Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2023

Tabled by Marc Botenga, Manu Pineda

16. Removed: Welcomes the additional funding for the European Peace Facility and calls on the Member States to improve the Facility’s ability to act through sustainable and appropriate funding; welcomes the decisions to establish the Act in Support of Ammunition Production and the European defence industry reinforcement through common procurement act in order to reinforce European defence capacities; reiterates its call to urgently launch a discussion with a view to establishing another off-budget financial facility that would address the entire life cycle of military capabilities at EU level; Added: Recalls that according to Article 41(2) of the Treaty on European Union, expenditure arising from operations having military or defence implications must not be charged to the Union budget;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE756.724