1 Amendments of Angelika BEER related to 2008/2127(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the emphasis on dfact that, with the enactment of the DCI, the European Union has for the first time acquired an instrument that is clearly devoted to Official Development aAssistance and(ODA), including a ring-fenced budget, thus spelling out the Community's contribution to the Millennium Development Goals, but considers; is however of the view that on the current focus of the DCI is too narrow; isone hand development policy is wider in scope than the measures forming part of ODA and that ofn the view thatother hand the Commission should be allowed more flexibility in carrying out measures in third (mostly developing) countries consistent with overall foreign policy aims and serving development; believes that such a re; believes that the DCI should therefore be complemented by a second instrument form necessitates an improvement in the legal base; on-ODA activities with third countries by adapting Council Regulation (EC) No 1934/2006 ( the Industrialised Countries Instrument);