7 Amendments of Alain HUTCHINSON related to 2008/2170(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas, however, Article 37(1) of the same agreement lays down that a ‘preparatory period shall also be used for capacity-building in the public and private sectors of ACP countries’,
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P a (new)
Recital P a (new)
Pa. whereas the inhabitants of the ACP countries are the worst affected by the global financial and food crisis, which is threatening to totally destroy the minimal progress achieved towards the Millennium Development Goals,
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Reiterates its view that the EPAs must be financed not by the EDF but by additional aid for trade, to which the EU committed itself in 2005, namely EUR 2 000 000 000 annually, starting in 2010, 50% of which would go to ACP countries; opposes any kind of conditionality linked to the EPAs in the matter of granting European aid and calls on the Commission to guarantee that access to the funds of the 10th EDF is kept separate from the results and pace of the negotiations;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that the increases in Official Development Assistance promised by the Member States should, as a priority, be used to redouble efforts to attain the Millennium Development Goals in those ACP countries which are hardest hit by the consequences of the global financial and food crisis, which has threatened, and continues to threaten, the success achieved in attaining these goals;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Underlines that, since conformity with the rules of the WTO requires only an agreement on trade in goods, the Commission must not impose negotiations on services or the ‘Singapore subjects’ if the ACP countries do not want them; points out that, in any case, public services must remain outside the framework of liberalisation laid down by the EPAs;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. recommends that the timetable of the European Parliament should, while guarding a measure of flexibility, await and take account of the opinions of the ACP parliaments on the outcomes of the EPA negotiations, before giving its assent;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Deplores the fact that the current interim agreements devote neither space nor attention specifically to the issues of food sovereignty and the right to food and do not favour agricultural and trade policy instruments which enable market regulation and the protection of sustainable family agriculture; stresses that this aspect must be placed at the centre of the negotiations in order to guarantee the coherence of trade policy and all the EU’s policies with regard to food sovereignty and the right to food;