Activities of Werner KUHN related to 2009/2106(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Green Paper on reform of the common fisheries policy (debate)
Amendments (14)
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes also the two main principles set out by the Commission with a view to an effective and successful reform of the CFP, namely the need to give more responsibility to the sector, based on the establishment of conditions favourable to good fishing practice and to make management models more flexible the Commission’s analysis of the strengths and failings of the existing CFP, and agrees with its view that five aspects must be particularly central to the reform, namely eliminating order to create alternatives to the traditional single system of TACs and quotasvercapacity, clarifying policy objectives, improving the decision-making system, enhancing the responsibility of the fisheries industry and improving compliance;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Notes that the new control regulation contains a number of measures which are susceptible to criticism in terms of their success and cost-effectiveness in the context of the reform of the CFP;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Emphasises that, with the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, Parliament will no longert be merely a consultation body but will become a co-legislator in the fisheries sector, sharing decision-making power with the Council except in the setting of TACs and quotas;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses that the management of national quotas and of fishing effort is the responsibility of the Member States and that, notwithstanding the degree of complexity of some procedures for modifying fisheries management models and the difficulties, in particular legal problems, which may appear in this process, these andre not insuperable in the Member States, as shown by the successful application of other management models in other parts of the world, such as transmissible fishery rights;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Notes that the existing system of TACs and quotas has essentially proved its worth, and that a change in the system would not only require a complex procedure to modify fisheries management but would also lead to an excessively wide-ranging debate on distribution which would hinder the resolution of pressing problems, particularly the need to reduce catch capacities;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses that, despite the decommissioning measures taken, some sections of the European fleet have not been sufficiently renewed and there are still vessels which are obsolete or very old and which need to be modernised or replaced with a view to ensuring greater on-board safety and a lesser environmental impact without increasing fishing capacity;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Maintains that the CFP should adopt an ecosystem approach, which should be taken into account equally in all of the economic activities carried on, where these affect the marine environment, and should also include environmental factors with a negative impact on the economic activity concerned;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Urges the Commission to conduct a detailed and exhaustive survey on the size, characteristics, and spread of the current Community fleet, since this is essential in order to establish a regime whereby the small-scale fleet would be treated differently from the large-scale fleet, each category being defined according to sound criteriapermitting specific simplifications to be made in individual regulatory areas for small-scale coastal fishing undertakings with a minimal impact on stocks;
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Urges the Commission to draw upsubmit proposals aimed at specific Community support programmeimplifying rules in the various regulatory areas for small- scale coastal and non-industrial fisheries;
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Maintains that the management system for the fisheries sector has to abandon the traditional top-down approach, laying emphasis instead on the principle of regionalisation and subsidiarity (horizontal decentralisation) and the participation of professionals in the sector, taking into account the multifarious specific features of the Community fleet; firmly rejects any attempt to adopt a universal Community fisheries management model, in a form serving to impose uniformity; stresses, however, the need to avoid jeopardising either equality of opportunity among producers on the European market or the harmonisation of the conditions of competition;
Amendment 299 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Urges the Commission to carefully explore the possibility of adoptingspell out the advantages and drawbacks of new fisheries management mechanisms, as opposed to the TAC and quota system, for example fishing effort management and the use of transferable fishing rights, since such arrangements would enable the fleet to be adapted in a more flexible way, in line with the actual diversity and distribution of stocks, and could be supported by structural implementing measures, without neglecting the more vulnerable small-scale sector while ensuring that the retention of relative stability and mechanisms to protect the small-scale sector are expressly included;
Amendment 323 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)
Paragraph 33 a (new)
33 a. Calls for a stronger regional element in decision-making, taking greater account of the regional specificities of eco-systems and natural production conditions, with a sustainably enhanced role for regional advisory bodies;
Amendment 329 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Maintains that regional umbrella organisations, staffed bycomprehensive regional cooperation, with the participation of representatives of the Member States, the sector, other stakeholderNGOs, and the scientific community, should set up to exercise management decision-making power and that the RACs, playing their advisory role, should be merged with them; believes that these bodies, working in conjunction, would make for genuine and effective decentralisation of management, in keeping with the Treaty and without underminingand with the involvement of the RACs, playing their advisory role, should be stepped up, so as to create genuine and effective management of fish stocks, in keeping with the general aims and principles laid down by the Community legislature;
Amendment 400 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
Paragraph 43
43. Maintains that new fisheries agreements with third countries should be encouraged in order to afford the Community fleet easier access to new fishing groundsconcluded, and existing ones revised, with the EU calling for greater transparency about the resources it provides, and urging that those resources be used not only to promote investment and create jobs in the fisheries sector in the third countries concerned, but also to create efficient management structures with a view to optimising fisheries management and control;