14 Amendments of Harlem DÉSIR related to 2009/2150(INI)
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Asks Member States to increase ODA volumes in order to reach their collective target of 0.56 % of ODA/gross national income (GNI) by 2010 and the target of 0.7 % ODA/GNI for 2015; asks furthermore that they accelerate efforts to improve aid effectiveness by implementing the Paris Declaration and the Accra Agenda for Action; by coordinating their actions more effectively, improving the predictability and sustainability of aid systems, accelerating the rate at which they provide aid, untying aid and increasing the absorption capacity of aid beneficiaries; supports the new international initiative for aid transparency, which seeks to improve the availability and accessibility of information on aid, thus increasing its legitimacy and making it possible to ensure that it is used in the most effective manner to combat poverty; calls on all Member States which have not yet done so to endorse this initiative;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses the need to reform world economic governance in order to ensure better representation of developing countries in decision-making fora; proposes, to this end, that the G20 should be expanded to include at least one representative of the developing countries, which could be the President-in-Office of the G77;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Calls also on the Commission and Member States to support the proposal by the UN Commission of Experts on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System for the establishment of a world council to coordinate economic policies;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. calls on the Commission and Member States to devote particular attention to the promotion and protection of decent work, adhering to the recommendations made on this subject by the International Labour Organisation, whose role should be expanded;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Firmly believes that taxing the banking system to fund a deposit insurance or a resolution fund would not be a fair contribution from the financial sector to global social justice; calls instead for an international levy on financial transactions to make the overall tax system more equitable and to generate additional resources for financing development and global public goods, particularly adaptation of developing countries to cope with climate change and its impact;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls upon the Member States and the Commission to agree, within the European Union Emission Trading System framework, to devote a fair sharet least 25% of the revenues generated from the auctioning of carbon emission allowances to support developing countries in coping with climate change, in accordance with Directive 2003/87/EC1;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Recalls the crucial role of local authorities and decentralised cooperation in development processes; calls on the Commission accordingly to make decentralisation a priority sector for European aid funding in developing countries;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Regards trade as a main driver of economic growth and poverty reduction in developing countries and calls upon the EU and Member States to leverage their international influence forto ensure that development remains at the heart of the Doha Round negotiations and that a successful, fair and development-oriented conclusion of the Doha Round is achieved, while enhancing the pro- poor focus of EU Aid for Trade policy;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Stresses that, pursuant to Article 208 of the TFEU, the European Union must ensure that its policies on trade, security, migration, agriculture and other fields serve coherently to benefit developing countries on the one hand and promote an equitable international financial and trading system which is favourable to development on the other hand;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Calls for the 'Aid for Trade' strategy to assist all developing countries and not only those which agree to greater opening of their markets, particularly under EPAs;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Calls on the Commission to actively promote corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSR) in order to permit effective monitoring of the impact - social, environmental and in terms of respect for human rights - of the operations of transnational undertakings and their subsidiaries in developing countries;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Deplores the downward trend in investment in agriculture in developing countries since the 1980s and urges the Commission to make food security and food sovereignty priorities in the European Union's development policies and therefore to increase support for agriculture, particularly for food production, and rural development;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 b (new)
Paragraph 29 b (new)
29b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to accord greater recognition to the role of civil society in coping with crises in developing countries and consequently to step up their support for civil-society organisations (CSO);
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 c (new)
Paragraph 29 c (new)
29c. Considers that one of the major obstacles to economic development in developing countries lies in the limited access which potential entrepreneurs enjoy to credit and microcredit; stresses moreover that in most cases credit guarantees are not available; calls on the Commission and the European Investment Bank, therefore, to hugely increase credit and microcredit access programmes;