26 Amendments of Stéphane BIJOUX related to 2020/2276(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 a (new)
Citation 3 a (new)
— having regard to its resolution of 15 January 2020 on the European Green Deal; 1a _________________ 1a 2019/2930(RSP)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 b (new)
Citation 3 b (new)
— having regard to the Commission communication of 11 December 2019 to the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions entitled ‘The European Green Deal’(COM(2019)0640);
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)
Citation 7 a (new)
— having regard to its resolution of 16 January 2020 on the 15th meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity; 11a _________________ 11a 2019/2824(RSP)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 20 a (new)
Citation 20 a (new)
— having regard to the Commission communication of 17 May 2021 to the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on a new approach for a sustainable blue economy in the EU Transforming the EU's Blue Economy for a Sustainable Future (COM/2021/240);
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas the Atlantic area is the largest sea basin in the European Union;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas coastal and maritime tourism has been hit particularly hard by the socioeconomic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, even though it is a major source of employment for the Atlantic regions;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the European Atlantic area extends off the African coast to encompass Madeira, the Azores and the Canary Islands, and across the Atlantic to take in the Netherlands Antilles, the French Antilles, French Guiana and Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and whereas the Atlantic strategy should address all these regions while remaining open toenabling a close cooperation with third countries and their regions;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Points out that the 1 200 new maritime projects announced by the Commission, worth almost EUR 6 billion, have no direct link to the Atlantic strategy, and takes the view that the regions have been insufficiently involved in the governance of the strategy; regrets the ex- post rationalisation which does not provide a real overview of the projects implemented through the strategy;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Welcomes the new strategy’s more strictly defined priorities and calls for practical measures to be taken, directly resulting from the strategy;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Deplores the fact that the EU budget contains no appropriations for the Atlantic action plan; with this in mind, calls on the Commission to consider labelling projects that meet the various priorities and objectives of the new strategy, in order to make it easier to finance them under the relevant European programmes and funds; in this respect, considers that the strategy should be mentioned in the Operational Programmes of the funds in the concerned regions;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses that greater synergies are needed between the different European Funds and Programmes, particularly with directly managed programmes, as well as with national and regional programmes, to support a sustainable, robust and competitive blue economy in the Atlantic regions;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Underscorlines the importance of fisheries and warns against the; calls for this key sector of the blue economy to be included in the new strategy, in line with the Commission's Communication of 17 May 2021 on a new approach for a sustainable blue economy in the European Union; recalls that overfishing is harmful in the long- term effects of over; stresses the need for Member States and regions of the Atlantic area to have a fair cooperation against unreported illegal fishing;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Stresses the need to develop high- quality, sustainable tourism, enhancing the value of coastal areas by diversifying the activities on offer, while at the same time preserving them by combating the harmful effects of mass tourism on coastlines, the environment and the cultural heritage; notes the significant potential of gastronomic tourism linked in particular to fisheries and aquaculture products;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. Stresses the importance of REACT-EU, which could give the Atlantic regions a new start in coastal tourism, innovation and sustainable port infrastructure;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Hopes that the strategy will encourage joint planning and development of the sectors of the blue economy in the Atlantic area, with environmental and climate policies as central pillars, thus contributing towards the achievement of the Union's decarbonisation objectives and promoting renewable offshore power generation technologies, while fighting against marine litter;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18 a. Underlines the fundamental and strategic role of ports as gateways to Europe, logistics platforms, hotspots for tourism, energy production and storage hubs and industrial hubs; notes the need to adopt measures as soon as possible to protect ports from climate change, particularly sea level rise;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls for the strategy to focus squarely on jobs; wishes to see an ambitious social component to promote job creation and, in particular, training for and access to maritime professions for young people; stresses the need to create networks between universities and learning centres in the field of research and training on blue topics, and notes with interest the opportunities offered by the Erasmus + 2021-2027 programme via the new initiatives of European university alliances and Centres of Vocational Excellence; encourages the further development of the European Blue Schools;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls for the concept of Atlantic connectivity to include links between ports and the development of hinterland areas via multimodal connections; regrets the persistent problems concerning interoperability of rail transport in the Atlantic corridor;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls for steps to be taken to eliminate rail bottlenecks, draw up plans for multimodal transfer to sustainable modes of transport, support the development of the Atlantic rail motorway, enhance rail-port connections and link them with other major TEN-T corridors with the other Atlantic Arc lines, in particular the Mediterranean, North Sea- Mediterranean and Rhine-Alps corridors, and the other lines of the Atlantic Arc; notes with satisfaction the planned realignment of the maritime corridors between Europe and Ireland following Brexit, and in particular the integration of Ireland into the Atlantic corridor;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Proposes yearly high-level meetings; bringing together the Commission and representatives of the Member states and regions concerned; calls for more visibility on the new governance structure and future meetings;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls the managing authorities of the funds, whether centrally or decentrally managed, for an increase in the number of specific calls for projects as part of the Atlantic strategy;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Recommends that the members of the Atlantic strategy and the members of the INTERREG Atlantic Area Monitoring Committee establish common objectives and decision-making procedures, while stressing that the INTERREG Atlantic Area programme does not have the administrative and financial capacity, nor the vocation, to be the main source of funding for projects falling under the Atlantic strategy;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
Paragraph 31 a (new)
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Advocates thatsks for the Atlantic strategy to be developed into an Atlantic macro- regional strategy and that an Atlantic macro-region be created with a view to improving coordination between measures addressing issues on land and at sea, provide multi- level governance and rationalise the sources of funding; recalls that the Council, in its conclusions of 5 June 2019 on the implementation of EU macro- regional strategies, remains open to the creation of new macro-regions; calls for the inclusion of Outermost regions in this new macro-region and stresses the need to take due account of their specificities by developing in each basin - the Caribbean basin, the Amazon basin and the Macaronesia basin - dedicated strategies focusing on Outermost regions' particular challenges;