Activities of Igor ŠOLTES related to 2016/2052(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
European Defence Union (A8-0316/2016 - Urmas Paet) SL
Amendments (5)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that a well-functioning internal market can would strongly and positively contribute to the objectives of the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) and regrets that few progress has been made so far in this direction despite the adoption in 2009 of the defence package directives;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls that the internal market instruments offer solutions for effective cooperation among Member States and for building on economies of scale, in order to avoid duplications and make expenditure more efficient in times of budget constraints and in view of the imminent risks of the EU defence sector losing critical expertise and innovation, autonomy and competitiveness advantages; strongly regrets the lack of transparency, or even sometimes the corruption, regarding the relations between national defence administrations and the defence industry, thereby involving inefficiency in spending public money and higher costs for tax payers;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Urges the Member States to fully enforce Directive 2009/81/EC, concerning procurement in the fields of defence and sensitive security, and Directive 2009/43/EC, concerning the transfer of defence-related products, while noting that Member States have made little use of the available tools, for example joint purchases through central purchasing bodies such as the European Defence Agency; urges to fight protectionist practices by Member States in the defence procurement and to limit the use of justified exclusions strictly to the purpose of protecting essential security interests rather than Member States' domestic industrial interests; stresses that the full phase-out of offsets is indispensable for fighting corruption, avoiding distortions of competition and ensuring the smooth and transparent functioning of the internal market in the European defence sector;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Highlights the importance of intensifying the synergies between security and defence and the synergies with other Union policies, and of building on integrated capabilities in order to develop common approaches in the areas of, for example, hybrid threats, terrorism, external border security, illegal immigration, common intelligence, cybersecurity and customs controls;