24 Amendments of Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL related to 2018/0243(COD)
Amendment 30 #
(7a) Culture plays a specific role both as a self-standing pillar of sustainable development and a key enabler of existing Sustainable Development Goalss. Culture is a driver for innovation and behavioural change through the creation of new lifestyles and sustainable development paradigms, and enables community-based or locally rooted approaches which are necessary for a local understanding of sustainable development. Cultural participation encourages environmentally responsible behaviours, improves physical and mental health and wellbeing and facilitates and promotes intercultural dialogue, respect for others and social integration of minorities, improves school attendance and performance rates of young people, therefore contributing to and facilitating the achievement of many existing Sustainable Development Goals. This regulation should make use of the transformative power of culture and education in order to reach the Sustainable Development Goals.
Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) The implementation of this Regulation should be guided by the five priorities established in the Global Strategy for the European Union’s Foreign and Security Policy (the ‘Global Strategy’)59 , presented on 19 June 2016, which represents the Union’s vision and the framework for united and responsible external engagement in partnership with others, to advance its values and interests. The Union should enhance partnerships, promote policy dialogue and collective responses to challenges of global concern. Its action should support the Union’s interests and values in all its aspects, including preserving lasting peace, preventing conflicts, strengthening international security, fightaddressing root causes of irregular migrationpopulation displacements and assisting populations, countries and regions confronting natural or man-made disasters, supporting trade policy, economicfair and sustainable trade policy, entrepreneurship, economic and cultural diplomacy and economic cooperation, promoting innovation, digital solutions and technologies, and fostering the international dimension of Union’s policies. In promoting its interests, the Union should comply with, and promote, the principles of respect for high social and environmental standards, for the rule of law, for international law and for human rights. _________________ 59 “Shared Vision, Common Action: A Stronger Europe. A global Strategy for the European Union’s Foreign and Security Policy”, June 2016.
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9 a (new)
Recital 9 a (new)
(9a) Culture, including intercultural dialogue, plays a key role in external relations and development policies, in particular for conflict prevention and conflict resolution, peace-making and empowerment of local populations. An ambitious and sound cultural strategy, including cultural diplomacy, is therefore needed to achieve a new European Consensus on Development.
Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) Pursuant to the Sustainable Development Goals, this Regulation should contribute to reinforced monitoring and reporting with a focus on results, covering outputs, outcomes and impacts in partner countries benefiting from the Union’s external financial assistance. In particular, as agreed in the Consensus, actions under this Regulation are expected to contribute 20% of the Official Development Assistance funded under this Regulation to social inclusion and human development, including education, culture, and sports gender equality and women’sthe empowerment of women, youth, and children to achieve sustainable development.
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) This Regulation should reflect the need to focus on strategic priorities, both geographically – the European Neighbourhood and Africa, as well as countries that are fragile and most in need, but also thematically – security, migration, climate change, gender equality, equal opportunities, youth inclusion, education, culture, and cultural heritage, citizenship and meaningful participation, good governance and human rights.
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) The European Neighbourhood Policy, as reviewed in 201562 , aims at the stabilisation of neighbouring countries and strengthening resilience, particularly by boosting economic development, as the Union’s main political priorities. In order to attain its objective, the reviewed European Neighbourhood Policy has been focusing on four priority areas: good governance, democracy, the rule of law and human rights, with a particular focus in engaging further with civil society; and promoting people-to-people contacts; sustainable economic development; security; migration and mobility, including tackling the root causes of irregular migrationpopulation displacements and forced displacement. Differentiation and enhanced mutual ownership are the hallmark of the European Neighbourhood Policy, recognising different levels of engagement, and reflecting the interests of each country concerning the nature and focus of its partnership with the Union. _________________ 62 Joint communication to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, “Review of the European Neighbourhood policy”, 18 November 2015.
Amendment 48 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20
Recital 20
(20) This Regulation should support the implementation of a modernised association agreement with countries of the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States and allow the EU and its ACP partners to develop further strong alliances on key global challenges. In particular, this Regulation should support the continuation of the established cooperation between the Union and the African Union in line with the Joint Africa- EU Strategy, including the engagement from Africa and the EU to promote children’s rights as well as the empowerment of Europe’s and Africa’s youth, and build on the future EU- ACP agreement after 2020, including through a continental approach towards Africa.
Amendment 54 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25
Recital 25
(25) Whilst democracy and human rights, including gender equality and women’s and youth empowerment should be reflected throughout the implementation of this Regulation, Union assistance under the thematic programmes for human rights and democracy and civil society organisations should have a specific complementary and additional role by virtue of its global nature and its independence of action from the consent of the governments and public authorities of the third countries concerned.
Amendment 58 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 29
Recital 29
(29) It is essential to further step up cooperation on migration with partner countries, reaping the benefits of well- managed and regular migration and effectively addressing irregular migration. Such cooperation should contribute to ensuring access to international protection, addressing the root causes of irregular migpopulation displacements, including through culture and education cooperation, enhancing border management and pursuing efforts in the fight against irregular migration, trafficking in human beings and migrant smuggling, and working on safe returns, readmission and reintegration where relevant, on the basis of mutual accountability and full respect of humanitarian and human rights obligations. Therefore, third countries’ effective cooperation with the Union in this area should be an integral element in the general principles of this Regulation. An increased coherence between migration and development cooperation policies is important to ensure that development assistance supports partner countries to manage migration more effectively, without prejudices to the core objectives of development and cooperation policies. This Regulation should contribute to a coordinated, holistic and structured approach to migration, and maximising the synergies and applying the necessary leverage.
Amendment 59 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 29 a (new)
Recital 29 a (new)
(29a) It is also essential, in line with European fundamental values, that the EFSD+ is used to improve access to education for all children in humanitarian emergency areas as well as to support the establishment of education corridors in order to ensure that the right to education for children in situation of forced displacement and migration is upheld.
Amendment 61 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 34
Recital 34
(34) The EFSD+ should aim at supporting investments as a means of contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals by fostering sustainable and inclusive economic, cultural and social development and promoting the socio-economic resilience in partner countries with a particular focus on the eradication of poverty, sustainable and inclusive growth, the creation of decent jobs, economic opportunities, skills andtransferable skills and entrepreneurship, including social entrepreneurship, socioeconomic sectors, micro, small and medium-sized enterprises especially in the environment sector and circular economy, as well as addressing specific socioeconomic root causes of irregular migrationpopulation displacement, in accordance with the relevant indicative programming documents. Special attention should be given to countries identified as experiencing fragility or conflict, Least Developed Countries and heavily indebted poor countries.
Amendment 73 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Article 4 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) contribute to strengthening resilience of states, societies, communities, civil society and individuals and to linking humanitarian aid and development action;
Amendment 82 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 2
2. A rights-based approach encompassing all human rights, whether civil and political or economic, social and cultural shall be applied in order to integrate human rights principles, to support the right holders in claiming their rights with a focus on poorer and, morest vulnerable groupsand marginalised groups, including minorities, indigenous people, women and youth, and to assist partner countries in implementing their international human rights obligations. This Regulation shall promote gender equality and women’s empowerment. of women, youth and children.
Amendment 83 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. In order to maximise the impact of the Regulation on populations, particularly the most vulnerable groups, the Union should support not only institutional cooperation but grassroots initiatives, people-to-people contacts and civil society organisations.
Amendment 84 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
The Union shall support, as appropriate, the implementation of bilateral, regional and multilateral cooperation and dialogue, partnership agreements and triangular cooperation, including through a structured dialogue between institutions and civil society, and peer learning exercises between civil society from different countries and regions.
Amendment 85 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Cooperation between the Union and the Member States, on the one hand, and partner countries, on the other hand, shall be based on and shall promote the development effectiveness principles, where applicable, namely: ownership of development priorities by partner countries, a focus on results, inclusive development partnerships, transparency and mutual accountability and respect. The Union shall promote effective and efficient resource mobilisation and use.
Amendment 87 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 6
Article 8 – paragraph 6
6. Programmes and actions under this Regulation shall mainstream climate change, environmental protection and gender equality and shall address interlinkages between Sustainable Development Goals, to promote integrated actions that can create co-benefits and meet multiple objectives in a coherent way. These programmes and actions shall be based on an analysis of risks and vulnerabilities, integrate a resilienccluding the understanding of different forms of discrimination, multiple discrimination, and their impacts on specific groups including women and youth, integrate a resilient preventive approach and be conflict sensitive. They shall be guided by the principle of leaving no one behind.
Amendment 91 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 7
Article 8 – paragraph 7
7. A more coordinated, holistic and structured approach to migration shall be pursued, without prejudices to the other objectives of the EU external action, with partners and its effectiveness be regularly assessed.
Amendment 99 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 16 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) needs, using indicators such as population and level of developmentestablished on the basis of specific criteria and in-depth analysis, taking into account the population, poverty, inequality, human development, economic and environmental vulnerability, human rights, democracy and civic space, gender equality and state and societal resilience;
Amendment 105 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 26 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The purpose of the EFSD+ as an integrated financial package supplying financial capacity drawing on the methods of implementation set up in Article 23(1)(a), (e), (f) and (g), shall be to support investments and increase access to financing, in order to foster sustainable and inclusive economic cultural, and social development and promote the socio- economic resilience in partner countries with a particular focus on the, eradication of poverty, sustainable and inclusive growth, the creation of decent jobs, economic opportunities, transferable skills and entrepreneurship, socioeconomic sectors, micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, including social enterprises, as well as addressing specific socioeconomic root causes of irregular migrationpopulation displacements, in accordance with the relevant indicative programming documents. Special attention shall be given to countries identified as experiencing fragility or conflict, Least Developed Countries and heavily indebted poor countries.
Amendment 106 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 31 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Progress with respect to expected results should be monitored on the basis of clear, transparent and, where appropriate, measurable indicators. In line with the Sustainable Development Goals, indicators shall be disaggregated by gender and age as a minimum. Indicators shall be kept at a limited number to facilitate timely reporting.
Amendment 126 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part A – point 2 – point o a (new)
Annex II – part A – point 2 – point o a (new)
(oa) Supporting actions, and promoting cooperation, in the area of sport to contribute to the empowerment of women and of young people, individuals and communities as well as to health, education and social inclusion objectives of the 2030 Agenda.
Amendment 141 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part A – point 7 – point f
Annex II – part A – point 7 – point f
(f) Engaging more effectively with citizens in third countries, including by making full use of economic, cultural, sport and public diplomacy;
Amendment 143 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part B – point c
Annex II – part B – point c
(c) Promoting a strengthened partnership with societies between the Union and the partner countries, including through people-to-people contacts, in particular in relation to cultural, educational, professional and sporting activities;