19 Amendments of Andreas MÖLZER related to 2010/2101(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas there has been a dramatic increase in the number and severity of natural disasters caused, in particular, by the impact of climate change; the incidence of complex crises is rising; violations of international humanitarian law are worsening; and the ‘humanitarian space’ is shrinking,
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas more specific attention oughtattention should continue to be directed at the most vulnerable groups of people, and whereas the worsening incidence of gender-related violence and sexual violence is a major problem in humanitarian contexts, with systematic rape being used in some cases as a weapon of war,
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the increasing involvement of non-humanitarian bodies in responding to humanitarian crises carries with it a major risk of confusion between thmisconceptions arising as to the respective military and humanitarian roles and blurs the boundaries of neutral, impartial and independent humanitarian aid,
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the recent tragedies in Haiti and Pakistan demonstrated once again that the tools available to the EU for responding to disasters (humanitarian aid and the Community Civil Protection Mechanism) need to be further improved in terms of effectiveness, speed, coordination, efficiency and visibility,
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the humanitarian context worldwide has deteriorated, the scale of the challenges and the humanitarian need is huge and it is essential to work on strengthening implementation of the European Consensus and the associated action plan,
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Advocates, increased funding for humanitarian aid to reflect the growing number of humanitarian interventions the light of the continuing global financial and economic crisis, which has resulted in high budget deficits in Europe as well, and of the growing number of humanitarian interventions, the more focused and more efficient use of existing funding, and calls on the budgetary authority to transfer all or part of the emergency reserve allocation to DG ECHO’s initial budget;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Asks the Commission to ensure that additional funding is earmarked formeasures to promotinge IHL and raisinge awareness of it on the ground – among those who bear arms, among young people and among politicians and civil society - are improved;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Points out that the provision of aid must be based solely on need, that the quality and quantity of the aid is determined primarily by an initial evaluation and that the evaluation process needs to be further improved, particularly with regard to the application of vulnerability criteria;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Actively encourages the Commission to pursue its work in specific fields such as nutrition, protection, gender and sexual violence, and cCalls for the issues of gender and reproductive health to be systematically integrated into the emergency healthcare aspect of humanitarian response;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls for respect forDraws attention to the diversity of bodies actively involved in financing and implementing international humanitarian programmes – the UN, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs – and encourages efforts to reinforce the capacity of local players;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Welcomes initiatives to achieve greater consistency among the various European crisis-response instruments, and the fact that humanitarian aid and civil protection have been placed under the responsibility of a single directorate-general; insists, however, that a clearformal separation be maintained between the respective remits and roles;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Council and the Commission to introduce strictprecise and transparent rules on cooperation and coordination between the EEAS and the Commission in the management of large- scale crises outside the EU;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Reaffirms that a very clearformal distinction needs to be maintained between the remits of military and humanitarian bodies and that it is essentialimportant for military resources and capabilities to be used only in a very limited number of cases and as a last resort in support of humanitarian aid operations, in accordance with UN guidelines (the MCDA and Oslo guidelines);
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to undertake awareness-raising activities about the specificity of humanitarian aid as part of EU foreign policy and calls on the Member States to ensure that their armed forces observe and apply the UN guidelines and to monitor their efforts to comply; considers, further, that there is a need for dialogue between military and humanitarian bodies in order to develop mutual understanding;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission to bring forward ambitious legislative proposals for the establishment of a European civil protection force, based on optimising the existing Community Civil Protection Mechanism and pooling existing national resources so that no major additional costs will be incurred, and drawing on systems tried and tested during preparatory initiatives;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Advocates a substantial increase in the funding allocated to this aspect of policy and sStresses the importance of maintaining provision for small-scale funding in order to ensure a context-friendly approach and local ownership of projects;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls for the agenda on adaption to climate change to be better coordinated with disaster risk reduction activitdisaster risk reduction agenda and activities to be better coordinated between individual countries;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council and, the Commission, and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).