7 Amendments of Florent MARCELLESI related to 2017/2027(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that sinceRecalls that the European Union is the largest donor of aid to the LAC region, withdrawing it, including aid to middle-income countries, would be a backward step; notes that despite improvements in some countries, the region remains the most unequal in thate would impede the region’s future development; calls on the Commission and Council to make an unambiguous commitment with LAC (particularly MSME) to leave no one behind and alleviate the impact on countries that have recently achieved middle-income status or are in a process of transition towards itrld, while reducing socio-economic disparities between the urban, rural and the more remote areas is also a key challenge to address; calls on the Commission and Council to make the fight against poverty, inequality, exclusion and discrimination –especially of women and minority ethnic groups–, as well as the promotion of social cohesion and human rights, a key priority of the EU-LA strategic association;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to identify the instruments available and endow them with sufficient resources to help LAC to address the challenges facing it and to prepare itself for a possible future reduction in official development assistance (ODA); recalls that achieving fiscal equity is crucial to tackle inequality, to increase levels of social cohesion and to respond to growing social demand for quality public services; calls on the EU to upgrade its support on fiscal and public finance management reforms as a base for the state to provide high quality public services for social equity;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Considers it unsustainable that Latin America loses more money every year in servicing external debt than it receives in official development assistance; supports, therefore, the initiative taken by Latin American countries to create a framework agreement for sovereign debt restructuring facilitated by the United Nations;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Notes with concern that land grabs in LAC during the past decade are linked to the agrofood-feed-fuel complex as well as climate change mitigation strategies (i.e. placing forests under the carbon- offset programme as in the case of REDD+); notes equally that rising regional and international demands for minerals and fossil fuels have led to large scale mining concessions which can impact upon land rights of communities; calls on the LAC Member States to recognise all legitimate rights to land, including informal, indigenous and customary tenure rights, in line with the FAO Tenure Guidelines, and to abide by the free, prior and informed consent of the local people affected by land deals;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Highlights the importance of looking into ways of increasing the involvement of the private sector, within a framework upholding human, environmental and labour rights and in which investors sign up to and apply the United Nations principles for responsible investment; welcomes, in this context, the drafting of a binding UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights; deems that such Treaty could be used as an instrument to establish binding obligations on States to reform trade and investment agreements so as to mitigate their potential negative impact on human rights and to regulate the relationship between the two regimes in case of conflict;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Points out that LAC is highly vulnerable to natural disasters, a majority of which are attributable to climate change; calls on the Commission and the LAC countries to tackle the underlying causes and to take climate-resilience measureRecalls that reconciling environmental sustainability with economic development is a major challenge in Latin America, where environment is being heavily affected by biodiversity loss, deforestation, land degradation, water pollution, etc. with direct consequences on the poorest; points out that LAC is highly vulnerable to natural disasters, a majority of which are attributable to climate change; calls on the Commission and the LAC countries to tackle the underlying causes and to take climate-resilience measures, including through the support of agro-ecological farming practises (such as crop diversification, maintaining local genetic diversity, soil organic management, water conservation, etc.) that will strengthen the resilience of farmers;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Recalls the commitments agreed by the EU in the EU-CELAC (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States) 2013 and 2015 Action Plans regarding the eradication of violence against women, and expresses its concern about the lack of implementation of chapter 7 thereof on the promotion of gender equality; calls on the Member States and the EEAS to cooperate and allocate economic and institutional resources to assure the fulfilment of the recommendations on the promotion of gender equality agreed in the action plans, especially regarding the eradication of all forms of violence, in accordance with the Belem de Pará Convention, the Istanbul Convention and the CEDAW Convention;