5 Amendments of Elie HOARAU related to 2011/2023(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Asks the Commission, in setting out the major principles for the establishment of a rapid disaster mobilisation capacity, to take up the ideas outlined in its report entitled ‘For a European civil protection force’, particularly in relation to natural disasters such as major fires, floods, earthquakes, volcanic irruptions, hurricanes and tidal waves, and also to accidents at sea and protection against oil spills and nuclear risks;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Asks the Commission to address the question of establishing bases to pre- position rapid mobilisation capacity in the Outermost Regions and the Overseas Countries and Territories (although not exclusively there), as their geographic location would make for more effective delivery of aid to those countries most often affected not only by natural disasters but also by humanitarian, health and medical emergencies;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to aim towards an additional EU involvement in terms of resources and capacities for disasters taking place within the EU and directly affecting its citizens and, incidentally, EU taxpayerthroughout the EU, including in the Outermost Regions and islands, and affecting its citizens;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Emphasises the importance of identifying and mapping the resources available in the Member States and, alongside measures aimed at improving coordination and availability, to use the results of this exercise to identify shortcomings and pinpoint where the EU needs to provide the Member States with practical help to optimise and offset their positioning; considers that a mobile European rapid response unit could be set up to assist the Member States in their response to disasters by providing supplementary resources; considers that this type of mobile European unit, capable of responding rapidly to risks of flooding, major fires and natural disasters (seismic and volcanic threats, hurricanes, tidal waves and storms) as well as accidents at sea, could prove to represent genuine European added value, the symbolic force of which would be all the greater for the fact that it would offer European citizens support in their hour of need;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Explicitly adheres to the principles of solidarity and mutual assistance in the event of disaster, as laid down in numerous multinational and bilateral agreements and given expression in the many cases of practical inter-regional intervention; sees the many facets of interregional cooperation across national borders as evidence of the particularly important contribution made by the regions with regard to rapid assistance for purposes of civil protection; considers that this fruitful cooperation extends, inter alia, to the shared aim of mapping risks and assessing potential threats;