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20 Amendments of Judith SARGENTINI related to 2011/2047(INI)

Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Insists on the leading role that national parliaments of recipient countries and civil society organisations should play as they are best placed to identify priority sectors, prepare Country Strategy Papers and monitor budget allocations; demands that national parliaments adopt Country Strategy Papers and multiannual budgets in consultation with civil society, prior to policy dialogue with donors in order to empower parliamentarians’ role in decision making;
2011/04/18
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Is of the view that the EU’s development policy should aim at eliminating obstacles to development, such as dumping of agricultural products, illegitimate debt burden, capital flight and unfair trade and at creating an international environment conducive to fighting poverty, guaranteeing decent incomes and livelihoods as well as the fulfilment of basic human rights, including social and economic rights;
2011/04/18
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Emphasises that the EU Raw Materials Strategy is a clear example of contradiction between its economic interests and the objective of poverty eradication, which violates the EU obligation on Policy coherence for Development, Art. 208 of the Lisbon Treaty, hindering developing countries’ economic development prospects;
2011/04/18
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Regrets that the Commission’s Green Paper on EU development policy in support of inclusive growth and sustainable development has not drawn lessons from past decades of its cooperation policy and has failed to put forward proposals to implement Policy Coherence for Development into practice by linking development aid with other EU policy areas, such as agriculture, trade, tax, climate change, investment or access to raw materials;
2011/04/18
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Observes that a policy solely based on economic growth has shown its limited ability to eradicate poverty and promote social cohesion as demonstrated by the recent financial, climate, energy and food crises; advocates sustainable development, based on fair trade and social justice, which benefits current generations without endangering resource availability to future generations;
2011/04/18
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Supports efforts to promote industrial development, provided that with full respect for social and environmental standards are observednd considers that EU companies and their affiliates who invest in developing countries should be legally liable in their home countries for violations of human rights, labour and environmental standards;
2011/04/18
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 f (new)
12f. Stresses that poverty is not only measured in monetary terms and that in its wider sense it means not enjoying / being denied fundamental rights such as food, education, health or freedom of expression;
2011/04/18
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Commission to reconsider its inclusive growth policy, where evidence shows that economic growth can take place in a country without having a real impact on poverty reduction; calls therefore on the Commission to reorient its development policy to combine economic development with real social policies to improve the living and working conditions of the whole population both in urban and rural areas;
2011/04/18
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Is of the view that tax revenues are essential for developing countries to meet the basic needs of its citizens, to be less dependent on foreign aid and promote democratic accountability; considers that priority should be given to putting in place effective and viable tax collection systems to ensure sustainable sources of development financing;
2011/04/18
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Reaffirms the role of a socially and ecologically responsible private sector in stepping up the pace of sustainable development, more particularly, in processing commodities locally, marketing as well as distribution and transport activities;
2011/04/18
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 c (new)
17c. Calls on the EU to recognise the right of developing countries to regulate investment, to favour investors that support the partner country’s development strategy, and to give preferential treatment to domestic and regional investors to promote regional integration;
2011/04/18
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 e (new)
17e. Calls on the Commission to make a legislative proposal with a similar objective to the new US ‘Conflict Minerals’ Law’ to combat the illegal exploitation of minerals in developing countries, in particular in Africa, which fuels civil war and conflicts, to ensure tractability of imported minerals in the EU market;
2011/04/18
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 f (new)
17f. Calls for an analysis and assessment of Public Private Partnerships (PPP) which involve the private sector in development, promoted by the Commission, to draw lessons from this experience before moving to a new policy concept of using public money for leveraging private sector financing;
2011/04/18
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Urges the Commission to include the fight against abuses of tax havens, tax evasion and illicit capital flight, which represents a figure roughly 10 times that of development aid, as a matter of priority in its development policy by putting in place a binding mechanism which forces transnational corporations to disclose automatically the profits made and the taxes paid in every country where they operate to allow these countries to finance their own development;
2011/04/18
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Insists that a substantial budget should be devoted to the development of the considerable renewable energy resources in developing countries (solar energy, wind power, geothermal energy and biomass) as this is vital for economic and social development, reduces these countries’ dependency on fossil fuels and decreases their vulnerability to price fluctuation;
2011/04/18
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Supports more systematic efforts to mainstream climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction measures as climate change policy can not be dissociated from other policies such as trade and agriculture; and calls therefore for a holistic approach, which integrates the environmental dimension in all development programmes and projects;
2011/04/18
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 c (new)
21c. Demands the inclusion and implementation of article 8(j) of the Convention on Biological Diversity in country and regional strategy papers, which is a pillar for sustainable development;
2011/04/18
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 d (new)
21d. Recognises that deforestation and unsustainable timber import in the EU market has contributed to natural disasters and the vulnerability of poor countries and calls therefore on the EU Commission and Council to integrate in its new development policy strategy a full- scale ban on circulation of illegal timber in the EU;
2011/04/18
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 f (new)
23f. Expresses its deep concern about the current farmland acquisition by government backed foreign investors, particularly in Africa, which risks undermining local food security and causing unforeseen and far-reaching social unrest, if it is not properly handled;
2011/04/18
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 g (new)
23g. Urges the Commission to integrate the land grab issue into its policy dialogue with developing countries in order to make Policy Coherence the corner stone of development cooperation at national level as well as at international level and to avoid the expropriation of small farmers and unsustainable use of land and water;
2011/04/18
Committee: DEVE