Relato integral dos debates

Quinta-feira, 25 de Março de 2021 - Bruxelas

15. Controlo das exportações, transferências, corretagem, assistência técnica e trânsito de produtos de dupla utilização (continuação do debate)

  Der Präsident. – Wir setzen nun unsere Aussprache über den Bericht von Markéta Gregorová (A8-0390/2017) fort.

  Maroš Šefčovič, Vice-President of the Commission. – Mr President, first I would like to thank the honourable Members for their interventions and also for using very concrete examples of how these technologies can be dangerous in the hands of autocratic or non—democratic regimes – as Mr Lange, Ms Kumpula—Natri and Ms Karlsbro demonstrated in their remarks.

Therefore, as Ms Schreinemacher has just said, it’s absolutely important that the European Parliament take full ownership of this new approach to EU export controls.

We have a lot of work ahead of us to develop these new tools and fulfil the promise of the regulation. To answer the rapporteur, Ms Gregorová, I would like to underline that the Commission takes this very seriously, and how you can help us would be with your continuous interest and support in our effort, because I’m sure this will be crucial for the future. Because this has to be a collective joint effort involving the Parliament, Commission and Member States within our respective areas of responsibility, and I’m sure that we also have to work very closely with industry and civil society.

It is in our strong collective interest to adopt this new approach because we know that dual—use technology poses a real risk to national and international security, and we know that cyber—technologies can lead to human rights violations, as we’ve been reminded by Mr Bourgeois and Mr Zoido Álvarez.

We will now have robust export controls to mitigate these things. Exporters will have to follow due diligence obligations. These are real and positive steps forward for the European Union, and this gives us a strong platform to engage with our global partners on these issues.

So I would kindly ask you, and urge you, to give your full support to an ambitious implementation of the regulation. I believe that we can build on the trust and good collaboration that developed during the negotiations and work closely together to ensure successful implementation.

Once again, thank you very much for the great work and thank you very much for the excellent cooperation.

  Der Präsident. – Die Aussprache ist geschlossen.

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