12 Amendments of Linnéa ENGSTRÖM related to 2017/2118(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph –1 (new)
Paragraph –1 (new)
-1. Stresses the legal commitments of the EU to ensure nature protection, including through the Birds Directive, the Habitats Directive and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Believes that the EU needs toshould increase its production in the aquaculture sector, while taking quality, sustainability and environmental aspects into account and being a role mo only if environmental protection, food safety, feed sustainability and animal welfare can be assured, and that the EU should aspire to be a world leadelr in this regard;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Stresses that European aquaculture must not lead to further overfishing and that proper safeguards must be established to ensure that growth in aquaculture does not jeopardise the Maximum Sustainable Yield objectives of the Common Fisheries Policy;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Notes that aquaculture can only meet the increase in demand for fish if it does not remove more fish from the oceans than it produces;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1 c. Calls on the Commission to introduce safeguards to ensure that both fish-based and non fish-based feed are sustainably sourced;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1 d. Calls on the Commission to introduce requirements for the inclusion of an evaluation of the environmental footprint of the production of all feed ingredients, which should cover full traceability to source, impacts on biodiversity and the wider environment, freshwater use and life-cycle analysis;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that the way to a sustainable and competitive European aquaculture sector is through determindependent scientific assessment, defining the carrying capacitylimitations of the environment, in particular in open marine farming, which is the main precondition for allocation of space and the provision of licences or permits and its carrying capacity and ensuring coherence with environmental legislation;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that scientific evidence should be followed to formulate and monitor management and production practices in relatiCalls on Member States to establish standardised protocols to collect data on tohe environmental impacts, sanitary and veterinary conditions and food safety of aquaculture so as to ensure that sound and independent scientific evidence is used to formulate, monitor, and, if necessary, amend, management and production practices;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Stresses that the use of chemicals and antibiotics in aquaculture poses risks to ecosystems and human health and calls on the Commission to make monitoring, data collection and impact assessments on the use of these chemicals and medicines mandatory with all information being made publicly available;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Calls on the Commission to propose strict regulations on allowable vaccines and antibiotics in order to ensure safe and nutritious food, optimal animal health and EU wide standards on disease prevention and treatment; Calls for a full ban on toxic chemicals, be they pesticides or feed additives, in aquaculture; calls on the Commission to continually review, and lower where possible, the maximum levels of undesirable substances, such as endosulfan, permitted in fish feed under Directive 2002/32/EC;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4 c. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the transport of live animals is registered and given prior approval by official bodies and that disease outbreaks are reported in a timely manner and documented on an EU-wide basis;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Calls for extension of the GM labelling rules to cover aquaculture products that have been fed with GM feed;