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OPINION on the proposal for a Council Decision establishing the Specific Programme Implementing Horizon 2020 - The Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020)
2016/11/22
Committee: AFET
Dossiers: 2011/0402(CNS)
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Amendments (12)

Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 2 – point 1 – point 1.6 – point 1.6.2 – paragraph 2 – point e
(e) Advanced navigation and remote sensing technologies, covering the research essential for future generations of Union space systems (e.g. Galileo)as long as those systems are solely focused on civil applications.
2012/08/30
Committee: AFET
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 2 – point 1 – point 1.6 – point 1.6.5 – paragraph 1
The implementation priorities of space research and innovation under Horizon 2020 are in line with the Union's space policy priorities as defined by the Space Council and the Communication Towards a space strategy for the European Union that benefits its citizens as long as this refers to the aspects that are purely civilian in nature. The implementation will be developed in consultation with stakeholders from European space industry, SMEs, academia, and technology institutes, represented by the Space Advisory Group and important partners such as the European Space Agency and national space agencies. As regards the participation in international undertakings, the research and innovation agenda will be defined in collaboration with international partners (e.g. NASA, ROSCOSMOS, JAXA).
2012/08/30
Committee: AFET
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 3 – point 6 – point 6.1 – point 6.1.2 – paragraph 1
Understanding social transformations in Europe requires the analysis of changing democratic practices and expectations as well as of the historical evolution of identities, diversity, territories, religions, cultures and values. This includes a good understanding of the history of European integration. Besides, understanding the strains and opportunities arising from the uptake of ICT, both at individual and collective levels, is important in order to open new paths of inclusive innovation. It is essential to identify ways to adapt and improve the European welfare systems, public services and the broader social security dimension of policies in order to achieve cohesion and promote more social and economic equality and intergenerational solidarity. Research will analyse how societies and politics become more European in a broad sense through evolutions of identities, cultures and values, the circulation of ideas and beliefs and combinations of principles and practices of reciprocity, commonality and equality. It will analyse how vulnerable populations can participate fully in society and democracy, notably through the acquisition of various skills and the protection of human rights. The analysis of how political systems respond or not to such social evolutions and themselves evolve will thus be central. Research will also address the evolution of key systems that provide underlying forms of social bonds, such as family, work, education and employment and help combat poverty. It will take into account the importance of migration and demography in the future development of European policies whereby the focus of research shall be on how to ensure the compliance of technologies and capabilities for border management with fundamental human rights principles.
2012/08/30
Committee: AFET
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 3 – point 6 – point 6.1 – point 6.1.3 – paragraph 1
Europe's distinct historical, political, social and cultural system is increasingly confronted with the impact of global changes. In order to further develop its external action in its neighbourhood and beyond and its role as a global actor, Europe has to improve its capacities for defining, prioritising, explaining, assessing and promoting its policy objectives with other world regions and societies to further cooperation or prevent or solve conflicts. In this regard, it also has to improve its capacities for anticipating and responding to the evolution and impacts of globalisation. This requires a greater understanding of the history, cultures and political-economic systems of other world regions, as well as of the role and influence of transnational actors. Finally, Europe also has to contribute effectively to global governance in key domains like trade, development, work, economic cooperation, and human rights, defence and security. This implies the potential to build new capacities whether in terms of tools, systems and instruments of analysis or in terms of diplomacy in formal and informal international arena with governmental and non governmental actors.
2012/08/30
Committee: AFET
Amendment 52 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 3 – point 6 – point 6.3 – paragraph 1
The European citizens have never enjoyed more security than today. Nevertheless the Union, its citizens and its international partners are confronted with a range of security threats like crime, terrorism and mass emergencies due to man-made or natural disasters. These threats can span across borders and aim at physical targets or the cyberspace. Attacks against Internet sites of public authorities and private entities for instance not only undermine the citizen's trust but may seriously affect such essential sectors as energy, transport, health, finance or telecommunications. But, in light of the relatively benign environment, all measures taken have to be proportionate, balanced and of a purely civilian nature.
2012/08/30
Committee: AFET
Amendment 54 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 3 – point 6 – point 6.3 – paragraph 2
In order to anticipate, prevent and manage these threats, it is necessary to develop and apply innovative technologies, solutions, foresight tools and knowledge, stimulate cooperation between providers and users, find civil security solutions, improve the competitiveness of the European security, ICT and services industries while simultaneously ensuring that no human rights violations will be committed with security technologies emanating from the research programme and prevent and combat the abuse of privacy and breaches of human rights in Internet.
2012/08/30
Committee: AFET
Amendment 55 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 3 – point 6 – point 6.3 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
The coordination and improvement of the security research area will thus be an essential element and will help to map present research efforts, including foresight, and improve relevant legal conditions and procedures for coordination, including pre-normative activities. Activities will follow a mission- oriented approach and integrate the relevant societal dimensions. They will support the Union's policies for internal and external security, defence policies, and the relevant new provision of the Lisbon Trean approach which first and foremost focuses on the root causes of insecurity, especially how to fight poverty, and ensure cyber security, trust and privacy in the Digital single Market. The following specific objectives will be pursued:inequality. The focus shall be exclusively on civil research which shall be strictly separated from any aspects with defensive implications.
2012/08/30
Committee: AFET
Amendment 57 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 3 – point 6 – point 6.3 – paragraph 3 – point 6.3.1 – paragraph 1
The ambition is both to avoid an incident and to mitigate its potential consequences. This requires new technologies and capabilities (including against cyber crime and cyber terrorism) for the support to health, food, water and environmental security which are essential for the good functioning of society and economy. New technologies and dedicated capabilities will help to protect critical infrastructures, systems and services (including communications, transport, health, food, water, energy, logistic and supply chain, and environment). This will include analysing and securing public and private critical networked infrastructures and services against any type of threats. All these measures shall be strictly civilian, proportionate in light of the dangers being addressed and subject to a strict ethical review that pays full regard to their societal impacts with regard to civil liberties and fundamental human rights.
2012/08/30
Committee: AFET
Amendment 60 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 3 – point 6 – point 6.3 – paragraph 3 – point 6.3.2 – paragraph 1
Technologies and capabilities are also required to enhance systems, equipments, tools, processes, and methods for rapid identification to improve border security, including boResearch will be directed at the control and surveillance issues, while exploiting the full potential of EUROSUR. These will be developed and tested considering their effectiveness, compliance with legal and ethical principles, proportionality, social acceptability and the respect of fundamental rights. Research will also support the improvement of the integrated European border management, including through increased cooperation with candidate, potential candidate and European Neighbourhood Policy countriempliance of European border policies with legal and ethical principles, proportionality, social acceptability and the respect of fundamental rights.
2012/08/30
Committee: AFET
Amendment 61 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 3 – point 6 – point 6.3 – paragraph 3 – point 6.3.4 – paragraph 1
This requires the development of dedicated technologies and capabilities to support different types of emergency management operations (such as civil protection, fire fighting and marine pollution, humanitarian aid, civil defence, conflict prevention, development of medical information infrastructures rescue tasks and non-military post-crisis-stabilisation) as well as law enforcement. Research will cover the whole crisis management chain and societal resilience, and support the establishment of a European emergency response capacity.
2012/08/30
Committee: AFET
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 3 – point 6 – point 6.3 – paragraph 3 – point 6.3.4 – paragraph 2
Activities across all mission areas will also address the integration and interoperability of systems and services including aspects such as communication, distributed architectures and human factors. This also requires integrating civilian and military capabilities in tasks ranging from civil protection to humanitarian relief, border management or peace-keeping. This will include technological development in the sensitive area of dual-use technologies to guarantee interoperability between civil protection and military forces and amongst civil protection forces worldwide, as well as reliability, organisational, legal and ethical aspects, trade issues, protection of confidentiality and integrity of information and traceability of all transactions and processing.deleted
2012/08/30
Committee: AFET
Amendment 66 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – section 3 – point 6 – point 6.3 – paragraph 3 – point 6.3.6 – paragraph 1
Whereas research will have a civil security orientation, coordination with the activities of the European Defence Agency (EDA) will be actively pursued in order to strengthen cooperation with EDA, notably through the already established European Framework Cooperation, recognising that there are areas of dual use technology relevant for both civil and military applications. Coordination mechanisms with relevant Union Agencies, such as e.g. FRONTEX, EMSA and Europol, will also be further strengthened in order to improve the coordination of Union Programmes and policies in the field of both internal and external security, and of other Union initiatives.deleted
2012/08/30
Committee: AFET