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32 Amendments of Kateřina KONEČNÁ related to 2017/0309(COD)

Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 3
(3) Natural and man-made disasters can strike anywhere across the globe, often without warning. Whether of natural or man-made origin, they are becoming increasingly frequent, extreme and complex, exacerbated by the impacts of climate change, and irrespective of national borders. The human, environmental, and economic consequences stemming from disasters can be enormous. As regards disasters caused by acts of terrorism, nuclear or radiological accidents, the Union Mechanism should cover only the preparedness and response actions within the field of civil protection.
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 5
(5) Prevention is of key importance for protection against disasters and requires further action. To that effect, Member States should share relevant elements of risk assessments on a regular basis as well as summaries of their disaster risk management planning in order to ensure an integrated approach to disaster management, linking risk prevention, preparedness and response actions. In addition, the Commission should be able to require Member States to provide specific prevention and preparedness plans in relation to specific disasters, notably with a view to maximising overall Union support to disaster risk management. Administrative burden should be reduced and prevention policies strengthened, including by ensuring necessary links to other key Union policies and instruments, notably the European Structural and Investment Funds as listed in recital 2 of Regulation (EU) No 1303/201313 . _________________ 13 Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 laying down common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 (OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 320).
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 57 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 6
(6) There is a need to reinforce the collective ability to prepare and respond to disasters notably through mutual support in Europe. In addition to strengthening the possibilities already offered by the European Emergency Response Capacity ('EERC' or 'voluntary pool'), from now on referred to as "European Civil Protection Pool", the Commission should also establish rescEU. The composition of rescEU should include emergency response capacities to respond to wildfires, large- scale floods and earthquakes, as well as a field hospital and medical teams in line with World Health Organisatrisks, that are having most severe impact on life, health and property of EU citizens. In this regard, regional and local authorities need to be appropriately involved in the activities carried out by this Decision, standards, that can be rapidly deployedince they are the first to respond after a disasters.
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 96 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 15
(15) Since the objectives of this Decision cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States acting alone but can rather, by reason of scale or effects, be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Decision does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve those objectives.deleted
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 101 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b Decision No 1313/2013/EUArticle 3 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) progress in implementing the disaster prevention framework: measured by the number of Member States that have made available to the Commission their relevant elements of risk assessments, an assessment of their risk management capability and a summary of their disaster management planning as referred to in Article 6;
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 112 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4 – point a
Decision No 1313/2013/EU
Article 6 – point a
(a) develop risk assessments at national or appropriate sub-national level and make them available to the Commission a summary of the relevant elements thereof by 22 December 2018 and every five years theree years thereafterafter, without prejudice to Article 346 TFEU, which guarantees that no Member State should be obliged to supply information, the disclosure of which it considers contrary to the essential interests of its security;
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 120 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4 – point a
Decision No 1313/2013/EU
Article 6 – point b
(b) develop and refine their disaster risk management planning at national or appropriate sub-national level based on the risk assessments referred to in point (a) and taking into account the assessment of their risk management capability referred to in point (c) and the overview of risks referred to in point (c) of Article 5(1).deleted
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 124 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4 – point b
Decision No 1313/2013/EU
Article 6 – subparagraph 2
A summary of the relevant elements of the risk management planning shall be provided to the Commission, including information on the selected prevention and preparedness measures, by 31 January 2019 and every three years thereafter. In addition, the Commission may require Member States to provide specific prevention and preparedness plans, which shall cover both short- and long-term efforts. The Union shall duly consider the progress made by the Member States with respect to disaster prevention and preparedness as part of any future ex-ante conditionality mechanism under the European Structural and Investment FundThe Commission, in cooperation with Member States, may also establish specific consultation mechanisms to enhance appropriate prevention and preparedness planning and coordination among Member States prone to similar type disasters.
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 141 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6 – point b
Decision No 1313/2013/EU
Article 11 – paragraph 2
2. On the basis of identified risks, the Commission and the Member States shall define the types and the number of key response capacities required for the European Civil Protection Pool ("capacity goals"). The Commission shall monitor progress towards the capacity goals and remaining gaps and shall encourage Member States to address such gaps. The Commission may support Member States in accordance with Article 20, point (i) of Article 21(1) and Article 21(2).
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 146 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6 – point c Decision No 1313/2013/EU
7. Response capacities that Member States make available for the European Civil Protection Pool shall be available for response operations under the Union Mechanism following a request for assistance through the ERCC, unless Member States are faced with an exceptional situation substantially affecting the discharge of national tasks. The ultimate decision on their deployment shall be taken by the Member States which registered the response capacity concerned. When domestic emergencies, force majeure or any other reasons that prevent a Member State from making those response capacities available in a specific disaster, that Member State shall inform the Commission as soon as possible by referring to this Article.
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 154 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6 – point c
Decision No 1313/2013/EU
Article 11 – paragraph 8
In the event of deployment of such response they, Member States' response capacities shall remain under their command and control of the Member States making them available and maycan be withdrawn when Mdomestic ember States are faced with an exceptional situation substantially affecting the discharge of national tasks preventing them from keeping those response capacities available. In such cases, the Commission shall be consultedgencies, force majeure or, in exceptional cases, serious reasons prevent a Member State from keeping those response capacities available, in consultation with the Commission.
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 159 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Decision No 1313/2013/EU
Article 12 – paragraph 1
1. rescEU shall be established to provide relief where existing capacities do not allow responding effectively to disastersin exceptional circumstances when all other capacities at national level or in other European countries are not available.
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 165 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Decision No 1313/2013/EU
Article 12 – paragraph 2
2. The composition of rescEU shall consist of the following capacities:capacities additional to those that already exist in the Member States, to be identified on the basis of recognised and duly assessed gaps in response capacities to disaster risks, that are having most severe impact on life, health and property of EU citizens.
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 168 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Decision No 1313/2013/EU
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) aerial forest firefighting;deleted
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 170 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Decision No 1313/2013/EU
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) high capacity pumping;deleted
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 174 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Decision No 1313/2013/EU
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) urban search and rescue;deleted
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 177 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Decision No 1313/2013/EU
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point d
(d) field hospital and emergency medical teams.deleted
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 188 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Decision No 1313/2013/EU
Article 12 – paragraph 3
3. The Commission may acquire, rent, lease and/or otherwise contract capacities from the Participating States to be deployed in cases referred to in paragraph 1, in accordance with the Union's financial rules.
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 190 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Decision No 1313/2013/EU
Article 12 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
On the basis of identified risks and tTaking into account a multi-hazard approach, the Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegatedimplementing acts in accordance with Article 30 to define the types of response capacities required in addition to those identified in paragraph 2 of this Article and revise the composition of rescEU accordingly. Consistency shall be ensured with other Union policies.
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 194 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Decision No 1313/2013/EU
Article 12 – paragraph 4 – second subparagraph
Where, in the case of a disaster or imminent disaster, imperative grounds of urgency so require, the procedure provided for in Article 31 shall apply to delegatedimplementing acts adopted pursuant to this Article.
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 197 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Decision No 1313/2013/EU
Article 12 – paragraph 5
5. The Commission, in consultation with the Member States, shall define quality requirements for the response capacities forming part of rescEU. The quality requirements shall be based on established international standards, where such standards already exist.
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 202 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Decision No 1313/2013/EU
Article 12 – paragraph 7
7. rescEU capacities shall be available for response operations under the Union Mechanism following a request for assistance through the ERCC. The decision on their deployment shall be taken by the Commission, which shall retain command andparticipating State(s) which made rescEU capacities available. Participating States will retain the operational control of the rescEU capacities when in use.
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 209 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Decision No 1313/2013/EU
Article 12 – paragraph 8
8. In case of deployment, the Commission through the ERCC shall agree with the requesting Member State on the operational deployment of rescEU capacities. The requesting Member State shall facilitate operational co-ordination of its own capacities and rescEU activities during operations.
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 212 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Decision No 1313/2013/EU
Article 12 – paragraph 10 – introductory sentence
10. Where the Commission procures equipment such as aerial forest firefighting equipment, by means of acquisition, leasing or rental, the following shall be ensured:
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 214 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Decision No 1313/2013/EU
Article 12 – paragraph 10 – point a
(a) in case of acquisition of equipment, an agreement between the Commission and a MemberParticipating State provides for the registration thereof in that Member State.
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 216 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Decision No 1313/2013/EU
Article 12 – paragraph 10 – point b
(b) in case of leasing and rental, the registration of the equipment in a Memberparticipating State.
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 218 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Decision No 1313/2013/EU
Article 12 – paragraph 11
11. MemberParticipating States shall be informed of the operational status of rescEU capacities through CECIS.
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 232 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14 – point a
Decision No 1313/2013/EU
Article 21 – paragraph 1 – point j
(j) establishing, managing and maintaining rescEU in accordance with Article 12; , provided that: (i) the need for rescEU capacities is confirmed by risk assessments; (ii) the gap identification process set out in Article 12 demonstrates that those capacities are not available to Member states; (iii) an impact assessment of rescEU should be elaborated before launching this activity; (iv) financing of these capacities should be cost-effective.'
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 238 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14 – point b – point i
Decision No 1313/2013/EU
Article 21 – paragraph 2 – point c – third subparagraph
Response capacities benefitting from funding under points (i) and (ii) shall be made available as part of the European Civil Protection Pool for a minimum period of 5 and 10 years respectively3 years, except where their economic lifespan is shorter.
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 241 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14 – point c
Decision No 1313/2013/EU
Article 21 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
The financial assistance for the action referred to in point (j) of paragraph 1 shall cover up to 90 % of all costs required to ensure the availability and deployability of rescEU capacities under the Union Mechanism when deployed in the event of a disaster or imminent disaster within the Union or a Participating State. Remaining financial means would remain on the Participating State operating rescEU capacities.
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 242 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14 – point c
Decision No 1313/2013/EU
Article 21 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 – point c
(c) the costs related to procuring the services of public or private entities necessary for operating rescEU capacities.
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 244 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 15 – point b
Decision No 1313/2013/EU
Article 23 – paragraph 2
2. The amount of Union financial support for transport resources not pre- committed to the ECPP or rescEU shall not exceed 75 % of the eligible cost. The amount of Union financial assistance for assets committed to the European Civil Protection Pool shall be limited to a maximum of 75% of the costs of operating the capacities, including transport, in the event of a disaster or imminent disaster within the Union or a Participating State.
2018/04/12
Committee: ENVI