Activities of Ilan DE BASSO related to 2022/2135(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh European Development Funds for the financial year 2021
Amendments (4)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Draws attention to the steadily worsening context in which the Union’s development and humanitarian aid policies are conducted, characterised in particular by the COVID pandemic, the relentless aggravation of the impacts of climate change and the mounting repercussions of Russia’s war inof aggression against Ukraine; notes the ever- growing gap between the funds needed and those available to respond to the deepening hunger, debt and other crises andgenerating growing inequality and increasing poverty levels for the first time in decades; calls for appropriate funding in order to halt the ongoing movement further away from the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) instead of towards them;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Recognises the work of the Commission in ensuring the correct implementation of EDF funds, despite development aid being considered a high- risk area; notes that the Court of Auditors considers the EDFs’ accounts for 2021 have been handled in accordance with all applicable rules; notes that the level of error in transactions, estimated by the Court of Auditors, grew from 3,8 % to 4,6 % between 2020 and 2021;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Highlights the fact that the legitimacy and effectiveness of EU development cooperation hinges on the correct implementation of activities and their proper funding; calls on the Commission to further improve controls in order to decrease the amount of transactional errors and to implement the recommendations of the Court of Auditors in full;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Deplores the absence of the move “from billions to trillions” in financing for development recognised as necessary when the SDGs were adopted in 2015; notes the urgency of mobilising much more of the world’s privately held resources, through investment promotion and more effective taxation, while ensuring that their actions are aligned with Agenda 2030 objectives and the Policy Coherence for Development, but also of scaling up public financing for development, in accordance with international commitments on levels the Union remains far from;