Activities of Erik MARQUARDT related to 2023/2183(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh European Development Funds for the financial year 2022
Amendments (2)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the implementation of the European Development Funds (EDFs) concerns countries that are facing aggravating impacts of climate change, biodiversity loss and food insecurity and are weakened by the consequence of the COVID pandemic, Russia’s war in Ukraine, as well as rising debt and humanitarian crisis; insists, therefore, that the remaining projects under the EDFs should focus on advancing the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the Council’s decision1 which allocated EUR 600 million from de- committed projects under the 10th and 11th EDFs for the purpose of financing actions addressing the food security crisis and economic shock in ACP countries following Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine; insists that these funds must ensure further support to local small-scale farming as well as agroeocological practices and sustainable fisheries methods as they allow food sovereignty of local communities, making them less dependent on the fluctuations in the global food and agriculture market; encourages the Member States to follow the same approach of re- allocating any de- committed EDF to address the most urgent needs in the ACP countries. _________________ 1 Council Decision EU 2022/1223