Activities of Isabelle THOMAS related to 2012/0201(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Measures for the recovery of European eel stocks (debate)
Amendments (3)
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)
Recital 7 a (new)
(7a) It is important that the Commission penalise Member States which have not forwarded or analysed all the data available to them to allow an exhaustive and scientifically sound inventory of the situation regarding European eel to be drawn up.
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 b (new)
Recital 7 b (new)
(7b) In order to clarify the situation regarding European eel, it is important that the ICES, in its opinion of 2013, make reference to all the causes of the reduction in eel stocks and to the issues in connection with eel spawning grounds, not least in the Mediterranean.
Amendment 43 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5
Regulation (EC) nº 1100/2007
Article 9
Article 9
5) In Article 9, paragraph 3 is deleted. Article 9 is replaced by the following text : “Article 9 Reporting and evaluation 1. Each Member State shall report to the Commission, initially every third year, with the first report to be presented by 30 June 2012. The frequency of reporting shall then increase to once every year, after the first tri-annual report has been submitted Reports shall outline monitoring, implementation, effectiveness and outcome, and in particular shall provide the best available estimates of: (a) for each Member State, the proportion of the silver eel biomass that escapes to the sea to spawn, or the proportion of the silver eel biomass leaving the territory of that Member State as part of a seaward migration to spawn, relative to the target level of escapement set out in Article 2(4); (b) the level of fishing effort that catches eel each year, and the reduction effected in accordance with Articles 4(2) and 5(4); (c) the level of mortality factors outside the fishery, and the reduction effected in accordance with Article 2(10); (d) the amount of eel of less than 12 cm in length caught and the proportions of this utilised for different purposes; (e) the identification, on a voluntary basis, of the spawning grounds of the eel caught. 2. The Commission shall present to the Parliament and the Council, by 31 December 2013 at the latest, a report consisting of a statistical and scientific evaluation of the results of the eel management plans, along with an opinion from the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries. Based on the findings of that report, the Commission may bring forward proposals to broaden the scope of the regulation to include eel mortality factors other than fishery. 3. The Commission shall, considering the report described in paragraph 2, propose any appropriate measures to achieve with high probability the recovery of the stock of European eel, and the Council shall decide by qualified majority on other measures enabling attainment of the escapement target set out in paragraph 2(4) and the reduction in fishing effort under Article 4(2) and Article 5(4).”