13 Amendments of Reinhard BÜTIKOFER related to 2012/2138(INI)
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is concerned about the prospect of strategic decline facing the EU, not only through the downward trend in defence budget because of a lack of joint initiatives among Member States in order to strengthen, pool and share their respective civilian and military capabilities, but also because of the relative and progressive marginalisation of its crisis management instruments, in particular the military ones; believes that the Union must seek to not delegate its security to others;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point 4
Paragraph 9 – point 4
· the European Defence Agency is entrusted with important tasks in developingassisting the development of the military capabilities of Member States, including strengthening the industrial and technological base of the defence sector, formulating a European capabilities and arms policyinitiating joint programs such as Pooling and Sharing and implementing permanent structured cooperation;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Note that currently three operations (EUNAVFOR Atalanta, EUTM Somalia and EUCAP Nestor) are deployed for the benefit of the region and stresses the need to continue the coordination of the EU's intervention with efforts by the international community, first and foremost the African Union, to ensure that Somalia once again has a functioning and democratic State;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Pays tribute to the vitalNotes the contribution made by the EUNAVFOR Atalanta operation in combating piracy in the Gulf of Aden and the western Indian Ocean and approves the extension of its mandate until December 2014; approves also the extension of the scope of this mission to include Somalia's coastal zone and territorial and inland waters; calls on Member States to provide adequate air and sea resources for this operation and encourages commercial vessels to continue to apply best navigational practices so as to reduce the risk of attack; welcomes the contribution by the Netherlands to operation Atalanta in the form of an on- board protection team intended to ensure the safety of humanitarian convoys and encourages other Member States to make this type of contribution; calls on the HR/VP, the Operation Commander and the Member States to implement EUNAVFOR Atalanta's mandate also with regard to illegal fishing;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Highlights the positive role played by EUTM mission in Somalia, in close cooperation with Uganda, the African Union aRejects the deployment of the EU Military Training Mission (EUTM) to Uganda; notes that more than 3 000 Somali security forces have been trained so far by EU military trainers; reminds the United States, to train more than 3 000fact that by training the Somali rsecruits, some 2 500 of whom have already been reintegrated in theurity forces the EU becomes a party to the conflict and loses its role as a potential future mediator or peace broker; notes with concern the fact that Somalia security forces; estimates that the mission has contributed in particular to improving the situation in and around Mogadishu by strengthening the security forces of Somalia and AMISOM not only lack command and control structures, but also a financial framework which allows regular payments of salaries; notes with concern reports of government forces trained by EUTM looting food aid delivered by international donors to refugee camps in Mogadishu; is equally concerned by high unofficial defection rates amongst security forces trained by EUTM which might in the end strengthen Al Shabab or other militias;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 52
Paragraph 52
52. Stresses that, in terms of absolute value, spending in the combined European defence budgets of all Member States compares favourably with that of the major emerging powers and that the problem is thus less a budgetary than political one, ranging from the definition of a European industrial and technological base to the pooling of certain operational capabilitiesvery precise definition of the capabilities needed for effective CSDP missions to the pooling of certain operational capabilities; also reminds the fact that procurement in the field of armaments in Europe is still characterised by a high degree of duplication and thus a waste of tax payers money;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55
Paragraph 55
55. Welcomes the initial progress made by the European Union's ‘'pooling and sharing’' initiative and pays tribute tonotes the work of the European Defence Agency (EDA) which has only identified 11 priority areas for action out of 300 proposals made by the national Chiefs of defence (CHODs) in May 2011; stresses in particular the progress achieved in four areas: air-to-air refuelling, maritime surveillance, medical support and training; calls, however, for this initiative to be provided with a strategic framework and calls for a much more ambitious approach both in quantitative and qualitative terms;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 61
Paragraph 61
61. Insists that the building-up of European capabilities should also result in the consolidation of the industrial and technological base of Europe's defence industry; recalls in this connection the importance of the principle of European preference and the relevance of a European Buying Act;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 64
Paragraph 64
64. Welcomes the efforts of the European Defence AgencyNotes recent initiatives to maintain a European industrial and technological defence base and the Barnier / Tajani initiative to create within the European Commission a Task Force charged with preserving and developing this strategic tool whose function is to ensure the autonomy of the EU and its Member States in the field of defence; stresses that the creation of an European security and defence market should have a special focus on producing military and security goods which are needed for CSDP missions and that the creation of such an internal market must go hand in hand with a communitarisation of the EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports laid down in Common Position 2008/944/CFSP, adopted on 8 December 2008;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 87
Paragraph 87
87. Welcomes also the cooperation between the European Union and the United States in respect of crisis management operations, including EUTM Somalia, EUNAVFOR Atalanta, EULEX Kosovo and EUPOL Afghanistan; also welcomes the good cooperation between EUNAVFOR Atalanta and third countries such as Russia, China and India;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 87 a (new)
Paragraph 87 a (new)
87a. Calls on the HR/VP to send an CSDP expert as an observer to the Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) which since 1971 involves Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Singapore;