5 Amendments of Juozas IMBRASAS related to 2011/2023(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Invites the Commission, when setting up the European disaster response, to take into account the Solidarity Clause and its implementation arrangements, which are due to be adopted; considers that there is room to improve the overall effectiveness, efficiency, coherence and visibility of the assistance provided; considers that an integrated all-hazards approach linking disaster prevention (including mitigation and risk reduction), preparedness, response and recovery is the most effective strategy for dealing with disasters;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to aim towards an additional EU involvement in terms of resources and capacities for disasters taking place within the EU and directly affecting its citizens and, incidentally, EU taxpayers, and to ensure that appropriate and effective assistance reaches the people affected by disasters without delay;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. In this context, reiterates its call to use existing EU resources and pool the requisite resources for providing emergency humanitarian assistance to disaster victims, such as the EU Solidarity Fund; urges the Commission to present a new proposal enabling the EU’s Solidarity Fund to increase its flexibility and to simplify its administrative rules, while keeping in mind its original objective of allowing ‘a rapid decision to be taken to commit specific financial resources and mobilise them as quickly as possible’; underlines the need to simplify the functioning of the current European disaster response and to optimise the available resources, in the common interest, whilst encouraging all Member States to contribute and thus guarantee European solidarity; endorses the need for a qualitative shift from the current ad hoc coordination to a predictable and pre- planned system within the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, based on pre- identified assets available for immediate deployment in EU disaster relief operations;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Supports the Commission’s efforts to include prevention aspects in its disaster response since the very beginning; points out, therefore, that regional and local authorities play a key role in disaster prevention by implementing, through the Cohesion Policy, risk prevention strategies at territorial level; endorses the need for a qualitative shift from the current ad hoc coordination to a predictable and pre- planned system within the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, based on pre- identified assets available for immediate deployment in EU disaster relief operations;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points to the key role of the regional and local authorities, which are in the front line when disasters occur and whose involvement can raise the EU’s visibility among its citizens; calls for a comprehensive communications strategy, involving all EU institutions and Member States, that will improve the overall visibility of the European actions;