11 Amendments of José BOVÉ related to 2010/2026(INI)
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the emphasis on export oriented economies throughout Latin America has not taken into adequate consideration the fragility of the natural environment, whereas the current economic and financial crisis has exacerbated the long-standing pressure on Latin America's ecosystems, which puts access to drinking water at serious risk, endangers food production and fosters migration from rural areas into the cities,
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas several Latin American countries have been ranked among the three most vulnerable countries to climate change in the world and taking into account the notable impact of the processes of desertification and deforestation and the increase in phenomena such as cyclones and species extinction that affect Latin America to a large extent, as well as concrete, alarming and highly significant examples of the global threat posed by climate change, such as the state of the Amazon rainforest and the risk posed by Andean glaciers,
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas one third of the inhabitants of Latin America are poor; whereas according to ECLAC and UNICEF almost 63% of children and adolescents in the Latin America suffer from poverty, and whereas poverty as well as migration are increasingly female,
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Underlines that the overarching aim of EU-Latin American trade relations should be to design, agree upon and implement trade rules at bi-lateral as well at as regional level, which reasonably rebalance the huge trade imbalances between both continents, promote economic and financial stability and curb climate change;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Recommends, in this sense, that a bilateral trade framework be established, which introduces measures to discourage the current aggressive export orientation, introduces higher and binding social standards and tackles key issues such as rules on environmental dumping, bans agricultural export subsidies and hedges the liberalisation of financial services;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Stresses the worldwide need to drastically cut CO2 emissions from production and consumption and that it is first and foremost up to the industrialized countries to provide the economical and technical means to do this;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that resources and technical assistance must be mobilised to identify and fund programmes that grant local and regional production opportunities in order to guarantee food security and food sovereignty and sustainable access to global markets for excluded communities at the bottom of the socio-economic pyramid and for small and medium-sized enterprises;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls for closer cooperation between the EU and the Latin American countries with a view to concluding a fair WTO Doha Agreement that must effectively contribute to poverty reduction and help the economy to recover from theProposes to recognise that, after eight years of unsuccessful meddling with the WTO Doha Development Agenda, it is crystal clear now that the DDA does not bear any potential to foster sustainable development and that new world wide challenges demand an urgent change of course; therefore asks Latin America and the EU to join efforts in order to discuss and promote a new international trade agenda focussing on poverty reduction, climate change prevention and avoidance of future financial crisis;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Emphasises that the attainment of all eight UN MDGs should be regarded as the overriding task in the current multilateral and bilateral trade negotiations; stresses that attaining the MDGs and combating global poverty will require a trade environment in which developing countries in Latin America have real access to the markets of developed countries,can preserve and develop their own manufacturing and food processing industries, implement more equitable trade practices and strong and enforced rules governing protection of the environment and social rights;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Points out that the differences in the tariffs applying under the WTO banana agreements, the agreements with Columbia and Peru and Central America and the commitments made to ACP partners in the Caribbean couldwill create new controversies; calls in particular for fair treatment for Ecuador following its struggles in nine WTO panels;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. WelcomNotes the creation by the EU of a new Latin America Investment Facility, the main objective of which ishould be to serve as a lever to mobilise additional financing to supportdiversify investment in Latin America that is intended to foster progress in the priority areas, such as sound public transport and mobility systems, energy saving, renewables, education and research;