4 Amendments of Enrique GUERRERO SALOM related to 2017/2044(BUD)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines that the development assistance from the EU budget needs to be kept at least at the level foreseen in the MFF and maintain its focus on long-term efforts to eradicate poverty; welcomes the phasing out of ODA for and on the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); considers that since the majority of the world’s poorest people (some 75 per cent) live in middle-income countries, in which inequalities persist among different geographical areas and between urban and rural areas, and affect women and minorities in particular, withdrawing aid to middle -income countries would be a backward step as regards the achievement of SDGs in such countries;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. CNotes that the requirement that 20 % of the assistance under the Development Cooperation Instrument (DCI) be allocated to basic social services, in particular health and education, is not being fulfilled for the period 2014-20171a; considers that an increase in the investment in human development, especially in access to reproductive health care is necessary to help counter the negative impact of the reinstatement of the Global Gag Rule; _________________ 1a https://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/sites/devco /files/draft-eval-report-dci_en.pdf
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Reiterates its rejection of the use of development funds for non-development objectives and underlines that funding that does not fulfil ODA criteria must be sourced from other instruments than the DCI and the EDF; points to its opinion of 5 July 2017 on the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) No 230/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2014 establishing an instrument contributing to stability and peace, which excludes any contribution from the Development Cooperation Instrument to finance the Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Reiterates that the United Kingdom’s contribution amounts to 15 % of the EU's development aid budget;calls on the Commission and the Council to engage in a reflection on the ambition and priorities of EU development aid after Brexit;