8 Amendments of Agustín DÍAZ DE MERA GARCÍA CONSUEGRA related to 2010/2114(INI)
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the manufacture, possession, acquisition, transport, supply or use of weapons and explosives or of nuclear, biological or chemical weapons, as well as research into, and development of, biological and chemical weapons and instruction in the making or use of explosives, firearms or other weapons for illegal purposes is part of the EU definition of terrorism and training for terrorism as referred to in Council Framework Decisions 2002/475/JHA and 2008/919/JHA,
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the EU CBRN Action Plan straddles the new division of competences between the Member States and the EU following the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, as envisaged in Article 5 TEU in connection with the principles of conferral, subsidiarity and proportionality; points out that the EU CBRN Action Plan covers the area of shared internal competences (Article 4 TFEU) regarding the area of freedom, security and justice, common safety concerns, and transport; civil protection measures (Article 196 TFEU); as well as external actions of the Union (Articles 21 and 22 TEU); (This is a linguistic amendment and does not affect all language versions)
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Recalls that preventing terrorist access to CBRN materials is a key priority under both the current 2005 EU Counter- Terrorism Strategy and the future one, as well as under the 2003 EU Strategy against Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Means of Delivery; requests, therefore, that the EU Counter- Terrorism Coordinator report regularly to Parliament on any potential, when appearing before the European Parliament, report on the level of CBRN risks or threats within the Union or against EU citizens and interests elsewhere; insists that further clarification is needed on the appropriate roles of the various EU and national bodies involved in the fight against terrorism; acknowledges in that connection the coordination and information-gathering role of the Standing Committee on Operational Cooperation on Internal Security (COSI) and the SitCen; is nevertheless concerned at the lack of democratic oversight of both bodies; calls calls for the Council to inform Parliament, as the only directly democratically elected body in the EU, to be kept promptly and fully informed regularly about the actions of both of these bodies;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Urges the EU institutions and Member States to resist pressure from industry and other interested stakeholders seeking to escape the burden of more regulation, as is to be expected (and as emerges clearly from a comparison between the Commission and the Council versions of the EU CBRN Action Plan); considers thattake due account of the industry concerns about the quality and impact of the proposed regulatory measures should be taken into consideration, without losing sight of what is at stake, namely the safety of EU citizens and societies; stresses in particular the priority of ensuring supervision and protection of CBRN materials throughout the EU and the efficiency of the EU response to a disaster, be it accidental or intentional;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Stresses that security arrangements and requirements at high-risk CBRN facilities throughout the EU must be the subject of EU regulations, rathare different in many Member States; considers than merely ‘good- practice documents’, through a consistent consultation process bringing together EU bodies, Member Stt these differences should not result in reduced effectiveness or undermine security and thate authorities and organisations dealing with high-risk CBRN agents; urges that until such regulat system based on good practices in the Member States is perfectly valid; urges that new provisions arbe adopted and in place, a greater monitoring and inspection role should be entrusted to the Commissiononly if they clearly result in improved security at both national and European level;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Considers it crucial that the ‘Prevention’ part of the EU CBRN Action Plan should be amended in such a way as toWelcomes the fact that current European legislation – REACH Regulation already forces the chemicals industry to replacmake the use of high-risk chemicals with suitable lower-risk alternatives, where such replacement is possible, regardless of the economic costs; suggests that a specific link should be established with the existing REACH Regulation1, something which the version of the Action Plan proposed by the Commission rightly sought to dosubject to authorisation procedure and to consider the possibility of replacing it with suitable lower-risk alternatives, taking account of the social and economic costs involved; calls for the functioning of the REACH Regulation1 to be accessed within the established deadlines;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Stresses that a future short-term revision of the EU CBRN Action Plan should not simply promote self-regulation among the industries concerned, and not merely advise the industries to adopt codes of conduct, but actually call on the Commission, if recommended by the risk assessments, to develop pan-European guidelines and regulations applicable to all sectors dealing with high-risk CBRN agents;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Considers that it is of the utmost importance to keep a close track of all transactions involving high-risk CBRN materials in the EU, and that instead of merely ‘urging’ the industry to report on transactions, as stated in the adopted Action Plan, the Commission and the Member States should work on a proper legal framework to regulate and monitor transactionsincrease security, thus ensuring proper and rapid reporting of all suspicious transactions as well as the loss or theft of CBRN materials; emphasises that these regulations should establish a proper basis for full transparency in all sectors dealing with CBRN agents, thus holding industries accountable for such transactions;