15 Amendments of Marietje SCHAAKE related to 2013/2074(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 16 a (new)
Citation 16 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution on a digital freedom strategy in EU foreign policy (P7_TA(2012)0470),
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. Whereas a free and independent press and media, both online and offline, are essential in ensuring transparency and scrutiny which are needed for combating corruption, by providing a platform for the exposure of corruption and by giving citizens and society access to information;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J b (new)
Recital J b (new)
Jb. Whereas information and communication technologies can foster transparency and access to information;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J c (new)
Recital J c (new)
Jc. Whereas open data and open government empower citizens to have access to information about governmental budgets and expenses;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas aid donors and international financial institutions (IFIs), such as the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), have lost the opportunity to foster true governance reform in debtor countries in the past and have contributed to the corruption and concentration of power by the elites by not assessing and addressing the risks of corruption and degradation of human rights associated with many measures imposed in the context of structural adjustment programmes (SAPs), such as the privatisation of state-owned businessesneed to critically assess the impact of structural adjustment programs, vis-à-vis possible corruption within the governments of debtor countries in order to stimulate government reform;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is of the opinion that the EU should follow the example of the United States in enacting the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012 and adopt similar legislation at EU level, as an emblematic and operational framework establishing the link between corruption and breaches of human rights; calls therefore on the Council to adopt a decision establishing a common EU list of officials responsible forinvolved with the death of Sergei Magnitsky, for the subsequent judicial cover-up and for the ongoing and sustained harassment of his family; adds that this Council Decision should impose targeted sanctions on those officials, such as an EU- wide visa ban and freezing order on any financial assets that they or their immediate family may hold inside the European Union; calls on the Commission to draw up an action plan, with a view to creating a mechanism for listing and imposing similar targeted sanctions against officials of third countries (police officers, prosecutors and judges) involved in grave human rights violations and judicial ‘manipulations’ against whistleblowers, journalists reporting on corruption and human rights activists in third countries; stresses that criteria of inclusion on the list should be built up on the basis of well-documented, converging and independent sources and convincing evidence, allowing for mechanisms of redress for those targeted;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Fully supports the EU's commitment to embracing and mainstreaming throughout its development policies the concept of democratic ownership, that is the effective and full participation of people in the design, implementation and monitoring of development strategies and policies of donors and partner governments; is of the opinion that such policy fosters involvement of programme beneficiaries and therefore contributes to greater monitoring and accountability in the fight against corruption; requests that the Commission continue to foster high levels of aid transparency in digital, machine- readable formats and using a common standard to ensure comparability both with other donors, and also, more particularly, in line with the needs of recipient governments;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Urges the EU to further transparency by supporting the creation of a global system to track aid pledges, in order to be able to hold donor countries to their promises of aid and to hold them accountable for the projects, institutions or groups that they support;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses that the EU must emphasise the importance of implementing the right to participation and the right to access information and mechanisms of public accountability such as open data as core principles of democracy in all platforms of dialogue with third countries, including in bilateral relations and at the highest level; stresses that freedom of the press and media, both online and offline are vital in this regard; suggests that the EU finance projects in third countries to support the enforcement of these principles, especially in countries going through democratisation processes, ensuring gender mainstreaming and assisting in the formulation of laws for the effective protection of whistleblowers;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Points out that the EU, as a major donor, should follow and expand recent instances of linking the delivering of EU external aid to budget reforms towards greater transparency, access to data and participatory processes and harmonising guiding principles in this regard with other donors; is of the opinion that the EU should establish clear and public benchmarks and incentivescriteria, in an incentive based approach for recipient governments to open up their budget processes and incorporate transparency, public participation and oversight components into their efforts, through training or technical assistance; urges the EU to promote and support the development of an enabling environment for oversight bodies in developing countries (including parliaments, courts of auditors, CSOs and the media) to carry out their core functions and therefore fight corruption;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Stresses that stringent respect for human rights, due diligence and transparency must be maintained in order to ensure CSR along the whole supply chain, and combat corruption, tax avoidance and illicit money flows;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21b. Calls for the development of more effective transparency and accountability standards for EU technology companies in connection with the export of technologies that can be used to violate human rights, to aid corruption or to act against the EU's security interests;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 c (new)
Paragraph 21 c (new)
21c. Calls for the implementation of the 'know your end-user' principle to ensure increased scrutiny and to prevent human rights violations from occurring either up- or downstream in supply chains and production or market flows;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 d (new)
Paragraph 21 d (new)
21d. Emphasises that coherent and comprehensive non-financial disclosure is a crucial tool in promoting transparency and accountability of corporations and increasing the trust of investors and stakeholders in those companies; Urges the EU, therefore, to support the creation of a more coherent and comparable corporate reporting regime;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Calls on the EU and its Member States to take a lead in the UN efforts to ratify and implement the International Arms Treaty, establishing common binding standards and criteria, based on international human rights and humanitarian law, to assess international weapons transfers; encourages the EU to go beyond the treaty and set up independent mechanisms to monitor all arms transfers and combat the opaqueness in the arms trade sector and demand far greater transparency, especially in relation to the use of intermediaries and economic/industrial offsets;