11 Amendments of Ricardo SERRÃO SANTOS related to 2017/2208(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Citation 2 a (new)
Citation 2 a (new)
- having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 6 July 2017 on promoting cohesion and development in the outermost regions of the EU:implementation of Article 349 of the TFEU[1],[1] Texts adopted, P8_TA(2017)0316,
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas a large percentage of local populations in the less developed regions, particularly in the outermost regions (ORs), rely on activities linked to small-scale coastal and local fishing, and there is a shortage of young people involved in this type of activity because it is unattractive, low-skilled and often badly paid;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas Article 349 of the TFEU recognises the special economic and social situation of the ORs, which is compounded by structural factors (remoteness, insularity, small size, difficult topography and climate, dependence on a few products, etc.) the permanence and combination of which severely restrain their development;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas one way of guaranteeing that fishery products from the ORs are competitive is to ensure that the price of fish from those regions is not inflated as a result of transport costs when it reaches the main destination markets;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that diversification has become a necessity for many small-scale fishermen almost everywhere, but particularly for those in the laggingess developed regions, as their income from fishing activities is often inadequate and they need to turn to additional sources of income, including new forms of fisheries-related tourism, such as pesca-tourism;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to invest in education in order to attract high-quality human resources to the fisheries sector in the laggingess developed regions and ensure that they remain there;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Member States and local and regional authorities to provide sustainable innovative infrastructure, including fast internet connections and good-quality IT, in order to help fishermen in the laggingess developed regions diversify from traditional fishing activities, into other sectors of economic activitymproving the activity carried out and making their activity more compatible with the other sectors of economic activity, particularly complementary sectors;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the importance of the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF), which for the first time combines both Integrated Maritime Policy funding and fisheries funding, together with funding from the European Investment Bank (EIB), to support the sustainable and environmentally friendly development of fisheries, aquaculture and fish processing, to support revenue diversification in fishing communities dependent on those sectors, particularly small-scale coastal fisheries, to promote vocational training for women and young people, and to attract new entrepreneurs to the sector; calls on the Member States to speed up utilisation of the fund, in particular the components of the fund geared to vocational training and skills for local populations and the development of complementary activities to traditional fishing;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Considers it crucial for support for the transport of fish from the ORs, up until it reaches the international market, to be maintained and preferably increased so as to guarantee fair competition with products from other locations;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls on the Commission to look into the possibility of creating, as soon as possible, a financial instrument specifically to provide support for fisheries, on the basis of POSEI for the agricultural sector in the ORs, with the capacity genuinely to enhance their fisheries potential;believes that consideration should be given to the possibility of bringing together in this specific instrument, in particular, the provisions of Article 8 (State aid), Article 13(5) (Budgetary resources under shared management), Article 70 (Compensation regime), Article 71 (Calculation of the compensation), Article 72 (Compensation plan) and Article 73 (State aid for implementing compensation plans) of the existing EMFF;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Stresses, further, the importance of the sea and marine resources in promoting cohesion and development in the ORs and in the implementation of Article 349 of the TFEU;urges the Commission, in this context, to respect Article 349 of the TFEU, also in relation to fisheries, by fully reinstating the independent POSEI-Fisheries scheme, which was abolished as part of the reform of the current EMFF;