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2016/2669(DEA) EU guarantee to the European Investment Bank against losses under financing operations supporting investment projects outside the Union: Belarus
RoleCommitteeRapporteurShadows
Lead BUDG
Lead committee dossier: BUDG/8/06253
Legal Basis RoP 105-p4

Activites

  • 2016/07/06 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • 2016/05/25 Delegated act not objected by Council
  • 2016/04/27 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • 2016/04/25 Initial period for examining delegated act extended at Parliament's request by 2 month(s)
  • 2016/04/15 Initial period for examining delegated act 2 month(s)
  • 2016/04/15 Non-legislative basic document published

Documents

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)

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2016-08-24T00:00:00
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  • The European Parliament rejected two motions for resolutions on the Commission delegated decision of 15 April 2016 amending Annex III to Decision No 466/2014/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council granting an EU guarantee to the European Investment Bank against losses under financing operations supporting investment projects outside the Union, as regards Belarus. Qualified majority was needed for the adoption of the motions for resolutions.

    To recall, the Commission delegated decision seeks to amend Annex III to Decision No 466/2014/EU by including Belarus to the list of eligible countries for EIB financing operations covered by an EU guarantee.

    - The first draft resolution (tabled on behalf of EFDD group, and rejected by 108 votes to 428, with 158 abstentions) called on Parliament to object to the delegated Commission decision on the ground that the delegated decision does not take properly into consideration all the aspects relating to respect for human rights, fundamental freedoms and democracy in Belarus.

    The Member who initiated the draft resolution is particularly critical of the fact that Belarus remains a centralised and autocratic state, tightly controlled by the President. President Lukashenko was re-elected on 11 October 2015 with 83.5 % of the vote, but significant problems, particularly during counting and tabulation, undermined the integrity of the elections.

    The draft resolution also stressed that: (i) despite some positive actions taken since August 2015, human rights violations are still rampant and systematic; (ii) journalists working for independent media or working for foreign media without accreditation are often detained, prosecuted and fined; (iii) for decades the opposition has been entirely absent from the parliament; (iv) Belarus remains the only country in Europe where the death penalty is applied.

    - The second draft resolution (tabled on behalf of the ECR, ALDE and Greens/EFA, and rejected by 278 votes to 129, with 285 abstentions) called on Parliament to object to the delegated Commission decision, considering that it would be inappropriate and premature to grant and EU guarantee at this stage taking the view that the forthcoming general elections on 11 September 2016 represent an opportunity for Belarus to end its long-standing practice of fraudulent elections, and constitute a decisive test with which to measure the genuine will of the Belarusian authorities to reconcile with their own citizens and to engage constructively with the EU.

    Members who initiated the draft resolution stressed that since the decision to lift sanctions the overall human rights situation in the country has shown only a very limited improvement. The motion for a resolution:

    • called on the European External Action Service to report to Parliament on the conduct and outcome of the elections on 11 September 2016, stressing that only after these elections will Parliament be in a position to assess any new delegated act on the matter;
    • called on the Commission to ensure that an EU guarantee to the European Investment Bank could not be used to finance the Ostrovets nuclear power plant, and to assess whether such a guarantee is in compliance with the EU sanctions imposed on the Russian Federation.
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2016-07-06T00:00:00
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Awaiting committee decision
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  • Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament EP 105-p4
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2016-05-25T00:00:00
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2016-04-25T00:00:00
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EP/CSL
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Initial period for examining delegated act extended at Parliament's request by 2 month(s)
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  • date: 2016-04-15T00:00:00 body: EP/CSL type: Initial period for examining delegated act 2 month(s)
  • date: 2016-04-15T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/docs_autres_institutions/commission_europeenne/actes_delegues/2016/02164/COM_ADL(2016)02164_EN.pdf type: Non-legislative basic document published title: C(2016)02164 body: EC commission: type: Non-legislative basic document published
  • date: 2016-04-27T00:00:00 body: EP type: Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading committees: body: EP responsible: True committee_full: Budgets committee: BUDG
committees
  • body: EP responsible: True committee_full: Budgets committee: BUDG
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    BUDG/8/06253
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    2016/2669(DEA)
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    EU guarantee to the European Investment Bank against losses under financing operations supporting investment projects outside the Union: Belarus
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    Belarus
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