13 Amendments of Ilhan KYUCHYUK related to 2020/2080(INI)
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas Article 1(b) of Protocol 10 states that the Member States are to ‘have the capacity to supply by 2010 at the latest either at national level or as a component of multinational force groups, targeted combat units for the missions planned, structured at a tactical level as a battle group, with support elements including transport and logistics, capable of carrying out the tasks referred to in Article 43 of the Treaty on European Union, within a period of five to 30 days, in particular in response to requests from the United Nations Organisation, and which can be sustained for an initial period of 30 days and be extended up to at least 120 days’; whereas Article 1(b) needs to be revised in order to adequately respond to the challenging geopolitical environment; whereas the Member States are still far from achieving this goal;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the three-fold level of ambition under the EU Global Strategy in the field of security and defence covers securing external borders, countering hybrid threats and fighting against terrorism; whereas no Member State can protect itself alone, since security and defence threats faced by the EU, and which are targeted againstthe EU, its citizens and its territory faces, are a joint threat and cannot be addressed by onea single Member State on its own; whereas an effective EU system for addressing burden-sharing would be advantageous for the EU’s overall level of security and defence;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas PESCO’s long-term vision is to achievecontribute to a coherent full-spectrum force package available to the Member States; whereas PESCO should enhance the EU’s capacity to act as an international security provider in order to protect EU citizens and maximise the effectiveness of defence spending; whereas the cost of non-Europedue to doubling, overcapacity and obstructions for joint procurement in security and defence is, the costs are estimated to be more than EURbetween 25 and 100 billion EUR per year; 8a; _________________ 8a https://ec.europa.eu/commission/sites/beta -political/files/budget-may2018-eu- defence-fund_en_0.pdf
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas according to Council decision 2017/2315, establishing PESCO enhanced defence capabilities of the Member States will also benefit NATO, while strengthening the European pillar within the alliance and responding to repeated calls for strongermore balanced transatlantic burden-sharing; whereas NATO remains the cornerstone of many MS’s security architecture;
Amendment 76 #
I. whereas PESCO creates a binding framework between the pMS, which committed themselves to jointly investing, planning, developing and operating defence capabilities within Union framework in a permanent and structured manner by subscribing to 20 binding commitments in five areas set by the TEU; whereas these commitments should constitute a move from mere defence cooperation towards the integration of Member States’ defence forces through bilateral mutual beneficial partnerships; whereas despite these binding commitments, no effective compliance mechanism for PESCO is in place;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital R
Recital R
R. whereas the NATO Defence Planning Process (NDPP) drives defence national planning processes in most casMember States;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital S
Recital S
S. whereas interactions between Member States’ national priorities, EU priorities and NATO priorities should be synchronised at the earliest possible convenience, where appropriate and relevant; whereas PESCO canshould be an effective tool in order toand a complimentary tool in achieveing EU and NATO targets simultaneously;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital U
Recital U
U. whereas currently, PESCO projects are dependent on the 25 participating Member States’ financial contributions; whereas it is expected that, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, national defence budgets will suffer reductions; whereas paradoxically, several of the currently 47 PESCO projects, if funded accordingly, could strengthen Member States’ preparedness, should another massive public health crisis occur: military mobility – a flagship PESCO project –, the European Medical Command and many other projects in areas related to logistics and transportation, health care, disaster relief and, the fight against malicious cyber activities and hostile disinformation campaigns; whereas cutting funding for the strategic capabilities that the EU and its Member States currently lack would also weaken their ability to jointly act against future pandemics;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d
Paragraph 1 – point d
(d) encourage the pMS to switch from a strictly national focus on defence to a more prominent European one and to undertake structured efforts to increase the use of European collaborative approach as a priority, as no individual pMS alone has the potential to address identified capacity shortfalls alone;
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point j
Paragraph 1 – point j
(j) focus PESCO efforts on projects with a strategic and integrative dimension, such as EUFOR CROCdimension and to those projects that contribute to the remedy of important capability and operational shortfalls, and link those to other PESCO projects in order to create additional synergies and effects of scale;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point k
Paragraph 1 – point k
(k) ensure the possibility that future key land, sea, air, cyber and other platforms for the armed forces of the Member States arcan be brought under PESCO or are at least closely connected to it;
Amendment 327 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u
Paragraph 1 – point u
(u) clarify or define the link between the governance of PESCO and that of the EDF and to involveinform Parliament in the ex- post control process when it comes to EDF funding of PESCO projects;
Amendment 336 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point w a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point w a (new)