27 Amendments of Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA related to 2015/2091(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas, according to the most recent assessment by the FAO, 85 % of global fish stocks for which information is available are either fully exploited or overexploited, according to the most recent assessment by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)even though the FAO 2010 report points to progress in the recovery of overexploited stocks and marine ecosystems around the world due to the implementation of good management practices;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the EU is one of the fewworld’s main fishing players withat has a strong presence in all the world’s oceans through its network ofhistorical presence and significant activities in all the world’s oceans through a combination of fleet activities, investments by EU nationals, bilateral fisheries agreements, and its participation in all of the major regional fisheries management organisations (RFMOs), and private investmenwhile encouraging good practice and respect for human rights;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas the Community fleet is recognised for encouraging good practice and respect for social, environmental and ethical conditions, human rights, concern for consumers and a commitment to voluntary strategies to promote Corporate Social Responsibility;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the EU is a majorone of the most important markets for fishery products (fish caught by EU fleets as well as imporand the biggest importer in the world of fish products), consuming 11 % of the world’s fish production in terms of volume and importing 24 % of fishery products in terms of value, even though it only accounts for 8 % of the world’s catch (2 % when considering solely foreign waters);
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas quotas in RFMOs arehave been based primarily on historical catches, thus maintainingwhich led to preferential access to global fish stocks for developed countries to global fish stocks; whereas they must now take account of fishing by coastal developing countries which have depended upon adjacent fisheries resources for generations, a fact which must be respected by the EU;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the EU has to seek Ppolicy Ccoherence for Ddevelopment under Article 2081(1) of the TFEU, according to which ‘the Union shall take account of the objectives of development cooperation in the policies that it implements which are likely to affect developing countries’;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas in order to make fisheries and their businesses more competitive, the internalisation thereof must be promoted through the application of a Community policy directed at achieving this objective, as the Commission recognises in its Europe 2020 strategy and under Article 3(5) of the Treaty on European Union;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas in many cases there are insufficient, in order to ensure sustainable fishing, there is in many cases a need to improve existing data on the fish stocks that the EU is fishing, or which are destined for the EU market, in terms of their status, and ofto ensure that information on total removals by local andfleets and other third-country fleets is available;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F d (new)
Recital F d (new)
Fd. whereas the Common Fisheries Policy must provide a tool that enables the EU to demonstrate to the world how fishing can be practised as a responsible activity and how to promote improvement of the international management of fisheries applying European fleet management standards;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F g (new)
Recital F g (new)
F g. whereas fisheries agreements bring benefits to coastal countries, enabling them to increase capacities, monitor fishing capacities, establish scientific cooperation, develop an industrial sector and business opportunities for local investors and the development of infrastructure such as ports, refrigeration plants, etc., creating jobs for the local population;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F h (new)
Recital F h (new)
F h. whereas fisheries agreements also bring advantages for the EU sector, allowing access to resources, and a commitment by our fleet to combat IUU fishing, increasing monitoring in fishing zones and making fishing a more transparent activity;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F i (new)
Recital F i (new)
F i. whereas the problem of piracy also has negative effects on regions where regulated fishing is practised within the framework of bilateral and multilateral fisheries agreements;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Considers that the objectives serving to guide the external action of the Common Fisheries Policy consist of defending Union fishing interests while remaining coherent with EU foreign policy;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Insists on the importance of bilateral agreements and sustainable fishing, in the EU and abroad, as the only way to secensure a future for coastal communities,monitoring of fishing activities and scientific cooperation, guarantee the empdeveloypment generated by fishing, and the contribution of fishing to food securityof local industry and employment and the supply of local fish at local prices, and secure a future for coastal communities;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Underlines that the maintenance of the present fishing agreements and the search for new fishing opportunities in third countries must be a priority objective of external fishing policy, recognising that when the EU fleet ceases to operate in the fisheries of a third country, such fishing rights are normally redistributed among other fleets that have much lower standards of conservation, management and sustainability than those advocated and defended by the EU;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Insists that, in its external fishery-related activities (catching, processing and marketing), the EU must adopt and promote the highest environmental and social standards and implementaim is to meet the environmental and social standards established by the EU, being a guarantee of rigorous and effective control and inspection measures, while ensuring transparency in all its activities;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Reiterates the need for bettercontinued access to the best scientific information and catch/effort data for fishing outside EU waters, especially in the waters of certain developing coastal States; notes that there is scope for providing funding for the collection of such data and for improved scientific analyses, using, using for that purpose funds available under the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and the European Development Fund;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Calls on the Commission to allocate greater funding to the RFMOs, since they have a crucial role to play in combating illegal, undeclared and unregulated fishing;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for SFPAs to continue to ensure that access by distant-water fleets is limited to the surplus, as required by the CFP, and to provide preferential access to fleets using the most environmentally and socially sustainable practices;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Recognises the importance of fisheries agreements for developing countries, especially artisanal fisheries, on account of their contribution to food security, the local economy and employmentand for the development of infrastructure, local industry and the local economy, for creating local employment, taking into account that between 50 % and 60 % of workers are nationals of coastal countries and that over 70 % of catches are processed in plants located in these countries;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. ECalls on the EC, in the context of those international bodies with which it is involved, to encourages other third countries also to publish the terms of other agreements that they sign with other States or private entities, including the identity of vessels authorised to fish and their activities and catches;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. BelievNotes that the Commission should set up a database covering all private agreements between EU ship-owners and third countries that involve access to third-country fisheries, including conditions for access, allowable fleet capacity, the idententire fleet is affected by the control regulation, and therefore there are records and data relating to the activity of the vessels and the resulting fishing activitithat fish under private licences, and thcommunicate thisat database should be in the public domain to the Commission; encourages the Commission that said data may be transparent;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Notes that the basic regulation includes a provision requiring vessels that leave and subsequently return to the EU register to provide information on their activities before their return; considers that this requirement should be strengthened such that a vessel’s complete flagging history must be submitted to the Commission and included in the Community Fleet Register database prior to the vessel’s acceptance in the register;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Insists that the IUU (Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing) Regulation must be applied rigorously and objectively and in a non-discriminatory manner,; and must not be allowed to be used for political purposes, be subject to the short-term needsccordingly encourages the Commission to continue ofn the EU’s trade policy or be used by EU fishing interests as a tool for improving competiis path, to ensure the success of the Regulation;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Believes that bilateral and multilateral trade agreements negotiated by the EU should promote environmentally sustainable and socially just conditionsare a guarantee for the producmotion of fisheries products in the third countries concerned, through the use of appropriate quantitative and qualitative restrictions on access to the EU marketconditions which are socially just and sustainable from an environmental, social and fisheries perspective;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 e (new)
Paragraph 26 e (new)
26e. Welcomes the inclusion of fishing vessels as vulnerable in the context of the Operation Atalanta activities and requests that continued support and protection be given to the Community fleet;