8 Amendments of Yannick JADOT related to 2009/2215(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Point 1
Point 1
1. Points out that the aims of the UfM are to construct a balanced Euro- Mediterranean partnership, to set up specific projects involving the whole of the region and thereby to help to create a favourable climate for conflict resolution, underlines that the UfM has to be seen as an initiative complementary to the Euro- Mediterranean Partnership inaugurated in Barcelona in 1995, by addressing some of its shortcomings,
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Point 2
Point 2
2. Underlines the importance of relations between the European Union and the Mediterranean region, not just in terms of trade but also academicand a regionally complementary market giving specific scopes for industrial policy in the southern regions of the EU but also politically, socially and culturally,
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Point 3
Point 3
3. Urges the Commission to strengthen its role as an investor and partnerdevelop specific guidelines with regard to environmentally and socially responsible investment in the region, given the fragile status of social order in many Mediterranean partner countries and the regions importance for combating global climate change,
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Point 4
Point 4
4. Welcomes the selection of six main strategic projects: the de-pollution of the sea, the solar energy plan, transport, education, SMEs and civil protection; is of the opinion that the selection of further UfM projects should refrain from fostering particular national interests and tie in existing policies in the frame of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership,
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Point 5
Point 5
5. Stresses the vital need to develop South- South trade, which accounts for just 6% of world tradetrade in the region, and thus to take action to extend the Agadir Agreement; considers that a further relaxation of the Rules of Origin with regard to intra-regional value-addition might help in this regard,
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Point 7
Point 7
7. Calls on the Commission to assess the social and environmental effectstake full account of the Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) conducted ofn the liberalisation process and to enable this to be applied gradually, as necessaryEuroMed Free Trade Zone and to revise negotiations accordingly; calls on the UfM to select projects according to social and environmental mitigation needs as identified in this SIA,
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Point 8
Point 8
8. Underlines the need to establish a regional agricultural policy which observes the requirements of food sovereignty; in the light of growing food insecurity in many Mediterranean partner countries, calls on the Commission to accept partner requests regarding extended safeguards and quick procedures to implement them in times of food crises,
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Point 10
Point 10
10. HopesIs of the opinion that the association agreements willshould be reviewed in the light of these new requirements deriving from climate change imperatives, food and energy crises and growing social imbalances within most Mediterranean partner countries,