Activities of Sabine LÖSING related to 2018/2157(INI)
Plenary speeches (3)
Arms export: implementation of Common Position 2008/944/CFSP (A8-0335/2018 - Sabine Lösing) (vote) DE
Arms export: implementation of Common Position 2008/944/CFSP (debate) DE
Arms export: implementation of Common Position 2008/944/CFSP (debate) DE
Reports (1)
REPORT on arms exports: implementation of Common Position 2008/944/CFSP PDF (385 KB) DOC (71 KB)
Amendments (4)
Amendment 30 #
J. whereas the defence sector has become a focal point of EU policy since the European Global Strategy (EUGS) argues that a ‘sustainable, innovative and competitive European defence industry is essential for Europe’s strategic autonomy and for a credible CSDP’17 ; whereas the main task of the European Defence Fund and, as a precursor, the EDIDP, which has recently been launched, is allegedly to ‘support the competitiveness of Europe’s defence industry’18 ; _________________ 17 A Global Strategy for the European Union’s Foreign and. Security Policy: ‘Shared Vision, Common Action: A Stronger Europe’, Brussels, June 2016. 18 Launching the European Defence Fund, COM(2017)0295, Brussels, 7.6.2017.
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Insists, in the light of the Common Position review process, that support should be voiced for powerful, clear and unambiguous wording in the Common Position in order to avoid differing interpretations and applications of the criteria; urges that the Common Position’s review examine how the Common Position is implemented at national level, including an assessment of the different ways in which the Common Position is implemented in states’ laws and regulations, the methods used to assess licence applications and the government agencies and ministries that are involved; stresses, in this connection, that projects funded with the newly launched EDIDP and the future Defence Fund, must come under national and EU control and reporting mechanisms/regimes and be subject to full parliamentary scrutiny; believes that also the proposed Peace Facility needs to be subject to full parliamentary scrutiny, control and reporting mechanisms since it shall finance military training, infrastructure and equipment, including weaponry;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Takes the view that, because of the negative impact of arms spending on the development prospects of poorer recipient countries, criterion 8 should be upgraded by making denial of export licences automatic if they are incompatible with development;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls furthermore for the eight criteria to be extended and applied also to the transfer of military, security and police personnel, to arms-exports-related services, know-how and training, security technology and to private military and security services;