12 Amendments of Ignazio CORRAO related to 2015/2317(INI)
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls for Member States to adopt legally binging action to operationalise Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development (PCSD) and integrate its strategies to better implement SDGs, through the inclusion of effective mechanisms to ensure transparency and act against conflicts of interest and incoherencies within governments;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Notes that some Member States have established an effective inter-ministerial coordination mechanism with a specific mandate on PCSD; call for Member States to follow and exchange the good practices already adopted by other Member States;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Underlines that national Parliaments play an essential role for the Implementation of PCSD to ensure political commitments, monitoring and the full involvement of CSOs through periodical, including impact assessment reports by governments;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Believes that the attitude shown by EU institutions and Member States to the refugee crisis is primarily focused on security, border controls and economic concerns rather than an effective approach to deal with the root causes of migration through development;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Stresses the importance of EU Member States' agreements with third countries to ensure the safe movement and respect of international workers' rights; call for an effective use of the new European Agenda on Migration to develop a legal framework that facilitates brain gain instead of brain drain and greater mobility for both highly skilled and low-skilled workers;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Emphasises that investors should be able to rely on independent national courts system for their protections through the inclusion of a resolution mechanism under which human right and public interest considerations have precedence over any other interest; believes, therefore, that the transparency and accountability of those mechanism should be ensured;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Calls for EU Member States to engage in the process of adopting an international binding treaty tool in transitional cooperation and other business enterprises with respect to human rights and the UN Human Rights Council;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
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; considers that international cooperation is vital for tackling illicit financial flows and tax evasion; and therefore, that the EU should push for the establishment of a new intergovernmental body under the auspices of the UN on international cooperation on tax matters and provide the resources necessary to allow the body to operate effectively;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls for the EU and its Member States to ensure and operationalise PCD in the area of taxation, through assessing the impact of any new tax legislation on developing countries;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Stresses that achieving global food security will require PCD at all levels, particularly if the more ambitious targets of Agenda 2030, namely to fully eradicate hunger and end all forms of malnutrition, are to be met; believes that the EU should promote the establishment of robust regulatory frameworks with clear criteria to protect the rights and food security of the vulnerable;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the EU to evaluate systematically the impact of 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 farming, agricultural workers, women's organizations and the urban poor, so as to promote sustainable and agro-ecological practices; 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);
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Stresses the fact that absence of security characterises mainly those countries where there are inequalities, poverty and breaches of human rights. Therefore, calls for the strengthening of actions leading to disarmament, ensuring public health care, food security and connected policies that ensure security and development;