[ParlTrack]

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas, in the absence of a widely accepted definition, public-private partnerships (PPPs) can be defined as multi-stakeholder arrangements between private actors, public bodies and civil society organisations (CSOs)~~, which seek to achieve a mutually beneficial public objective by means of sharing resources and/or expertise~~;

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas PPPs have for decades been a common practice in developed countries, particularly in European countries and the US, and are today widely used in developing countries by most donors, accounting for roughly 15-20 % of the total infrastructure investment;deleted

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas well-designed and efficiently implemented PPPs have the capacity to mobilise long-term private and public finance, generate innovation in technologies and business models, and incorporate built-in mechanisms to ensure that such partnerships are held accountable to development results;deleted

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN

Motion for a resolution
Recital I c (new)

Ic. whereas global wealth is increasingly being concentrated in the hands of a small wealthy elite and it is expected that the richest 1% percent will own more than half of the global wealth by 2016;

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Ignazio CORRAO, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Recital I e (new)

Ie. whereas fair and progressive taxation with welfare and social justice criteria plays a key role in reducing inequalities by shaping the redistribution of wealth from higher income citizens to those most in need in a country;

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the Commission's initiative to endorse the private sector in becoming, alongside other governmental and non- governmental development organisations, a true partner in achieving inclusive and sustainable development;deleted

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Ignazio CORRAO, Maria HEUBUCH, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Stresses that EU trade, investment and development policies are interlinked and have a direct impact in the developing countries; reminds that Article 208 of the Lisbon Treaty establishes the principle of policy coherence for development, requiring that the objectives of development cooperation be taken into account in policies that are likely to affect developing countries;

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 f (new)

1f. Reminds that Private finance cannot replace public finance as the private sector cannot substitute the role of governments in their obligation to safeguard human rights and to in providing public services like health, education, housing, sanitation and access to water;

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Ignazio CORRAO, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 g (new)

1g. Calls for more public investment in public services accessible for all, especially in the transport sector, access to drinking water, health and education;

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Ignazio CORRAO, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 h (new)

1h. Emphasises that the future partnerships within the post-2015 development agenda must have a greater focus on tackling poverty and inequality;

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 i (new)

1i. Highlight that although further finance is needed to face sustainable development challenges, the private sector potentialities for helping the achievement of sustainable development goals are limited since the pursuit of profits in social and basic services is incompatible with a sustainable development, especially in countries where market regulations and governments are weak and corruption is common;

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Ignazio CORRAO, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Calls on the EU and its Member States to develop a clear and concrete strategy to ensure private sector alignment to development priorities of national governments and civil society;

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Ignazio CORRAO, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 d (new)

2d. Calls on the European Union to include formal consultation with civil society organisations and with communities directly and indirectly impacted by development projects;

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Ignazio CORRAO, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 e (new)

2e. Calls on the European Union to develop a robust due diligence mechanisms to enhance private sector role in development accountability;

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Points out that SMMEs in developing countries face much heavier regulatory burdens than those within the EU, and that they lack legal protection and property rights and operate in the volatile informal economy;deleted

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Ignazio CORRAO, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on the EU to promote nationally-owned development strategies shaping private sector contribution to development by engaging with private sector in development framework that focuses on domestic cooperatives and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), micro enterprises, in particular, smallholder farmers as they offer the greatest potential to drive equitable development in countries;

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Call on the EU to strengthen capacity of developing countries for domestic revenue mobilisation and fighting tax fraud and tax evasion;

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Underlines the need for increased support towards partnering with developing countries to overhaul their regulatory frameworks by creating an environment friendly for private initiatives; calls on partner governments to introduce a sunset clause whereby redundant measures can be annulled; notes that legislation should be subject to impact assessments aimed at gauging negative job creation and threats to environmental standards;deleted

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Welcomes the EUR 500 million EIB Impact Financing Envelope (IFE) under the Cotonou Investment Facility that allows the EIB to step up its engagement with the private sector in riskier areas and in more challenging environments; deplores the cut in the EIB's lending envelope for Asia;deleted

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Maria HEUBUCH, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to step up their efforts to promote the economic empowerment of women; ~~notes that a savings-led approach to the financial inclusion of women has a proven track record;~~ recommends a gender mainstreaming approach in all partnership programmes~~, combined with entrepreneurship training for women and youth~~;

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Highlights that the potential of the private sector's contribution to long-term sustainable development goes beyond its financial resources, and includes its experience and expertise, and the local establishment of value chains and distribution channels, resulting in job creation, increased reach and effectiveness, and increased access to commercially available and affordable products, services and technologyonly a properly regulated and accountable private sector could contribute to long-term sustainable development;

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Underlines the fact that DG Enterprise has numerous tools to help SMEs that wish to do business abroad; calls for DG DEVCO to make more efficient use of such instruments to ensure that European SMEs are involved in multi-stakeholder partnerships;deleted

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Stresses that one of the key constraints in increasing private participation in developing countries stems from the lack of bankable projects owing to weak legal, institutional and fiscal frameworks and enforcement capacities, as well as of resources for investment planning and project preparation;deleted

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

~~13. Notes that private participation in infrastructure in developing countries has increased considerably, from USD 18 billion in 1990 to USD 150 billion in 2013; calls for continued engagement;~~deleted

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Recommends that the EU continues to engage PPPs in renewable and green energy projects in developing countries; welcomes the fact that one of the priorities of the EIB's IFE is the investment in energy, widely recognised as a key element in unlocking economic growth in Africa;deleted

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Welcomes the achievements made in pooling public-private resources for healthcare and improved access to medicines, and for increasingly tapping the potential for technology transfer in developing countries;deleted

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 d (new)

16d. Underlines that developing governments' capacities as regulators must be strengthened to successfully achieve a sustainable development based on distributive and social justice; stresses that, opposite to the negative impacts of PPPs, which allow private partners to have their risk almost completely covered by governments by transferring the business risk to the public sector, the increase of the public-public partnership is a mechanism to rehabilitate or improve government-operated infrastructure enterprises;

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 e (new)

16e. Notes that PPPs must not be the way to transfer the risk from rich private companies to taxpayers in poor countries;

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 f (new)

16f. Rejects public-private partnerships (PPPs) as a mechanism which is used to enforce developing countries to privatise state-run utilities and transfer the responsibility for improving public services into private hands;

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Maria HEUBUCH, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Highlights that engagement with the ~~enterpris~~private sector requires a ~~flexible approach; recommends a differentiated approach with regards to least developed countries and fragile state~~well regulated and accountable framework which ensures the compliance with the policy coherence for development principle, development effectiveness principles and with development policy objectives, concretely poverty and inequality reductions;

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Ignazio CORRAO, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Welcomes the criteria outlined in the Commission's communication on private sector and development, for the provision of direct support to the private sector; calls for the setting up of a clearly defined mandatory framework agreement governing all partnerships with the private sector that ~~can confer the implementation benchmarks that need to be followed, and which are currently lacking in the Communica~~must ensure the compliance with the policy coherence for development principle, development effectiveness principles and with development policy objectives, concretely poverty and inequality reductions;

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Calls on the European institutions and bodies to establish a clear ~~and~~, structured, transparent and accountable framework for governing partnerships and alliances with the private sector in developing countries;

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21a. Calls the EU and its Member States to develop a clear and concrete strategy to ensure private sector alignment to development priorities of national governments of developing countries;

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)

21b. Calls for the review of existing trade and investment agreements in order to identify all areas, especially intellectual property rights provisions, that may negatively affect development;

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 c (new)

21c. Calls on the European Union and its Member States to promote concrete measures so transnational companies are taxed by the jurisdiction of the country where they source or produce the income;

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Ignazio CORRAO, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN, Stelios KOULOGLOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)

23a. Calls on the EIB and other EU Member States´ Development Financial Institutions to urgently ensure that, in case companies receive their support, they do not participate in tax evasion by using offshore centres and tax havens;

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Calls on the Commission to ensure that all EU delegations have trained and qualified staff actively prepared to facilitate and implement partnerships with private sector actors; notes that the commitment to accelerate the co-location of EIB offices in EU delegations is a step in the right direction; calls on the Commission to apply, in the field, Member States' best practices, whose embassies are commonly a ‘first point of contact' for private sector actors;deleted

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Calls for a stronger commitment on the part of the Commission, when it comes to leveraging its political weight with partner governments and local authorities, to facilitate a greater and more positive interaction with the private sector; highlights the fact that Country Strategy Papers, National Indicative Programmes and budget support may be the most valuable instruments in spearheading business reforms in partner countries;deleted

2015/05/27
Committee: DEVE

Activities of Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN related to 2014/2205(INI)

Plenary speeches (1)

Amendments (38)

ParlTrack - 2011-2024