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6 Amendments of Nirj DEVA related to 2010/2211(INI)

Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Recalls that since the MDGs were first agreed the world has undergone an accelerated process of globalisation and faces an unprecedented financial crisis; stresses the important ace of Member States continuing to strive towards achieving these goals;
2010/12/16
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Highlights that development aid mechanisms should be also aimed at promoting wealth creation, since wealth creation remains a crucial tool in alleviating poverty; recalls that an estimated EUR 800 billion is lost annually from developing countries through illicit capital flows, prevention of which could prove decisive in alleviating poverty and achieving the MDGs;
2010/12/16
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Stresses that any additional funding in the area of development policy should be coordinated and create effective synergies with Member States development programmes and with the wider international community in order to ensure real added value at European level;
2010/12/16
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Insists that existing and future spending pledges aimed at combating climate change must be additional to current development budgets, whilst maintaining an adequate level of coherence between the two policies;
2010/12/16
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
8. Insists that, in accordance with Article 208 of the TFEU, the EU significantly reform and downscale agricultural subsidies and, in particular, put an end to exports of surpluses taken off the European market through price innovation mechanisms and export refunds, in view of their harmful effects on farmers in the developing worldCommon Agricultural Policy continues the market liberalisation reforms carried out over the last ten years and, in particular, makes efforts to fully phase out export refunds on the condition that the same commitments are made by other major world trading partners;
2010/12/16
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses that innovative financing mechanisms need to be developed and supported by the Commission on a far bigger scale than today, in order to create inclusive financing and provide effective support to SMEs and micro-entities in the developing world; believes that this can be done with various instruments, such as through the implementation and protection of property rights and land mapping, credit guarantees and revolving funds, in cooperation with local banks and organisations with specific know-how in the field of micro-finance, thereby significantly enhancing the leverage of the EU development budget, and that this requires close cooperation with international financial institutions and bilateral financial institutions;
2010/12/16
Committee: DEVE