Activities of Ville NIINISTÖ related to 2022/2079(INI)
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REPORT on Critical technologies for security and defence: state of play and future challenges
Amendments (27)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9
Citation 9
— having regard to the European Defence Fund 2021-2027, with its substantialdedicated budget for emerging disruptive technologies,
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)
Citation 10 a (new)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 b (new)
Citation 10 b (new)
— having regard to its resolution of 7 June 2022 on the EEAS’s Climate Change and Defence Roadmap,
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas a strong and a technologically competitive defence sectorindustry is crucial for Europe’s security and prosperitydefence capabilities;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has shown that Europe needs to invest robustly in its defence and security technologies; in an efficient and collaborative manner; whereas Member States have set a 35% target for collaborative defence investments but have shown little and even decreasing political will to meet this target with only 11% in 2020 and a historic low of 8% in 2021;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas a steady and streliable supply of critical raw materials, technologies and components is vitalnecessary for Europe’s defence sector;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas cutting-edge technologies and corresponding human capital, and in particular fast-evolving digital technologies and skills, are ever more important factors in sustaining and strengthening Europe’s security and defence industries;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the current fragmentation of and duplication in Europe’s defence sector and the European defence market leads to inefficient use of economic resources and reduced defence capabilities and amounts to collective losses of EUR 25 to 100 Billion according to the Commission;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas some critical technologies which could be available for use in the defence sector originate in the civilian sector and could qualify for dual use if obstacles were removreciprocally, and boundary between defence and civilian applications is increasingly blurred;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas open research and innovation involving academia, private enterprise and the public sector has the potential to accelerate the development of Europe’s cutting-edge technologies which have the potential to address market fragmentation provided that interoperability is ensured;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
G a. Whereas participating Member States of the European Defence Agency have dedicated more than EUR 25 Billion for R&D in defence over 2017-2020, of which only a small portion has been spent collaboratively;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
Recital G b (new)
G b. Whereas deepening defence cooperation among Member States at Union level should go hand in hand with the strengthening of parliamentary oversight and control by both the European Parliament and national parliaments;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission’s roadmap for critical technologies for security and defence; emphasises the need for greater involvement of the European Union in coordinating and facilitating the development of security- and defence- related technology; underlines that the EU’s global technological competitiveness is highly dependent on innovation and the ability to deploy new technologies and train people rapidly;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines that the worsening of the security situation in Europe after Russia’s illegal, unprovoked and unjustified war of aggression against Ukraine demands a stronger and better coordinated effort by the European Union and its Member States to invest in critical security and defence technologies; is concerned that the growing global demand for conventional weapon systems in the context of the war in Ukraine may have a negative effect on investments in the development of new technologies and to establish a truly European defence equipment market;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the Commission’s setting up an observatory of critical technologies; calls on the Commission to fully integrate the findings of the observatory in its classified report to Member States on critical technologies and risks associated with strategic dependencies affecting security, space and defence; stresses the need for the Commission to further coordinate and facilitate cooperation between and resource pooling of the Member States in order to address the existing and future technology gaps; calls on the Commission to keep the European Parliament duly informed of the main outputs of this observatory; calls on the Commission to assess the opportunity of extending the scope of the Observatory to energy and mobility related industries;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the creation of an EU defence innovation scheme (EUDIS) and the ongoing work with various tools relating to defence and new and dual-use technologies in order to help innovative start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises overcome high technological, administrative, regulatory and market entry hurdles; calls on the Commission to encourage Member States, as the end users, to fully utilise cross-border innovation networks; calls on the Commission to duly consider the specific sensitivity of security and defence and the expected role and origin of private capital when setting up initiative under the EUDIS;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Is concerned about the lack of investment in new, disruptive technologies in the defence industry; calls on the Commission to establish the necessary cooperative tools and measures to encourage the defence industry to invest more in technological innovation in critical technologies for security and defence, in addition to producing existing weapon systems, in full compliance with and following the development of international law and the EU legislative framework, which prohibits the development of lethal autonomous weapons without meaningful human control over selection and engagement decisions when carrying out strikes against humans;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses the need for closersignificant potential of cooperation between the Member States, and in particular their state-owned military industries, on capability development to boost innovation in critical technologies for security and defence; calls on the relevant EU bodies to act as catalysts and accelerators to encourage the Member States to coordinate their capability development programmes and calls on the Commission and Member States to consider an EU mechanism to pool national resources for R&;D in defence and security with a sound involvement of the European Parliament in the implementation;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Emphasises that EU financed and co-financed innovation and development in critical and disruptive defence technologies should leadbe strictly conditional to a higher degree of interoperability and common procurement of defence equipment by Member States once the technologies developed have reached an appropriate technological readiness level; stresses that it is equally important not to duplicate existing projects via the European level and underlines the importance to add an additional criterion that obliges EU- funded initiatives to reduce existing duplications in a significant manner; asks that the appropriate technological readiness level be defined by the Commission in cooperation with the Member States;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Is concerned about the insufficient level of financing for defence from the EU funds; recalls the fact that the European Defence Fund budget was cut by approximately 40 % relative to the Commission’s proposal for the multiannual financial framework (MFF) 2021-2027; calls on the Commission to explore exDeplores the historic low collaboration rate of Member States on defence investment which is of 8% for 2021; stresses the fact that neither the current, nor a revised MFF will be able to provide sufficient financial resources to boost defence collaboration at EU level at an appropriate level as the current security situation demands a quantum leap; urges the Member States to consider pooling considerable parts of their risting funding schemes and alternatinational defence budgets at EU levesl to increase the funding for critical technologies for security and defence under the current MFFjointly replenish depleted ammunition stocks and to jointly purchase weapon systems, including the most complex and expensive ones such as fighter jets, warships, and main battle tanks;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Emphasises the need for better dual use of existing civilian technologies, as well as dual-use innovation in the field of critical technologies for security and defence and the corresponding potential of furthering synergies between EU programmes; stresses the need for better knowledge sharing networks for existing and new technologies so as to enable potential end users and investors to make better use of technologies already on the market or invest in high-potential emerging technologies;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Encourages innovation based on increased resource efficiency, development of new materials, promotion of secondary raw materials and more sustainable public procurement, and the use of environmentally sustainable technology solutions; calls on the Commission to explore the way forward on sustainable security and defence technologies and how the EU’s security and defence industries and the EU’s resilience could benefit; in line with the EU’s Climate Change and Defence Roadmap and its resolution of 7 June 2022 on the very same topic, in particular reducing the dependence of EU’s security and defence to fossil fuels, and the vulnerability to climate change and corresponding need of adaptation to it;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Underlines the need to increase investments in ‘green’ defence, in particular by dedicating a higher share of military and dual-technology innovation (equipment, energy, etc.) R&D funded from the EU budget to carbon-neutral fuels and propulsion systems for military aircraft, ships and other vehicles, in particular as regards future major weapons systems (e.g. the future combat air system (FCAS) and the European main battle tank (EMBT)) and others which are developed within the frameworks provided by the EU;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14 b. Calls on DG DEFIS, the Member States, the EEAS and the EDA to adopt an approach incorporating energy, carbon and environmental footprint by design when implementing relevant EU funds; welcomes the fact that the EDF contributes to the integration of climate actions into EU policies; recalls that the research and development actions can be directed at solutions to improve efficiency, reduce the carbon footprint and achieve sustainable best practices; welcomes the relevant investment of EUR 133 million provided for in the first annual work programme, but notes that this represents only 11 % of the overall annual EDF budget;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Highlights that Russia’s war against Ukraine has repeatedly demonstrated the effectiveness of disruptive technologies that often come at relatively low cost while having a powerful impact on the battlefield against large weapon systems and formations; calls on the Commission to conduct a study on the lessons identified from the war in Ukraine with regard to critical technologies for security and defence;