15 Amendments of Ruža TOMAŠIĆ related to 2017/2118(INI)
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the aquaculture sector is an innovative economic sector, which is the fastest growing food production activity, and, potentially, a high-technology economic sector requiring intensive structural and research investment and long-term operational and financial planning;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the Commission communication ‘Strategic Guidelines for the sustainable development of EU aquaculture’ emphasises four priority areas to be addressed in order to unlock the potential of EU aquaculture: administrative procedures, coordinated spatial planning, competitiveness, in particular by linking up the sector with science, and a level playing field;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the same communication recommends that Member States should draw up multiannual national strategic plans for aquaculture that would analyse the key shortcomings and the issues needing to be resolved, set out shared objectives and, where possible, establish indicators to assess the progress made towards achieving these objectives;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the most complex procedures are those related to environmental requirements (impact studiesenvironmental impact assessments, strategic environmental assessments, and surveillance procedures), but, paradoxically, the slowness and complexity of these administrative procedures do not ensure environmental protection, indeed on the contrary sometimes making it difficult to establish sustainable aquaculture farms;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas bureaucratic complexity and delays, specifically those relating to licensing and planning, represent inaction that inevitably results in costs to potential investors;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the unavailability of locations, in conjunction with competition with other economic activities, has a considerable effect on the development of EU aquaculture, since the aquaculture sector has little weight compared with ‘powerful’ activities such as tourism, oil and gas extraction, windmills, etc;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas spatial planning is one of the prerequisites for the long-term development of aquaculture and the necessary means of ensuring suitable planning locations for aquaculture, taking into account other activities in the areas concerned;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas the EU environmental legislation is based on directives (the Marine Strategy Directive, the Birds andDirective, the Habitats Directives, the Water Framework Directive), and it is therefore left to Member States and to local and regional administrations to apply it at their discretion; whereas, consequently, there is no uniform implementation throughout the EU and this leads to legal uncertainty for enterprises and farmsthe Environmental Impact Assessment Directive, and the Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive) which are not properly consistent with each other;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Y
Recital Y
Y. whereas the procedures, which in most cases are not sufficiently clear to users, and the plethora of documents that have to be submitted in order to obtain funding from the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) are discouraging for the applicant;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that sustainable growth needs to be based on: business certainty, which can be created through more efficient administrative frameworks, improved governance transparency, clear and homogenoussimplified criteria for granting licences across the EU, common disease management procedures and access to appropriate veterinary treatments, effective spatial planning, the availability of guidance documents, exchange of best practices, the support of the Aquaculture Advisory Council, and adequate financial support;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 – point a
Paragraph 10 – point a
a) simplification and acceleration of administrative procedures -– less red tape;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 – point c
Paragraph 10 – point c
c) better coordination as regards the shared competences of the EU, the Member States and, where appropriate, region regional and local authorities;
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Maintains that, for the most part, there is no consistency within EU economic, social, end environmental legislation, posing a further difficulty for the development of aquaculture;
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)
Paragraph 33 a (new)
33a. Points to the importance of Fisheries Local Action Groups (FLAGs), which are contributing to the development of fisheries and aquaculture in given areas by strengthening local fishery resources and encouraging innovation and diversification in fisheries and aquaculture;
Amendment 351 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 a (new)
Paragraph 40 a (new)
40a. Calls on the Commission to make further efforts and provide the additional help necessary to enable users of the EMFF to gain access to funding;