Activities of Nirj DEVA related to 2009/2165(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Second revision of the ACP-EU Partnership agreement (Cotonou agreement) (debate)
Amendments (11)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas since the last revision of the Cotonou Agreement in 2005 numerous changes have occurred on the international scene – such as soaring food and energy prices, unprecedented financial crisis, climate changmainly the unintended results of the governmental manipulation of the free market (such as the trillions of dollars which have been directed towards financial institutions as opposed to agricultural production, as well as the terrifying expansion of the global money supply, resulting in soaring food prices; or the global artificial cutting of interest rates which is resulting in the unprecedented expansion of wealth- destroying but politically expedient enterprises) − the consequences –of which have their most serious repercussions on developing countries,
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that the second review of the Cotonou Agreement should be an occasion to adjust it in the lightnalyse without prejudice the genuine causes of recent and current crisesphenomena including climate changeic trends, soaring food and oil prices, financial crisimarket corrections and abject poverty in Africa; believes that the need to addressidentify the root causes of these crisesphenomena is not an option, but a necessity in order to address them;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that policy coherence for development, particularlyalleviating poverty through development, particularly through greater coherence between policies on trade, development, agriculture and fisheries, should be a guiding principle of EU development cooperation and must be explicitly addressed in the revised Agreement;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission and ACP governments to include the fight against abuses of tax havens,destructive economic policies which lead to tax evasion and illicit capital flight as a matter of priority in the Cotonou Agreement; calls therefore for a binding mechanism, which forces transnational corporations to disclose automatically the profits made and the taxes paidbribes and donations paid to every government official in every ACP country where they operate;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Urges ACP countries and the Commission to focus on agriculturalfree market development to ensure food security and requests that agriculture and rural development become matters of priority in the Agreement and in the country and regional strategy papers; emphasises that ACP farmers need support and decent wagea stable market and sustainable demand to produce for local and international markets;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Urges ACP countries to establish policies, based on respect for human rights, democratic principles, rule of law, sound economic development and decent work, in order to combat brain drain and allow ACP countries to use their trained work force for their own development, and to promote policies that uphold property rights (through land registries) and intellectual property rights (by respecting the spirit of existing international treaties);
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for the strengthening and upgrading of the ACP-EU JPA and insists for provisions to be made in the Cotonou Agreement to allow the JPA and ACP parliaments to scrutinise the country and regional strategy papers, the ACP-EC EPAs and the European Development Fund;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls for the budgetisation of the EDF and for the application of the procedure for delegated acts under Article 290 of the Treaty of Lisbon when scrutinising the Strategy Papers under the EDF as well as under the DCI;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Calls on the International Criminal Court to cooperate with the EU to draw up a plan for the greater use of "smart" sanctions for imposition against countries that culpably impoverish their own nations by tolerating endemic corruption;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 c (new)
Paragraph 16 c (new)
16c. Calls for a greater priority to be given to treating easily-preventable diarrheal diseases (through wide availability of hand detergent gels), and to greater access to clean water;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 d (new)
Paragraph 16 d (new)
16d. Calls on the EU to cease immediately the practice of funding both forced abortions and gender-selective abortions through its Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights strategies;