Activities of Heidi HAUTALA related to 2016/2151(DEC)
Legal basis opinions (0)
Amendments (4)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Highlights the primary importance for an effective Union development policy of internationally agreed development effectiveness principles subscribed to by the Union such as ownership, untied aid, mutually agreed conditionalities, alignment to beneficiary countries' priorities; regrets a worrying trend by the Union to ignore these principles and rather to give preference to projects guided by short term political Union interests, as in the case of migration; considers this to be a threat to fulfilling development objectives;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Welcomes in this context the European Court of Auditors' special report No 9/2016 on the Union's external migration spending in Southern Mediterranean and Eastern Neighbourhood countries; highlights that the Court comes to the conclusion that the Union's external migration spending has failed to demonstrate its effectiveness, that it is impossible to measure its results, that the Commission's approach to ensure that migration has a positive development impact is unclear, that return and readmission support is having little impact and that respect for human rights of migrants, which should underpin all actions, remains theoretical and is only rarely translated into practice;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1 c. Welcomes the European Court of Auditors' special report No 15/2016 on humanitarian aid spending in the Great Lakes region; highlights that the Court concludes that humanitarian aid to the population affected by conflict in the African Great Lakes area was, generally, managed effectively by the Commission; stresses the stark contrast to migration spending and sees this as further proof that well planned development policies deliver much better results than short term driven migration activism;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1 d. Is very worried by a noticeable trend in recent Commission proposals to ignore legally binding provisions of the DCI regulation when it comes to ODA eligible expenditure and eligible countries for DCI spending; recalls that legality of the Union spending is a key principle of sound financial management and that political considerations should not take precedence over clearly spelled out legal provisions if the Commission wants to remain credible on rule of law issues; reminds the Commission in this context about the recent judgment of the European Court of Justice on cooperation with Morocco and the Western Sahara issue, in which the Court ruled that the Union has consistently infringed international law;