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Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Lead | DEVE | ZACHAROPOULOU Chrysoula ( Renew) | OCHOJSKA Janina ( EPP), ZORRINHO Carlos ( S&D), HERZBERGER-FOFANA Pierrette ( Verts/ALE), ZIMNIOK Bernhard ( ID), KEMPA Beata ( ECR), URBÁN CRESPO Miguel ( GUE/NGL) |
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Committee Opinion | INTA | SCHUSTER Joachim ( S&D) | Sergio BERLATO ( ECR), Helmut SCHOLZ ( GUE/NGL), Saskia BRICMONT ( Verts/ALE), Samira RAFAELA ( RE), Luisa REGIMENTI ( ID), Sven SIMON ( PPE) |
Committee Opinion | AGRI | BOMPARD Manuel ( GUE/NGL) | Gilles LEBRETON ( ID), Marc TARABELLA ( S&D), Hilde VAUTMANS ( RE), Bert-Jan RUISSEN ( ECR), Marlene MORTLER ( PPE), Claude GRUFFAT ( Verts/ALE) |
Committee Opinion | LIBE | LÓPEZ AGUILAR Juan Fernando ( S&D) | Sira REGO ( GUE/NGL), Olivier CHASTEL ( RE), Assita KANKO ( ECR), Tineke STRIK ( Verts/ALE), Pietro BARTOLO ( S&D) |
Committee Opinion | AFET | FOTYGA Anna ( ECR) | Javier NART ( RE), Idoia VILLANUEVA RUIZ ( GUE/NGL), Isabel WISELER-LIMA ( PPE), Giuliano PISAPIA ( S&D) |
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The European Parliament adopted by 460 votes to 64, with 163 votes, a resolution on a new EU-Africa Strategy – a partnership for sustainable and inclusive development.
Towards an improved EU-Africa strategy
Parliament called for a genuine partnership between equals based on international law and international conventions, agreements and standards, and urged both sides to move beyond the donor-recipient relationship. The EU’s objective is to strengthen the resilience and independence of its African partners.
Therefore, Members called on the EU to coordinate with each country truly interested in a prosperous and positive long-term development of the African continent, on the basis of the full respect of human rights, media freedom and accountability, transparent and responsive governance and the fight against corruption, which are vital elements for ensuring a stable and inclusive political, social and economic environment in Africa.
The resolution reiterated the EU’s continued support for regional integration (in a context in which the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vulnerability of the global supply chain) and regional organisations in Africa. The EU must maintain flexible country-to-country and sub-regional approaches that tailor its engagement and support to the specific needs and circumstances of each country in the five regions of Africa. Parliament called for an update of the various EU regional policies towards African sub-regions.
Funding
The success of the partnership will depend on the funding earmarked for it. Members called for a massive support effort for Africa under the future Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI), while pointing out that the EU continues to be the largest donor to Africa. They deplored the fact that many Member States have failed to reach the target of devoting 0.7 % of their gross national income to ODA and that some have even decreased their contributions to development aid.
More resources should be made available for development cooperation in the EU budget, financed by new own resources, including a financial transaction tax. Members, on the other hand, called for the development of a monitoring mechanism, as well as for full transparency and accountability of EU funding.
Partners for human and economic development
According to Parliament, human development should be placed at the heart of the strategy to ensure that no one is left behind, with priority given to addressing poverty, inequalities and discrimination, and ensuring democracy, the rule of law, good governance and human rights for all, paying particular attention to the most marginalised and vulnerable populations with the best interests of the child to be made a primary consideration. Gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment should also be prioritised and mainstreamed into the partnership.
The Commission is called on to prioritise sexual and reproductive health and rights in the new EU-Africa partnership. Priority should also be given to access to basic social services such as food, water and sanitation, to quality health systems, to quality education, to social protection and to environmental preservation.
The resolution also considered it fundamental to guarantee decent working conditions, strengthen social rights, improve social and labour dialogues, eradicate child labour and forced labour, and improve health and safety conditions in the workplace.
Partners for sustainable and inclusive growth
The resolution noted that China has intensified its presence in Africa while the EU Member States have shown only a very selective interest in trade with and investment in the African states, which is why the trade volume between the EU and most African states remains relatively small. Therefore, Parliament stressed that the EU needs an entirely new foundation for its economic partnership with Africa. It called for the systematic inclusion of binding and enforceable mechanisms for the implementation of Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) chapters on human rights, labour and environmental standards in all currently negotiated and future EPAs, while stressing that the agreements need to be coherent with development policies and with the SDGs, especially with regard to their impact on deforestation, climate change and biodiversity loss.
Members are of the view that the EU-Africa strategy should also include measures to assist African countries in converting their mineral resource wealth into real development results and called for a review of the effectiveness of existing measures, also with regard to the questionable exploitation of Africa by China and Russia.
Partners for an AU-EU green deal
Recalling that in 2019, nearly 16.6 million Africans were affected by extreme weather events, 195 % more than in 2018, Members noted the request for 45 % of the budget for the future NDICI to be devoted to climate objectives. According to Members, climate change could reverse human development and undermine low-income and fragile African countries’ development prospects. They called for the swift implementation of ‘green deal diplomacy’ through the setting-up of a task force focusing on the external dimension of the European Green Deal.
Partners for mutually beneficial mobility and migration
Stressing that the migration issue has dominated the Africa-EU relationship, Parliament called for the adoption of an EU-Africa partnership on migration and mobility that puts the human dignity of refugees and migrants at its heart. It underlined the need to address through adequate funding the root causes of irregular migration and forced displacements, such as political instability, poverty, lack of security and food security, violence and the negative effects of climate change.
Lastly, the resolution called for the strengthening of efforts to trace and combat criminal networks of smugglers and seeks cooperation with African countries to combat it.
The Committee on Development adopted the report by Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU (Renew Europe, FR) on a new EU-Africa Strategy – a partnership for sustainable and inclusive development.
Towards an improved EU-Africa strategy
Members called for a genuine partnership between equals based on international law and international conventions, agreements and standards, and urged both sides to move beyond the donor-recipient relationship. The EU’s objective is to strengthen the resilience and independence of its African partners. Therefore, Members called on it to:
- coordinate with each country truly interested in a prosperous and positive long-term development of the African continent, on the basis of the full respect of human rights, media freedom and accountability, transparent and responsive governance and the fight against corruption, which are vital elements for ensuring a stable and inclusive political, social and economic environment in Africa;
- maintain flexible country-to-country and sub-regional approaches that tailor its engagement and support to the specific needs and circumstances of each country in the five regions of Africa.
Funding
The report also pointed out that the success of the partnership will depend on the funding earmarked for it. Members called for a massive support effort for Africa under the future Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI), while pointing out that the EU continues to be the largest donor to Africa. They deplored the fact that many Member States have failed to reach the target of devoting 0.7 % of their gross national income to ODA and that some have even decreased their contributions to development aid.
More resources should be made available for development cooperation in the EU budget, financed by new own resources, including a financial transaction tax. Members, on the other hand, called for the development of a monitoring mechanism, as well as for full transparency and accountability of EU funding.
Partners for human and economic development
According to Members, human development should be placed at the heart of the strategy to ensure that no one is left behind, with priority given to addressing poverty, inequalities and discrimination, and ensuring democracy, the rule of law, good governance and human rights for all, paying particular attention to the most marginalised and vulnerable populations with the best interests of the child to be made a primary consideration. Gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment should be prioritised and mainstreamed into the partnership.
The Commission is called on to prioritise sexual and reproductive health and rights in the new EU-Africa partnership. Priority should also be given to access to basic social services such as food, water and sanitation, to quality health systems, to quality education, to social protection and to environmental preservation.
The report also considered it fundamental to guarantee decent working conditions, strengthen social rights, improve social and labour dialogues, eradicate child labour and forced labour, and improve health and safety conditions in the workplace.
Partners for sustainable and inclusive growth
Members noted that the EU needs an entirely new foundation for its economic partnership with Africa, meaning that it needs to arrive at a new reality in which the EU and Africa develop a mutually beneficial sustainable partnership, reshaping economic, commercial and trade relations towards solidarity and cooperation, as well as ensuring fair and ethical trade.
They called for the systematic inclusion of binding and enforceable mechanisms for the implementation of Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) chapters on human rights, labour and environmental standards in all currently negotiated and future EPAs, while stressing that the agreements need to be coherent with development policies and with the SDGs, especially with regard to their impact on deforestation, climate change and biodiversity loss.
The Commission is called on to proceed with an ambitious legislative proposal on mandatory human rights, social rights and environmental due diligence obligations for EU companies.
Members are of the view that the EU-Africa strategy should also include measures to assist African countries in converting their mineral resource wealth into real development results and called for a review of the effectiveness of existing measures, also with regard to the questionable exploitation of Africa by China and Russia.
Partners for an AU-EU green deal
Recalling that in 2019, nearly 16.6 million Africans were affected by extreme weather events, 195 % more than in 2018, Members noted the request for 45 % of the budget for the future NDICI to be devoted to climate objectives. According to Members, climate change could reverse human development and undermine low-income and fragile African countries’ development prospects. They called for the swift implementation of ‘green deal diplomacy’ through the setting-up of a task force focusing on the external dimension of the European Green Deal.
Partners for mutually beneficial mobility and migration
Stressing that the migration issue has dominated the Africa-EU relationship, Members called for the adoption of an EU-Africa partnership on migration and mobility that puts the human dignity of refugees and migrants at its heart. They underlined the need to address through adequate funding the root causes of irregular migration and forced displacements, such as political instability, poverty, lack of security and food security, violence and the negative effects of climate change.
Lastly, the resolution called for the strengthening of efforts to trace and combat criminal networks of smugglers and seeks cooperation with African countries to combat it.
Documents
- Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament: T9-0108/2021
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Committee report tabled for plenary: A9-0017/2021
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE663.035
- Committee opinion: PE654.056
- Committee opinion: PE652.358
- Committee opinion: PE648.592
- Committee opinion: PE652.519
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE654.008
- Committee draft report: PE654.007
- Committee draft report: PE654.007
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE654.008
- Committee opinion: PE648.592
- Committee opinion: PE652.519
- Committee opinion: PE652.358
- Committee opinion: PE654.056
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE663.035
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Amendments | Dossier |
229 |
2020/2041(INI)
2020/06/02
CULT
13 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Takes the view that partnerships with Africa
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Takes the view that
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Calls for the establishment of a network of African and European
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10. Stresses that these developments will, in the long term,
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 a (new) 10 a. Stresses that good governance, respect for human rights and democratic principles as well as equal access to justice foster peace and stability and act as a foundation for development, jobs and growth, and for attracting investment; stresses that boosting private sector investment is crucial in speeding up sustainable economic growth and the creation of jobs;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Underlines that Africa has the world’s biggest young population creating a great potential, which needs to be explored for the benefit of everyone;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Regrets that culture is absent from the five main areas of EU-Africa cooperation, while it
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses that education is a crucial issue in Africa
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. Stresses that integration of young people into the labour market is key for economic development, youth autonomy and independence; is of the opinion that a lack of opportunities forces young people to migrate in search of jobs and employment depleting the African continent of a generation of talented youth;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3 b. Calls for enhanced cooperation between the AU and the EU through quality education and training in order to create employment opportunities in matching skills with labour market needs;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Is of the opinion, however, that
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls for the development of a cultural bridge, by publishing – in the wake of Blaise Cendrars, Claude Lévi-Strauss and André Malraux – African traditions, literature and philosophy, promoting the preservation of Africa’s 1
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 source: 652.553
2020/06/16
INTA
110 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Highlights that the EU together with the Member States are the biggest partner to Africa in terms of trade, investment, official development assistance and security;
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 b (new) 10 b. Underlines that the African continent has the youngest population in the world and thus asks the Commission to firmly integrate the interests of children and young people in the implementation plan for the Africa strategy and to make sure that substantial investments are made in building the expertise of young people given their critical role in further developing strategies for an ecologically, socially and economically sustainable future of their continent;
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 b (new) 10 b. Highlights that the Covid-19 pandemic and its consequences will have an impact on the Sustainable Development Goals; calls on the Commission to make the achievement of the SDGs a guiding principle in all its policies with regard to the African countries and urges the Commission to have full regard for these goals when negotiating the post-Cotonou Agreement in order to ensure balanced and free trade with the African continent;
Amendment 102 #
10 b. Expresses its concern about the raising number of ISDS cases against African states, especially by European companies; reaffirms the right of African states to regulate to defend the public’s interest without being sued by investors, especially to answer to the economic and health crisis; calls EU governments and companies to refrain to use ISDS, and stop the numerous ISDS cases against Africa;
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 b (new) 10 b. Calls on the Commission to work on solutions with African governments and stakeholders and to implement recommendations of the Task Force Rural Africa, and takes the view that stable investment and (wo)manpower to develop an African food chain for regional circuits and African ownership could best contribute to increase health and well-being of African people;
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 b (new) 10 b. Stresses that a strong Africa is in the geostrategic interest of the European Union and that the EU must therefore elaborate ambitious and appropriate plans for African growth and development that diversifies the economy on the continent and increases intra-African trade;
Amendment 105 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 c (new) 10 c. Highlights that around 60% of the population of the African countries is under 25 years old; calls on the Commission to assist the African youth with dedicated education programs under for example Erasmus+ and to increase educational and professional mobility by means of a dedicated strategy in cooperation with the African Union, the private sector and financial institutions (for example by making available micro- credit for start-ups) with the aim of improving economic and trading opportunities;
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 c (new) 10 c. Highlights that the EU with its Member States remains the largest donor to Africa with 31% of the total aid, recalls the importance for a paradigm shift in European development policy towards market-oriented structural reforms and good governance;
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 c (new) 10 c. In view of the documented growing risk of dissemination of zoonotic pathogens in Africa, calls on the Commission to promote in African countries more stringent standards in terms of SPS, animal welfare through regulatory cooperation and dialogue;
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 d (new) 10 d. Stresses that there is a need in Africa to establish intra-continental value chains allowing for the domestic processing of raw materials; notes the continued existence of significant barriers to such trade due to prevalence of tariffs and other barriers, as well as poor infrastructure and high transaction costs;
Amendment 109 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 d (new) 10 d. Highlights that the future partnership between the European Union and the African Union should be one that is built upon shared values with respect for human rights and good governance;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1 b. Highlights that, while there are a number of dynamic middle income countries on the African continent, its economic development is still relatively weak in comparison to other parts of the world; stresses that many of its countries will therefore face almost insurmountable challenges caused by the COVID-19 crisis and the effects of climate change, amongst them huge demographic shifts with poverty- and conflict-driven migration as well as other problems; highlights in this context that in the short run, the EU must provide immediate aid measures such as procuring tests and laboratory equipment, followed by pandemic prevention measures through the development of an infrastructure of laboratories, financing of medical training measures, information campaigns and national pandemic response plans; underlines that the economic impact of the lockdown will be profound on the African continent, given the size of the informal sector; stresses that the long term goal of the partnership between the EU and Africa must be the resilience of African economies as well as economic independence from aid and indebtedness, to which the increasing resilience of the health sector should be a side effect;
Amendment 110 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 e (new) 10 e. Underlines that Africa and sub- Saharan Africa in particular will have the highest population growth in the coming decades; calls in this respect for the EU to follow the Task Force for Rural Africa (TFRA) conclusions on the need of investments to Africa food chains with a focus to be given to value-added commodities;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the announcement from the G20 on a temporary moratorium on debt repayments for the weakest developing countries; yet notices that this debt relief accounts for only one third of the expected short-term fiscal loss; calls on the EU and its Member States to support further alleviation of African debt and to respect their long-standing and repeated commitment to devote 0.7 % of their GDP to Official Development Aid; expresses however its worries about the lack of concerted action against illicit financial flows worth 12 times the annual ODA, due to practices by Africans as well as by Europeans, among others: capital flight, tax avoidance schemes and national income loss due to tariff reduction;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the announcement from the G20 on a temporary moratorium on debt repayments for the weakest
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the announcement from the G20 on a temporary moratorium on debt repayments for the weakest developing countries as a first but necessary step in the good direction; calls the Commission, international donors and members’ states to go further and to consider an extension of the moratorium both in duration and scope for enabling African countries to combat the mid- and long-term impact of Covid-19, in view of a full debt cancellation;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the announcement from the G20 on a temporary moratorium on debt repayments for the weakest developing countries; reiterates that debt reductions and debt cancellations are not mentioned in the current version of the Africa strategy while they are important palliatives in the COVID-19 crisis and a necessary measure beyond the pandemic since they will contribute to the policy space of African countries that is currently taken up by repaying debt;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the announcement from the G20 on a temporary moratorium on debt repayments for the weakest developing countries; reiterates the calls on private creditors to participate in the initiative on comparable terms and for multilateral development banks, such as the IMF and World Bank, to further explore the options for the suspension of debt service payments over the suspension period;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the announcement from the G20 on a temporary moratorium on debt repayments for the weakest developing countries; acknowledges that more needs to be done as huge sums are owed by poor countries to developed countries' private banks and investors; stresses the need to work for cancelling the debts by enforcement and not leaving it to any voluntary action;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Highlights that, while there are a number of dynamic middle income countries on the African continent, its economic development is still relatively weak in comparison to other parts of the world; stresses that many of its countries will therefore face almost insurmountable challenges caused by the COVID-19 crisis and the effects of climate change; notes that although the number of COVID-19 cases and fatalities might still appear comparatively low in Africa than in other world regions, the crisis will likely have disastrous impacts on the continent’s already strained health systems; beyond health risks, the combination of lower trade and investment from China in the immediate term, a demand slump associated with the lockdowns in the European Union and OECD countries; and a continental supply shock affecting domestic and intra-African trade, will cause severe economic pressure on Africa; therefore, the effect of the pandemic, both in the short and long term, needs to be incorporated in the EU- Africa strategy;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the announcement from the G20 on a temporary moratorium on debt repayments for the weakest developing countries; and encourages the G20 to go further on debt relief to ensure that the basic human needs of citizens can be provided for;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Highlights that due to the legacies of colonialism, neo-liberal trade policies and economic reforms pushed on these countries by global North governments and major multilateral institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF, the European Union still has important economic ties with African states
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Highlights that the European Union still has important economic ties with African states,
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Highlights that while the European Union
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Highlights that the European Union
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Highlights that the European Union
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Highlights that the European Union still has important economic ties with African states, and that China has intensified its economic engagement in Africa, while the EU Member States have shown only very selective interests for trade with- and investments in the African states, which is why the trade volume between the EU and most African states remains relatively small; underlines that the EU needs an entirely new foundation for its economic partnership with Africa, meaning that it needs to take the final step away from a dependency-based relationship and arrive in the new reality in which the EU and Africa need to develop a mutually beneficial sustainable partnership; underlines that the prerequisite of this partnership is the substantial further sustainable development in all African states;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Highlights that the European Union still has important economic ties with African states, and that China has intensified its economic engagement in Africa; notes, however, that the EU remains Africa’s most important partner in terms of investment, trade, development assistance and security; notes that as a continent with strong growth in many regions and a rapid-ly growing population, including an expanding middle class, Africa is set to play a larger economic role in the world, notes that Europe therefore has a strategic interest in pursuing closer ties and should seek to apply modern arrangements for coopera-tion in new fields and growth areas to ensure a productive transformation of the region, and building human, societal and economic resilience for future global crises;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Highlights that the European Union
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Highlights that the European Union
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Highlights that, while there are a number of dynamic middle income countries on the African continent, its economic development is still relatively weak in comparison to other parts of the world; stresses that many of its countries will therefore face almost insurmountable challenges caused by the COVID-19 crisis and the effects of climate change; stresses the primary sources of entrenched poverty in the region are: climate change, unsustainable, exploitative and crushing repayment conditions on aid and loans, punishing tariff regimes and the effects of having to compete on the global agricultural goods market against heavily subsidised products from global North countries, the regressive reforms pushed by the World Bank on the agriculture sectors of these countries so they are forced to grow plantation crops for export and import food domestic use food from abroad, the exploitation of natural resources by foreign mining corporations and fossil fuel companies;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Highlights that the European Union still has important economic ties with African states, which according to the African Union must urgently be upgraded from the provision of raw materials at the beginning of value chains to the support of transformation and trade in transformed product, and that China has intensified its economic engagement in Africa;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Highlights that the European Union still has important economic ties with African states, and that China has intensified its economic engagement in
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Is of the view that Chinese presence and investments in Africa have increased considerably and that there is a need to remain vigilant as to the economic, social and environmental impact of the Chinese approach in Africa, in order to preserve the commercial interests of African states and of EU Member States;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on the Commission to implement measures to further develop and modernise the logistics hubs of EU Member States on the Mediterranean, in order to facilitate trade to and from Africa;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Underlines that the role of many African states in the international division of labour
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Underlines that the role of many African states in the international division of labour does not promote
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Underlines th
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Underlines that the role of many African states in the international division of labour does not promote their sustainable development as long as it means that they export raw materials and some unprocessed agricultural commodities, while the EU exports manufactured goods, services and agricultural overcapacities; underlines that the EU must support the diversification of inner-African value chains by means of public investment in improved infrastructures and the development of a sustainable energy- supply; calls on the Commission to facilitate through the channels at its disposal the development of regional value chains as inner-regional trade on the African continent remains marginal and is a prerequisite for sustainable development and long term economic independence;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Underlines that the role of many African states in the international division of labour does not promote their sustainable development; recalls the need to better integrate African economies into global value chains, providing greater emphasis on African added value, e.g. through special and differential treatment; believes that the revised General Scheme of Preferences (GSP), with a reviewed set of binding principles and conventions and an extended monitoring mechanism, would greatly contribute to uphold human, social and environmental rights; stresses that binding due diligence in line with OECD standards is not only a tool to promote decent work, but also increase the general security situation on many Sub Saharan countries;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Underlines that the long standing role of many African states in the international division of labour does not promote their sustainable development, and that the more recent export of waste, much of it hazardous waste, causes additional damage to people and the environment; that SDGs should lie at the heart of the renewed EU-Africa Strategy, including in its trade dimension;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Highlights that, while there are a number of dynamic middle income countries on the African continent, its economic development is still relatively weak in comparison to other parts of the world; stresses that many of its countries will therefore face almost insurmountable challenges caused by the COVID-19 crisis and the effects of climate change; calls on the Commission to plan and enable strong and effective health diplomacy towards African countries in order to facilitate the export of medical devices and personal protective equipment and to support the easy exchange of doctors and health operators among the countries;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Underlines that the role of many African states in the international division of labour does not promote their sustainable development; calls on the Commission to create a strategy aimed at assisting the African nations with value chain development in order for more added value to be generated within the African continent;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Notes that African countries, albeit accounting for more than 50% of the General Scheme of Preferences (GSP) beneficiaries, only represent less than 5% of EU’s GSP imports; invites the Commission to assist beneficiaries’ actors, inter alia on adherence with rules of origin and technical barriers; regrets that the GSP has not so far contributed to the economic diversification of African beneficiary countries; reiterates its call on the Commission to consider expanding the list of products to be covered by the GSP Regulation;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Underlines that European companies have a responsibility for their supply chains; calls on the Commission to create an ambitious proposal on mandatory rules for due diligence for both human and social rights and environmental effects which includes provisions enabling victims in third countries to pursue civil remedies for breaches of these rules;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Calls the Commission to support the democratisation of the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO, and allow global South countries - who are the world’s majority - to have a fair and equal representation in these institutions so they can have a real say in the formulation of policies that affect them;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Stresses that the EU and the African Union share the common interest of a stable and rules-based multilateral trading system that is centered on the World Trade Organization (WTO);
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5.
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Commission to reform its current version of its strategy entitled ‘Towards a comprehensive Strategy with Africa’ with a view to addressing the
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Commission to reform its current version of its strategy entitled ‘Towards a comprehensive Strategy with Africa’ with a view to addressing the needs of the African regions in the wake of this health and economic crisis in particular in the infrastructure sectors such as renewable energy, windmills and solar panels where EU has expertise and better standards than China; points out the role of digitizing food and agriculture to face the current Covid-19 pandemic in the continent and underlines the need to support investments in order to make smallholder crops and livestock more productive, improve nutrition and help empower women farmers;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Highlights that, while there are a number of dynamic middle income countries on the African continent, its economic development is still relatively weak in comparison to other parts of the world; stresses that many of its countries will therefore face almost insurmountable challenges caused by the COVID-19 crisis and the effects of climate change; highlights that due to their economic situation, not all of these countries are able to take lockdown measures similar to those taken in developed countries and therefore the containment of the COVID- 19 virus has been impeded;
Amendment 50 #
5. Calls on the Commission to reform its current version of its strategy entitled ‘Towards a comprehensive Strategy with Africa’ with a view to addressing the needs and economic rights of the African regions in the wake of this health and economic crisis, and to introduce a clear gender perspective to address the differentiated impacts of the crisis and the recovery as well as the different roles and burdens of men and women in this crisis; calls on the Commission to allow at least temporary African countries to levy export taxes on commodities to cushion the impacts of the multiple crises and to prepare the recovery;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Takes the view that the EU should direct its efforts to creating social and economic conditions that enable African citizens to have a decent future on their own continent, without being forced to emigrate; stresses that tackling the root causes of emigration depends closely and directly on the stability and economic development of the African continent;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Commission to support Africa in its ambitions for a continental free trade area by making the necessary adjustments in order to
Amendment 54 #
6.
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Commission to support Africa in its ambitions for a continental free trade area by making the necessary adjustments in order to implement its Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs)
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Commission to support Africa in its ambitions for a continental free trade area by making the necessary adjustments in order to implement its Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) and
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Commission to support Africa in its ambitions for a continental free trade area by making the necessary adjustments
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Commission to support Africa in its ambitions for a continental free trade area by making the necessary adjustments in
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Commission to support Africa in its ambitions for a continental free trade area by making the necessary adjustments in order to implement its Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) and make them fit the project of the Continental Free Trade Area; underlines that as part of the Continental Free Trade Area, European direct investment should support better regional infrastructure development that will help industrial production and increase economic growth in primary, and in turn secondary, industries in Africa;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Highlights that, while there are a number of dynamic middle income countries on the African continent, its economic development is still relatively weak in comparison to other parts of the world; stresses that many of its countries will therefore face almost insurmountable challenges caused by the COVID-19 crisis and the effects of climate change; stresses the need for the EU to support African countries to invest in public services such as public and free health and education systems, and in access to social protection;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Calls on the Commission to stop supporting the Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) project which gives no guarantees against incentives to race to the bottom for third country partners, would accentuate the vast presence of multinational companies in Africa which are maximizing economic relations with western countries even further, to the detriment of intra-regional trade, potentially hampering continental integration by facilitating profits for multinationals already present in most African countries and encouraging them to concentrate their activities in the most competitive, will in the end help create a large African market, but with relatively few African products traded;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Calls for the systematic inclusion of binding and enforceable mechanisms for the implementation of TSD chapters on human rights, labour and environmental standards in all currently negotiated and future EPAs; reiterates the need of an in-depth analysis on the impact of EPAs and trade liberalization agreements in African countries on local economies, on biodiversity loss, deforestation and land grabbing, and the need to review these agreements to be coherent with development policies ad SDGs;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 b (new) 6 b. Recalls that trade liberalization has an impact on deforestation, climate change and biodiversity loss as well as on food production and access to food; believes that the EU-Africa partnership should be based on a commercial policy that favours the defence of forests and biodiversity, the development of local agriculture and local producers and farmers, to promote a full food sovereignty and to reduce the phenomenon of land grabbing and deforestation for agricultural export use;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Underlines that so far, the fragmented implementation of
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Underlines that the
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Underlines that the
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Underlines that the fragmented implementation of EPAs has resulted in a lack of substantial progress in supporting regional integration, capacity-building on border cooperation, and improvements in investment climate
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Underlines that the fragmented implementation of EPAs has resulted in a lack of substantial progress in supporting regional integration, capacity-building on border cooperation, and improvements in investment climates and good governance; believes that the serious concerns raised by EPAs in place or under negotiation need to be overcome (including regional integration concerns, Rules of Origin complications, non tariff barriers, and little in-built protection for infant industries) and addressed in the strategy;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7.
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Underlines that the fragmented implementation of EPAs has resulted in a lack of substantial progress in supporting regional integration, capacity-building on border cooperation, and improvements in investment climates and good governance; calls on the Commission to further assist the African countries in these areas without making this assistance fully conditional on implementation of EPAs;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Highlights that, while there are a number of dynamic middle income
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Underlines that the fragmented implementation of EPAs has resulted in a lack of substantial progress in supporting regional integration, capacity-building on
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Underlines that the fragmented implementation of EPAs has resulted in a lack of substantial progress in supporting regional integration, capacity-building on border cooperation, and improvements in investment climates and good governance; therefore insists to support the integration of African economies on a regional scale in order to make them stronger on the international scale;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Recalls that the criteria of "reciprocity" for trade agreements with the ACP countries led to a reduction or even the abolition of customs duties on their imports, to no longer introducing new export taxes, thereby depriving States of tax revenue and exposing the fragile agricultural and industrial sectors to competition from subsidized European products and therefore aggravating social poverty, the EU development aid policy is therefore repairing the damage that its trade policy has helped to create;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Calls the EU to review export taxes restrictions and WTO + TRIPS+ provisions in the current and future EPAs and FTAs, to allow African and developing countries to better answer to the economic and health crisis and make full use of compulsory licensing, as well as to guarantee full and just access to medical intellectual property through granted emergency exemption from IPR protections on covid-19 medical supplies to support domestic production;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Stresses that new EPAs with African countries should include clauses concerning the real cooperation of African countries in managing and controlling migration flows, in order to prevent economic migrants from constantly coming to Europe;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 b (new) 7 b. Calls the EU to ensure - through debt cancellation and stopping illicit tax flows - that countries have the financial freedom to give subsidies to their farmers in order to allow emerging agricultural businesses to grow strong enough to supply their own people and facilitate stronger inner-African trade in agricultural goods;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Calls for a concrete proposal that establishes common initiatives on a
Amendment 77 #
8. Calls for a concrete proposal that establishes common initiatives on a renewable energy supply on the African continent; and the promotion of innovation geared towards it, including both a concrete plan to publicly finance those initiatives and a plan on how to get into closer cooperation with regard to the future common usage of the resulting renewable energy; reiterates that sustainable development without comprehensive access to energy is not possible and encourages the Commission to come up with an ambitious plan for implementing this sustainable energy partnership;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Calls for a concrete proposal that establishes common initiatives on a renewable energy supply on the African continent, in parallel to the swift phasing out of all investments in fossil fuel related projects, offering technology transfer and patent pooling for free technology; and expects a similar initiative on patent pooling and free licenses for medicines and medical equipment to solve the virulent health crisis;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Calls for a concrete proposal that establishes common initiatives on a renewable energy supply on the African continent reminding the need to ensure easy access to electricity, to focus on resilient infrastructures, clear, sustainable and secure energy access;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Stresses that the EU is Africa’s largest trading partner, the main investor on the African continent and the most important destination market for products manufactured in this part of the world, and it is estimated that by 2050 there will be 2.5 billion people living in Africa;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8.
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Emphasises the need for substantial sustainable investments
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Emphasises the need for substantial sustainable investments that enable leapfrogging in the African states; reminds the role played by a value-adding private sector to stimulate PP investments and economic diversification, recalls the need to help SMEs which are suffering from a lack of public and political support, transparent regulatory framework, lack of level-playing field and rising of unauthorized companies; in this regard, underlines the role of European Business organisations to work closely with their African counterparts through ad-hoc platforms and initiatives to increase trade fair and exhibition systems;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Emphasises the need for substantial sustainable investments that enable
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Emphasises the need for substantial sustainable investments that enable leapfrogging in the African states, while strengthening public health and public education sectors, clean water infrastructure and supply, transport and energy infrastructures and carving them out from any privatization;
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Emphasises the need for substantial sustainable investments
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Emphasises the need for substantial sustainable investments that enable leapfrogging in the African states; calls for an investigation on how leapfrogging can contribute to sustainable development;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 a (new) 9 a. Stresses the vital role of digital transformation and digitalisation for sustainable development and resilience of societies that has been especially visible during the current global situation triggered by the COVID-19 crisis; calls for a continued, strengthened, systematic and mutually beneficial cooperation with the African states on digitalisation, innovative technologies and solutions at all levels of society, including on e- governance, e-commerce, digital skills and cyber security, in line with the Digitalisation for Development (D4D) approach;
Amendment 89 #
9 a. Reiterates its call for an EU legal framework based on corporate mandatory due diligence on human rights violations in supply chains and provide access to justice for victims; believes that such obligations should be cross-sectorial and apply in particular to the financial sector; invites the Commission to continue and reinforce its engagement in the negotiations for the establishment of a UN Binding Treaty on Transnational Corporations and OBE with respect to Human Rights;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Highlights the importance of ecologically and socially sustainable trade relations with the African continent; calls on the Commission to proceed with its legislative proposal on mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence obligations for EU companies;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10. Underlines that empowering civil society, and thereby including a social counterpart
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10. Underlines that empowering civil society
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10.
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10. Underlines that empowering civil
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 a (new) 10 a. Highlights the importance of supporting African countries capacity to increase domestic resource mobilisation, in order to increase investments in universal public basic services; calls the EU to support African countries on combatting illicit financial flows, EU companies and multinationals tax evasion, to ensure taxes are paid where profits and real economic value is created, in order to stop base erosion and profit- shifting;
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 a (new) 10 a. Recalls that the position of women can be strengthened with strong provisions on Gender & Trade in Trade Agreements; calls in this regards on the European Commission to assist the African Union with the implementation of it Strategy for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment and implement measures that contribute to the achievement of gender equality in its trade agreements with the African countries;
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 a (new) 10 a. Recognizes the critical role of women and girls in sustainable growth and development; emphasizes that the empowerment of women and girls must be mainstreamed throughout the implementation of the Africa strategy; underlines that the economic independence of women must be fostered by the promotion of female entrepreneurs;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 a (new) 10 a. Is concerned by the CAP- supported export of European milk powder to West Africa, the tripling of export since the EU lifted the milk quotas in 2015 having disastrous consequences for local herders and farmers who can’t compete; calls on the Commission to work on solutions with African governments and stakeholders;
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 a (new) 10 a. Calls on the Member States and African countries to accelerate the ratification of EPAs and demands that the Commission puts forth an ambitious timetable for the implementation of such agreements;
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Highlights the need to promote, support and encourage female and youth entrepreneurship;
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Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Citation 1 a (new) - having regard to the report of the Task Force Rural Africa of 7 March 2019,
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5 b. Believes that the production, processing and distribution of agricultural food are seen as one of the main sources of job creation for people in rural areas, education and regional economic integration, while young people and women must receive more support as key actors of change;
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5 b. Highlights the risk that some agricultural surplus, such as milk powder, generated during the Covid crises are exported to less developed countries, competing with local productions and creating collateral damages to producers, and therefore asks the European Commission to reflect on a destocking strategy in order to avoid a negative effect on local small farms in poor countries.
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5 b. Underlines that new EU-Africa partnership must recognise the multiple roles and contributions of civil society organisations and therefore the need to involve them at all levels of political and policy dialogue and in the preparation, monitoring and evaluation of implementation plans;
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5 b. Calls on the EU-Africa Partnership to put a strong emphasis on agricultural and rural development in order to promote economic stability and quality of life in rural areas.
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) 5 c. Stresses that women who work in subsistence agriculture face additional hurdles in maintaining food sovereignty due to the strong protection of new plant varieties by the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) in trade agreements;
Amendment 105 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) 5 c. Encourages African and European professional agricultural organisations to cooperate in order to promote their roles in responding to the common challenges of agricultural sustainability and to develop exchanges of practices on the organisation of value chains and production.
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) 5 c. Points out that change in Africa is best achieved when good governance and a transparent distribution of aid is rewarded and abuse punished;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Recalls the importance of food sovereignty, a principle based on the capacity of each country or region to feed its population and to do so to the largest extent possible through its own resources; emphasises that this principle is especially important for the African continent which is still the region in the world most affected by malnutrition and which is expected to see very significant demographic growth in the coming years, notably in the sub-Saharan region;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Supports the development of trade opportunities between the continents, while including protection and safeguards for sensitive agricultural products to enable regions to enhance and extend their production potential; points out that trade agreements have the potential to boost local agriculture, but need to uphold the principle of fair trade avoiding disrupting local agriculture, and at the same time assure the availability of sustainably produced food;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Recalls the new European Consensus on Development, in which the EU and its Member States reaffirm their commitment to Policy Coherence for Development (PCD), which requires consideration of all development cooperation objectives in policy areas that are likely to have an impact on developing countries;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Points out the central importance of the agricultural and food sector in the economy and society of both Africa and the EU, considers that the development of a sustainable agricultural sector and of rural areas is at the cornerstone of job creation potential and sustainable development in Africa and should therefore be at the centre of the EU- Africa cooperation;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Highlights that the African population is expected to rise to 2.5 billion in 2050 and stresses the important role of agriculture and rural development to provide food and generate income; asks the Commission to update the title of the first partnership proposed to duly reflect the importance of access to food;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Calls for the EU-Africa partnership in agriculture to promote the transition to sustainable agricultural and food systems, which focus on the development of short supply chains, local production and distribution, for local consumption;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Calls on the EU to intensify cooperation between the two continents in a sustained manner and to demonstrate the advantages of regional economic cycles and to promote sustainable and climate-friendly investments;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1 b. Emphasises that the EU's intensive export-oriented farming model is, for its part, dependent on the importation of large volumes of protein feed; stresses that our consumption patterns tie down substantial third- country resources; underscores the fact that people in third countries can be adversely affected by European global resource consumption and underlines the responsibility that arises from this;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Citation 2 a (new) - having regard to the decision of the United Nations General Assembly to proclaim the Decade of Family Farming for the period from 2019 to 2028,
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1 b. Requests that the European Commission, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals and commitments made in the Farm to Fork Strategy, will through its external and trade policies actively work together with African partners in the transition to sustainable agri-food systems, which benefit people, nature and economic growth;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1 b. Welcomes the setting up of the African Union-European Union agrifood platform, following the recommendations of the Task Force Rural Africa, linking the African and European agrifood private sectors to boost twinning, the exchange of best practices and sustainable and inclusive investments in African agriculture;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1 b. Stresses that shaping a climate- neutral future is important, while a circular economy with sustainable value chains must be key to a sustainable economic model so that the conditions for mutual trade are put on a fruitful basis;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1 b. Calls for the European Union and its member states to create synergies between the EU-Africa strategy and the Green Deal(in particular the external dimension of the "Farm to fork"strategy), accompanied by concrete actions to guarantee the right to healthy, resilient and sustainable food for all ;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1 c. Calls on the EU to develop a concrete strategic position in order further to promote the sustainable management of natural resources and improve cooperation between the EU and Africa with a view to an efficient and secure raw materials sector and ensuring access to renewable energies and sustainable value chains;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1 c. Welcomes the focus in the strategy on the role of digitalisation in agriculture and the management of natural resources; calls for enhanced opportunities to enable in particular young farmers to tap into the opportunities of digitalisation to use scarce resources in a most efficient way while ensuring increased food production;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1 c. Is deeply concerned about the high dependence of African states on food imports, especially from the European Union, particularly when these imports are made up of subsidized products whose low price represents harmful competition for small-scale agriculture in Africa;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1 c. Highlights the importance and potential of the agricultural and food sector in promoting youth and women employment and in providing them with decent and sustainable jobs opportunities in rural areas;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. Deplores the overproduction of meat and milk in the European Union and its aggressive export model which damages the African market and local producers;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 d (new) 1 c. Believes that the signing of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) opens up new opportunities for regional economic integration and intra- African trade; stresses that this agreement creates a secure environment for investment, increased local value creation and employment;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Citation 2 a (new) - having regard to the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 20301a, _________________ 1aEU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030. Bringing ature back into our lives (COM(2020) 380 final)
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 d (new) 1d. Calls on the EU to develop a geostrategic approach to agriculture in order to support a thoroughly reformed common agricultural policy committed to sustainability keeping the sustainable development of African farming in its quest for self-sufficiency intact;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 e (new) 1e. Supports agro-ecological practices as the foundation for ecological, social and economic sustainability in Africa and in Europe, and the multifunctional solutions offered by this approach already promoted by UNEP and the FAO, to make African agriculture more resilient to climate shocks, better able to protect its soils by combating erosion and desertification, more bio-diverse and thus reduce the risk to producers by making them more self-sufficient and adaptable to climate change; considers that the European Union must significantly develop cooperation with Africa on such agro-ecological practices;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 f (new) 1f. Stresses the importance of the role of seeds as regards sustainable agriculture and food production and the control of living things by farmers; points out that the exchange of seed of local varieties is indeed a way for farmers not to be dependent on the agro-industrial sector, an appropriate means of adopting a food security policy and, finally, of adapting production to pedoclimatic conditions and rapid climate change;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 g (new) 1g. Highlights the potential of agroecological approaches, inter alia permaculture and agro-forestry, conservation and sharing of seeds, organic farming to improve the diversity of the diet of rural communities, moving away from monocultures and promoting food autonomy;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 h (new) 1h. Recalls the resolution (2015/2277 (INI)) adopted on 16 April 2016 by the DEVE Committee of the European Parliament and on 7 June 2016 concerning the NAFSN and contests the support of GMOs by the EU and more generally the G8 in Africa;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 i (new) 1i. Recalls the importance of agroforestry and permaculture approaches in mixed gardens which are excellent for food safety for small farmers and communities; stresses that certain trees are also leguminous plants which capture atmospheric nitrogen, thereby eliminating the need for chemical fertilisers, which destroy soil life and increase farmers’ production costs by adding to the dependency on input products; stresses that the lack of trees in rural environments leads to desertification and extreme soil erosion; stresses that this is partly due to the need of local populations for fire wood and also due to pressure from overgrazing; notes the need for simple, fair, effective and integrated rural development solutions on the ground;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 j (new) 1j. Warns against a neo-colonialist approach and new forms of input dependency (seeds, fertilisers, pesticides), but also with regard to financing and farmers going into debt in the pursuit of digital technologies; stresses that they should not seek to promote or firmly establish existing or new dependencies, but should rather allow farmers and their communities to be autonomous;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Is particularly concerned about the fact that deforestation is gaining pace in Africa and in Europe; is equally alarmed by the role of European policies, in particular the biofuels policy (Directive on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources and indirect land use change (ILUC)), and stresses, in particular, the effects of fuel production on global deforestation and food crops; points out that the destruction of the African rainforests leads to an irreversible loss of biodiversity and of carbon sinks and of the habitat and ways of life of indigenous communities living in the forests; calls on the Commission to submit, without delay, a proposal for a European due diligence framework in order to guarantee sustainable and deforestation- free supply chains for all products placed on the EU market;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Is particularly concerned about the fact that deforestation is gaining pace in Africa; points out that the destruction of the African rainforests leads to an irreversible loss of biodiversity and of carbon sinks; calls on the Commission to submit, without delay, a proposal for a European binding due diligence framework
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Is particularly concerned about the fact that deforestation is gaining pace in Africa; points out that the destruction of the African rainforests leads to an
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Deplores the fact that the Commission continues to promote free trade without weighing the social, environmental and economic impact in the agrifood sector and heedful of the ultimate aim of establishing a comprehensive free-trade area between the two continents; points out that free-
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Is particularly concerned about the fact that deforestation is gaining pace in Africa, underlines that during COVID-19 crisis, in March 2020 Congo basin was the 2nd highest deforested region in the world, with higher than double the deforested area in comparison to previous years1a; points out that the destruction of the African rainforests leads to an irreversible loss of biodiversity and of carbon sinks; calls on the Commission to submit, without delay, a proposal for a European due diligence framework in order to guarantee sustainable and deforestation- free supply chains for all products placed on the EU market; _________________ 1aas reported by WWF, available here: https://www.wwf.de/fileadmin/fm- wwf/Publikationen-PDF/WWF-Analyse- Waldverlust-in-Zeiten-der-Corona- Pandemie.pdf
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Is particularly concerned about the fact that deforestation is gaining pace in Africa; points out that the destruction of the African rainforests leads to an irreversible loss of biodiversity and of carbon sinks; calls on the Commission to submit, without delay, a proposal for a European due diligence framework in order to guarantee sustainable and deforestation- free supply chains for all products placed on the EU market; urges the EU to work together with governments and global actors, through partnership agreements to foster a consistent approach at the global level;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Is particularly concerned about the fact that deforestation is gaining pace in Africa to a greater extent than in any other continent; points out that the destruction of the African rainforests leads to an irreversible loss of biodiversity and of carbon sinks; calls on the Commission to submit, without delay, a proposal for a European due diligence framework in order to guarantee sustainable and deforestation- free supply chains for all products placed on the EU market
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 – point 1 (new) (1) In addition to preventing deforestation, there is a common interest to promote reforestation, afforestation and sustainable forest management and the whole wood-based value chain for economic growth, job creation and increased food security; as forest also contribute significantly to reaching climate targets and protecting biodiversity noting that joint efforts by the EU and Africa should support the development of climate-resilient agriculture and forestry, sustainable rural development and safe food systems, which are crucial for the eradication of poverty, hunger and malnutrition;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Stresses that the European Union should ensure that the same high safety and sustainability standards in food production, both for the product and the production method, should apply, particularly in the light of the higher ambition of the Farm to Fork Strategy and Biodiversity Strategy for 2030;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Highlights the positive contribution of expertise of the European agricultural sector and stresses the need to prioritise partnerships in research and innovation in agriculture, including through Horizon Europe, in order to avoid to avoid food losses before and post harvest and increase farm outputs;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Calls on the EU to invest more in programmes for a more climate-resilient, more sustainable and more extensive agriculture, sustainable diversification, agroecology and agroforestry, with the aim of stopping the expansion of land use at the expense of forests;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Calls on the Commission to develop joint action plans to protect and improve the management of forests, waters and marine ecosystems under the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Underlines that the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers in intensive agriculture in Africa causes a deterioration in the health of workers who have very little access to health care, in addition to environmental damages;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Deplores that fact that land- grabbing is rife in Africa; points out that land-grabbing is a brutal practice that undermines food sovereignty and endangers rural African communities; calls on the Commission to establish an observatory for deforestation, fires and land-grabbing using satellites (remote detection) and an early warning system with the support of the local populations, while respecting policy coherence for development, in particular by using the provisions of the regulation on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy (CAP);
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Deplores that fact that land- grabbing is rife in Africa; points out that
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Deplores that fact that land- grabbing is rife in Africa; points out that land-grabbing is a brutal practice that undermines food sovereignty and endangers rural African communities; stresses the importance of launching an inclusive process with the aim of establishing a mechanism guaranteeing the effective participation of civil society organizations in the development, implementation and monitoring of policies and actions related to land- grabbing;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Deplores that fact that land- grabbing is rife in Africa; points out that land-grabbing is a brutal practice that undermines food sovereignty and endangers rural African communities; calls for restrictions on trade where it is revealed to be a result of land-grabbing;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Deplores that fact that land- grabbing is rife in Africa; points out that land-grabbing is a brutal practice that undermines food sovereignty and endangers rural African communities; asks the EU to encourage African leadership to consolidate land rights and adopt principles towards improved land governance;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Deplores th
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Deplores that fact that land- grabbing is rife in Africa; points out that land-grabbing is a brutal practice that undermines
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Deplores that fact that land- grabbing is rife in Africa; points out that land-grabbing is a brutal practice that undermines food s
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. Notes that, for example, grazing rights and community pastures are traditional land use rights based on common law and not on securitised property rights; emphasises, however, the essential importance of protecting these common rights for the rural population;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Deplores the fact that the Commission continues to promote free trade with the ultimate aim of establishing a comprehensive free-trade area between the two continents; points out that free- trade agreements disrupt local agriculture, are damaging to small producers and exacerbate the African continent’s dependency on food imports and completely distort the terms of trade given the huge differences in productivity between the rich countries of the EU and Africa;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. Calls for the VGGT guidelines to be observed in all projects that promote the protection of land rights and also ensure that projects should as a matter of principle not endanger the land rights of small farmers;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. Welcomes the NaturAfrica initiative which aims to protect wild flora and fauna, while at the same time providing local people with opportunities in the ‘green’ sectors.
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. whereas, with population growth and increased food production, rural areas will continue to offer firm economic prospects for young people in the future;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3 b. Notes with concern that the exploitation of raw materials in Africa further exacerbates existing conflicts or creates new ones and, in addition to the original land grabbing, leads to twofold exploitation and oppression of the local population;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 c (new) 3 b. Calls on the EU and its Member States to actively support and actively help and support partner countries, in line with the voluntary guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests and international human rights standards, to apply the principle of free, prior and informed consent to the acquisition of land on a large scale; further calls on the EU to support partner countries in improving their property laws by recognising the universal right of women to be fully entitled land owners;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Urges Member States and the EU to increase considerably the amount of public development aid allocated to African countries; calls in particular for an increase in public development aid for agroecological agriculture, food security, biodiversity and climate change adaptation policies; is gravely concerned by the impact of the climate crisis, which is amplifying the threats that already exist to food security, and in particular droughts in sub-Saharan Africa, requiring support for farmers in Africa in order to assist them in their necessary adaptation to the climate crisis ;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Urges Member States and the EU to increase considerably the amount of public
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Urges Member States and the EU to increase considerably the amount of public development aid allocated to African countries; calls in particular for an increase in public development aid for biodiversity and climate change adaptation policies; stresses the importance of the agricultural production, processing and distribution sectors, which are Africa's principal economic and social mainstays and also help to limit migratory trends;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Urges Member States and the EU to increase considerably the amount of public development aid allocated to
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Urges Member States and the EU to increase considerably the amount of public development aid allocated to African countries; calls in particular for an increase in public development aid for biodiversity and climate change adaptation policies and for agricultural ecology to be recognised as the basis for sustainable agricultural and food systems;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Urges Member States and the EU to increase considerably the
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls for increased cooperation between Africa and Europe in terms of rural development practices, in particular the exchange of appropriate, low-cost and efficient techniques and approaches, including marketing and processing of food, alternatives to pesticides, agroforestry and cooperation models and other solutions that benefit small farmers, groups of small-scale farmers and communities, without creating dependency on inputs or debts and increasing resilience and self-reliance;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Stresses the significant share of Africa’s work force that rely on agricultural food production, processing and distribution for their livelihoods, income and direct employment; underlines that it concerns in most cases smallholdings and family farms, notes the importance of promoting and enhancing measures and tools to support increasing the quality and diversification of products, modernisation of agricultural practices and measures to strengthen the resilience of farmers, particularly young farmers;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Highlights the existence of conservancy schemes which engage with farmers leasing their land for wildlife protection purposes, provide local jobs and improve coexistence with wild species; recalls the EU plan1a to launch the NaturAfrica initiative to protect wildlife and key ecosystems while offering opportunities in green sectors for local populations; _________________ 1aEU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030. Bringing ature back into our lives (COM(2020) 380 final)
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4 b. Stresses the essential contributions of young girls and women to agricultural and rural economies across the African continent;however regrets that many women do not have the same rights as men, have more limited access to land and face many constraints that reduce their agricultural productivity; considers it therefore of crucial importance to support and enhance the empowerment of young girls and women in Africa;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Stresses that the EU needs to bring its policies, notably the CAP and trade policy, into line with its development policy;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Africa-EU Partnership to focus its efforts in the area of agriculture on safeguarding African countries’ right to food security and on promoting small-scale agro-ecological farming with the emphasis on healthy food production and farmer well-being
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Africa-EU Partnership to focus its efforts in the area of agriculture on safeguarding African countries’ right to food security and on promoting small-scale agro-ecological farming with the emphasis on healthy food production and farmer well-being; Stresses that tropical crops like palm oil, cocoa or coffee, originating in Africa, have been traditionally present in diverse agroforestry systems, deplores monocropping models transforming the traditional form of farming into monocropping which depletes soils, biodiversity, uses more land and worsens the nutrition provision in local communities.
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Africa-EU Partnership to focus its efforts in the area of agriculture on safeguarding African countries’ right to food security and on promoting small-scale agro-ecological farming which guarantees food and nutritional security for all and better resilience to crises, particularly the climate crisis, with the emphasis on healthy food production and farmer well- being
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Africa-EU Partnership to focus its efforts in the area of agriculture on safeguarding African countries’ right to food s
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Africa-EU Partnership to focus its efforts in the area of agriculture on safeguarding African countries’ right to food security and on promoting small-scale agro-ecological farming with the emphasis on healthy food production and farmer well-being; demands that the EU's cooperation agreements shift the focus back to supporting sustainable development of agriculture and to making third-country farmers self-sufficient.
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Africa-EU Partnership to focus its efforts in the area of agriculture on safeguarding African countries’ right to food security in order to allow their populations to live there with dignity and on promoting small-scale agro-ecological farming with the emphasis on healthy food production and farmer well-being.
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Africa-EU Partnership to focus its efforts in the area of agriculture on safeguarding African countries’ right to food security and nutrition and on promoting small-scale agro-ecological
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Africa-EU Partnership to focus its efforts in the area of agriculture on safeguarding African countries’ right to food security and on promoting small-scale agro-ecological and family farming with the emphasis on healthy, safe and an increased food production and farmer well-being.
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5.
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Africa-EU Partnership to focus its efforts in the area of agriculture on safeguarding African countries’ right to food security and on promoting s
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Africa-EU Partnership to focus its efforts in the area of agriculture on safeguarding African countries’ right to food
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 – point 1 (new) (1) Remind that joint EU-Africa Task force rural Africa (TFRA) prepared on 2018 a list of measures to increase Africa's own food production and the list is still a relevant basic for the Africa-EU Partnership
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Calls on Member states, in the context of partnerships with the private sector, to target the local private sector as a priority, micro-, small and medium-sized businesses type, and among these social and cooperative enterprises, which contribute to sustainable development. These partnerships with private actors must be subject to precise selection criteria, public monitoring , evaluation processes and independent complaint mechanisms. Support for the private sector must be conditioned on respect for human rights and the recognition of the right to food. Tied aid promoting access to this funding by European companies must be excluded;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Points out that achieving sustainable development goals, in particular food security and zero hunger, will be a common priority; emphasises that the creation of safe and sustainable agricultural and food systems should be promoted through environmentally friendly farming practices, local production, intact rural areas, the protection of biodiversity and natural resources as well as the introduction of sanitary and phytosanitary standards;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Denounces the double standard applied by the EU regarding pesticides by allowing the export of hazardous substances banned in the EU to African countries and other third countries and asks for the modification of the current EU rules in order eliminate such a legal incoherence, based on the Rotterdam Convention, adopted 22 years ago, since it is not in line with the spirit of the Green Deal.
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Highlights the important role that farmers’ organisations and cooperatives in Africa may have in improving the bargaining power of farmers and their revenue, facilitating access to equipment and services and reducing risks associated to marketing of products; considers that the exchange of experiences among Africa and European organisations would present mutual benefits.
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Calls on the Commission to carry out a comprehensive ex-ante and ex-post impact assessment of the external effects of the CAP and European trade policy using SDG indicators; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that European agricultural exports do not further increase migration pressure;
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the Africa-EU Partnership is mutually beneficial to both continents in terms of market opportunities, knowledge exchange, fair value chains and access to and support for climate mitigation and adaptation tools and measures;
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. whereas agriculture is still the most important economic activity for young people in Africa and must be safeguarded in future by guaranteeing the right of ownership and self- determination;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5 b. Recalls that almost half1a of agricultural work in Africa is done by women, while women farmers are mostly small or subsistence farmers who do not have the necessary access to information, credit, land or networks to be able to compete successfully in a global market ; for this reason, calls for a development- oriented and gender-conscious trade policy that guarantees negotiations based on equal rights between the trading partners; emphasises that EU agricultural imports undercut traditional smallholder farms, thereby threatening the livelihood of women in particular; _________________ 1a http://www.fao.org/gender/resources/info graphics/the-female-face-of-farming/en/
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5 b. Supports the proposal of the Task Force Rural Africa for the establishment of an Europe-Africa Twinning programme, extended to linking agricultural bodies of EU Member States and partner countries in Africa, such as farmer’ organisations and cooperatives, rural women’s and youth organisations among others, aiming at sharing good practices and foster relationships between strongly engaged and similar partners.
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