Traduction de «Drone » (Anglais → Français) :

Reiterates its grave concern over the use of armed drones outside the international legal framework, and insists on its call on the Council to adopt an EU common position on the use of armed drones.

4. Calls on all states in possession of armed drone technology: (i) to publicly disclose the legal basis for the use of drones, specify operational responsibility, and provide information on the victims of drone strikes, in particular civilians; (ii) to ensure that they carry out prompt, thorough, independent and impartial investigations into all cases where there are reasonable grounds to believe that drone strikes have resulted in unlawful killings; (iii) to ensure that the criteria include impartial investigations of alleged breaches of international and national law, assistance to civilian victims and compensation and other redress ...[+++] to families of civilian victims; (iv) to allow for judicial review of drone strikes and to ensure that victims of unlawful drone strikes have effective access to remedies;

4. Calls on the EU to promote greater transparency and accountability on the part of third countries in the use of armed drones with regard to the legal basis for their use and to operational responsibility, to allow for judicial review of drone strikes and to ensure that victims of unlawful drone strikes have effective access to remedies;

5. Calls further on the Commission to keep Parliament properly informed about the use of EU funds for all research and development projects associated with the construction of drones; calls for human rights impact assessments in respect of further drone development projects;

A. whereas the reliance on the use of remotely piloted aircraft systems (hereinafter drones) in extraterritorial lethal operations has steeply increased over the past decade; whereas countries where drone strikes have been documented include Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, Iraq, Somalia and Palestine (Gaza); whereas the US, the UK, Israel and Turkey are reported to have carried out drone strikes; whereas the number of states with the capacity to use drones is likely to increase significantly in the near future;

9. Notes the increasing importance of the use of drones; underlines the need for a vigorous debate on armed drones and their limits, transparency and control,; welcomes the current debate in the US, and expects that a comprehensive regulatory framework could be established soon; welcomes, in this context, the decisions announced by President Obama in his speech of 23 May 2013 to formalise new limitations on the use of drones as lethal arms and to engage Congress to explore options for increased oversight of this use; invites both partners to engage in close discussions on armed drones, and stresses the need to take steps towards a fu ...[+++]ture international regulation, given the global implications;