Activities of Erik MARQUARDT related to 2021/0227(BUD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2022 - all sections
Amendments (11)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Draws attention to the fact that the COVID pandemic is dealing a heavy blow toconsequences of a combined health pandemic and a global recession will seriously undermine the capacity of developing countries, notably the Least developinged countries (LDCs) to achieve the SDGs, with already poor and vulnerable people taking the hardest hits and progress towards Sustainable Development Goals in many cases being replaced by regress;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that development assistance together with substantial debt relief measures involving all private and public creditors and further development of international tax cooperation is badly needed to tackle the problems of tax- motivated illicit financial flows originating from cross-border operations by multinational entreprises, tax evasion and tax fraud in order to improve the tax bases of developing countries, to shore up public finances, avert damaging austerity measures and prevent that spending on COVID vaccination crowds out other crucial expenditure; calls on the European Commission to define a comprehensive European debt relief strategy towards developing countries; calls for support to the creation of a multilateral debt workout mechanism, under UN auspices, to address both the impact of the crisis and the financing requirements of the Agenda 2030; believes that steps should also be taken towards agreement on binding rules on responsible sovereign lending and borrowing in order to support improved debt crisis prevention;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points out the urgency of scaling up funds for health care, food security and nutrition, education, access to basic water and sanitation services, social protection and gender equality and to reinforce the People and Planet - Global Challenges lines from the Emerging challenges and priorities cushion; stresses that human development as well as protection of biodiversity should be prioritised in geographical lines;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Calls on the Commission to finance actions involving Indigenous People and Local Communities, in order to halt biodiversity loss, fight against illegal logging and wildlife trade and trafficking and ensure sustainable use and management of ecosystems; stresses that new investment tools to support resource mobilisation can be used to this end (e.g biodiversity-relevant taxes, fees and charges); calls on scaling up investments to better track, reform and phase-out subsidies harmful for biodiversity and channelling them towards biodiversity friendly activities, in line with Agenda 2030;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to ensure that it will be able to convincingly demonstrate adherence to the NDICI - Global Europe regulation’s provisions and reach the committed targets on expenditure for social inclusion and human development, gender, climate, biodiversity and migration objectives and full respect of the requirement that 93% of the NDICI expenditure shall qualify as official development assistance; insists on the need to increase ODA, in particular to least developed countries, so as to contribute to fulfilment of the EU’s and its Member States’ collective pledges;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls on the Commission and financial institutions, including the EIB, to ensure that all operations engaged through EFSD+ - EAG respect the principle of development additionality and are compliant with the external action goals of the EU as defined in Article 21 TEU, including respect and promotion of human rights, eradication of poverty, and the management of environmental risks; calls on the Commission to assess the development additionality of channelling EU funds through EFSD+ to reinforce the COVAX facility;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Recalls that according to the GE- NDICI Regulation, EDF reflows will be ring-fenced to ACP countries and channelled exclusively through the EIB via budgetary guarantees and blending operations under EFSD+ - EAG; calls on the use of EDF reflows to help remedy the current lack of presence of the EIB on the ground in ACP countries in order to analyse the reality of the situation around the projects it finances; underlines the positive role a stronger involvement of EU delegations could also play to this end;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that social protection systems accessible to all and universal health coverage should be promoted by a Pan-Africa Programme, which should have its own budget line; welcomes the funds for continued building of OACP capacity in the framework of the EU-ACP Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Believes an ACP programme with its own budget line is essential to cover the common and intersecting objectives and strategic priorities under the new EU- OACPs agreement; considers that this programme would complement EU programming at regional and country level in these parts of the world and should be dedicated priorily towards vulnerable populations facing climate change and biodiversity loss, and support the financing of COVID-19 related healthcare to facilitate access to quality medical care and vaccines for all;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Calls on the annual budget exercise to properly reflect the provisions of the GE-NDICI on the mobilisation of the emerging challenges and priorities cushion, in particular to ensure additional EUR 1 billion throughout the entire duration of the MFF to thematic programmes (EUR 200 000 000 for the Human Rights and Democracy thematic programme, EUR 200 000 000 for the Civil Society Organisations thematic programme and EUR 600 000 000 for the Global Challenges thematic programme);
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5 c. Stresses that the humanitarian aid budget for Afghanistan and neighbouring countries should be strongly increased to support and protect vulnerable Afghans and their families, including Internally Displaced People and refugees, and to enhance resettlement; demands that, unless the respect for human rights and especially the rights of women and girls can be guaranteed, development assistance to the Afghan regime remains suspended and is redirected towards and limited to independent development and humanitarian organisations in line with EU external action objectives;