25 Amendments of Carlos ITURGAIZ related to 2015/2091(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas 85 % of global fish stocks for which information is available are either fully exploited or overexploited, accordless than 30 % of fish stocks are overexploited, as indicated ing to the most recent assessmenthe report ‘The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture’ published in June 2014 by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO);
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the EU is a major market for fishery products (fish caught by EU fleets as well as imports), consuming 11 % of the world’s fish production in terms of volume and importing 24 % of fishery products in terms of value; and the EU likewise has an industry for processing and preserving seafood products with a significant social dimension which must be protected;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas quotas in RFMOs are based primarily on historical catches, thus maintaining preferential access to global fish stocks for developed countries;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas in manysome cases there are insufficient data on the fish stocks that the EU is fishing, in terms of their statustatus of resources and of total removals by local and third- country fleets;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Insists on the importance of sustainable fishing, processing and trade, in the EU and abroad, as the only way to secure a future for coastal communities, the employment generated by fishing and the industry for preserving and processing seafood products, and the contribution of fishing to food securitufficiency;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Recognises that sustainable fishing, both inside and outside Community waters, is vital to ensure the viability of the European fishing industry and fleet; this socio-economic viability must be present in the commercial policy of the EU to prevent the European fleet from being replaced by less sustainable fleets from outside the EU;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Emphasises that all aspects of the external dimension of the CFP must be predicated on equitable relationships between the EU and its partners globally, be they bilateral (sustainable fishing partnership agreements) or multilateral (RFMOs); such equity must also be reflected in EU trade agreements with third countries;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Insists that, in its external fishery-related activities (catching, processing and marketing), the EU must adopt and promote the highestpromote its environmental and social standards and implement rigorous and effective control and inspection measures, while ensuring transparency in all its activities, to ensure fair competition on the EU market;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Reiterates the need for better scientific information andon the status of resources and for the acquisition of catch/effort data for fishing outside EU waters, especially in the waters of certain developing coastal States; notes that there is scope for providing funding for the collection of such data and for improved scientific analyses, using funds available under the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and the European Development Fund;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Recognises that International Good Governance can only be led by example, and therefore the social and environmental standards of the EU must serve as a benchmark for improving standards within RFMOs, by ensuring that these standards are applied to the other fleets.
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Encourages the Commission to promote a fairerbalanced distribution of the allocation of access in RFMOs, taking into account both the environmental and social impact and developing countries’ aspiration to develop their own fisheries; this distribution must be done such that the European Union is not the only contracting party that has to systematically give up part of its quotas;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Recognises the importance of fisheries for developing countries, especially artisanal fisheries, on account of their contribution to food securitufficiency, the local economy and employment; without prejudice to the role played by industrial fisheries to ensure the socio-economic development of coastal areas and the supply of fish products;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Recognises the work done by the European Union in combating illegal, undeclared and unregulated fishing in international waters, by requiring that the Community market is only supplied with fish caught strictly in line with European regulations and the rules imposed by regional fisheries organisations;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Emphasises the significant role played by women throughout the value chain, from financing through to the marketing of fish products; believes that these activities reinforce the economic and social empowerment of women and, who play an important role in closing gender gaps key role in the sector, and insists that more attention be paid to these priorities in EU relations with developing countries;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Considers that the EU should encourage third countries, beginning with those with which it negotiates an SFPA, to establish a regulatory framework for joint ventures by EU and other interests in the catching, processing and marketing sectors; is of the opinion that such a framework is the best means of ensuring that joint ventures are set up and operate in line with high sustainability and transparency standards as promoted by the reformed CFP, thus also providing better legal stability for EU interests in supporting sustainable fisheries development in third countries;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Defends the need to extend the transparency provisions included in the agreement with Mauritania to all fisheries agreements with third countries;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Also warmly welcomes the fact that the protocol with Mauritania grants the European fleet priority access to fishing surpluses in that country, and encourages the European Commission to follow this example in negotiating protocols with other third countries, taking into account the strict sustainability requirements which the Community fleet must meet.
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for detailed information on the catches and activities of vessels allowed to fish in Mauritanian waters and the associated conditions of access to be publicly available; sStrongly encourages the Commission to ensure that similare inclusion of provisions are included in other future protocols, leading to much-improved transparency regarding totallating to detailed information on the catches and activities of vessels allowed to fish ing effort and conditions of acces third-country waters;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Encourages other third countries also to publish the terms of other agreements that they sign with other States or private entities, including the identity of vessels authorised to fish and their activities and catches; likewise, encourages third countries to comply with RFMO resolutions, which promote transparency in fisheries agreements;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Considers that vessels fishing under the provisions of an SFPA but which do not supply their Member State and the Commission with the data required under the terms of their fishing authorisation should not be issued with authorisations in subsequent years (no data, no fish)will be subject to the sanctions regime laid down in the Community fisheries regulations;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Welcomes the recent publication of the names of EU-flagged vessels granted authorisation to fish outside EU waters, and insists that the Commission publish such information as a matter of course, including data on their activities and catches;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Insists that the IUU (Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing) Regulation must be applied rigorously and, objectively and in a non-discriminatory manner, and must not be allowed to be used for political purposes,transparently, in a uniform and harmonised manner, especially with regard to monitoring and control, to ensure equitable treatment of all fleets, and must not be subject to the short-term needs of the EU’s trade policy or be used by EU fishing interests as a tool for improving competition;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls on the European Commission to study the inclusion in the IUU Regulation of provisions relating to working conditions;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Believes that bilateral and multilateral trade agreements negotiated by the EU should promote environmentally sustainable and socially just conditions for the production of fisheries products in the third countries concerned, through the use of appropriate quantitative and qualitative restrictions on access to the EU market; also believes that these conditions should be a requirement for any fish product or fishing-derived product sold on the European market, and that any fish product or fishing-derived product not guaranteed to comply with these conditions should be barred from the European market;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Takes the view, in particular, that the provisions of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements should include an explicit reference to the IUU Regulation; warns the Commission against proposing any type of improvedthe standards required under the IUU Regulation; opposes the improvement of trade relations towith a third country that has been identified under Article 31 of the IUU Regulation; also considers it to be of particular importance to introduce into the IUU Regulation elements such as the creation of a database similar to TRACES to verify and cross-check data relating to catch certificates and vessels or to establish a minimum percentage for the verification of imports of processed products;