5 Amendments of Enrico GASBARRA related to 2014/2205(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the private sector’s role in development has increased to support political priorities in a period of diminishing aid budgets, and considers that the EU’s engagement with the private sector in the context of development must be subject to internationally agreed development effectiveness, sustainability, and equity principles;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls that, under Article 208 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, the EU’s common commercial policy must take account of the principle of policy coherence for development, and considers that this principle must be referred to explicitly in all EU trade and investment agreements as well as informing key domestic provisions concerning industry, the environment, and the internal market;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points out that current EU practices to leverage private finance with official development assistance (ODA) have proved ineffective owing to a lack of clarity as regards additionality, transparency, accountability, ownership, alignment with country priorities, debt sustainability and, consequently, development impact; points to the effectiveness of microcredit and other solidarity and sustainability tools, which the EU should encourage and promote as examples of best practice;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that reducing poverty is not the primary objective of the private sector, by its very nature, and that that is therefore a task for the public sector; rejects public- private partnerships, blending and the focus on microcredit, since they finance corporate profits, above all, and do not reduce poverty; welcomes the Council recommendation to place an increased focus on supporting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the EU and its Member States to support developing countries in garnering their resources, e.g. through national tax systems, and in combating illicit financial flows and corruption, as a result of which developing countries lose at least € 660-870 billion a year2; calls for the ownership principle to be resolutely acted on; calls for effective international rules against tax avoidance and evasion; calls on the Commission, as part of that strategy, to take a consistent approach that is integrated with the main existing rules on transparency, combating tax avoidance and evasion, accounting and monitoring of the major extractive industries; __________________ 2 Eurodad. Eurodad.