DEVE opinion
Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2022
(2021/0227(BUD))
Rapporteur: Charles Goerens
amendments tabled to the draft opinion can be found here
COMPROMISE AMENDMENTS
COMP 1
Paragraph 1
AM 2 (ECR), AM 3 (Greens)
Draws attention to the fact that the
combined consequences of a health pandemic
and a global
recession will seriously undermine the capacity of developing countries
, notably the Least
developed countries (LDCs) to achieve the SDGs (AM 3), with already poor and vulnerable
people taking the hardest hits;
stresses the need to support developing countries in accessing
COVID-19 vaccines; believes that the current crisis is exacerbating inequalities worldwide
and that, without access to vaccines, the gulf will widen even further (AM2);
COMP 2
Paragraph 2
AM7 (Greens) + part AM 8 (Oetjen) + AM 9 (ECR)
Stresses that development assistance together with substantial debt relief
measures involving
all private and public creditors (AM7) and further development of international cooperation
on taxation matters and against illicit financial flows originating from cross-border
operations by multinational enterprises, tax evasion and tax fraud (Greens)
are badly
needed
in order to improve the tax bases of developing countries (AM7), shore up their
public finances
and avert damaging austerity measures;
reiterates that spending on COVID
vaccination
must not crowd out (AM8) other crucial expenditure; calls on the European
Commission to define a comprehensive European debt relief strategy towards developing
countries;
calls for support to the creation of a multilateral debt workout mechanism, under
UN auspices and steps towards agreement on binding rules on responsible sovereign
lending and borrowing in order to support improved debt crisis prevention (AM7)
; stresses,
however, that alongside debt relief, support is needed so that systemic reforms can also be
implemented at the level of developing countries (AM9);
COMP 3
Paragraph 3
AM 16 (Greens) and 32 (rapporteur)
Points out the urgency of scaling up funds for health care, food security and nutrition,
education,
access to basic water and sanitation services (AM 16)
, social protection and gender
equality and to reinforce the People
and Planet - Global Challenges
lines; stresses that human
development should be prioritised in geographical lines;
draws attention to the calamitous
consequences of the global failure to take adequate action against the climate crisis (AM 32)
and biodiversity loss (AM 16) and the need to reinforce the Planet - Global Challenges line
(AM32)
;
COMP 4
Paragraph 4
AM 21 (Greens) + AM 22 (EPP)
Calls on the Commission to ensure that it will be able to convincingly demonstrate adherence
to the NDICI
- Global Europe regulation’s provisions
and reach the committed targets
(AM21) on expenditure for social inclusion and human development,
education (AM 22)
gender, climate, biodiversity and migration objectives
and full respect of the requirement that
93% of the NDICI expenditure shall qualify as official development assistance; insists on the
need to increase ODA, in particular to least developed countries, so as to contribute to
fulfilment of the EU’s and its Member States’ collective pledges;
COMP 5
Paragraph 5
AM 27 (EPP) and 28 (Greens)
Considers that social protection systems
accessible to all and universal health coverage should
be promoted by a Pan-Africa Programme, which should have its own budget line; welcomes
the funds for continued building of OACP capacity
in the framework of the EU-ACP Joint
Parliamentary Assembly (AM 28)
as well as the continued support for capacity building of
the African Union and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AM27)
;
COMP 6 to create new Paragraph 6
AM 35 (Rapporteur) + AM 36 (Greens)
Expresses deep concern about the ongoing situation in Afghanistan; calls on the
Commission to prepare humanitarian assistance (AM35)
and according to the assessed
possibilities in line with the principle of sound financial management (Greens)
increase the
humanitarian aid budget for Afghanistan and neighbouring countries (AM36)
to address
critical food insecurity, support for refugees in neighbouring countries (AM35)
as well as
Internally Displaced People (AM 36)
, support for women, girls and children and human
rights defenders in cooperation with the UN agencies (UNHCR, UNICEF), other
international organizations and international NGOs; calls for preparation of the new
financial programming and strategy to preserve hard-won development gains and continue
to support people of Afghanistan and the neighbouring countries without using the Taliban
government as an intermediary (AM 35)
and under the condition that security guarantees
for development aid workers need to be obtained (EPP);
