10 Amendments of Nicolas BAY related to 2014/2240(INI)
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for clear-cut objectives and time- frames to be laid down with a view to making data – whether relating to the sea- floor or to the water column and living resources – more accessible and more fully interoperable and for information about seas and oceans to be supplied to the public, whilst safeguarding the confidentiality of any data that are of strategic importance to Member States (relating to defence, security, the economy);
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Points out that the Member States have a key role to play in developing the blue economy and urges the Commission to support and encourage all forms of cooperation between Member States and with non-EU countries (Union for the Mediterranean, Organisation of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation), for example joint programming initiatives;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Considers the shortage of qualified professionals in various fields of study and activity – including, though not confined to, researchers, engineers, and technicians, to be a huge hurdle that could prevent the blue economy from fully realising its potential; maintains that this shortcoming is closely bound up with the growing disengagement and disinvestment by Member States in the spheres of science and education and with the decline in the professional status and social standing of several of the professions concerned, and therefore calls for these two trends to be reversed without delay; believes that working with the private sector in drawing up plans for training engineers and technicians could go a long way towards achieving this objective;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Urges the Commission to support the efforts of Member States to promote specialisation strategies with a view to creating and exploiting value chains linked to the many and varied blue economy activities; considers that the development of clusters or ‘hyperclusters’ implies that Member States must play an active role in fostering synergies within and between sectors;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Urges the Commission to support the efforts of Member States to promote specialisation strategies with a view to creating and exploiting value chains linked to the many and varied blue economy activities; considers that the development of clusters or ‘hyperclusters’ implies that Member States must play an active role in fostering synergies between sectorsbringing together economic and social players to form synergies between sectors, as part of an overall strategic vision;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls for more active support for modernisation and sustainable development of the fisheries sector, laying emphasis on small-scale fisheries and seeking to make fishing gear more selective and reduce the environmental impact of fishing, in addition to providing more effective ways to combat illegal, unregulated, and unreported fishing; maintains that scientific fisheries-related data forming a basis for political decision- taking should be made public in their entirety;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Believes that, for reasons to do with energy consumption, merchant shipping, compared with other ways of carrying goods, is increasingly assuming decisive importance; calls for resources to be channelled in order to support innovation in this sector with a view to improving energy efficiency, diversifying primary energy sources, and reducing noxious emissions; requests that a tax on CO2 emissions be levied, at the borders of the Union, on international freight carriers, so as to once again include, in the price of imported goods, the costs of the negative effects caused by these activities;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Points to the strategic importance of shipbuilding and ship-repairing and their links to other sectors – including the steel industry, merchant shipping, fisheries, and cruise tourism; considers that a commitment to technological innovation and a high degree of specialisation, which could lead to gains in added value, could create contexts less exposed to international competition and might help toby aspiring towards a reverse in the downturn that the sector has been undergoing; maintains that specific support should be provided to revitalise and modernise the European shipbuilding and special steels industries industry in its different forms;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Points to the strategic importance of shipbuilding and ship-repairing and their links to other sectors – including merchant shipping, fisheries, and cruise tourism; considers that a commitment to technological innovation and a high degree of specialisation, which could lead to gains in added value, could create contexts less exposed to international competition and might help to reverse the downturn that the sector has been undergoing; maintains that specific support should be provided to revitalise and modernise the European shipbuilding industry in its different forms, including tariff and non-tariff protectionist measures;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Considers marine- and ocean-related biotechnology to be a highly diversified sector which, taken as a whole, has immense potential from the point of view of engendering and applying new knowledge and creating new products and processes with high added value (new materials, foods, pharmaceutical ingredients, etc.); draws attention to the education and training requirements related to this sector, implying a need for Member States to shoulder a large measure of responsibility together with the private sector, and for international cooperation to be pursued on a similarly comprehensive scale;