13 Amendments of Victor BOŞTINARU related to 2018/2004(INI)
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the cyber defence of Europe’s armed forces has become one of the critical issues in debates about defence modernisation and Europe’s common defence efforts; whereas the current vulnerability is mostly due to the fragmentation of our European defence strategies and capabilities;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas EU Member States are often subject to cyber attacks conducted by state and non-state actors that represent a threat to their political, civil, economic and military security, and that are in some cases part of a hybrid warfare; whereas such attacks, no matter if they have military or civilian targets, are equally dangerous and consequently need a coordinated response at civil and military level; whereas it is essential to protect critical civilian and military infrastructure, and key institutions and entities;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas we have a largely ungoverned and unregulated cyberspace and cyber attacks are targeting several countries and have a cross border impact, whereas several Member States have invested substantially in setting up well- staffed cyber commands to meet these new challenges but a lot remains to be done as it is more and more difficult to counter cyber attacks at the Member State level; whereas cyber defence is an activity that can best be tackled cooperatively at an European level and in coordination with our partners and allies as its operational domain recognises neither national nor organisational boundaries;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas while cyber defence remains a core competence of the Member States, the EU has a vital role to play in ensuring that these new endeavours are closely coordinated from the start to avoid the inefficiencies that mark many traditional defence efforts; whereas awe need to do more then enhancing our cooperation and coordination; whereas we have to ensure effective prevention through steeping up the ability of the EU to detect, defend and deter in order to avoid that some states least prepared become an easy target of cyber attacks, whereas substantial cyber defence capability ishould be a necessary part of the Common Defence and Security Policy and the development of the European Defence Union;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas an active and efficient cyberpolicy is one that allows deterring enemies as well as disrupting capabilities, pre-empting and degrading the ability to attack;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas both Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) and the European Defence Fund (EDF) are new initiatives with the necessary scope to facilitate cooperative projects in the cyber defence domain and will contribute to shape the regulatory and institutional framework;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas the EU and NATO are complementary partners in building their cyber resilience; whereas cyber security and defence is already one of the strongest pillars of cooperation between the two and a critical field where both have unique capacities and they should therefore step up cooperation, including through joint exercises; whereas the EU and NATO have agreed to a broad agenda of cooperation in the EU-NATO Joint Declaration of 8 July 2016;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Strongly emphasises, therefore, that, in the framework of the emerging European Defence Union, cyber defence capabilities of Member States should be closely integrated from the start to ensure maximum efficiency; urges, therefore, the Member States to implement the short term measures that are available under the current institutional framework to identify the capabilities that should be developed urgently; also urges to cooperate closely in the development of their respective cyber commands and set a clear roadmap;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Strongly believes effective prevention and forecasting would require big data, expertise and artificial intelligence to study patterns; Is of the opinion that we should develop an European Secure Network for critical information and infrastructure;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls for identifying new initiatives to further cooperation between EU and NATO, taking into account as well the possibilities of cooperating within the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence and the NATO Communications and Information (NCI) Academy; welcomes the recent creation of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats; believes that it is crucial to stimulate the exchange of cyber threat intelligence data, based on mutual trust, between EU Member States and with NATO;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Is convinced that increased cooperation between EU and NATO is vital in the area of cyber defence to prevent, detect and deter cyber attacks; calls, therefore, on both organisations to increase their operational cooperation and coordination, and to expand their joint capacity-building efforts, in particular joint exercises and training for cyber defence staff;
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Emphasises the importance of the development of norms regarding privacy and security , regarding encryption , hate speech, disinformation and terrorism threats;
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Emphasises that the dual- use nature of cyber-technologies would need to integrate cybersecurity into the Common Defence and Security Policy and to promote synergies between military ad civilian efforts; Calls on all stakeholders to reinforce knowledge transfer partnerships, implement appropriate business models and develop trust between companies and defence and civilian end-users, as well as to improve the transfer of academic knowledge into practical solutions, in order to create synergies and port solutions between the civilian and military markets – in essence a single market for cybersecurity;