5 Amendments of Carmen FRAGA ESTÉVEZ related to 2008/2063(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Considers that, in this new scenario, it is no longer possible to evade the need to revise and update the powers of the Committee on Fisheries defined in Annex VI to its Rules of Procedure, powers which date from the setting-up of the Committee on Fisheries in 1994 and which survived the major reform of the common fisheries policy in 2002, as well as two changes of title and consequent internal restructuring of the Commission's former Directorate-General for Fisheries to match the new circumstances as regards fisheries management at world level;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Bases this request to update the powers of the Committee on Fisheries on the fact that, among the major changes that have affected the evolution of the CFP in addition to the above-mentioned 2002 reform, we have seen successive alterations in the funds allocated to fisheries since they were taken out of the Community structural funds chapter, fisheries agreements have evolved into fisheries partnership agreements, regional fisheries management organisations have become more prominent and the European Union is playing a growing role within them, trade in fish products has changed profoundly, new technologies are being applied in fisheries and there has been a change in the objective of Community fisheries management, which must henceforth be carried out using an ecosystem approach as part of the new integrated maritime policy approved for the European Union;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Stresses that it is inconsistent that a parliamentary committee with codecision powers should continue to be a neutralised committee and recommends, consequently, that the necessary changes be made to avoid this situation;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Considers it vital, likewise, for the Committee on Fisheries to participate as an observer in the joint committees provided for in fisheries agreements, as Parliament has requested on many occasions, and calls for this condition to be reflected in the interinstitutional agreement;