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". – The Commission believes that the draft text presented on 23 April contains many valuable elements. In an effort to restructure, simplify and streamline texts some serious improvements were made. As for the development cooperation priorities, draft Article 1 provides a good basis, but at the same time we sympathise with the draft amendments proposed by Parliament's Committee on Development and Cooperation, notably where it suggests introducing references to good governance, environmental aspects and prevention of HIV/Aids.
The Commission believes that further improvements in the text are necessary. The Commission submitted on 5 May suggestions to the Convention to do so, including the following important points.
Firstly, policy coherence (Article 1(3)), where we want the text to say that the EU will respect – this is the word – the principles and objectives of Article 1 in the development and implementation of external aspects of other Union policies.
Secondly, poverty focus (Article 25), where the Commission has proposed to make an explicit reference to the primary aim of eradicating poverty for EU policies in the sphere of development cooperation.
Thirdly, budgetisation of EDF (Article 26(4)), where the Commission wants to terminate the exceptional position of the ACP countries by deleting this paragraph and bringing, as a consequence, the EDF into the Union’s budget.
We have also noted the idea to set up a European voluntary Humanitarian Aid Corps. It is not clear at this stage how it would operate. We should not forget that the delivery of EU humanitarian aid is a serious business, which requires technical expertise, experience and a high degree of professionalism. We work in dangerous corners of the world, where even the best-trained professionals are exposed to risks. Therefore, it will not be easy to create this sort of peace corps. We are committed to deliver effective support to people in often desperate situations, and we are working through the organisations we are funding. We are capable of doing this better than most other donors. Much needs to be done to bring this idea of a European voluntary Humanitarian Aid Corps into the arena of what I would recommend. For the time being I remain sceptical about the idea."@en1
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