6 Amendments of Beatrix von STORCH related to 2016/2057(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Points out that development aid, including for access to medicines, should always entail helping the recipients to help themselves, and that people in developing countries must have the prospect of being able to lead decent lives in the place they come from; points out that the problems in such countries will not be solved by people emigrating to Europe because they do not have adequate access to medicines; calls, therefore, for priority to be given to measures that private companies in the countries concerned can support through investment and in terms of organisation; consequently calls for support to be given, in the context of promoting access to medicines, to projects that the recipient countries or companies based there will be able to carry on independently, without foreign aid, after the project support period ends;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Considers that when improving the access to medicines in ACP countries, Union assistance should respect the Declaration of the 21st session of the ACP Parliamentary Assembly (A (2010) 21584 of 20 October 2010);
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. The Union, through its assistance, shall ensure that woman's dignity and maternal health is not jeopardized by interventions that compromise prenatal and/or postnatal care;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Points out that all those involved in EU efforts to improve access to medicines must respect the social, cultural, political and religious characteristics of the target populations; notes that, to make a success of cooperation for development, it is important that the culture and the social and religious characteristics of developing countries are fully respected.
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. The EU reaffirms the importance of co-financing the access to medicines as facilitating principle that motivates grant beneficiaries to higher accountability and contribution to development effectiveness and improves cooperation of all stakeholders recommended by the Istanbul principles. In this respect, the financial contribution in operating grants from the EU budget to one beneficiary in one calendar year should not exceed 50% of the overall annual budget of that beneficiary. (Istanbul Principles, as agreed at the Open Forum's Global Assembly in Istanbul, September 28 -30, 2010);
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. In respect to the legally binding international human rights instruments, the EU acquis communautaire and the Union policy competencies in this matter, no reference related to the access to medicines should be interpreted as providing legal basis to fund abortion directly or indirectly. In implementing the specific Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) prohibition on coercion or compulsion in sexual and reproductive health matters (A/CONF.171/13, Report of the ICPD, 18 Oct 1994, § 7.24), Union assistance seeking to improve the access to medicines should not be provided to any authority, organisation or programme which promotes, supports or participates in the management of any action which involves such human rights abuses as coercive abortion, forced sterilisation of women and men, determining foetal sex resulting in pre natal sex selection or infanticide, especially where such actions apply their priorities though psychological, social, economic or legal pressure;