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Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Lead | DEVE | KACZMAREK Filip (PPE) | CASHMAN Michael (S&D), GOERENS Charles (ALDE), JOLY Eva (Verts/ALE) |
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2011/11/16
Results of vote in Parliament
- Results of vote in Parliament
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T7-0501/2011
summary
The European Parliament adopted a resolution on the work of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA) in 2010.Parliament welcomes the fact that in 2010, the JPA continued to provide a framework for an open, democratic and in-depth dialogue between the EU and the ACP countries on the Cotonou Partnership Agreement, including the EPAs, and also the Regional Strategy Papers for the six ACP regions. However, it stresses the need to pay more attention to the outcomes of the work of the ACP-EU JPA.Parliament regrets the fact that the EU Council was absent from the 20th Session which was held from 30 November to 3 December 2010 in Kinshasa (DRC). It urges the High Representative to ensure that the establishment of the European External Action Service (EEAS) will lead to a clarification of the role of the EU Council and a clear delineation of responsibility between the EEAS and the Commission in terms of the implementation of the Cotonou Partnership Agreement.The resolution emphasises, further, the need for close parliamentary scrutiny during the negotiation and conclusion of EPAs. In parallel, it calls on the JPA to maintain its pressure on EU Member States to take urgent steps to meet their 0.7% GNI commitments in order to achieve the MDGs, as well as their specific pledges to Africa and LDCs, and recommends fully transparent, multiannual, binding measures, including legislation.Parliament stresses in particular the crucial role of the ACP national parliaments in managing and monitoring, and local authorities and non-state actors in monitoring, the Country and Regional Strategy Papers and the implementation of the European Development Fund (EDF), and calls on the Commission to guarantee their involvement. Members call on the parliaments of the ACP countries to insist that their governments and the Commission involve them in the process of drafting and implementing the Country and Regional Strategy Papers relating to cooperation between the EU and their countries over the period from 2008 to 2013 and ensure their full participation in the EPA negotiations.Overall, Parliament draws attention to the need to involve parliaments in the democratic process and in the national development strategies, stressing their vital role in establishing, following up and monitoring development policies. Together with ACP governments, the Commission and the JPA, national parliaments are asked to:exercise close parliamentary scrutiny of the EDF;take steps to tackle climate change that take account of the need to maintain growth, eradicate poverty and guarantee fair access to resources; promote equitable and sustainable development incorporating the social dimension, which supports new forms of enterprises (e.g. cooperatives);uphold the full right to land and to take measures restricting the phenomenon of land hoarding. Parliament goes on to call on the EU and the ACP countries to encourage citizens, and particularly women, to participate on issues such as gender violence or human trafficking, since the involvement of society is vital if progress is to be made in resolving these problems. In this regard, Parliament deplores strongly the fact that virtually no mention was made during the JPA in Kinshasa of the increase in acts of mass sexual violence and of general impunity, particularly in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Budgetary support and humanitarian aid: the Commission is asked to provide the members of the JPA with information on the Community financing granted to host countries in the form of budgetary support. Parliament stressed that some States benefiting from budgetary support have a controversial political system and that Members of the European Parliament should be informed of the Commission's assessment of the eligibility criteria for budgetary support and of the monitoring thereof. Parliament calls on the JPA to continue to monitor the situation in Haiti, Madagascar and South Sudan, and to send an observation mission to monitor the level and effectiveness of humanitarian aid to the populations struck by famine in the Horn of Africa. Lastly, Parliament emphasises once again the significance of the Declaration by the JPA on the EU-Latin America bananas agreement, given the major impact this agreement will have henceforth on the competitiveness of ACP and EU banana producers. It calls in this regard on the European Parliament and the Council to do all that is in their power to find an agreement which enables compensation for ACP banana producers, provided for in the regulation establishing the banana accompanying measures to be released.
- 2011/11/15 Debate in Parliament
- 2011/09/28 Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
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2011/09/22
Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
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2011/07/07
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
Documents
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A7-0315/2011
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T7-0501/2011
Amendments | Dossier |
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2011/2120(INI)
2011/09/05
DEVE
27 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 8 a (new) - having regard to the 28 September 2010 Declaration by the ACP Parliamentary Assembly on the peaceful co-existence of religions and the importance given to the phenomenon of homosexuality in the ACP-EU partnership,
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Calls on the JPA to maintain its pressure on EU Member States to take urgent steps to meet their 0.7% GNI commitments in order to achieve the MDGs, as well as their specifi pledges to Africa and LDCs, and recommends fully transparent, multiannual, binding measures, including legislation;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Calls on the parliaments and governments of the ACP countries to take steps to tackle climate change that take account of the need to maintain growth, eradicate poverty and guarantee fair access to resources; calls in this respect on the Commission, in conjunction with the ACP governments and the JPA, to verify that the European Water Fund, established to provide the very poor in the ACP countries with a water supply and basis sanitation facilities, is being properly used and proving beneficial;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Urges the JPA, the European Commission, and the ACP parliaments and governments to uphold the full right to land and to take measures restricting the phenomenon of land hoarding that could lead to severe environmental damage, the migration of local smallholders and workers, exploitation of resources and the loss of means of subsistence and food security;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Stresses the necessity of upholding the media’s freedom and its independence, these being vital elements in ensuring pluralism and the involvement of democratic opposition groups and minorities in political life;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 b (new) 6b. Calls on the European Union and the ACP countries to encourage citizens, and particularly women, to participate on issues such as gender violence or human trafficking, since the involvement of society is vital if progress is to be made in resolving these problems; acknowledges the problem-solving and conflict- resolution skills of women, and urges the Commission and the JPA to include more women in task forces and working groups dealing with issues such as family life, child care, education, etc.;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Asks the European Commission to update the JPA on the state of play of the ratification of the Cotonou Partnership Agreement, as revised in Ouagadougou on 22 June 2010;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Deplores strongly the fact that virtually no mention was made during the JPA in Kinshasa of the increase in acts of mass sexual violence and of general impunity, particularly in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Calls on the Commission and the JPA to promote equitable and sustainable development which incorporates the social dimension, supporting new forms of enterprises (i.e cooperatives);
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Reasserts that the principle of non- discrimination including, inter alia, on the basis of sexual orientation, will not be compromised in the ACP-EU partnership;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 b (new) 8b. Asks the European Commission to provide the members of the JPA with information on the Community financing granted to host countries in the form of budgetary support; stressed that some States benefiting from budgetary support have a controversial political system and that Members of the European Parliament should be informed of the Commission’s assessment of the eligibility criteria for budgetary support and of the monitoring thereof;
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 8 b (new) - having regard to the 6 December 2010 statement made in response to the abovementioned ACP Declaration by EU Members of the ACP-EU JPA from the EPP, S&D, ALDE, Verts/ALE and GUE/NGL Groups of the European Parliament,
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Considers the
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Emphasises once again the significance of the abovementioned Declaration by the JPA on the EU-Latin America bananas agreement, given the major impact this agreement will have henceforth on the competitiveness of ACP and EU banana producers; calls in this regard on the European Parliament and the Council to do all that is in their power to find an agreement which enables compensation for ACP banana producers, provided for in the regulation establishing the banana accompanying measures to be released; asks the JPA Bureau, therefore, and the Committee on Economic Affairs, Finance and Trade to continue to monitor closely developments on this matter;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Calls on the JPA to continue to monitor the situation in Haiti
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Calls on the JPA to continue to monitor the situation in Haiti and Madagascar; draws attention to the need to cooperate closely with the new Haitian authorities and to support them as they structure their institutions, move towards a fully operational democracy and throughout the whole of the reconstruction process;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Calls on the JPA to continue to monitor the situation in Haiti and Madagascar and to send an observation mission to monitor the level and effectiveness of humanitarian aid to the populations struck by famine in the Horn of Africa;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Calls on the JPA to continue to organise its own election observation missions on the same basis as the
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Stresses the importance of the on-site visits organised during the JPA, which complement the part-session discussion; regrets that the visits arranged in Kinshasa lacked relevance;
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas the situation in Haiti
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the fact that in 2010 the JPA continued to provide a framework for an open, democratic and in-depth dialogue between the European Union and the ACP countries on the Cotonou Partnership Agreement, including the EPAs, and also the Regional Strategy Papers for the six ACP regions;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Stresses the need to pay more attention to the outcomes of the work of the ACP - EU JPA, and to ensure coherence between its resolutions and the EP ones. Asks for more participation and involvement of MEPs, in its meetings and activities;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Encourages the JPA to keep working on additional and innovative sources of financing for development, such as a financial transaction tax;
source: PE-472.042
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