Traduction de «Export Credit Guarantee Facility » (Anglais → Français) :

1. Member States shall not provide public financial support for trade with the DPRK, including the granting of export credits, guarantees or insurance, to their nationals or entities involved in such trade.

The collective magnitude of the export credit guarantees provided in the period 2004-2009 by the ECAs of the EU Member States was in the range of € 468 billion.

28. Welcomes the commitment of the London summit to provide for up to USD 250 billion in guarantees to allow traders access to credit; regrets, however, that the plan does not indicate how such export credit guarantees might be extended to the developing countries most in need, and notably to sub-Saharan Africa, which saw its exports fall by 40% this year so far, mainly because of tightened access to commercial credits;

39. Restates that major efforts should be undertaken by the Commission and Member State governments at national, regional and local level to use the opportunities provided by the revision of the public procurement Directives in 2004 to support CSR by promoting social and environmental criteria amongst potential suppliers, while recognising the need to avoid imposing additional administrative burdens on small enterprises, which might dissuade them from tendering, and to disqualify companies where necessary including in instances of corruption; calls on the Commission, the European Investment Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to apply strict social and environmental criteria to all grants and loans allocated to pr ...[+++]ivate sector companies, backed by clear complaints mechanisms, building on the example linking public procurement and compliance with the ILO Core Conventions and OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises in the Netherlands and with the SA8000 CSR standard by several Italian provinces; recalls that Member States should take steps to ensure that any export credit guarantees comply with the highest environmental and social criteria and should not be used for projects that run counter to agreed EU policy goals concerning, for example, energy or armaments;

First of all, there is strong resistance to implementing all the measures which, in a whole range of conferences, government says it recommends: for example, doing away with subsidies to industries which are harmful to the environment; incorporating environmental costs into prices; establishing clear environmental criteria for our export credits guarantee boards so that we do not export non-sustainable systems to the developing countries; and, in general, encouraging, rather than discouraging, activities that take the environment into account.

59. Calls on the Commission to bring forward specific proposals to promote the contribution of EU companies towards transparency and good governance world-wide, including through the setting up of a blacklist to prevent the tendering for public contracts by EU companies responsible for bribery, for corruption in an EU court of law, similar to that operated by the World Bank, and for non-compliance with minimum applicable international standards (ILO core labour standards, OECD guidelines for multinational companies); and to establish a compliance panel to ensure that companies awarded contracts in the context of EC public procurement or provided with financial guarantees such as export ...[+++] credit guarantees comply with EU human rights obligations and development policies and procedures as well as minimum standards according to the above mentioned ILO and OECD Guidelines in the execution of those contracts; companies on the blacklist would be ineligible for EU contracts or awards for a period of three years;