7 Amendments of Sari ESSAYAH related to 2009/2150(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Stresses that the global economic crisis has necessitated an enhanced development cooperation both in quantity and quality;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls for better coherence of development aid and other policies of the EU; notes that for example marketing EU-subsidised agricultural products may run counter to creating sound markets for the products of the poor local farmers and thus may negate efforts made by the projects which try to enhance local agriculture;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that various companies have already attained hundreds of thousands of hectares of land in some developing countries for the production of biofuels to the EU-markets; calls for such land acquisition to be countered by introducing criteria with clear limits to the amount of permitted greenhouse gas emissions during the whole life cycle of the production of biofuels and criteria which make this kind of use of land suitable for food production disadvantageous;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. In order to achieve better results in development cooperation calls for enhanced cooperation, monitoring and evaluation during planning and implementation of the development cooperation projects in which the EU is involved; calls for the new high representative of foreign affairs to consider putting up separate units in each of the recipient countries for monitoring and evaluating these projects on a continuous basis;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Notes that monitoring and evaluation could be enhanced by using suitable computer programmes, such as that being developed by OLAF or those created by EU-support, for example ODAMoz, with the help of which one can list, classify, analyse and follow all development projects, and keep track on how they really achieve their goals;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Notes that Member States could benefit from enhanced cooperation within the evaluation and monitoring units of the EU for example by sending their personnel to these units to monitor and evaluate the projects funded by the individual Member State; notes that cooperation and co-use of infrastructure can be especially useful to those Member States whose development cooperation structures are relatively recent, especially if personnel training can be attached to those units; notes that such cooperation would enhance necessary transparency, the use of best practices and even acceptance in the donor countries of increases in development budgets;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that there are dozens of tax havens world wide which are used even by some OECD-based companies in order to avoid paying taxes to those developing countries where they have profitable activities or to their home countries; asks the Commission to report on how automatic exchange of information can be globally extended and sanctions for uncooperative tax havens and their users could be implemented and how country- by-country reporting on profits and taxes paid can become a rule for transnational companies in the EU;