13 Amendments of Gabriel MATO related to 2022/2050(INI)
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 a (new)
Citation 18 a (new)
— having regard to the Action Plan on synergies between civil, defence and space industries adopted by the Commission on 22 February 2021 (COM (2021) 70),
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 a (new)
Citation 19 a (new)
— having regard to the joint communication from the Commission and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of 6 March 2014, entitled ‘For an open and secure global maritime domain: elements for a European Union maritime security strategy' (JOIN/2014/09 final),
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 a (new)
Citation 34 a (new)
— having regard to the Council conclusions on a renewed partnership with the Southern Neighbourhood – a new Agenda for the Mediterranean of 16 April 2021,
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 b (new)
Citation 34 b (new)
— having regard to its Recommendation of 14 September 2022 to the Commission and the Commission Vice President/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on the Renewed partnership with the Southern Neighbourhood – A new agenda for the Mediterranean
Amendment 24 #
— having regard to the Council conclusions of 21 February 2022 extending and enhancing the implementation of the Coordinated Maritime Presences Concept in the Gulf of Guinea,
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas Europe is facing the most complex combination of both military and non-military threats since the end of the Cold War accentuated by Russia’s unjustified and illegal war against Ukraine; whereas this requires the EU to enhance the effectiveness of its security and defence policy to defend its interests and values, first and foremost in its neighbourhood; whereas the Strategic Compass aims to equip the EU with the necessary tools to make it an effective security provider and an assertive global actor; whereas there is a new urgency to boosting EU security and defence capabilities, including building on the unprecedented support for Ukraine and including the use of the EPF;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the need to substantially strengthen the society-wide focus on resilience and the response to hybrid warfare; welcomes the decision to develop an EU Hybrid Toolbox for a coordinated response to hybrid threats; encourages further development of the EU’'s cyber- defence policy and capabilities, while maintaining the necessary attention to traditional threats such as terrorism;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the EU’s ambition to strengthen its military and civilian capabilities; stresses the need to make full use of EU capability-development initiatives and budgets, notably the EDIRPA, EDF, PESCO, the Coordinated Annual Review on Defence (CARD) and Military Mobility, in order to fill critical capability gaps, reduce fragmentation in the defence-procurement sector, achieve full interoperability of our forces and strengthen a resilient, competitive and innovative European defence technological and industrial base; calls for ensuring maximum consistency between these initiatives; welcomes the Action Plan on synergies between civil, defence and space industries and calls for its implementation to be stepped up; stresses the usefulness of encouraging technology transfers from the defence sector to the civilian sector while also promoting the absorption of technologies from the civilian sector in the defence sector;
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Underlines the need for much more support for EU research and development to ensure that the defence industrial and technological base is able to meet increasing demands and ambitions; stresses the importance of reducing dependencies in critical technologies and value chains in order for the EU to move towards greater technological autonomy to be able to develop, produce and deploy its own technologies in critical areas; welcomes, in this regard, the multi-country programmes in which Member States work together to promote the development of European technologies such as the Future Combat Air System or the European Medium-Altitude High-Range Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (EuroMALE);
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for more and smarter spending to foster industrial consolidation, cost savings and increased interoperability; calls for synergies with other EU financial instruments to be leveraged and access to private funding for the defence industry to be facilitated; underlines that the upcoming revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework is an opportunity to increase funding in certain areas of security and defence;
Amendment 360 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Points out that some 90% of the EU’s external trade and 40% of its internal trade is transported by sea; stresses that, given the growing geopolitical maritime tensions, the Union must ensure freedom of navigation, the safety of maritime lines of communication and of its vessels and crews, offshore infrastructure, and action to counter illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, and ensure that its external maritime borders are monitored effectively in order to prevent illegal activities;
Amendment 371 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Reiterates the need to strengthen the Union’s role as guarantor of international maritime security; welcomes the Council's decision to extend and enhance the implementation of the coordinated maritime presences concept in the Gulf of Guinea and to establish a new maritime area of interest in the North-Western Indian Ocean; welcomes the crucial role played by Operation ATALANTA in action to tackle piracy and trafficking in the Horn of Africa; calls on the Member States to engage with those initiatives and to build up their military naval capabilities with a view to enhancing the EU’s presence and visibility in the global maritime sector;
Amendment 442 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Welcomes the EU-US strategic dialogue on security and defence as an important milestone in closer transatlantic cooperation; encourages the VP/HR to devote particular attention to the security of the EaP region in this dialogue, to include in the discussion areas such as mutual security and defence initiatives, disarmament and non-proliferation, counter-terrorism, improving information exchange among intelligence services, the impact of disruptive technologies, climate change, hybrid threats, cyber defence, military mobility, crisis management and the relationship with strategic competitors;