Amendments

Tabled by Olivier Dupuis on behalf of ARE group

Report of M. Per Gahrton

Title: European Parliament recommendation on the establishing of a European Civil Peace Corps

Paragraph C: delete "military" (response... proved to be insufficient)

Add new paragraph C bis: "Considering that the European Union itself has been unable to deal with these situations of war or serious crisis, except for doing so from strictly humanitarian viewpoint, leaving the responsibility of assuming the political and financial costs of a direct intervention on some Member States and third countries";

Replace paragraph G by a new paragraph: "whereas the ECPC should be intended as complementary to conflict preventive, peace-keeping and peace-making actions of military nature and with the view to create in the near future a European Military Peace Corps",

Add new paragraph G bis: "Emphasising that the prospective of future enlargement of the Union makes the necessity and urgency to reform and strengthen the actual common foreign and security policy even more insistent",

Add new paragraph 1 bis: Recommends to the Council and the Commission, in the framework of their competencies, to prepare a feasibility study on the possibility to establish a European Military Peace Corps to be consolidated with the ECPC into a European Military and Civil Peace Corps charged to undertake the peace-keeping and peace-making operations and humanitarian operations".