5 Amendments of Michl EBNER related to 2008/2177(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. having regard to the proven and sustained damage which these birds can be shown to have done to aquaculture undertakings and numerous species of wild fish stocks along sea coasts and internal waterwaysuffered by aquaculture undertakings and stocks of many wild fish species in the internal waterways and along sea coasts in many Member States of the European Union,
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the sub-species of the cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis (‘continental cormorant’) wasrace) had attained a favourable conservation status by 1995 at the latest and was therefore logically deleted from the list of bird species to which special conservation measures applied as far back as 1997 (Annex I of the Wild Birds Directive), since it had attained a favourable conservation status by 1995 at the lbut was never included in Annex II of the Wild Birds Directive; whereas the continental race of the cormorant thus retained protected status, giving rise to serious legal uncertainty in the Member Statest, while the subspecies ch resulted in contradictory decisions; whereas the Atlantic race of the cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo carbo (‘Atlantic cormorant’), which had never been endangered, was not included oin that listAnnex I of the Wild Birds Directive at all,
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Proposes that, by means of systematic monitoring of cormorant populations supported by the EU and the Member States, a reliable, generally recognised and annually updated database be drawn up on the development, size and geographical distribution of cormorant populations in Europe, with closer involvement on the part of fishery research institutes and fishery authorities;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to foster in an appropriate manner the conditions for bilateral and multilateral scientific and administrative exchanges, both within the EU and with third countries, identifying the origin of the findings, communications, contributions or publications, and in particular the statistics, in such a way as to make clear whether they come from academic or official sources or from associations, in particular nature and bird conservation associations;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to set up a working party with a binding mandate to carry out within one year a systematic study of the stakeholders’ positions and arguments for and against a pan-European cormorant management plan, to assess their plausibility on the basis of logical and scientific criteria and to submit a recommendation; the composition of the working party should reflect the degree to which the stakeholders are affected;