6 Amendments of Joachim ZELLER related to 2015/2074(BUD)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls the EU Member States’ collective and individual commitments to raise, by 2015, the level of their Official Development Assistance (ODA) to 0.7 % of Gross National Income (GNI), including at least 0.20 % of GNI to Least Developed Countries (LDCs), or, in the case of states which joined the EU in 2004 or later, to strive to increase their ODA to 0.33 % of GNI; notes that EU development assistance counts towards these targets and therefore helps reduce the big ODA deficits of most Member Statcollective ODA currently amounts to 0,42% of its GNI and that EU development assistance counts towards these; calls for allocation of at least 50 % of EU ODA to LDCs;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls the commitment of developed countries to provide new and additional climate finance from different sources to developing countries, reaching USD 100 billion per year by 2020; emphasises that the additionality requirement should be respected and points out that the increasing use of EU development assistance for the pursuit of closely climate-related objectives implies that the total volume of the development assistance must increase at least as much; affirms that the room for climate-unrelated health, education anEU development assistance should be spent more effectively and that ODA should be targeted to sectors where it is needed other action to reduce poverty cannot be allowed to shrink, but must grow most, namely capacity building, good governance, health, education, agriculture, water supply and energy;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses the need for more coherence of the EDF with the general budget of the European Union; considers that the EDF should be submitted to parliamentary scrutiny and common budget rules;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Draws attention to the humanitarian emergencies in Syria, Iraq, South Sudan, the Central African Republic and Ukraine, and to the situations in the countries worst affected by the Ebola virus; underlines that the complexity of crises has increased the challenges faced by the EU as a global actor; warns of the political consequences of far-reaching budgetary cuts and insists that the extraordinary scale of the current global humanitarian needs must be reflected in the funding for the Directorate- General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (ECHO);
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Is concerned about the various estimates on outstanding payments in the humanitarian aid field, while commitments keep growing; stresses the need for an appropriate budget allowing the EU to pursue its humanitarian aid actions; therefore urges for an increase of the financial means for humanitarian aid and disaster risk reduction; firmly objects any reallocation of money allocated for development and humanitarian aid;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Emphasises that it is important that the Council honour its commitment to allocate and earmark money for each measure it undertakes; insists that the money that has not been spent in the 2014 and 2015 budgets should be automatically transferred to the financial year 2016;