27 Amendments of Javier NART related to 2015/2343(INI)
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the European Union is resolved to frame a common defence policy leading to a common defence which reinforces its European identity and, autonomy and unity in order to promote peace, security and progress in Europe, its neighbourhood and in the world;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas the cost of non-Europe in security and defence is estimated to be more than EUR 100 billion per year and the EU's level of efficiency equivalent to 10% to 15% of the American one;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the development of the CSDP requires shared values and principles, common interests and priorities, and political will from the Member States, as well as the setting-up of robust institutional cooperation structures; whereas the CSDP should be a common structured policy and not a mere sum of the national policies of the Member States;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas active role of the European Parliament in framing a common Union defence policy and establishing common defence, without the European Parliament’s political and institutional support would undermin, political control and consultation, as noted in Article 14 TEU, would affirm and enhance the representative and democratic foundations of the Union;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)
Recital N a (new)
Na. whereas there are limitations when it comes to military training abroad, in terms of both action plans and the military logistics support required;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N b (new)
Recital N b (new)
Nb. whereas training missions cannot therefore be carried out abroad – as in the case of the military training missions in the Central African Republic (EUTM CAR) or Mali (EUTM Mali) – if the governments of the countries concerned do not supply the necessary armaments and equipment to the military units; whereas without training involving arms and equipment, it is impossible to create units that are able to confront the challenges of war and carry out operations;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N c (new)
Recital N c (new)
Nc. whereas European soldiers are currently prohibited from taking part in military operations as observers, which means that they cannot identify any problems that the units that have been trained may have, and that they are therefore unable to resolve any operational problems at a later stage;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N d (new)
Recital N d (new)
Nd. whereas these units – both in Mali and in the Central African Republic – are being set up for combat operations, and whereas after three years without appropriate equipment and training, as is the case for EUTM Mali, they are nowhere near operational;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N e (new)
Recital N e (new)
Ne. whereas without the necessary armaments, training missions will only be carried out abroad if the government of the country concerned provides armaments and hardware to the units that they can then continue to use after their training is complete;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the reform and innovation that the Lisbon Treaty brings to the CSDP constitute a sufficient and coherent framework and should set the path for a truly common policy, based on shared resources and capabilities as well as on coordinated planning at Union level; stresses that the progress of the CSDP within the current institutional and legal framework is dependent more on the political will of Member States than on legal considerations; highlights that Article 43 TEU covers the whole spectrum of crisis management tasks the use of which in rapid and decisive way is the EU's level of ambition;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls, therefore, on the VP/HR, the Council and the Member States to use all the possibilities provided for in the Treaty, especially the mechanisms contained in Article 42(6) TEU and, Article 46 TEU and in Protocol 10 on Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO), and in Article 44 TEU on the implementation of a CSDP task by a group of Member States, in order to achieve a faster, more efficient and more flexible deployment of missions and operations;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. calls for the formation of the European Intelligence Agency with the mission and capability to implement a de facto transversal intelligence network within the Member States allowing the European Union to react in a comprehensive and coordinated way to emerging threats by adhering to Article 24(3)TEU and Article 4(3)TEU, as the comprehensive gathering of intelligence information cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States, either at central level or at regional and local level, but can rather, by reason of the scale or effects of the proposed action, be better achieved at Union level (Article 5(3)TEU);
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Urges the Council to act in accordance with Article 41(3) TEU and without delay adopt a decision establishing the start-up fund for the urgent financing of the initial phases of military operations for the tasks referred to in Article 42(1) and Article 43 TEU;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10 b. In accordance with Article 42(2)TEU urges Council to take concrete steps towards the harmonisation and standardisation of the European armed forces, in order to facilitate the cooperation of armed forces personnel under the umbrella of a new European Defence Union as a step in the progressive framing of a common Union defence policy;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)
Paragraph 10 c (new)
10 c. In accordance to with Article 43(2) TEU calls on the Council to ensure coordination of the civilian and military aspects of tasks referred to in Article 43(1) TEU and civilian and military capabilities listed in Council conclusions on implementing the EUGS in the area of Security and Defence from 14 November 2016 by setting-up an EU Operational Headquarters as a precondition for effective planning, command and control of common operations;
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Emphasises that security and defence constitute an area where European added value can be easily demonstrated, in terms of economic and efficiency gains, by giving Member States increased and more cost-effective capacity, through greater coherence, coordination and interoperability in security and defence, as well as in terms of contributing to consolidating solidarity and cohesion within the Union, and resilience of the Union; highlights estimation that each euro invested in defence generates a return of 1.6, in particular through skilled employment, research and technology, and exports;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Stresses that the use of all possibilities provided for in the Treaty would improve competitiveness and functioning of the defence industry in the single market, further stimulate defence cooperation through positive incentives, and targeting projects that Member States are not able to undertake, reducing unnecessary duplication, and promoting a more efficient use of public money;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Welcomes the projected increase in national defence expenditure to 2 % of EU GDP; highlights that this would mean extra expenditure of nearly EUR 100 billion on defence by the end of the coming decade; considers that this boost should be used to launch more strategic cooperative programmes within and through the Union, by better structuring the demand and supply sides and making both sides more efficient and more effective; is of opinion that the outputs of these strategic cooperative programmes have great potential to be dual-use technologies and as such bring extra added value to Member States;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Is convinced that the Union’s investment in defence should ensure that all Member States can participate in a balanced, coherent and synchronised improvement of their military capabilities; emphasises practical and financial benefits of further integrations of European defence capabilities to an integrated defence market and developing an open, competitive, innovative and inclusive European Defence Technological and Industrial Base; cautions that most of the costs of non- Europe in security and defence lay in the duplication or multiplication of operational structures, stocks and research activities and programmes; considers that this constitutes a strategic opportunity for the Union to improve its security and defence;
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Regrets that Member States have not yet developed a common European armaments and capabilities policy (EACP) within the EDA as foreseen by Article 42(3) TEU and calls on the Commission to put forward proposals on this matter; calls on the VP/HR to inform Parliament of the results achieved by the existing working relationship between the EDA and the Commission and of both with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation (OCCAR);
Amendment 333 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Encourages the Member States to establish and join PESCO within the Union framework, with a view to sustaining and improving their military capabilities through doctrine and leadership development, personnel development and training, defence material and infrastructure development, and interoperability and certification; encourages the Member States participating in PESCO to set up a permanent 'European Integrated Force' composed of divisions of their national armies and to make it available to the Union for the implementation of the common security and defence policy as foreseen by Article 42(3) TEU; calls on HR/VP to come up with options for the operationalization of PESCO in first half of 2017;
Amendment 356 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Takes the view that the EU Battlegroup system should be brought under PESCO, alongside the creation of a European-level headquarters; considers that other European multinational structures such as the European Air Transport Command, Eurocorps and OCCAR, as well as all bilateral and multilateral forms of military cooperation among PESCO participating countries, should also be brought under PESCO; considers that the EU’s privileges and immunities should apply to those multinational structures being part of PESCO;
Amendment 372 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Stresses that the European Parliament should play a prominent role in the supervision of implementation and in the evaluation of the CSDP; insists that Parliament must be consulted on major decisions in the area of the CSDP, including regarding military missions and strategic defence operations, as it is noted in Article 14(1) TEU;
Amendment 385 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31 a. Urges the Parliament to turn its Subcommittee on Security and Defence into a fully-fledged parliamentary committee, enabling it to have a prominent role in the implementation of the common security and defence policy and particularly a role in the scrutiny of legal acts related to the security and defence;
Amendment 428 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 a (new)
Paragraph 36 a (new)
36 a. Urges the establishment of precise and binding guidelines to provide a well- defined framework for future activation and implementation of Article 42(7) TEU;
Amendment 442 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38 a (new)
Paragraph 38 a (new)
38 a. Requires that European military training missions abroad achieve their task of training local national military units capable of addressing conditions of war and security threats (rebellions and terrorism). As a result, they should have the weapons and equipment necessary both for their training and their ability to operate in the field, and the European military in charge of their training should be able to accompany them as observers without intervening in the operations, in order to be able to evaluate the effectiveness of the training and consequently to be able to make the adjustments and undertake the re- training that are necessary;
Amendment 444 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38 a (new)
Paragraph 38 a (new)
38 a. Calls for the immediate reform of the Athena mechanism in view of ensuring a fair sharing of the costs related to operations;