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13 Amendments of Bodil VALERO related to 2018/2237(INI)

Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 c (new)
- having regard to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) , in particular SDGs 1, 16 and 17 (including its target 17.9),
2019/01/17
Committee: AFET
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
- having regard to the Inter- institutional Declaration, annexed to Regulation (EU) 2017/2306, concerning sources of funding of assistance measures under Article 3a of Regulation (EU)2017/23064a, _________________ 4a OJ L 335, 15.12.2017, p. 6.
2019/01/17
Committee: AFET
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
G. whereas the proposed Facility will replace the Athena mechanism and the APF; whereas it will complementinclude the Capacity Building forin support of Development and Security andfor Development (CBDSD) initiative byand financinge the costs of EU defence activities such as AU peace- keeping missions, common costs of own military CSDP operations, and military capacity building of partners, which are excluded from the EU budget in accordance with Article 41(2) TEU;
2019/01/17
Committee: AFET
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
Gb. whereas in comparison to the EDF-funded APF, the EPF would have a broader scope of application, extending beyond Africa and the African Union, while it is likely, though, that African developing countries would remain significant beneficiaries, if not the main beneficiaries, of the EPF;
2019/01/17
Committee: AFET
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G c (new)
Gc. whereas despite its title of ‘Peace’ Facility, the proposed Facility contains no provision really geared towards promoting peace and human security;
2019/01/17
Committee: AFET
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
Ma. whereas under Article 21(2) (d) TEU, the Union shall define and pursue common policies and actions and shall work for high degree of cooperation in all fields of international relations, in order to foster the sustainable economic, social and environmental development of developing countries, with the primary aim of eradicating poverty;
2019/01/17
Committee: AFET
Amendment 51 #
Mb. whereas according to Article 208(1), paragraph 2 TFEU: ‘ Union development cooperation policy shall have as its primary objective the reduction and, in the long term, the eradication of poverty; whereas the Union should take account of the objectives of development cooperation in the policies that it implements which are likely to affect developing countries’; whereas the second sentence forms a Treaty provision, and thus, for the EU, a constitutional duty referred to as the ‘Policy Coherence for Development’ (PCD);
2019/01/17
Committee: AFET
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital R a (new)
Ra. whereas the VP/HR should regularly consult Parliament on all main aspects and basic choices of the CFSP and CSDP and their subsequent evolution; whereas Parliament should be consulted and informed in a timely manner to allow it to present its views and ask questions, including on Policy Coherence for Development (PCD), to the VP/HR and the Council before decisions are made or decisive action is taken; whereas the VP/HR should consider Parliament’s views, including on PCD, and incorporate them into his or her proposals, should reconsider decisions or parts of decisions that Parliament opposes, or withdraw such proposals, notwithstanding the possibility of a Member State advancing the initiative in such a case, and should propose Council decisions relating to the CSDP where invited by Parliament to do so;
2019/01/17
Committee: AFET
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b
(b) to include in the decision reference to Parliament’s role as discharge authority, as is currently the case with the European Development Fund (EDF) and therefore for the APF, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the financial regulations applicable to the EDF, with a view to preserving the consistency of the EU’s external action in line with Article 18 (TEU)TEU and Article 21(2)(d)TEU, read in combination with Article 208 TFEU;
2019/01/17
Committee: AFET
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f – indent 8 a (new)
- to amend point 1 of Article 10 as follows: ‘as well as with Article 208(1) paragraph 2 TFEU’;
2019/01/17
Committee: AFET
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f – indent 12 e (new)
- to amend paragraph 6 of Article 47 as follows: ‘Sale or transfer to the host country or a third party should be in accordance with international law, including the relevant human rights provisions and the ‘do no harm’ principles’;
2019/01/17
Committee: AFET
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f – indent 14 a (new)
- to amend point 1 of Article 54 as follows: ‘Any implementing actor entrusted with the implementation of expenditure financed through the Facility shall respect the principles of sound financial management and transparency and shall have due regard for EU fundamental values and international law, notably concerning human rights and the ‘do no harm’ principles. Any such implementing actor shall be submitted to a prior risk assessment to gauge the possible human rights and governance risks.’;
2019/01/17
Committee: AFET
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point e a (new)
(ea) to ensure, in line with Article 18 TEU, the consistency of the EPF with all other aspects of the EU’s external action, including the development and humanitarian policies, and with a view to developing the third developing countries concerned and to reducing and eradicating their poverty;
2019/01/17
Committee: AFET