8 Amendments of John HOWARTH related to 2017/2280(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 – indent 1
Paragraph 3 – indent 1
- be at the service of an ambitious and overarching EU global strategy; match the EU’s political ambitions in size, flexibility between and within the EFIs, and overall political coherence, and be based on EU values;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 – indent 4 a (new)
Paragraph 3 – indent 4 a (new)
- strengthen Parliament's democratic scrutiny role;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 – indent 4 b (new)
Paragraph 3 – indent 4 b (new)
- strengthen the promotion of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender Equality; is convinced that the EU external financing instruments should support practical measures to improve the health and lives of women and girls including financial support for voluntary, modern sexual and reproductive health services, including access to birth control and safe and legal abortion;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Is of the opinion that EFI architecture could be simplified if it increases the coherence and visibility of Union action, efficiency, flexibility and accountability; believes that streamlining the EFIs in order to reduce the barriers between geographic and thematic programmes will lead to synergies and efficiency gains, for instance by facilitating the transfer of funds within and between instruments when dealing with emergency situations; warns, however, that an excessively radical simplification of the structure would not be without risks; calls for the new architecture to reflect EU values and clear political objectives;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Believes that performance does not depend solely on the architecture of the EU external financing instruments themselves, but also on partner countries' political will, admistrative capacity and ability to implement the necessary reforms and policies that the instruments encourage;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Deplores the redeployment of funds envisaged in the 2018 draft budget from development (DCI) to finance the new Capacity Building for Security and Development under the IcSP; highlights in this regard that military actors should never be financed from development funds and calls on the Commission to adhere to this stance during this year's budgetary procedure;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Deplores that important revenues are lost through tax evasion and agressive tax avoidance by multinational companies and very wealthy individuals in partner countries around the world; points out that strengthening Domestic Revenue Mobilisation (DRM) has been recognised as essential to sustainable development by all major international texts and conferences on financing for development including the conference in Addis Ababa in 2015; calls for a stronger emphasis on support for DRM in the programming of EU's external financial instruments, especially those focused on development;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5 c. Takes the view that mid-term review and budgetary control processes should be sufficiently rigorous and transparent to ensure the maximum absorption of funds possible and to enable appropriate redeployment of funds where events render absorption impractical;