38 Amendments of Jana HYBÁŠKOVÁ
Amendment 3 #
2008/2324(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Citation 4
Citation 4
– having regard to its resolution of 5 June 2008 on implementation of the European Security Strategy and ESDP1 and particularly paragraph 26 thereof, which expresses Parliament's opinion that "the 40th anniversary of the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty (NPT) on 1 July 2008 must be seen as an opportunity for the EU to promote the need for nuclear disarmament in its Strategy Against the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, with a view to the Preparatory Committees for the forthcoming NPT review conference" and reiterates its view that "this includes the need for the 'recognised' nuclear weapons powers to put forward disarmament initiatives, to make Europe a nuclear- weapon-free zone, and to conclude a global convention banning nuclear weapons",
Amendment 4 #
2008/2324(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
Amendment 6 #
2008/2324(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Citation 6
Citation 6
Amendment 8 #
2008/2324(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
– having regard to the UN Security Council resolutions relating to issues of non proliferation and nuclear disarmament, especially resolution 1540 (2004),
Amendment 9 #
2008/2324(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Citation 7
Citation 7
– having regard to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, the IAEA Comprehensive Safeguards Agreements and Additional Protocols, the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material, the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism, the Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation, the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I), which will expire in 2009, and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT),
Amendment 15 #
2008/2324(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. stressing the importance of issues of nuclear proliferation and the peaceful use of nuclear energy which both constitute, apart from disarmament, main pillars of the NPT,
Amendment 17 #
2008/2324(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery, both to state and non-state actors, represents one of the most serious threats to international stability and security,
Amendment 18 #
2008/2324(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. recalling the commitment of the EU to make use of all instruments at its disposal to prevent, deter, halt and if possible eliminate proliferation programmes causing concern at global level, as clearly expressed by the EU Strategy against proliferation of WMD adopted by the European Council on 12 December 2003,
Amendment 19 #
2008/2324(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital A e (new)
Recital A e (new)
Ae. stressing the need for the EU to intensify efforts to counter proliferation flows and proliferation financing, to sanction acts of proliferation and to develop measures to prevent intangible transfers of knowledge and know-how via all instruments available including multilateral treaties and verification mechanisms, national and internationally coordinated export controls, cooperative threat reduction programmes and political and economic levers,
Amendment 21 #
2008/2324(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital B
Recital B
B. encouraged by new disarmament proposals such as those called for by Henry Kissinger, George P. Shultz, William J. Perry and Sam Nunn in January 2007 and January 2008 and campaigns such as "Global Zero", which argue that weapons of mass destruction have no place in a civilised world and that one crucial way of ensuring the prevention of nuclear proliferation and the achievement of global security is to move resolutely towards the complete prohibition andtowards the elimination of nuclear weapons,
Amendment 33 #
2008/2324(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Amendment 34 #
2008/2324(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. welcoming the EU support given to the IAEA initiative for the internationalisation of the nuclear fissile cycle initiative, to the monitoring and verification system applied by the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) and to the Zangger Committee (NPT Exporters Committee),
Amendment 36 #
2008/2324(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital F
Recital F
F. welcoming the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol initiative, presented by Mayors for Peace to the Preparatory Committee of the Eighth NPT Review Conference in May 2008 in Geneva, which has already gained the endorsement of over 500 city representatives as a logical follow-up to their five-year-long plea for a world free of nuclear weapons as from 2020: the so- called "2020 Vision",
Amendment 37 #
2008/2324(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital G
Recital G
Amendment 42 #
2008/2324(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital I
Recital I
I. considering the speech made by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in New York on 24 October 2008, on the occasion of United Nations Day, in which he presented his five-point plan for nuclear disarmament, which included a call for the implementation of the NPT through negotiations on a package of agreements or a nuclear weapons convention, and which highlighted the Model Nuclear Weapons Convention, previously circulated by him, as a useful starting-point,
Amendment 43 #
2008/2324(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital K
Recital K
K. welcoming the speech made on 9 December 2008 by Javier Solana, EU High Representative for the CFSP, at a conference on "Peace and Disarmament: A World without Nuclear Weapons", in which he welcomed the fact that the question of nuclear disarmament has again moved to the top of the international agenda, and underlined the need for the EU to mainstream non-proliferation in its overall policies,
Amendment 52 #
2008/2324(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
Amendment 53 #
2008/2324(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point a b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point a b (new)
(ab) make substantial progress on the G8 Partnership initiative, the Proliferation Security Initiative and the Global Threat Reduction Initiative, and push for the early entry into force of the CTBT; approve expeditiously the Joint Action on the IAEA nuclear fuel bank and related measures within the Instrument for Stability;
Amendment 59 #
2008/2324(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point c
Paragraph 1 – point c
Amendment 61 #
2008/2324(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point d
Paragraph 1 – point d
(d) deepen its dialogue with the new US administration and all nuclear-weapons powers, with a view to pursuing a common agenda aimed at thprogressive creaduction of athe nuclear- weapons-free worldarheads stockpile; in particular, support US and Russian steps to substantially reduce their nuclear weapons as agreed in START I and in SORT; press for ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear- Test-Ban Treaty;
Amendment 75 #
2008/2324(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point f
Paragraph 1 – point f
(f) establish a constructive dialogue with all countries possessing nuclear weapons on European territory – as well as with NATO – with a view to making the European continent progressively a nuclear-weapons-free zone, in accordance with Article VII of the NPT, well before the year 2020;
Amendment 80 #
2008/2324(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Pledges to submit the Model Nuclear Weapons Convention to the national parliaments of the Member States with a view to promoting negotiations, raising public awareness, combating nuclear proliferation, identifying steps towards nuclear disarmament and indicating national measures that could be taken to support and implement that Convention;
Amendment 31 #
2008/2202(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Stresses that fully and timely implementation of the European Security Strategy is of key importance;
Amendment 99 #
2008/2202(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Notes the concerns expressed by the Baltic and other Central and East European states and requests that NATO draw up specific plans for their defence;
Amendment 175 #
2008/2202(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Considers that the United States' ballistic missile defence system has important implications for Europe, as the subsystems based in the Czech Republic and Poland could also be used to protect parts of Europe; points out that NATO decided in Bucharest to complement this protection by additional elements; is of the opinion that it is necessbeneficiary to make sure that European interests are safeguarded as regards the force structure, command and control and participation in research and development;
Amendment 204 #
2008/2197(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Proposes that, in agreement with NATO, each EU Member State which is a member of NATO should demarcate those forces that can be deployed only for EU operations, so as to prevent such deployment being blocked by NATO members which are not EU Member States; considers that duplication in the use of these forces should be avoided;
Amendment 8 #
2008/2120(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses the need for the Parliament of the Czech Republic to ratify the Lisbon Treaty as to enhance the position of the ESDP and especially the participation of Czech armed forces in foreign operations; regrets that this situation both undermines the position of the Czech Republic as a country holding the EU presidency and impairs the EU’s capacity to act as an effective international player;
Amendment 8 #
2008/2097(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes that, for every peace-building and nation-building process, democratisation, demilitarisation and disarmament of the factions engaged in the conflict are of key importance and should be key priorities;
Amendment 78 #
2008/2031(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Believes that the arms embargo imposed on China is an illustration of EU incoherence and inconsistency, given that this embargo was originally established following the 1989 Tiananmen massacre and that, at present, the EU has no specific strategy or demands relating to Tiananmen, when sanctions are reviewed, and the EU has not received to date any explanations about that massacre, and there is therefore no reason for lifting this embargo;
Amendment 90 #
2008/2031(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Calls for action to improve the application of the EU's targeted financial sanctions, in order to ensure that, in practice, the measures comprehensively deny designated persons and entities access to all financial services within the EU's jurisdiction, including those that pass through EU clearing-house banks or otherwise make use of financial services within the EU's jurisdiction; stresses the need for greater flexibility in the distribution of sanction lists within the EU and within Member States to all persons covered by the obligations laid down in the Third Money Laundering Directive; proposes that each Member State designates one institution responsible for disseminating this information;
Amendment 96 #
2008/2031(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
Paragraph 43
43. NotesTakes account of the fact that both the autonomous EU anti-terrorist sanctions and the EU implementation of Security Council anti- terrorist sanctions are the subject of several cases before the Court of First Instance and the Court of Justice;
Amendment 97 #
2008/2031(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44
Paragraph 44
44. Recalls the obligation of EU Member States to draft sanctions in compliance with Article 6(2) of the Treaty on European Union, which requires the Union to respect fundamental rights, as guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights and as they result from the constitutional traditions common to the Member States; stresses that the present blacklisting procedures at both the EU and the UN levels are deficient from the perspective of legal security and legal remedies; urges the Council to draw all the necessary conclusions and fully to apply the final judgments of the ECJ as regards EU autonomous sanctions;
Amendment 99 #
2008/2031(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
Paragraph 45
Amendment 100 #
2008/2031(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
Paragraph 46
46. Calls on the Council and the Commission to reviewsupport the existing procedure for blacklisting and delisting, in order to respect blacklisted individuals’ and entities’the procedural and substantive human rights and notably international standards as regards the obtaining of an effective remedy before an independent and impartial body and due process, including the right to be notified and adequately informed of the charges brought against the individual or entity in question and of the decisions taken and the right to compensation for any violation of human rightsof EU citizens, especially the right to life, liberty and security of person; calls, similarly, on the EU Member States to promote such a review within the UN mechanisms in order to ensure respect for fundamental rights when applying targeted sanctions in the fight against terrorism;
Amendment 101 #
2008/2031(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47
Paragraph 47
47. Considers that Article 75 of the TFEU would be an opportunity to be seized by the European Parliament in order to remedy the shortcomings in current practice as regards the inclusion of names on a black list and support all the current parliamentary work aimed at being included on the agenda for the 2009 legislative programme;
Amendment 103 #
2008/2031(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48
Paragraph 48
48. Deeply regrets that none of the judicial bodies is in position to assess the appropriateness of blacklisting, given that the evidence leading to blacklisting is based purely on information held by the secret serviNotes that the evidence leading to blacklisting is based primarily on information held by the secret services; points to the non-existence of sufficient democratic control recording the subjects of terrorist lists and stresses the need for them to be introducesd; calls in this regard on EU Member States to allow an effective parliamentary control over the work of the secret services;
Amendment 115 #
2008/2031(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 59
Paragraph 59
Amendment 32 #
2007/0279(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 1
Article 15 – paragraph 1
1. If a licensing Member State considers that there is a serious risk that any certified recipient in another receiving Member State will not respect any condition attached to a general transfer licence, it shall inform the other Member State and request evaluation of the situation. If a Member State other than a licensing Member State considers that conditions are not being respected, it shall inform the licensing Member State and the Commission; subsequently, the Commission may initiate a process leading to provisional suspension of the licence.