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18 Amendments of Marcel de GRAAFF related to 2017/2123(INI)

Amendment 40 #
Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Marie-Christine ARNAUTU, Marcel de GRAAFF
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Is concerned that in a challenging security environment, and at a moment when the EU and NATO are endeavouring to broaden and deepen their cooperation, two key players in the field of security and defence, the US and the UK, are redefining their positions with regard to both organisations; stresses that we stand firmly committed to the transatlantic community of common values and interests;deleted
2017/09/19
Committee: AFET
Amendment 58 #
Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Marie-Christine ARNAUTU, Marcel de GRAAFF
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Believes strongly that wthenever necessary, the European Union needs to take its destiny into its own hands; stresses that the framing of a common defence policy referred to in Article 42 TEU has the objective of est legitimate defence obligation lies solely with States, as they have the military capabilishing common defence and endowing the Union with strategic autonomy and freedom of action in promoting peace, security and progress in Europe and in the worldties and the responsibility to protect their citizens;
2017/09/19
Committee: AFET
Amendment 134 #
Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Marie-Christine ARNAUTU, Marcel de GRAAFF
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Welcomes the willingness of Member States to implement Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO), and calls for its swift establishment by the Council; underlines that the desired inclusiveness of participation must not compromise either full commitment to the CSDP or a high level of ambition and binding commitments among Member States;deleted
2017/09/19
Committee: AFET
Amendment 141 #
Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Marie-Christine ARNAUTU, Marcel de GRAAFF
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses that PESCO should benefit from effective Union support, in full respect of Member States’ competences in defence; renews its call for appropriate PESCO funding to be provided from the Union budget; considers that participation in all Union agencies and bodies falling under the CSDP, including the European Security and Defence College (ESDC), should be made a requirement under PESCO; renews its call for the EU Battle Group System to be brought under PESCO and made eligible for EU funding as far as possible;deleted
2017/09/19
Committee: AFET
Amendment 164 #
Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Marie-Christine ARNAUTU, Marcel de GRAAFF
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Calls for the setting-up of a Directorate-General for dStresses that the proposal to create a Defence withDG in the Commission (DG Defence), which should drive the Union’s actions to support, coordinate or supplement the actions of the Member States aimed at the progressive framing of a common defence policy, as foreseen by Article 2 TFEUwould be a betrayal of the will of the Member States and would add to the burgeoning bureaucracy of the European Union; recalls that only inter-state cooperation involving countries with viable defence instruments can ensure the security of the continent;
2017/09/19
Committee: AFET
Amendment 167 #
Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Marie-Christine ARNAUTU, Marcel de GRAAFF
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Considers that the proposed DG Defence should have the responsibility for ‘Defence Schengen’ arrangements, for security of supply, standardisation and military certification arrangements, for EU contributions to programmes under the CSDP and PESCO, for EU-funded defence research, and for the interinstitutional arrangements in the defence remit, including the EU White Book;deleted
2017/09/19
Committee: AFET
Amendment 177 #
Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Marie-Christine ARNAUTU, Marcel de GRAAFF
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Underlines that the proposed DG Defence should work in liaison with the EuropeanDefenceAgency (EDA); considers that the EDA should be the implementing agency for Union actions under the European Capabilities and Armaments policy, where this is foreseen by the Lisbon Treaty; renews its call on the Council to ensure that the administrative and operational expenditure of the EDA is funded from the Union budgeStresses that a Europe of Defence can only be achieved through cooperation between the Member States facilitated by agencies such as the European Defence Agency, which must remain an intergovernmental instrument;
2017/09/19
Committee: AFET
Amendment 185 #
Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Marie-Christine ARNAUTU, Marcel de GRAAFF
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Welcomes the strategic review of the EU’s Capability Development Plan (CDP) due to be completed in Spring 2018; underlines that the CDP will enable the EDA to foster collaboration among Member States in filling capability gaps;deleted
2017/09/19
Committee: AFET
Amendment 211 #
Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Marie-Christine ARNAUTU, Marcel de GRAAFF
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Thanks the more than six thousand women and men who have given excellent and loyal service in the Union’s civilian and military missions on three continents; greatly values these missions as Europe’s common contribution to peace and stability in the world and to the security of our citizens; welcomes the increase in Member States’ defence spending in support of our service members; takes the view that this trend needs to be sustained, strengthened and coordinated at European level;deleted
2017/09/19
Committee: AFET
Amendment 219 #
Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Marie-Christine ARNAUTU, Marcel de GRAAFF
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Welcomes the presentation of the first annual report on the CSDP by the VP/HR; regrets, however, that this report is of quantitative nature only, describing achievements with statistical data and detailed information rather than evaluating the political impact of CSDP activities in improving the security of our citizens;deleted
2017/09/19
Committee: AFET
Amendment 225 #
Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Marie-Christine ARNAUTU, Marcel de GRAAFF
22. Welcomes the recent establishment of a nucleus for a permanent EU operational headquarters (MPCC - Military Planning and Conduct Capability), as demanded by Parliament in its resolution of 12 September 2013; calls on the Member States to staff it with adequate personnel in order to make it work;deleted
2017/09/19
Committee: AFET
Amendment 235 #
Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Marie-Christine ARNAUTU, Marcel de GRAAFF
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Considers that as a consequence of the UK’s announcement of withdrawal from the Union, the command option of EUNAVFOR Atalanta needs to be reviewed; considers that the Union’s naval missions in the Mediterranean and the Horn of Africa could be brought under the command of a single naval headquarters;deleted
2017/09/19
Committee: AFET
Amendment 240 #
Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Marie-Christine ARNAUTU, Marcel de GRAAFF
24. Notes that only 75 % of the positions in civilian CSDP missions are filled; is convinced that this impedes the effectiveness of the missions; urges Member States to ensure that all vacant posts in all missions are swiftly filldeleted;
2017/09/19
Committee: AFET
Amendment 244 #
Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Marie-Christine ARNAUTU, Marcel de GRAAFF
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. Regrets that Member States are failing to quickly deploy the staff necessary for the preparatory and set-up stages of civilian CSDP missions; welcomes, in this context, the proposal jointly developed by the EEAS and Commission services for a multi-layered approach in order to further speed up the deployment of civilian CSDP missions;deleted
2017/09/19
Committee: AFET
Amendment 247 #
Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Marie-Christine ARNAUTU, Marcel de GRAAFF
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
26. Urges the EEAS and the Council to step up their ongoing efforts to improve cybersecurity, in particular for CSDP missions, inter alia by taking measures at EU and Member State levels to mitigate threats to the CSDP;deleted
2017/09/19
Committee: AFET
Amendment 250 #
Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Marie-Christine ARNAUTU, Marcel de GRAAFF
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Calls on the Member States to apply full burden-sharing to military CSDP missions by enlarging common funding, which should enable and encourage more Member States to contribute their capabilities and forces; underlines the importance of reviewing the Athena mechanism in this regard and of substantially broadening the common cost financing;deleted
2017/09/19
Committee: AFET
Amendment 258 #
Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Marie-Christine ARNAUTU, Marcel de GRAAFF
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. Believes that the EU-NATO Joint Declaration has the potential to move cooperation to a higher level; welcomes the common set of 42 proposals aimed at strengthening both cooperation and coordination between the two organisations; also welcomes the first joint implementation report by the two organisations published in June 2017;deleted
2017/09/19
Committee: AFET
Amendment 286 #
Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Marie-Christine ARNAUTU, Marcel de GRAAFF
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
30. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the European Council, the Council, the Commission, the Vice- President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the Secretary- General of the United Nations, the Secretary-General of NATO, the EU agencies in the space, security and defence fields, and the national parliaments.deleted
2017/09/19
Committee: AFET
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