2 Amendments of Andrew DUFF related to 2008/2003(INI)
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. Calls on the Council to initiate a dialogue with Parliament on the possibility of transferring the Athena mechanism to the CFSP budget while retaining the flexibility provided by AthenaRegrets the unnecessary complexity of the arrangements laid down in Article 28 of the EU Treaty with regard to the rapid financing of ESDP activities outside the EU budget; insists that the Interinstitutional Agreement on budgetary discipline and sound financial management of 17 May 2006, and the structured dialogue between the Council and Parliament envisaged therein, be fully implemented;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
Paragraph 40
40. Points out that the European Parliament, through its contacts with the national parliaments (Conference of Foreign Affairs Committee Chairs, Conference of Defence Committee Chairs, NATO Parliamentary Assembly) and through the future implementation of the Protocol to the Lisbon Treaty on the role of national pIn the light of the new potential in CFSP and ESDP afforded by the Treaty of Lisbon, wishes to foster closer collaboration between relevant committees of the European and national parliaments, including parliamentary observers from non-EU NATO members together with members from the NATO Parliamentary Assembly; points out that the European Parliaments, is the legitimate body at European level in which scrutiny, monitoring and control of ESDP should take place in the first instance;