Activities of Judith SARGENTINI related to 2013/2126(INI)
Reports (1)
REPORT on promoting development through responsible business practices, including the role of extractive industries in developing countries PDF (223 KB) DOC (107 KB)
Amendments (19)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas in 2008 the World Bank estimated that 90% of the mineral production of the country comes from small-scale miners, that are not registered and work in remote and insecure areas controlled by armed groups;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the Africa Mining Vision offers a framework for integrating the sector more coherently and firmly into the continent’s economy and society;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. whereas the implementation of EITI is meant to increase transparency in revenue management, with the aim to reduce the potential for corruption and enable equitable benefit-sharing;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
Recital M a (new)
Ma. whereas the Addis Ababa Declaration on Development and Management of Africa’s Mineral Resources urges African countries to ensure that EPAs and overall WTO negotiations do not limit national development policy, and do avoid the ‘lock-in effect’ of trade liberalisation, which has accentuated the commodity dependence of low-income African countries;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M b (new)
Recital M b (new)
Mb. whereas since the World Bank-led mining reforms of the 1980s, Latin America is showing a new move towards strengthening the role of state institutions, focusing on national priorities and economic development objectives;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital R a (new)
Recital R a (new)
Ra. whereas Section 1502 of the 2010 US Dodd Frank Act requires companies listed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including European firms, to carry out due diligence to determine whether their products contain minerals that have funded armed groups in DRC; and whereas in an accompanying ruling, the SEC referenced the OECD Guidance as a credible due diligence standard for companies implementing the law;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Finds essential to recognize and secure the traditional rights and cultures of indigenous people in EI development and to ensure their prior and informed participation;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Stresses that, in a context where domestic regulation in developing countries is often inadequate to protect human rights from corporate infractions, the UN Protect, Respect and Remedy Framework offers a comprehensive and useful set of principles for companies’ respect for and protection of human rights;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Calls for the effective implementation of the African Charter on Human Rights, which includes provisions regarding the destruction of wealth and natural resources and principles for adequate compensation;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Calls on developing countries to ratify human rights conventions and instruments relevant to the mineral sector and implement them, inter alia by empowering public human rights institutions to monitor enforcement of human rights standards with respect to mining and by developing tools and methodologies for mainstreaming health and human rights issues into impact assessment procedures;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on EU Member States to increase their assistance to combatting child labour in mining and support ILO’s undertakings to provide educational opportunities and alternative income-generating prospects to remove children from mining activities;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Welcomes the fact that international finance institutions have developed methods to ensure that mineral investors carry out Environmental Impact Assessment (EIAs) and Social Impact Assessment (SIAs); notes, however, that building capacity in developing countries to enforce these requirements remains a challenge, in view of financial and human resource constraints; calls, therefore, on the EU to upgrade its technical assistance so as to enable developing countries to institute the practice of systematic assessment of health, social and environmental risks, with provisions for effective public participation;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on authorities to ban mineral exploration and exploitation in national parks and World Heritage Sites;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Encourages African countries to progress in their efforts of regional integration so as to remove some of the intra-African barriers to mineral-based industrialisation;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Is concerned about the way concessions can be granted to mining companies and the problems this can cause, including expropriation, deprivation of people’s livelihoods and problems concerning user rights and land rights; urges authorities to demarcate ‘no-go areas’ for concessions in areas that are environmentally protected by law or that have a high concentration of artisanal miners, and to do this before granting concessions so as to avoid unnecessary unrest and problems with local communities and mining companies; calls as well on authorities to create capacity to organise consultations with local communities, properly assess the concession request, monitor the site and assess the impact of the mining before granting concessions; calls on authorities to ensure that artisanal mining concessions are formalised and duly recognised by states, including in cases where states are moving towards industrial mining;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls on authorities to investigate serious allegations of corruption in the mining sector and to prosecute, freeze funds or refuse to allow transactions to proceed where appropriate; calls for assessments of corruption risks to include looking at the process of asset confiscation, and the resale of confiscated assets, the involvement of individuals or companies as intermediaries in ‘flipping concessions’ (particularly where these intermediaries have known relationships with the governing authorities), and the sale of assets at under-value, and the sale of assets without tender (particularly where the assets are of key economic importance or where tenders are otherwise the norm); calls on authorities to ensure that the end- buyers of these assets are held accountable for the intermediaries they have partnered with;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31a. Embraces the Africa Mining Vision according to which an environmentally and socially-responsible, transparent and inclusive mining sector, which provides lasting benefits to communities, is essential for addressing the adverse impacts of the mining sector and to avoid conflicts induced by mineral exploitation; calls in this context for transparent and participatory governance processes, at all levels, to assess the environmental and social impacts of mining;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38 a (new)
Paragraph 38 a (new)
38a. Urges the EEAS to foster a dialogue with key partner countries (e.g. China, Japan, Brazil and India) on the importance of trade policies that respect the principle of ‘duty to protect’ in general, and the UN guiding principles and the OECD framework in particular;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38 b (new)
Paragraph 38 b (new)
38b. Calls on Member States to provide guidance for European Companies on strategies for mitigating risks when operating in high risk and conflict areas, with a view to help these companies continue their operations in such areas when this is also in the interest of the local population;