Activities of Jean-Paul BESSET related to 2011/2291(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on reporting obligations under Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002 on the conservation and sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources under the Common Fisheries Policy PDF (184 KB) DOC (95 KB)
Amendments (10)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to provide for the establishment of long-term management plans for all EU fisheries; highlights the possibility of grouping fisheries according to geographical fishing regions whereby the specificities of the different European seas should be taken into account and a separate regime should apply toregime conducive to fishing by fishermen using environmentally and socially sustainable practices should apply, which would guarantee the permanence of small-scale coastal fisheries; believes that there should be a possibility for investments in new landing sites, which will have to be controlled to prevent the expansion of fishing capacity, and start-up packages in order to secure a new generation of fishermen entering into small-scale fisheries;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the need for a balance between the ecological and the economic and social situation in each fishery, while acknowledging that without plentiful fish stocks, there will be no profitable fishing industry, and emphasises that it is very important that European fishermen accept harvest control rules, and therefore calls for wide participation by representatives of Regional Advisory Councils (RACs) and other relevant stakeholders when establishing management plans; considers that in the future RACthese parties should play a much greater role in this process;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Underlines the direct link between discards, unwanted by-catch and overfishing, and the need to develop an efficient no-discards policy at EU level whereby the Community Fisheries Control Agency (CFCA) should have greater powers to ensure a fair system of rules and sanctions, i.e. the principle of equal treatment; argues that a discard ban should be fishery-based and not relate to different fish stocks; stresses that selected fishing gear and other devices which reduce or eliminate by-catches of non-targeted species, or of juveniles of targeted species, as well as other sustainable fishing methods, should be promotedrequired as a stipulation for the right to fish; underlines the importance of addressing the management of mixed fisheries to this end;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Urges the Commission to address immediately the issue of the lack of reliable and available data necessary for sound scientific advice; calls on the Commission to establish a system whereby Member States which do not fulfil their data collection and transmission obligations are sanctioned; stresses that adequate financial means have to be allocated to relevant scientific research in the Member States; urges the Commission at the same time to set up a framework for decision-making in data-poor situations, both regarding management plans and TACs and quota decisions, based on the precautionary approach — the less data there is, the more the TACs and quotas will have to be reduced;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission to establish a definition of overcapacity at EU level accommodating regional definitions, where local specificities are taken into account; further calls on the Commission to redefine fishing capacity in such a way that both the vessel’s fishing capacity and its actual fishing effort are taken as a basis; stresses moreover the necessity to define small- scale fisheries in order to dissociate them from industrial fisheries, while recognising that there is no universally applicable definition;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the Commission to measure, based on the recommendations of the FAO Technical Consultation (1999), and before the end of 2013, the capacity of European fleets in order to establish where there is overcapacity in relation to the resources available and what reductions/conversions are required; insists that the capacity measures should not be restricted to tonnage and engine power, but that they should include the types and quantities of fishing gear used and any other parameter contributing to the fishing capacity;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Recognisejects the Commission’s proposal to introduce a system of individually transferable fishing concessions (TFCs), subject to strict safeguards, providing a special regime for small-scale and coastal fisheries as well as prefer; considers that Member States should allocate fishing opportunities according to environmential treatment for ecologically-friendly fishing vessels, and addressing the issue of rights concentration and the possibility of revoking fishing concessions; believand social criteria such as, among others, selectivity, the quality of fish produced, CO2 emissions, the jobs generated, so as to ensure that fishing contributes, therefore, that a Member State should be exempted from the obligation to introduce TFCs if its fishing capacity is within the set ceiling or if the Member State in question can prove that it can achieve the necessary capacity reduction without using a TFC systemo the coastal economies, preserves stocks and is not harmful to the marine environment; underlines that the system of TFCs is not an instrument for managing capacity or tackling overfishing, but a questionable economic mechanism for allocating access to the resources;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Emphasises the need for clear deadlines for fleet reductions and conversions, and pace targets, and urges the Commission to provide for a scheme of measures to sanction Member States which do not fulfil their respective obligations within the set timelines and to further develop the concept of ecological and social conditionality in the context of access to fishing resources and remuneration which rewards sustainable fishing;