Activities of Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ related to 2015/0289(COD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the sustainable management of external fishing fleets, repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1006/2008
Amendments (5)
Amendment 18 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The issue of the obligations and concomitant responsibilities and liabilities of the flag State and, where appropriate, the flag international organisation, for the conservation and management of the living resources of the high seas under UNCLOS has increasingly come into focus at international level. This has also been the case, under the heading of a due diligence obligation flowing from UNCLOS, for concurrent coastal State jurisdiction and flag State jurisdiction and, as appropriate, flag international organisation jurisdiction, to secure sound conservation of marine biological resources within sea areas under national jurisdiction. The Advisory Opinion of 2 April 2015 of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), rendered in response to questions raised by the West Africa Subregional Fisheries Commission, confirmed that the Union bears international responsibility before third countries and international organisations for the activities of its fishing vessels, and that such responsibility requires it to act with due diligence. A due diligence obligation is an obligation for a State to exercise best possible efforts and to do the utmost to prevent illegal fishing, which includes the obligation to adopt the necessary administrative and enforcement measures to ensure that fishing vessels flying its flag, its nationals, or fishing vessels engaged in its waters are not involved in activities which breach the applicable conservation and management measures. For these reasons, it is important to organise both the activities of Union fishing vessels outside Union waters as well as the governance system pertaining thereto in such a manner that the Union's international obligations can be efficiently and effectively discharged and that situations where the Union might be reproached for internationally wrongful acts are avoided.
Amendment 24 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)
Recital 7 a (new)
(7a) The Union committed itself at the United Nations Summit on Sustainable Development on 25 September 2015 to implementing the resolution containing the outcome document entitled "Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development", including Sustainable Development Goal 14 "Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development", as well as Sustainable Development Goal 12 "Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns" and their targets.
Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 b (new)
Recital 7 b (new)
(7b) All the members of the FAO, including the Union and its developing countries partners, unanimously adopted in 2014 the Voluntary Guidelines on Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries in the context of Food security and Poverty Eradication, including point 5.7 thereof, which highlights that small- scale fisheries should be given due consideration before agreements on resource access are entered into with third countries and third parties.
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 1 – point c – indent 4 a (new)
Article 18 – paragraph 1 – point c – indent 4 a (new)
- available data on the global fishing effort in the fisheries concerned; and
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
Article 39 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)