22 Amendments of Louis MICHEL related to 2017/2258(INI)
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the EU-Africa Summit in Abidjan on 29 and 30 November 2017 confirmed the will to establish a genuine, modernised, globalised and ambitious partnership, creating the political and economic conditions for real equality;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas there is a need to develop a market economy in partner countries, while taking into account new circumstances and new economic stakeholders on the international arena;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas the effect of Brexit on the EU budget will be between 12 and 15%, given the lack of UK involvement beyond 2020;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas the EIB Group’s risk management experience is reassuring for foreign investors; whereas expertise in financial analysis, project assessment, financial instruments and investment products provides security for donors;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas the establishment of an EIB subsidiary in Brussels as a development bank working in close cooperation with the Commission in Brussels and EU delegations in partner countries would be an asset, supporting economic development and investment promotion policy;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that evaluations carried out on the Development Cooperation Instrument (DCI), the EDF and the Humanitarian Aid Instrument (HAI) show that these instruments’ objectives were largely relevant to the policy priorities at the time of their design and that they are generally fit for purpose and aligned with the values and objectives of the SDGs; points out that the annual funding gap for attainment of the SDGs is USD 200 billion;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Takes the view that, in order to ensure resilience, there is a need to enhance the complementarity and synergies between the various instruments;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that there are cases where budget support has proved to be inefficient and/or has not led to strengthened policy dialogue at country level, and calls for better monitoring of this kind of aidbudget support makes partner-country ownership possible and has the advantage of being flexible and efficient;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Notes that Commission working documents show that amounts paid are fairly low compared with amounts committed; notes that, despite efforts to simplify them, procedures are still burdensome for stakeholders on the ground; is concerned that this situation (unspent amounts on the one hand, red tape on the other) could, where development assistance is concerned, result in a loss of credibility for the EU in the eyes of our partners, who may sometimes think that the procedures are designed to be burdensome so that the amounts committed will not need to be disbursed; emphasises that there is a major problem where ‘competition’ for development assistance is concerned; calls, therefore, for: – better communication on funding options, to ensure our partners are informed; – training on compiling EU files to be provided for local stakeholders, including civil servants, to ensure that they are in the best position to fulfil the criteria and therefore increase their chances of making successful applications for their projects; notes that such training could also be geared towards improving responses to calls for projects from other international organisations;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Considers that people and communities should remain the core targets and stakeholders of the HAI, and that a flexible, coordinated, context-specific approach that takes on board the views of local communities and civil society actors should be adopted in all circumstances;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Calls on the Commission to implement the HAI in a way consistent with the commitments agreed in the Grand Bargain and with the conclusions of the European Court of Auditors’ Special Report No 15/201610; calls on the Commission, in particular, to increase transparency in the strategic programming and funding selection procedure, pay due attention to the cost-efficiency of actions, without compromising the objectives of humanitarian aid and the desire to help the most vulnerable, improve monitoring during implementation, allocate greater funding for national and local responders, cut bureaucracy through harmonised reporting requirements, and make provision on a multiannual basis in terms of strategy, programming and funding, so as to ensure greater predictability, flexibility, rapidity and continuity in humanitarian response; _________________ 10 European Court of Auditors, Special Report No 15/2016, ‘Did the Commission effectively manage the humanitarian aid provided to populations affected by conflicts in the African Great Lakes Region?’, 4 July 2016
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on the Commission to ensure that, in addition to immediate response to humanitarian crises, the HAI builds upcontribute to the implementation of the humanitarian-development nexus by ensuring that, in addition to immediate response to humanitarian crises, the HAI can participate, in a coordinated way with the EDF and the DCI, to strengthening resilience to future shocks, providesing longer-term development benefits and keepsing a focus on forgotten crises;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Recalls that development is complementary to humanitarian aid, with a view to preventing shocks and crises;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Stresses that the reduction and, in the long term, the eradication of poverty, together with sthe implementation of the Sustainable dDevelopment, should remain Goals (SDGs), the Paris Agreement and the protection of global commons should constitute the primary objectives of the EU’s development policy and of its development instruments, with special attention paid to those most at risk;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 a (new)
Paragraph 34 a (new)
34a. Reminds Member States of the need to respect their commitment to devote 0.7% of their GNP to development aid; is of the opinion that special attention should be given in the future financial architecture to investments by the private sector, facilitating the long-term development of local capital markets and maximising the impact of official development assistance;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
Paragraph 41
41. Highlights that any gain in terms of financial flexibility and simplification should not be achieved at the expense of less monitoring and scrutiny capacity on the part of the co-legislator; believes that the external financing architecture must be flexible and modern, allowing the optimisation of development resources and results for the partner countries;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
Paragraph 43
43. Reiterates that EDF budgetisation would bring advantages such as stronger democratic legitimacy and scrutiny of the instrument, a better take-up rate, and enhanced visibility and transparency, leading to a better vision of Community expenditure in this area, as well as an increase in the efficiency and effectiveness of EU development aid; that parliamentary debates on co-operation policies contribute to the acceptance by citizens of the realisation of these policies;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44 a (new)
Paragraph 44 a (new)
44a. Stresses that EDF budgeting must be accompanied by safeguards to prevent transfers from the EDF to other budget headings; that the African Peace Facility (APF) must remain outside the budget as part of a specific instrument;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44 b (new)
Paragraph 44 b (new)
44b. Stresses that budgetisation of the EDF will have to take into account the possible involvement of third-country donors in the financing of EU development cooperation programmes;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
Paragraph 45
45. Considers that the open-ended nature of the HAI has led to positive outcomes; recommends, therefore, keeping separate instruments and budgets for humanitarian and development action, while also keeping strong, strategic links between these two areas; recalls, however, that Parliament will call for changes in the HAI to adapt it to the distribution of powers derived from the TFEU whenever a revision of the HAI takes place;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45 a (new)
Paragraph 45 a (new)