Activities of José Inácio FARIA related to 2017/2055(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
International ocean governance: an agenda for the future of our oceans in the context of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (short presentation) PT
Reports (1)
REPORT on international ocean governance: an agenda for the future of our oceans in the context of the 2030 SDGs PDF (580 KB) DOC (123 KB)
Amendments (26)
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 a (new)
Citation 14 a (new)
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 a (new)
Citation 14 a (new)
- having regard to the fourth edition of the Our Ocean Conference hosted by the European Union in Malta on 5 and 6 October 2017;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 a (new)
Citation 18 a (new)
- having regard to the declaration entitled "Our ocean, our future: call for action"1 as the outcome document of the United Nations Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development,
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. having regard to the fourth edition of the Our Ocean Conference hosted by the European Union in Malta on 5 and 6 October 2017;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. having regard to the Annex on "Action to boost the clean energy transition" to the Communication on "Clean Energy For All Europeans" (COM(2016) 860 final) C bis whereas improving ocean governance will help create a global level playing field for business, including the European ocean energy sector;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas "litter" means waste of small size in publicly accessible areas that has been improperly discarded in the environment (on the land, in freshwater and in the sea), whether wilfully or by negligence;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas 80% of marine litter emanates from the land and, therefore, the marine litter problem cannot be tackled effectively over time without first addressing effective policy and action to reduce and contain litter on the land;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the Joint Ccommunication on International ocean governance and the actions proposed, which highlights the EU’s commitment to achievinge the conservation and the sustainable use of oceans as identified in the SDG 14 of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; recognises the cross-cutting nature of the subject and the need for a coordinated and integrated approach to ensure better ocean governance; calls for the EU to assumtake a leading role as global actor to strengthen international ocean governance;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Encourages the Commission to develop ocean partnerships with key ocean players as a mean to achieve better international ocean governance;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that improving transparency, access to information and the legitimacy of UN organisationpublic accessibility of information, stakeholder involvement, and the legitimacy of UN organisations, including public accountability of country representatives at international bodies, such as the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) and the International Seabed Authority (ISA) is a matter of priority in addressing existing governance shortcomings;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Reiterates its 2017 call from 2014the Arctic Resolution for the Commission and the Member States to take all necessary measures to play an active role in facilitating thea ban onf the on board use and carriage in fuel tanks of heavy fuel oil (HFO) as ship fuel in vessels navigating the Arctic seas on the basis ofthrough the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL), and through port state control, along similar lines to the ways currently regulated for the waters surrounding the Antarctica have been regulated; invites the Commission to include the environmental, social, health and climate risks of the use of HFO in its position on International Ocean Governance; calls on the Commission, in the absence of adequate international measures, to put forward proposals on rules for vessels calling at EU ports prior to journeys through Arctic waters, with a view to prohibiting the use and carriage of HFO;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses that the precautionary principle has to be applied to the emerging sector of deep sea mining, and that given the warnings of science about significant and irreversible environmental risks, the EU should not support this sector but invest instead in sustainable alternatives, i.e. a transition to sustainable consumption and production, as required by SDG 12 under Agenda 2030;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Urges the Commission to call on Member States to stop sponsoring deep- sea mining exploration and exploitation licenses in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction and on and not to issue permits for deep-sea mining on Member States' continental shelf
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Emphasises that creating a sustainable maritime economy and reducing pressures on the marine environment require action on climate change, land-based pollution reaching the seas and oceans, marine pollution and eutrophication, on the preservation, conservation and restoration of marine ecosystems and biodiversity, and on the sustainable use of marine resources;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Requests the Commission to propose new legislation to address microplastic pollution in all its forms, but specifically by banning microplastic ingredients in all personal care products, and by ensuring that all businesses that handle plastic production pellets implement proper protocols for minimising pellet leakage;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Welcomes the EU action plan for the circular economy and calls upon the European Commission to propose robust measures to prevent the discharge of micro- and macro- particles into the marine environment including a reduction in waste leakage of 50% by 2020, legislative measures for industry such as bans on single use plastic (where natural alternatives are available), and potentially an international legal instrument;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Underlines that the easiest way to start to reduce marine litter in the short term and sustain this over the long term is by setting and implementing coherent policy and action to reduce the amount of used products discarded on the land, especially close to rivers and other waterways and to the coast, notably by acting to change the behaviour of citizens and by improving the infrastructure and systems for out-of-home collection on the land;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 c (new)
Paragraph 13 c (new)
13c. Calls on Member States to adopt the significant package of proposals from the European Parliament and the European Commission in the context of the revision of Directive 2008/98/EC on waste, which taken together amount to a coherent new EU policy for sharing the responsibility between all stakeholders for litter and the prevention of littering, on land and in the marine environment;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 d (new)
Paragraph 13 d (new)
13d. Urges the Commission to reduce marine litter from shipping by promoting 100% no special fee cost recovery systems for garbage in all European ports in the revision of the Directive 2000/59/EC, as has already been adopted in the Baltic area as a method to incentivise waste delivery;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Encourages the European Commission to provide leadership and promote ecosystem-based marine spatial planning at a global level to reduce pressure on the marine environment and facilitate the development of sustainable blue economies;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls upon the EU and its Member States to commit to invest in social capital to ensure better stewardship of ocean and coastal resources. In particular, strongly encourages the involvement of women and youth in ocean literacy programmes and in ocean stakeholder consultations;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Stresses the importance of protecting biodiversity by ensuring an effectively managed, ecologically coherent network of marine protected areas, conservation zones and Natura 2000 marine sites cover at least 10% of all European Seas and marine areas by 2020 to be in line with the Sustainable Development Goal 14.5. Encourages where possible progress towards the IUCN and World Parks Congress guideline of 30% marine protected areas by 2030;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Calls on the European Commission and the EU member states to work actively towards rapid finalisation of the protracted IMO work plan on reducing black carbon (BC) emissions from ships sailing in the Arctic with the view of slowing down rapid temperature increases in the Polar region;
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 b (new)
Paragraph 20 b (new)
20b. Urges the Commission to promote necessary fiscal conditions to incentivise the use of shore-side power supply by ships in the EU ports and the uptake of renewable technologies, notably, sails, batteries and fuel cells, in the maritime sector, especially for short-sea shipping;
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Encourages greater resources dedicated to increasing marine knowledge and understanding of the ocean with particular regard to marine scientific research, collection of new data, knowledge and data sharing platforms and to promote policy development and decision-making based upon the best available scientific evidence. Where adequate scientific evidence is unavailable, reiterates the importance of the precautionary approach;