23 Amendments of Isabella LÖVIN related to 2009/2171(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 a (new)
Citation 18 a (new)
- having regard to the 2009 study by Megapesca Lda entitled ‘Overall evaluation study of the Fisheries Partnership Agreements policy,
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 b (new)
Citation 18 b (new)
- having regard to the current reforms on the Common Agriculture Policy and on the Common Fisheries Policy,
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. Whereas strong economic growth within a stable, business-friendly environment helpsLocal Economic Development (LED) strategies, based on democratic participation of local communities has a potential to create wealth and decent jobs and is therefore the surest and most sustainable route out of poverty,
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas hunger, malnutrition, and exclusion of millions of people from access to food and basic public services are consequences of economic, agricultural and trade policies at national and international level,
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the developing world faces an urgent shortage of qualified health personnelrecruitment of qualified health personnel by industrialised countries constitutes one of the factors, which aggravates the fragile health system in developing countries, and whereas many skilled workers, in health and other sectors, are not returning home to benefit their own communitieuntries due to political and economical reasons,
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas over 70% of the world's poor in developing countires live in rural areas and are directly or indirectly dependent on agriculture for their livelihoods and their markets are undermined by heavily subsidised European products which expose local farmers to structural poverty and dependence on external aid, which is recently exacerbated by the land grab phenomenon,
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas tax evasion and illicit capital flights from developing countries represents 10 times the value of development aid,
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Urges governments in developing countries to avoid overburdening businesses – especially SMEs, motors of jobs and growth – with excessive red tapedopt Local Economic Development (LED) strategies, which has a great potential to transform their countries' economies from export led towards national and intra-regional sustainable development in order to build domestic and regional markets by taking into account the real need of the populations;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls for a regulated fair and equitable trade agreement between industrialised and developing countries, which allows developing countries to build local economy and employment without being exposed to unfair competition between the two systems with great differences in matter of productivity, divergent policies and subsidies;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Invites developing countries to extend land ownership among the poor and dispossessed, for instance by givingtake measures to foster access to land, water and the resources of biodiversity in support of local sustainable economic development in general and find a solution to squatters in shanty towns the titles toby giving them land where they live oin;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. SupportsCalls upon developing countries in their efforts to strengthen and deepen regional integration, through free-trade areas, regional economic communities,economic communities through fair and equitable trade and through regional development banks, etc.;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Reaffirms that developing countries should legitimately be allowed to enact policies which creates for domestic added value, and considers that the current EU trade regime which taxes raw materials less than processed goods is counter to industrialisation of developing countries;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Underlines that export subsidies have led to the dumping of EU products on in developing countries' markets and contributed to job destruction by , rendering local agricultural products such as frozen chicken parts, pork, sugar and canned tomatoes uncompetitive and manufactured industrial good uneconomical;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Believes that Policy Coherence can bring fruitfull results in job creation in developing countries and calls therefore for EU external polices change, as they have a direct impact in developing countries economies, which should designed to support developing countries sustainable needs in order to fight poverty, guarantee decent income and livelihood as well as the fulfilment of basic human rights, including social, economic and environmental rights;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the EU to honourreview its aid-for- trade commitmentspolicy and replace its aid for equitable and fair trade;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Insists that the commission make sure that the external dimension of the current reform of the Common Fisheries Policies will be mainstreamed with the EU development policy as they are directly linked with the livelihood of the population in developing countries;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21b. Recalls that the EU-access to fish stocks in third countries should not in any way be a condition for development assistance to those countries;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 c (new)
Paragraph 21 c (new)
21c. Underlines that the EU sector support to the fisheries industry in third countries is aimed at developing these countries' harbours with the proper infrastructure to facilitate local landing and processing of fish in order to create new jobs, and calls on the Commission to monitor and verify that these goals are achieved, as well as providing financial and technical support to improve the ability of the third country to monitor fishing activities in their waters and to apprehend vessels observed committing infractions;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Accepts the use of budget support only where there are watertight guarantees that funds will reach their intended destination and satisfy their original purpose and where recipients fulfilCalls for an assessment and auditing of budget support to analyse if their intended goal is achieved and where recipients countries government fulfilled respect for human rights and democratic governance criteria; looks forward to more effective auditing of budget support;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Encourages the EU to pursue an ambitious election observation programme and to place more emphasis in future on monitoring post-election situatCalls on the Commission to present to the European Parliament a coherent and credible proposal on EU post election policy, which respects the free choice of the population in a given country, and fears that the absence of coherent post election policy as they stand now defeat the credibility of the EU Election Observer missions;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Invites the international financial institutions to apply conditionality to their loans and agreements if this proves an effective way to encourage sound public finances, vibrant, job-creating economies or respect for human rightreview their loan policies in order to support developing countries democratic and sustainable economic development choice and to refrain from harmful conditionalities which contributed led to international financial crisis;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)
Paragraph 33 a (new)
33a. Calls on the EU to take concrete action to eradicate abuses of tax havens, tax evasion and illicit financial flights from developing countries and allow these resources to be invested in developing countries;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 b (new)
Paragraph 33 b (new)
33b. Calls for a new binding global financial agreement, which forces transnational corporate companies to automatic disclosure of the profits they made and the taxes they paid on a country by country basis;