24 Amendments of Antoni COMÍN I OLIVERES related to 2021/2252(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
— having regard to the Commission's roadmap for an improved European financial architecture for development and 2021 progress report (COM/2022/139 final),
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas achieving the SDGs and the goals of the Paris Agreement and addressing other acute global challenges requires joint engagement at international level; the various impacts from the continuing pandemic, the war in Ukraine, worsening climate change and other acute global challenges requires joint engagement at international level; whereas the debt burden of partner countries has dramatically increased because of these impacts;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the policy-first-driven European financial architecture for development (EFAD) should be guided by the principles and objectives set out in the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, as well as environmental, social, human rights and rule of law standards;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. sStrongly insists that EFAD must strengthen the strategic partnerships between the European Union and its global development partners; reiterates that such partnerships should always be based on mutual respect and dignity, shared interests and values; and the recognition of country ownership regarding the implementation of developmental strategies
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines the interconnection between development and security; highlights the role that development plays in preventing conflicts, ensuring durable exits from conflicts and bolstering crisis management; insists on the importance of further developing a well-tailored development-security nexus; recalls, however, that Official Development Assistance should not be conditional upon the cooperation of partner countries in controlling migratory flows;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises the role of a collective, coherent EU approach, which could be effective in helping to foster the expansion of social protection systems in developing countries that are in line with all the relevant ILO instruments on social security;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines that consistency across all EU financing instruments, initiatives and, strategies and policies is crucial in order to maximise the EU’s global response to sustainable growth, development and peace;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Insists that more action should be taken to meet investment needs for climate-smart agriculture and sustainable ocean industries, since SDG 14 on ‘life below water’ remains one of the most underfunded of all the SDGs;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. iIs alarmed at how the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the long-standing structural drivers of health inequalities; insists on the need to invest heavily in the development of resilient public health systems in partner countries and to carry out research to develop vaccines and treatments against diseases that are recurrent in developing countries;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Recognises the need to enhance and improve the institutional set-up, address the ‘development effectiveness deficit’ in the current set-up, reduce heavy bureaucratic coordination and strengthen institutional flexibility;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Insists that mechanisms for ensuring policy coherence for sustainable development must be enshrined in EFAD and used more systematically and efficiently by all relevant EU institutions and all Member States, including at the highest political level; insists that policy coherence for sustainable development should be mainstreamed in the design and implementation of all kinds of EU policies in order to ensure that they do not negatively affect the attainment of the SDGs;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Believes that the Team Europe approach should play a key role in further improving strategic cooperation and global coordination and the coherence and effectiveness of development efforts, especially at partner-country level, and believes that it has the potential to further identify key issues that need to be solved; stresses that the Team Europe approach must ensure effective coordination of the development policies of the EU and the Member States, including those of regional governments holding powers in development cooperation;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Calls on the Commission to play a stronger role in helping to develop the supply of projects, providing project preparation support and assisting Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) in coordination, while ensuring that smaller DFIs are integrated;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to put forward a powerful EU policy direction and to further align the EU development financial institutions’ activities within the new open, collaborative, transparent and inclusive architecture; is of the opinion that the programming process must fully cover the use of EU budgetary guarantees;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Stresses that it is essential that the EFAD prioritizes grants over loans to avoid worsening an already spiralling debt crisis in partner countries, thus enabling them to invest in mitigating the effects of the pandemic, supply chain disruptions and increasing food and energy prices;
Amendment 122 #
13 b. Underlines the need to simplify the access to financing, strengthen inclusiveness, support smaller actors and promote greater access to public sustainability data, including by developing a shared digital platform to improve accessibility to relevant publicly available sustainability data;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. cConsiders EU taxonomy toshould be an important tool for achieving the SDGs and the objectives of the Paris Agreement; regrets, in this regard, that the inclusion of gas and nuclear power in the EU Taxonomy Complementary Climate Delegated Act does not prevent greenwashing and misleads investors in identifying economic activities that are in line with the EU environmental and climate objectives;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Urges the EU to refrain from scaling up blended finance and adopt a cautious and evidence-based approach towards blended finance;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Welcomes the setting-up of EIB Global, a dedicated development branch within the EIB Group, which has been operational since 1 January 2022; points out that the governance structure of the new branch needs to be fully transparent and designed to enable meaningful representation from recipient countries and to facilitate an extensive dialogue with Civil Society Organisations;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18 b. Underlines that all EIB operations must clearly justify their contribution to the EU development policy objectives and that intensive ex ante impact assessments on human rights should be carried out for every project funded by the EIB;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Encourages the EIB, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European development banks and financial institutions to strengthen their cooperation, both at strategic and technical level;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Recognises the importance and potential of Member State development banks within the EFAD structure; stresses the pressing need to boost private sector development in sub-Saharan Africa; , with special regard for building industrial capacity in green energy industries, boosting the manufacturing capacity of medical equipment and enabling the development of regional supply chains;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Strongly regrets that only four Member States attain at least 0.7% of their ODA/GNI ratio; insists that all the Member States honour their commitment to spend 0.7 % of their gross national income on ODA; underlines the important role of ODA as a catalyst for change and a lever for the mobilisation of other resources; stresses the importance of the EU’s commitment to mobilise resources for climate action and the EIB’s role in making progress in this area;