16 Amendments of Romana JERKOVIĆ related to 2022/0219(COD)
Amendment 67 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 a (new)
Recital 5 a (new)
(5a) This new instrument will be an important step towards to the creation of the EU Defence Union and shall contribute to enhance the Union’s open strategic autonomy, to strengthen its ability to protect its citizens and to reinforce the EU’s global position in the context of increasing security threats at the international level.
Amendment 68 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 b (new)
Recital 5 b (new)
(5b) The Instrument should also contribute to drive transformational change in the European Defence Technological and Industrial Base, simultaneous to improving security in the European Union. These changes include building more resilient supply chains, growing the advanced manufacturing sector and exports, and enhancing technological innovation.
Amendment 77 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 a (new)
Recital 6 a (new)
(6a) National regulations and increasing administrative burden in the defence sector of the Member States contributed to hindering competition and reducing economies of scale in the European defence industrial base.
Amendment 98 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) The Short Term Instrument should offset the complexity and risks associated with such joint actions, including common procurement, while allowing economies of scale in the actions undertaken by Member States to reinforce and modernise the European Technological and Industrial Base, increasing thereby the Union’s capacity resilience and security of supply. Incentivizing common procurement would also result into diminished costs in terms of administrative burdens, exploitation, maintenance and withdrawal of the systems.
Amendment 100 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13 a (new)
Recital 13 a (new)
(13a) The instrument should be accompanied by measures aimed strengthening the European Defence Technological and Industrial Base European defence industry ensuring a level playing field for suppliers of all Member States and with particular attention to the involvement of SMEs, start-ups and mid-caps in the value chain.
Amendment 106 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) This Instrument will build on and take into account the work of the Defence Joint Procurement Task Force established by the Commission and the High Representative/Head of the European Defence Agency, in line with the Joint Communication ‘Defence Investment Gaps Analysis and Way Forward”, to coordinate very short-term defence procurement needs and engage with Member States and EU defence manufacturers to support joint procurement to replenish stocks, notably in light of the support provided to Ukraine.
Amendment 128 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) In certain circumstances, it should be possible to derogate from the principle that contractors and subcontractors involved in a common procurement supported by the Instrument are not subject to control by non-associated third countries or non -associated third-country entities. In that context, a legal entity established in the Union or in an associated third country and controlled by a non-associated third country or a non-associated third country entity may participate as contractor and subcontractor involved in the common procurement if strict conditions relating to the due diligence framework to identify, prevent, mitigate environmental and social risks, to the security and defence interests of the Union and its Member States, as established in the framework of the Common Foreign and Security Policy pursuant to Title V of the Treaty on European Union (TEU), including in terms of strengthening the European Defence Technological and Industrial Base, are fulfilled.
Amendment 160 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1
This Regulation establishes the short-term instrument for the European Defence Industry Reinforcement through common Procurement Act (the ‘Instrument’).
Amendment 180 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) to foster the competitiveness and efficiency of the European Defence Technological and Industrial Base (EDTIB), and opening the supply chains throughout the Union, including SMEs and mid-caps, for a more resilient Union, in particular by speeding up, in a collaborative manner, the adjustment of industry to structural changes, including ramp-up of its manufacturing capacities; , also through technological innovations;
Amendment 194 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
(ba) to replenish stocks, in particular the most urgent and critical defence products needs by the Union, mainly those created by the disruption caused by the urgent transfer of defence products to Ukraine, taking into account the work of the Defence Joint Procurement Task Force.
Amendment 200 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 2
2. The objectives shall be pursued with an emphasis on strengthening and developing the Union defence industrial base to allow it to address in particular the most urgent and critical defence products needs, especially those revealed or exacerbated by the response to the Russian aggression against Ukraine, taking into account the work of the Defence Joint Procurement Task Force, increasing the strategic autonomy of the Union and strengthen its ability to protect its citizens.
Amendment 243 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. The minimum level of the Union contribution attributed to each action will be set out in the work programme referred to in Article 11 of the present regulation. The level of the Union contribution attributed to a given action will increase from its minimum level in the following cases, which indicate common procurement of higher value: a) At least 10% of the estimated value of the common procurement contract is allocated to SMEs, as contractors or subcontractors, that meet the funding conditions specified in Article 8 of the present regulation; b) At least 15% of the estimated value of the common procurement contract is allocated to mid-caps, as contractors or subcontractors, that meet the funding conditions specified in Article 8 of the present regulation.
Amendment 253 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 6
Article 8 – paragraph 6
6. The participating Member States shall provide to the Commission a notification from the procurement agent on the guarantees provided by a contractor or subcontractor involved in the common procurement that is established in the Union or an associated third country and controlled by a non-associated third country or a non-associated third country entity. The guarantees and related provisions in the procurement contract shall be made available to the Commission upon request. The guarantees shall provide assurances that the involvement of the contractor or subcontractor involved in the common procurement fulfil strict conditions relating to the due diligence framework to identify, prevent, mitigate environmental and social risks and does not contravene the security and defence interests of the Union and its Member States as established in the framework of the CFSP pursuant to Title V of the TEU, or the objectives set out in Article 3.
Amendment 264 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 8 a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. When contractors and subcontractors involved in the common procurement use their assets, infrastructure, facilities and resources located or held outside the territory of the Member States or of the associated third countries, the commonly procured product shall meet the Union’s environmental, social, governance and ethics rules, as they are applied to the defence products manufactured in the European Union.
Amendment 317 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 2
Article 12 – paragraph 2
2. The report shall build on consultations of Member States and key stakeholders and shall, in particular, assess the progress made towards the achievement of the objectives set out in Article 3 and evaluate the Instrument contribution to the following: a) participation of SMEs, start-ups and mid-caps in the action as contractors and subcontractors involved in the common procurement; b) reinforcement of the EDTIB throughout the Union; c) identification of the involvement of each Member States.
Amendment 331 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 13 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. The Commission shall provide, in particular, SMEs and mid-caps the information needed to allow and facilitate their participation in the common procurement process, including supporting instruments to reduce administrative burdens.