Activities of Nicola CAPUTO related to 2017/2129(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Optimisation of the value chain in the EU fishing sector - Conformity of fisheries products with access criteria to the EU market (debate) IT
Amendments (14)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
- having regard to the scientific opinion "Food from the Oceans - How can more food and biomass be obtained from the oceans in the way that does not deprive future generations of their benefits?" presented by the High Level Group of Scientific Advisors to the European Commission in November 2017,
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas the conclusions of the scientific opinion "Food from the Oceans", which advises the integration of the Sustainable Development Goals into all Union policies, and apply the same approach in other international areas and to support other regions of the world to find a balance between economic and ecological objectives that involve the production of food and the marine environment;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Believes that it should be one of the key aims of EU policy on fishery and aquaculture imports to ensure that imported products meet the same requirements that apply to EU production in every respect; believes that this aim reflects basic concerns in relation to the fairness, consistency and effectiveness of the measures currently applied in the sector or envisaged as part of the reform; further notes that compliance by non-EU countries with EU requirements will help create more equal competition between production in the EU and production in non-EU countries as a result of the higher costs involved for non-EU countries in producing fish in accordance with EU standards;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Considers that EU efforts to conserve fish stocks and make fishing sustainable, pursued through the CFP, are incompatible with importing fishery and aquaculture products from countries which are stepping up their fishing efforts without concern for sustainability and are only interested in short-term profitability;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls on the Commission to provide more training, technical assistance and facilities for institutional capacity building to help developing countries comply with EU rules; encourages initiatives such as the "Better Training for Safer Food" (BTSF) programme of DG SANCO which runs training for official control staff of developing countries on EU standards for fishery and aquaculture products;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Emphasises the importance of rigorously applying all aspects of EU law in relation to health standards and inspections (including food safety, traceability and prevention), which are crucial aspects for consumer protection, to fishery and aquaculture imports, including feedstuffs and feed materials; urges the Commission, in this respect, to enhance its programme of third country inspections by fine-tuning Food and Veterinary Office missions, primarily by increasing the number of establishments inspected on each mission, in order to obtain results that better reflect the real situation in third countries;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Considers that the EU, as the world’s largest importer of fisheries products, shares political responsibility with other major fish importing countries for ensuring that the WTO trade rules respect the highest possible global standards of fisheries management and conservation; to this end, calls on the Commission to ensure that fair, transparent and sustainable trade in fish is strengthened in the EU’s bilateral and multilateral trade agreements;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Expresses its conviction that European consumers would often make different choices if they were better informed about the true nature of products on sale, their geographical origins, the conditions under which they were produced or caught and their quality;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Highlights the report recently published by the EJF, Oceana, Pew and WWF which analyses the flow of seafood imports into EU countries as from 2010, the year in which the IUU Regulation entered into force, and which shows how shortcomings in controls on imports from third countries to Member States and rules that are not uniform can allow non- compliant products to enter the EU market; calls on the Member States and the transit and destination countries, therefore, to step up their coordination in order to ensure that catch certificates issued for fish imports are examined more carefully; considers it vital to adopt a harmonised and coordinated European computerised system that can facilitate fish import controls in the Member States;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18 a. Believes that, in addition to applying the IUU Regulation, it is necessary to exercise stricter downstream controls on the marketing of such fish, notably by means of more rigorous audits of the Member States and of enterprises suspected of supplying products originating in illegal fishing;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18 b. Asks the Commission to use all the tools available to it to ensure that the main countries exporting fishery and aquaculture products to the EU apply rigorous policies to conserve stocks; encourages it to cooperate with these countries in all appropriate forums and especially in regional fisheries management organisations (RFMOs);
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 – indent 1 a (new)
Paragraph 19 – indent 1 a (new)
- lack of uniform and clear definition of serious infringements among Member States;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 – indent 2
Paragraph 19 – indent 2
- sanctions that are not always sufficiently dissuasive in some Member States;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 – indent 3
Paragraph 19 – indent 3
- unsatisfactory exchange of data among Member States, particularly in light of the lack of a common and compatible database;