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4 Amendments of Bernhard ZIMNIOK related to 2021/2158(DEC)

Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Draws attention to the context in which official development assistance (ODA) is now provided, marked by the COVID pandemic, the aggravating climate crisis, the relemassive influx of citizens from third countliess growth of the needs of humanitarian aid, developing countries’ woefully inadequate financial, lacking all rights for entry, into Member States, despite massive and far reaching development-aid investments by the Member States in their home- countries, and other resources to respond to the challenges they face, the reversal of the progress towards key Sustainable Development Goals, including those to eradicate poverty and hunger, and the continued Union failure to scale up the demands for conditionality for aid, this coincides with a dramatic and urgent need to ensure proper conditions for the delivery of development-aid from the Member States, via the EU- Commission bureaucracy, in order to ensure that third countinued global failure to scale up climate action to the urgent needries follow the international rules in force, protecting their populations and ensure that they are allowed to be returned home;
2022/02/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Insists that the Union and its Member States scale up their ODA and climate finance so as to honour their commitments, that maximum efficiency of the spending be sought, that policy coherence for development (PCD) be practiced in a more convincing way and that new efforts to create an enabling international environment for domestic resource mobilisation (DRM) be made; takes the view that well-functioning PCD and support for DRM should be considered part and parcel of sound financial management as these are means to increase the efficiency of EU action which do not need to imply significant additional costs to the Union budgetonly provides aid-interventions, funded by the Member States, for sustainable and proven solutions for the development of democratic societies, and that the partners chosen to deliver the aid-interventions are transparant and accountable;
2022/02/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Expresses disappointment about the continued absence of major action by the Commission on the to ensure commendaitions of the external evaluation of the Union’s PCD1 , ordered by the Commission and received in 2018; _________________ 1 https://ec.europa.eu/international- partnerships/system/files/pcd-main- report_en.pdfality of Member States aid, administered by the Commission, especially in regard to beneficiary-states in the developing world that do not accept the return of their own citizens from one or more of the Member States;
2022/02/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that the budgetary implementation of the EDF is now limited to payments on commitments made before the 31 December 2020 end date and that Global Europe - NDICI and general Union budget rules now apply; calls for strict implementation of the human rights based approach, with human rights being at the centre of all actions, in accordance with the Commission’s toolbox on this approachconditionality for aid approach and the need for beneficiaries of Member State aid funnelled via the Commission to conduct themselves in accordance to all international treaties applicable and especially respect the right of return and entry of their own citizens back into their home-country.
2022/02/09
Committee: DEVE