30 Amendments of Urmas PAET related to 2020/2080(INI)
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas according to Article 1(a) to Protocol (No 10) on permanent structured cooperation established by Article 42 of the TEU, one of the objectives of PESCO is for the Member States to develop their defence capacbilities more intensively by furthering their national contributions and participation, where appropriate, in multinational forces, the main European equipment programmes, and in the European Defence Agency’s activity;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas Article 1(b) of Protocol 10 states that the Member States are to ‘have the capacity to supply by 2010 at the latest either at national level or as a component of multinational force groups, targeted combat units for the missions planned, structured at a tactical level as a battle group, with support elements including transport and logistics, capable of carrying out the tasks referred to in Article 43 of the Treaty on European Union, within a period of five to 30 days, in particular in response to requests from the United Nations Organisation, and which can be sustained for an initial period of 30 days and be extended up to at least 120 days’; whereas Article 1(b) needs to be revised in order to adequately respond to the challenging geopolitical environment; whereas the Member States are still far from achieving this goal;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the three-fold level of ambition under the EU Global Strategy in the field of security and defence covers securing external borders, countering hybrid threats and fighting against terrorism; whereas no Member State can protect itself alone, since security and defence threats faced by the EU, and which are targeted againstthe EU, its citizens and its territory faces, are a joint threat and cannot be addressed by onea single Member State on its own; whereas an effective EU system for addressing burden-sharing would be advantageous for the EU’s overall level of security and defence;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas PESCO’s long-term vision is to achievecontribute to a coherent full-spectrum force package available to the Member States; whereas PESCO should enhance the EU’s capacity to act as an international security provider in order to protect EU citizens and maximise the effectiveness of defence spending; whereas the cost of non-Europedue to doubling, overcapacity and obstructions for joint procurement in security and defence is, the costs are estimated to be more than EURbetween 25 and 100 billion EUR per year; 8a; _________________ 8a https://ec.europa.eu/commission/sites/beta -political/files/budget-may2018-eu- defence-fund_en_0.pdf
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has shown the consequences of the EU not having enough competence when it comes to health care; whereas, by the same analogy, it would make sense to establish an EU common defence strategy in order to be able to respond to an attack on the EU’s borders and territories; whereas PESCO constitutes an important step towards achieving the objective of a common defence;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has shown the consequences of the EU not having enough competence when it comes to health care; whereas, by the same analogy, it would make sense to establish an EU common defence strategy in order to be able to respond to an attack on the EU’s borders and territories; whereas PESCO constitutPESCO constitutes an important step towards achieving the objective of strengthening European defence capabilities and important step towards achieving the objective of a common defencenteroperability;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has shown the consequences of the EU not having enough competence when it comes to health care; whereas, by the same analogy, it would make sense to establish an EU common defence strategy in order to be able to respond to an attack on the EU’s democratic model, borders and territories; whereas PESCO , alongside the EDF and other EU Defence initiatives constitutes an important step towards achieving the objective of a common defence;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas according to Council decision 2017/2315, establishing PESCO enhanced defence capabilities of the Member States will also benefit NATO, while strengthening the European pillar within the alliance and responding to repeated calls for strongermore balanced transatlantic burden-sharing; whereas NATO remains the cornerstone of many MS’s security architecture;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas PESCO was originally conceived as an avant-garde, comprising the Member States willing and able to upgrade their cooperation in defence to a new level of ambition; whereas the fact that there are 25 pMS means that PESCO is at risk of beingust not lead PESCO to be constrained by the ‘lowest common denominator’ approach;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas work on the first three waves of PESCO projects hasve led to the pMS proposingadoption of 47 projects; whereas the current list of projects lacks coherence, strategic ambition and does not adequately address priority shortfalls as identified by the pMS through the Capability Development Plan (CDP) and the Coordinated Annual Defence on Review (CARD); whereas one of these projects has been stopped in order to avoid unnecessary duplication; whereas other projects did not make sufficient progress or are at risk of being stopped, and around 30 projects are still in the ideation and preparatory phase;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. whereas the second phase of PESCO is to start in 2021; whereas this second phase shall deliver concrete and significant results which means that a prioritization of projects is necessary;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas only some of the most strategic PESCO projects, such as EUFOR Crisis Response Operation Core (EUFOR CROC) have the potential to decisively contribute to the creation of a coherent full spectrum force packageUnion’s strategic sovereignty;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital R
Recital R
R. whereas the NATO Defence Planning Process (NDPP) drivescontributes to defence national planning processes in most casesof several pMS;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital R
Recital R
R. whereas the NATO Defence Planning Process (NDPP) drives defence national planning processes in most casMember States;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital U
Recital U
U. whereas currently, PESCO projects are dependent on the 25 participating Member States’ financial contributions; whereas it is expected that, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, national defence budgets will suffer reductions; whereas paradoxically, several of the currently 47 PESCO projects, if funded accordingly, could strengthen Member States’ preparedness, should another massive public health crisis occur: military mobility – a flagship PESCO project –, the European Medical Command and many other projects in areas related to logistics and transportation, health care, disaster relief and, the fight against malicious cyber activities and hostile disinformation campaigns; whereas cutting funding for the strategic capabilities that the EU and its Member States currently lack would also weaken their ability to jointly act against future pandemics;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital U
Recital U
U. whereas currently, PESCO projects are dependent on the 25 participating Member States’ financial contributions; whereas it is expected that, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, national defence budgets will suffer reductions; whereas paradoxically, several of the currently 47 PESCO projects, if funded accordingly, could strengthen Member States’ preparedness, should another massive public health crisis occur: military mobility – a flagship PESCO project –, the European Medical Command and many other projects in areas related to logistics and transportation, health care, disaster relief and the fight against malicious cyber activities; whereas cutting funding for the strategic capabilities that the EU and its Member States currently lack would also weaken their ability to jointly act against future pandemics and CBRN threats;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital V
Recital V
V. whereas the prospect of co- financing certain PESCO projects viaPESCO and the future European Defence Fund (EDF) shas led pMS to multiply their proposals, and despite the fact that this has encouraged exchanges and cooperation, not all proposals necessarily have the EU’s best strategic interest in mindll be mutually reinforcing and interlinkages between them shall be further developed in order to deliver critical capabilities identified under the CDP;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital V
Recital V
V. whereas the prospect of co- financing certain PESCO projects via the future European Defence Fund (EDF) has led pMS to multiply their proposals, and despite the fact that this has encouraged exchanges and cooperation, not all proposals necessarily have the EU’s best common strategic interest in mind;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital W
Recital W
W. whereas the participation of third countries, such as the UK, in individual PESCO projects might be in the strategic interest of the European Union, particularly in case of the United KingdomU, noting that this participation can only be exceptional, decided on a case-by-case basis and at the invitation of EU Members States;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital W
Recital W
W. whereas the participation of third countries in individual PESCO projects might be in the strategic interest of the European Union, particularly in case of the United Kingdom; whereas an agreement on third state participation in PESCO projects is long overdue;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d
Paragraph 1 – point d
(d) encourage the pMS to switch from a strictly national focus on defence to a European one and to undertake structured efforts to increase the use of European collaborative approach as a priority, as no individual pMS alone has the potential to address identified capacity shortfalls; encourage pMS and MS more generally not to reduce their defence spending in the coming years, and especially their financial involvement in European cooperative projects in order to avoid being distanced by other global powers;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d
Paragraph 1 – point d
(d) encourage the pMS to switch from a strictly national focus on defence to a more prominent European one and to undertake structured efforts to increase the use of European collaborative approach as a priority, as no individual pMS alone has the potential to address identified capacity shortfalls alone;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point h
Paragraph 1 – point h
(h) ensure that PESCO, is treated as a Union institutions sui generis, as is the case with the European External Action Service (EEAS), which would require amending the Financial Regulation8 in order to include PESCO, with a specific section in the Union budgetincluded with a specific section in the Union budget, which would require amending the Financial Regulation; recognise that Parliament, jointly with the Council, exercises legislative and budgetary functions, as well as functions of political control and consultation as laid down in the Treaties; _________________ 8 OJ L 193, 30.7.2018, p. 1.
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point j
Paragraph 1 – point j
(j) focus PESCO efforts on projects with a strategic and integrative dimension, such as EUFOR CROCdimension and to those projects that contribute to the remedy of important capability and operational shortfalls, and link those to other PESCO projects in order to create additional synergies and effects of scale;
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point k a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point k a (new)
(ka) formulate innovative incentives to improve the interoperability and deployment of CSDP missions and operations;
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point m
Paragraph 1 – point m
(m) groupsupport and promote the grouping of PESCO projects into capability clusters and make a distinction between strategically relevant and other projects, keeping in mind the objective of achieving a full-spectrum force package and concentrate their efforts on those having the highest potential to deliver European strategic autonomy;
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point m
Paragraph 1 – point m
(m) group PESCO projects into capability clusters and make a distinction between strategically relevant and other projectsdesignated projects; review the current list of 47 projects and either cluster or cancel projects which are making insufficient progress or present insufficient mutually beneficial gain to the European Union;
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point n
Paragraph 1 – point n
(n) promote compliance with the 20 PESCO commitments by establishing clearer definition of compliance benchmarks, and by ensuring that future project proposals must address a specific CDP priority; ensure that any reviews of project progress should be based on clear and transparent criteria, including when co-financed in the framework of EDIDP/future EDF; ensure that such criteria serve as benchmark for all Member States participating in PESCO projects;
Amendment 326 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u
Paragraph 1 – point u
(u) clarify or define the link between the governance of PESCO and that of the EDF and toin order to maximise their combined impact; involve Parliament in the ex- post control process when it comes to EDF funding of PESCO projects;
Amendment 336 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point w a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point w a (new)