Activities of Heidi HAUTALA related to 2017/2028(INI)
Legal basis opinions (0)
Amendments (6)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Underlines that public procurement, construction and raw materials are sectors with major risk of corruption; and that companies often use corruption of civil servants at all institutional levels as means to get access to cheap or protected production sites, public contracts or unlawful employment;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Underlines that in this regard European legislators have a particular role to play when facilitating trade relations, as they have to avoid that these serve as gateway for corruption practices;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Is of the opinion that the trade chapters in trade agreements, and in particular those on financial services, investment and establishment must also be reformed in order to introduce automatic data exchange, ultimate beneficial ownership and ceilings for currency transfer, so that both ends of the corrupting act, the corrupter and the corrupted person or entity can be detected;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Suggests to enshrine in all future trade agreements provisions in line with the “Publish what you pay” initiatives as well as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), and these will be integrated into existing trade agreements on revision;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. In order to eradicate high level corruption, calls on the Commission, in the context of budget support, to pay attention to the transparency in operations involving privatization and deals of public assets, notably land, and to participate in OECD support programmes for developing countries in corporate governance of state owned enterprises;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. In order to eradicate high level corruption, calls on the Commission, in the context of budget support, to pay attention to the transparency in operations involving privatization and deals of public assets, notably land, and to participate in OECD support programmes for developing countries in corporate governance of state owned enterprises;