Activities of Maria do Céu PATRÃO NEVES related to 2011/0364(COD)
Reports (1)
REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1185/2003 on the removal of fins of sharks on board vessels PDF (289 KB) DOC (337 KB)
Amendments (2)
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 3
Article 1 – point 3
Regulation (EC) No 1185/2003
Article 4
Article 4
(3) Article 4 is deleted. replaced by the following: "Article 4 Derogation and associated conditions 1. By way of derogation from Article 3(1) and (1a), and subject to paragraphs 2, 3, 4 and 5 of this Article, vessels which hold a special fishing permit may be allowed to completely remove shark fins from dead sharks on board, retaining them together with the carcasses of those sharks from which they were removed. Such fins and carcasses shall always be kept together, and shall be transhipped and/or landed together in the same port. 2. Such a special fishing permit shall only be issued to freezer fishing vessels, where their capacity to use all parts of sharks has been demonstrated, where a traceability system is in operation, making it possible to establish that the landed fins correspond to the carcasses of sharks being landed (by counting numbers of shark trunks and fins, such as first dorsal or caudal), where those freezer fishing vessels have established a contract with an independent body to control each landing of sharks in all ports where local authorities are unable to ensure due control and where the need for the separate processing on board of shark fins and the remaining parts of sharks has been justified. 3. It shall be prohibited to discard at sea the remaining parts of sharks after removal of the shark fins, except those parts resulting from basic processing operations, such as beheading, gutting and skinning. 4. The weight of the fins that are retained on board and transhipped or landed together with the carcasses shall never exceed the theoretical weight of the fins that would correspond to the remaining parts of sharks retained on board, transhipped or landed. 5. For the purpose of controlling the application of paragraph 4, the theoretical correspondence between weights of fins and bodies shall be established by Member States, taking into account the type of fishery, the species composition and the type of processing and storage. In no case shall the theoretical weight of the fins exceed 6 % of the live weight of the shark catch, or 14 % of the dressed weight of the shark catch."
Amendment 23 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 3a (new)
Article 1 – point 3a (new)
(3) In Article 4 is deletedthe following paragraph is added: 5a. Spatial-temporal fishery closures should be established, aiming to protect shark spawning, promoting and improving recruitment, and protecting aggregations of juveniles in determined areas or periods.