21 Amendments of João FERREIRA related to 2018/0349M(NLE)
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas Western Sahara is currently a Non-Self-Governing Territory under the foreign military occupation of Morocco, divided by a military wall of more than 2,700 kilometres and that access to the natural resources of Western Sahara is one of the keys of the conflict and its exploitation without consent of the Saharawi people supposes a violation of Article 73 of the Charter of the United Nations;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. Whereas 83.7% of the catches obtained in the waters occupied by Morocco come from the area of Dakhla, in the Saharawi fishing ground, being Saharawi less than 5% of the workers in the sector and none work in the port, but precarious workforce, and that in the area 3188 Moroccan boats operate in front of 312 Saharawi;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
Recital M a (new)
Ma. Whereas it is estimated that 92% of the catches made by European fleets under the EU-Morocco Fisheries Agreement take place precisely in the waters of Western Sahara;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M b (new)
Recital M b (new)
Mb. whereas under the EU-Morocco Agreement, the fleet of European Union countries has captured 324584 tonnes of fish in four years worth more than 300 million euros;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M c (new)
Recital M c (new)
Mc. considering, taking into account the judgment of the CJEU of 27 February 2018, EU has committed a fraud of 95.8 million euros to the EU budget, since the EU-Morocco Fisheries Agreement is no applicable to the waters of Western Sahara and the European Union has paid 58.8 million euros of access to fishery resources based on this Agreement, and 37 million for sectoral support:
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M d (new)
Recital M d (new)
Md. whereas, due to the illegal application of the EU-Morocco Fisheries Agreement to Western Sahara, the Saharawi people have stopped receiving 58.8 million access to fishery resources, 34 million in canon, 300 million in value of catches and 37million in sectoral support, the economic damage caused reaches 430 million euros;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M e (new)
Recital M e (new)
Me. whereas the people of Western Sahara have not given their consent to this agreement, an indispensable requirement for it to be applied in Western Sahara as established in the judgment of the CJEU, a consent that must be expressed through its legitimate representative, the Polisario Front, in application of Resolution34/37 of the General Assembly of the United Nations:
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Urges the European Commission to enter into negotiations with the Polisario Front whenever it wishes that an agreement could be applicable to Western Sahara;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Reiterates the illegality of this new agreement between the Union and Morocco by including fishing exploitation from Western Sahara and highlights the doubts that some Member States, social organizations, the Polisario Front or the European Parliament's Legal Service have expressed in regarding its possible legal and political repercussions on the question of the exercise of the right to self-determination of Western Sahara;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Stresses the consent of the legitimate representative of the Saharawi people, the Polisario Front, has not been obtained, since the talks have been limited to a "consultation" related to trade in Western Sahara without there having been a real process of consent;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Requests the European Commission to demand from Morocco precise information on the number of Sahrawi people benefited by the EU- Morocco Fisheries Agreement
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Underlines that in order to credibly support and fully encourage the ongoing peace process under the auspices of the Personal Envoy of the Secretary- General Horst Köhler, the EU should abstain to ratify any amended Agreement between the EU and Morocco applicable to Western Sahara as it would imply EU support for one of the two parties in the conflict and hinders the efforts of the Special Envoy of the Secretary General of the United Nations to reach a political solution; especially when the parties are expected to meet in Geneva under the auspices of the UN in December in the first direct negotiations between the Polisario Front and Morocco since 2012;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12