29 Amendments of Reinhard BÜTIKOFER related to 2010/2299(INI)
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recognises that, in a turbulent global context and at a time of economic and financial crisis, the EU is being called upon to become an autonomous strategiceffective actor to uphold its values, pursue its interests, and protect its citizens by developing a shared vision of the main challenges and threats and aligning its resources to respond to them, thereby contributing to the preservation of international peace and stability, including by pursuing effective multilateralism;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls that strategic autonomycapacity to act in security affairs entails, for the EU, the capacity to agree common political objectives and strategic guidelines, to establish strategic partnerships with a wide range of international organisations and states, to collect adequate information and generate joint analyses and assessments, to harness and where necessary pool financial, military, and civilian resources, to plan and run effective crisis management operations across the entire range of the Petersberg tasks, and to frame and implement a common defence policy, laying the first tangible foundations on which to build common defence;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines that the duty of consistency as defined by the Treaty, the new wording of Article 40 TEU (which states that the implementation of both the CFSP and the other EU policies shall not affect the application of the respective procedures), and recent ECJ case law (see the SALW case) protect both the primacy of the Community method and the distinguishing features and prerogatives of the CFSP, while encouraging the convergence of different policies, instruments, resources, and legal bases in a holistic, comprehensive approach, whereby security becomes a cross-cutting objective of EU external and internal action and the CSDP is one of its instruments; in this context, notes that civilian and military assets can be deployed in situations other than CSDP missions, as hwas been shown in practice by the EU Military Staff coordination of military capabilities during the Pakistan floods in summer 2010in support of civilian-led humanitarian relief operations during the Pakistan floods in summer 2010 in accordance with the applicable UN Guidelines on the use of Military and Civil Defence Assets in international disaster relief (Oslo Guidelines) and following the request by the Commission;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Urges the European Council to carry out its task of identifying the strategic interests and political objectives of the EU by drawing up a European foreign policy strategy geared to international developments, which should be based on real convergence of the different dimensions of EU external action and subject to regular review; calls on the VP/HR to start work on an European White Paper on defence and military crisis management which precisely defines possible scenarios, political and military criteria for the deployment of EU military missions, possible exit strategies and also explicit benchmarks for evaluating the impact of military CSDP missions in specific countries and regions;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Considers the termination of the WEU Treaty and the disbandment of the WEU Assembly to be consistent with the new legal framework created by the Lisbon Treaty, and does not believe that disbandment of the Assembly will leave any form of vacuum in which the VP/HR, the Council, and the Commission could act outside of parliamentary control; declares its willingness to enhance cooperation with EU national parliaments into implement article 9 of Protocol 1 of the Lisbon Treaty in order to exercisinge democratic scrutiny over the CFSP and the CSDP, with the goal of mutually reinforcing their respective influence on the political choices made by the other European institutions and by the Member States while fully respecting national parliaments defence policy prerogatives;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Deplores the fact that the provisional organisation chart of the EEAS does not include the ‘appropriate structure’ which, under the Madrid accords, is to integrate the various units dealing with crisis response planning and programming, conflict prevention, and peace-building with the CSDP structures; calls first for a crisis management board to be set up, to be staffcomposed byof the CMPD, the CCPC, the EUMS, the EU SITCEN, the peace- building, conflict prevention, mediation, and security policy units, the Chair of the PSC, the geographical desks and other policy departments concerned, according to the circumstances, and the Commission humanitarian aid and civil protection structures, placed under the authority of the HR and the executive Secretary- Generalplaced under the authority of the VP/HR and the executive Secretary-General, and the Commission humanitarian aid and civil protection structures according to the circumstances, and coordinated by the Managing Director for Crisis Response; calls on the High RepresentativeVP/HR and the Commission to equip the board with an efficient alert and emergency system and a large unified operations room, located within the EEAS, so as to enable surveillance to be carried out 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, hence avoiding the present operational overlapping (seven operations rooms), which hardly squares with the need for a proper surveillance and rapid reaction system to deal with crises; calls for regular coordination and exchange to be ensured between this system and the European Emergency Response Centre currently being developed by the Commission to guarantee appropriate synergies while respecting each other specific mandates; secondly calls for a permanent working structure among the above mentioned actors beyond acute crisis management in order to develop common approaches, such as in the area of rule of law or security sector reform; thirdly calls in the midterm on a review of the current setting in order to establish truly integrated strategic planning and conceptual development in the field of crisis management and peace building for the external action service;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Maintains that reliable military capabilities are a sine qua non for a self- contained CSDP and an effective CSDP and a comprehensive approach and could be brought to bear in many different ways, not least for civilian purposes, in keeping with the principles underlying EU action on the international stage and the self-determined nature of the EU legal order;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Regrets the sharp contrast between the EUR 200 billion per year spent by the Member States on defence, the lack of means at the EU's disposal, and the painfully protracted force generation conferences for EU military operations at a time when there are redundant capabilities and personnel; deplores the fact that over more than twelve years the method of the force generation process has not yielded any de facto improvements regarding the quantity and quality of military capabilities available for CSDP missions; stresses the need to evaluate the improvements of military capabilities on a regular basis;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. recalls that CFSP and CSDP, besides strengthening the EU's military and civilian capabilities, should also lead to disarmament and non-proliferations of weapons ranging from small and light weapons (SALW) to nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles; urges the VP/HR to give this policy priority by promoting a new series of pro-active measures addressing the issues of landmines, cluster munitions, depleted uranium ammunition, and small and light weapons, biological, chemical and nuclear weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery; urges the VP/HR to report to the European Parliament about the implementation of the 2010 NPT Review Conference and its action plan on disarmament and non- proliferation on an annual basis;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Maintains that all of the above points should be tackled by means of a clear-cut long-term political resolve, making full use of the potential offered by the Lisbon Treaty, and that any common defence policy intended to move gradually towards common defence must serve to strengthen the EU's ability to respond to crises and long-term peace-building, and above all guarantee Europe's strategic autonomycapacity to act, averting the danger that its standing might decline on the world stage; calls on the national parliaments to embark on an appropriate joint initiative in relation to their institutional partners and calls for a special European Council meeting to be given over to European defence; renews its call for a European defence White Paper;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Takes note of the Franco-British initiative of 2 November 2010 on security and defence cooperation and hopes that it can act as a springboard for further progress at European level in line with the institutional framework and the requirements of rationalisation and technological, industrial, and operational integration from which it stemmed; takes the view that this bilateral initiative could hamper further multilateral cooperation in the framework of the Ghent or Weimar initiative; urges the governments of France and the United Kingdom to commit to future European multilateral pooling and sharing arrangements with regard to all bilateral cooperation projects except those which concern the issues of nuclear weapons, aircraft carriers and submarines;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Recommends that serious thought be given to the true significance of the clause on mutual assistance in the event of armed aggression on the territory of a Member State, tackling the unresolved problems regarding the implementing provisions, which were removed from the draft treaty on the functioning of the European Union; calls for political guidelines to be drawn up, an imperative need which has arise not least from the recent termination of the modified Treaty of Brussels (WEU); rejects the introduction of a nuclear dimension of CSDP and to this end opposes to link British or French nuclear weapons to the clause of mutual assistance;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Recommends that Member States commit themselves fully to the provision and sustainability of military capabilities, matching the trend towards growing emphasis on the qualitative aspect; endorses the requests made at the Ghent informal Defence Ministers' meeting and in the German-Swedish paper and the Weimar initiative and calls for the operative phase to begin without delay, in line with the December 2010 Council conclusions, in which the Defence Ministers agreed that EDA should intensify its work to facilitate the identification of areas for pooling and sharing military capabilities; calls on the Agency stresses the need to make this new approach to capability development a success; calls on the Member States to respect the deadline set by the December 2010 Council; reminds that the Chiefs of Staff of all 27 EU armed forces have been tasked to screen their capabilities until may 2011, that the EU Military Staff has been commissioned to use this data for producing an overview by mid 2011 and that EU Ministers of Defence will reach final conclusions by the end of this year; calls on the Agency to make this new initiative its priority and to list new potential new cooperation projects (for instance in areas such as satellite communications, medical support, and naval logistics) so as to avoid overlapping of costs and increase interoperability;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 – introductory part
Paragraph 37 – introductory part
37. Recognises the soundness of the Battlegroups, but calls for the concept and the structure of the groups, which have so far never been deployed, to be carefullya reviewed; believes that
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 – indent 1
Paragraph 37 – indent 1
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
Paragraph 40
40. Maintains that one of the prerequisites for a self-contained CSDP is the establishment of a competitive, transparent and efficient European defence and security market, with an enhanced European defence technological and industrial base (EDTIB) (including identification of key industrial capabilities, security of supply between countries, increased competition in the defence equipment market, a deepening and diversifying supplier base, and increased armaments cooperation) is desirable;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
Paragraph 45
45. Considers that the internal and external aspects of EU security should be treated as complementary dimensions of the same strategy, as the European Council has made clear since its meetings in Tampere (1999), Feira, and Stockholm (2010), when it adopted the European freedom, security, and justice area objectives for the period 2010-2014; stresses that under no circumstances core values and norms as human rights, fundamental rights and freedoms and humanitarian law are negotiable in the context of the fight against international terrorism and that one of the conclusions of the European Parliaments Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transportation and illegal detention of prisoners is that national and EU anti-terrorism policies and measures need more parliamentary oversight;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
Paragraph 46
46. Considers that it is more and more evident in modern times, and especially since September 11, that many transnational threats such as terrorism, organised crime, cybercrime, drugs, and trafficking in human beings cannot be neutraliaddressed without coordinated action involving external security policies and ‘internal’ legislative and political measures and tools which have already been announced with the first European anti- terrorism programme (2001) and the counterterrorism strategy (2005);
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47
Paragraph 47
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 54
Paragraph 54
54. Recognises that since 2003 the EU has undertaken numerous missions (24) in three continents involving different types of intervention, the bulk being accounted for by civilian missions specialising in policing, security sector reform (SSR), and consolidation of the rule of law; notes that out of 24 CSDP missions so far 16 have been of civilian nature;
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60 – indent 5
Paragraph 60 – indent 5
-in spite of its high profile and thsome successes which it has achieved, EU NAVFOR Somalia is being hampered by the lack of a clear regional strategy to tackle the causes of piracy and deal effectively with the chronic instability in the Horn of Africa;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60 – indent 5 a (new)
Paragraph 60 – indent 5 a (new)
EUTM Somalia also lacks a strategic and political framework e.g. an EU Horn of Africa or a EU Somalia strategy; in addition there is a great risk that the Somali security forces, once there are trained and equipped by the EU and back in Somalia, will not fight for the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), but for the group that pays the highest salary which, as a consequence, would worsen the security situation in the country;
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60 – indent 5 b (new)
Paragraph 60 – indent 5 b (new)
EUPOL RD Congo and EUSEC RD Congo are in the country since 2007 and 2005 respectively but have only had limited positive effects on target groups if any; recommends a stronger focus on the issue of sexual violence in order to increase the effectiveness of both missions
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 63
Paragraph 63
63. Welcomes the outcome achieved under the Madrid accords on the establishment of the EEAS, which has enabled three specific budget headings to be provided for the main CSDP missions (EULEX Kosovo, EUPOL Afghanistan, and EUMM Georgia) with a view to increasing transparency and improving parliamentary scrutiny of expenditure; stresses the need to allocate one budget line for each CSDP mission; declares its willingness to cooperate with the new permanent Chair of the of the PSC in order to improve, and enhance the effectiveness of, the joint consultation meetings on the CFSP, in keeping with the HR's statement on political accountability agreed in Madrid; declares its interest to learn from the US Congress and other national parliaments when it comes to procedures and methods on how to scrutinize security and defence policies;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 66
Paragraph 66
66. Recommends, as regards gender mainstreaming in line with UNSCR 1325 and to make civilian and military missions more effectives, that female personnel be involved in the appropriate manner at every level of crisis management; calls for the establishment of adequate public complaint procedures in the context of CSDP missions, which would particularly assist the reporting of sexual and gender- based violence; calls on the VP/HR to include a detailed report on women, peace and security in the six-monthly evaluation of CSDP missions; Stresses that it is important that the EU should appoint more female police officers and soldiers to CSDP missions, in which connection the contingent of female police officers within the UN peace-keeping force in Liberia could be used as a model;
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 71
Paragraph 71
71. Acknowledges that, on a legal basis, the Lisbon Treaty has overcome the previous dichotomy between Union and Community policies by conferring a unique legal personality and by strengthening the autonomcapacity of the EU legal order in terms of international law, even when international security is at stake, as already stated by the Court of Justice case law in the Kadi case (according to which ‘international law can permeate the EU legal order only under the conditions set by the constitutional principles of the Community’);
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 75
Paragraph 75
75. Welcomes the agreement in NATO's new strategic concept on further strengthening the EU-NATO strategic partnership; reaffirms the importance of enhancing EU-NATO cooperation in crisis management in the spirit of mutual reinforcement and with respect for their decision-making autonomy; draws attention to the necessity of avoiding unnecessary overlapping of effort and resources and invites the EU and NATO to deepen their cooperation, through their respective means, in the context of a comprehensive approach to crises in which both are engaged in the field; urges NATO to strictly limit the development of a civilian capability in order to avoid duplication;