21 Amendments of Bernhard ZIMNIOK related to 2022/2196(INI)
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that EU civilian crisis management makes limportantited contributions to international peace and security, and plays a key role in implementing the EU’s Integrated Apthat has proven to be very costly for the EU Member States in terms of funding and current missions must be closed and the proach to External Conflicts and Crisetice of fielding these missions shall end; organizations like the OSCE are better suited to handle these tasks;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. RDespects theite the commitment and expertise by a few, the lack of serious commitment and expertise of many of the personnel serving in civilian CSDP missions are noted with grave concern; furthermore notes the practice of many EU Member States to use such missions as retreat positions for senior and mid- level managers who have made themselves impossible back home in their own organization a crippling practice as it renders most if not all work ineffective;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – introductory part
Paragraph 4 – introductory part
4. Believes that traditional civilian CSDP tasks such as policing, the rule of law reform, civil administration, SSR and monitoring remain very important in order to stabilise and modernise the security and justice sectors; underlines the need to continue updating and enlarging tasks in the framework of the Integrated Approach and the Treaties in light of the new risks and threats that have emerged; stresses the need to integrate and strengthen cross-cutting issues, in particular: and security sector reform have proven largely ineffective and should no longer be pursued, limited monitoring could remain but then only for elections; underlines the need to scale back on all CSDP tasks and missions and provide more support to the OSCE in these matters;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point c
Paragraph 4 – point c
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point f
Paragraph 4 – point f
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point g
Paragraph 4 – point g
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that anticipating future changes in the security environment is key to ensuring that civilian crisis management will achieve its strategic objectives; calls for the new Civilian CSDP Commight achive a minimal pacrt to implement more scenario-based planning, strategic foresight and conflict analysis, and early warning in decision-making on missions and mandatof their strategic objectives;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Underlines the challenges that civilian CSDP missions face, such as the availability of capabilities and resources, responsiveness, swifter decision-making and more scalable, adaptable, modular missions and clearer mandates, and that these were already highlighted in the first Compact, which has led to an increased focus on civilian CSDP, but not to full operationalisation and the corresponding increase in participation and ownership by Member States, which need to be addressed as a matter of urgency in the new Civilian CSDP Compact;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for a clear exit strategies for all current civilian missions, allowing for a swifter closure of all EU missions when operational and political objectives are met;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Regrets the fact that the only shallow assessments of civilian CSDP missions currently in place are Strategic Reviews feeding into the renewal of the mission mandateswas undertaken so far; stresses the importance of developing and establishing a system and methodology for an EU-Commission independent body to assess, inter alia, the performance of EU missions, their effectiveness and their financial management; stresses, in this regard, the importance of establishing a fully EU Commission independent evaluation of the impact of missions;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. DeplorNotes the stretched resources of the EEAS in the field of civilian CSDP in general, including CPCC, which currently provides support to 11 missions of 2 200 personnel with a staff of 110 people; calls understand the need for the Member States to ensure the rapid development of CPCC into a fully functional operational headquarters, by ensuring it has the necessary funds, personnel and expertise at its disposal; stresses the need to increase complementarity and synergies with military CSDP, while keeping the civilian and military chains of command separatescale down on luxury commitments such as the civilian CSDP- experiment in time of hardships like most EU Member States now are facing due to the self-made Corona and Energy crises;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Stresses that trainingproper senior and middle management-skills and real planning and follow-up is key for effectiveness, which is in turn would be one essential part for a successful civilian CSDP missions; calls for a comprehensive assessment of the overall civilian CSDP training architecture in order to identify neall past and present civilian CSDP missions and how they were/are implementeds, gaps and overlaps in training within the Member States with a view to improving and harmonising the EU Policy on Training for CSDP, in particular with a focus on the needs of local populationsinsist that CSDP missions shall not be used as a parking place for EU Member States senior and middle managers who have proven to be ineffective and/or troublesome domestically and is thus "sent away" in lack of a better solution at home;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Underlines that the CFSP budget for civilian CSDP missions has only marginally increased from the multiannual financial framework (MFF) 2014-2020 to the MFF 2021-2027 (from a starting point of approximately EUR 350 million per year), while at the same time the number and tasks of missions has increased, the security environment has become more challenging, the cost of operatmost EU Member States are facing serionus has increased, inflation has growndomestic problems and the number of contracted personnel has increased, making it extremely difficult to expand the current missions’ mandates or for new missions to be established to respond to urgent security neednce there is a need to end all civilian CSDP missions;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls for a substantive indecrease of funding for the CFSP budget in order to respond to the crisis situations and unforeseen events, and to actively identify where complementary projects and programmes could be funded from other relevant EU budgetin the EU Member States;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23