Activities of Isabella LÖVIN related to 2010/2210(INI)
Plenary speeches (3)
Combating illegal fishing at the global level (debate)
Combating illegal fishing at the global level (debate)
Combating illegal fishing at the global level (A7-0362/2011 - Isabella Lövin) (vote)
Reports (1)
REPORT on combating illegal fishing at the global level - the role of the EU PDF (242 KB) DOC (156 KB)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on combating illegal fishing at the global level – the role of the EU
Amendments (20)
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas the EU is the world’s largest importer of fisheries products and one of the world’s major fishing powers, imposing on it a major responsibility to take a lead in mobilizing the international community in the fight against IUU fishing;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that the new EU control package, consisting of the IUU Regulation, the Control Regulation and the Fishing Authorisations Regulation5 , constitutes a comprehensive set of instruments to combat this scourge of the oceans, since it specifies the flag, coastal, port and market State responsibilities of both the EU Member States and third countries as well as obligations with respect to the activities of their nationals;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to publish annual assessments of the performance of Member States in implementing the rules of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) and to use all possible means to ensure their full compliance;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Encourages the Commission and Member States to identify and sanction violators of EU rules to safeguard the Union’s credibility on this issue;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Emphasises that past limitations in monitoring and enforcement of ocean, control and surveillance of fishing activities have been largely overcome by technological advances, and that the key to combating IUU fishing today lies primarily with governments finding the political will to act;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Considers that improving transparency in all aspects of the fishing industry and their activities, including agreeing on international criteria to establish real, beneficial ownership of vessels, and conditions for their publication, is crucial;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Believes that the European Union should set an example by adopting and promoting a policy of transparency in decision-making in fisheries management in international bodies and in third countries with which the EU has fisheries relations;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to expand their programmes of financial and technical support for, including Official Development Aid, for monitoring, control and surveillance programmes in the waters of developing countries, giving priority to regional programmes rather than bilateral ones; further encourages greater coordination among all donors, European and others, in funding such programmes
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 – indent 3
Paragraph 10 – indent 3
– extension of the list of specified measures to be taken by Contracting Parties (CPCs) as flag, coastal, port and market States, and States of beneficial ownership, within individual RFMOs;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 – indent 6 a (new)
Paragraph 10 – indent 6 a (new)
- compulsory use of electronic tools including VMS, electronic logbooks and other tracking devices where relevant;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 – indent 7 a (new)
Paragraph 10 – indent 7 a (new)
- declaration of financial interests with respect to fisheries for heads of delegations to RFMOs where they could lead to a conflict of interest;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Believes that the right to fish on the high seas must, to the extent possible under international law, be made conditional upon a State’s adherence to the relevant international bodies and full implementation of all management measures that they adopt;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Recognizes the lack of international cooperation in management of the negative impacts of human activities other than fishing that affect the marine environment and calls upon the Commission to advocate the creation of a global body to fill this void, possibly under the auspices of the UN;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Emphasises that the concept of market State responsibility must be more fully developed as a means of closing down the markets for the products of IUU fish; believes that the EU must urgently discuss with other major market States, including but not limited to the US, Japan and China, how to cooperate among themselves and, as rapidly as possible, to develop international legal instruments that could halt trade in IUU fish, possibly under the World Trade Organisation (WTO);
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Encourages the Commission to pursue the development of a global catch certificdocumentation scheme;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls upon the Commission, through the relevant programmes, to support research and development of techniques to improve traceability, including electronic tags to track fish, satellite tracking of fishing and support vessels and establish genetic databases to identify the origin of fish products;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Requests the Commission to examine the US Lacey Act and to consider whether certain of its elements might be useful in the European context, particularly the responsibility it imposes on retailers for the legality of fish;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21b. Calls upon the Commission to include the above principles, where relevant, in the provisions of its bilateral fisheries agreements;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission and, the national parliaments of Member States, the secretariats of the RFMOs to which the EU is a Contracting Party and the Committee on Fisheries of the FAO.