7 Amendments of Jacek PROTASIEWICZ related to 2010/2300(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 2
2. Shares the view that budget support can help in building mechanisms to fight corruption if the conditions for a transparent and fully accountable budgetary management are in place and performance indicators have been agreed;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 3
3. Is of the opinion that development strategies must be designed by recipient governments themselves, in consultation with a broad spectrum of civil society and in close cooperation with international donors, and must be agreed by national parliaments; further, that civil society and parliamentarians must be involved throughout every stage of implementation, monitoring and the evaluation of results, that this process must be transparent, allowing for a regular and effective dialogue with civil society and that this requirement must be a decisive eligibility criterion for budget support;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 4
4. Considers that the Council and Parliament as co-legislators must be able to make full use of their right of scrutiny in relation to delegated acts, including their revocation, since the use of budget support is an important strategic decision in the Union's relation with its partner countries, Article 290 TFEU (delegated acts) must apply to the definition of the eligibility criteria for this aid modality, giving the Council and Parliament, as co- legislators, full co-decision powers over its adoption, including - if necessary - the right of revocation of the delegated act;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 5
5. Reiterates that budget support should be spent in pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals and not for any politically strategic reason or in furtherpoverty reduction, including the pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals; expresses its support for results-based incentives but emphasises that variances of the economic, security- policy or geostrategic interests of the donors; emphasises that it must be given within a long-term predictable time frame and must not be tied to harmful economic-policy conditions such as privatisation, cutdisbursement must be predictable as far as possible so as not to impact negatively on budgetary planning; reiterates that budget support should only be granted to countries meeting and upholding minimum standards of governance and respect for human rights; underlines that conditions lin the public sector or trade liberalisationked to macro-economic reforms must be compatible with human and social development;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 6
6. States that the effectiveness of development-policy measures in the partner countries must be checked on the basis of local criteriafully take into consideration local conditions;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Emphasises the crucial and compulsory role of policy coherence; states that budget support may have as little positive effect as any other development-policy instrument so long aswill only have a real and lasting positive effect if development-unfriendly concepts areaction is pursued in other EU policy areas; therefore urges reviews of EU trade policy – in particular reformulation of the mandates for negotiationunderlines in this context the need for EU trade policy to help creating a level playing field and to support trade capacities oin economic partnership, association and other bi- regional agreements – as well as EU foreign and security policy, with a view to promotingdeveloping countries considering that trade can be one of the most effective drivers of economic growth and development; further calls for the EU foreign and security policy to focus on the promotion of democracy and human rights, peace and security, all key preconditions for sustainable development;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Member States to fulfilcomply with their commitment to gradually reach the agreed target of spending 0.7% of GDP on development cooperation;