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Activities of Mick WALLACE related to 2022/2078(INI)

Plenary speeches (1)

Strategic Compass and EU space-based defence capabilities (A9-0334/2023 - Arnaud Danjean)
2023/11/23
Dossiers: 2022/2078(INI)

Amendments (22)

Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)
– having regard to The Convention on the Prohibition of Military or any other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques (ENMOD Convention) adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 10 December 1976,
2023/07/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 30 a (new)
– having regard to the Group of Governmental Experts on the prevention of an arms race in outer space established in 2017 by resolution A/RES/72/250 of the UN General Assembly,
2023/07/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas the EU has programmes and capabilities thato make it a space powern important player for peaceful civilian space governance;
2023/07/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas there have been numerous calls at the United Nations for a legally binding international agreement to ensure that space does not become militarised and to prevent an arms race in space;
2023/07/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas at the Conference on Disarmament, China and the Russian Federation introduced the draft treaty on the prevention of the placement of weapons in outer space and of the threat or use of force against outer space objects in 2008 and submitted an updated version in 2014, and most recently in September 2022 the Russian Federation supported by China and others submitted a draft resolution at the United Nations entitled "Prevention of an arms race in outer space," and in October 2022 the United States with broad sponsorship submitted a draft resolution entitled "Destructive direct-ascent anti-satellite missile testing";
2023/07/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas the space capabilities of the EU and its Member States generate activities that are essential to the economy and the functioning of our societies;deleted
2023/07/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas if we combine the expected growth of the space sector in the coming years and the fact that rocket production and launches generate emissions across layers of the atmosphere, up to and including the ozone layer, it is evident that environmental pollution risks from rocket launch emissions merit consideration; whereas this issue of the potential impacts of space activities on the environment will require further attention at the international level;
2023/07/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas additional normative international frameworks are needed to prevent any extension of armed conflict into outer space and to prevent the weaponisation of outer space;
2023/07/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
F. whereas threats to the space, civilian or military capabilities of the EU and its Member States, whether accidental or intentional, have grown in number and are difficult to detect and attribute to a source, and unfriendly behaviour, whether rooted in ambiguity or intimidationdue to this ambiguity, the perception of unfriendly behaviour, has intensified;
2023/07/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the findings and high level of ambition in the recommendations proposed in the EU space strategy in the area of security and defence, which lives up to the high expectations of European players in the space sector, and calls for the recommended actions to be taken in a swift and effective mannerRejects the EU space strategy in the area of security and defence;
2023/07/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the upsurge existing risks and threats in space is good reason to bolsterfrom space debris requires improving the resilience of space infrastructure, systems and services;
2023/07/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses the need to develop at a UN level an effective framework for the coordination of space situational awareness and to develop norms and principles for space debris removal;
2023/07/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses that capacity for autonomous access to space is an essential element of European space policy; takes the view, therefore, that a special, synergy- based effort must be made to further the long-term production of reusable European launchers;
2023/07/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the Union to initiate and support the demilitarisation of Outer Space, for example through the further development and enforcement of the so- called Outer Space Treaty and the PAROS (Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space) UN resolution; Calls for the purely civilian use and exploration of Outer Space; insists that the Union should lead the way in strengthening the increasingly contested area of international space law;
2023/07/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Recalls the UN “Frameworks for a peaceful world – promoting peace, international law and digital coopera-tion”, where Member States agreed that outer space must be explored and utilised only for peaceful pur-poses and for the benefit of all States;
2023/07/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Welcomes the proposal set out in the strategy to amend Decision 2021/698 with a view to attributing and addressing threats to space programme services; calls for more meaningful responses on solidarity mechanisms to be taken at EU level; calls for further work to be done to make the mutual assistance clause ready for use (Article 42(7) TEU);
2023/07/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Stresses that EU and Member State resilience and their response to hostile actionrisks in space must be underpinned by clear, flexible and responsive governance;
2023/07/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Stresses that changes to Copernicus services to enable it to meet defence requirements should be subject to appropriate governance closely involving the European Union Satellite Centre (SatCen); recognises the essential role of SatCen as a single collective geospatial intelligence capability that lends weight to the EU’s and its Member States’ capacity to take autonomous decisions and action;deleted
2023/07/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Notes that the changing geopolitical landscape must spur the EU and its Member Statesthe international community on to reach common and coordinated positions so that they are able to set standards; supportsthrough multilateral solutions, reached within the UN framework, in the area of space governance; calls on the European Union and its Member States to reaffirm the applicability of international humanitarian law;
2023/07/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Calls on Member States to engage with the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space to establish an international mechanism to coordinate the implementation of the proposed regime or governance frameworks on the sustainability of outer space, taking into account the five United Nations treaties on outer space and other instruments for international cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space; notes that this international coordination mechanism, developed in cooperation with relevant bodies of the United Nations system, should incorporate a platform for broader operational stakeholder inclusion;
2023/07/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Stresses the importance of developing cooperation with strategic partners; supports the continuation of an enhanced dialogue with the United States, while remaining vigilant to the risk that it may seek to steer or dictate outlooks, standards and rules that the Member States have not helped to shape; calls for deeper cooperation and for alliances to be established with like-minded states (the UK, Canada, Japan) or other EU partners (India); calls for deeper cooperation with the wider international community through forums such the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and its subcommittees and working groups;
2023/07/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Notes that NATO is conducting strategic reflection in the space domain; notes, however, that the EU, in its own right and through its Member States, already has more developed programmes, capacities and institutions that do not compete with these advances; calls for closer cooperation between the EU and NATO to be pursued in areas of shared interest, while ensuring that the roles, competences and autonomy of the two organisations are scrupulously maintained;deleted
2023/07/06
Committee: AFET