16 Amendments of Fabio Massimo CASTALDO related to 2022/2196(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 a (new)
Citation 19 a (new)
— having regard to the European External Action Service (EEAS) Report on the Follow-up Baseline Study on Integrating Human Rights and Gender Equality into the European Union’s Common Security and Defence Policy of 17 May 2022,
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 b (new)
Citation 19 b (new)
— having regard to the EU Gender Action Plan III (2021-2025), the EU Strategic Approach to Women, Peace and Security (2018) and its Action Plan, and the EEAS Strategy and Action Plan to Enhance Women’s Participation in Civilian CSDP missions 2021 – 2024,
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas civilian CSDP tasks have, over the years, broadened to include, inter alia, transitional justice, mediation, dialogue and conflict analysis, and have also adapted to new and emerging challenges such as hybrid threats, including cyberattacks and malicious foreign influence, and the manipulation of informmisinformation and disinformation; whereas civilian CSDP missions create synergies between security and development, thus substantially contributing to long-term stabilisation;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the adoption of the Civilian CSDP Compact in 2018 was a significant step forward in strengthening the EU’s civilian crisis management, enhancing Member States’ ownership, responsibility and contribution of resources; whereas furthigher political commitment, technical, and financial commitment from the Member States is needed to deliver on the agreed objectives;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
E a. whereas as of 2017, pre- deployment training session involving human rights and gender equality elements is mandatory for all staff; whereas more than a third of respondents of the EEAS Report on the Follow-up Baseline Study on Integrating Human Rights and Gender Equality into the European Union’s Common Security and Defence Policy did not receive such a session;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
E b. whereas the representation of women in CSDP M/Ops remained unchanged over the five-year period between 2015-2020; whereas in the civilian HQ structures (the Integrated Approach to Security and Peace Directorate (ISPD), the Security and Defence Policy Directorate (SECDEFPOL), the CPCC) women constitute around 50 % of all staff, but they continue to be underrepresented in management positions (30 %);
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E c (new)
Recital E c (new)
E c. whereas the EU is committed to promoting children’s rights in its external action, but this commitment is not yet fully operationalised in the context of CSDP; whereaa over 60 % of M/Ops reported on their engagement with children’s rights, but only one mission, which was included in the sample of planning case studies, had a reference to CAAC in its mandate;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. CRegrets that the percentage of seconded personnel in civilian CSDP missions has been subject to a constant decrease after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic; demands the Member States to increase the percentage of seconded experts in civilian CSDP missions to at least 70%, as indicated in the Council Conclusions of 12 December 2022; calls for the Member States to use the new Civilian CSDP Compact to strengthen their strategic vision of civilian crisis management by clarifying the role and added value of civilian CSDP, and by defining a shared level of ambition for civilian crisis management;
Amendment 57 #
4. Believes that traditional civilian CSDP tasks such as policing, the rule of law, civil administration, SSR and monitoring remain very important in order to stabilise and modernise the security and justice sectors; stresses on the primary need to tailor the mandate, actions, and tasks of civilian CSDP missions to the specific countries’ needs, priorities and demands; to this extent, encourages the Union to consult properly with third countries during the whole planning phase of every civilian CSDP mission, and to evaluate jointly the developments of every mission in order to increase effectiveness; underlines the need to continue updating and enlarging tasks in the framework of the Integrated Approach and the Treaties in light of the new risks and threats that have emerged; stresses the need to integrate and strengthen cross- cutting issues, in particular:
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that anticipating future changes in the security environment is key to ensuring that civilian crisis management will achieve its strategic objectives; calls for the new Civilian CSDP Compact to implement more scenario-based planning, strategic foresight and conflict analysis, and early warning in decision-making on missions and mandates, and to properly consult with the countries in which the individual missions are set to take place for tailoring the mandate and activities of the missions;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Welcomes the decision to lunch a civilian mission to Armenia of 23 January 2023 as it has the potential to be an added value in the overall EU efforts to bring security and stability to the whole South Caucasus region;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls for a civilian Capability Development Process to be set up to assess the capability needs, develop requirements, conduct a gap analysis and periodically review progress; encourages the HR/VP to explore the possibility to provide financial incentives to support the Member States in their capability development efforts, as indicated in the 2018 Civilian Compact;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Deplores the fact that in spite of being one of the core commitments in the Compact, civilian CSDP missions persistently suffer from Member States not delivering on their pledges to provide sufficient personnel, with 10 Member States currently providing 78 % of seconded personnel, and 17 Member States only 22 %; encourages the HR/VP and the EEAS to consider the opportunity to propose an attractive EU-wide salary for seconded personnel deployed in civilian CSDP missions - and to provide financial contribution to it for filling the gap between national salaries and the one set by the EU - in order to increase attractiveness for seconded experts; calls on all Member States to ensure that they provide seconded staff to fill 100 % of all operational positions and to provide at least 60 % of the seconded staff for non- operational positions;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Stresses that training is key for effectiveness, which is in turn essential for successful civilian CSDP missions; calls for a comprehensive assessment of the overall civilian CSDP training architecture in order to identify needs, gaps and overlaps in training within the Member States with a view to improving and harmonising the EU Policy on Training for CSDP, in particular with a focus on the needs of local populations; believes that core elements and concepts of human rights and gender mainstreaming should be systematically included in pre- deployment and induction training, as well as in subsequent mandatory e- learning modules and that a specialised training course on human rights mainstreaming and human rights due diligence in the context of CSDP, under the umbrella of the ESDC, should be developed; calls to strengthen leadership engagement on human rights and gender equality, by providing all senior managers with gender-responsive and human rights leadership training at the beginning of their term; calls for the inclusion of mandatory modules on IHL in the pre- deployment and induction training for M/Ops, both in HQ and during posting, and integrating IHL into all training activities provided by M/Ops, based on specific needs;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18 a. Calls for the inclusion of child protection and the CAAC agenda more systematically in mandates, planning and strategic reviews and in the activities of M/Ops; exploring how M/Ops deployed in CAAC priority countries (Iraq, Israel/OPT, Libya, CAR, Mali and Somalia) could address the CAAC agenda in their activities, even where their mandate does not explicitly refer to these issues, and how M/Ops in other countries could focus more on child protection in general; analysing further the gaps in how the CAAC agenda and child protection are being approached and implemented in CSDP and the possibilities for approaching and implementing them in future, and developing strategic guidance for engagement on CAAC and child protection in the context of CSDP;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls for a substantive increase of funding for the CFSP budget in order to respond to crisis situations and unforeseen events, and to actively identify where complementary projects and programmes could be funded from other relevant EU budgets, most notably the European Peace Facility;