The Committee on Foreign Affairs adopted a report by Arnaud DANJEAN (EPP, FR) on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) No 230/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing an instrument contributing to the stability and peace.
The committee recommended that the European Parliament's position adopted at first reading in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure should amend the Commission proposal as follows:
Financing: capacity building in support of security and development shall be financed through redeployment within Heading IV of the general budget of the Union of the 2014-2020 multiannual financial framework without mobilising additional resources.
Such redeployment shall exclude the use of appropriations allocated to measures under Regulation (EU) No 233/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a financing instrument for development cooperation for the period 2014-2020.
Role of Parliament and future steps: Members called for the close monitoring of the use of the instrument contributing to stability and peace and for Parliament to be regularly informed about the activities financed by it.
It is recalled that the duration of this instrument is strictly limited to the end of the current Multiannual Financial Framework (2020). The Commission should the evaluate the actions funded in accordance with the provisions on capacity building in support of security and development (‘CBSD’) established under this Regulation and of relevant instruments used by Member States to fund CBSD.
Members considered that this evaluation should assess the coherence of CBSD actions funded by the Union and its Member States with the EU Global Strategy and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Any future instruments created to address the security-development nexus should be based on the conclusions of that evaluation, only be undertaken after a wide-ranging, multi-stakeholder public consultation of the various parties concerned.