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7 Amendments of Jude KIRTON-DARLING related to 2015/2353(INI)

Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission to allocate resources in order to assess possible compensatory measures for European sectors that could be affected by the granting of emergency autonomous trade preferences for third countries;
2016/04/25
Committee: INTA
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls for adequate financing in order to better support the internationalisation of SMEs by developing specific and clear guidebooks for SMEs about the opportunities and benefits offered by each trade agreement concluded by the EU;
2016/04/25
Committee: INTA
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Notes the increasing recourse to guarantees and financial instruments outside the EU budget to respond to multiple crises despite budgetary constraints; deplores the various cuts in Heading 4 in order to provide funding for the newly created Trust Funds for Syria and Africa and the Turkey Facility; insists that such funding instruments must remain an exception and should eventually be included in the budget and thus ensure democratic accountability;
2016/04/25
Committee: INTA
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to tackle the lack of resources in order to prevent a new payment crisis towards the end of the current Multiannual Financial Framework by revising upward the payment ceiling;
2016/04/25
Committee: INTA
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Considers that European Globalisation Adjustment Fund could be a more efficient and effective instrument if reformed and shaped in a way that it is adequately funded by lowering the threshold for EGF eligibility in order to ensure that employees of small and medium companies in sectors that are directly damaged by the effects of globalisation, are assisted;
2016/04/25
Committee: INTA
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for sufficient resources under Heading 5 in order to conduct both ex-ante and ex-post assessments of trade agreements; to improve the quality and effectiveness of ex-ante and ex-post assessments by reviewing its methodology, and ensure that the obligations of the EU and its trading partners are implemented and enforced.;
2016/04/25
Committee: INTA
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Recalls the importance of gender mainstreaming, which should underpin Union policies as a horizontal principle; calls on the Commission to put the principle of gender mainstreaming into practice when preparing the post-electoral revision of the MFF 2014-2020; calls on the Commission to ensure that the gender perspective is included, horizontally, in all future trade agreements and also, as an essential part of the EU mainstreaming strategy and proposes, to allocate sufficient resources to guarantee a thorough monitoring and evaluation of the gender impact of the trade agreements in force;
2016/04/25
Committee: INTA