12 Amendments of Gaston FRANCO related to 2010/2114(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Encourages the most advanced Member States in the field of internal security, despite its vulnerable and quintessentially national nature, to share their information, technologies and infrastructures so as to avoid duplication and thus create valuable synergies for the European Unionand launch joint strategic projects, so as to avoid dissipation and duplication and thus create valuable synergies for the European Union; calls on the Commission and Council to create and regularly update a database of the medical countermeasures that are available in the Member States to respond to CBRN incidents, to encourage the sharing of existing capacities and to coordinate a cost-efficient policy for the acquisition of such countermeasures;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Insists on the need for a European industrial policy in the field of civil security in the EU, given the fragmentation of this market; recommends that aid to SME/SMIs, which create a significant share of innovation under the FP7/Security, should be increased and that efforts should be made to stimulate cooperation (particularly cross-border cooperation) between European enterprises; wishes to see the emergence of a comprehensive project management able to manage all aspects of CBRN security projects, covering the entire life cycle of the CBRN threat (prevention, detection and response); calls on the Commission to propose a strategy for developing the biodefence industry in Europe;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission, in categorising lists of CBRN agents, to consider the impact on European industry, in particular in the chemical and biological sectors, in order to avoid introducing rules that penalise European industry;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Insists on the need to maintain Community R&D funding in the field of CBRN security; calls for the development of applied research with a European dimension and for the launching of major demonstration programmes; encourages the creation of expert centres specialising in CBRN threats and mobility for researchers;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recommends that a network of evaluation laboratories be set up to certify the effectiveness of technologies and good practices in order to maximise the funds invested under the FP7/Security;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for dual-use civil-military technologies to be exploited as a source of synergies; encourages, within well-defined strategic collaboration frameworks, encourages cooperation with the European Defence Agency (EDA), the European Space Agency (ESA), NATO and third countriesNATO countries such as the United States and Canada, and third countries which are pioneers in the field of CBRN security, through the exchange of good practices, structured dialogues between experts and joint capacity development;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls for training and public awareness programmes in connection with CBRN threats to be launched at European level; notes with interest the feasibility study for a European nuclear security training centre within the JRC;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. WelcomesStresses the close link and mirror effect between security inside and security outside the European Union; welcomes, in this regard, the actions taken by CBRN regional centres of excellence in flashpoints outside the European Union with the aim of encouraging expertise networks, improving the capacity to control exports and prevent illegal trafficking in CBRN substances, and strengthening the regulatory arsenal available to these countries and regional cooperation in this field; encourages the idea of providing training in Europe for international experts from countries at risk in respecting the necessary security and confidentiality rules.;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Supports the drawing-up of strategies to raise awareness among undertakings, the scientific and university community and financial institutions of the risks linked to the proliferation and trafficking of CBRN material in the context of their work and activities; further takes the view, in more general terms, that confidentiality is a vital component of the effectiveness of certain security measures in the action plan, and it is important to guard against any risk of disclosure that could render them ineffective;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Is aware that proliferation increases the threat of diversion by terrorist groups and encourages the EU to continue its efforts towards universalising the legal framework for combating nuclear terrorism and ensuring that the current rules are complied with; supports cooperation projects with third countries, for example in the Mediterranean basin, in order to combat trafficking in nuclear and radiological material; calls on the EU to universalise the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological Weapons Convention with a view to the Conference to review the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) in 2011;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 c (new)
Paragraph 12 c (new)
12c. Encourages the introduction of measures to combat proliferation financing, following the model of the mechanisms set up to combat terrorism financing.