5 Amendments of Michèle RIVASI related to 2020/2045(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas setting up trust funds and going beyond the EU’s budgetary rules undermines the principle of a single budget and creates a number of issues in terms of transparency and accountability; whereas the four existing trust funds1a are used as a financing mechanism to implement international cooperation and development measures. _________________ 1aEU trust fund for Africa, Bekou trust fund, EU trust fund for Colombia and EU regional trust fund in response to the Syrian crisis
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Reiterates that these should be considered exceptional or emergency-led instruments whose added value and effects on the ground should be well justified and monitored; notes that this ‘emergency- driven’ nature makes it difficult to ascertain1a what the concrete emergencies are, how additional funding is addressing them, and to ensure a qualitative scrutiny of their results on the ground; _________________ 1a https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/ etudes/STUD/2018/603821/IPOL_STU(20 18)603821_EN.pdf
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Notes with concern that the EU Trust fund for Africa which has been created and shaped around the EU’s internal objectives on migration policy, is widely criticised as responsible of operations which affects human rights, e.g. the one supporting the Libyan Coast Guards or the ‘Road Project’ with forced labour in Eritrea; Underlines that it is incompatible with the EU public procurement1a law and therefore it should not be financed with ODA; _________________ 1ahttps://www.europeanpapers.eu/en/e- journal/european-external-migration- funds-and-public-procurement-law
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Stresses that the EU must always ensure that EUTF projects and programs promote and protect human rights; strong systems must be put into place to monitor their human rights impacts; an accountability system with specific indicators must before seen to prevent and deal with breaches of international law;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the need to create such trust funds is partly a consequence of the EU budget being structurally underfinanced and lacking possibilities to finance unexpected needs; is concerned that the trust funds aimed at emergency situations are prolonged non-stop instead of envisaging to have long-term policy operations considered in programming; takes notes with concern that the extension for a year of the EU trust funds will not change identified flaws in their governance structures: the situation of conflicts of interest - pointed out by the European Court of Auditors (ECA)1a in 2017 - in the Operational Committee of Bekou trust fund (where Member States are represented by their own national development agencies, which in turn are selected as project implementers and lead on the largest projects, while NGOs are awarded smaller ones) remains unchanged until the end of 2021; _________________ 1a https://www.eca.europa.eu/en/Pages/DocI tem.aspx?did=41726