24 Amendments of Martin EHRENHAUSER related to 2009/2198(INI)
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that the Union must enhance its strategic autonomy through a strong and effectiveobjectives of the Union in its foreign, security and defence policy, so as are to promote peace and international security, defend its interests in the world, protect the security of its own citizens, contribute to effective multilateralism in support of international law and advance respect for human rights and democratic values worldwide;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Reiterates its support for the Union’s efforts to address these threats by developing a holistic approach synergisploying the various means of action – both civil andor military – available to the Union and its Member States; emphasises that such coordination of civil and military means gives genuine added-value to the Union’s crisis management work in a clearly distinct manner so that no ambiguities can arise, inter alia with regard to financing;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 – point e
Paragraph 8 – point e
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the Council in 2010, in the debate with the European Parliament and national parliaments on the implementation of the new clause in the Lisbon Treaty concerning mutual assistance in the event of armed aggression on the territory of a Member State, to take account of the fact that this collective assistance obligation possesses no legally binding force, does not necessarily entail the use of military means and leaves it to the discretion of the individual Member States to decide the nature of the assistance to be provided, thus also permitting the militarily neutral and non-aligned Member States to preserve the special character of their security and defence policies;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Council to reopen the debate on establishing a European civil protection force – inter alia on the basis of the May 2006 Barnier report – that would pool the Member States’ resources in order to generate an effective collective response in the event of natural or man-made disasters, both inside and outside the Union, with a view to inserting a solidarity clause into the new treaty; takes the view that the military ESDP/CSDP should also provide scope for responding to civilian hazards;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses, in the light of the progress made possible by the new tdevelopments based on the Lisbon Treaty in relation to the CSDP, the legitimacy and value of setting up a Defence Council within the Foreign Affairs Council, which would comprise the defence ministers, be chaired by the Vice-President/High Representative and play a special role in developing military capacity;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. SupportNotes the establishment of a civil- military Crisis Management and Planning Directorate (CMPD) to take responsibility for crisis management and strategic planning of the Union’s civil and military operations and help develop the CSDP, particularly in terms of civil and military capabilities; deprecates, however, the extremely lengthy delay in setting up this new structure; hopes that the instruments available to the Commission will also be used as part of this single strategic planning capacity in order to develop a holistic European approach; takes the view that the establishment of the EEAS, into which the CMPD will be incorporated as part of a coherent grouping that will also include the EU Military Staff, Civilian Planning and Conduct Capability (CPCC) and the Joint Situation Centre (SitCen), should make it possible to meet these requirements;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. WelcomNotes the achievements of the ESDP on the occasion of its tenth anniversary, and notes that the Union launches civil and military operations under the CSDP in response to threats to international and European security; commends the 70 000 or so personnel involved in the 23 missions and operations currently in progress or already completed in the context of the ESDP; commends Mr Javier Solana, Secretary-General of the Council and High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, for his work on developing the ESDP;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Stresses that the European Union’s naval operation in Somalia (EU NAVFOR Somalia – Operation Atalanta) to combat piracy in the Gulf of Aden and off the coast of Somalia is not an adequate means of eliminating the causes of the piracy there; notes that, contrary to the statement by the Swedish Presidency of the Council that attacks in the Gulf of Aden have declined significantly, the International Maritime Bureau has indicated that 306 attacks took place in the first nine months of 2009 alone, whereas in 2008 only 293 had been recorded in the whole year; stresses furthermore that, according to the International Maritime Bureau, armed attacks have risen by 200% since the operation began; stresses in addition that the expenditure incurred by this operation and by other national and multilateral operations is out of all reasonable proportion to the estimated losses;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
39. Welcomes theall nuclear disarmament initiatives, particularly the most recent declarations and stated objectives of the newpresent American administration; and its commitment to take nuclear disarmament forwardt the same time deplores the fact that the USA still has not ratified the UN Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT);
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 a (new)
Paragraph 40 a (new)
40a. Observes that continued stationing of nuclear weapons within the European Union undermines worldwide efforts to prevent third countries from developing nuclear weapons;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
Paragraph 41
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
Paragraph 42
42. Stresses the need to seek synergies between civil and military capabilities and to identify areas in which the Member States can pool their capabilities in a difficult economic climatat in a difficult economic climate the requirement laid down in the Lisbon Treaty for Member States 'progressively to improve their military capabilities' should be complied with by means of mutual division of labour and resources and better training of personnel in human rights and international law issues without increasing arms expenditure;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42 a (new)
Paragraph 42 a (new)
42a. Stresses that increasing arms expenditure is not compatible either with the objective of peace-keeping or with the budgetary priorities of the European Union, which is a peace project; calls on the Member States and the Council to take measures with the aim of saving on arms expenditure by means of a division of labour and resources, particularly as an alternative to new defence procurement;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48
Paragraph 48
48. Views it as regrettable that the Battlegroups (BGs) – despite the significant investment they represent – have not yet been used, partly for political reasons and partly becauseWelcomes the fact that the criteria for their deployment is subject to very stringent criteria; supports more flexible use of the BGs so that they can also serve as a reserve force or as a partial substitute in the event of a disappointing force generation process; calls for an extension of the provisional agreement designed to cover the costs arising from strategic deployment of the BGs, and of the common funding for the costs associated with their use; calls on the Council to deploy them as part of full-scale military exercises; commends the work undertaken at the instigation of the Swedish Presidency on flexible use of the BGs and, on this basis, calls on the Member States to implement the recommendations adoptedof Battlegroups (BGs) are very strict and that it has not so far been necessary to deploy them;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51
Paragraph 51
51. Supports the establishment of a competitive European industrial and technological defence base and an open, transparenttransparent, adequately regulated and fully monitored European market for defence equipment; accordingly, calls on the Member States to continue their research and development efforts by honouring their commitment to devote 2% of defence spending to this area, and to transpose the defence package directives in a harmonised manneror expand their efforts to fight corruption, in view of the above-average susceptibility to bribery in connection with large-scale public procurement of these goods, as regularly demonstrated in studies such as the Bribe- Payers' Index produced by the organisation Transparency International;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58
Paragraph 58
58. Recalls the provision in the Lisbon Treaty on the start-up fund available to the Vice-President/High Representative for the purpose of financing preparatory activities for CSDP missions which, for one reason or another, are not covered by the EU budget; emphasises the added-value of this fund, which should make it easier for the Vice-President/High Representative to prepare effectively and rapidly for action in the context of the CSDP; encouragncourages the Member States to start the necessary implementation work in the near future and adopt precise criteria for the use of these funds, and stresses theat Member States to start the necessary implementation work in the near futuremust not be compelled to finance expenditure on measures with military or defence implications;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 59
Paragraph 59
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 67
Paragraph 67
67. WelcomNotes the cooperation between the EU and NATO in the field of military capability, such as the efforts to improve operational helicopter capacity, and stresses in this context the need to take account of the special character of the security and defence policies of certain Member States, particularly those which are militarily neutral and non-aligned;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 74
Paragraph 74
74. RecallStresses that the European Parliament is the only supranational institutLisbon Treaty has partially supranationalised the Common Foreign and Security Policy, because measures in this field have been assigned to the European Union, with a legitimate claim to exercise democratic supervision over the EU’s security and defence policy, and that this role has been strengthened by the entry into force of the Lhich has acquired legal personality and which is no longer represented at international level by the Foreign Ministers of the Member States but by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy; stresses that this has resulted in the creation of a hermaphroditic post, to the detriment of democratic control and of the precise powers required to exercise it; recalls that the European Parliament is the only supranational institution with a legitimate claim to exercise democratic supervisbion Treatover the EU’s security and defence policy; takes the view that the WEU Assembly – which owes its existence to a treaty (the Modified Brussels Treaty) that has not been signed by all the EU Member States – is not legally entitled to exercise parliamentary supervision over the CSDP;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 76
Paragraph 76
76. Calls on the Council to inform it in advance of the preparation and conduct of mmpart democratic legitimacy to all ESDP operations by means of additional prior decissions and operations; suggests that of the European Parliament; calls on the Council, out of a concern for transparency, to keep it regularly informedthe European Parliament informed regularly and in detail regarding the use of the Athena mechanism and the start-up fund, as it already does in the case of the use of CFSP appropriations for civil missionsparticularly with reference to financial control;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 77
Paragraph 77
77. Calls for the revision of the 2002 interinstitutional agreements between the European Parliament and the Council concerning the European Parliament’s access to sensitive Council information relating to the ESDP and the CSDP, so that the MEPs responsible – including the Chaiall members of the subcommittees on security and defence and on human rights – can obtain the necessary information to exercise their prerogatives in an informed manner;