Activities of Patrice TIROLIEN related to 2009/2218(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the EU Policy Coherence for Development and the ‘Official Development Assistance plus’ concept PDF (241 KB) DOC (160 KB)
Amendments (43)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation (new)
Citation (new)
- having regards to Article 7 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (Lisbon Treaty) that reaffirms the EU shall ensure consistency between its policies and activities, taking all of its objectives into account,
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation (new)
Citation (new)
- having regard to the Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament entitled 'EU Code of Conduct on Division of Labour in Development Policy' (COM(2007)0072),
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation (new)
Citation (new)
– having regard to the Commission Green Paper on Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy (COM(2009)163),
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation (new)
Citation (new)
– having regard to its resolution on the Green Paper on Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy (2009/2106(INI)),
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Visa (new)
Visa (new)
- having regards to its legislative resolution (A6-0244/2009) based on report by its Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs on the proposal for a Council directive amending Directive 2003/48/EC on taxation of savings income in the form of interest payments, and in particular its annex I (COM(2008)0727 – C6-0464/2008 – 2008/0215(CNS)),
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas policy coherence for development (PCD) means ‘working to ensure that the objectives and results of a government’s development policies are not undermined by other policies of that government, which impact on developing countries, and that these other policies support development objectives, where feasible’2, 1 ‘Policy Coherence for Development: Institutional Approaches: Technical Workshop’: OECD workshop held in Paris on 13 October 2003. 2 ‘Policy Coherence for Development: Institutional Approaches: Technical Workshop’: OECD workshop held in Paris on 13 October 2003. 3 ‘Policy Coherence for Development: Institutional Approaches: Technical Workshop’: OECD workshop held in Paris on 13 October 2003. 3; and whereas lack of political action may also have a negative impact on development cooperation strategies,
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas the financial contributions paid by the EU within the framework of Fisheries Partnership Agreements (FPAs) have not helped to consolidate the fisheries policies of partner countries, largely due to a lack of monitoring of the implementation of these agreements, the slow payment of assistance, and sometimes even the failure to use this assistance,
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E c (new)
Recital E c (new)
Ec. whereas EU export subsidies for European agricultural products have a disastrous effect on food security and the development of a viable agricultural sector in developing countries,
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a judgment in November 2008 whereby European Investment Bank (EIB) operations in developing countries must prioritise development over any economic or political objective,
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the EU is committed to reaching the UN target of giving 0.7% of gross national income (GNI) in official development assistance (ODA) by 2015, and the interim aid target for the individual EU Member States and for the EU collectively is 0.56% by 2010,
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas the crisis has shown that ODA is unique in targeting the poorest countries and providing development finance in a more predictable and reliable way than other financial flows,
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
Recital G b (new)
Gb. whereas a large number of studies have shown that there are approximately EUR 900 billion per year of illicit financial flows out of developing countries, which severely hinders the fiscal revenue of developing countries and consequently their self development capacities,
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Insists that the European Union, the Member States and the EIB assume a leading role in this and make investments through tax havens less attractive by adopting rules on public procurement contracts and the granting of public funds that prevent any company, bank or other institution registered in a tax haven from benefiting from public funds; with a view to this, asks the Commission and the Member States to use the mid-term review of EIB external lending activity to make concrete improvements to its capabilities for evaluating the beneficiaries of its loans and to ensure its investments in developing countries actually contribute to eradicating poverty;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Asks the Commission and the Member States to give the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy an international dimension in order to make progress towards a fisheries model focused on food security, social justice and the conservation and sustainable management of fish stocks;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to give an overall assessment of the FPAs with third countries, aiming at striking a balance between economic interests and the promotion of sustainable fisheries, strengthening EU partner countries' capacity to guarantee sustainable fishing in their own waters, enhancing food security and local employment in the sector;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Recalls that EU-access to fish stocks in third countries should not in any way be a condition for development assistance to those countries;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Urges the Commission to include, in addition to social clauses, human rights clauses in all FPAs to enable the European Union to use appropriate measures where known human rights violations take place in third countries that have signed FPAs with the EU;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 e (new)
Paragraph 4 e (new)
4e. Recalls that 75 % of the world’s poor population lives in rural areas, but that only 4 % of official development assistance (ODA) is dedicated to agriculture; pledges to substantially increase the share of ODA devoted to agriculture and food security; therefore calls on the Commission, Member States and developing countries to address the issue of agriculture more effectively in their development policies;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 f (new)
Paragraph 4 f (new)
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 g (new)
Paragraph 4 g (new)
4g. Welcomes the recommendations contained in the conclusions of the Council meeting of 14 May 2008 to include a clause on good governance in the tax area in trade agreements, since this constitutes the first step in the fight against fiscal measures and practices that encourage tax evasion and fraud; asks the Commission to introduce such a clause immediately in its negotiations on future trade agreements;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 g (new)
Paragraph 4 g (new)
4g. Calls on the Commission and the ACP countries to include in Article 13 of the ACP-EU agreement on migration the principles of circular migration and its facilitation by granting circular visas; stresses that the article in question emphasises respect for human rights and equitable treatment of nationals of ACP countries, but that the scope of these principles is seriously compromised by bilateral readmission agreements with transit countries in a context of externalisation by Europe of the management of migration, which do not guarantee respect for the rights of migrants and which may result in 'cascade' readmissions which jeopardise their safety and their lives;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 h (new)
Paragraph 4 h (new)
4h. Urges the Council to reach a rapid comprehensive agreement on the proposal for amendment of the directive on taxation of savings income and in particular concerning the countries listed in Annex 1 to this legislative proposal which receive European development funds;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 i (new)
Paragraph 4 i (new)
4i. Asks the Council to make active progress towards reaching an international agreement introducing the automatic exchange of financial and tax information both bilaterally and multilaterally;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Is concerned that the ‘ODA-plus approach’ entails a risk that the EU will be deprived of its roadmap to reach the 0.7% ODA/GNP target for 2015 and that it undermines the definition of ODA and its focus on poverty eradication because it exaggerates the role of other financial flows for development;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on European members of the OECD's DAC to reject any attempt to broaden the ODA definition, including the “Whole of the Union” and “ODA+” approaches recently proposed by the European Commission, as well as non-aid items such as financial flows, military spending, debt cancellation, particularly cancellation of export credit debts, money spent in Europe on Students and refugees;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. Firmly recalls the Commission and Member States that ODA has to remain the backbone of the European development cooperation policy aiming at eradicating poverty; therefore, underlines that if innovative sources of development financing are to be widely promoted, they must be additional, used in a pro-poor approach and cannot be used to replace ODA in any way;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 d (new)
Paragraph 9 d (new)
9d. Notes that, in most developing countries, most of the MDG targets will not be met by 2015; therefore urges Member States to reach their collective target and to proceed to binding legislations and issue annual timetables to meet the promises they have made; welcomes in this view, the "Draft International Development Bill" presented by the UK government in January 2010;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to use systematic, clear benchmarks and regularly updated indicators in order to measure PCD, for example the Sustainable Development Indicators, as well as enhancing transparency towards the European parliament, aid recipient States and civil society;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Commission and Member states, in the frame of the revision of the Cotonou agreement, to enhance article 12 of the Agreement, in order for the Commission to notify systematically to the Secretariat of the ACP states and the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, any European measures which might affect the interests of the ACP States; in this perspective, calls on the Commission to better use inter-service consultations between its DGs, as well as policy impact assessments that might enhance Policy Coherence for Development, and to notify systematically the results of each of these instruments to the Secretariat of the ACP states and the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls for the cessation of export subsidies; irrespective of the successful conclusion of the ‘Doha Round’, to avoid dumping of EU products on markets in developing countries and the economic loss that this generaten this view, recalls the commitment made in Doha in 2001 by all WTO members to conclude a Development round of negotiations aiming at rectifying the existing imbalances in the trade system and aiming to put trade at the service of development, contributing to poverty eradication and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to phase out policy- oriented conditionality, especially economic policy conditionality, to support a common understanding on key priorities, and to use their influence to convince the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to support the same position;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Urges the Commission to revise the Global Europe strategy, as the trade component of the Lisbon strategy, in order to make of international trade a tool for job creation, poverty eradication and sustainable development worldwide;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Asks that the "aid for trade" strategy benefit all developing countries, and not only those agreeing to a greater liberalisation of their markets, notably in the context of Economic Partnership Agreements;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 c (new)
Paragraph 18 c (new)
18c. Calls on the Commission, during trade negotiations, not to encourage developing countries to agree to liberalisation beyond their existing WTO commitments, and stresses in particular that the ‘Singapore issues’ should under no circumstances be imposed in negotiations against the wishes of developing countries;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 d (new)
Paragraph 18 d (new)
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 e (new)
Paragraph 18 e (new)
18e. Asks the Commission to include legally binding social and environmental standards systematically in trade agreements negotiated by the European Union, to promote the objective of trade working for development;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Asks the Commission to start the impact assessments earlier, i.e. before the drafting process of policy initiatives is already far advanced and to base them on evidence-based studies, and to systematically include social, environmental and human rights dimensions ; asks the Commission to include the results of the impact assessments in the Development Cooperation Instrument (DCI)’s Regional and Country Strategy Papers ;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Expresses its concern that, upon 82 Impact Assessments conducted in 2009 by the Commission, only one was dedicated to development ; stresses the need for a systematic approach of PCD performance measuring; therefore calls on the Commission to give the prospective and policy coherence Unit in DG DEVE a central role in enhancing the consideration of PCD;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Asks the Commission to involve the EU Delegations in its PCD work by appointing PCD focal points responsible for PCD in each Delegation to monitor the impact of EU policy at partner-country level; asks for inclusion of PCD in staff training; calls on the Commission to annually issue the results of field consultations to be conducted by EU Delegations; to this end calls on the Commission to ensure the delegations with sufficient capacity in order for them to broadly consult local governments, parliaments and non-state actors on the issue of PCD;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Calls on Member States and their national parliaments to promote PCD through a specific working programme with binding timetables in order to improve the European PCD work programme along with aid efforts, whilst ensuring that this agenda is driven by partner countries and not donors alone;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Underlines the importance of inter- committee cooperation in the European Parliament ; to this end, suggests that, when a sensitive issue regarding PCD is discussed by a committee, the other relevant committees must be closely associated, and when a committee organizes an expert audition on a sensitive issue concerning PCD, the other relevant committees must be part of the organization of the audition ;