BETA

14 Amendments of Ska KELLER related to 2009/2218(INI)

Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
1 Article 35 of the Joint statement by the Council and the representatives of the governments of the Member States meeting within the Council, the European Parliament and the Commission on European Union Development Policy: ‘The European Consensus’ (2006/C 46/01).Bb. whereas there is a difference between consistency between policies (avoid contradictions between different external policy areas) and coherence for development (obligation that all EU policies that impact on developing countries take development objectives into account; Or. en
2010/03/05
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls for a reform of the existing international commodity agreements according to development needs and fair trade principles of developing countries and the re-establishment of national marketing boards on the most important commodities, as potential options for developing countries to mitigate against volatile terms of trade,
2010/03/05
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Points out that any measures at ACTA negotiation to strengthening power for cross-border inspection and seizures of goods should not harm global access to legal, affordable and safe medicines;
2010/03/05
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Is worried about recent cases of EU member states" custom authorities to seize generic medicines in transit in European ports and airports and underlines that such behaviour undermines the WTO Declaration on Access to medicine; asks the respective EU Member States to swiftly stop this practice; calls on the Commission to assure Parliament that the currently negotiated ACTA does not prevent access to medicine for developing countries;
2010/03/05
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 c (new)
17c. Believes that the climate change challenge must be addressed through structural reforms and calls for a systematic climate change risk assessment into all aspects of policy planning and decision including trade, agriculture, food security ...etc; and demands that the result of this assessment be used to formulate clear and coherent country and regional strategy papers, as well as in all development programmes and projects;
2010/03/05
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 d (new)
17d. Considers that there is a stronger link between debt cancellation and poverty eradication and calls for the creation of an International Debt Arbitration Panel to examine developing countries situation where debt service has reached such a level as to prevent financing basic social services;
2010/03/05
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 e (new)
17e. Urges the Commission to present proposals for the introduction of an EU- wide and global financial transaction tax, which could help to finance investment in developing countries in order to overcome the worst consequences of the crisis and to keep on track towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals;
2010/03/05
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 f (new)
17f. Calls for the EU to review the European Investment Bank (EIB) policy on offshore financial centres on the basis of more stringent criteria than the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) listing for the definition of prohibited and monitored jurisdictions, and to ensure its implementation and provide annual reports on progress;
2010/03/05
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 g (new)
17g. Maintains that the EU concept of fisheries partnership agreements with third countries should be revised in order to promote sustainable fisheries and good governance; that there should be a distinction between the costs of access for the EU fleet (which should be covered by shipowners and represent a fair part of the value of the catches) and the sectoral support provided by the EU to the third country through partnership agreements (for research, control, etc); such support must be long-term in nature and coherent with EU development policy objectives, in particular poverty alleviation and points out that Fisheries Partnership Agreements should be offered to all cooperating countries, independent of any access to fish stocks that may be offered to the Community;
2010/03/05
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 h (new)
17h. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the current reform of the Common Fisheries Policy results in an external fisheries policy that is fully coherent with the Community development policy, incorporate a regional approach to fisheries agreements that will help third countries to develop sustainable local fisheries;
2010/03/05
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 i (new)
17i. Insists that, as stipulated in the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, the EU should accept access to fish stocks in third-country waters only when it has been scientifically demonstrated that there is a surplus of fish stocks that cannot be caught by the third country's fishermen;
2010/03/05
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Welcomes the mechanisms to enhance PCD within the Commission, namely the inter-service consultation system, the Impact Assessment process, the Sustainability Impact Assessment and the Interservice Quality Support Group; asks, however, which criteria DG Development used when deciding to overturn incoherent policy initiatives and asks for greater transparency as regards the outcome of inter-service consultations; asks for the information gathered in the Impact Assessments to be provided to the European Parliament in a more comprehensible form; demands, furthermore, that the European Parliament and developing countries should be more closely involved in these mechanisms;
2010/03/05
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Asks the Commission to start the impact assessments earlier, i.e. before the drafting process of policy initiatives is already far advanced and to base them on existing or especially conducted evidence- based studies as a prospective analysis is most useful and practical given the lack of data and the complexities of PCD; asks the Commission to include the results of the impact assessments in the Development Cooperation Instrument (DCI)’s Regional and Country Strategy Papers together with suggestions for follow-up;
2010/03/05
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 c (new)
27c. Suggests a training of the European Commission´s staff and members of the European Council´s delegations in the field of PCD to achieve a higher awareness towards that policy goal;
2010/03/05
Committee: DEVE