5 Amendments of Rosa D'AMATO related to 2018/0172(COD)
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) Resolution 11 of the UN Environment Assembly of the UN Environment Programme, adopted at the session of 23-27 May 2016, recognised that ‘the presence of plastic litter and microplastics in the marine environment is a rapidly increasing serious issue of global concern that needs an urgent global response taking into account a product life-cycle approach’.
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4 b (new)
Recital 4 b (new)
(4b) Solutions for tackling plastic marine litter cannot be isolated from an overall plastics strategy. Article 48 of the Fisheries Control Regulation, setting out measures calling for the retrieval of lost fishing gear, is a step in the right direction, but is too limited in scope, given that Member States are allowed to exempt almost every fishing vessel from that obligation and implementation of the reporting requirements remains poor.
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4 c (new)
Recital 4 c (new)
(4c) The volume of plastic in the sea also has a strong impact on fisheries, an impact which is even greater and more costly where small-scale fishing is concerned.
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5 a (new)
Recital 5 a (new)
(5a) An estimated 80% of marine litter is accounted for by plastic and microplastic, and somewhere between 20% and 40% of plastic marine litter is linked in part to human activities at sea, including merchant and cruise ships, with the rest originating on land. According to a recent FAO study1a, roughly 10% comes from lost and abandoned fishing gear. Lost and abandoned fishing gear is one component of plastic marine litter, and, given that an estimated 94% of the plastic entering the ocean ends up on the sea floor, the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) needs to be used in order to ensure that fishermen become directly involved in ‘fishing for marine litter’ schemes by being paid or offered other financial or material incentives. _________________ 1a Abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear.
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6 a (new)
Recital 6 a (new)
(6a) Ghost fishing occurs when lost or abandoned non-biodegradable fishing nets, lines, and traps catch, entangle, injure, starve, or cause the death of marine life. The phenomenon of ‘ghost fishing’ is brought about by the loss and abandonment of fishing gear. Under the Fisheries Control Regulation gear has to be marked and lost gear reported and retrieved. Some fishermen, therefore, acting on their own initiative, bring lost nets back to port after retrieving them from the sea.