18. Recommends a strong EU involvement – alongside the UN and other international actors – in the process of disarmament of militias, which is essential to enable the building up of nationally and centrally commanded armed forces and police forces; recognises the importance of the redeployment of the CSDP-led EU Border Assistance Mission (EUBAM) in Libya to support the country in securing its borders as soon as conditions allow, but urges the VP/HR to review its mandate and design a new CSDP mission that takes into account the need t ...[+++]o consistently and sustainably reform and capacitate the security sector in Libya as a whole; stresses that an EU security-related contribution focusing only on border security is manifestly insufficient and inconsistent with both the country’s needs and the challenges for regional security, including that of the EU;

L. whereas after the siege imposed in Daraa, security forces launched a full-scale military operation and campaign of arbitrary arrests in Daraa's neighbouring towns; whereas an estimated 12,000 Syrians from Jisr al-Shughour and surrounding areas have crossed the Syrian-Turkish border fearing reprisals by the security forces; whereas Turkey has voluntarily offered large-scale humanitarian assistance and aid to Syrian refugees at the Turkey-Syria border, whereas Turkey has expressed great concern over Syria’s deployment of troops and tanks near its border; whereas members of the Syrian army and security ...[+++] have defected and sought refugee in Turkey as well,

G. whereas after the siege imposed in Daraa, security forces launched a large-scale military operation and campaign of arbitrary arrests in Daraa's neighbouring towns; whereas an estimated 12,000 Syrians from Jisr al-Shughour and surrounding areas have crossed the Syrian-Turkish border fearing reprisals by the security forces and according to the Red Crescent 17.000 more are waiting to cross the border; whereas Turkey has expressed great concern over Syria’s deployment of troops and tanks near the border,

I. whereas, after the siege in Daraa, security forces launched a large-scale military operation and campaign of arbitrary arrests in neighbouring towns; whereas an estimated 12 000 Syrians from Jisr al-Shughour and surrounding areas have crossed the Syrian-Turkish border, fearing reprisals by the security forces, and according to the Red Crescent 17 000 more are waiting to cross the border,

In the event that armed forces or security forces from Member States conduct operations beyond the borders of the Union, and when imposed by operational requirements, authorisation should be given to contracting authorities/entities deployed in the field of operations not to apply the rules of this Directive when they award contracts to economic operators located in the area of operations, including with respect to civilian purchases directly connected to the conduct of those operations.

47. Stresses that capability needs are often technologically very similar or even identical for armed forces operations, border surveillance, protection of critical infrastructure and disaster management; emphasises that this creates new opportunities to exploit synergies and enhance interoperability between armed forces and security forces;