22 Amendments of Michael GAHLER related to 2018/2004(INI)
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the cyber defence and deterrence of Europe’s armed forces has become one of the critical issues in debates about defence modernisation and Europe’s common defence efforts;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas several Member States have invested substantially in setting up well-staffed cyber commands to meet these new challenges; whereas cyber defence isand deterrence are an activity that can best be tackled cooperatively as its operational domain recognises neither national nor organisational boundaries;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas while cyber defence remains a core competence of the Member States, the EU has a vital role to play in ensuring that these new endeavours are closely coordinated from the start to avoid the inefficiencies that mark many traditional defence efforts; whereas a credible cyber defence and deterrence is needed for achieving effective cybersecurity for the EU and a substantial cyber defence capabilcity is a necessary part of the development of the European Defence Union;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas both Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) and the European Defence Fund (EDF) are new initiatives with the necessary scope to foster an ecosystem that can provide opportunities for SMEs and startup companies, and to facilitate cooperative projects in the cyber defence domain;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas the EDA has launched a number of projects to meet Member States’ need for cyber defence capability development, including on education and, training and doctrine-support;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1
Subheading 1
Capability development for cyber defence deterrence
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3
Subheading 3
Cyber defence education and, training and doctrine-support
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Strongly supports the Military Erasmus initiative aimed at enhancing the interoperability of the armed forces of the Member States through an increased exchange of young officers; stresses that there is a need for more experts in the cyber defence domain; calls on the military academies to pay more attention to, and create more possibilities in, the field of cyber defence education, so that we can increase our cyber talent pool available for CSDP mission’s needs;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Council to consider, working with other relevant EU institutions and structures, ways to provide, at the earliest convenience possible, Union-level support for integrating the cyber domain into Member States military doctrines, in a harmonized manner, and in close cooperation with NATO;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls for identifying new initiatives to further cooperation between EU and NATO, taking into account as well the possibilities of cooperating within the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence and the NATO Communications and Information (NCI) Academy which aims to increase the training capabilities on IT and cyber systems, both software and hardware regarding cyber defence, including a dialogue with NATO on the possibility of EU joining the Centre as a party to increase complementarity and collaboration for the good of citizens in both the EU and NATO; welcomes the recent creation of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Stresses the need to strengthen cyber-diplomacy as a cross-sectional task in the EU’s foreign policy and its capacities and instruments across the board, so that they can effectively reinforce the EU’s norms and values, as well as lead to the reaching of consensus on the rules, norms and enforcement measures in cyberspace globally;
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. CAlso calls on the strengthening of the EU’s cyber diplomacy capacity and instruments across the board, so that they can effectively reinforce the EU’s norms and values, as well as help the parties concerned to reach consensus on rules, norms and enforcement measures in cyberspace globally;
Amendment 293 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Recalls the importance of R&D, in particular in the light of the high-level security requirements in the defence market; urges the EU and the Member States to give more practical support to the EU cyber-security industry, in particular SMEs and start-ups (key sources of innovative solutions in the area of cyber defence), and to promote closer cooperation with university research organisations and large players with a view to reducing dependencies on cyber security products form external sources and to creating a strategic supply chain inside the EU; notes, in this context, the valuable contribution that can be made by the future EDF and other instruments under the MFF;
Amendment 309 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on the EEAS and EDA, in close cooperation with the Commission, to take work forward on the update ofrevise the EU Cyber Defence Policy Framework to ensure that it remainsbetter define the roles and responsibilities between the EU institutions, agencies and member states, within a common governance framework, in order to be fit for purpose as the relevant policy support mechanism for achieving the EU’s cyber defence objectives;
Amendment 325 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 6 a (new)
Subheading 6 a (new)
Institutional reinforcement
Amendment 326 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31a. Calls on the Member States to have more ambitious cooperation in the cyber domain within PESCO; suggests to Member States to launch a new PESCO cyber cooperative programme in order to support quick and effective planning, command and control of present and future EU operations and missions; notes that this should lead to better coordination of operational capacities in cyberspace and may lead to the development of a common cyber defence command when the European Council so decides;
Amendment 327 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 b (new)
Paragraph 31 b (new)
31b. Repeats its call on the Member States and the VP/HR to present an EU White Book on Security and Defence; calls on the Member States and the VP/HR to make cyber defence and deterrence a corner stone of the White Book covering both the protection of the cyber domain for operations laid down in article 43 and common defence laid down in Article 42(7) TEU;
Amendment 328 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 c (new)
Paragraph 31 c (new)
31c. Notes that the new PESCO cyber cooperative programme should be led by both high-ranking military and civilian staff from each member state, on a rotating basis, and be accountable to the EU ministers of defence in the PESCO format and the VP/HR , in order to foster the principles of trust among member states and EU institutions and agencies concerning the sharing of information and intelligence;
Amendment 329 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 d (new)
Paragraph 31 d (new)
31d. Repeats its call to create an EU Council on Defence built out of the existing EDA ministerial Steering Board and the PESCO format of the EU ministers of defence, in order to guarantee prioritization, operationalization of resources and effective cooperation and integration among Member States;
Amendment 330 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 e (new)
Paragraph 31 e (new)
31e. Repeats its call to create a Directorate-General (DG) on defence and space within the European Commission; calls on the Commission to concentrate the defence against Cyber attacks in this future DG in order to protect EU data links and own space capabilities, e.g. Copernicus and Galileo;
Amendment 331 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 f (new)
Paragraph 31 f (new)
31f. Recalls the need to ensure that the European Defence fund is kept on, or even boosted in the next multi-annual financial framework, with a sufficient budget for Cyber defence;
Amendment 332 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 g (new)
Paragraph 31 g (new)
31g. Calls for increased resources to modernize and streamline cyber security and intelligence dissemination between the European External Action Service/European Union Intelligence and Situation Centre (INTCEN), Council and Commission;