on developing countries', Study commissioned by the Policy and Operations Evaluation Department (IOB) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, November 2013

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)

Ja. whereas the Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters is a subsidiary body of the Economic and Social Council which pays special attention to developing countries and countries with economies in transition;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9

9. Stresses the urgent need for a study on the impact of international tax treaties and for a strengthened international cooperation in the field of taxation;

2015/04/15
Committee: ECON

2015/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

Ka. whereas the European Investment Bank supports private companies in developing countries directly by providing loans, or indirectly by supporting financial intermediaries such as commercial banks and private equity funds, which then on-lend or invest in enterprises;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10

10. Calls for a code of conduct to be established for governments of the countries concerned in order to ensure tax systems are managed efficiently and that harmful tax practices are avoided;

2015/04/15
Committee: ECON

2015/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Insists that effective mobilisation of domestic resources and a strengthening of tax systems will be an indispensable factor in achieving the post-2015 framework that will replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which represents a viable strategy to overcome foreign aid dependency in the long term, and that efficient and fair tax systems are crucial for poverty reduction, fighting inequalities, good governance and state- building;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses that tax avoidance and tax evasion represent a considerable financial loss for developing countries, and that taking appropriate measures at national, European and international level against these practices should be a top priority for the EU, taking into account the needs and constraints that developing countries face in gaining access to their tax revenues; considers that the EU should be taking a leading role in driving international efforts to combat tax havens, tax fraud and evasion, leading by example; and that it should cooperate with developing countries in counteracting aggressive tax avoidance practices by certain transnational companies, as well as in seeking ways to help them withstand pressures to engage in tax competition;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Urges the Commission to support developing countries and regional tax administration frameworks, such as the African Tax Administration Forum and the Inter-American Centre of Tax Administrations, in the fight against tax dodging, in developing fairer tax policies, in promoting administrative reforms and in order to increase the share, in terms of aid and development, of financial and technical assistance to the national tax administrations of developing countries;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Asks the Commission to give good governance in tax matters and fair tax collection a high place on the agenda in its policy dialogue (political, development and trade) and in all development cooperation agreements with partner countries, enhancing ownership and domestic accountability by fostering an environment where national parliaments are enabled to meaningfully contribute to the formulation and oversight of national budgets, including on domestic revenues and tax matters, and supporting the role of civil society in ensuring public scrutiny of tax governance and monitoring of cases of tax fraud, inter alia by setting up effective systems for protecting whistleblowers and journalistic sources;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Urges that information on beneficial ownership of companies, trusts and other institutions be made publicly available in open-data formats, in order to prevent anonymous shell companies and similar legal structures from being used to launder money, finance illegal activities or terrorist activities, conceal the identity of corrupt and criminal individuals, hide the theft of public funds and profits from illegal traffic and illegal tax evasion;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on the EU and the Member States to enforce the principle that multinational companies, and especially those companies extracting natural resources, must adopt country-by-country reporting (CBCR) as standard, requiring them to publish as part of their annual report on a country-by-country basis for each territory in which they operate the names of all subsidiaries, their financial performance, relevant tax information, assets and number of employees, and to ensure that this information is publicly available; calls on the OECD to recommend that its proposed CBCR template should be made public by all MNCs, to ensure that all tax authorities in all countries are able to access thorough information so they can assess transfer pricing risks and determine the most effective way to deploy audit resources;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Welcomes the adoption of an Automatic Exchange of Information mechanism, a fundamental tool for enhancing global transparency and cooperation in the fight against tax avoidance and tax evasion; acknowledges, however, that support and time is needed for developing countries to build the required capacity to send and process information; therefore stresses the importance of ensuring that the new OECD Global Standard on Automatic Exchange of Information include a transition period for developing countries, recognising that by making this standard reciprocal, those countries that do not have the resources and capacity to set up the necessary infrastructure to collect, manage and share the required information might effectively be excluded; moreover, considers that a single standard on confidentiality should be envisaged;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. UStrongly supports the range of existing international initiatives to reform the global system, with a focus on the increased participation of developing countries in the structures and procedures of international tax cooperation; urges the EU and the Member States to ensure that the UN taxation committee is transformed into a genuine intergovernmental body equipped with additional resources, ensuring that developing countries can participate equally in the global reform of existing international tax rules;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Stresses that gender analysis should be made central to tax justice, recognising that while tax evasion has an impact on the welfare of individuals across the world, it is especially damaging to poor and lower- income households, in many of which women are disproportionately represented;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the EIB to ensure that companies that receive EIB support do not participate in tax evasion and avoidance via offshore centres and tax havens, and to increase its transparency policy by, for example, making publicly available all of its reports and investigations;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2044(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Stresses the decisive importance of good governance, the rule of law, separation of powers, institutional framework and regulatory instruments; especially supports the respect and the promotion of human and citizens’ rights and liberties, as well as investment in capacity-building, education, health, public services, social protection and the fight against poverty and inequality, including in terms of gender; recognises the need for infrastructures and selective public investments, as well as the sustainable use of natural resources, including by the extractive industries;

2015/03/26
Committee: DEVE

2015/2044(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Eleonora FORENZA, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Sabine LÖSING, Ignazio CORRAO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Stresses the importance of favourable conditions for private enterprise in developing countries, especially for SMEs; calls for alignment of the private sector with the sustainable development goals through appropriate partnerships, financial instruments, incentives and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR);

2015/03/26
Committee: DEVE

2015/2038(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Stress that EU trade and investment policies are interlink with social protection, development, human rights and environment policies; Calls on the Commission to respect the principle of Policy Coherence for Development in all external policies and specifically to include it in all treaties and develop legally binding mechanisms to ensure it;

2015/09/23
Committee: DEVE

2015/2038(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Ignazio CORRAO, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Eleonora FORENZA, Sabine LÖSING

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Recalls the 1986 UN Declaration on the Right to Development, which confirms the right to development as an inalienable human right; calls on the EU to respect the sovereignty of developing countries in setting policies aimed at responding to the demands of their populations, for ~~human rights and dignity~~ensuring people dignity and obligations and duties of all investors in order to guarantee internationally agreed social, environmental and human rights standards;

2015/09/23
Committee: DEVE

2015/2038(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Ignazio CORRAO, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Eleonora FORENZA, Sabine LÖSING

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Recalls the 1986 UN Declaration on the Right to Development, which confirms the right to development as an inalienable human right; ~~calls on the EU to respect the sovereignty of developing countries in setting policies aimed at responding to the demands of their populations for human rights and dignity;~~

2015/09/23
Committee: DEVE

2015/2038(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls on the European Union and its Member States to promote binding measures to ensure that multinational corporations pay taxes in the countries in which their profits are generated and to promote compulsory country-by-country reporting by the private sector, thus enhancing domestic resource mobilisation capacities of countries;

2015/09/23
Committee: DEVE

2015/2038(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Ignazio CORRAO, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Eleonora FORENZA, Sabine LÖSING

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls for the EU to recognise the common but differentiated responsibility of developing countries, while ensuring equity when addressing the post-2015 Development Agenda; recalls the EU’s ~~direct and historical~~ responsibility in its dealings with partner countries, particularly as regards tax, trade and investment;

2015/09/23
Committee: DEVE

2015/2038(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Finds regrettable the significant lack of adequate information and transparency as regards the actions of corporations and their impact on social and environmental standards and human rights; calls for an effective increase in the transparency of corporations and for independent ex-ante impact analysis prior to the signing of any trade agreement; calls for a new monitoring and enforcement mechanism to ensure corporations comply with social, environmental and human rights standards;

2015/09/23
Committee: DEVE

2015/2038(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Ignazio CORRAO, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Eleonora FORENZA, Sabine LÖSING

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Finds regrettable the significant lack of adequate information and transparency as regards the actions of corporations and their impact on social and environmental standards and human rights; calls for an effective increase in the transparency of corporations and for independent ex-ante impact analysis prior to the signing of any ~~trade~~international agreement;

2015/09/23
Committee: DEVE

2015/2038(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Considers it regrettable that a regulatory framework on the way corporations comply with human rights and obligations with respect to social and environmental standards is still lacking, which allow certain States and companies to circumvent them with impunity; finds it regrettable that current human rights clauses in free trade agreements and other economic partnership agreements are ineffective and are usually not respected; urges the Commission to further promote binding initiatives for responsible mining, logging and sourcing of commodities ~~so as to~~and private sustainability-bound schemes throughout supply chains and to step-up environmental and social product and process life cycle analysis so as to improve consumers information and to effectively ensure the accountability of companies;

2015/09/23
Committee: DEVE

2015/2038(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Ignazio CORRAO, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Eleonora FORENZA, Sabine LÖSING

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Considers it regrettable that a regulatory framework on the way corporations comply with human rights and obligations with respect to social and environmental standards is still lacking; ~~finds it regrettable that current human rights clauses in free trade agreements and other economic partnership agreements are ineffective and are usually not respected~~reiterates its call for the European Commission to be more committed to promoting binding and non- negotiable human rights and social and environmental clauses in negotiations of international agreements; urges the Commission to further promote initiatives for responsible mining, logging and sourcing of commodities so as to ensure the accountability of companies;

2015/09/23
Committee: DEVE

2015/2038(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Calls for the EU to follow UNCTAD´s Comprehensive Investment Policy Framework for Sustainable Development recommendations to ensure responsible transparent and accountable investments to not undermine social and environmental standards, human rights, development and people´s dignity, while guarantee respect of human rights, gender equality, decent work, union rights, environmental protection, social protection, universal access to quality goods and public services (paying particular attention to public and universal health coverage), social protection, universal access to medicines, and food and product safety;

2015/09/23
Committee: DEVE

2015/2038(INI)

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Ignazio CORRAO, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Eleonora FORENZA, Sabine LÖSING

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls for the EU to engage actively in the work of the UN’s Human Rights Council ~~on a~~and of the UNEP on international treatyies to hold transnational corporations accountable for human rights abuses and violations of environmental standards.

2015/09/23
Committee: DEVE

2015/2038(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls for the EU and Member States to engage actively in the work of the UN’s Human Rights Council on an international treaty to hold transnational corporations accountable for human rights abuses.

2015/09/23
Committee: DEVE

2015/2037(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Is gravely concerned over the surge in armed conflict, hybrid war, instability and widespread human rights violations in the EU’s immediate neighbourhood and the threat of terrorism inside and outside the EU; believes that the current security threats are common to the EU as a whole and should be addressed in a united and coordinated fashion, pooling and sharing civilian and military resources; strongly believes, in this regard, that it is imperative not to waste resources and that it is essential to better use tax payers’ money and make progress on the establishment of a European defence equipment market and to develop a European Defence Technological and Industrial Base (EDTIB);

2015/04/01
Committee: AFET

2015/2037(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Warns of worrying developments in the European defence market that are increasing external dependencies in the European defence sector at a time of an increasingly complex and challenging security environment; warns, in particular, of the combination of Member States’ declining defence budgets, persisting market fragmentation despite new internal market rules, the growing dependence of the defence industry on extra-EU exports and increased foreign investment in Europe’s defence sector, yielding control of strategic national and European defence industries, assets and technologies;

2015/04/01
Committee: AFET

2015/2037(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Urges the European Council to draw the necessary lessons and take concrete measures towards overcoming the defragmentation of the European defence market ~~in order to guarantee~~, an issue that hampers innovation and leads to a duplication of defence and programmes and resources, in order to guarantee its transparency and competitivity as well as the availability of the defence capabilities needed to ensure European security and fulfil the objectives of the CSDP;

2015/04/01
Committee: AFET

2015/2037(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Believes that EU export control policies should be substantially revamped with a view to developing a more integrated, coherent and comprehensive EU regime and a level playing field, making sure that overarching foreign and security policy objectives have priority over short-term financial, economic and commercial interests; notes that the Council has failed to ensure the uniform application of the common position on the control of exports of military equipment; is disconcerted that even in cases of flagrant non-compliance by a buyer country with several of the eight criteria, including those on the preservation of regional peace, security and stability, and on the behaviour of the buyer country with regard to the international community and its respect for international law, the common position is almost entirely absent from the political decision-making sphere and public discourse;

2015/04/01
Committee: AFET

2015/2037(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Considers mutual assurances of SoS between the Member States to be a fundamental element in the construction of an integrated European defence market; welcomes the EDA’s updated framework arrangement on SoS as an instrument which strengthens mutual confidence and solidarity, but notes that it does not create any legal obligations; takes the view that the EU- wide SoS regime needs to be based on legislation, and in particular on the full implementation of the directive on intra- EU transfers in order to remove barriers to the movement of defence products inside the EU;

2015/04/01
Committee: AFET

2015/0302M(NLE)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Notes that Afghanistan is one of the world’s largest recipients of development aid and that EU institutions committed EUR 3.6 billion in aid to the country between 2002 and 2016; regrets th~~e fact that, despite international assistance,~~at the proportion of Afghans living in poverty has risen from 38 % (2012) to 55 % (2017) and highlights that the country has registered slow growth since 2014 with the draw- down of international security forces, accompanying reductions in international grants as well as a worsening security situation;

2018/10/18
Committee: DEVE

2015/0302M(NLE)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Recalls the EU commitment to support poverty reduction by focusing its efforts in areas in which it adds most value and by respecting the principles of aid efficiency and effectiveness, in line with “Policy Coherence for Development” (PCD);

2018/10/18
Committee: DEVE

2015/0302M(NLE)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Recognises that this recent reversal in development progress is largely due to the intensification of long-lasting violence and conflict, and that internal displacement, the arrival of returnees from the surrounding region and climatic factors, such as drought, have all led to a deterioration of the humanitarian situation; urges therefore the EU and its Member States to enhance all their efforts to address key humanitarian challenges and human needs and to pay particular attention to vulnerable people, including people located in hard to reach areas;

2018/10/18
Committee: DEVE

2015/0302M(NLE)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Highlights that an estimated 10 million people have limited or no access to essential health services; emphasizes in this regard the need to remain committed to supporting the government to strengthen basic health provisions, with a focus on ensuring health care to vulnerable people including women, girls and children, as well as addressing disability and mental health care;

2018/10/18
Committee: DEVE

2015/0302M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas the CAPD will also enable the EU and Afghanistan to jointly address global challenges, such as nuclear security, non-proliferation and climate change;

2018/12/04
Committee: AFET

2015/0302M(NLE)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2 b. Notes that rural economies and agriculture constitute the current main source of employment generation and calls on the EU to scale up its interventions in this area in order to improve food and nutrition security, rural livelihoods and employment, including the sustainable management of natural resources; underlines that particular attention should be given to the impact of natural hazards and climate change on small subsistence farmers;

2018/10/18
Committee: DEVE

2015/0302M(NLE)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. SRecalls that 8.7 million people have chronic needs which require longer- term systemic actions; stresses the need to comprehensively address humanitarian, development and security challenges and to better operationalise the nexuses between them; insists that pacifying the country and normalising the functioning of the state and its institutions are indispensable prerequisites for development in Afghanistan;

2018/10/18
Committee: DEVE

2015/0302M(NLE)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Welcomes the EU-Afghanistan 5. State Building Contract (SBC) (budget support), signed in 2016, as it can strengthen government institutions and their ownership of development policies; notes that the SBC draws on an overall positive review of the progress made by Afghanistan on key reform areas; stresses that resources must be used effectively and systematically monitored to prevent misuses; calls on the Commission to keep Parliament regularly informed of the SBC’s implementation. and underlines that the findings related to the latter should be used to prepare the continuation of the budget support operation for the period 2018-2021;

2018/10/18
Committee: DEVE

2015/0302M(NLE)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Emphasizes the importance of ensuring that civil society organisations (CSOs) will continue to play an essential role in exercising social control necessary to verify the good provision of public services;

2018/10/18
Committee: DEVE

2015/0302M(NLE)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5 b. Calls on the EU to further promote equality between women and men and women’s empowerment though its development efforts, bearing in mind that changing societal attitudes towards women's socio-economic role calls for accompanying measures in awareness raising, education and reform of the regulatory framework;

2018/10/18
Committee: DEVE

2015/0302M(NLE)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5 c. Regrets the lack of parliamentary oversight and democratic control on the conclusion of the Joint Way Forward informal readmission agreement between the EU and Afghanistan and stresses the importance of conducting continuous dialogue with the relevant actors in order to find a sustainable solution on the issue of Afghan refugees in its regional dimension; emphasizes that the EU development assistance to Afghanistan should not be seen through the prism of purely migration and border management purposes and considers that development aid should address effectively the root causes of migration, in line with its primary objective of poverty eradication;

2018/10/18
Committee: DEVE

2015/0302M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. The Agreement provides the basis for developing a mutually beneficial relationship in an increasing range of areas such as the rule of law, health, rural development, education, science and technology, as well as actions to combat corruption, money laundering, the financing of terrorism, organised crime and narcotics;

2018/12/04
Committee: AFET

2015/0302M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Recognises that support and positive co-operation from neighbouring countries and regional powers, in particular China, Iran, India, Russia and Pakistan, ~~are~~is vital for peace and essential ~~to the~~for stabilisation and development of Afghanistan; ~~regrets that a stable and successful~~considers that closer relations with its neighbours are imperative for Afghanistan i's no~~t always the end goal for these regional actor~~rmalization process to achieve stability; encourages them to cooperate constructively to promote a genuine and results-oriented negotiation process without preconditions;

2018/12/04
Committee: AFET

2015/0302M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Emphasises the EU’s continued support for the Afghan-led and Afghan- owned peace process; calls on the Taliban to denounce violence and join the peace process; recognises that a ~~military presence will be required in the long term~~long term assistance is need in order to assist the Afghan security forces in the suppression of violent extremists or terrorist groups that refuse to join the peace process;

2018/12/04
Committee: AFET

2015/0302M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Underlines the need to increase and strengthen capabilities of the Afghan National Defence and Security Forces (ANDSF) and National Police Force, critical for Afghanistan’s security and reconstruction;

2018/12/04
Committee: AFET

2015/0302M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Calls on the Government of Afghanistan to increase political inclusiveness, strengthen accountability and actively combat corruption;

2018/12/04
Committee: AFET

2015/0302M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Supports and endorses the Government of Afghanistan’s new counter- narcotics strategy, backed by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC); underscores the importance of a genuine internal reconciliation process; underlines that combating terrorism and its financing is a key ingredient of creating an environment conducive to security in Afghanistan;

2018/12/04
Committee: AFET

2015/0302M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Underlines the necessity to support Afghanistan´s system of education in favour of increasing the number of children following school classes at all levels;

2018/12/04
Committee: AFET

2015/0302M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Welcomes the fact that the EU- Afghanistan CAPD ~~proposes~~reflects the principles and conditions for the EU-Afghanistan partnership with an emphasis on holding regular dialogues on ~~human rights~~political and economic issues, including ~~the~~human rights ~~of women and children~~and gender equality;

2018/12/04
Committee: AFET

2015/0302M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. The CAPD also foresees cooperation on migration and effectively reinforces EU assistance for Afghanistan in addressing migration and forced displacement challenges, in particular the reintegration of people on the move and returnees in Afghanistan;

2018/12/04
Committee: AFET

2015/0302M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Recognises that the end goal of EU aid to Afghanistan is to help the country’s government and economy develop to a state of independence and growth with internal development and regional cooperation through external trade and investment, as opposed to a reliance o~~n aid that supports the state over the people~~f the Afghan people have on state aid;

2018/12/04
Committee: AFET

2015/0302M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19a. Following the country’s accession to the WTO in 2016, which increased Afghanistan’s ties to the global economy, the EU granted Afghanistan the duty free and quota free access to the EU market, but further concrete measures are needed in order to allow the private sector to take the advantage of this regime and as such increase its internal development;

2018/12/04
Committee: AFET

2015/0302M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)

19b. Further efforts are need in order to increase the capacity of government institutions to formulate and implement trade strategies and policies, improve cross border movement of goods, and enhance the quality of products to meet international standards;

2018/12/04
Committee: AFET

2015/0302M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21a. Reiterates the need for the international community to continue its engagement in Afghanistan and to contribute to rebuilding the country, developing the economy and resisting terrorism; encourages further financial engagement by the EU and the Member States;

2018/12/04
Committee: AFET

2015/0302M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Welcomes the establishment of the joint cooperation bodies at executive level, with an emphasis on holding regular dialogues on political issues including human rights, in particular the rights of women and children and to address challenges and create opportunities for a stronger partnership, which are essential elements of this agreement;

2018/12/04
Committee: AFET

2015/0289(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5

(5) The issue of the obligations and concomitant responsibilities and liabilities of the flag State and, where appropriate, the flag international organisation, for the conservation and management of the living resources of the high seas under UNCLOS has increasingly come into focus at international level. This has also been the case, under the heading of a due diligence obligation flowing from UNCLOS, for concurrent coastal State jurisdiction and flag State jurisdiction and, as appropriate, flag international organisation jurisdiction, to secure sound conservation of marine biological resources within sea areas under national jurisdiction. The Advisory Opinion of 2 April 2015 of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), rendered in response to questions raised by the West Africa Subregional Fisheries Commission, confirmed that the Union bears international responsibility before third countries and international organisations for the activities of its fishing vessels, and that such responsibility requires it to act with due diligence. A due diligence obligation is an obligation for a State to exercise best possible efforts and to do the utmost to prevent illegal fishing, which includes the obligation to adopt the necessary administrative and enforcement measures to ensure that fishing vessels flying its flag, its nationals, or fishing vessels engaged in its waters are not involved in activities which breach the applicable conservation and management measures. For these reasons, it is important to organise both the activities of Union fishing vessels outside Union waters as well as the governance system pertaining thereto in such a manner that the Union's international obligations can be efficiently and effectively discharged and that situations where the Union might be reproached for internationally wrongful acts are avoided.

2016/07/13
Committee: DEVE

2015/0289(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)

(7a) The Union committed itself at the United Nations Summit on Sustainable Development on 25 September 2015 to implementing the resolution containing the outcome document entitled "Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development", including Sustainable Development Goal 14 "Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development", as well as Sustainable Development Goal 12 "Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns" and their targets.

2016/07/13
Committee: DEVE

2015/0289(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 b (new)

(7b) All the members of the FAO, including the Union and its developing countries partners, unanimously adopted in 2014 the Voluntary Guidelines on Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries in the context of Food security and Poverty Eradication, including point 5.7 thereof, which highlights that small- scale fisheries should be given due consideration before agreements on resource access are entered into with third countries and third parties.

2016/07/13
Committee: DEVE

2015/0289(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 1 – point c – indent 4 a (new)

- available data on the global fishing effort in the fisheries concerned; and

2016/07/13
Committee: DEVE

2015/0289(COD)