9 Amendments of Reinhard BÜTIKOFER related to 2013/2125(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Reminds the EU Member States, the VP/HR, the European Commission, and the European Defence Agency that more than two decades after the Cold War and after having been able to take advantage of relatively high national defence budgets the EU Member States were not able to fulfil the Helsinki Headline Goals and other joint military capability development objectives; therefore questions the argument that current cuts in national defence budgets might automatically lead to capability gaps for CSDP and weaken the CSDP because these capabilities do not yet exist due to past failures;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the European Council to enable the EDA fully to assume its institutional role; reiterates the urgent need for Member States to provide the EDA with adequate funding for the full range of its missions and tasks; takes the view that this would best be done by financing the Agency's staffing and running costs from the Union budget, starting with the forthcoming multiannual financial framework;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Recalls that opening the EU budget for defence research or for procuring military goods and technology represents a strategic mistake as introducing fresh money would only prolong the current structural deficits such as inefficiency, duplication, corruption and the procurement of useless military goods and technology;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Considers that EDTIB-related defence research and innovation remains on a valid ethical basis; notes that a whole chapter of the Treaty of Lisbon is devoted to the common security and defence policy, which includes defence technology research and the framing of a common Union defence; calls on the Member States and EDA to significantly increase quantity and quality of joint research and development projects;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Encourages the EDA to build on its track record of successful joint investment programmes and to work in liaison with the Commission in order to launch research and development programmes, based on Article 185 TFEU;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Is concerned by the fact that a number of Member States are preparing to buy used F-16 fighter jets without giving European companies a fair chance to compete; considers that such a practice stands in contrast to the objective of the European Council to strengthen the European Defence Industrial Base; reminds these Member States of the need to implement the principles of non- discrimination and transparency as laid down in the Treaty of Lisbon also to government-to-government sales;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on the Member States, the EDA and the Commission to work together towards the gradual phasing-out of offset requirements, while fostering the integration of smaller Member States' industries into the European defence technological and industrial base by means other than offsets; encourages Member States in particular to make full use of the Directives provisions on subcontracting and General Licences to achieve this objective;