6 Amendments of Vincent PEILLON related to 2010/2070(INI)
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)
Paragraph 10 c (new)
10c. Deplores the shortage of qualified health professionals – doctors, nurses and pharmacists – in many African countries, and the fact that many such professionals are recruited by European states, which are thus depriving the African countries of a precious development resource;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Points out the importance of education about health and hygiene as an aspect of health policies;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls for the Commission's programmes to continue to place emphasis on specific projects targeting socio- economic health determinants in the form of drinking water, road infrastructure, food security, decent living and working conditions, protection of the environment, and measures to combat climate change;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Calls on the Member States and on European laboratories, in accordance with the provisions of the TRIPS Agreement, to negotiate a ‘partnership approach’ respecting patent protection in developed markets and covering voluntary licensing agreements, support for health programmes, technology transfer arrangements and an increase in local production capacity with a view to reducing the price of medicines in low- income countries (through tiered or differential pricing);
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 b (new)
Paragraph 29 b (new)
29b. Asks the EU not to include in EPAs provisions on intellectual property rights that place further obstacles in the way of access to essential medicines; points out that, under the 2001 Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health, the EU is committed to putting public health before commercial interests, and asks it to use the framework of the EPAs to help the ACP countries implement the flexibility provisions of the Doha Declaration;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 d (new)
Paragraph 34 d (new)
34d. Calls on the EU actively to support the development of permanent basic health infrastructure – hospitals, dispensaries and pharmacies – as well as the training of qualified healthcare staff and access to medicines;