52 Amendments of João FERREIRA related to 2011/0194(COD)
Amendment 43 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) Producer organisations are the key actors for the appropriate application of the Common Fisheries Policy and the Common Market Organisation. It is therefore necessary to strengthen their objectives to ensure that their members carry out fishing and aquaculture activities in a sustainable manner, improve the placing on the market of products, see an improvement in their income, and collect economic information on aquaculture. When realising these objectives, producer organisations should take into account the different conditions of the fishery and aquaculture sectors prevailing in the Union, in particular the specificities of small-scale fisheries, which warrant support and positive discrimination in favour of this fleet segment within the CMO.
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) Producer organisations are the key actors for the appropriate application of the Common Fisheries Policy and the Common Market Organisation. It is therefore necessary to strengthen their objectives to ensure that their members carry out fishing and aquaculture activities in a sustainable manner, improve the placing on the market of products, and collectsee an improvement in their income and collect environmental and economic information on aquaculture. When realising these objectives, producer organisations should take into account the different conditions of the fishery and aquaculture sectors prevailing in the Union, in particular the specificities of small-scale fisheries, and especially their greater environmental sustainability, which warrant support and positive discrimination in favour of this fleet segment within the CMO.
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)
Recital 7 a (new)
(7a) Some Member States have very little, or indeed nothing, in the way of fishery producer organisations representing small-scale inshore fisheries and non- industrial fisheries, which together account for by far the highest proportion. Given this situation, Member States should be allowed to exercise a management option.
Amendment 47 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)
Recital 7 a (new)
(7a) Some Member States have very little, or indeed nothing, in the way of producer organisations representing small-scale inshore fisheries and non-industrial fisheries, which together account for by far the highest proportion. Given this situation, Member States should be able to exercise a management option.
Amendment 47 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 b (new)
Recital 7 b (new)
(7b) The market does not, at present, fully reward the socially and environmentally positive externalities arising from small- scale inshore fisheries and non-industrial fisheries, and it should therefore be possible for producers engaged in this type of fishing to benefit from positive discrimination.
Amendment 48 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 b (new)
Recital 7 b (new)
(7b) The market does not, at present, fully reward all of the socially and environmentally positive externalities arising from small-scale inshore fisheries and non-industrial fisheries, and it should therefore be possible for producers engaged in this type of fishing to benefit from positive discrimination.
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10 a (new)
Recital 10 a (new)
(10a) The landing of all unwanted catches, and the resulting elimination of discards, is one of the aims of the CFP reform now in progress. If that goal is truly to be attained, it may be necessary to grant floor-rate financial compensation to help producers meet the costs of handling, storing, and landing the entire quantity of unwanted catches.
Amendment 51 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 a (new)
Recital 15 a (new)
(15a) In several Member States, added value is distributed very unevenly along the sector’s value chain, one long- standing problem being the low first sale prices for fish, which could constitute an additional factor exerting pressure on resources, encouraging overfishing. In order to improve first sale prices for fish, so as to benefit producers, and to make for fair and proper distribution of added value over the whole of the sector's value chain, Member States should be able to adopt forms of intervention, such as laying down maximum margins for each agent in the chain.
Amendment 53 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20
Recital 20
(20) In order to be able to supplement or amendenlarge upon the conditions and requirements for recognition of producers organisations, supplement or amendenlarge upon the content of the production and marketing plan, define and amendsupplement or enlarge upon the common marketing standards, supplement or amendenlarge upon mandatory information and setenlarge upon minimum criteria for information voluntarily provided by operators to the consumers, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the Commission in respect of Articles 24, 33, 41 and 46.
Amendment 57 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 a (new)
Recital 15 a (new)
(15a) In several Member States, added value is distributed very unevenly along the sector’s value chain, one long- standing problem being the low first sale prices for fish, which could constitute an additional factor exerting pressure on resources, encouraging overfishing. In order to improve first sale prices for fish, so as to benefit producers, and to make for fair and proper distribution of added value over the whole of the value chain, Member States should be allowed to adopt forms of intervention, such as laying down maximum margins for each agent of the chain.
Amendment 68 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17 a (new)
Recital 17 a (new)
(17a) It is necessary to ensure that imported products entering the Union market conform to the same requirements and marketing standards as Union producers have to meet.
Amendment 82 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 a (new)
The general objectives of the Common Market Organisation are to provide stability on the markets in fishery and aquaculture products and to guarantee fair incomes for producers, while paying heed to the sustainability and proper conservation of fishery resources and ecosystems.
Amendment 86 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 1
Article 32 – paragraph 1
1. Each producer organisation shall submit a production and marketing plan to their competent national authorities to fulfil the objectives laid down in Article 3. Plans may provide for biological rest periods within the meaning of Article 8(fc).
Amendment 89 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 38 – point b a (new)
Article 38 – point b a (new)
(ba) measures referred to in Article 8(fb) and (fc).
Amendment 96 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 A (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 1 A (new)
For the purposes of setting up fishery producer organisations, the specific situation of small-scale inshore fishery and non-industrial fishery producers must be taken into account. These producers must benefit from positive discrimination as regards access to aid for the establishment of producer organisations.
Amendment 105 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
(aa) contributing to food supply and to employment in coastal and rural areas;
Amendment 113 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) handling unwanted catches of commercial stocks; living marine resources with a view to an overall reduction in such catches and in landings thereof;
Amendment 121 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point e
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) improving producer’s’ profitability. and improving the income of fishing operators;
Amendment 125 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point e a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point e a (new)
(ea) helping to improve understanding of the conservation status of marine ecosystems and fishery resources.
Amendment 150 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point b – indent 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point b – indent 1
– disposing of landed products which do not conform to the minimum marketing sizes referred to in Article 39 (2)(a) for uses other than human consumption;
Amendment 168 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point f a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point f a (new)
(fa) sending information voluntarily to the competent national authorities on the conservation status of marine ecosystems and fishery resources at such intervals, and by such means, as might be considered appropriate;
Amendment 171 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point f b (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point f b (new)
(fb) granting floor-rate financial compensation to help meet the costs of landing unwanted catches in cases where the proceeds of sales would be insufficient to cover those costs;
Amendment 173 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point f c (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point f c (new)
(fc) granting floor-rate financial compensation to help meet the costs of biological rest periods, at given critical phases of species’ life cycles, in order to conserve fishery resources and hence ensure that fish stocks will be such as to allow fishing to continue outside rest periods.
Amendment 178 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Revenue from the marketing of unwanted catches must, for the most part, be assigned to national authorities, which shall use it to obtain and process biological data to help improve knowledge of the state of fishery resources. Producers may be compensated for the costs incurred in the handling, storage, and landing of those catches and shall be granted a floor-rate percentage of their market value.
Amendment 186 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) promoting viable and environmentally sustainable aquaculture activities of their members by providing opportunities for their development;
Amendment 189 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) contributing to food supply and, observing high food quality and safety standards, and to employment in coastal and rural areas;
Amendment 192 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point e
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) improving producer’s’ profitability. and the income of workers in the sector while improving their working conditions;
Amendment 197 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point e a (new)
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point e a (new)
(ea) promoting continuous improvement in the environmental performance of aquaculture activities, reducing and minimising harmful impacts over the entire production chain.
Amendment 209 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point e
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) collecting environmental information and information on the marketed products including economic information on first sales, and on production forecasts.
Amendment 238 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) they are sufficiently active economically in their territory or a part thereof, in particular as regards number of members andor volume of marketable production;
Amendment 256 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – title
Article 22 – title
Communication to the Commission and publication of the list of producer organisations
Amendment 258 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 22 – paragraph 1 a (new)
At the beginning of every year the Commission shall publish the list of producer organisations recognised in the preceding year and of organisations whose recognition was withdrawn during that year.
Amendment 261 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 24 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Amendment 269 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 26 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) the producer organisation is considered to be representative of production and marketing in one Member State and makes an application to the competent national authorities;
Amendment 273 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 26 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) the rules to be extended concern any of the measures for producer organisations laid down in Article 8(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (fa) and (fb).
Amendment 278 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 2
Article 26 – paragraph 2
2. For the purposes of paragraph 1(a) a fishery producer organisation is deemed representative where it accounts for at least 65 % of the producers and 65% of the quantities marketlanded of the relevant product during the previous year in the area where it is proposed to extend the rules.
Amendment 298 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 1
Article 32 – paragraph 1
1. Each producer organisation shall submit a production and marketing plan to their competent national authorities to fulfil the objectives laid down in Article 3. Those plans may provide for biological rest periods within the meaning of Article 8(fb).
Amendment 307 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 1
Article 33 – paragraph 1
Amendment 309 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 35 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Amendment 318 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 – paragraph 2
Article 36 – paragraph 2
2. The trigger price may not exceed 80 % of the weightedshall be fixed on the basis of the average of prices recorded for the product in question in thon wholesale marea of activity of the producer organisation concernedkets or in ports during the three fishing years immediately preceding the fishing year for which the trigger price is fixed.
Amendment 321 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 – paragraph 3 – point d a (new)
Article 36 – paragraph 3 – point d a (new)
(da) the cost of production factors;
Amendment 331 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 38 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 38 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Each producer organisation may create a collective fund, which shall be used only to finance the following measures:
Amendment 335 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 38 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 38 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Specific aid may be granted to producer organisations and shall be paid into the collective fund with a view to financing the measures referred to in the first paragraph.
Amendment 336 #
Proposal for a regulation
Section 6 a (new)
Section 6 a (new)
SECTION VIa MANAGEMENT OPTIONS OF MEMBER STATES Article 38a Management options of Member States Taking into account the specific circumstances and the extent to which producer organisations have developed on their territory, Member States may choose either to delegate management tasks to producer organisations or to provide that essential decision-taking power will continue to be exercised by their authorities, in particular where necessary in order to ensure the viability of the small-scale inshore and non-industrial sectors.
Amendment 342 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
Article 39 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
(aa) the minimum degree of freshness of unprocessed fish;
Amendment 346 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
Article 39 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
(ba) specific marketing standards for products of unwanted catches, whether below the minimum sizes or in excess of the available quota, in accordance with Article 8.
Amendment 348 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 39 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. With a view to improving first sale prices for fish, benefiting producers and making for fair and proper distribution of added value over the whole of the sector’s value chain, and in the event of serious problems occurring as regards producers’ incomes and inequalities along the value chain, Member States may adopt forms of intervention applicable to the chain, such as laying down maximum margins for each intermediate link of the chain.
Amendment 351 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 40 – paragraph 1
Article 40 – paragraph 1
1. The products for which marketing standards have been laid down may be marketed for human consumption in the Union only in accordance with those standards. This provision shall also apply to all imported fishery and aquaculture products.
Amendment 364 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 41 – paragraph 1
Article 41 – paragraph 1
The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 50, in order to definesupplement or enlarge upon the common marketing standards referred to in Article 39(1) with regard to quality, size or weight, packing, presentation and labelling, and, if experience gained in the implementation of the standards so requires, to amend them, while ensuring that the standards are defined in a fair and transparent manner;.
Amendment 438 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 46 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 46 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) supplement or amendenlarge upon the mandatory information requirements referred to in Article 42(1), Article 42(2), Article 43 and Article 44, while ensuring that the mandatory information is performrovided in an accurate and transparent manner;
Amendment 441 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 46 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 46 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) setpecify minimum criteria for information voluntarily provided by operators referred to in Article 45(1), while ensuring that the conditions for displaying voluntary information are accurate, transparent and non-discriminatory.
Amendment 444 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 49 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 49 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) survey prices regularly along the Union supply chain for fishery and aquaculture products and conduct analyses on market trends, and make the findings of those surveys and analyses public;