Bastiaan BELDER

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Constituencies

Netherlands Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij 2009/07/14 - 9999/12/31
Netherlands ChristenUnie - Staatkundig Gereformeerde Parti 2009/07/14 - 9999/12/31

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Groups

EFD Chair of the Bureau Europe of freedom and democracy Group 2011/05/23 - 9999/12/31

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EP staff

Member of Conference of Delegation Chairs 2009/09/17 - 9999/12/31

Committees

Role	Committee	Start	End
Member of	Committee on Foreign Affairs	2012/01/19	9999/12/31
Substitute of	Subcommittee on Human Rights	2012/01/19	9999/12/31
Substitute of	Committee on Budgets	2012/01/19	9999/12/31
Substitute of	Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs	2013/01/15	9999/12/31

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Role	Committee	Start	End
Member of	Committee on Foreign Affairs	2009/07/16	2012/01/18
Member of	Subcommittee on Human Rights	2011/12/14	2012/01/18
Substitute of	Committee on Budgets	2009/07/16	2012/01/18
Substitute of	Committee on International Trade	2009/07/16	2011/06/16
Substitute of	Subcommittee on Human Rights	2009/07/16	2010/01/17
Member of	Committee on Foreign Affairs	2007/01/31	2009/07/13
Member of	Committee on Constitutional Affairs	2007/01/31	2009/07/13
Substitute of	Committee on Regional Development	2007/01/31	2009/07/13
Substitute of	Committee on International Trade	2007/01/31	2009/07/13
Member of	Committee on Foreign Affairs	2007/01/15	2007/01/30
Substitute of	Committee on International Trade	2007/01/15	2007/01/30
Substitute of	Committee on Constitutional Affairs	2007/01/15	2007/01/30
Substitute of	Committee on Regional Development	2007/01/15	2007/01/30
Member of	Committee on Foreign Affairs	2004/07/21	2007/01/14
Substitute of	Committee on International Trade	2004/07/21	2007/01/14
Substitute of	Committee on Regional Development	2004/09/15	2007/01/14
Substitute of	Committee on Constitutional Affairs	2004/09/15	2007/01/14
Substitute of	Subcommittee on Security and Defence	2004/07/21	2004/09/14
Member of	Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy	2002/01/17	2004/07/19
Substitute of	Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy	2002/01/17	2004/07/19
Substitute of	Committee on Constitutional Affairs	2002/09/25	2004/07/19
Member of	Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy	1999/07/21	2002/01/14
Substitute of	Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy	1999/07/21	2002/01/14
Member of	Temporary committee on the Echelon interception system	2000/07/06	2001/09/05
Member of	Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy	1999/07/21	2002/01/14
Substitute of	Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy	1999/07/21	2002/01/14
Member of	Temporary committee on the Echelon interception system	2000/07/06	2001/09/05
Member of	Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy	2002/01/17	2004/07/19
Substitute of	Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy	2002/01/17	2004/07/19
Substitute of	Committee on Constitutional Affairs	2002/09/25	2004/07/19
Member of	Committee on Foreign Affairs	2004/07/21	2007/01/14
Substitute of	Subcommittee on Security and Defence	2004/07/21	2004/09/14
Substitute of	Committee on International Trade	2004/07/21	2007/01/14
Substitute of	Committee on Constitutional Affairs	2004/09/15	2007/01/14
Substitute of	Committee on Regional Development	2004/09/15	2007/01/14
Member of	Committee on Foreign Affairs	2007/01/15	2007/01/30
Substitute of	Committee on International Trade	2007/01/15	2007/01/30
Substitute of	Committee on Constitutional Affairs	2007/01/15	2007/01/30
Substitute of	Committee on Regional Development	2007/01/15	2007/01/30
Member of	Committee on Foreign Affairs	2007/01/31	2009/07/13
Member of	Committee on Constitutional Affairs	2007/01/31	2009/07/13
Substitute of	Committee on International Trade	2007/01/31	2009/07/13
Substitute of	Committee on Regional Development	2007/01/31	2009/07/13

Delegations

Role	Delegation	Start	End
Chair of	Delegation for relations with Israel	2009/09/17	9999/12/31
Member of	Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean	2009/09/16	9999/12/31
Member of	Delegation for relations with Japan	2013/01/16	9999/12/31
Substitute of	Delegation for relations with the United States	2009/09/16	9999/12/31

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Role	Delegation	Start	End
Member of	Delegation for relations with Iran	2009/09/16	2012/02/14
Member of	Delegation for relations with Israel	2009/09/16	2009/09/16
Vice-Chair of	Delegation for relations with Israel	2007/03/14	2009/07/13
Member of	Delegation for relations with India	2007/03/15	2009/07/13
Substitute of	Delegation for relations with the United States	2007/03/14	2009/07/13
Substitute of	Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee	2007/03/15	2009/07/13
Vice-Chair of	Delegation for relations with Israel	2004/09/20	2007/03/13
Substitute of	Delegation for relations with the United States	2004/09/23	2007/03/13
Member of	Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee	2004/09/15	2006/12/31
Member of	Delegation for relations with Israel	2004/09/15	2004/09/19
Vice-Chair of	Delegation for relations with the United States	2002/02/07	2004/07/19
Member of	Delegation for relations with the Member States of ASEAN, south-east Asia and the Republic of Korea	2002/02/07	2004/07/19
Substitute of	Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee	2002/02/07	2004/07/19
Vice-Chair of	Delegation for relations with the United States	1999/07/22	2002/01/14
Member of	Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU)	2000/10/05	2002/01/14
Vice-Chair of	Delegation for relations with the United States	1999/07/22	2002/01/14
Member of	Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU)	2000/10/05	2002/01/14
Vice-Chair of	Delegation for relations with the United States	2002/02/07	2004/07/19
Member of	Delegation for relations with the Member States of ASEAN, south-east Asia and the Republic of Korea	2002/02/07	2004/07/19
Substitute of	Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee	2002/02/07	2004/07/19
Member of	Delegation for relations with Israel	2004/09/15	2004/09/19
Member of	Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee	2004/09/15	2006/12/31
Vice-Chair of	Delegation for relations with Israel	2004/09/20	2007/03/13
Substitute of	Delegation for relations with the United States	2004/09/23	2007/03/13
Vice-Chair of	Delegation for relations with Israel	2007/03/14	2009/07/13
Substitute of	Delegation for relations with the United States	2007/03/14	2009/07/13
Member of	Delegation for relations with India	2007/03/15	2009/07/13
Substitute of	Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee	2007/03/15	2009/07/13

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Rapporteur

Responsible	2012/2137(INI)	EU-China relations
Responsible	2010/2050(INI)	EU's approach towards Iran
Shadow	2010/0102(NLE)	EC/Moldova Partnership and Cooperation Agreement: framework agreement on the general principles for the participation of Moldova in Union programmes. Protocol
Opinion	2008/2200(INI)	Consolidating stability and prosperity in the Western Balkans
Opinion	2008/2153(INI)	Common Agricultural Policy and global food security
Responsible	2008/2149(INI)	Trade and economic relations with Western Balkans
Opinion	2007/2255(INI)	Chinese policy and its effects on Africa
Responsible	2005/2161(INI)	European Union and China relations
Opinion	2005/2015(INI)	Prospects for trade relations between the European Union and China
Responsible	2003/2230(INI)	Relations between European Union and Russia
Responsible	2003/0190(CNS)	Serbia and Montenegro: further macro-financial assistance (amend. Decision 2002/882/EC)
Responsible	2002/2265(INI)	Implementing the macrofinancial assistance to the third countries
Responsible	2002/2032(COS)	Information society, eEurope 2002: accessibility of public web sites especially for disabled people
Responsible	1999/2099(COS)	Action to combat racism, xenophobia, antisemitism in the countries applicant for membership
Opinion	1996/0053(NLE)	EC/Belarus agreement: interim trade agreement

Born

1946/10/25 Ridderkerk

Higher degree in literature (Utrecht).
Secondary school teacher (Rotterdam, 1969-1984). Foreign editor/commentator Reformatorisch Dagblad (Apeldoorn, 1984-1999).
Member of the European Parliament (since 1999). First Chairman of the Delegation for relations with the United States (1999-2004).

Amendments

Amendments	Dossier
21	2010/2050(INI) EU's approach towards Iran 2010/11/24 AFET 21 amendments... Amendment 30 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas while all previous Iranian presidents have become relatively more pragmatic during their time in office, Ahmadinejad is the first president to have become more extreme – particularly on issues relating to the United States and Israel, Amendment 36 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas since president Ahmadinejad’s election in 2005, the IRGC has used funds accumulated since the 1980s to purchase state enterprises and businesses privatised through the Tehran Stock Exchange, Amendment 38 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) Da. whereas Iran ranks amongst the most "wired" nations in the Middle East, making it the third largest blogosphere in the world after the United States and China; whereas it is not by accident that telecommunications and the Internet have been routinely disrupted since the June 2009 elections, Amendment 41 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Recital D b (new) Db. whereas numerous Iranians have been executed for political reasons, countless remain in prison, and hundreds have been forced to flee the country in fear of their lives and/or indefinite detention, interrogation and torture, Amendment 42 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Recital D c (new) Dc. whereas human rights bodies inside Iran (e.g. the Islamic Human Rights Commission and the Article 90 Commission) are allied to the Government and remain largely insignificant, Amendment 43 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Recital D d (new) Dd. whereas Iran’s nuclear programme has a history of concealment, which over time has eroded the credibility of Iran’s claims that the programme is only for peaceful purposes, Amendment 91 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Notes that the reformist movement covers a spectrum of intellectual trends and political agendas ranging from a wish to gradually modernize Iran’s governmental institutions to the aim of thoroughly overhauling the regime; Amendment 94 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Strongly rejects the regime’s condemnation of protesters and opposition following the 2009 elections as “enemies of Allah” (“muharib”), who, in accordance with Islam, should receive the severest of punishments; concludes that while during the Shah’s reign criticism of the regime was considered a crime, under the current regime it is tantamount to a sin against Islam; Amendment 102 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Is gravely concerned about the major role played by the Student Basij Organization (SBO) in Iranian society in controlling and suppressing student dissent, under central IRGC control, whereas Iran’s student movement has been one of the most prominent actors in the struggle for democracy, freedom and justice; Amendment 114 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Takes note of the Iranian authorities’ claim to be against racial discrimination, but stresses that Iran’s ethnic minorities lament the economic underdevelopment of the provinces where they are in a majority; condemns the numerous terrorist attacks by Jundollah in Sistan and Baluchistan since its establishment in 2003; at the same time, asks for concrete proofs of the official Iranian claim that Jundollah is supported by the American and British intelligence services; Amendment 119 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Suggests that streets or districts where Iranian embassies are located in EU Member States be renamed after prominent Iranian dissidents or victims of the suffering the present Iranian Government visits upon its own citizens; Amendment 143 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Deplores the fact that Iranian husbands can claim that their adulterous relationships are in fact lawful temporary marriages, whereas married women accused of adultery have access to no such reprieve; deplores also that article 105 of the Penal Code of the Islamic Republic enables a judge to sentence an adulterer to stoning based only on his “knowledge”; deplores, too, the fact that Iran tries to limit international knowledge of its brutality by not announcing stoning verdicts publicly; Amendment 146 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 b (new) 7b. Demands that EU Member States strictly apply EU Council Regulation 1236/2005 to Iran by drafting reports verifying Tehran’s use of legitimate equipment for illegitimate purposes (e.g. capital punishment, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment) and places an embargo on exports in particular cases; Amendment 148 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 c (new) 7c. Is very concerned by the fact that the arbitrary administration of justice in Iran results in a strong self-censorship in the media; Amendment 164 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Stresses that Iran comes second on the World Watch List of Religious Persecution for 2010; condemns the waves of arrests of Christians in 2009, when at least 85 Christians were arrested; condemns the systematic persecution of the Baha'’i community; condemns the ongoing religious discrimination of the Sunni- Muslim minority; calls for strong advocacy of religious freedom in Iran from the Council and Commission; Amendment 238 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18a. Calls on the European Council to expand the existing list of proscribed Iranian entities to take into account the vast procurement network that Iran has in EU jurisdictions and in countries benefiting from the ENP, which seeks to more easily procure proscribed technology and evade the sanctions’ regime; Amendment 241 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 b (new) 18b. Calls on the European Council to expand the list of Iranian individuals with links to Iran’s nuclear and ballistic programmes and their attendant procurement networks; calls on the relevant authorities to move quickly to freeze their assets and prevent them from entering EU territory and using EU jurisdictions to conduct any activity related to these programmes; Amendment 262 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21a. Is alarmed by the steadily increasing role of the IRGC in Central Asia; fully understands and shares the concerns of countries such as Uzbekistan and Tajikistan about possible IRGC programmes aimed at destabilising their governments; calls on the Council and the Commission to properly defend European interests in this region through cooperation on economic and energy- related issues; Amendment 263 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 b (new) 21b. Considers that the activities of the Imam Khomeini Relief Center in Afghanistan are aimed at disseminating the political and ideological agenda of Iran in the country; Amendment 264 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 c (new) 21c. Is particularly concerned about the anti-western propaganda of the Imam Khomeini Relief Center in Afghanistan and the ambiguous attitude of the Iranian authorities in both supporting the Afghan Government and arming the Taliban; calls on Iran to recognise the major role it could play in Afghanistan and the wider region by replacing its anti-western policies with a solid and responsible policy towards the outside world; Amendment 265 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 d (new) 21d. Is very concerned about the considerable influence of Iran on the fragile situation in its near neighbour country Iraq, which is further destabilising the region at large; urges, therefore, the European Council and the Commission to counterbalance this dangerous situation by contributing to the political and socio-economic development of Iraq; source: PE-448.941
6	2010/2142(DEC) 2009 discharge: EU general budget, Section III, Commission 2011/10/03 CONT 6 amendments... Amendment 73 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Recalls its repeated invitations to the Commission to present a proposal for the introduction of mandatory national management declarations (NMDs) issued and signed at ministerial level and duly audited by an independent auditor ~~so as far~~, as such declarations are a necessary and indispensable first step to improve the efficiency of national systems and to enhance national accountability for the use of Union money; notes that the discharge is linked to the possible undertaking by the Commission to submit an action plan to the appropriate Parliament committee in which the Commission assumes obligations and sets a deadline for the introduction of mandatory national management declarations which will be a precondition for receiving Union funds; Amendment 256 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 113 – point a – subpoint a.iii a.iii) the establishment of a roadmap ~~indicating the date at which~~which should ensure that the Member States ~~shall~~ have completed the main steps in the process of introducing NMDs~~, the date at which~~ within two years, and that complete, reliable and useful NMDs will be a condition for receiving Union funds, as well as setting the date for introducing in the Financial Regulation mandatory NMDs ; Amendment 260 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 113 – point b – introductory part b) the completion of the Commission's governance structure by ~~ideally~~ adding the signature of the responsible Commissioner to the Director-General's Annual Activity Report and ~~ideally~~ having the Synthesis Report - which also shall include a "scoreboard" on the quality of controls per Member State and policy area - signed by the President of the European Commission Amendment 265 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 113 – point b – subpoint b.ii b.ii) both the Director-General's Annual Activity Report as well as the College of Commissioners' Synthesis Report are important elements to allow the Commission to give account to the discharge authority; to bridge the gap between the Director-General's individual assurance declarations and the College's institutional assurance declaration, the Director-General's Annual Activity Report should ~~ideally~~ be co-signed by the competent Commissioner, and the Synthesis Report, which is adopted by the College of Commissioners, should ~~ideally~~ be signed by the President of the Commission or the Commissioner with responsibility for budgetary control matters, only in this way would Parliament get an overall 'institutional' assurance statement to accompany the 'departmental' assurance statements which are what Parliament receives under the current accountability structure; Amendment 279 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 119 – indent 3 – the establishment of a roadmap ~~indicating the date at which~~which should ensure that the Member States ~~shall~~ have completed the main steps in the process of introducing NMDs~~, the date at which~~ within two years, and that complete, reliable and useful NMDs will be a condition for receiving Union funds, as well as setting the date for introducing in the Financial Regulation ~~for introducing~~ mandatory NMDs; Amendment 284 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 120 120. Stresses that both the Director's- General Annual Activity Report as well as the College of Commissioners' Synthesis Report are important elements to allow the Commission to give account to the discharge authority; to bridge the gap between the Director-General's individual assurance declarations and the College's institutional assurance declaration, the Director-General's Annual Activity Report should ~~ideally~~ be co-signed by the competent Commissioner, and the Synthesis Report, which is adopted by the College of Commissioners, should ~~ideally~~ be signed by the President of the Commission or the Commissioner with responsibility for budgetary control matters, only in this way would Parliament get an overall 'institutional' assurance statement to accompany the 'departmental' assurance statements which are what Parliament receives under the current accountability structure; source: PE-460.797
10	2010/2211(INI) Investing in the future: a new Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for a competitive, sustainable and inclusive Europe 2011/04/13 SURE 2 amendments... Amendment 253 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 a (new) 25a. Calls on the Commission to submit with each European proposal an Impact Assessment indicating what added value a proposal has in comparison with the existing (current) situation and in comparison with other instruments; Amendment 258 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Stresses that the improvement of the financial management in the Union must be supported by a close monitoring of progress in the Commission and in the Member States; insists that Member States should assume responsibility in the management of EU funds by complying within two years with the European Parliament’s call for national management declarations from all Member States; source: PE-462.729 2011/04/27 SURE 4 amendments... Amendment 1021 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 112 112. Is of the firm opinion that freezing the EU budget, as demanded by some Member States, should not be considered a viable option as it would be detrimental for the achievement of the Union's agreed objectives and could lead to less efficient individual Member States' spending;deleted Amendment 1043 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 115 115. Recalls that according to the Treaty of Lisbon ‘without prejudice to other revenue, the budget shall be financed wholly from own resources’; stresses that the way the system of own resources has evolved, gradually replacing genuine own resources by national contributions, places disproportionate emphasis on net- balances between Member States thus diluting the European common interest; emphasises the need for a reform of revenue in order to gradually re-align it with the spirit of the Treaty;deleted Amendment 1050 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 116 116. Considers that the main aim of the reform is to achieve a fairer, more transparent and simpler system; stresses that phasing out of the existing exceptions and correction mechanisms and introducing one or several genuine own resources for the Union are indispensible steps towards this end; believes that the long-term aim should be for the Union to collect directly its own resources thereby achieving a more autonomous and transparent financing system;deleted Amendment 1089 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 121 121. Urges, consequently, the Council and the Commission to comply with the Treaty and to make every effort necessary to swiftly reach an agreement with the Parliament on a practical working method for the MFF negotiating process; reiterates the link between a reform of revenue and a reform of expenditure and demands, accordingly, a firm commitment by the Council to discuss in the context of the MFF negotiation the proposals on new own resources;deleted source: PE-462.732 2011/05/04 SURE 2 amendments... Amendment 53 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas the current system of own resources based on Member States’ contributions is excessively complex, opaque, with insufficient links to existing Union policies and lacks fairness, especially with regard to correction mechanisms, for which the rationale has ceased to exist,deleted Amendment 673 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 65 65. Stresses that a successful and strengthened cohesion policy needs adequate funding, which should not be less than in the current financial programming period; reiterates, in this context, its strong request to ensure that, in the next MFF, the unspent or decommitted resources of cohesion funds remain in the cohesion budget and not be returned to the Member State for Member States which need it; considers that cohesion policy is intended for Member States with a GNP per capita of less than 75% of the EU average; observes that the resultant saving will be more than €20 billion per annum; stresses that the vast majority of the appropriations released should be refunded to the other Member States in proportion to their contributions to the EU budget; emphasises that most of the Member States which will no longer be eligible for Structural Fund appropriations will nonetheless achieve net savings in their national budgets thanks to the reimbursement of the funds released; is willing, possibly, to use a limited part of the funds released for important priorities and challenges at EU level, such as research, development and innovation in the agriculture, industry and services sectors if this can be accompanied by a substantial reduction in the burden of regulation and improved accessibility, including for SMEs; source: PE-462.731 2011/08/04 SURE 2 amendments... Amendment 475 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 49 49. Calls on the Commission to present proposals for a reformed CAP, which aim at a more effective and efficient allocation and use of the CAP budget, inter alia, via a fairer distribution of direct payments ~~by strengthening conditionality towards delivering the public goods expected by society and by more targeted payments~~as well as via introducing positive incentives like top-up payments rewarding farmers who deliver extra public goods expected by society or undertake efforts in the field of innovation, in order to ensure best return for public money; Amendment 505 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 50 c (new) 50c. Calls on the Commission, in addition, to make additional funding available specifically for innovation in agriculture, so that innovation can be assigned a stronger role within the future CAP; source: PE-462.730
21	2010/2242(INI) Financial, economic and social crisis: recommendations concerning the measures and initiatives to be taken. Final report 2011/04/26 CRIS 21 amendments... Amendment 27 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Subheading 1 I. European sovereign debt and euro crisis~~, including the mutual issuance of public debt and Eurobonds~~ Amendment 34 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. emphasizes the lack of compliance with the Stability and Growth Pact for a number of years before the crisis began; requests automatic application of sanctions if Member States do not respect the rules of the Stability and Growth Pact; Amendment 58 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Underlines the fact that that the sovereign debt crisis revealed the risks of intra-European imbalances; stresses the need for the EU to ~~react as one, to develop a common European fiscal policy with a sufficient EU budget and to~~ put in place adequate provisions for crisis management and economic ~~and fiscal~~ convergence; Amendment 81 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Calls for a ~~comprehensive, socially inclusive and~~ cohesive reform package addressing the fundamental underlying causes of the public debt crisis, ~~to include the establishment of a European Treasury~~ to strengthen the economic pillar of EMU; calls, furthermore, for measures to overcome the current lack of competitiveness through appropriate structural reforms, wherever necessary, and balanced public spending; points out that the Member States need to return to sustainable public finances; Amendment 94 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Calls for the issuance of Eurobonds fostering market integration, greater liquidity and lower borrowing costs; points out that Eurobonds could stimulate compliance with the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP), together with coordinated structural reforms, and could make capital markets more stable and support the idea of the euro as a global ‘safe haven’; recalls that the common issuance of Eurobonds requires a further move towards a common economic and fiscal policy and should be done in such a way as to be beneficial to all participating Member States and to the eurozone as a whole;deleted Amendment 120 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Notes that there is political agreement on revising Article 125 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) in order to change the temporary EFSF system into a permanent European Stability Mechanism (ESM) by 2013; calls for this modification of the Treaty ~~to allow the ESM to be converted into an European Debt Agency at a later stage~~; Amendment 171 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Recalls its insistence on a far-reaching reform of global economic and financial governance, in order to promote transparency and accountability and to ensure coherence between the policies of the international economic and financial institutions; ~~calls for integration of the Bretton Woods institutions into the UN system, where they should engage with the WTO, the ILO and with a world environmental organisation that needs to be created;~~ Amendment 175 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Calls for the G20, which represents 85% of world GDP, to be transformed into a new Economic Security Council; calls, furthermore, for a reform of, and more financial resources for, the IMF in order to strengthen its role in the economic and financial surveillance of its members, with a view to setting up a credible safety net to combat global imbalances;deleted Amendment 188 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 – indent 2 – Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): the current crisis has highlighted the need to create incentives for financial markets to look to long-term investment and (sustainable) development; the financial role for the multilateral development banks should be updated and upgraded in response to the increased financing demands from developing countries; ~~a significant part of financial transaction tax (FTT) revenues should be set aside for financing the MDGs;~~ Amendment 200 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Recognises the global concern about the functioning of the international monetary system and calls for a major leap forward to be taken as a matter of urgency; requests, therefore, ~~the setting up of a new international monetary system (IMS) aimed at~~ systematic and comprehensive macroeconomic cooperation with sustainable and balanced global growth; Amendment 202 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 – introductory part 25. Stresses that the IMS should address inter alia: – exchange rates: the first step would be to pursue policies that allow exchange rates to gradually adjust to economic and social fundamentals; – reserve currency: reforms to the international reserve system would be needed to avoid reserves leading to global imbalances; the current dollar-based international reserve system could gradually be replaced by a multilateral system (a basket of currencies, including the euro, Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) and key emerging market currencies such as the Chinese yuan and the Brazilian real); – capital flows: a multilateral system of rules would need to be adopted to favour long-term movements of capital, to facilitate ordinary capital outflows and to avoid disruptive effects in fragmented securities markets and ensure transparent, open and smooth functioning of treasury bond markets;deleted Amendment 216 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 ~~26. Calls, furthermore, for thought to be given - in the long term – to the possibility of creating a global reserve currency based on the development and transformation of SDRs and of the IMF;~~deleted Amendment 264 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 32. Calls for greater compatibility and complementarity between national budgets and the EU budget; takes the view that the next multiannual financial framework must focus on ~~the key priority areas of the EU 2020 strategy and should aim at increasing the level of EU expenditure, especially when it comes to~~ financing the flagship initiatives in the fields in which the EU has shared competence with Members States, which can provide strong European added value; Amendment 315 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37 37. ~~Emphasises that both the major revolutions in our neighbourhood regions and demographic developments within the EU call for a common migration policy;~~ stresses that greater mobility of labour must be encouraged by granting equal employment and social conditions and rights for all workers, together with the possibility of transferring social security and pension benefits; Amendment 350 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41 41. Stresses that both EMU and the internal market require a stronger shift towards tax ~~harmonis~~co-ordination; supports the Commission ~~in its~~and the Member States in their efforts to tackle harmful tax competition, tax avoidance or fraud and tax havens both in the EU and at international level, to improve tax collection systems and to introduce a common consolidated corporate tax; welcomes the VAT strategy that is to be presented by the Commission with a view to finding a fraud-proof system; Amendment 361 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 43 43. Believes that EU fund distribution should take into account the ~~taxation strategy of~~ Member States and their willingness to cooperate in combating tax evasion ~~and promoting tax harmonisation~~; Amendment 425 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 50 50. Emphasises that the European Union is at a crossroads: either the Member States decide to join the efforts to deepen the integration or, owing to stagnation at decision-making level and divergences at the economic level, the EU could fall apart;deleted Amendment 436 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 51 ~~51. Calls for a deeper political union in which the Union’s institutions are given a stronger role in both the design and the coordination of common policies;~~deleted Amendment 471 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 56 ~~56. Stresses that tackling the public debt crisis and increasing the EU’s competitiveness, convergence and solidarity require a shift of competences and spending towards the Union;~~deleted Amendment 481 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 57 57. Concludes that the EU is in need of a quantum leap forward to deepen political union and economic integration, matching monetary union with a common EU budget of between 5% and 10% of Union GDP and a corresponding reduction in national budgets to ensure tax neutrality for citizens as national policies are replaced (e.g. in the fields of foreign and security policy, the energy and transport sectors, development cooperation and R&D);deleted Amendment 497 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 59 59. Recalls that the European Union derives its legitimacy from the democratic values it projects, the aims it pursues and the powers and instruments it possesses; takes the view that deepening European economic integration and ensuring the stability of the eurozone and of the Union as a whole, will require further changes regarding: the external representation of the eurozone; ~~qualified majority voting on corporate tax and combating tax evasion; mutual issuance of sovereign debt and Eurobonds~~combating tax evasion; the EU’s borrowing capacity; a better balance between economic and social policies; ~~own resources for the EU budget;~~ and the roles of national parliaments and the European Parliament; source: PE-462.899
1	2010/2307(INI) Youth on the move: a framework for improving Europe's education and training systems 2011/02/14 EMPL 1 amendments... Amendment 152 # Bastiaan BELDER Draft opinion Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Emphasizes that the Eurofound’s work programme 2009-2012 includes the specific project ‘Active inclusion for young people with disabilities or health problems’, and points at the crucial role of training centers offering social and professional skills training for youngsters with disabilities and those who grew up in institutional care; requests for support to the development and use of these training centers where needed; source: PE-458.607
9	2011/0195(COD) Common Fisheries Policy 2012/06/25 PECH 9 amendments... Amendment 340 # Bastiaan BELDER Proposal for a regulation Recital 18 (18) Measures are needed to reduce and eliminate as much as possible the current high levels of unwanted catches anin order to avoid discards. Indeed, unwanted catches and discards constitute a substantial waste and affect negatively the sustainable exploitation of marine biological resources and marine ecosystems as well as the financial viability of fisheries. An obligation for single species fisheries to land all catches of managed stocks caught during fishing activities in Union waters or by Union fishing vessels should be established and gradually implemented. For mixed fisheries in which elimination of unwanted catches and the implementation of an obligation to land all catches is not possible, the progressive reduction of unwanted catches and discards shall be the objective. Amendment 347 # Bastiaan BELDER Proposal for a regulation Recital 18 a (new) (18 a) Legislation that previously obliged fishermen in mixed fisheries to discard part of the catch should be changed. Research on survival rates of discards should be carried out with priority. Initiatives to use more selective and innovative gear should be made possible in legislative and financial ways. Amendment 387 # Bastiaan BELDER Proposal for a regulation Recital 26 (26) Member States, after having duly taken into account the views of relevant Advisory Councils and stakeholders, should be able to adopt conservation measures and technical measures for the implementation of the Common Fisheries Policy to allow for the policy to better address the realities and specificities of individual fisheries and to increase the adherence to the policy. Amendment 628 # Bastiaan BELDER Proposal for a regulation Part 1 – article 2 – paragraph 2 2. The Common Fisheries Policy shall apply the precautionary approach to fisheries management, and shall aim to ensure, where possible by 2015, that exploitation of living marine biological resources restores and maintains populations of harvested species a~~bove~~t levels which ~~can~~ produce the maximum sustainable yield. Amendment 688 # Bastiaan BELDER Proposal for a regulation Part 1 – article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a (a) reduce and where possible eliminate unwanted catches of commercial stocks and gradually ensure that to the extent possible all catches of such stocks are landed; Amendment 1487 # Bastiaan BELDER Proposal for a regulation Part 3 – article 15 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. All catches of the following fish stocks subject to catch limits caught in single species fisheries during fishing activities in Union waters or by Union fishing vessels outside Union waters shall be brought and retained on board the fishing vessels and recorded and landed, except when used as live bait, , in accordance with the following timeframe: Amendment 1523 # Bastiaan BELDER Proposal for a regulation Part 3 – article 15 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 a (new) For mixed fisheries in which the implementation of an obligation to land all catches is not possible, a time frame for progressive reduction of unwanted catches shall be set out in the multiannual plans. Amendment 1641 # Bastiaan BELDER Proposal for a regulation Part 3 – article 17 – paragraph 1 1. In a multiannual plan established pursuant to Articles 9, 10 and 11 Member States may be authorised under the condition of taking duly into account the views of relevant ACs and stakeholders, to adopt measures, in accordance with that multiannual plan, which specify the conservation measures applicable to vessels flying their flagin relation to stocks in Union waters for which they have been allocated fishing opportunities. Amendment 1741 # Bastiaan BELDER Proposal for a regulation Part 3 – article 21 – paragraph 1 – introductory part In a technical measures framework established pursuant to Article 14 Member States may be authorised under the condition of taking duly into account the views of relevant ACs and stakeholders, to adopt measures, in accordance with that framework, which specify the technical measures applicable to vessels flying their flag in relation to stocks in their waters for which they have been allocated fishing opportunities. Member States shall ensure that such technical measures: source: PE-489.437
2	2011/0261(CNS) Common system of financial transaction tax 2012/08/03 ECON 2 amendments... Amendment 16 # Bastiaan BELDER Proposal for a directive - The European Parliament rejects the Commission proposal. Amendment 24 # Bastiaan BELDER Proposal for a directive Recital 1 a (new) (1a) In the financial crisis, given the low growth forecasts in the EU, a FTT could have a further negative effect on medium- and long-term growth prospects, in view of the widely diverging estimates of its effects on the real economy. In February 2012 the Netherlands Central Bank estimated that the cost for Dutch banks, pension funds and insurers would be at least EUR 4 billion per year. That is 0.61% of GDP. It also noted that it is doubtful whether such a tax would discourage disruptive activity on the markets. Consequently the basis for this tax should be regarded as dubious. source: PE-483.829
2	2011/0280(COD) Common agricultural policy (CAP): direct payments to farmers under support schemes 2014-2020 2012/07/23 AGRI 1 amendments... Amendment 1563 # Bastiaan BELDER Proposal for a regulation Article 30 – paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, farmers who via a system of yearly exchanging hectares with other farmers in the region, ensure crop diversification and rotation on those hectares together, are exempted from the specific requirements in paragraph 1. source: PE-494.483 2012/07/24 AGRI 1 amendments... Amendment 1703 # Bastiaan BELDER Proposal for a regulation Article 32 – paragraph 1 1. FWhere the eligible agricultural area covers more than 20 hectares, farmers shall ensure that at least 73 % of their eligible hectares as defined in Article 25(2), excluding areas under permanent grassland, is ecological focus area such as land left fallow, terraces, landscape features, buffer strips and afforested areas as referred to in article 25(2)(b)(ii). source: PE-494.487
2	2011/0281(COD) Common organisation of the markets in agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation) 2014-2020 2012/07/25 AGRI 2 amendments... Amendment 1647 # Bastiaan BELDER Proposal for a regulation Article 106 – paragraph 1 – point c – point vii a (new) (viia) ensuring fair and reasonable prices for producers, which take into account costs made by producers in relation to sustainability and animal welfare; Amendment 2015 # Esther de LANGE, Bastiaan BELDER Proposal for a regulation Article 144 – paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. In particular, Article 101(1) of the Treaty shall not apply to agreements throughout the food-supply chain ensuring fair and reasonable prices for producers, which take into account costs made by producers in relation to sustainability and animal welfare. source: PE-492.804
2	2011/0282(COD) European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD): support for rural development 2014-2020 2012/07/24 AGRI 1 amendments... Amendment 374 # Esther de LANGE, Bastiaan BELDER Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new) (2 a) facilitating innovation in the agricultural sector to secure competitiveness and a sustainable future, notably on environmental, climate and animal welfare issues source: PE-492.797 2012/07/26 AGRI 1 amendments... Amendment 1906 # Bastiaan BELDER Proposal for a regulation Article 64 – paragraph 4 – introductory part 4. The ~~Commission shall, by means of an implementing act, make an~~ annual breakdown by Member State of the amounts referred to in paragraph 1, after deduction of the amount referred to in paragraph 2 and taking into account the transfer of funds referred to in Article 14(2) of Regulation (EU) No DP/2012~~. In making the annual breakdown the Commission shall take into account:~~ shall be set out in Annex Ia. The amounts per Member State should reflect a redistribution based on objective criteria. source: PE-494.481
4	2011/2201(DEC) 2010 discharge: EU general budget, Section III, Commission 2012/07/03 CONT 4 amendments... Amendment 74 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 – indent 7 a (new) - Reiterates its request to the Commission to present a proposal for the introduction of mandatory national management declarations (NMDs) issued, made public and duly audited by an independent auditor; notes that NMDs should contain full information about the use of Union funds; Amendment 87 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 40 40. Recalls its repeated invitations to the Commission to present a proposal for the introduction of mandatory national management declarations (NMDs) issued, made public and duly audited by an independent auditor; notes that NMDs should contain full information about the use of Union funds; emphasises that the progress made by Member States in this respect should play a role in the granting of discharge and in Parliament’s approval of new appropriations for shared management; Amendment 123 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 59 – introductory part 59. ~~Reiterates its invitation to the Council and Member States to give due consideration to~~Notes that the granting of discharge is partly determined by the extent of compliance with the following requests concerning the implementation of the permanent crisis mechanism: Amendment 126 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 59 – indent 1 – introductory part – to ensure appropriate arrangements for public external audit with regard to legality, regularity and effectiveness, taking into account the following documents: source: PE-483.775
3	2012/0011(COD) Personal data protection: processing and free movement of data (General Data Protection Regulation) 2013/03/08 LIBE 3 amendments... Amendment 3102 # Bastiaan BELDER Proposal for a regulation Article 85 – title ~~Existing d~~Data protection rules of churches and religious associations Amendment 3104 # Bastiaan BELDER Proposal for a regulation Article 85 – paragraph 1 1. Where in a Member State, churches and religious associations or communities apply, a~~t the time of entry into force of this Regulation, comprehensiv~~dequate rules relating to the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data, such rules may ~~continue to~~be applyied, provided that they ~~are brought in line with the provisions of this Regula~~guarantee an adequate level of data protection. Amendment 3105 # Bastiaan BELDER Proposal for a regulation Article 85 – paragraph 2 2. Churches and religious associations which apply comprehensive rules in accordance with paragraph 1 shall provide for the establishment of an independent supervisory authority in accordance with Chapter VI of this Regulation.deleted source: PE-506.173
2	2012/0158(COD) Conservation of fishery resources through technical measures for the protection of juveniles of marine organisms; herring for industrial purposes 2012/09/25 PECH 2 amendments... Amendment 39 # Peter van DALEN, Struan STEVENSON, Bastiaan BELDER Proposal for a regulation Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7 Regulation No 850/98 Article 31a 1. By way of derogation from Article 31 fishing with beam trawl using electrical pulse current shall be allowed in ICES Divisions IVc and IVb south of a rhumb line joined by the following points, which shall be measured according to the WGS84 coordinate system: – a point on the east coast of the United Kingdom at latitude 55o N, – then east to latitude 55o N, longitude 5o E, – then north to latitude 56o N, – and finally east to a point on the west coast of Denmark at latitude 56o N. 2. Electrical pulse fishing shall be allowed only when: (a) no more than 5% of the beam trawler fleet by Member States use the electric pulse trawl; (b) the maximum electrical power in kW for each beam trawl is no more than the length in metre of the beam multiplied by 1,25; (c) the effective voltage between the electrodes is no more than 15V; (d) the vessel is equipped with an automatic computer management system which records the maximum power used per beam and the effective voltage between electrodes for at least the last 100 tows. It is not possible for non-authorised person to modify this automatic computer management system; (e) it is prohibited to use one or more tickler chains in front of the footrope." carried on board of a fishing vessels flying their flag meets the technical conditions listed in Annex XIVe and that a safe and proper use of the pulse gear is ensured. Member states competent authorities may assign the certification of pulse gears to classification societies or to other bodies having the necessary expertise for the technical examination of the pulse gears. 8. The master of a fishing vessel, referred to in paragraph 2, shall ensure that certification documentation (including a file describing the technical features of the pulse system) relating to the pulse system is held on board at all times. The certificate shall be valid for one year. 9. Member States shall adopt the necessary measures to ensure the safe and proper use of the pulse gear. 10. Member States shall monitor, on the basis of sampling, the activities of fishing vessels flying their flag, which are equipped with pulse gear in order to ensure compliance by these vessels with the measures laid down in the paragraphs 1 to 5, and with the measures established on the basis of paragraph 7. For the purposes of the monitoring each Member State shall establish a sampling plan based on high risk criteria such as: (a) the risk of non-compliance with the provisions of this Article; (b) the level of previously detected infringements for the vessel concerned; and (c) the number and the nature of the notifications according to paragraph 5 for the vessel concerned. 11. By January 2017 Member States shall report to the Commission on the application of the conditions laid down in this Article and relevant Annex. The Commission shall, on the basis of the reports from member states and inactivities conducted with beam trawls using electrical pulse current (pulse gear) shall be permitted in ICES Divisions IVc and IVb south of a rhumb line joined by the following points, which shall be measured according to the WGS84 coordinate system: – a point on the east coast of the United Kingdom at latitude 55o N, – then east to latitude 55o N, longitude 5o E, – then north to latitude 56o N, – and finally east to a point on the west coast of Denmark at latitude 56o N. 2. All vessels conducting fishing activities with pulse gear in the area set out in paragraph 1 must be issued with a fishing authorisation in accordance with Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009. This fishing authorisation shall be immediately revoked if the vessel does not meet the technical conditions listed in Annex XIVe or if paragraph 4 is violated. 3. Vessels referred to in paragraph 2 shall: (a) carry on board exclusively pulse gear which meets the technical conditions listed in Annex XIVe and which is certified in accordance with paragraph 6; (b) be equipped with an operational and fully independent functioning recording device which shall ensure the recording at all times during fishing activities of the electric power consumption and the effective value of the voltage referred to in Annex XIVe (2) and (3) and which is certified in accordance with paragraph 6; (c) not fit one or more tickler chains or other forms of mechanical stimulation of the seabed in front of the footrope. 4. It shall be prohibited to destroy, damage, render, inoperative or otherwise interfere with the recording device on board referred to in paragraph 3(b), in particular to alter data in any way and to remove the recording device from the fishing vessel. 5. The master of an EU fishing vessel shall ensure that the recording device is fully operational at all times and the data referred to in paragraph 3(b) is recorded and stored. The master of the vessel shall ensure in particular that: a) values exceeding those referred to in Annex XIVe are reported immediately to the competent authorities; b) the competent authorities are informed immediately of a malfunction in the device 6. For the purposes of paragraph 3(b) the recording device shall operate fully automatically without any human intervention and shall not permit the input or output of false information and shall not be capable of being manually over-ridden. The information shall be stored in the recording device for a period of at least 12 months. This information shall be made available to the competent authorities on demand. 7. Member States shall be responsible for certifying pulse gear and issuing certificates for pulse gear, indicating that the recording device complies with paragraph 3(b), that the pulse gear conjunction with scientific advice, evaluate the impact of the measures on the stocks and fisheries concerned by January 2018." Amendment 48 # Peter van DALEN, Struan STEVENSON, Bastiaan BELDER Proposal for a regulation Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 15 a (new) Regulation N° 850/98 Annex XIVe (new) (15a) The following Annex XIVe is inserted: "ANNEX XIVe TECHNICAL CONDITIONS FOR BEAM TRAWLS USING ELECTRICAL PULSE CURRENT (PULSE GEAR) IN ICES DIVISIONS IVc AND IVb 1. Width of the stimulation field The width of the stimulation field measured as the horizontal distance between the two outer electrodes shall not exceed 12 meters per pulse trawl. 2. Electrical power consumption The electrical power consumption per pulse trawl, measured behind the generator and before the power cable shall not exceed 1 kW expressed in root mean square (rms) per meter of the width of the stimulation field. 3. Voltage The effective value of the voltage expressed in rms, measured on the conductors which are situated closest to the electric discharge module, shall not exceed 0,25 Vrms per centimetre. 4. Electronic values The electronic values of the pulse gear are set by the producer of the gear and cannot be modified. At any moment in time the values shall not exceed the values mentioned in paragraphs (1) to (3)." source: PE-496.424
2	2012/0237(COD) European political parties and European political foundations: statute and funding 2013/01/18 AFCO 2 amendments... Amendment 41 # Anna ZÁBORSKÁ, Algirdas SAUDARGAS, Bastiaan BELDER, Andreas MÖLZER Proposal for a regulation Recital 7 (7) As a recognition of the mission attributed to European political parties in the Treaty and in order to facilitate their work, a specific European legal status should be established for European political parties and their affiliated European political foundations, providing them with full legal capacity and recognition in all the Member States. However the conditions for recognition and funding should not be so onerous as to restrict the funding to those European political parties and affiliated European political foundations which are already established. Amendment 249 # Anna ZÁBORSKÁ, Algirdas SAUDARGAS, Peter van DALEN, Bastiaan BELDER, Andreas MÖLZER Proposal for a regulation Article 12 – paragraph 1 1. A European political party registered in accordance with the conditions and procedures laid down in this Regulation, which is represented in the European Parliament by at least one of its members, and having member parties within the meaning of Article 2(1) established in one quarter of the Member States which is not in one of the situations of exclusion referred to in Article [93] of the Financial Regulation may apply for funding from the general budget of the European Union, in accordance with the terms and conditions published by the European Parliament in a call for [contributions]. source: PE-504.068
6	2012/2095(INI) Role of the Common Security and Defence Policy in case of climate driven crises and natural disaster 2012/07/19 AFET 6 amendments... Amendment 24 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Notes with grave concern increase in extreme weather events in recent years as a consequence of ~~worsening~~ natural climate variability as well as man-made influence on ~~wea~~ther c~~onditions~~limate; Amendment 25 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Observes that natural disasters caused by climate change are aggravated by incorrect land use, poor forest management and inadequate warning systems; Amendment 30 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Points out that natural disasters, exacerbated by climate change, are highly destabilising, particularly for ~~the states most vulnerable to adverse weather events and for failing states, most of which are~~vulnerable states in developing regions of the tropics and subtropics; stresses that populations with deteriorating access to freshwater and foodstuffs caused by natural catastrophes exacerbated by climate change are forced to migrate, thus overstretching the economic, social and administrative capabilities of already fragile regions or failing states and consequently creating conflict and a negative impact on security; recalls that these events create competition between communities and countries for scarce resources, exacerbating old security dilemmas and creating new ones; Amendment 120 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Stresses the need to create, at EU level, a structure similar to IPCC with the involvement of military experts to assess and avoid the worst climate-driven crisis and natural disasters which the EU already faces and will face increasingly in the future; the EU should encourage all its Member States to incorporate environment and security issues into their military strategic doctrine and capability planning;deleted Amendment 129 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 28. Stresses the need to explore, on the basis of already existing capacities such as the EU Battle Groups and the European Air Transport Command, the possibility of creating further joint capabilities that are relevant for operations which respond to the impact of climate change or natural disasters; invites the Council, the HR/VP and the EDA to explore the possibility of creating a European Engineer Corps and ways of linking equipment and infrastructure which can be used in such a capacity, in particular, to the ongoing pooling and sharing process; Amendment 146 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 32. Welcomes the idea of creating a post for a UN special envoy for climate security ~~and invites the HR/VP to replicate this idea within the EU, at both Union and national levels, with the appointment of official envoys on climate and security, as the UK Government has already done~~; source: PE-492.875
23	2012/2137(INI) EU-China relations 2012/07/11 AFET 23 amendments... Amendment 4 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Citation 15 – having regard to the 145th EU-China Summit, which took place in B~~eijing in February~~russels on 20 September 2012, and to the Joint ~~Statement~~Press Communiqué issued at the conclusion thereof, Amendment 8 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Citation 18 – having regard to the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China scheduled for ~~the autumn of~~8 November 2012 and the leadership changes in the Politburo Standing Committee due to be decided at the congress, Amendment 25 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. Whereas a strategic partnership requires a strong commitment to mutual responsibility and good confidence; Amendment 43 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. Whereas China steps up it's efforts regarding market based systems for emissions trading; whereas China carries out 7 pilot projects in this regard with the purpose of establishing a national emissions trading scheme in 2015; Amendment 44 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Recital E b (new) Eb. Whereas China is the world's biggest carbon dioxide emitter and emissions still increase rapidly; whereas China's per capita CO2 emissions reached 6.8 tonnes in 2010 and are expected to overtake the US per capita emissions already in 2017; Amendment 46 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas the EU adheres to ~~the~~its One China Policy in the Cross Straits Relations between the PRC and Taiwan; Amendment 54 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) Ga. Whereas Chinese civil rights activists have reported on their deprivation of liberty when they disappeared under the conduct of the police, without an arrest warrant, an indictment, any contact with their families and legal aid for several months; Amendment 97 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Recital L c (new) Lc. Whereas China and Japan intended to celebrate their 40 years of diplomatic relations in 2012; whereas China is Japan's most important customer and trading partner; Amendment 102 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Recital M a (new) Ma. Whereas China is cooperating with Russia, four Central Asian countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) and four observer countries (India, Iran, Mongolia and Pakistan) in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO); whereas Chinese investments in Central Asia will rise in the next decade from 20 billion to 100 billion dollars, as was announced at the SCO Summit in Beijing, 6 June 2012; Amendment 123 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) (a) Expects that EU Member States will give the EEAS and especially its Delegation in Beijing a clear mandate to strengthen the EU-China Strategic Partnership by speaking with one voice to the Chinese government; expects from the Chinese authorities at all political levels to strengthen the EU-China Strategic Partnership by a consistent and transparent application of mutual and international agreements and rules; Amendment 177 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Underlines that although forced abortions are strictly illegal in China, family-planning officials repeatedly coerce women into abortions or sterilisation; condemns the so-called ‘social maintenance fee’, an often exorbitant fine that parents have to pay in the event of extra births, as was the case in the tragedy of Feng Jianmei; ~~wholeheartedly supports Chinese voices that call for an end of the one-child policy~~points out that in 2011 official statistics number 8400 complaints from victims against the misconduct of family-planning authorities; wholeheartedly supports Chinese voices that call for an end of the one-child policy, with its many loopholes, while stressing its severe negative social and psychological consequences such as the still growing imbalance between baby boys and girls, creating "little emperors" and disrupting the traditional family structure, and moreover reducing the intake of young people at the labour market; Amendment 185 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 c (new) (c) Welcomes China's efforts to establish a nationwide emission trading system by 2015, which could in the future be integrated with other carbon trading systems, notably EU ETS; notes however that China does not yet have a fully- functioning mature market economy which is a clear prerequisite for a well functioning emissions trading system; Amendment 186 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 d (new) (d) Urges the Chinese government to step up the measuring of pollutants and emissions in order to overcome the lack of reliable carbon emission data, to establish a better legal infrastructure and to increase capacity building at administrative level. Welcomes in this regard the 20 September 2012 financing agreement between the EU and China promoting the environment, transition towards a low-carbon economy and a reduction of green house gas emissions in China; Amendment 211 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 b (new) (b) Strongly endorses the critical comments of Chinese lawyers and jurists that the humiliating detainment of suspects for more than 15 days conflicts with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which China signed in October 1998; is shocked by the fact that according to the new Criminal Procedures Law of 2013 police and state security authorities can even detain a suspect more than 14 months without any assistance of a lawyer; fully supports the criticism of Chinese jurists that the police retains the option not only to keep suspects under house arrest, but also to detain them under "Arrest at a determined place"; backs all initiatives of Chinese jurists to really reform the Criminal Procedures Law of the PRC; Amendment 239 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Recognises the enormous efforts made by the Chinese Government to develop Tibet and Xinjiang economically; urges the Chinese Government to act in a politically responsible way by respecting and protecting Tibetan and Uighur traditional cultures and lifestyles; believes that Beijing cannot win the hearts and minds of the Tibetan and Uighur peoples by way of millions of surveillance cameras or repressive police methods, but only by seriously addressing all indigenous complaints to create a really shared responsibility for the well-being of both autonomous provinces; Amendment 245 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 c (new) (c) Deplores that according to various news reports of 8 October 2012 since 2009 between 40 and 50 Tibetans committed suicide by self-immolation; asks the Chinese government to deeply reflect to the motives of these shocking acts of human desperation; criticizes the Chinese government's decision in early 2012 to station permanent State administrative committees inside Tibetan monasteries and convents to secure that monks and nuns should not participate in "separatist activities" and in "disturbing public order"; Amendment 263 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) (a) Shares the criticism of Chinese jurists that the fundamental shortcomings of China's legal code on religion reside with the Constitution, because the principle of "religious freedom" provided for in clauses 1 and 2 of Article 36 conflict with the principle of "restrictions on religion" provided for in clauses 3 and 4, with no clarification as to which takes precedence; joins the call of Chinese jurists to establish religious freedom as the principle of precedence in the Constitution; Amendment 269 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 g (new) (g) Is pleased by the great interest millions of Chinese citizens took at the presidential and parliamentary elections in Taiwan on 14 January 2012, which could be instantly followed on the internet for the first time; Amendment 282 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 d (new) (d) Appreciates that China is the biggest contributor of peacekeeping troops among the permanent members of the UNSC, for which its rapid modernizing navy is most responsible; Amendment 297 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 c (new) (c) Worries seriously about the escalating tensions between China and Japan on the disputed Senkaku/Diaoy islands, for both countries covet the oil and gas reserves under the surrounding waters; urges China to take serious notice of Japanese discomfort about the more offensive actions of the Chinese navy in the Pacific; appeals strongly to China and Japan to combat mutual enemy perceptions and to grasp the fortieth anniversary of their diplomatic relations for constructive negotiations; Amendment 299 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Notes that the survival of the North Korean regime depends essentially on China; welcomes China's responsible behaviour by voting in favour of the strong condemnation by the UNSC on 15 April 2012 of the failed rocket launch by North Korea, widely considered as an attempted ballistic missile test; looks forward to China continuing to take responsibility for stability on the Korean Peninsula, a swift resumption of the six- party talks on the North Korean nuclear threat, and, above all, to a drastic improvement in the day-to-day living conditions of North Korean citizens brought about through Chinese incentives; Amendment 305 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 d (new) (d) Remarks that China's main objectives with the SCO are to achieve peace and stability in Central Asia through collectively combating the so-called "three evils" of extremism, separatism and terrorism; notes China's great strategic and economic interest in the region by the exploitation of its vast oil and gas reserves and by connecting Central Asia to China's coastline via railways and highways; Amendment 319 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Appreciates the Chinese leadership's acknowledgement of the serious criticism of its imbalanced, raw-material-centred African policy during the Forum of Chinese-African Cooperation (FOCAC), held on 20 July 2012 in Beijing, which is shown by its current open promotion of a diversification of its activities on the continent; welcomes the pledge of State and Party leader Hu Jintao at this FOCAC-meeting of the record credit of 20 billion dollars to African countries in the next three years for developing their infrastructure, agriculture, manufacturing and SMEs; points to the obvious ethical and strategic flaws of China's non-intervention principle in Africa's domestic policies in cases of popular resistance against repressive regimes (e.g., Sudan), or in cases of regime change (e.g., Libya); notes that the increasing Chinese presence in Africa has led to grave social tensions, but welcomes the fact that Chinese companies have expressed their willingness to place greater emphasis on social responsibility in their African activities; source: PE-497.775
3	2012/2153(INI) Negotiations on an enhanced partnership and cooperation agreement between the EU and Kazakhstan. Recommendations to the Council, the Commission and the EEAS 2012/09/13 AFET 3 amendments... Amendment 16 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas Kazakhstan continues to use property-related legal cases as a way of stopping people exercising their right to freedom of religion or belief; Amendment 18 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Recital B b (new) Bb. whereas the Religion Law – against international human rights law - bans all exercise of freedom of religion or belief without state registration, and imposes compulsory re-registration by 25 October 2012 after which religious associations with fewer than 50 members are forced to stop their activity; Amendment 72 # Bastiaan BELDER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 – point m (m) insist that the Kazakh authorities make binding commitments to bring the legal system fully into line with international standards; ensure that implementation facilitates true media freedom, freedom of expression and association, freedom of religion and belief and the independence of the judiciary in Kazakhstan; source: PE-496.305

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