Activities of Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas the EU fisheries sector has proven to be a strategic one during Brexit, the Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine; whereas the action plan to protect marine biodiversity, notably by proposing a progressive ban of bottom trawling in all MPAs by 2030, is in full contradiction and mismatch with the reality the sector and society face today: the need to ensure food security and self- efficiency in Europe and not to unnecessarily waste fishery resources that could be harvested sustainably;

2023/10/18
Committee: PECH

2023/2124(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)

Bb. whereas focusing on protection of the environment and ignoring socio- economic considerations and food security objectives is contrary to the Common Fisheries Policy and the Treaty;

2023/10/18
Committee: PECH

2023/2124(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)

Bc. whereas proposing blanket bans, instead of refined tailor-made measures, based on the best available scientific advice, is not good legislation and governance;

2023/10/18
Committee: PECH

2023/2124(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas without a prior socio- economic impact assessment, without distinguishing the various bottom gears and their impacts and without sufficient data, Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1614 closed 87 areas to all bottom-fishing gear in the EU waters of the north-east Atlantic, representing a total area of 16 419 km2 and 17 % of the area between 400 and 800 metres deep; whereas this has a severe socio-economic impact on the fishing fleets concerned;

2023/10/18
Committee: PECH

2023/2124(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Insists on the fact that MPAs are diverse in terms of size, species, habitats and ecosystems targeted and should not be seen as uniform areas; considers, therefore, that the action plan supports an oversimplified approach, in particular by proposing a blanket ban on certain fishing gear, thus giving the impression that all MPAs should be treated in the same way; considers that the Commission’s call to phase out mobile bottom fishing in all MPAs by 2030 - that is to ban bottom trawling in one third of the EU seas - without taking into account the specific objectives of each MPA is discriminatory, disproportionate, unjustified and not based on the best available science; calls for a balance to be struck between the proposal to increase closures of traditional fishing areas, on the one hand, and maintaining fishing activity, on the other;

2023/10/18
Committee: PECH

2023/2124(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Stresses that bottom trawling is one of the most common and most regulated fishing gears in Europe, that it is the only viable way to catch many key species that we eat, that almost all of them are fished at Maximum Sustainable Yield levels and that many of them are Marine Stewardship Council certified;

2023/10/18
Committee: PECH

2023/2124(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)

11b. Recalls that ICES recognises that some levels of bottom trawl fishing can be compatible with achieving seabed conservation objectives;

2023/10/18
Committee: PECH

2023/2124(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)

11c. Highlights that, with regard to the benefits of seafloor protection for fisheries, ICES advises that although there are many potential benefits, there may be trade-offs between these benefits; considers that bottom trawl management (i.e. the proposed ban) may not always positively affect all ecosystem components on which trawling has an impact, due to the food-web interactions between target and non-target species;

2023/10/18
Committee: PECH

2023/2124(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 d (new)

11d. Observes that ICES is less assertive than the Commission with regard to the capacity of a disturbed seabed sediment to store carbon as it states that "evidence indicates that the effect of trawling is variable, with some studies reporting no significant differences, or even increases in organic carbon content in heavily trawled areas";

2023/10/18
Committee: PECH

2023/2124(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 e (new)

11e. Stresses that, with regard to the impact of bottom trawling on fish stocks, ICES recognises that flatfish may benefit from light trawling levels on sandy seabeds;

2023/10/18
Committee: PECH

2023/2124(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 f (new)

11f. Considers that measures related to bottom trawling should continue being regulated in the framework of the technical measures regulation (Regulation (EU) No 2019/1241), whoseaim is, as its title indicates, "the conservation of fisheries resources and the protection of marine ecosystems"; stresses that any new measure should be introduced, if necessary, only through a review of that regulation; highlights that the Commission's intentions to impose measures through its action plan, instead of letting the co-legislators decide, undermines the inter-institutional balance and each Institution's role in the decision- making process;

2023/10/18
Committee: PECH

2023/2124(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Takes into account the legal procedures taken by Member States or regional authorities, such as the Xunta de Galicia, at the Court of Justice of the European Union against measures ~~linked~~similar to the action plan, underlining the lack of proportionality of certain measures;

2023/10/18
Committee: PECH

2023/2124(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Believes that measures included in such an action plan should follow the ordinary legislative procedures, ensuring greater transparency and a genuine impact assessment, with all stakeholders properly involved;

2023/10/18
Committee: PECH

2023/2124(INI)

Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19a. Regrets the fact that there is a lack of coherence between the need to ensure European food sovereignty, supplying the market with quality, sustainable and food- safe products, and establishing bans in fishing areas or gears, an issue that, in addition, can go against good governance and dialogue between stakeholders and different levels of administration if carried out a priori.

2023/10/18
Committee: PECH

2023/2121(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

B a. Whereas the efficient management of the cohesion funds is crucial to achieving regional development objectives and meeting local needs, and that delays, particularly in some outermost regions, have been observed in the implementation of the 2014-2020 funds, requiring further attention on the efficiency of their management; whereas some regions have not spent nearly 50% of their budget ;

2023/12/13
Committee: REGI

2023/2121(INI)

Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Calls for disaster prevention and preparedness investments to be guaranteed either through a dedicated policy objective, thematic concentration or a specific enabling condition to ensure investments in local infrastructure and risk management in less developed urban and rural areas, including border regions, outermost regions and island territories; believes that targeted financing should focus on climate change adaptation and mitigation by tackling the side effects of climate change locally (slow onset events as well as extreme weather events), including wildfires, floods, landslides, heatwaves, coastal erosion and other events;

2023/12/13
Committee: REGI

2023/2121(INI)

Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Calls for the creation of a technical assistance programme specifically designed for smaller municipalities and cross-border and rural areas, as well as outermost regions, overseas territories and island regions that face new challenges such as the green transition and climate change; recalls that the outermost regions and island territories are at high risk of major natural disasters, and are often impacted by high seismic or volcanic intensity, cyclones, forest fires, storms, floods, droughts, among others; believes that the support should be in the form 100 % EU financing for administrative capacity-building, project design and strategic planning capabilities (including planning instruments), while the allocation criteria should include the number of inhabitants and the needs and challenges of these areas;

2023/12/13
Committee: REGI

2023/2121(INI)

Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls for initial allocations and co- financing rates to be assessed on the basis of NUTS 3 (nomenclature of territorial units for statistics) in order for funding to be directed to where it is most needed and to avoid pockets of underdevelopment from arising ; underlines that such a shift should take into account possible negative effects on EU financing for larger urban areas; stresses that this is necessary in order not to stall the development trajectory of metropolitan areas that were previously supported more intensively by cohesion policy; calls on the Commission to guarantee high co-financing rates for the outermost regions, namely at least 85%, and, in specific cases, 100% financing; recalls that, as recognised by the Treaties, these territories face particular constraints and an economic and social situation aggravated by their remoteness, insularity, small size, difficult topography and climate, or their economic dependence on a few products;

2023/12/13
Committee: REGI

2023/2121(INI)

Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls for the creation of local cohesion boards in the managing authorities and monitoring committees, which should have decision-making powers, including on co-programming and co-reprogramming with local authorities, but also be able to assess, objectively and on an ongoing basis, the effectiveness of fund management by the managing authorities, and thus contribute to the efficient implementation of cohesion policy at local level; reiterates that these boards should include representatives of urban and rural administrations, including mayors;

2023/12/13
Committee: REGI

2023/2121(INI)

Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11 a. Calls on the Commission to take the necessary measures to address the shortcomings identified in the management of the cohesion funds by the managing authorities, while, at the same time, simplifying the use of technical assistance funds, in order to improve the administrative and management capacities of the competent entities;

2023/12/13
Committee: REGI

2023/2119(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)

– having regard to the third Joint Declaration on EU-NATO cooperation, adopted on 10 January 2023,

2023/10/02
Committee: AFET

2023/2119(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 b (new)

– having regard to the Madrid Summit Declaration adopted by the NATO Heads of State and Government participating in the North Atlantic Council meeting in Madrid on 29 June 2022,

2023/10/02
Committee: AFET

2023/2119(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)

– having regard to its resolution of 5 May 2022 on threats to stability, security and democracy in Western and Sahelian Africa,

2023/10/02
Committee: AFET

2023/2119(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 a (new)

– having regard to the Joint Communication from the European Commission and the EEAS to the European Parliament and the Council of 10 March 2023 on the update of the EU Maritime Security Strategy and its Action Plan: ‘An enhanced EU Maritime Security Strategy for evolving maritime threats’,

2023/10/02
Committee: AFET

2023/2119(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 b (new)

– having regard to the Council conclusions of 21 February 2022 extending and enhancing the implementation of the Coordinated Maritime Presences Concept in the Gulf of Guinea,

2023/10/02
Committee: AFET

2023/2119(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the Strategic Compass aims to equip the EU with the necessary strategic guidance, realistic and operational tools to move towards a coherent and credible defence policy, and to make it an effective and capable security provider and an assertive global actor, first and foremost in its own neighbourhood; whereas the Strategic Compass was adopted on 21 March 2022, less than a month after Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine began; whereas Europe's geopolitical landscape has changed dramatically since then with the continuation of a war on European soil and on the borders of the European Union and whereas, moreover, the situation in the southern neighbourhood and the Sahel continues to degrade;

2023/10/02
Committee: AFET

2023/2119(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas approximately 90% of the Union's external trade is transported by sea; whereas around two thirds of the world's oil and gas supply is extracted at sea or transported by sea; whereas up to 90% of international data and communications transfers are carried via undersea cables; whereas organised crime and drug traffickers carry out a significant part of their activities by sea, even using submersible or semi- submersible vehicles or equipment that are difficult for law enforcement agencies to apprehend;

2023/10/02
Committee: AFET

2023/2119(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2

Strengthening European defence ~~in response to~~following Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine

2023/10/02
Committee: AFET

2023/2119(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Underlines the commitment of the EU’s heads of state and government, made in the Versailles Declaration, to provide all the necessary support needed by Ukraine and to take greater responsibility for European security by bolstering European defence capabilities; takes the view that the Strategic Compass needs to be updated to incorporate lessons learned from Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine that began days before its adoption; calls on the EU and its Member States to deliver on this commitment following this update by accelerating the full implementation of the Strategic Compass in order to make the European Union a stronger and more capable security provider;

2023/10/02
Committee: AFET

2023/2119(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. stresses the importance of reducing dependencies in critical technologies and value chains in order for the EU to move towards greater technological autonomy to be able to develop, produce and deploy its own technologies in critical areas; Stresses that EDIRPA can only be a first step towards improving the European technological and industrial base’s capacities to supply Member States with the products and quantities needed and should be complemented with further initiatives, including the envisaged long- term European Defence Investment Program (EDIP) for which adequate funding needs to be ensured;

2023/10/02
Committee: AFET

2023/2119(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

24a. Is concerned about the difficult and serious situation faced by the Sahel, especially following the numerous coups d’état suffered by many countries in the region in recent years; recalls that stability in the Sahel has direct repercussions for security and stability in Europe; takes the view that EU policy towards the Sahel has not yielded the expected results; takes note of the High Representative's announcement about revising the EU's strategy towards the Sahel; calls for this revision to take place as swiftly as possible and to further encompass the status of Common Security and Defence Policy missions in the region;

2023/10/02
Committee: AFET

2023/2119(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)

24b. Stresses that, given the growing geopolitical maritime tensions, the Union must ensure freedom of navigation, the safety of maritime lines of communication and of its vessels and crews, offshore infrastructure, and action to counter illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, and ensure that its external maritime borders are monitored effectively in order to prevent illegal activities;

2023/10/02
Committee: AFET

2023/2119(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 c (new)

24c. Applauds the update of the EU Maritime Strategy and Action Plan and the commitment to strengthen the Union's role as a provider of international maritime security; welcomes the fact that the review includes the reinforcement of existing naval operations; is pleased that the update proposes to exploring new areas of interest at sea in which to implement the Coordinated Maritime Presence concept based on the experience gained in the Gulf of Guinea and the North-West Indian Ocean; calls on the Member States to engage actively with those initiatives and to build up their military naval capabilities with a view to enhancing the EU’s presence and visibility in the global maritime sector;

2023/10/02
Committee: AFET

2023/2119(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Underlines the importance of the partnership dimension of the Strategic Compass in reinforcing cooperation between the EU and its allies and partners around the world in order to counter foreign strategies aimed at undermining the EU and destabilising the rules-based international order; welcomes the long- awaited third Joint Declaration on EU- NATO Cooperation which confirmed that the EU and NATO are essential partners who share common values and strategic interests, and who work in complementarity to ensure Euro-Atlantic and global security and stability; calls in particular for synergies and coherence between NATO’'s Strategic Concept and the EU’'s Strategic Compass, particularly in the areas of countering Russian aggression, hybrid and cyber warfare, global maritime security and the fight against traditional threats such as terrorism, and providing support to partners;

2023/10/02
Committee: AFET

2023/2119(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)

26a. Reiterates that the United States is the European Union's most important ally; reaffirms the importance of a close partnership between the European Union and the United States in addressing common security and defence challenges; encourages both sides to improve intelligence-sharing;

2023/10/02
Committee: AFET

2023/2119(INI)

Javier ZARZALEJOS, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Gabriel MATO, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)

26b. Welcomes the adoption of the third EU-NATO Declaration on 10 January 2023; stresses the need to step up cooperation between the EU and NATO on maritime security in order to cover all issues of mutual interest in this field; reiterates the need for the EU and NATO to work towards adopting a common approach to threats to maritime security, such as such as piracy, cross-border and organised crime, including organised criminal networks facilitating arms and drug trafficking, people trafficking, smuggling and illegal fishing;

2023/10/02
Committee: AFET

2023/2087(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Expresses its deep concern about the situation of fundamental rights in Mauritania, ~~particular~~especially for migrants and refugees, and considers that the ~~deployment of Frontex executive powers in Mauritania entails a high risk of becoming complicit in serious and most likely persistent viola~~conclusion of a Status Agreement between the EU and Mauritania must contain the necessary guarantees to avoid harm to EU and international law, EU principles and values, and the protections of fundamental rights ~~or international protection obligations~~;

2023/07/18
Committee: LIBE

2023/2087(INI)

Javier ZARZALEJOS, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Gabriel MATO, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Agrees with the European Fundamental Rights Agency in that reducing the death toll at Sea is complex and cannot be resolved by the European Union and its Member States alone and that only a comprehensive approach including all relevant states, EU bodies, international organisations and other parties involved can succeed in putting an end to the high death toll at Sea;

2023/07/18
Committee: LIBE

2023/2087(INI)

Javier ZARZALEJOS, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Gabriel MATO, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Recalls that the conclusion of a Model Status Agreement with the Islamic Republic of Mauritania on operational activities carried out by Frontex aims to support border management, foster increased bilateral cooperation and prevent irregular migration on the Atlantic route;

2023/07/18
Committee: LIBE

2023/2087(INI)

Javier ZARZALEJOS, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Gabriel MATO, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Welcomes the European Council Conclusions of 9 February 2023 calling for the rapid conclusion of negotiations on new and revised Status Agreements between the European Union and third countries on the deployment of Frontex as part of the efforts to strengthen cooperation on border management and migration;

2023/07/18
Committee: LIBE

2023/2087(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Javier ZARZALEJOS, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Considers that the EU and Frontex should ~~suspend~~only consider the suspension of their activities on migration and asylum carried out in cooperation with the Mauritanian authorities in the event of persistent serious human rights violations;

2023/07/06
Committee: AFET

2023/2086(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Javier ZARZALEJOS, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE

10. Considers that the EU and Frontex should ~~suspend~~only consider the suspension of their activities on migration and asylum carried out in cooperation with Senegalese authorities in the event of persistent serious human rights violations;

2023/07/07
Committee: AFET

2023/2072(INI)

Iuliu WINKLER, Christophe HANSEN, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Jörgen WARBORN, Gabriel MATO, Daniel CASPARY, Seán KELLY

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that Chinese investments in Europe continued to decline in 2022, reaching a 10-year low of EUR 7.9 billion; recalls a shift in Chinese FDI from mergers and acquisitions (M&A) towards greenfield investments, primarily in battery technology, which is a key sector of the Green Transition1a; _________________ 1a https://rhg.com/research/chinese-fdi-in- europe-2022-update/

2023/09/11
Committee: INTA

Gabriel MATO, Stéphane BIJOUX, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, François-Xavier BELLAMY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Is of the opinion that POs and inter-branch organisations have a key role in helping to achieve the objectives of the CFP, which is why they need to be further supported; notes that more must be done to promote the set-up, consolidation and financing of POs and inter-branch organisations across the EU, particularly in Member States where primary production has largely remained fragmented (aquaculture, small- scale fisheries); considers that strong PO presence and that of inter-branch organisations is crucial for enhancing the prosperity of coastal communities and strengthening the position of fishers in the supply chain, especially in the outermost regions;

2023/09/05
Committee: PECH

2023/2049(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR

4. Is of the opinion that POs have a key role in helping to achieve the objectives of the CFP, which is why they need to be further supported and strengthened; notes that more must be done to promote the set-up, consolidation and financing of POs across the EU, particularly in Member States where primary production has largely remained fragmented (aquaculture, small- scale fisheries); considers that strong PO presence is crucial for enhancing the prosperity of coastal communities and strengthening the position of fishers ~~in the supply chain~~and aquaculture producers in the supply chain and the promotion of sustainable fisheries and aquaculture activities;

2023/09/05
Committee: PECH

2023/2049(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Stéphane BIJOUX, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, François-Xavier BELLAMY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Concludes that properly functioning POs and inter-branch organisations generally have successful measures and actions, but observes that there is still a lack of POs and inter-branch organisations organising small-scale fishers and aquaculture farmers in particular, especially in the outermost regions; notes that the aquaculture POs currently in operation have been particularly successful in their promotion and communication activities;

2023/09/05
Committee: PECH

2023/2049(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Stéphane BIJOUX, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, François-Xavier BELLAMY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Considers that there are currently organisations in the Member States that perform tasks and functions falling within the remit of POs, but that these organisations cannot qualify as POs under the CMO Regulation; specifically guilds (‘cofradías’) are ancestral organisations playing a vital structuring role in certain coastal communities and, as such, they should be recognised under EU law and be eligible for financial support on an equal footing with producer organisations; calls on the Commission to take action in this regard in coordination with Member States concerned, including by considering adapting the CMO rules accordingly where necessary;

2023/09/05
Committee: PECH

2023/2049(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Considers that there are currently organisations in the Member States that perform tasks and functions falling within the remit of POs and inter-branch organisations, but that these organisations cannot qualify as POs under the CMO Regulation;

2023/09/05
Committee: PECH

2023/2049(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to provide further technical and financial assistance to organisations pursuing POs objectives so that they are able to meet all the conditions with regard to their recognition as POs under the CMO;

2023/09/05
Committee: PECH

2023/2049(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Stéphane BIJOUX, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, François-Xavier BELLAMY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Notes that the COVID-19 crisis resulted in the sudden closure of most outlets for fresh aquatic food products, including in the outermost regions, making it opportune to restore the option of using storage aid mechanisms and to extend these to cover aquaculture POs;

2023/09/05
Committee: PECH

2023/2049(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Stéphane BIJOUX, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, François-Xavier BELLAMY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Highlights the fact that the Commission evaluation identified shortcomings in the existing framework in terms of its ability to achieve the objectives of the CMO Regulation, in particular, in taking account of the specific characteristics of the markets in the regions referred to in Article 349 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union;

2023/09/05
Committee: PECH

2023/2049(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Considers that marketing standards of seafood products consumed in the EU, regardless of their origin, should also include sustainability aspects;

2023/09/05
Committee: PECH

2023/2049(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Argues that traceability and related transparency measures are necessary for ensuring compliance with applicable CFP rules; believes that if these measures are supported by a proper labelling system, they can guarantee that the information provided to consumers is trustworthy and reliable; highlights the fact that such a labelling system ~~is vital for~~could contribute to combating both food fraud, including mislabelling, and IUU fishing; welcomes in this regard the introduction of the CATCH certificate for imported products by the new Fisheries Control Regulation;

2023/09/05
Committee: PECH

2023/2049(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Notes that the Commission received, in its consultations, reports indicating that mandatory consumer information requirements had not been met in some Member States; notes that implementation throughout the EU is considered to be uneven and this is particularly significant in some segments, such as fishmongers and mass caterers; recalls that labelling must provide an accurate description of fishery and non- fishery products, in particular when mentioning substitute products, as in many cases images are used that make consumers think certain products are fishery products when they are not; considers that the marketing of purely plant-based products under the trade name 'fish' or fish species may lead to confusion for consumers at the time of purchase; asserts that the trade name 'fish' or fish species should be reserved on the internal market for fishery or aquaculture products of animal origin;

2023/09/05
Committee: PECH

2023/2049(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Stéphane BIJOUX, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, François-Xavier BELLAMY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Recalls that POs and inter-branch organisations may be exempted from the application of competition rules in order to achieve their objectives, subject to certain conditions, including that their activities do not lead to the partitioning of markets, do not exclude competition and do not eliminate competition;

2023/09/05
Committee: PECH

2023/2049(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Stéphane BIJOUX, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, François-Xavier BELLAMY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Notes that this exemption is essential for allowing some practices used by POs and inter-branch organisations, especially in the outermost regions, such as controlling the quantities put on the market by POtheir members in order to stabilise markets and prices, comply with conservation requirements and avoid food waste; concludes that non-recognised collective bodies of producers (e.g. cooperatives, cofradías) may not benefit from the exemption under the current criteria for POs;

2023/09/05
Committee: PECH

2023/2049(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Underlines that around 70% of the seafood that is consumed in the EU is imported from third countries; highlights that the fisheries, aquaculture and related sectors must be profitable to be able to make the investments needed to operate, while profitability is only possible if the products are competitive with imports from third countries; calls on the Commission and Council to ensure that the EU trade policy allows for a level playing field between EU and imported products;

2023/09/05
Committee: PECH

2023/2049(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Recalls that the EUMOFA provides market intelligence based on the existing Combined Nomenclature (CN) of the EU's common customs tariff; considers that the later should be updated to include new product categories of fish products that are traded in increased volumes in the EU, as well as to offer more intuitive and comprehensive digital tools; calls on the Commission to explore ways to further improve the market intelligence of fisheries and aquaculture products, specifically improving the market analysis by distinguishing between different parts of Europe with different consumption habits of fish species;

2023/09/05
Committee: PECH

2023/2049(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Stéphane BIJOUX, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, François-Xavier BELLAMY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Believes that the Commission and the Member States need to make more effort to achieve more uniform implementation of the CMO Regulation across sectors, by taking sufficient account of the specific conditions under which markets operate in the outermost regions; is of the opinion that more uniform implementation could help to ensure consumer trust in the aquatic food products placed on the single market, and serve the objectives of endogenous development and food self-sufficiency in the outermost regions;

2023/09/05
Committee: PECH

2023/2049(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to present a proposal for a legislative framework for sustainable food systems with the aim of enhancing transparency and providing consumers with more information; highlights the need for this new legislative framework to include the importance of fish consumption in a healthy diet; highlights the need to ensure that this does not create an additional administrative burden and aligns with the sustainability condition set down in EU legislation;

2023/09/05
Committee: PECH

2023/2049(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Stéphane BIJOUX, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, François-Xavier BELLAMY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Welcomes the outcome of the negotiations on the revision of the Fisheries Control Regulation, in particular the rules aiming to strengthen traceability provisions for all fishery and aquaculture products; is of the opinion that this traceability information will be very important for European consumers, both on the continent and overseas; calls on the Commission to propose further action to ensure that this information reaches final consumers in a simple, accessible format;

2023/09/05
Committee: PECH

2023/2049(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Welcomes the outcome of the negotiations on the revision of the Fisheries Control Regulation, in particular the rules aiming to strengthen traceability provisions for all fishery and aquaculture products; is of the opinion that this traceability information will be ~~very importan~~of interest for European consumers; calls on the Commission to ~~propose further action to~~ ensure that this information reaches final consumers in a simple, accessible format;

2023/09/05
Committee: PECH

2023/2049(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Believes that the Member States should make greater use of the EUMOFA in order to further improve the data collected under the instrument; is of the opinion that the EUMOFA could be used more to analyse the market differentiated by regions, particularly when there are drastic changes, such as those that occurred during the COVID crisis, with a view to activating crisis tools and options to stabilise the market;

2023/09/05
Committee: PECH

2023/2049(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Stéphane BIJOUX, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, François-Xavier BELLAMY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Reiterates its call for the criteria for recognising POs and inter-branch organisations to be adapted to better accommodate all the different organisations in the Member States that perform tasks that largely fall within the remit of a PO; highlights, in this regard, organisations such as cofradías and prud’homies de pêche, as well as those operating in the outermost regions;

2023/09/05
Committee: PECH

2023/2027(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

C a. whereas IUU fishing has devastating environmental and socio- economic impacts, is a threat to the sustainable exploitation of resources and contributes to unfair competition on the fishery products' market;

2023/11/09
Committee: PECH

2023/2027(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)

C b. whereas IUU fishing and associated labour abuses, mostly identified in certain foreign fleets, undermine the livelihoods and human rights of fishers around the world, the sustainability of fish stocks and, in turn, EU operators' competitiveness;

2023/11/09
Committee: PECH

2023/2027(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)

C c. whereas the EU distant fleet is competing with certain fleets that are accused of practicing IUU fishing and commercializing low-cost fishery products to the EU market, rendering high quality EU products non-competitive; whereas the EU action against IUU contributes to ensuring a level-playing field among EU and non-EU operators;

2023/11/09
Committee: PECH

2023/2027(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C d (new)

C d. whereas, according to the European Court of Auditors' Special report on EU action to combat illegal fishing, the IUU regulation has improved traceability and reinforced import control, it has proven useful and triggered positive reform in most of the countries concerned; whereas, furthermore, the EU’s catch certification scheme is the most comprehensive, compared to the USA and Japanese schemes, the second and third largest importers in the world respectively;

2023/11/09
Committee: PECH

2023/2027(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Stresses that multilateral cooperation and a global coherent policy with regard to IUU, trade and oceans' governance are key to efficiently fight IUU fishing; calls on, in this regard, the EU to continue encouraging its partners, through its Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreements, its IUU policy, in RFMOs or in the WTO, and to step up its cooperation with the US, the United Kingdom, Japan and other key players in fisheries and ocean policy, using its diplomatic and trade instruments, to encourage other third countries to adopt robust legislation and measures to combat IUU fishing;

2023/11/09
Committee: PECH

2023/2027(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1 b. Calls on the Commission to provide technical assistance and promote capacity-building, using all possible channels in the framework of the CFP, in line with the EU's international ocean governance goals, in order to encourage and support coastal states with which the Union maintains dialogue in stepping up their fight against IUU fishing and strengthening the sustainability and transparency requirements in the conditions for accessing their EEZs;

2023/11/09
Committee: PECH

2023/2027(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1 c. Welcomes the initiative of the Commission's Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE) to publish, on 10 May 2023, a website containing data on the fishing authorisations granted to EU vessels fishing outside EU waters and non-EU vessels fishing in EU waters; urges the fisheries authorities of third countries and regional fisheries management organisations (RFMOs) to adopt similar measures;

2023/11/09
Committee: PECH

2023/2027(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 d (new)

1 d. Welcomes the IUU Fishing Action Alliance Pledge to stimulate ambition and action in the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, agreed on 28 June 2022;

2023/11/09
Committee: PECH

2023/2027(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 e (new)

1 e. Welcomes the fact that the European Union recently joined the IUU Fishing Action Alliance; urges the members of the Alliance to coordinate their national systems for tackling IUU fishing and, in particular, to look into the possibility of jointly issuing 'yellow cards' and 'red cards' or other similar instruments;

2023/11/09
Committee: PECH

2023/2027(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to refrain from granting preferential market access to nations associated with IUU fishing practices and severe labour violations; considers that the EU should strive to establish a genuine level playing field between seafood produced in the EU and that produced in third countries; considers that specifically, the autonomous tariff quota instrument, which is indispensable in order to ensure the competitiveness of the Union processing industry and avoid jeopardising Union production of fishery products by guaranteeing an adequate supply of fishery products to the industry, should be employed exclusively in cases where the seafood supply for EU markets is insufficient and that it should not be used to import products coming from IUU fishing or to exert pressure on the prices of EU-produced goods;

2023/11/09
Committee: PECH

2023/2015(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Commission to recognise, in the European protein strategy, the strategic role of the fisheries and aquaculture sectors as suppliers of marine- derived protein of the highest quality with one of the lowest carbon footprints, thus involving many businesses operating in the European seafood sector, while creating development and new jobs;

2023/04/13
Committee: PECH

2023/2015(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Stresses in particular that farmed seafood, apart from a lower-carbon footprint per kilo of protein produced, requires also the least use of natural resources such as water, that other terrestrial livestock, which has an important role to play in helping to build a sustainable food system.

2023/04/13
Committee: PECH

2023/2015(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Highlights the central role of fisheries and fishery products in ensuring food security and in any nutritional strategy based on healthy and high-quality protein; considers it therefore necessary to strengthen the competitiveness of the European fisheries and aquaculture sectors, as suppliers of the highest quality food with the best sustainability standards worldwide, in order to reduce the EU’s growing dependence on imports and to ensure food security and affordable food production ;

2023/04/13
Committee: PECH

2023/2015(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Stresses that, while the European aquaculture is far from reaching its full capacity, especially after the COVID pandemic when the EU self-sufficiency values dropped to 35% and the ten-years' average EU self-sufficiency lied above 42%, almost 30% of the seafood imported is white fish sourced from non-EU countries with different production and sustainability standards. Within this frame, encourage the implementation of the policy reforms presented in the Multiannual Strategic Plans for the development of aquaculture, to drive farmed seafood production upward, and welcomes the Strategic guidelines for a more sustainable and competitive EU aquaculture for the period 2021 to 2030;

2023/04/13
Committee: PECH

2023/2015(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to increase the role of fishery and aquaculture products in their nutritional policies and programmes, in particular by promoting their consumption among specific groups, such as young people, oreven by introducing or improving their consumption in schools, and in programmes aimed at tackling specific nutritional deficiencies;

2023/04/13
Committee: PECH

2023/2015(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses the importance of reducing discards as a means of avoiding food waste; reiterates, in this regard, the call from its resolution of 18 May 20211 for commercial and/or charitable opportunities, to be identified to make the best possible use of those unavoidable or unwanted catches below the minimum conservation reference size; underlines, within this context, the necessity to prevent the creation or implementation of seafood secondary market; _________________ 1 European Parliament resolution of 18 May 2021 on securing the objectives of the landing obligation under Article 15 of the Common Fisheries Policy, OJ C 15, 12.1.2022, p. 9.

2023/04/13
Committee: PECH

2023/2015(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Gabriel MATO, Jörgen WARBORN, Seán KELLY

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Stresses the need to accelerate and invest in the use of complementary proteins in fish feeds, such as seafood processing by-products, plant or animal based proteins, microbial ingredients, algae and insects.

2023/04/13
Committee: PECH

2023/2001(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)

– having regard to the Startegic Partnership on Critical Raw Materials between Canada, of the one part, and the European Union and its Member States, of the other part,

2023/10/31
Committee: INTA

2023/2001(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Gabriel MATO, Jörgen WARBORN, Seán KELLY

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

A a. wheras Canada was the first country with which the EU established a Strategic Partnership on Critical Raw Materials;

2023/10/31
Committee: INTA

2023/2001(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Gabriel MATO, Jörgen WARBORN, Seán KELLY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Notes that the two most important product categories that the EU and Canada export to each other are machinery, accounting for around 40 % of both exports and imports, and chemical, pharmaceutical and plastic products, making up around 20 % of total exports and imports; notes, however, that the mining and extraction sector is highly significant when it comes to imports from Canada, compared to other trading partners, accounting for nearly 20 % of the EU’s total imports from Canada; ~~underline~~Highlights that access to critical raw materials from a reliable trading partners, including Canada, is a key element of the EU's Critical Raw Materials strategy and vital to delivering a sustainable green transition;

2023/10/31
Committee: INTA

2023/2001(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Gabriel MATO, Jörgen WARBORN, Seán KELLY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6 a. Welcomes the signing in July 2021 of the EU-Canada Srategic Partnership on Critical Raw Materials within the framework of CETA; notes that this will help to integrate EU-Canada raw material value chains and foster collaboration in science, technology and innovation;

2023/10/31
Committee: INTA

2023/2001(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Gabriel MATO, Jörgen WARBORN, Seán KELLY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Welcomes the fact that European and Canadian firms are making increasing and continuous use of preferences granted by CETA, with preference utilisation rates of EU imports from Canada standing at 65 % in 2021 compared to 52 % in 2018; notes that the utilisation rate is still lower, though increasing for EU exports, reaching 58 % in 2021 compared to 40 % in 2018; notes with interest that smaller companies are using the preferences to a larger extent than large companies and that utilisation rates are significantly higher for agri-food industries compared to manufacturing industries; stresses that the low utilisation rates in key sectors for several EU members indicate foregone cost savings and diminished welfare gains from the agreement; encourages both partners to continue to promote actions to raise awareness of CETA among stakeholders in both regions, including through the EU's "Access2Market" platform;

2023/10/31
Committee: INTA

2023/2001(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Gabriel MATO, Jörgen WARBORN, Seán KELLY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the parties to make available all the legal and administrative support and tools SMEs need to engage in trade and investment under CETA, in order to foster an increase in exchanges and to enhance participation so they can reap the benefits of CETA, including through active measures to facilitate the internationalisation of SMEs, simplify procedures, and address technical barriers to trade that disproportionately affect SMEs; welcomes, in this regard, the recommendation on SMEs adopted by the Joint Committee in 2018, and the subsequent action plans, including concrete actions such as the launch of the Access2Markets platform in October 2020, which supports SMEs with practical information on trade agreements and trade barriers;

2023/10/31
Committee: INTA

2023/2001(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Gabriel MATO, Jörgen WARBORN, Seán KELLY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Underlines that CETA provides a framework that fosters both trade and climate action by including commitments to cooperate on trade-related environmental issues of common interest such as climate change, as demonstrated by the recommendation on trade, climate action and the Paris Agreement, notably with the promotion of clean technologies, such as hydrogen; welcomes the growth of the environmental goods trade by 27 % since provisional application started;

2023/10/31
Committee: INTA

2023/2001(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Gabriel MATO, Jörgen WARBORN, Seán KELLY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16 a. Welcomes the launch of the EU- Canada Digital Partnership as a key enabler of the green and digital transition; calls on both parties to strengthen their cooperation in the framework of the CETA implementation on issues of strategic mutual interest such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and the fight against disinformation;

2023/10/31
Committee: INTA

2023/2001(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Gabriel MATO, Jörgen WARBORN, Seán KELLY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Insists on the effective implementation of the specific commitments related to the trade and sustainable development (TSD) provisions, which are an integral part of CETA and are essential to the accomplishment of the objectives set; takes note that in 2024 the Commission will conduct an ex post evaluation of CETA, including its TSD chapter, involving independent experts; believes that efforts targetting better implementation of the TSD chapter or its review should be preceded by a meaningful consultation of all stakeholders, including business and SME organisations, and shall not entail a re-opening of the agreement;

2023/10/31
Committee: INTA

2023/2001(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Gabriel MATO, Jörgen WARBORN, Seán KELLY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18 a. Notes that the UK ceased to be a member of the European Union following the provisional application of CETA; notes that the UK and Canada have agreed a series of bilateral trading arrangements to take account of this, including with regards to TRQ use and cumulation; notes that some of these agreements will cease to apply after 2024, which may present minor disruptions to established supply chains; calls on the Commission to explore the possibility for new agreements where these disruptions may negatively affect Union economic operators;

2023/10/31
Committee: INTA

2023/2001(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Gabriel MATO, Jörgen WARBORN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Calls on the parties to ~~review~~make use of the review clause CETA in order to introduce a suitable and effective dispute settlement mechanism, including the consideration of, among various enforcement methods, sanctions as a deterrent to be used, as a last resort, in the case of serious breaches;

2023/10/31
Committee: INTA

2023/2001(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Gabriel MATO, Jörgen WARBORN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Notes that most of the concerns expressed before the provisional application of the agreement, including the overtake of Canadian agricultural products onto the EU market, have not materialised; Urges Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Poland and Slovenia to ratify CETA, as this will also be essential in order to update the agreement, and reiterates the importance of full application of CETA, including its investment protection provisions;

2023/10/31
Committee: INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE

Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)

– having regard to the Commission Communication of 18 February 2021 entitled ‘Trade Policy Review – An Open, Sustainable and Assertive Trade Policy’,

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE

Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 a (new)

– having regard to the Joint Communication of the Commission and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of 1 December 2021 entitled 'Global Gateway' (JOIN(2021)0030),

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 a (new)

– having regard to the statement made by President von der Leyen with Chilean President Boric on 14 June 2023,

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 a (new)

– having regard to the United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES- 11/1,

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

Draft opinion
Recital C

C. whereas maintaining food security is a priority issue for the EU; whereas the recent global crises and Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine h~~ave emphasise~~ighlighted the need to make our food system more resilient and the need for diverse trading partners and reliable value chains; whereas one way to meet this need is to strengthen trade relations with like-minded partners;

2023/10/30
Committee: AGRI

2023/0260R(NLE)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE

Draft opinion
Recital D

D. whereas t~~rade policy shoul~~he European Union's trade policy should ensure that imports from third countri~~bute to raising~~es offer the same guarantees in terms of food safety, environmental ~~and~~, animal welfare ~~standards and ensure respect for human rights, particularly indigenous rights, thereby guaranteeing high standards and a level playing field~~and social standards as those required of our own producers and contribute to achieving our environmental and sustainability goals and to the protection and respect of human rights;

2023/10/30
Committee: AGRI

2023/0260R(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 a (new)

– having regard to the Commission Joint Communication of 20 June 2023 on European Economic Security Strategy (JOIN/2023/20 final),

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas Chile and the EU are close partners in tackling regional and global challenges and are united by shared values and close cultural, human, economic and political ties; whereas Chile is a highly important and reliable partner of the European Union;

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas two projects with Chile are being implemented as part of the Global Gateway: the Team Europe initiative for the development of renewable hydrogen in Chile, with an initial budget of EUR 225 million, and the initiative for the development of critical raw material value chains for lithium and copper;

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas a ministerial meeting between the European Union and the Latin American Committee for Internal Security (CLASI), of which Chile is a member, was held in Brussels on 28 September, culminating in the adoption of a joint declaration on the need to step up cooperation on security and combating drug trafficking;

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

D a. whereas recent geopolitical developments have shown the need for the EU to diversify its supply chains and to secure access to critical raw materials; whereas, the current state of global politics highlights the need for democratic partners that share our values and the importance of keeping good relations with those partners;

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)

Bb. whereas lithium is a strategic raw material in the current context; whereas Chile is the world's second largest producer of lithium; whereas increasing our imports of lithium from Chile would help to reduce our dependence on China in this regard;

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Highlights the geopolitical significance of strong bi-regional relations between the EU and the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, and the political importance of robust bilateral relations between the EU and Chile based on the modernisation of the association agreement, among others; stresses the agreement's importance in countering China's presence in the country;

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Welcomes the inclusion of a dedicated chapter on sustainable food systems that promotes bilateral and international cooperation towards a sustainable food system, including provisions on animal welfare; ~~regrets, however, that the ambition falls short of the Farm to Fork Strategy;~~

2023/10/30
Committee: AGRI

2023/0260R(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Notes that due to the diversity and heterogeneity of Latin American countries, makes it difficult to find regional dialogue frameworks where Latin America can speak with a unified voice;

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1 b. Insists that the relationship between Europe and Latin America should become more significant, based on historical, linguistic, cultural and social elements where a more homogeneous common ground is found;

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1 c. Emphasizes that European business and investment presence in the region require a determined effort to defend legal security, fostering trust and predictability;

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Underlines the need for this agreement and the rest of the free trade agreements signed by the EU to include the Single EU Entity mechanism, avoiding each Member State having to sign a protocol to export agrifood products to a third country and thus improving the overall export potential of the agreements and reducing unnecessary burden and costs;

2023/10/30
Committee: AGRI

2023/0260R(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Emphasises that the EU’s strategy for Latin America and the Caribbean needs to be implemented swiftly based on joint priorities; highlights the importance of joining forces with CELAC countries to promote peace and security, democracy, the rule of law and human rights, as well as to tackle global challenges such as climate change and migration;

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Stresses the importance of the Global Gateway projects in Chile; applauds the significant progress made in the initiative for the development of Green Hydrogen in Chile; welcomes the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the European Union and Chile on a strategic partnership on sustainable raw material value chains and calls for decisive steps to be taken towards its rapid implementation;

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Notes that the support of many partners in Latin America and the Caribbean has been and remains very valuable with regard to voting in the UN General Assembly on Russia’s unjustified, unprovoked and illegal war of aggression against Ukraine; welcomes the fact that Chile voted in favour of UN General Assembly resolutions condemning Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and the unambiguous stance taken by its authorities on Russian aggression; encourages Chile to join up to some of the restrictive measures taken by Western countries against Russia;

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Is concerned about the increase in organised crime and drug trafficking in Latin American countries, including Chile, which also has an impact on the European Union; Considers it important that the Agreement contains provisions on cooperation on ~~drug issues~~combating organised crime and drug trafficking in order to ensure an integrated, balanced and evidence-based approach; calls for a substantial increase in bi-regional cooperation to combat these scourges;

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. ~~Consider~~Welcomes the Agreement ~~to be~~as an important signal in support of open, fair and rules- and values-based trade, at a time of increasing economic fragmentation and protectionism; believes that the Agreement will contribute to enhancing long-term economic development, job creation, diversification and value added production processes;

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. ~~Welcom~~Acknowledges the inclusion of a stand- alone dedicated chapter on trade and gender, the first of its kind in an EU trade agreement, which includes a number of binding commitments to eliminate discrimination against women, promote women’s economic empowerment and ensure that international trade benefits all; ~~expects the Commission to build on this precedent in all future trade negotiations;~~

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21 bis. Welcomes the fact the Agreement contains a series of actions for both the EU and Chile in support of efforts to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing practices and to help deter trade in products from species harvested from those practices; further welcomes the fact that both EU and Chile recently joined the IUU Fishing Action Alliance Pledge, aiming to stimulate ambition and action in the fight against IUU fishing;

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21 a. Highlights that the European Union's trade policy should ensure that imports from third countries offer the same guarantees in terms of food safety, environmental, animal welfare and social standards as those required of our own producers and contribute to achieving our environmental and sustainability goals and to the protection and respect of human rights;

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21 a. Believes that EU trade policy should contribute to helping partner countries to achieve and implement the highest food safety, social, environmental and human rights standards;

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

Gabriel MATO, José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)

21 b. Stresses the importance of improving policy coherence of Union initiatives, with particular regard to trade, on one hand, and fisheries and agriculture on the other;

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 c (new)

21 c. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure a level-playing field for all fishery and aquaculture products marketed in the Union regardless of their origin, including those originating in Chile;

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22 a. Welcomes the fact that the outermost regions have been taken into account in the Agreement's bilateral safeguard measures;

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Is convinced that the new market access commitments concerning trade in services will open up new business opportunities for EU and Chilean companies, in particular SMEs; notes that the Agreement contains a state-of-the-art chapter on digital trade that will facilitate electronic commerce and protect customers online;

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Welcomes the dedicated chapter on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which account for a large proportion of EU-Chile trade; calls on the Commission to assist SMEs in taking full advantage of the opportunities provided by the modernised agreement, including by providing guidance to exporting and importing businesses on the new market access opportunities; providing administrative and technical support, simplifying procedures and addressing technical barriers to trade that disproportionately affect SMEs;

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Highlights that Chile has the potential to play a major role in the global green and just transitions; notes that the development and scaling up of the Chilean renewable energy sector will require massive investments, including from EU companies; ~~welcomes~~in this regard, believes that the Global Gateway strategy should allow the creation of joint strategic projects and enhance capacity-building; welcomes in this context the creation of a European initiative for the development of renewable hydrogen in Chile;

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Highlights that Chile has the potential to play a major role in the global green and just transitions; notes that the development and scaling up of the Chilean renewable energy sector will require massive investments, including from EU companies; welcomes the creation of a European initiative for the development of renewable hydrogen in Chile, which will foster the development of this strategic industry in that country and help create jobs while boosting exports of renewable hydrogen to Europe as well as other parts of the world;

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Highlights that Chile has the potential to play a major role in the global green and just transitions; notes that the development and scaling up of the Chilean renewable energy ~~sector~~, including renewable energy infrastructure, will require massive investments, including from EU companies; welcomes the creation of a European initiative for the development of renewable hydrogen in Chile;

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Emphasises Chile’s leading role as a major supplier of critical raw materials, including those that are essential for the green and digital transitions, such as lithium and copper; stresses that the Agreement will ensure non-discriminatory access of EU companies to Chilean raw materials, while leaving sufficient policy space for Chile to create local added value; believes that the EU should actively support Chile in its efforts to move up the value chain; is convinced that the exploitation of raw materials should be carried out in an environmentally and socially sustainable manner, and that it should benefit both companies and local communities, including indigenous communities; notably in the framework of the Memorandum of Understanding on sustainable critical raw materials supply chains signed by the EU and Chile in July 2023;

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Welcomes the fact that the chapter on trade and sustainable development (TSD) contains ambitious and binding commitments on environmental and labour standards; notes that in their joint statement on trade and sustainable development attached to the Agreement, the EU and Chile commit to reviewing the Agreement’s TSD provisions upon its entry into force; recalls that this should be done following meaningful consultations with all relevant stakeholders;

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0260R(NLE)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)

30 a. Welcomes the fact that the agreement has been modernised on the basis of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement; in this respect, stresses that it is crucial to keep administrative burden to a minimum and simplify export processes throughout the implementation of the Agreement;

2023/11/23
Committee: AFET INTA

2023/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1

(1) One of the objectives of the Common Fisheries Policy, as set out in Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council21 , is to ensure exploitation of marine biological resources in a way that provides sustainable economic, environmental and social conditions. Furthermore, according to Article 28 of the above-mentioned Regulation, the Union shall ensure that its fishing activities outside Union waters are based on the same principles and standards as those applicable under Union law in the area of the CFP, while promoting a level–playing field for Union operators vis-à-vis third-country operators. __________________ 21 Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 on the Common Fisheries Policy, amending Council Regulations (EC) No 1954/2003 and (EC) No 1224/2009 and repealing Council Regulations (EC) No 2371/2002 and (EC) No 639/2004 and Council Decision 2004/585/EC (OJ L 354, 28.12.2013, p. 22).

2023/12/06
Committee: PECH

2023/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11

(11) In 2022, the Union, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Norway and the United Kingdom held consultations on control measures for certain pelagic fisheries in the North-East Atlantic. Those consultations were concluded in November 2022, on the basis of the Union position endorsed by the Council on 14 October 2022. The measures agreed in these consultations32 should be implemented into Union law. In accordance with the agreement of the Parties to these fisheries consultations, the application of certain measures should be deferred in order to provide for sufficient implementation time. These measures should not be applicable until all Parties to these fisheries consultations cease adopting unilateral fisheries measures, thus jeopardising the state of certain pelagic stocks, and honour their obligations vis-à-vis to each other. __________________ 32 Agreed Record signed by Heads of Delegation of respective Parties in November 2022 (https://oceans-and- fisheries.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2022- 12/2022-coastal-states-fisheries- consultations-control-measures_en.pdf).

2023/12/06
Committee: PECH

2023/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11 a (new)

(11a) The Parties to the above- mentioned consultations agreed that the measures shall apply to landings exceeding 10 tonnes. Therefore, the obligation to ensure surveillance of landings of certain pelagic stocks through camera and sensor technologies in landing and processing facilities should apply to ports where there is big concentration of landings exceeding 10 tonnes. Measures should not impose additional cost and burden to ports where small scale vessels land.

2023/12/06
Committee: PECH

2023/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 52 – paragraph 1

1. Port Member States shall ensure surveillance by camera and sensor technologies at landing and processing facilities where more than 3,000 tonnes per year of the species referred to in Article 48 are weighed. Only landings above 10 tonnes should be counted to determine the threshold of 3,000 tonnes. In the case of landing and processing facilities where landings above 10 tonnes do not amount to more than 3,000 tonnes per calendar year, but where total landings (including those below 10 tonnes) reach that threshold, surveillance of landings above 10 tonnes should be ensured through measures equivalent to camera and sensor technologies.

2023/12/06
Committee: PECH

2023/0165(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 7

(7) However, due to the patterns of fishing not all EU Member States are visited by these larger fishing vessels. Additionally, in fisheries there is no harmonized legal framework at EU level on domains such as maritime safety, vessels' construction and living and working conditions on board. Therefore, a voluntary system for those EU Member States that wish to carry out these inspections and which is separate from the current port state control regime is being proposed to allow for flexibility and the way that standards are developed in port State control. This system of port State control of fishing vessel of over 24 metres in length can therefore be developed organically by Member States, the Paris MoU and the Commission. The port State control rules developed by the Member States that so wish must be proportionate and non-discriminatory.

2023/10/13
Committee: PECH

2023/0165(COD)

Niclas HERBST, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO

Proposal for a directive
Recital 16 a (new)

(16a) In the exercise of its delegated powers the Commission shall take into account the need to ensure a level playing field in terms of port State control rules among Member States and fleets and harmonisation of the rules at EU level. For this purpose, the Commission should, in parallel, actively encourage and assist Member States to ratify relevant international conventions.

2023/10/13
Committee: PECH

2023/0164(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 7

(7) Fishing vessels less than 15 metres in length are at present excluded from the scope of Directive 2009/18/EC, therefore the conduct of maritime accident investigations involving such fishing vessels is non-systematic and non- harmonised. Such vessels are more prone to ~~capsizing and members of the crew~~accidents and fishers falling overboard is relatively common. Therefore, there is a need to protect fishers, as well as those fishing vessels, their crew and the environment by introducing a preliminary assessment of very serious marine casualties involving fishing vessels less than 15 metres long to determine whether the authorities should open a safety investigation.

2023/10/13
Committee: PECH

7a. urges the Parties of the TCA to strengthen efforts to promote sustainable fishing and good fisheries governance internationally, by promoting the establishment of Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMO); in particular, urges the Commission to cooperate with the British authorities and with the other parties involved as regards establishing an RFMO in the Southern Atlantic;

2023/05/12
Committee: PECH

2022/2188(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Calls on the United Kingdom to refrain from imposing any discriminatory technical measures; reiterates its deep concern that the United Kingdom could unjustifiably depart from EU regulations on technical measures and other related EU environmental legislation, thus imposing de facto limitations on some European fishing vessels’ access to UK waters, making fishing unduly burdensome; stresses the role of the Specialised Committee on Fisheries in seeking a common approach on technical measures and in discussing any measures of which one Party may give notice to the other; recalls that the Trade and Cooperation Agreement obliges each Party to precisely justify the non- discriminatory nature of any measures in this area and the need to ensure long-term environmental sustainability, on the basis of scientifically verifiable data; calls on the Commission to be particularly vigilant that these conditions are complied with and to strongly respond if the United Kingdom were to act in a discriminatory manner;

2023/05/12
Committee: PECH

2022/2188(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8b. Welcomes that both the European Union and the United Kingdom are members of the IUU Fishing Action Alliance, established in June 2022 to stimulate ambition and action in the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing at international level;

2023/05/12
Committee: PECH

2022/2183(INI)

Marlene MORTLER, Dan-Ştefan MOTREANU, Herbert DORFMANN, Gabriel MATO, Norbert LINS, Tom VANDENKENDELAERE, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Franc BOGOVIČ, Daniel BUDA, Peter JAHR

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

C a. whereas prices on global agricultural markets had already risen prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, partly due to climate impacts and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic;

2022/12/15
Committee: AGRI

2022/2183(INI)

Marlene MORTLER, Herbert DORFMANN, Dan-Ştefan MOTREANU, Gabriel MATO, Norbert LINS, Tom VANDENKENDELAERE, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Franc BOGOVIČ, Daniel BUDA, Peter JAHR

2022/2183(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3 b. Notes that due to increasing urbanization and global population growth there is an enormous reduction of land available for agriculture, and that it is possible to produce significantly more on less land in the sense of sustainable intensification or urban farming;

2022/12/15
Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 d (new)

5 d. Calls on the Commission to advocate for the targeted use and further development of new breeding methods in agriculture and to initiate an objective and science-based impact assessment to clarify the potentials and risks of NGT;

2022/12/15
Committee: AGRI

2022/2183(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 e (new)

5 e. Calls on the Commission to promote a Europe-wide dialogue on the opportunities offered by new breeding methods with regard to climate change and to educate the public about the differences between transgenic plants and the new breeding methods;

2022/12/15
Committee: AGRI

2022/2183(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9 a. Notes that alternative sources of nutrients and nutrient cycles to reduce dependence on chemical fertilisers should be fully exploited as soon as possible in order to reduce dependence on fertiliser imports, in particular by further supporting research and new innovations at EU level;

2022/12/15
Committee: AGRI

2022/2183(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Reiterates that food losses and food waste can be avoided if measures are taken to prevent and manage animal diseases and to reduce the presence of pathogens in food, for example by ensuring proper hygiene and the use of improved technologies along the entire value chain, as well as the regular publication of information regarding these interrelated factors;

2022/12/15
Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas the scale of China's seafood production, extraction and consumption has far-reaching repercussions on fish management and conservation and food security around the world; whereas China's distant-water fleet is a major competitor for the Union's fishing fleet;

2023/05/23
Committee: PECH

7a. Commends the EFCA on its role in the PESCAO project ('Improved regional fisheries governance in Western Africa'), adopted by Commission Decision C(2017) 2951 of 28 April 2017; points out that this project, which includes the goal of strengthening prevention of IUU fishing, is due to end in December 2023; calls on the Commission to extend the project and provide it with additional resources;

2023/05/23
Committee: PECH

2022/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7b. Underlines the importance of the Coordinated Maritime Presence (CMP) in the Gulf of Guinea, which since being implemented in March 2021 has had a very positive impact in terms of reducing IUU fishing, piracy and other illegal activities in the zone (trafficking of drugs, arms and humans, significant crime in ports, serious marine pollution, etc.); recalls that this CMP will be revised by February 2024 at the latest; calls on the Council to pay special attention to the Gulf of Guinea and to make progress on the work to renew this CMP;

2023/05/23
Committee: PECH

2022/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Encourages EU seafood producers to diversify their primary processing partners, while encouraging greater aquaculture production in the EU and urgently eliminating the obstacles to its development that result in dependence on imports;

2023/05/23
Committee: PECH

2022/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. ~~Stresses that China has considerably increased its imports into the EU by~~ Points out that, although EU imports of Chinese seafood have fallen in terms of both volume an~~s of~~d value since 2017, the autonomous tariff quotas~~; takes the view that this creates market distortions, such as the wholesale imports in January, that are out of line with the specific demands; observes~~ for tuna loins have increased considerably, rising from 25 000 tonnes in 2017 to 50 000 tonnes in 2020, 39% of which comes from China; calls on the European authorities to exercise caution and step up controls to ensure that the Chinese imexports ~~have gradually increased from 25 000 tonnes in 2017 to 50 000 tonnes in 2020~~benefiting from autonomous tariff quotas are not a product of IUU fishing;

2023/05/23
Committee: PECH

2022/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Notes that China subsidises its fleets operating in the exclusive economic zones and on the high seas; recalls that this support takes a number of forms, including direct subsidies (aid for fuel, vessel modernisation and replacement), tax exemptions, insurance premium and loan discounts, etc.; points out, again in the absence of official figures, that Chinese government subsidies to its fishing sector in 2018 are estimated to have totalled USD 7.2 billion, which represented 20% of all global fishing subsidies; stresses that these subsidies have boosted the rapid development of China's distant-water fleet, with the ensuing risk of overcapacity and overfishing; stresses that the recent signing, in June 2022, of the WTO agreement on fisheries subsidies should limit the sums disbursed; urges the Chinese authorities to ratify and implement this agreement as soon as possible;

2023/05/23
Committee: PECH

2022/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Notes that the intensity of the Chinese fishing fleet’'s activities is on the way to depleting ~~stock~~fisheries resources; takes the view that the status of targeted ~~stock~~fisheries resources should be ascertained with a view to determining the level of exploitation;

2023/05/23
Committee: PECH

2022/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Asks the Commission to devise a strategy to address the fact that China is importing increasing amounts of fishmeal from the rest of the world; stresses that these imports could jeopardise food security in Africa; welcomes the promising and recent progress made on the use of plant-based protein in sustainable fish feed, and urges the Commission and the Member States to support this development;

2023/05/23
Committee: PECH

2022/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. ~~Invit~~Urges the Commission to ~~invoke EU~~step up its cooperation with the US Government to take a global approach to the fight against IUU fishing and the worst labour and human rights abuses associated with the phenomenon; invites the Council to look into the use of Regulation (EU) 2020/1998 against Chinese companies already sanctioned by the US Treasury and, if necessary, to extend this measure to other companies accused of human rights violations;

2023/05/23
Committee: PECH

2022/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Is deeply concerned about the information regarding inhumane working conditions on board some Chinese fishing vessels; urges China to ratify as soon as possible the ILO's Work in Fishing Convention (No 188);

2023/05/23
Committee: PECH

2022/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)

14b. Welcomes the fact that the members of the FAO have given it a specific mandate to promote social sustainability in fisheries and aquaculture value chains, including recognition and protection of human and labour rights; notes that the FAO's Fisheries and Aquaculture Division intends to draw up guidelines consisting of a general part and six sections focusing on industrial fishing, small-scale fishing, aquaculture production, processing, distribution and retail; invites the FAO to pay special attention to the global impact of China's fisheries and aquaculture sector when drawing up these guidelines;

2023/05/23
Committee: PECH

2022/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)

14c. Welcomes the fact that both the European Union and China are participating in the FAO Blue Fishing Ports initiative, which aims to draw up guidelines on best international practice for fishing ports that are in the process of transitioning to blue economy models, in order to improve their sustainability by protecting the environment and promoting the social and economic benefits; reiterates its request to the FAO to establish a permanent office in the Port of Vigo to develop and manage the Global Blue Ports Network;

2023/05/23
Committee: PECH

2022/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Emphasises collaboration with China at global level, under the banner of the FAO, regional fisheries management organisations and the WTO, with a view to devising global policies and regulations to combat IUU fishing; stresses, too, that the Union must step up its cooperation with the United Kingdom, the US, Japan and other key players in fisheries and ocean policy, using its diplomatic and trade instruments to encourage China to make progress on the necessary reforms of its fisheries governance framework; welcomes the fact that, in 2022, the US President instructed his Secretary of State, in coordination with the US Mission to the European Union, to cooperate with the EU, Japan, other members of the G7 and other partners to tackle harmful fishing practices in West Africa, Latin American, the Caribbean and the Indo-Pacific region;

2023/05/23
Committee: PECH

2022/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Is pleased that China’s 14th five- year plan for the development of its fisheries includes the following targets: enhancing law enforcement, enhancing the protection of aquatic life and promoting the sustainable use of fishery resources, enhancing the safety of fishing activities involving foreign parties, promoting open development and win-win cooperation, boosting international cooperation in the fishing industry, and continuing to improve the capacity for honouring agreements; urges China to meet these targets, including the measures concerning its distant-water fleet;

2023/05/23
Committee: PECH

2022/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)

16b. Is pleased that the draft reform of China's Fisheries Law, published in 2019, refers to sustainability and conservation as vectors of the transformation of Chinese fisheries, clarifies the penalties for IUU fishing and establishes new control mechanisms for the distant-water fleet; hopes that this proposal by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs will be adopted as soon as possible by the National People's Congress; invites the Chinese authorities to update its legislation as quickly as possible in order to tackle IUU fishing and overfishing effectively;

2023/05/23
Committee: PECH

2022/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Notes that the human and financial resources allocated to DG MARE and the EFCA to deal with China and cooperation with third countries are insufficient to cover the true needs; calls for a better balance to be struck so as to ensure that dialogue continues;

2023/05/23
Committee: PECH

2022/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Emphasises that, in the context of the global competition between the US and China, the US Maritime Security and Fisheries Enforcement Act has adopted a whole-of-government approach to tackling IUU fishing and associated threats to maritime security; commends the fact that the Interagency Working Group on IUU fishing established under this Act brings together 21 federal departments and agencies;

2023/05/23
Committee: PECH

2022/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)

17b. Urges the Commission to ensure that its fisheries policy regarding China is consistent with all of its other policies, especially its trade, social and development cooperation policies; urges the Commission and the European External Action Service, following the example of the US, to look into setting up an interdepartmental working group on IUU fishing under the supervision of a Commission vice-president; suggests that this working group should coordinate the efforts of the Commission's various Directorates-General, the EEAS, the EFCA and the Joint Research Centre;

2023/05/23
Committee: PECH

2022/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 c (new)

17c. Welcomes the fact that the European Union recently joined the IUU Fishing Action Alliance; urges the members of the Alliance to coordinate their national systems for tackling IUU fishing and, in particular, to look into the possibility of jointly issuing 'yellow cards' and 'red cards' or other similar instruments;

2023/05/23
Committee: PECH

2022/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council ~~and the Commission.~~ , the Commission, the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the European Fisheries Control Agency, the Government and Congress of the People's Republic of China, the Government and Congress of the United States, and the FAO.

2023/05/23
Committee: PECH

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital -A (new)

-A. whereas the Programmes of Options Specifically Relating to Remoteness and Insularity (POSEI) is a vital instrument in strengthening local agricultural and food production and mitigating the risk of abandonment of agricultural activities, which would have a significant negative effect on employment and on the social and territorial dimension of the outermost regions (ORs);

2022/12/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Citation 1 a (new)

— having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 26 February 2014 on optimising the potential of outermost regions by creating synergies between the Structural Funds and other European Union programmes (2013/2178(INI));

2023/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital -A a (new)

-Aa. whereas the overall performance of the POSEI programmes is positive, especially when it comes to their ability to address the agricultural challenges specific to the permanent constraints of the outermost regions, as defined in Article 349 of the TFEU;

2022/12/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital -A b (new)

-Ab. whereas the ORs are particularly vulnerable to socioeconomic crises as well as natural disasters, such as volcanic activity; whereas due to their isolated location and difficulties in accessing basic supplies from mainland territories, such as fuel or water, the ORs are more severely affected by crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic or the war in Ukraine, which create particular difficulties for farmers;

2022/12/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Citation 3 a (new)

— having regard to the Regional and cohesion Policy of the EU,

2023/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital -A c (new)

-Ac. whereas ORs can be at a considerable disadvantage due to harsh competition from third countries, which often do not respect the same environmental, social and food safety production standards and have much lower costs;

2022/12/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Citation 3 b (new)

— having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 14 September 2021 towards a stronger partnership with the EU outermost regions (2020/2120(INI));

2023/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Considers that the programme of options specifically relating to remoteness and insularity (POSEI) should be strengthened~~; calls, in this regard, for an increase in the budget of POSEI from 2027~~, in order to reduce the dependency of the ORs on agricultural and agri-food supplies, ensure food security and the ability of these regions to access their markets, be it internal to their territory or to the Union; calls, in this regard, for an increase in the budget of POSEI from 2027 to meet the growing needs and sustainable development of local production in these regions, which have significant additional production costs;

2022/12/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Urges the Commission to increase the financial allocations for POSEI in exceptional circumstances, such as those faced by the agricultural sector in La Palma in the Canary Islands following the volcanic eruption that began on 19 September 2021; calls on the Commission, as an alternative possibility, to make the management and implementation of POSEI more flexible so as to ensure that agricultural and livestock farmers in the outermost regions receive the full amount of aid without being required to attain 70 % production in such situations of force majeure or natural disaster;

2022/12/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital D

D. whereas women in the ORs too often face unstable and short-term employment; whereas female unemployment is higher than male unemployment in all ORs except Réunion;

2023/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas the youth unemployment rate in the ORs is much higher than the EU average of 16%, and whereas the levels of NEETs and early school leavers is particularly high;

2023/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital D b (new)

Db. whereas challenges exist in the fisheries sector, such as the difficulties that local fishermen face with accessing credit or insurance for their vessels;

2023/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses that the EU biodiversity strategy’s targets should not hinder the sustainable development of the agricultural sectors in the ~~outermost regions (ORs);~~ ORs; recalls that the Commission has committed that “the progress towards the targets will be under constant review, and adjustment if needed, to mitigate against undue impact on biodiversity, food security and farmers' competitiveness";

2022/12/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Notes that the proposal for a farm to fork strategy requests the EU to further limit the use of plant protection products; stresses, in this context, that the specific characteristics of the tropical and sub- tropical climates in the ORs must be taken into account and that access to the EU markets for products that do not comply with the EU standards, such as bananas from third countries that massively use plant protection agents that are not authorised in the EU, should be limited;

2022/12/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Stresses that the social situation of young people is a central concern for the ORs; calls, in this regard, for the reinforced Youth Guarantee to be fully deployed in the ORs; believes that an evaluation of the guarantee’s implementation is necessary in these territories, including an assessment of the existing barriers for young people, especially as regards access to education and employment;

2023/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2022/2147(INI)

Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Gabriel MATO, Stéphane BIJOUX

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission to establish a separate chapter dedicated to the ORs in its impact assessments of the ~~farm to fork and biodiversity strateg~~upcoming legislative proposals related to the farm to fork and biodiversity strategies; considers that the outcome of these assessments should be taken into account in order to adapt legislative initiatives, where necessary, to the natural and economic difficulties of these regions and the stiff competition they face from third countries;

2022/12/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Stresses the need to attract young people into fishery, forestry, and agriculture sectors, which are a major economic driver in these regions. Calls on the Commission to launch a pilot project that will aim to increase the attractiveness of those sectors as they contribute to food security in these regions;

2023/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2022/2147(INI)

Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Gabriel MATO, Stéphane BIJOUX

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Recalls the aging of the fishing fleets in the Outermost regions and urges the Commission to allow as soon as possible the renewal of these fleets in order to ensure the safety of fishermen in the workplace;

2023/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls for ~~a specific regulation for the ORs o~~introducing the necessary flexibility in the common organisation of the markets so that the ORs' specificities can be taken into account;

2022/12/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Calls for the Commission to exercise the utmost vigilance in the liberalisation of the EU market and the proliferation of trade agreements between the EU and partner countries; that produce the same agricultural products for export as the ORs, but under different social and environmental conditions, which distort competition; calls on the Commission to take effective action to ensure that trade agreements do not jeopardise measures supporting the ORs, particularly under the POSEI programme; calls on the Commission to grant preferential treatment to OR products on both OR local markets and the EU market and fully protect sensitive agricultural products, such as banana, tomatoes, sugar, milk, etc., in those negotiations; calls for the creation of a trade agreements taskforce within the Commission that will involve representatives from the ORs' economic sectors;

2022/12/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission to improve access to the European Social Fund Plus in the ORs by setting up ~~mass~~ information campaigns aimed at institutional and associative partners, providing a support service for project leaders and financing training for managing authorities.;

2023/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls on the Commission to recognise ORs’ specificities and support initiatives to create better conditions for workers of agricultural and fisheries sectors;

2023/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Calls for strict compliance of tropical goods from non-EU countries with the applicable EU environmental and social standards; and for systematic import quotas for tropical products from such countries, based on existing trade flows; considers that specific surveillance and sanction mechanisms should be introduced to check compliance with these conditions; recommends imposing the 'conformity' principle on imports from third countries, in particular for organic products;

2022/12/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9

9. Recalls the joint declaration by the three institutions annexed to Regulation (EU) 2017/540 on the stabilisation mechanism which was revised when Ecuador joined the EU-Colombia/Peru Trade Agreement: ‘The Commission will continue to carry out regular analyses of the state of the market and the situation of Union banana producers after expiry of the stabilisation mechanism. If a serious deterioration in the state of the market or the situation of Union banana producers is found to have occurred, given the importance of the banana sector for outermost regions, the Commission will examine the situation, together with the Member States and the stakeholders, and decide whether appropriate measures should be considered. The Commission could also convene regular monitoring meetings with the Member States and the stakeholders’; reminds the Commission of its commitment to halt the gradual reduction of the customs tariff by permanently ring-fencing the residual tariff of EUR 75/tonne applicable to third countries with which the EU has signed trade agreements.

2022/12/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Highlights that, while no duties shall apply to direct imports from third countries into the outermost regions of agricultural products which are essential for human consumption, for the manufacture of other products or as agricultural inputs, in implementing this “specific supply arrangement”, account shall be taken in particular to the need to ensure that existing local production is neither destabilised, nor obstructed in its development;

2022/12/02
Committee: AGRI

2022/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Recalls that small-scale fishing, especially in the Mediterranean, is a traditional form of fishing which is part of a lifestyle and provides a significant livelihood which calls for specific measures and support to allow it to grow and develop;

2022/12/09
Committee: PECH

2022/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Stresses that significant socioeconomic impact of restrictions on fishing activities undermines the profitability of thousands of companies to the point of endangering their very survival, with a potentially devastating impact on employment and social cohesion in coastal areas;

2022/12/09
Committee: PECH

2022/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)

2c. Highlights that the EU fleets in the Mediterranean have suffered drastic cuts (23,5%during the last three years, since the entry into force of the multiannual plan), loss of revenue, as well as rise of costs, because of the Covid pandemic and persisting high fuel prices;

2022/12/09
Committee: PECH

2022/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)

2d. Recalls that, according to the 2020 GFCM report on the state of Mediterranean and Black Sea fisheries, the proportion of overfished stocks decreased from 88 % in 2014to 75 % in 2018, reflecting gradually improving results owed to the commitment of fishers across the region;

2022/12/09
Committee: PECH

2022/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 e (new)

2e. Stresses that strict conservation measures adopted only by the EU put EU fishers in competitive disadvantage vis-à- vis to non-EU operators in the region, while undermining efforts to rebuild stocks; highlights the role of GFCM in ensuring coordination in adopting and implementing conservation measures in the Mediterranean;

2022/12/09
Committee: PECH

2022/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 f (new)

2f. Highlights that factors exerting pressure on Mediterranean fish stocks and marine biodiversity include human- induced problems such as plastic pollution, fuel dispersion, habitat loss, maritime traffic and climate change and the proliferation of invasive alien species;

2022/12/09
Committee: PECH

2022/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 g (new)

2g. Calls on the Commission to ensure that every legislative proposal is preceded by a thorough evaluation of the measures already adopted, as well as a wide-ranging impact assessment to quantify its possible socioeconomic and environmental impact on coastal communities and on the productivity and competitiveness of EU fisheries undertakings and the production chain, is supported by the best available scientific advice and proper consultation with the affected fishing sectors and is implemented gradually and in proportion to the sector’s capacity for action;

2022/12/09
Committee: PECH

2022/2059(INI)

Salvatore DE MEO, Herbert DORFMANN, Simone SCHMIEDTBAUER, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Álvaro AMARO, Daniel BUDA, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls for the deployment of a macro-regional strategy at the scale of the entire Mediterranean basin, dedicated to climate change mitigation, environmental conservation, social well-being and economic growth and the sustainable development of the blue economy; believes that such a strategy could be used more specifically to foster circular economy projects in the fisheries sector; address plastic pollution; protect biodiversity; enhance relations with third countries with respect to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing; contribute to solving usage conflicts through adequate maritime spatial planning; preserve the socio- economic contribution of fisheries to the well-being of coastal communities, in particular in islands; promote stock management measures across the Mediterranean basin; encourage third countries to implement maritime protected areas in their territorial waters; provide for the sustainable economic development of the fisheries and aquaculture sector, in particular with respect to transformation and commercialisation; and support the diversification of fishers’ activities, including retraining and reskilling.

2022/12/09
Committee: PECH

2022/2051(INL)

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. whereas the common agricultural policy (‘CAP’) ~~has a central role in the development of the Union’s rural areas, where it constitutes a crucial element in the development of agricultural activity~~is the longest-serving EU policy and that it has played and still plays nowadays a primary role for European integration and the development of rural areas;

2022/10/12
Committee: AGRI

2022/2051(INL)

Salvatore DE MEO, Herbert DORFMANN, Simone SCHMIEDTBAUER, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Álvaro AMARO, Daniel BUDA, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

A a. whereas the CAP plays an important role in supporting the European agri-food system and ensuring food security, especially in this historical context;

2022/10/12
Committee: AGRI

2022/2051(INL)

Salvatore DE MEO, Herbert DORFMANN, Simone SCHMIEDTBAUER, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Álvaro AMARO, Daniel BUDA, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)

A b. whereas the CAP has a strategic role in the optimisation of agricultural production in terms of both food security and agricultural sustainability;

2022/10/12
Committee: AGRI

2022/2051(INL)

Salvatore DE MEO, Simone SCHMIEDTBAUER, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Álvaro AMARO, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)

A c. whereas the strategies developed within the European Green Deal have the objective to guide the agricultural sector towards a fair digital and green transition;

2022/10/12
Committee: AGRI

2022/2051(INL)

Salvatore DE MEO, Herbert DORFMANN, Simone SCHMIEDTBAUER, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Álvaro AMARO, Daniel BUDA, Gabriel MATO

— having regard to its Recommendation of 14 September 2022 to the Commission and the Commission Vice President/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on the Renewed partnership with the Southern Neighbourhood – A new agenda for the Mediterranean

2022/10/10
Committee: AFET

2022/2050(INI)

— having regard to the Council conclusions of 21 February 2022 extending and enhancing the implementation of the Coordinated Maritime Presences Concept in the Gulf of Guinea,

2022/10/10
Committee: AFET

2022/2050(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas Europe is facing the most complex combination of both military and non-military threats since the end of the Cold War accentuated by Russia’s unjustified and illegal war against Ukraine; whereas this requires the EU to enhance the effectiveness of its security and defence policy to defend its interests and values, first and foremost in its neighbourhood; whereas the Strategic Compass aims to equip the EU with the necessary tools to make it an effective security provider and an assertive global actor; whereas there is a new urgency to boosting EU security and defence capabilities, including building on the unprecedented support for Ukraine and including the use of the EPF;

2022/10/10
Committee: AFET

2022/2050(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses the need to substantially strengthen the society-wide focus on resilience and the response to hybrid warfare; welcomes the decision to develop an EU Hybrid Toolbox for a coordinated response to hybrid threats; encourages further development of the EU’'s cyber- defence policy and capabilities, while maintaining the necessary attention to traditional threats such as terrorism;

2022/10/10
Committee: AFET

2022/2050(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Welcomes the EU’s ambition to strengthen its military and civilian capabilities; stresses the need to make full use of EU capability-development initiatives and budgets, notably the EDIRPA, EDF, PESCO, the Coordinated Annual Review on Defence (CARD) and Military Mobility, in order to fill critical capability gaps, reduce fragmentation in the defence-procurement sector, achieve full interoperability of our forces and strengthen a resilient, competitive and innovative European defence technological and industrial base; calls for ensuring maximum consistency between these initiatives; welcomes the Action Plan on synergies between civil, defence and space industries and calls for its implementation to be stepped up; stresses the usefulness of encouraging technology transfers from the defence sector to the civilian sector while also promoting the absorption of technologies from the civilian sector in the defence sector;

2022/10/10
Committee: AFET

2022/2050(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Underlines the need for much more support for EU research and development to ensure that the defence industrial and technological base is able to meet increasing demands and ambitions; stresses the importance of reducing dependencies in critical technologies and value chains in order for the EU to move towards greater technological autonomy to be able to develop, produce and deploy its own technologies in critical areas; welcomes, in this regard, the multi-country programmes in which Member States work together to promote the development of European technologies such as the Future Combat Air System or the European Medium-Altitude High-Range Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (EuroMALE);

2022/10/10
Committee: AFET

2022/2050(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls for more and smarter spending to foster industrial consolidation, cost savings and increased interoperability; calls for synergies with other EU financial instruments to be leveraged and access to private funding for the defence industry to be facilitated; underlines that the upcoming revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework is an opportunity to increase funding in certain areas of security and defence;

2022/10/10
Committee: AFET

2022/2050(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Points out that some 90% of the EU’s external trade and 40% of its internal trade is transported by sea; stresses that, given the growing geopolitical maritime tensions, the Union must ensure freedom of navigation, the safety of maritime lines of communication and of its vessels and crews, offshore infrastructure, and action to counter illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, and ensure that its external maritime borders are monitored effectively in order to prevent illegal activities;

2022/10/10
Committee: AFET

2022/2050(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)

17b. Reiterates the need to strengthen the Union’s role as guarantor of international maritime security; welcomes the Council's decision to extend and enhance the implementation of the coordinated maritime presences concept in the Gulf of Guinea and to establish a new maritime area of interest in the North-Western Indian Ocean; welcomes the crucial role played by Operation ATALANTA in action to tackle piracy and trafficking in the Horn of Africa; calls on the Member States to engage with those initiatives and to build up their military naval capabilities with a view to enhancing the EU’s presence and visibility in the global maritime sector;

2022/10/10
Committee: AFET

2022/2050(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Welcomes the EU-US strategic dialogue on security and defence as an important milestone in closer transatlantic cooperation; encourages the VP/HR to devote particular attention to the security of the EaP region in this dialogue, to include in the discussion areas such as mutual security and defence initiatives, disarmament and non-proliferation, counter-terrorism, improving information exchange among intelligence services, the impact of disruptive technologies, climate change, hybrid threats, cyber defence, military mobility, crisis management and the relationship with strategic competitors;

2022/10/10
Committee: AFET

2022/2048(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)

— having regard to the Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations of 2 March 2022 on aggression against Ukraine (A/RES/ES- 11/L.1) and of 12 October 2022 on the territorial integrity of Ukraine: defending the principles of the UN Charter (A/RES/ES -11/L.5),

2022/10/24
Committee: AFET

2022/2048(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 b (new)

— having regard to the Resolution adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations of 7 April 2022 on the suspension of the rights of membership of the Russian Federation in the Human Rights Council (A/RES/ES-11/L.4),

2022/10/24
Committee: AFET

2022/2048(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)

— having regard to the European Council conclusions on COVID-19, crisis management and resilience, security and defence, external aspects of migration and external relations adopted on 16 December 2021,

2022/10/24
Committee: AFET

2022/2048(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)

— having regard to the NATO Strategic Concept adopted by NATO Heads of State and Government at the NATO Summit in Madrid on June 29, 2022,

2022/10/24
Committee: AFET

2022/2048(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas the Council has acted rapidly and in a united way and has to date adopted eight packages of sanctions against Russia because of its actions in Ukraine, including sanctions on individuals such as the freezing of assets and travel restrictions; economic sanctions that target the financial, trade, energy, transport, technology and defence sectors; restrictions on media; diplomatic measures; restrictions on economic relations with Crimea and Sevastopol and with the areas of Donetsk and Luhansk not controlled by the government; and measures relating to economic cooperation;

2022/10/24
Committee: AFET

2022/2048(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Recalls that the Strategic Compass, adopted by the Council in March 2022, gives the EU the tools to be both an effective security provider in a hostile environment and a more assertive global actor for peace and human security, and therefore calls for its ~~swift~~ implementation, updated with the lessons learnt from the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, which started a few days before it was adopted;

2022/10/24
Committee: AFET

2022/2048(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – indent 2

- putting the concept of strategic sovereignty into practice, without prejudice to close collaboration with NATO,

2022/10/24
Committee: AFET

2022/2048(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Highlights that illegal mass migration may constitute a source of important risks in terms of security, and stresses that threats in this regard are becoming more acute, especially in the broad geographic area including North and sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East; in this context, strongly condemns the use of migrants as a tool of coercion by governments and other actors;

2022/10/24
Committee: AFET

2022/2048(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Underlines that the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and the grave and massive violation of human rights and the fundamental norms of international law have highlighted the need for stronger, more ambitious, credible, strategic and unified EU action on the world stage, and accentuated the necessity for the EU to autonomously set its own strategic objectives and develop the capabilities to pursue them, while strengthening its relations with its partners and allies;

2022/10/24
Committee: AFET

2022/2048(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Stresses that any process towards the strategic autonomy of the EU must be complementary and compatible to NATO, and, therefore, underlines the importance of avoiding duplication in common strategic actions and objectives, and of pooling resources for a better optimization of available capabilities;

2022/10/24
Committee: AFET

2022/2048(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Considers that the Strategic Compass ensures a holistic approach to the EU’s foreign, security and defence policy; calls for the EU and the Member States to show the necessary unity and political will to swiftly implement the ambitious measures they have committed to in the Strategic Compass, while updating it with the lessons learnt from the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine;

2022/10/24
Committee: AFET

2022/2048(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Underlines the importance of ~~continu~~intensified diplomatic efforts to ~~maintain~~effectively communicate our position on the war and to achieve the strongest possible unity within the international community in condemning Russia and defending international law and the rules-based international order, with the United Nations at its core; reiterates, in this respect, the need to deploy a diplomatic offensive in all the states that abstained or did not participate in the voting on the Resolutions of the General Assembly of the United Nations of 2 March and 12 October 2022 to explain the gravity of the Russian aggression and the need for a unanimous response from the international community; calls on the EEAS to ensure that the EU delegations in third countries work actively on this task;

2022/10/24
Committee: AFET

2022/2048(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Highlights the need to intensify the dialogue with the UK on possible avenues for future cooperation and coordination in the area of foreign and ~~security~~defence policy, including in the framework of the EU- NATO partnership, the United Nations and other international forums; regrets that the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom does not include provisions on cooperation in the area of foreign and defence policy; stresses the importance of cooperating closely with the United Kingdom in these areas, especially with regard to sanctions;

2022/10/24
Committee: AFET

2022/2048(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Recommends that EU-US summits be once again held on a regular basis, at least once a year, in order to lend sustained impetus at the very highest level to vital transatlantic cooperation; reiterates its support for the establishment of a Transatlantic Political Council, led by the foreign policy chiefs of both parties, that would serve as a forum for regular and effective institutional dialogue on foreign and security policy between the EU and the US, the importance of which has been highlighted by the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine;

2022/10/24
Committee: AFET

2022/2048(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Expresses concern at the wide range of political, economic and military instruments used by the People's Republic of China to expand its presence in strategic partners and to project power, while maintaining opacity about its strategy, intentions and military rearmament, with special concern about its partnership with the Russian Federation and their joint attempts to undermine the rules-based world order which are contrary to our interests and values;

2022/10/24
Committee: AFET

2022/2048(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Calls on the Commission and the VP/HR to look at the possibility of establishing strategic cooperation with Taiwan and the consequences that might result;

2022/10/24
Committee: AFET

2022/2048(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Underlines that the EU is committed to a free, connected, open and rules-based Indo-Pacific region and respect for international law; reiterates that the EU’s new Indo-Pacific Strategy needs to be implemented swiftly, as it offers our partners in the region an opportunity to address the common challenges together, to defend the rules- based international order and to stand up for the values and principles we share;

2022/10/24
Committee: AFET

2022/2048(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Points out that relations with India are deepening through the ongoing trade negotiations; regrets the abstention by India from the Resolutions of the General Assembly of the United Nations condemning Russian aggression against Ukraine;

2022/10/24
Committee: AFET

2022/2048(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22a (new)

22a. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to pay particular attention to the countries of Central Asia with the aim of maintaining the stability and connectivity of that region, which currently finds itself in a delicate position because of its geographical situation and its historical ties with Russia;

2022/10/24
Committee: AFET

2022/2048(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Reiterates its strong support for the European future of the Western Balkans; calls on the Member States to renew their commitment to enlargement by delivering on the EU’s commitments towards the Western Balkan countries~~, in particular by lifting visa requirements for Kosovo citizens~~; welcomes the start of accession negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia; welcomes the European Council’s readiness to grant candidate status to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and urges the country’s political actors to show commitment and make significant steps towards EU membership by advancing on the 14 key priorities and implementing the substantial set of reforms;

2022/10/24
Committee: AFET

2022/2048(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. CRegrets the fact that, more than 25 years after the start of the Barcelona Process, the creation of a shared area of prosperity, stability and freedom with the Mediterranean countries of the Southern Neighbourhood has not been achieved; calls on the Commission to support the countries of the Southern Neighbourhood in recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic and to cushion the adverse effects on these countries of the food and fertiliser supply shocks and price increases resulting from the war in Ukraine; calls for those countries that are rich in energy resources to contribute more to the supply of gas and oil to European countries;

2022/10/24
Committee: AFET

2022/2048(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Stresses the importance of strengthening relations with Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) by updating the EU-LAC strategy, in particular against the backdrop of the increasing and disproportionate influence of China and Russia in the region in comparison with the EU~~; stresses, in this context, the importance of concluding~~ and the increased threats to European supply lines due to the criminal and unjustified Russian aggression to Ukraine; stresses, in this context, the need to swiftly sign and ratify the balanced and modernised agreements with Chile, Mexico, and Mercosur, with a strong human rights dimension and aligned with the goals of the European Green Deal, provided that, in the case of Mercosur, agreement is reached on the additional instrument; concerning the meaningful pre-ratification commitments; in that regard, urges the Commission, after more than two years of negotiation of the additional instrument, to deliver a final agreement as soon as possible;

2022/10/24
Committee: AFET

2022/2048(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Christophe HANSEN, Gabriel MATO, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Seán KELLY, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)

31a. Urges the Commission to appoint, as quickly as possible, an EU special envoy for the promotion of freedom of religion or belief, given the many cases of persecution on the grounds of belief or religion in various regions of the world;

2022/10/24
Committee: AFET

2022/2040(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)

— having regard to the Proposal for a Regulation establishing a Single Market Emergency Instrument and repealing Council Regulation (EC) 2679/98

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 a (new)

— having regard to the Commission communication of 3 May 2022 entitled ‘Putting people first, securing sustainable and inclusive growth, unlocking the potential of the EU’s outermost regions’ (COM(2022)0198),

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Christophe HANSEN, Gabriel MATO, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Seán KELLY, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas Article 349 TFEU recognises the particular economic and social situation of the outermost regions, which is compounded by structural factors (remoteness, insularity, small size, difficult topography and climate, economic dependence on a few products); whereas the outermost regions were also particularly affected by supply chain disruptions causing a serious problem in food distribution; whereas, moreover, the accessibility deficit entails substantial additional costs, which have a significant impact on trade and thus on their competitiveness;

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

E a. Whereas the EU is pursuing a number of legislative initiatives that seek to boost our supply chain resilience, such as the Battery Regulation, the Single Market Emergency Instrument, The Chips Act, the Critical Raw Materials Act, and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive;

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Christophe HANSEN, Gabriel MATO, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Seán KELLY, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls on the Commission to address the specific needs and pay particular attention to the resilience of supply chains in the outermost regions through appropriate crisis preparedness and management under the Single Market Emergency Instrument;

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Strongly believes that the anticipated Critical Raw Materials Act can contribute positively to the EU’s long- term commitment to foster more resilient supply chains;

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Christophe HANSEN, Gabriel MATO, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Seán KELLY, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4 b. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the Critical Raw Materials Act addresses key problems of access to funding and investment for extraction and processing projects; Strongly believes that the Critical Raw Materials legislation should include an associated EU Fund that can assist in leveraging finance for strategically important projects, both inside and outside of the EU; Believes that such funding should be made available as soon as possible;

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Christophe HANSEN, Gabriel MATO, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Seán KELLY, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4 c. Notes that China dominates the supply and processing of many strategically important critical raw materials, including rare earths; Notes that China is the largest supplier for nearly one third of the EU’s identified Critical Raw Materials; Expresses concern about previous attempts by China to weaponize these dependencies;

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Christophe HANSEN, Gabriel MATO, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Seán KELLY, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 d (new)

4 d. Reiterates that Critical Raw Materials are key to achieving the Green and Digital transitions and that demand for these materials is set to dramatically increase in the coming decades;

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Christophe HANSEN, Gabriel MATO, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Seán KELLY, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 e (new)

4 e. Believes that improved recycling rates, greater circularity in the economy, and further research into substitute materials can all play arole in meeting this rising demand; Reiterates, however, that this alone will not be sufficient, and that new primary production of critical raw materials will be necessary to keep pace with demand;

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Christophe HANSEN, Gabriel MATO, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Seán KELLY, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 f (new)

4 f. Notes that many materials, which are key to attaining the EU’s resilience in strategic sectors do not feature in the EU’s current Critical Raw Materials list; Calls on the Commission to address this as part of its upcoming Critical Raw Materials Act, particularly for strategic materials such as Aluminium, Cooper, and Nickel;

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Christophe HANSEN, Gabriel MATO, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Seán KELLY, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 g (new)

4 g. Calls on the Commission to prioritise policies aimed at retaining and developing our existing levels of primary production of strategic materials; Notes with concern the impact of the current energy crisis on primary production in the EU in these sectors; Notes that 50% of the EU’s aluminium and zinc capacity are already offline, while Silicon production is 30% offline; Highlights the importance of these materials to key strategic EU projects like the Solar Energy Strategy, the Chips Act, and the transition to Electric Vehicles.

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Christophe HANSEN, Gabriel MATO, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Seán KELLY, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 h (new)

4 h. Notes the need for the EU to develop a more cohesive strategy in its bid to achieve a degree of strategic autonomy in the field of Critical Raw Materials supply; Expresses concern that these ambitions are often siloed within individual units of the Commission or pursued via targeted, flagship projects; Believes that a dedicated EU agency on Critical Raw Materials and Resilient Supply Chains could overcome this challenge;

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Christophe HANSEN, Gabriel MATO, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Seán KELLY, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Suggests that future investment and trade agreements of the EU with relevant third countries, shall make collaboration in the field of semiconductors and along the entire semiconductor supply chain a key priority; Calls on the Commission to launch a public consultation, impact assessment, and scoping exercise for a Bilateral Investment Agreement with Taiwan;

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Christophe HANSEN, Gabriel MATO, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Seán KELLY, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5 b. Notes that the implementation of the proposed toolbox has to be guided by the principles of confidentiality and proportionality. Furthermore, it shall avoid any additional administrative burden for businesses, in particular SMEs, or protective measures that hamper trade relations more broadly;

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Christophe HANSEN, Gabriel MATO, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Seán KELLY, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5 c. Believes that in a globalised world characterized by complex international value chains, European resilience must be based on well-functioning multilateral and bilateral trade regimes.

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Christophe HANSEN, Gabriel MATO, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Seán KELLY, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 d (new)

5 d. Highlights that any new initiative to improve the salience of supply chains (such as the Chips Act or the Single Market Emergency Instrument) proposed by the European Commission must comply with Union law, the WTO Agreement and be consistent with commitments made under other trade and investment agreements to which the Union or the Member States are party;

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Christophe HANSEN, Gabriel MATO, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Seán KELLY, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 e (new)

5 e. Recognizes that the EU needs to shorten supply chains and re-shore essential production procedures to increase resilience and its strategic autonomy; calls on the Commission and Member States to reinforce measures that have a rapid effect on the reindustrialisation of Europe and create future-proof jobs by working with international partners in order to remove existing barriers to global competition and revive free trade.

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Christophe HANSEN, Gabriel MATO, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Seán KELLY, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8 a. Calls on the Commission to review whether it can make greater use of its trade defence tools to target unfair, state- subsidies provided by non-market economies; Highlights the case of the Aluminium industry, where between 2013 and 2017, the OECD found that 85% of global subsidies in the sector were channelled to just five Chinese companies;

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Christophe HANSEN, Gabriel MATO, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Seán KELLY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8 b. Calls on the Commission to examine innovative solutions that can increase electricity intensive industries’ access to renewable energy sources; Calls on the Commission to consider new approaches to Power Purchase Agreements, such as the “Green Pool” initiative being pioneered by Greece;

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Christophe HANSEN, Gabriel MATO, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Seán KELLY, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13 a. Welcomes the EU’s first Strategic Partnerships for Critical Raw Materials as signed with Canada and Ukraine in 2021; Calls on the Commission to swiftly conclude similar agreements with other key partners; Welcomes existing commitments from the Commission to pursue such agreements with a number of partners, including Norway and Namibia; Recognises the strong role that they can play in diversifying supply chains and facilitating investment opportunities;

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Christophe HANSEN, Gabriel MATO, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Seán KELLY, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)

13 b. Welcomes the commitment between the European Union and the United States to develop a Global Arrangement on Sustainable Steel and Aluminium, aimed at addressing issues of subsidies and overcapacity from non- market actors; Calls on the Commission to intensify its engagement with the United States on this arrangement;

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Christophe HANSEN, Gabriel MATO, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Seán KELLY, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20 a. Believes that the Global Gateway can play a key role in contributing to the EU’s bid to diversify its supply chains, particularly in the area of critical raw material processing projects; Highlights the benefits that this can bring to the EU, but also to third countries looking to develop their own values chains;

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2008(INI)

Angelika WINZIG, Iuliu WINKLER, Christophe HANSEN, Daniel CASPARY, Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK, Massimiliano SALINI, Jörgen WARBORN, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that the European industry and SMEs are the foundation of the EU and its success; emphasises that the twin transition needs the involvement of European industry; underlines the need to fully support the industrial sector and SMEs in the twin transition by providing them i.e. with easier access to finance; and sufficient funds and support for R&;D and innovation; a large scale change can only be achieved if the necessary incentives are provided for innovative climate and digital solutions.

2022/04/28
Committee: INTA

2022/2008(INI)

Angelika WINZIG, Iuliu WINKLER, Christophe HANSEN, Daniel CASPARY, Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK, Massimiliano SALINI, Jörgen WARBORN, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Is concerned that both the current and the proposed EU legislation envisages too many administrative and bureaucratic hurdles for EU businesses; calls on the Commission to fully implement the principles of better regulation and ‘think small first’ in its legislative work, especially concerning the energy transition sector and export oriented economic areas;

2022/04/28
Committee: INTA

2022/2008(INI)

Angelika WINZIG, Iuliu WINKLER, Christophe HANSEN, Daniel CASPARY, Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK, Massimiliano SALINI, Jörgen WARBORN, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. reiterates its position to the Commission from its resolution of December 16th 2020 to adopt a roadmap for better regulation; notes that several Member States have set quantitative targets of up to 30% for reduction of administrative burden and calls on the Commission to set ambitious and binding quantitative and qualitative targets of at least 30% reduction of regulatory burden.

2022/04/28
Committee: INTA

2022/2008(INI)

Angelika WINZIG, Iuliu WINKLER, Christophe HANSEN, Daniel CASPARY, Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK, Massimiliano SALINI, Jörgen WARBORN, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Considers that for the EU to keep a prominent place in the world economy as well as regain a strong position in important global supply chains and to be competitive in open markets, every sector must receive sufficient support in developing its respective technological base, and in ~~promoting the~~increasing and facilitating research and innovation efforts carried out by public and private stakeholders;

2022/04/28
Committee: INTA

2022/2008(INI)

Angelika WINZIG, Iuliu WINKLER, Christophe HANSEN, Daniel CASPARY, Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK, Massimiliano SALINI, Jörgen WARBORN, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Welcomes the intention of the Commission to issue guidance on public procurement; emphasises that public procurement is an indispensable instrument for national and economic security; stresses in this regard the need to signal to third countries that European public procurement markets will remain open whilst focusing efforts toward creating a level-playing field as well as toward limiting bureaucratic burdens for economic operators and contracting authorities.

2022/04/28
Committee: INTA

2022/2008(INI)

Angelika WINZIG, Iuliu WINKLER, Christophe HANSEN, Daniel CASPARY, Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK, Massimiliano SALINI, Jörgen WARBORN, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls for further negotiations to secure future-oriented, modern trade agreements and to continue with the reform of the World Trade Organization; points out that trade and access to third markets are crucial in supporting the EU’s economic recovery due to the Covid pandemic and resilience, with the aim of strengthening the EU’s autonomy, diversifying its supply chains and guaranteeing its independence from any single producer, especially concerning raw and intermediate products and materials;

2022/04/28
Committee: INTA

2022/2008(INI)

Angelika WINZIG, Iuliu WINKLER, Christophe HANSEN, Daniel CASPARY, Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK, Massimiliano SALINI, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Strongly insists that the fight against illicit trade and the prevention of unfair competition, as well as strategic investment and takeovers by hostile actors, must remain a key priority in order to safeguard the EU industrial autonomy and competitiveness;

2022/04/28
Committee: INTA

2022/2008(INI)

Angelika WINZIG, Iuliu WINKLER, Christophe HANSEN, Daniel CASPARY, Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK, Massimiliano SALINI, Jörgen WARBORN, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8 a. Calls on the Commission to commence negotiations on trade and cooperation agreements with possible international partners for the production and trade of sustainable hydrogen in order to ensure the future supply of renewable fuels of non-biological origin to the EU's industry, heating and transport sectors;

2022/04/28
Committee: INTA

2022/2008(INI)

Angelika WINZIG, Iuliu WINKLER, Christophe HANSEN, Daniel CASPARY, Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK, Massimiliano SALINI, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8 b. Stresses the need to upgrade and expand the existing EU gas infrastructure, including the necessary terminals with sufficient capacity to enable the import and transport of ammonia and hydrogen across the Union in order to enable the hydrogen economy;

2022/04/28
Committee: INTA

2022/2007(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)

— having regard to the Barcelona Declaration and Euro-Mediterranean Partnership of 27 and 28 November 1995,

2022/05/20
Committee: AFET

Jörgen WARBORN, Krzysztof HETMAN, Liudas MAŽYLIS, Iuliu WINKLER, Alessandra MUSSOLINI, Daniel CASPARY, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Angelika WINZIG, Christophe HANSEN, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Arba KOKALARI, Seán KELLY, Marion WALSMANN, Andreas SCHWAB, Romana TOMC

Jörgen WARBORN, Krzysztof HETMAN, Liudas MAŽYLIS, Iuliu WINKLER, Alessandra MUSSOLINI, Daniel CASPARY, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Christophe HANSEN, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Arba KOKALARI, Marion WALSMANN, Andreas SCHWAB, Romana TOMC

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 37

(37) Where the competent authorities conclude that a product corresponds to a decision establishing a violation of the prohibition, they should immediately inform customs authorities which should refuse its release for free circulation or export. The product should be recycled, or should this not be possible destroyed, rendered inoperable, or otherwise disposed of in accordance with national law consistent with Union law, including legislation on waste management~~, which excludes re-export in case of non-Union goods.~~ . Agricultural products that cannot be recycled, should be donated, or, should this not be possible, destroyed, rendered inoperable, or otherwise disposed of in accordance with national law consistent with Union law, including legislation on waste management.

2023/06/09
Committee: INTA IMCO

2022/0269(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 37 a (new)

(37a) The Commission should take into due consideration the risk of disengagement by economic operators who are either related to products, regions or production sites in the data base, or who have had their product removed from the Union market, as well as the consequences on affected workers. The Commission should therefore, where appropriate, support economic operators in adopting and carrying out measures suitable and effective for bringing forced labour to an end.

2023/06/09
Committee: INTA IMCO

2022/0269(COD)

Jörgen WARBORN, Krzysztof HETMAN, Liudas MAŽYLIS, Iuliu WINKLER, Alessandra MUSSOLINI, Daniel CASPARY, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Angelika WINZIG, Christophe HANSEN, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Seán KELLY, Marion WALSMANN, Andreas SCHWAB, Romana TOMC

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 42 a (new)

(42a) With acknowledgment of current developments in traceability technology and the use of blockhain to facilitate monitoring of supply chains, the Commission should support economic operators in the uptake of such technology, including through financial and technical assistance.

2023/06/09
Committee: INTA IMCO

2022/0269(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 45

(45) Since forced labour is a global problem and given the interlinkages of the global value chains, it is necessary to promote international cooperation against forced labour, which would also improve the efficiency of applying and enforcing the prohibition. The Commission should as appropriately cooperate with and exchange information with authorities of third countries and international organisations to create enabling environments to promote and protect human rights, including capacity building to support workers and local communities in their efforts to root out forced labour from global supply chains and enhance the effective implementation of the prohibition. International cooperation with authorities of non-EU countries should take place in a structured way as part of the existing dialogue structures, for example Human Rights Dialogues with third countries, or, if necessary, specific ones that will be created on an ad hoc basis. The Commission should further integrate this Regulation with existing trade measures such as free trade agreements and the Generalised Scheme of Preferences, to enhance the cumulative effect of EU trade measures in eradicating forced labour. This means that in the case where a product has been found to have forced labour, it cannot qualify for GSP tariff reduction. Furthermore, if third country authorities are found to be non-cooperative, or not taking measures to end forced labour within their national borders, the Commission should evaluate whether they should benefit from existing GSP trade facilitation. The Commission should ensure coherence and synergies between relevant external policies, in particular development cooperation and projects focusing on the eradication of forced labour.

2023/06/09
Committee: INTA IMCO

2022/0269(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1

1. This Regulation lays down rules prohibiting economic operators from placing and making available on the Union market or exporting from the Union market products made with forced labour. This Regulation contributes to the fight against forced labour and promotes corporate sustainability due diligence standards.

2023/06/09
Committee: INTA IMCO

2022/0269(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2

2. This Regulation shall not cover the withdrawal of products which have reached the end-users in the Union market, or been transformed or integrated into another product and constitute minor component of the final product.

2023/06/09
Committee: INTA IMCO

2022/0269(COD)

Jörgen WARBORN, Liudas MAŽYLIS, Iuliu WINKLER, Alessandra MUSSOLINI, Daniel CASPARY, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Angelika WINZIG, Christophe HANSEN, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Andreas SCHWAB, Romana TOMC

Arnaud DANJEAN, Massimiliano SALINI, Gabriel MATO, Christophe HANSEN, Daniel CASPARY, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 4 – point a a (new)

(aa) goods produced in EU and destined to be exported and commercialised in third countries

2022/11/16
Committee: INTA

Álvaro AMARO, Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER, Dan-Ştefan MOTREANU, Franc BOGOVIČ, Peter JAHR, Simone SCHMIEDTBAUER, Anne SANDER, Gabriel MATO, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 5

2022/11/28
Committee: AGRI

2022/0089(COD)

Álvaro AMARO, Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER, Dan-Ştefan MOTREANU, Franc BOGOVIČ, Peter JAHR, Anne SANDER, Gabriel MATO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point a

~~(a) the document summarising the product specification referred to in Article 94 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 for wine;~~deleted

2022/11/28
Committee: AGRI

2022/0089(COD)

Álvaro AMARO, Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER, Dan-Ştefan MOTREANU, Franc BOGOVIČ, Peter JAHR, Anne SANDER, Gabriel MATO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point c – point i

~~(i) Article 116a of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 as regards wine;~~deleted

2022/11/28
Committee: AGRI

2022/0089(COD)

Álvaro AMARO, Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER, Dan-Ştefan MOTREANU, Franc BOGOVIČ, Peter JAHR, Anne SANDER, Gabriel MATO, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 1

1. The Commission shall ~~scrutinise any~~conduct the examination of the application for registration that it receives pursuant to Article 16(1). Such scrutiny shall consist of a check that there are no manifest errors,. The Commission shall verify that the information provided in accordance with Article 15 is complete and that the single document referred to in Article 13 is precise and technical in nature. It shall take into account the outcome of the national procedure carried out by the Member State concerned. ~~It shall focus in particular on the single document referred to in Article 13.~~

2022/11/28
Committee: AGRI

2022/0089(COD)

Álvaro AMARO, Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER, Dan-Ştefan MOTREANU, Franc BOGOVIČ, Peter JAHR, Anne SANDER, Gabriel MATO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 4

4. Where, based on the scrutiny carried out pursuant to paragraph 1, the Commission considers that the conditions laid down in this Regulation and in Regulation~~s (EU) No 1308/2013 and~~ (EU) 2019/787, as appropriate, are fulfilled, it shall publish in the Official Journal of the European Union the single document and the reference to the publication of the product specification.

2022/11/28
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 38 – paragraph 3

2022/11/28
Committee: AGRI

2022/0089(COD)

Álvaro AMARO, Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER, Dan-Ştefan MOTREANU, Franc BOGOVIČ, Peter JAHR, Anne SANDER, Gabriel MATO, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – paragraph 3 – point b

(b) one or more ~~product certification~~delegated bodies to which responsibilities have been delegated as referred to in Regulation (EU) 2017/625, Title II, Chapter III.

2022/11/28
Committee: AGRI

Álvaro AMARO, Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER, Dan-Ştefan MOTREANU, Franc BOGOVIČ, Peter JAHR, Anne SANDER, Gabriel MATO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 81 – paragraph 1 – point 2

Regulation (EU) 1308/2013
Article 94

~~(2) [...]~~deleted

2022/11/28
Committee: AGRI

2022/0089(COD)

Álvaro AMARO, Norbert LINS, Christine SCHNEIDER, Dan-Ştefan MOTREANU, Franc BOGOVIČ, Peter JAHR, Anne SANDER, Gabriel MATO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 81 – paragraph 1 – point 3

~~(3) Articles 95 to 99, Articles 101 to 106 and Article 107 are~~ deleted.

2022/11/28
Committee: AGRI

2022/0068(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Gabriel MATO, Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA, Javier ZARZALEJOS, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Esteban GONZÁLEZ PONS, Pablo ARIAS ECHEVERRÍA, Pilar del CASTILLO VERA, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Dolors MONTSERRAT

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8 a (new)

(8a) Pursuant to the statement in the minutes of the European Council meeting of 25 November 2018, any future agreement between the EU and the United Kingdom concerning Gibraltar will require the prior agreement of the Kingdom of Spain. Given Gibraltar's particular geographical situation, its status under international law, its specific characteristics and its special relationship with Spain, measures adopted by the EU under this Regulation which affect the territory of Gibraltar or any agreement concluded between the EU and the United Kingdom concerning that territory should also require the prior consent of the Kingdom of Spain.

2022/09/12
Committee: AFET INTA AFCO

Franc BOGOVIČ, Daniel BUDA, Peter JAHR, Simone SCHMIEDTBAUER, Colm MARKEY, Asim ADEMOV, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Dan-Ştefan MOTREANU, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Gabriel MATO, Marlene MORTLER, Salvatore DE MEO, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 a (new)

— having regard to its resolution of 8 March 2022 on the role of cohesion policy in promoting innovative and smart transformation and regional ICT connectivity (2021/2101(INI));

2022/06/01
Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Underlines the central role agriculture plays in rural areas~~; insists that sustainable agriculture~~ in ensuring high-quality, diverse and sufficient food and biomass resources in a sustainable manner, in providing jobs and cultural landscape for recreational use; insists that sustainable agriculture, in its three pillars (economic, environmental, social), providing fair income to farmers, is crucial for the vitality of these territories;

2022/06/01
Committee: AGRI

2021/2254(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Stresses that diversification of and innovation in the rural economy based on local potential are crucial to drawing opportunities from the digital and green transition; calls on the Member States to put in place measures to support the fair transition and diversification of the rural economy, as well as to support job creation in rural areas;

2022/06/01
Committee: AGRI

2021/2254(INI)

Franc BOGOVIČ, Daniel BUDA, Peter JAHR, Simone SCHMIEDTBAUER, Asim ADEMOV, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Gabriel MATO, Marlene MORTLER, Dan-Ştefan MOTREANU, Salvatore DE MEO, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)

22b. Emphasises the role of private sector in the development of rural areas, particularly with investments in infrastructure and digital technologies in such areas, with a view of reducing the digital gap between rural and urban areas, encouraging the development of tailor made digital solutions for rural areas and thus contributing to digital and green transition;

2022/06/01
Committee: AGRI

2021/2254(INI)

23. Regrets the persistent obstacles to the multi-fund approach, which hamper the deployment of integrative approaches in rural areas; calls on the Commission to improve synergies and coordination between EU funding instruments, such as the regional and cohesion policy, the Common Agricultural Policy, and the Next Generation EU recovery instrument, and with national instruments, and to pursue simplification, in particular for smaller projects, which are key for rural areas;

2022/06/01
Committee: AGRI

2021/2254(INI)

Franc BOGOVIČ, Daniel BUDA, Peter JAHR, Asim ADEMOV, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Dan-Ştefan MOTREANU, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Gabriel MATO, Marlene MORTLER, Salvatore DE MEO, Norbert LINS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Highlights the Commission study’s conclusions on LEADER’s effectiveness in delivering solutions for sustainable rural development; calls on Member States to support LEADER/Community-Led Local Development (CLLD), thereby facilitating and promoting multi-fund approaches; stresses that the LEADER/CLLD funding tools should also be used for further development of smart villages; considers that the meaningful earmarking of assistance for CLLD under all relevant funds at EU level, including the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), would contribute to stronger and more sustainable territorial development; suggests that 35 % of the European Regional Development Fund and Cohesion Fund should be earmarked for rural areas, as well as 10 % of the EAFRD for CLLD in the post-2027 CAP reform;

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Javier ZARZALEJOS, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE

Motion for a resolution
Citation 8

2022/04/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2249(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Javier ZARZALEJOS, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Reconfirms its support for the EU- facilitated Belgrade-Pristina dialogue and reiterates the importance of constructive engagement ~~on the part of the authorities of both Serbia and Kosovo in order to achieve a comprehensive legally binding~~in order to achieve normalisation ~~agreement,~~ which is crucial ~~for both countries~~ to advance on the~~ir respective~~ European p~~aths~~erspective; calls for all past agreements to be respected and fully implemented, including the Association of Serb-Majority Municipalities;

2022/04/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2246(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Javier ZARZALEJOS

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1

— having regard to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and Kosovo*, of the other part, which entered into force on 1 April 20161 , ~~__________________ 1 OJ L 71, 16.3.2016, p. 3.~~ *This designation shall not be construed as a recognition of statehood and is without prejudice to the individual positions of the Member States on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244/1999 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence1a __________________ 1 OJ L 71, 16.3.2016, p. 3. 1a This mention should be included in the title and applied throughout the entire document

2022/04/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2246(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Javier ZARZALEJOS

Motion for a resolution
Citation 6

— having regard to UN Security Council Resolution 1244 of 10 June 1999, to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Advisory Opinion of 22 July 2010 on the accordance with international law of the unilateral declaration of independence in respect of Kosovo, and to UN General Assembly Resolution 64/298 of 9 September2010, ~~which acknowledged the content of the ICJ opinion, and welcomed the EU’s readiness to facilitate dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo,~~

2022/04/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2246(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Javier ZARZALEJOS

Motion for a resolution
Citation 7

2022/04/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2246(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Javier ZARZALEJOS

Motion for a resolution
Citation 20

— having regard to its previous resolutions on ~~the country~~Kosovo,

2022/04/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2246(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Javier ZARZALEJOS

Motion for a resolution
Citation 22

~~— having regard to its resolution of 25 March 2021 on the 2019-2020 Commission Reports on Kosovo7 , __________________ 7 OJ C 494, 8.12.2021, p. 149.~~deleted

2022/04/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2246(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Javier ZARZALEJOS

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

~~A. whereas each enlargement country is judged on its own merits and whereas it is the implementation of the necessary reforms that determines the timetable and progress of accession;~~deleted

2022/04/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2246(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Javier ZARZALEJOS

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas ~~a comprehensive legally binding~~ normalisation ~~agreement~~ between Serbia and Kosovo is crucial ~~for both countries~~ to advance oin their ~~respective European paths~~European perspective;

2022/04/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2246(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Javier ZARZALEJOS

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas Kosovo has not been granted visa liberalisation~~, although all benchmarks have been fulfilled since 2018~~;

2022/04/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2246(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Javier ZARZALEJOS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes Kosovo’s commitment to advance on EU-related reforms and the overwhelming public support for European integration; without prejudice to Member States' positions on status;

2022/04/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2246(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Javier ZARZALEJOS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Welcomes~~Takes note of the adoption of the Action Plan of the European Reform Agenda II and the ~~National~~ Programme for the Implementation of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement; ~~underlines the need to strengthen the administrative capacities and to put in place a coherent coordination structure within the Kosovo institutions for their effective implementation;~~

2022/04/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2246(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Javier ZARZALEJOS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

~~5. Reiterates its call on the Council to proceed urgently with the adoption of a visa-free regime for the citizens of Kosovo;~~deleted

2022/04/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2246(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Javier ZARZALEJOS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

~~6. Fully supports Kosovo’s intention to apply for membership of the Council of Europe;~~deleted

2022/04/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2246(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Javier ZARZALEJOS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Notes also Kosovo’s intention to apply for membership of the European Union in 2022, but stresses that there is no fast-track procedure and that the normalisation of relations with Serbia is necessary for Kosovo to advance on its European path;deleted

2022/04/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2246(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Javier ZARZALEJOS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Takes note of the ~~government’s~~Kosovo authorities' plans for the vetting of judges and prosecutors, and underlines the importance of the Venice Commission’s opinion; stresses that vetting should be used as a last resort and insists that the EU and the US reservations should not be disregarded;

2022/04/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2246(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Javier ZARZALEJOS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Commends Kosovo’s vibrant and constructive civil society for its work and engagement; encourages the ~~government~~Kosovar authorities to establish cooperative working relations with them, based on mutual trust and to ensure their meaningful involvement in the respective reform projects;

2022/04/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2246(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Javier ZARZALEJOS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Urges the ~~government~~Kosovar authorities to implement the ruling of the Constitutional Court granting parcels of land to the Visoki Dečani Monastery; is concerned that the authorities have still not implemented this court decision, thereby undermining the ~~government’s~~authorities' commitment to enforcing the rule of law and its respect for an independent judiciary;

2022/04/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2246(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Javier ZARZALEJOS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Is deeply concerned about the continuing high level of domestic and gender-based violence in Kosovo; calls for the effective implementation of the ~~national~~ strategy against domestic and gender-based violence;

2022/04/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2246(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Javier ZARZALEJOS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. ~~Welcomes~~Takes note of Kosovo’s active participation in the regional cooperation mechanisms, including the Common Regional Market and the Green Agenda for the Western Balkans; ~~welcomes the various bilateral cooperation agreements between Kosovo and North Macedonia and Albania;~~

2022/04/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2246(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Javier ZARZALEJOS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Reconfirms its support for the EU- facilitated Belgrade-Pristina dialogue and reiterates the importance of constructive engagement ~~on the part of the authorities of both Serbia and Kosovo in order to achieve a comprehensive legally binding~~in order to achieve normalisation ~~agreement,~~ which is crucial ~~for both countries~~ to advance on their ~~respective European paths~~European perspective; calls for all past agreements to be respected and fully implemented, including the Association of Serb-Majority Municipalities;

2022/04/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2246(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Javier ZARZALEJOS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Regrets the decision of the ~~Government of Kosovo~~Kosovar authorities to reject a proposal enabling the collection of the ballots of eligible voters to allow them to vote in the territory of Kosovo in the 3 April 2022 Serbian elections, as had been the case previously;

2022/04/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2246(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Javier ZARZALEJOS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36

36. Calls on the ~~government~~Kosovar authorities to speed up its work on the Energy Strategy 2022- 2030, with a particular focus on a sustainable and affordable energy supply, increased energy efficiency and the further diversification of energy sources;

2022/04/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2246(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Javier ZARZALEJOS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39

39. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the President of the European Council, the Commission, the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign and Security Policy, the governments and parliaments of the Member States and to the ~~President, and the Government and Parliament of Kosovo~~Kosovar authorities.

2022/04/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2213(INI)

Massimiliano SALINI, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Angelika WINZIG, Gabriel MATO, Jörgen WARBORN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Recalls the statement of the UN Economic Commission for Africa indicating that it believes the economic partnership agreements between EU and African countries could have negative consequences for intra-African trade; is concerned about the negative effects that the new Partnership Agreement between the EU and the members of Stresses the key role of Economic Partnership Agreements in promoting long-term, sustainable development, reducing poverty and boosting regional integration; regrets, therefore, the recent lack of progress in their finalisation; acknowledges the diverging views on EPAs and calls on the Commission to address them by building trust and mutual understanding on the development benefits of EPAs; insists on the need to accompany any trade arrangements withe O~~rganisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS – Post-Cotonou Agreement) might have on intra-African trade~~ACPS countries with capacity-building and technical assistance to effectively support their implementation;

2022/01/06
Committee: INTA

2021/2213(INI)

Massimiliano SALINI, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Angelika WINZIG, Gabriel MATO, Jörgen WARBORN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Insists that the agreement’s trade and investment provisions must be tailored to benefit all parties; is concerned about a misbalance benefiting the EU over the OACPS countries; calls on the Commission to guarantee that the OACPS countries benefit from trade relations; calls on the Commission to improve EUbelieves that the renewed partnership is a unique opportunity to revive trade relations between the EU and each OACPS region based on mutual advantages; regrets that while the Cotonou Agreement considerably improved access to EU markets for OACPS countries, it did not prove effective in increasing market ~~acces~~shares for ~~OACPS producers; calls~~European businesses in OACPS countries; calls therefore on the Commission to promote sustainable investment opportunities ~~to advance~~notably in digital and green infrastructure ~~in the OACPS countrie~~; to this end, stresses the need for a strong involvement of the European and OACPS countries' private sector in the implementation of partnerships;

2022/01/06
Committee: INTA

2021/2213(INI)

Massimiliano SALINI, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Angelika WINZIG, Gabriel MATO, Jörgen WARBORN, Christophe HANSEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Recognises that the Western interpretation of sustainability has been applied in the Post-Cotonou Agreement; is concerned that the terminology of the agreement focuses on the goals and perspectives of the EU; calls for an investigation into the differences in interpretation and application of sustainability criteria and the application of these criteria in the Post-Cotonou Agreement;deleted

2022/01/06
Committee: INTA

2021/2213(INI)

Massimiliano SALINI, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Angelika WINZIG, Gabriel MATO, Jörgen WARBORN, Christophe HANSEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. ~~Is concerned that the suspension clauses may not be legally valid;~~Recognizes the strong human rights component in the EPAs and for this reason welcomes the inclusion of suspension clauses in case of violations of human rights clauses; stresses the importance of political dialogue and consultation procedures to ensure effectiveness of these clauses and calls on the Commission to guarantee that the suspension clauses will be correctly applied in the event of violations of essential elements; emphasises that suspension of clauses should not harm the population, but should target those responsible for violations;

2022/01/06
Committee: INTA

2021/2213(INI)

Massimiliano SALINI, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Angelika WINZIG, Gabriel MATO, Jörgen WARBORN, Christophe HANSEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Strongly stresses the important link between trade, the eradication of poverty and support for sustainable development; ~~underlines the role of women in the economies and societies of the OACPS countries~~recognizes how the agreement’s trade and investment provisions take appropriate steps to provide decent jobs for all and to socioeconomically empower marginalized groups, women and youth; calls on the Commission to increase and to guarantee the participation of ~~women~~these categories in EU- OACPS trade and investment relations.

2022/01/06
Committee: INTA

2021/2200(INI)

Daniel CASPARY, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Jörgen WARBORN, David McALLISTER, Massimiliano SALINI, Iuliu WINKLER, Arnaud DANJEAN, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Gabriel MATO, Christophe HANSEN

Draft opinion
Citation 12

— hHaving regard to the ~~EU- Seychelles, EU-Cook Islands and EU- Mauritius S~~Partnership Agreements on sustainable Ffisheries ~~Partnership Agreement~~in the Indian and Pacific Oceans,

2022/02/11
Committee: PECH

2021/2200(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 24 a (new)

— having regard to its resolution of 3 October 2017 on EU political relations with ASEAN,

2022/03/28
Committee: INTA

2021/2200(INI)

Daniel CASPARY, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Jörgen WARBORN, David McALLISTER, Massimiliano SALINI, Iuliu WINKLER, Arnaud DANJEAN, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Gabriel MATO, Christophe HANSEN

Motion for a resolution
Citation 24 b (new)

— having regard to the 29th EU- ASEAN Joint Cooperation Committee Meeting held on 11 February 2022,

2022/03/28
Committee: INTA

2021/2200(INI)

Daniel CASPARY, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Jörgen WARBORN, David McALLISTER, Massimiliano SALINI, Iuliu WINKLER, Arnaud DANJEAN, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Gabriel MATO, Christophe HANSEN

Motion for a resolution
Citation 24 c (new)

— having regard to the inaugural European Parliament-ASEAN Inter- Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) Inter- Regional Dialogue held on 22 June 2021,

2022/03/28
Committee: INTA

2021/2200(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital C

C. whereas the EU has only three Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreements in the region, the respective protocols for which are currently in force (Seychelles, Cook Islands and Mauritius) and whereas the EU fishing fleet is present in both the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean;

2022/02/11
Committee: PECH

2021/2200(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)

C a. whereas, within the framework of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the EU is an active member of several Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs) in the Indo-Pacific region (Indian Ocean Tuna Commission, Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement Parties, Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission and the South Pacific RFMO); whereas the EU's application for membership of the North Pacific Fisheries Commission was accepted on 25 February 2021;

2022/02/11
Committee: PECH

2021/2200(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)

C b. whereas the EU holds high-level dialogues on ocean and fisheries issues with Australia, Indonesia, Japan and New Zealand; whereas it has signed an Ocean Partnership Agreement with China; whereas it also holds dialogues and has working groups on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing with Korea, Thailand and Taiwan;

2022/02/11
Committee: PECH

2021/2200(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital C c (new)

D c. whereas Thailand is the world’s leading producer of canned tuna and the EU’s main competitor in this sector; whereas a free trade agreement with Thailand could pose a serious threat to the EU canned seafood industry, which is crucial in several coastal regions because of its important role in creating jobs and prosperity and because it is a sector which is female labour intensive;

2022/02/11
Committee: PECH

2021/2200(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to step up its action for ocean governance, through the implementation of sustainable fisheries partnership agreements and its participation in RFMOs, in full compliance with international law and with the main objective of ensuring the sustainable management of ocean resources and the restoration of marine ecosystems, which are essential for fishing activities;

2022/02/11
Committee: PECH

2021/2200(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Peter van DALEN, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Considers that the EU should continue its commitment to sustainable fishing in the region and support fisheries control in order to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing; urges the EU to strengthen its cooperation with like-minded international partners to combat overfishing, overcapacity and IUU fishing in the Indo-Pacific;

2022/02/11
Committee: PECH

2021/2200(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Calls on the EU and China, in implementation of the Ocean Partnership Agreement signed in 2018, to cooperate closely towards the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological resources, the fight against marine pollution, the mitigation of and adaptation to the effects of climate change on the oceans, the conservation of Antarctic marine living resources, fisheries governance in regional and global fora and the prevention and fight against IUU fishing;

2022/02/11
Committee: PECH

2021/2200(INI)

Daniel CASPARY, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Jörgen WARBORN, David McALLISTER, Massimiliano SALINI, Iuliu WINKLER, Arnaud DANJEAN, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Gabriel MATO, Christophe HANSEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4 b. urges the EU to continue to promote the improvement of living and working conditions of fishers in the Indo- Pacific region in accordance with International Labour Organisation (ILO) regulations and conventions;

2022/02/11
Committee: PECH

2021/2200(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

C a. Whereas the European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) opened a new chapter in their longstanding relations by entering in a Strategic Partnership in December 2020;

2022/03/28
Committee: INTA

2021/2200(INI)

Daniel CASPARY, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Jörgen WARBORN, David McALLISTER, Massimiliano SALINI, Iuliu WINKLER, Arnaud DANJEAN, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Gabriel MATO, Christophe HANSEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses the importance of product traceability for banning imports of seafood products obtained from illegal fishing; welcomes the creation of a database for the management of catch certificates (CATCH) to ensure traceability and reduce opportunities for fraudulent imports, as part of the reform of the fisheries control system proposed by the Commission; calls on the Commission to report on its exchanges with ‘yellow card’ states under Regulation (EC) No 1005/2008 on illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing;

2022/02/11
Committee: PECH

2021/2200(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)

C b. Whereas enhanced inter- parliamentary relations and parliamentary diplomacy between the European Parliament and the parliaments of Southeast Asia – through the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) – should reflect the future agenda of broader and deeper EU-ASEAN relations;

2022/03/28
Committee: INTA

2021/2200(INI)

Daniel CASPARY, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Jörgen WARBORN, David McALLISTER, Massimiliano SALINI, Iuliu WINKLER, Arnaud DANJEAN, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Gabriel MATO, Christophe HANSEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Stresses that any trade agreements with the Indo-Pacific countries must be preceded by rigorous sustainability impact studies and a detailed analysis of the potential economic, social, environmental and human rights impacts; urges the Commission to include canned seafood as ‘sensitive products’ in trade negotiations with the countries of the region;

2022/02/11
Committee: PECH

2021/2200(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)

C c. Whereas the European Parliament and the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) are natural partners with a significant potential to contribute towards strengthening EU-ASEAN relations;

2022/03/28
Committee: INTA

2021/2200(INI)

Daniel CASPARY, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Jörgen WARBORN, David McALLISTER, Massimiliano SALINI, Iuliu WINKLER, Arnaud DANJEAN, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Gabriel MATO, Christophe HANSEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5 b. Urges the European External Action Service to take into account the EU's fishing interests and the presence of the European fishing fleet when determining the 'maritime areas of interest' within the framework of coordinated maritime presences and maritime safety strategies;

2022/02/11
Committee: PECH

2021/2200(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C d (new)

C d. Whereas EU-ASEAN relations are based on the shared values and principles of a rules-based international order, effective and sustainable multilateralism, and free and fair trade;

2022/03/28
Committee: INTA

2021/2200(INI)

Daniel CASPARY, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Jörgen WARBORN, David McALLISTER, Massimiliano SALINI, Iuliu WINKLER, Arnaud DANJEAN, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Gabriel MATO, Christophe HANSEN

Motion for a resolution
Recital C e (new)

C e. Whereas EU-based entities are the largest provider of foreign direct investment to the ASEAN region; whereas the EU is ASEAN's third largest trading partner and ASEAN as a whole represents the EU's third largest trading partner outside Europe;

2022/03/28
Committee: INTA

2021/2200(INI)

Daniel CASPARY, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Jörgen WARBORN, David McALLISTER, Massimiliano SALINI, Iuliu WINKLER, Arnaud DANJEAN, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Gabriel MATO, Christophe HANSEN

Motion for a resolution
Recital C f (new)

C f. Whereas negotiations on an EU- ASEAN Free Trade Agreement have been suspended by mutual agreement since 2009;

2022/03/28
Committee: INTA

2021/2200(INI)

Daniel CASPARY, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Jörgen WARBORN, David McALLISTER, Massimiliano SALINI, Iuliu WINKLER, Arnaud DANJEAN, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Gabriel MATO, Christophe HANSEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8 a. Recalls the importance of parliamentary diplomacy in accelerating FTA negotiations between the EU and ASEAN Member States;

2022/03/28
Committee: INTA

2021/2200(INI)

Daniel CASPARY, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Jörgen WARBORN, David McALLISTER, Massimiliano SALINI, Iuliu WINKLER, Arnaud DANJEAN, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Gabriel MATO, Christophe HANSEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Calls for further engagement with ASEAN and its member states and for the development and promotion of the EU- ASEAN strategic partnership; calls on both sides to use the momentum of the planned EU-ASEAN Summit in 2022, on the occasion of 45th anniversary of the EU- ASEAN bilateral relationship, to present a new EU-ASEAN action plan for the upcoming period to promote increased multifaceted cooperation in key areas and explore the possibility of resuming negotiations of a region-to-region trade agreement once the conditions in terms of human rights and democracy are ~~to the EU’s standards~~met; calls for a parliamentary dimension to the 45th anniversary summit and reiterates its intention to create an EU-ASEAN parliamentary assembly to strengthen the democratic dimension of the partnership;

2022/03/28
Committee: INTA

2021/2200(INI)

Daniel CASPARY, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Jörgen WARBORN, David McALLISTER, Massimiliano SALINI, Iuliu WINKLER, Arnaud DANJEAN, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Gabriel MATO, Christophe HANSEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the governments and parliaments of the Member States, the Secretary-General of ASEAN, the Secretary-General of the ASEAN Inter- Parliamentary Assembly and the respective countries in the Indo-Pacific region.

2022/03/28
Committee: INTA

2021/2189(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)

— having regard to the interim evaluation of the Open Method of Coordination for EU aquaculture4a, _________________ 4a European Commission, Directorate- General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Study on an interim evaluation of the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) for the sustainable development of EU aquaculture: final report. Publications Office, 2019.

2022/02/14
Committee: PECH

2021/2189(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 a (new)

— having regard to the Opinion of the Committee of the Regions of 17 December 2015 on the future of European aquaculture,

2022/02/14
Committee: PECH

2021/2189(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the shellfish and aquaculture sectors play an important and valuable role in the EU from an economic, social and environmental perspective, and help to improve the quality of life in coastal, interior and outermost regions of the EU;

2022/02/14
Committee: PECH

2021/2189(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas EU aquaculture production accounts for just 1.15% of global production, according to the most recent figures (2018)6a; _________________ 6a European Commission, Directorate- General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, The EU fish market: 2020 edition, Publications Office, 2021.

2022/02/14
Committee: PECH

2021/2189(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)

Cb. whereas the establishment or expansion of an aquaculture farm in the EU requires various licences and authorisations and is generally a slow, complex procedure that sometimes lacks legal certainty and economic predictability; whereas this situation hinders the development of the sector, discouraging corporate investment and generating excessive costs for the sector, while promoting imports from third countries;

2022/02/14
Committee: PECH

2021/2189(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas the FAO 2020 report on the state of world fisheries and aquaculture indicates that globally, the proportion of women in the total aquaculture work force (19 %) is larger than that in fisheries (12 %) and that overall, women play a crucial role throughout the fish and aquaculture value chain and provide labour in both commercial and artisanal practices; whereas the aquaculture sector in general directly employs more than 74 000 people in the EU in more than 12 000 companies6b; _________________ 6 b Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF) – The EU Aquaculture Sector – Economic report 2020 (STECF-20-12). EUR 28359 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2021.

2022/02/14
Committee: PECH

2021/2189(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas EU shellfish production consists mainly of molluscs, specifically mussels, oysters and clams, and is generally a traditional, labour-intensive aquaculture activity carried out by family businesses that is fully integrated into the local environment;

2022/02/14
Committee: PECH

2021/2189(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

Ga. whereas the interim evaluation of the Open Method of Coordination concluded that the Member States should make greater efforts to expand the EU’s aquaculture sector, enhancing its resilience and competitiveness, guaranteeing, in particular, access to space and water, and a transparent and efficient regulatory and administrative framework;

2022/02/14
Committee: PECH

2021/2189(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, François-Xavier BELLAMY

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

Ka. whereas Directive 2014/89/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 establishing a framework for maritime spatial planning calls for all coastal Member States to present national maritime spatial plans to the Commission ‘as soon as possible, and at the latest by 31 March 2021’;

2022/02/14
Committee: PECH

2021/2189(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the Commission communication on the strategic guidelines for a more sustainable and competitive EU aquaculture for the period 2021 to 2030; considers these guidelines comprehensive, sound and fit for the purpose of promoting sustainable and competitive EU aquaculture with a long-term focus on the sustainability of the aquaculture sector and on its contribution to the European Green Deal; regrets, however, that they are too much focused on environmental aspects and that they need more ambition to boost sustainable production and the development of a genuinely thriving and competitive EU aquaculture sector; considers that it is important to establish quantitative objectives for the growth of this sector in the framework of the guidelines, just as the Biodiversity strategy, the Farm to fork strategy and other Green Deal strategies set environmental targets;

2022/02/14
Committee: PECH

2021/2189(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the Commission communication on the strategic guidelines for a more sustainable and competitive EU aquaculture for the period 2021 to 2030; considers these guidelines comprehensive, sound and fit for the purpose of promoting sustainable and competitive EU aquaculture with a long-term focus on the sustainability of the aquaculture sector and on its contribution to the European Green Deal; urges the Members States and the Aquaculture Advisory Council to implement the actions recommended in the guidelines; calls on the Commission to regularly monitor compliance with these recommendations and to keep Parliament informed;

2022/02/14
Committee: PECH

2021/2189(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Points out that aquaculture is expected to contribute to food supply and food security by rebalancing the fish gap, since the EU needs to import 70 % of all the aquatic food it consumes and that causes an annual EUR 21 billion trade deficit (in 2019); considers that aquaculture has sizeable growth potential that needs to be enhanced, so that it can provide sustainable and quality food products, reduce our dependence on aquatic food imports and create more jobs, especially in coastal regions; calls on the Commission and the Member States to provide a predictable, streamlined and business- friendly legal framework, and making full use of the available financing resources of the European Maritime Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF)~~, as this is the only environment under which these aquaculture contributions can occur~~; urges the Member States to earmark sufficient funding under the Recovery and Resilience Facility to support the innovation, sustainability and resilience of EU aquaculture businesses;

2022/02/14
Committee: PECH

2021/2189(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, François-Xavier BELLAMY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Points out that the external trade imbalance in aquatic products produced in the Union is unacceptable, both from an economic point of view, given the trade deficit that this entails, and from a social point of view, given the missed opportunities for employment;

2022/02/14
Committee: PECH

2021/2189(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Considers that the aquaculture sector should co~~mmit~~ntinue to actively applying evidence-based interventions to improve fish welfare, including maintaining water quality within welfare-relevant limits, as a way of reducing the prevalence and spread of diseases, which diminishes the need for antibiotics and ~~lowers pollution level~~contributes to achieving a good environmental status; highlights that the aquaculture sector should continue to improve farming methods in line with the most up-to-date scientific knowledge available in order to achieve better environmental results, resilience against climate change and the optimisation of resource use;

2022/02/14
Committee: PECH

2021/2189(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Reiterates that various recommendations on animal welfare do not apply to the fisheries and aquaculture sectors because of their nature;

2022/02/14
Committee: PECH

2021/2189(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Member States to continue encouraging the promotion of algae farming without neglecting the more conventional aquaculture farmed species; considers that restoring and better managing seaweed populations could be an effective way, in addition to farming algae, to combat eutrophication and remove excess carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus from water; welcomes the Commission’s intention to present a specific initiative to support algae consumption in the EU;

2022/02/14
Committee: PECH

2021/2189(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Urges the Commission and the Member States to ensure that national plans for the sustainable development of aquaculture take into account the main barriers to the development of the potential of the sector and to recognise the need to allocate space to aquaculture through appropriate spatial planning; highlights the importance of a transparent and participative mechanism, in line with Directive 2014/89/EU on maritime spatial planning, for allocating space, including to existing and new fishing grounds and aquaculture farms, to all stakeholders in an equitable manner; regrets that some Member States have yet to present to the Commission their national maritime spatial plans, despite the deadline laid down in the Directive, and urges them to present their plans as soon as possible;

2022/02/14
Committee: PECH

2021/2189(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Highlights the importance of legal certainty and investment predictability for the sustainable growth of the Union’s aquaculture sector; stresses that all of the measures adopted by the various public authorities in the Member States must help to simplify administrative deadlines and procedures, so that public administrations fulfil their requirements, resolve issues on time and avoid unnecessary delays in authorisation or licensing procedures; rejects retroactive action reducing the period of validity of licences or extensions, and calls on the Member States to safeguard the confidence and legitimate expectations of licence holders;

2022/02/14
Committee: PECH

2021/2189(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, François-Xavier BELLAMY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Stresses that the Open Method of Coordination should be further implemented to achieve coordination with national, regional and local public administrations that have competences in the aquaculture sector; considers this coordination very necessary for streamlining national legislation and providing guidance on the regulatory framework applicable to the sector; calls on the Commission to publish country- specific recommendations to provide the Member States with guidance concerning the development of EU aquaculture;

2022/02/14
Committee: PECH

2021/2189(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Stresses the importance of sustainable feed ingredients for aquaculture in the Union; considers that aquaculture ~~can only fill the fish gap if all species farmed provide a net gain in fish protein, meaning that aquaculture~~that does not remove more wild fish from the oceans for feed requirements than it produces should be promoted; stresses the need to uspromote ecologically sustainable marine proteins and oils, by-products and trimmings, other proteins and innovative solutions, such as insect meal and microalgae, and the partial replacement of marine proteins and oils with non-marine alternatives; calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote responsible and sustainable practices and increase the percentage of independently certified fishmeal and fish oil within feeds, with certification done by a credible and independent environmental and social certification scheme, such as the one by the Marine Stewardship Council, that uses low trophic index assessment criteria and the FAO code of conduct;

2022/02/14
Committee: PECH

2021/2189(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, François-Xavier BELLAMY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21a. Expresses its strongest support for innovation and advances in the breeding of new aquaculture species;

2022/02/14
Committee: PECH

2021/2189(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Calls on the Commission to work further on levelling the playing field through, notably, the restriction or even the prohibition of imports of products which don't have the same environmental and social sustainability and fish welfare standards than the ones produced in the EU, the revision of international trade agreements, including updating rules for the better implementation of aquatic food labelling; considers that, in specific cases such as caviar labelling, the legal framework on information for consumers should be revised; calls on the Commission to analyse the inclusion of sustainable aquaculture sectors in the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism in order to create incentives for European industries and EU trade partners to decarbonise their industries and therefore support both EU and global climate policies towards greenhouse-gas neutrality, and at the same time, without being discriminatory or constituting a disguised restriction on international trade;

2022/02/14
Committee: PECH

2021/2189(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, François-Xavier BELLAMY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35

35. Highlights the need to level the playing field for EU organic farmers across the Union, as well as with imported organic products, by providing the same rules, support and harmonising treatments for diseases used in organic aquaculture and organic livestock farming;

2022/02/14
Committee: PECH

2021/2189(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, François-Xavier BELLAMY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)

35 a. Recalls that the EP report "Towards a sustainable and competitive European aquaculture sector: current status and future challenges" proposes 92 actions to unlock the potential of EU aquaculture through: simplifying administrative procedures; ensuring equity in interaction with other sectors; enhancing the competitiveness of EU aquaculture within and outside our borders; improving consumer information; ensuring animal welfare, but also availability of veterinary products; pursuing better promotional campaigns and communication; supporting research and innovation; encouraging training and employment; increasing the sustainability of the EU's aquaculture sector; ensuring adequate financing through the EMFF and other structural funds; achieving a harmonious symbiosis with fisheries; urges the Commission to closely work with Member States to implement those actions.

2022/02/14
Committee: PECH

2021/2189(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)

35. Points out that the conflict between extractive fishing and aquaculture makes no sense in the current context, in which demand for marine products is rising while the pressure on wild fish populations is gradually starting to decrease in the Union, and stresses that these two activities complement one another;

2022/02/14
Committee: PECH

2021/2189(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 b (new)

35b. Stresses that cooperation between aquaculture, on the one hand, and the canning and processing sector, on the other, can generate significant added value for aquaculture products if the cooperation is carried out in synergy and promotes both activities;

2022/02/14
Committee: PECH

2021/2189(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36

36. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council ~~and~~, the Commission and the Member States.

2022/02/14
Committee: PECH

2021/2188(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 a (new)

— having regard to the Blue Fishing Ports Network initiative 4 a launched in July 2018 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), _________________ 4 a http://www.fao.org/in- action/globefish/news-events/details- news/en/c/1392282/

2021/12/15
Committee: PECH

2021/2188(INI)

Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 b (new)

— having regard to the Port of Vigo Blue Growth Strategies for 2016-2020 and 2021-20274 b, _________________ 4 b http://bluegrowthvigo.eu/

2021/12/15
Committee: PECH

2021/2188(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Recalls the critical role of ~~small- scale~~ fisheries in food security and nutrition; notes the potential conflicts between fisheries and other ~~emerging~~ sectors of the blue economy;

2021/12/10
Committee: DEVE

2021/2188(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 16 a (new)

— having regard to its resolution of 14 September 2021, Towards a stronger partnership with the EU outermost regions,

2021/12/15
Committee: PECH

2021/2188(INI)

Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the blue economy, and hence not only the fisheries and aquaculture sectors but all sectors concerned, must respect the environmental, social and economic pillars across the board in order to be considered sustainable;

2021/12/15
Committee: PECH

2021/2188(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Recalls the EU’s responsibility in global fisheries governance, which should ~~prioritise~~be to create a level playing field among all operators, taking also into account the rights of small-scale fishers and protecting their use of and control over fishing resources;

2021/12/10
Committee: DEVE

2021/2188(INI)

Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas, under SDG 14, it is imperative to conserve oceans, seas and marine resources and promote their sustainable use; while, under SDG 2, it is imperative to guarantee food security;

2021/12/15
Committee: PECH

2021/2188(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Recalls the EU’s commitment to the principle of policy coherence for development; stresses that sustainable fisheries partnership agreements ~~must~~ neither undermine local food security nor threaten small-scale fisheries in non-EU countries by not putting them in direct competition with EU vessels; calls for the EU to cooperate with its partner third countries through its bilateral or multilateral relations, so that other third countries’ distant fleets apply the same sustainability standards as the EU distant fleets calls; for the agreements to be aligned with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by increasing sectoral support and sustainability provisions on surpluses, discards and the precautionary approach;

2021/12/10
Committee: DEVE

2021/2188(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas, by proposing or imposing increasingly strict fishing legislation and standards, the EU is making it difficult for EU producers to sustainably supply as much seafood as possible to the European market; whereas this, in turn, is allowing an increase in imports by certain fleets whose social and environmental standards are not very stringent, and which often fish in the same areas as EU operators and sell their products on the same markets; whereas also, some foreign fleets that engage in IUU fishing are heavily subsidised; whereas all this affects the competitiveness of EU sectors;

2021/12/15
Committee: PECH

2021/2188(INI)

Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas the loss of marine biodiversity is having a major environmental, social and economic impact on the EU fisheries sector ~~and~~, on coastal and island communities and on the outermost regions and must therefore be reversed and biodiversity restored;

2021/12/15
Committee: PECH

2021/2188(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses that the production of fishmeal and fish oil may contributes to overfishing in developing countries; calls for mandatory due diligence measures to ensure that the whole seafood-industry supply chain is fair, fully traceable and free of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing;

2021/12/10
Committee: DEVE

2021/2188(INI)

Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Urges the EU to develop a ~~human~~fair rights-based approach towards ocean governance and the blue economy by supporting food sovereignty for local fishing communities;

2021/12/10
Committee: DEVE

2021/2188(INI)

Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. ~~Welcomes~~Takes note of the objective of protecting 30 % of the world’s oceans by 2030, but warns that it should not be done at the expense of food security, fishermen and aquaculture producers, indigenous peoples and local communities;

2021/12/10
Committee: DEVE

2021/2188(INI)

Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas a proposal for legally binding nature restoration targets needs to be drawn up under the EU biodiversity strategy for 2030 in line with the objective of protecting 30% of the EU maritime area, of which 10% should be subject to strict conservation measures;deleted

2021/12/15
Committee: PECH

2021/2188(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10

~~10. Calls for the EU to act on the detrimental impacts of fishing techniques such as bottom-contacting gears or fish aggregating devices by limiting their use.~~deleted

2021/12/10
Committee: DEVE

2021/2188(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)

Na. whereas ports play an essential role in achieving the objectives of the sustainable blue economy and increasing the sustainability of ports will promote the sustainable development of coastal communities;

2021/12/15
Committee: PECH

2021/2188(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

~~3. Calls on the Commission to establish legally binding instruments to make the blue economy ‘greener’ and to align it with the overall objectives of the European Green Deal;~~deleted

2021/12/15
Committee: PECH

2021/2188(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses the importance of establishing bilateral partnership arrangements with third countries ~~that~~, provided that, among other factors, they enshrine labour standards guaranteeing a safe working environment and decent pay for all those working in the fisheries and aquaculture sectors, as well as other sectors of the blue economy: stresses that bilateral partnership arrangements ~~should~~ always seek to respect the highest environmental and social sustainability criteria, while some fleets from outside the EU fishing in the same areas and exporting fisheries products to the European market do not have sustainability considerations, or have very few, which negatively affects the competitiveness of European fishers;

2021/12/15
Committee: PECH

2021/2188(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Considers that international ocean governance should adopt an intersectoral approach to ~~environmental issues~~the blue economy, ensuring equal treatment for all maritime economic activities and a level playing field; urges the Union to work together with international partners to combat overfishing, overcapacity and illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing;

2021/12/15
Committee: PECH

2021/2188(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Emphasises that the blue economy comprises multiple activities over and above the traditional ones, that the development of new activities should always be accompanied by impact studies and that a transparent scientific approach as well as effective consultations and equal participation from all the affected sectors must be adopted to facilitate the sustainable organisation of these activities within the blue economy;

2021/12/15
Committee: PECH

2021/2188(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Salutes the Port of Vigo for being the pioneering port in the EU by implementing the European Blue Growth Strategy;

2021/12/15
Committee: PECH

2021/2188(INI)

Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8b. Welcomes the FAO Blue Fishing Ports Network initiative, which is aimed at drawing up guidelines on best international practice for fishing ports that are in the process of transitioning to blue economy models, in order to improve their sustainability by protecting the environment and promoting the social and economic benefits; supports the FAO establishing a permanent office in the Port of Vigo to develop and manage a Global Blue Ports Network;

2021/12/15
Committee: PECH

2021/2188(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support the sustainable development of small-scale fishing and aquaculture value chains by promoting the harmonisation of selective, non-destructive and energy- efficient fishing ~~methods~~and aquaculture methods, facilitating knowledge exchange with EU research community and decreasing the administrative burden;

2021/12/15
Committee: PECH

2021/2188(INI)

Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Notes with concern that the growth of new blue economy activities is resulting in to increased competition for space ~~at the expense of~~which could be detrimental to more traditional activities, such as fishing and aquaculture; calls, therefore, for a strategy to promote interaction between the different maritime and terrestrial blue economy activities in a way that will benefit them all;

2021/12/15
Committee: PECH

2021/2188(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Considers that greater job security and better earnings in the fisheries and aquaculture sector are essential if it is to attract newcomers, thereby ensuring its rejuvenation and continued survival;

2021/12/15
Committee: PECH

2021/2188(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Notes the very aged state of the EU artisanal and small-scale fleets, particularly in the ORs, the vessels of which, being of a very high average age, are unsafe both for the people working on them and for the catches themselves, reiterating the need for EMFAF support for the purchase of new boats, without this resulting in an increase in catches, respecting maximum sustainable yields, and thus increasing their environmental performance;

2021/12/15
Committee: PECH

2021/2188(INI)

Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Stresses that, in order to improve the competitiveness and economic performance of the fisheries and aquaculture sectors, it is necessary to guarantee a level playing field for EU operators in a global economy, and to focus on vocational training, lifelong learning, counselling services and the dissemination of technical and scientific knowledge and innovative practices;

2021/12/15
Committee: PECH

2021/2188(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Welcomes the role of women in sustainable fishing and aquaculture value chains and accordingly urges that they be guaranteed decent working conditions, as well as visibility and representation in decision- making structures and processes;

2021/12/15
Committee: PECH

2021/2188(INI)

Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Regrets the fact that the potential of the blue economy has not been sufficiently taken into account when drawing up and evaluating national recovery and resilience plans funded by Next Generation EU;

2021/12/15
Committee: PECH

2021/2188(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Underlines the need to establish a level playing field with imported products from third countries, safeguarding that all fisheries and aquaculture products that are consumed in the EU, are produced by sustainable food systems and comply with the objectives of the Green Deal and farm to fork strategy and calls on the Commission to take all necessary steps to secure a fair competition environment;

2021/12/15
Committee: PECH

2021/2188(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3

~~Green~~Blue transition

2021/12/15
Committee: PECH

2021/2188(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3 a (new)

Calls on the Commission and the Council to create a support instrument similar to POSEI for fisheries, in order to mitigate the effects of the insularity of the ORs;

2021/12/15
Committee: PECH

2021/2188(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3 b (new)

Highlights the potential for sustainable use of the EU’s maritime dimension in the Atlantic, which requires more balanced investment in its islands, ORs and coastal ports, as well as the expansion of many of their berths and an increase in their storage capacity and cargo-handling equipment, which are very important for fisheries and aquaculture products;

2021/12/15
Committee: PECH

2021/2188(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19a. In view of the fragile position of the ORs, calls on the Commission to provide financial support for the creation of infrastructure capable of collecting and treating waste transported by sea currents, particularly plastics;

2021/12/15
Committee: PECH

2021/2188(INI)

Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Gabriel MATO, Younous OMARJEE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Considers that the aquaculture sector should ~~limit~~control fish stocking densities as a way of reducing diseases and their spread, diminishing the need for antibiotics and lowering pollution levels;

2021/12/15
Committee: PECH

Motion for a resolution
Recital A f (new)

A f. whereas the role of aquatic food producers and related industries is vital for the society and for the communities they support1a; _________________ 1a See EP Resolution on "Fishers for the future: attracting a new generation of workers to the fishing industry and generating employment in coastal communities” (P9_TA(2021)0386)

2023/03/15
Committee: PECH

Motion for a resolution
Recital A h (new)

Ah. whereas the European Parliament has repeatedly called for associations such as guilds to be recognised under EU law and to be eligible to receive financial aid on an equal footing with producer organisations; whereas Parliament has requested the Commission to put forward an initiative in this regard;

2023/03/15
Committee: PECH

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

D a. Da. whereas for outermost regions, being in their large majority islands, according to Article349 of the Treaty, the EU shall adopt specific measures aimed, in particular, at laying down the conditions of application of EU common policies to those regions, in particular in areas such as customs and trade policies, fiscal policy, free zones, agriculture and fisheries policies, conditions for supply of raw materials and essential consumer goods, State aids and conditions of access to structural funds and to horizontal Union programmes; whereas specific measures in all those areas contribute to strengthening economic, social and territorial cohesion in the EU.

2022/01/03
Committee: REGI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Stresses the common need to defend global democracy against rising authoritarianism, also within the transatlantic community, by, inter alia, fostering inclusive social and economic policies that address the root causes of inequalities and fighting extreme populist and nationalist views that provide a fertile ground for ~~far-right~~radical movements to thrive;

2021/05/31
Committee: AFET

Add the following to the core network: - Zaragoza-Lleida-Tarragona (freight/conventional)

2023/01/25
Committee: TRAN

2021/0420(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – part 17/23

Add the following to the core network: - Orense- Santiago (passenger rail/ ≥ 200 km/h)

2023/01/25
Committee: TRAN

2021/0420(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – part 16/23 and part 17/23

Add the following to the core network: - Santiago – Vigo (rail freight / ≥ 200 km/h) - Port of Bahía de Cádiz

2023/01/25
Committee: TRAN

2021/0420(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – part 16/23 and part 17/23

Add the following to the comprehensive network: - Astorga – Zamora – Salamanca – Plasencia (passenger and freight rail / Conventional/New Constr.)

2023/01/25
Committee: TRAN

2021/0420(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – part 16/23 and part 17/23

Add the following to the comprehensive network: - Granada – Motril (passenger and freight rail / Conventional / New Constr.)

2023/01/25
Committee: TRAN

2021/0420(COD)

Add the following to the core network: - Medina del Campo – Salamanca – Fuentes de Oñoro (passenger rail / ≥ 200 km/h) - Madrid – Adanero – Tordesillas – Benavente – Ponferrada – Lugo – A Coruña (Road) - Astorga – León – Carrión de los Condes – Burgos (Road) - Port of Bahía de Cádiz - Vigo - Porto (passenger rail/ ≥ 200 km/h)

2023/01/25
Committee: TRAN

2021/0420(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – part 17/23

Add the following to the core network: - Vigo - Porto (passenger rail/ ≥ 200 km/h)

2023/01/25
Committee: TRAN

Node name: Castellón Maritime port: Co~~mprehensiv~~re

2023/01/25
Committee: TRAN

2021/0420(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex 2 - table - section ES

Node name: Ferrol Maritime port: Co~~mprehensiv~~re

2023/01/25
Committee: TRAN

2021/0420(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex 2 - table - section ES

Node name: Gandía Maritime port: Comprehensive

2023/01/25
Committee: TRAN

2021/0420(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex 2 - table - section ES

Node name: Santander Maritime port: Co~~mprehensiv~~re

2023/01/25
Committee: TRAN

2021/0420(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex 2 - table - section ES

Node name: Vigo Maritime port: Co~~mprehensiv~~re

2023/01/25
Committee: TRAN

Massimiliano SALINI, José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Liudas MAŽYLIS, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Gabriel MATO, Iuliu WINKLER, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Arnaud DANJEAN, Christophe HANSEN, Seán KELLY, Angelika WINZIG

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10

(10) Existing mechanisms to address the risk of carbon leakage in sectors or sub- sectors at risk of carbon leakage are the transitional free allocation of EU ETS allowances and financial measures to compensate for indirect emission costs incurred from GHG emission costs passed on in electricity prices respectively laid down in Articles 10a(6) and 10b of Directive 2003/87/EC. ~~However, free allocat~~Existing carbon leakage measures are based on strict benchmarks established by the best- performing installations. These measures also represents an incentive to reduce emissions under the EU ETS w~~eakens the price signal that the system provides~~hile also providing a carbon price signal for emissions above the benchmark level; they have proven so foar t~~he installations receiving it compared to full auctioning and thus affects the incentives for investment into further abatement of emissions~~o be effective in reducing the risk of carbon leakage, although in the context of lower carbon prices than those experienced recently and those forecasted by 2030.

2021/12/16
Committee: INTA

2021/0214(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11

(11) The CBAM seeks to ~~replace~~strengthen carbon leakage protection in view of higher EU climate ambitions by 2030 and thereafter replace progressively these existing mechanisms by addressing the risk of carbon leakage in a different way, namely by ensuring equivalent carbon pricing for imports and domestic products~~. To ensure a gradual transition from the current system of free allowances to the CBAM, the CBAM should be progressively phased in while free allowances in sectors covered by the CBAM are phased out~~ and by ensuring that EU products exported in the global market are not replaced by more carbon intensive products, which would undermine the objective of reducing global emissions. To ensure a gradual transition from the current system of free allowances to the CBAM, free allowances should only be phased out once the CBAM regulation has proven its effectiveness in terms of protection from the risk of carbon leakage both for imports and exports, not before 2030 and only following a three years test phase running from 2026 to 2028 during which the effectiveness of the mesure will be throughly assessed by the Commission. The combined and transitional application of EU ETS allowances allocated free of charge and of the CBAM should in no case result in more favourable treatment for Union goods compared to goods imported into the customs territory of the Union.

2021/12/16
Committee: INTA

2021/0214(COD)

Massimiliano SALINI, José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Liudas MAŽYLIS, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Gabriel MATO, Iuliu WINKLER, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Arnaud DANJEAN, Jörgen WARBORN, Seán KELLY, Angelika WINZIG

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12 a (new)

(12 a) While the surrenderingof CBAM certificates for EU importers addresses the risk of carbon leakage on the EU market, it is essential that the CBAM would also seek to reduce the possibility of European low-carbon exports being replaced by carbon-intensive items on third country markets or by goods that are not subject to equivalent climate policy and carbon costs, undermining the goal of lowering global emissions. It is therefore necessary to continue addressing the risk of carbon leakageassociated with European exports to third countries that have not yet limited or priced GHG emissions at the same levels as the EU.

2021/12/16
Committee: INTA

2021/0214(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12 b (new)

(12 b) This Regulation does not apply to goods exported from the EU and therefore does not address carbon leakage associated with exports. Consequently, the Commission should monitor and evaluate the mechanism’s impact on export markets and, if the assessment of the effectiveness of the CBAM in tackling carbon leakage on the EU market is positive, after the three year test period, the Commission shall present a report to the European Parliament and Council accompanied with a legislative proposal to address the carbon leakage risk on export markets while starting the free allocation phase out as set out in the ETS directive.

2021/12/16
Committee: INTA

2021/0214(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12 c (new)

(12 c) If European industries producing goods subject to the CBAM face significant difficulties as a result of its implementation, the Commission develops an in-depth assessment in close collaboration with the industrial secotrs. This assessment should be completed as soon as possible to determine whether the mechanism is effective and practible.

2021/12/16
Committee: INTA

2021/0214(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13

(13) As an instrument to prevent carbon leakage and reduce GHG emissions the CBAM should ensure that imported products are subject to a regulatory system that applies carbon costs equivalent to the ones that otherwise would have been borne under the EU ETS. The CBAM is a climate measure which should prevent the risk of carbon leakage and support the Union’s increased ambition on climate mitigation, while ensuring WTO compatibility. However, the CBAM should be combined with rules addressing the exports component, such as the implementation of full or partial export duty exemptions, in order to fully eliminate concerns of carbon leakage and protect the competitiveness of European exported goods. Such a mechanism would be in line with the rules provided by the WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (ASCM).

2021/12/16
Committee: INTA

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23 a (new)

(23 a) Given the unique nature of the CBAM and the need forclose EU coordination, a CBAM authority at the EU level should be established to properly implement and monitor the provisions contained in this regulation.

2021/12/16
Committee: INTA

2021/0214(COD)

Massimiliano SALINI, José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Liudas MAŽYLIS, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Gabriel MATO, Iuliu WINKLER, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Arnaud DANJEAN, Christophe HANSEN

Massimiliano SALINI, José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Liudas MAŽYLIS, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Gabriel MATO, Iuliu WINKLER, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Angelika WINZIG

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 6

6. The Commission is empowered to adopt implementing acts concerning detailed rules regarding the elements of the calculation methods set out in Annex III, including determining system boundaries of production processes, emission factors, installation-specific values of actual emissions and default values and their respective application to individual goods as well as laying down methods to ensure the reliability of data on the basis of which the default values shall be determined, including the level of detail and the verification of the data. Where necessary, those acts shall provide that the default values can be adapted to particular areas, regions or countries to take into account specific objective factors such as geography, natural resources, market conditions, prevailing energy sources, or industrial processes. The implementing acts shall build upon existing legislation for the verification of emissions and activity data for installations covered by Directive 2003/87/EC, in particular Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2018/2067.

2021/12/16
Committee: INTA

2021/0214(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – introductory part

3. The Commission is empowered to adopt implementing acts concerning the principles of verification referred to in paragraph 1 as regards the possibility to waive the obligation for the verifier to visit the installation where relevant goods are produced and the obligation to set thresholds for deciding whether misstatements or non-conformities are material and concerning the supporting documentation needed for the verification report. Provisions laid down in such implementing acts shall be equivalent to the provisions set in Regulation 2018/2067.

2021/12/16
Committee: INTA

2021/0214(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2

2. The authorised declarant shall keep records of the documentation, certified by a~~n independent person,~~ verifier accredited pursuant to art. 18 and in line with the competences established in art. 8(1) concerning the verification of embedded emissions. The accredited verifier is required to demonstrate that the declared embedded emissions were subject to a carbon price in the country of origin of the goods and keep evidence of the proof of the actual payment for that carbon price which should not have been subject to an export rebate or any other form of compensation on exportation.

2021/12/16
Committee: INTA

2021/0214(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1

1. The Commission shall~~, upon request by a~~ register the information on operators of an installations located in a third countr~~y, register the information on that operator and on its~~ies and on those installations in a central database referred to in Article 14(4).

2021/12/16
Committee: INTA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

1. A central CBAM authority at the EU level is established for the purpose of implementing and managing this Regulation.Its composition and tasks shall be established by way of separate Regulation. Each Member State shall designate the national competent authority to carry out the obligations and cooperate with the EU CBAM authority under this Regulation and inform the ~~Commission~~EU CBAM authority thereof.

2021/12/16
Committee: INTA

2021/0214(COD)

Massimiliano SALINI, José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Liudas MAŽYLIS, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Gabriel MATO, Iuliu WINKLER, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Seán KELLY, Angelika WINZIG

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1

The Commission shall make available to the Member States a list of all competent national authorities and publish this information in the Official Journal of the European Union.

2021/12/16
Committee: INTA

2021/0214(COD)

Massimiliano SALINI, José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Liudas MAŽYLIS, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Gabriel MATO, Iuliu WINKLER, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Arnaud DANJEAN, Seán KELLY, Angelika WINZIG

2021/0214(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 2

2. In addition to paragraph 1, a national accreditation body may on request accredit a person as a verifier under this Regulation after checking the documentation attesting its capacity to apply the verification principles referred to Annex V to perform the obligations of control of the embedded emissions established in Articles 8, 10 and 38.deleted

2021/12/16
Committee: INTA

2021/0214(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 3

~~3. The Commission is empowered to adopt~~ delegated acts in accordance with Article 28 for the accreditation referred to in paragraph 2, specifying conditions for the control and oversight of accredited verifiers, for the withdrawal of accreditation and for mutual recognition and peer evaluation of the accreditation bodies.

2021/12/16
Committee: INTA

2021/0214(COD)

1. The c~~ompetent~~entral and national authorityies may review the CBAM declaration within the period ending with the ~~fourth~~ year after the year in which the declaration should have been submitted. The review may consist in verifying the information provided in the CBAM declaration on the basis of the information communicated by the customs authorities in accordance with Article 25(2) and any other relevant evidence, and on the basis of any audit deemed necessary, including at the premises of the authorised declarant.

2021/12/16
Committee: INTA

2021/0214(COD)

Massimiliano SALINI, José Manuel GARCÍA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL, Liudas MAŽYLIS, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Gabriel MATO, Iuliu WINKLER, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Arnaud DANJEAN, Seán KELLY, Angelika WINZIG

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – point 1 (new)

(1) The national competent authority shall inform the EU CBAM authority of the quantity and installation source of the exports. The EU CBAM authority shall inform the Commission of the data received so as to allow the Commissionto to make adjustments to the allowances to be surrendered for the intallation source of the exports.

2021/12/16
Committee: INTA

2021/0214(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 2

2. Where a CBAM declaration in accordance with Article 6 has not been submitted, the competent authority of the Member State of establishment of the authorised declarant shall assess the CBAM obligations of that declarant on the basis of the information at its disposal and calculate the total number of CBAM certificates due at the latest by the 31 December of the ~~fourth~~ year following that when the CBAM declaration should have been submitted.

2021/12/16
Committee: INTA

2021/0214(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. In case of repeated failure to surrender a number of CBAM certificates corresponding to the emissions embedded in goods imported during the previous year, or in case of submission of false information in the CBAM declaration, an authorized declarant, and any of its related parties, maybe automatically excluded from the register for a given period from the date of exclusion. The respective verifier – and any of its related parties - who has certified the accuracy of the information in the CBAM declaration should have its certification withdrawn by the central CBAM authority.

2021/12/16
Committee: INTA

2021/0214(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 5

5. ~~Member States~~The central CBAM authority may apply administrative or criminal sanctions for failure to comply with the CBAM legislation in ~~accordance with their national rules in~~ addition to penalties referred to in paragraphs 2 and 4a. Such sanctions shall be effective, proportionate and dissuasive.

2021/12/16
Committee: INTA

2021/0214(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 2

2. Practices of circumvention include situations where a change in the pattern of trade in relation to goods included in the scope of this Regulation whether slightly modified or not, stems from a practice, process or work, has insufficient due cause or economic justification other than avoiding obligations as laid down in this Regulation and consist in replacing those goods with slightly modified products, which are not included in the list of goods in Annex I but belong to a sector included in the scope of this Regulation.

2021/0214(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – point 6

6. Adaptation of default values based on region specific features Default values can be adapted to particular areas, regions of countries where specific characteristics prevail in terms of objective factors such as geography, natural resources, market conditions, energy mix, or industrial production. When data adapted to those specific local characteristics are available and can define more targeted default values, the latter may be used instead of default values based on EU installations. Where declarants for goods originating in a third country, or a group of third countries can demonstrate, on the basis of reliable data, that alternative region specific adaptation of default values are lower than the default values defined by the Commission the former can be used.deleted

2021/12/16
Committee: INTA

2021/0213(CNS)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA

Proposal for a directive
Recital 20 a (new)

(20 a) The introduction of a minimum level of taxation on fuel would put the EU fisheries sector — and especially artisanal vessels — at a competitive disadvantage compared to third countries with lower prices and taxes. It would also lead to unfair treatment between territories, as large ships can travel long distances and thus refuel in ports where the price of fuel is lower. It would also cause price increases for the final consumers, particularly for fresh products. That would run counter to health recommendations to increase the consumption of fish given not only its high nutritional quality and therefore health benefits, but also its reduced environmental footprint. Finally, it would lead to the unprecedented large-scale bankruptcy of many fishing enterprises, especially small-scale ones, and consequently to the loss of a large number of jobs, with serious repercussions for the Union's fishing communities.

2022/04/08
Committee: ECON

2021/0213(CNS)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA

Proposal for a directive
Recital 22 a (new)

(22 a) In order to achieve the emission reduction targets set by the Union for 2030 and the climate neutrality objective for 2050 at the latest, it is necessary to reduce GHG emissions in all sectors, moving towards a fiscal framework that penalises fossil fuels and encourages the switch to clean fuels. However, this urgent change must be made taking into account the availability of alternatives in each of the affected sectors.

2022/04/08
Committee: ECON

2021/0213(CNS)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA

Proposal for a directive
Recital 22 b (new)

(22 b) According to the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries' Annual Economic Report 202132 a, the Union fishing fleet has reduced its energy consumption by more than 15% in the last decade. However, the fisheries sector faces serious obstacles to decarbonisation due to the lack of alternatives in the short term and existing fishing capacity limits. The introduction of a minimum level of fuel taxation in the fisheries sector would not only not solve these obstacles, but would have a serious impact on the competitiveness of the Union fleet, especially of the small-scale coastal fleet, leading to reduced self- sufficiency, higher consumer prices and the consequent increase in emissions due to increased imports. It should be stressed that fisheries and aquaculture products are among the food products with the lowest carbon footprint and that the EU is the world’s largest market for fish, importing 60 % of what it consumes. The Union fishing sector should therefore continue to benefit from the exemptions provided for in Directive 2003/96/EC of the Council. _________________ 32 a 2021 Annual Economic Report on the EU Fishing Fleet (STECF 21-08).

2022/04/08
Committee: ECON

2021/0213(CNS)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA

Proposal for a directive
Recital 23

(23) Fuel used for waterborne navigation, inexcluding fishing, should also be taxed, and the Member States party to international agreements providing for the exemption of that fuel, have to, by the date of the application of this Directive, ensure they eliminate the incompatibilities. It is necessary to allow for a different level of taxation to be applied to the use of energy products and electricity for intra-EU waterborne regular service navigation~~, fishing~~ and freight transport and their respective at berth activities. Considering the specificity of those uses, the minimum levels of taxation should be lower than the ones applicable to general motor fuel use. In order to provide an incentive to the use of sustainable alternative fuels and electricity, such fuels and electricity should be exempted from taxation for ten years. Energy products and electricity used for the remaining intra-EU waterborne navigation should be subject to the standard levels of taxation applicable to motor fuels and electricity in the Member States.

2022/04/08
Committee: ECON

2021/0213(CNS)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA

Proposal for a directive
Recital 23 a (new)

(23a) In the past 10 years, the fishing industry has made great efforts to considerably reduce fuel consumption and therefore greenhouse gas emissions.

2022/04/08
Committee: ECON

2021/0213(CNS)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA

Proposal for a directive
Recital 23 b (new)

(23b) Before including fisheries in the taxation of energy products, a comprehensive impact assessment should be carried out, which also takes account of the socio-economic repercussions for fisheries and coastal communities.

2022/04/08
Committee: ECON

2021/0213(CNS)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA

Proposal for a directive
Recital 24

(24) For extra-EU air navigation, without prejudice to international obligations, ~~and~~ for extra-EU waterborne navigation, ~~including~~and for fishing, Member States may exempt or apply the same levels of intra-EU taxation, according to the type of activity.

2022/04/08
Committee: ECON

2021/0213(CNS)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA

Proposal for a directive
Recital 27

(27) Targeted exemptions or reductions in the tax level may prove necessary to incentivise the achievement of environmental protection objectives and improvements in energy efficiency of the Union productive sector.

2022/04/08
Committee: ECON

2021/0213(CNS)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA

Proposal for a directive
Recital 28

(28) Targeted exemptions or reductions in the tax level may prove necessary to tackle the social impact of energy taxes. An exemption from taxation may temporarily prove necessary to protect vulnerable households.

2022/04/08
Committee: ECON

2021/0213(CNS)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA

Proposal for a directive
Article 13 a (new)

Article 13a In addition to the general provisions set out in Directive 92/12/EEC on exempt uses of excisable products, and without prejudice to other EU law provisions, States shall exempt energy products supplied for use as fuel by fishing vessels in EU waters, under conditions which they shall lay down for the purpose of ensuring the correct and straightforward application of such exemptions and of preventing any evasion, avoidance or abuse. For the purposes of this Article, ‘fishing vessel’ shall mean any vessel as defined in point (4) of Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 1380/2013 of the European Parliament and the Council40 a. _________________ 40 a Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 on the Common Fisheries Policy, amending Council Regulations (EC) No 1954/2003 and (EC) No 1224/2009 and repealing Council Regulations (EC) No 2371/2002 and (EC) No 639/2004 and Council Decision 2004/585/EC (OJ L 354, 28.12.2013, p. 22).

2022/04/08
Committee: ECON

2021/0213(CNS)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA

Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

1. Without prejudice to Article 5, Member states shall apply, as a single use, under fiscal control not less than minimum levels of taxation as set out in Tables B and D of Annex I to energy products supplied for use as fuel to vessels, and to electricity used directly for charging electric vessels, for the purposes of intra-EU waterborne regular service navigation~~, fishing~~ and freight transport.

2022/04/08
Committee: ECON

2021/0213(CNS)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA

Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point e a (new)

(ea) energy products supplied for use as fuel by fishing vessels in Union waters. For the purposes of this Article, ‘fishing vessel’ shall mean any vessel as defined in point (4) of Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 1380/2013 of the European Parliament and the Council40 b. _________________ 40 b Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 on the Common Fisheries Policy, amending Council Regulations (EC) No 1954/2003 and (EC) No 1224/2009 and repealing Council Regulations (EC) No 2371/2002 and (EC) No 639/2004 and Council Decision 2004/585/EC (OJ L 354, 28.12.2013, p. 22).

2022/04/08
Committee: ECON

2021/0210(COD)

Pablo ARIAS ECHEVERRÍA, Gabriel MATO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5

(5) The rules laid down in this Regulation should apply in a non- discriminatory manner to all ships regardless of their flag. For reasons of coherence with Union and international rules in the area of maritime transport, this Regulation should not apply to warships, naval auxiliaries, fish-catching or fish- processing ships, or government ships used for non-commercial purposes or voyages to and from EU outermost regions.

2022/04/28
Committee: TRAN

2021/0210(COD)

Pablo ARIAS ECHEVERRÍA, Gabriel MATO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2

This Regulation does not apply to: (a) warships, naval auxiliaries, fish- catching or fish-processing ships, wooden ships of a primitive build, ships not propelled by mechanical means, or government ships used for non-commercial purposes, (b) voyages to and from outermost regions.

2022/04/28
Committee: TRAN

2021/0058(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Member States with vessels fishing for yellowfin tunas in the Area shall, using the appropriate IOTC report template, submit to the Commission by 1st February of each year a list of all fishing vessels flying their flag which have fished for yellowfin tuna in the Area during the previous year.

2021/07/20
Committee: PECH

2021/0058(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 2

2. The Commission shall forward this information referred to in paragraphs 1 and 1a to the IOTC Secretariat before the 15 February of each year.

2021/07/20
Committee: PECH

2020/2273(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Recalls th~~at the damage to the planet’s biodiversity is almost at the point of no return and that~~e importance of halting biodiversity loss on a global level, since global biodiversity loss is also one of the drivers of zoonotic pathogens ~~such as COVID-19~~; highlights the scientific evidence on the role of trade in global biodiversity loss, in particular with regard to t~~rade in minerals, biomass and certain~~he wildlife trade and to a certain extent trade in minerals, unsustainably sourced biomass and certain unsustainably produced agricultural commodities, and biodiversity loss due to the climate change, global land-use changes, invasive alien species, ~~over~~unsustainable exploitation of resources and pollution;

2021/03/01
Committee: INTA

2020/2273(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Emphasises that, in order to allow level playing field on international stage, it is important that the EU and Global Biodiversity Framework under the CBD (Convention on Biological Diversity) have the same level of ambition, especially when it comes to the level of land and sea protection targets; underlines that the updated zero draft of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, which takes into account the outcomes of the second meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, doesn’t include reference to a strict protection; therefore, calls the Commission to ensure that any land protection target in the EU is flexible enough to allow implementation to take into account the precise conditions and opportunities of each Member States and rights of land and forest owners, with strict protection being a voluntary option;

2021/03/01
Committee: INTA

2020/2273(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Recalls that trade agreements must ensure that the parties involved participate actively in promoting sustainable development principles; international standards that are in line with European environmental and climate ambitions for sustainable growth must also be guaranteed; in addition, in order to ensure a global transition to sustainable food systems, these agreements should make the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and compliance to this as essential and binding elements;

2021/03/01
Committee: INTA

2020/2273(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Stresses that the future Open Strategic Autonomy Strategy should help to develop fair competition across all operators in international trade and to ensure coherence between different EU policies and initiatives, including Biodiversity strategy, while promoting all aspects of sustainability and extend the benefits of trade to farm level;

2021/03/01
Committee: INTA

2020/2273(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Stresses the importance of systematically including a biodiversity dimension to all sustainable impact assessments (SIAs) that follow a robust methodology, as suggested by available Commission studies, and to consistently factor i~~n biodiversity issu~~t into all EU policies; requests that the Commission secure adequate funding for carrying out such analyses on biodiversity~~; calls for SIAs to be launched as~~ and facilitate the deployment thereof for innovation in this field; calls for sustainability impact to be given more consideration as an important part of the scoping exercise phase on future free trade agreements and for them to be regularly updated as negotiations develop in order to adequately identify and address possible risks as early as possible, and to shape relevant bilateral commitments outlined in the negotiations; stresses the importance of systematically conducting regular ex post sustainable impact assessments to ensure consistency with the EU’s international commitments on biodiversity; calls for trade and sustainable development chapters to include time- bound roadmaps that provide verifiable commitments and objectives, which are to be regularly monitored by ex post SIAs ~~and for the lowering of (non- )tariff barriers be made conditional thereon; invites the Commission to update existing chapters accordingly~~;

2021/03/01
Committee: INTA

2020/2273(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Considers that the EU’s trade policy and green diplomacy should aim to ~~phase out fossil fuels and~~introduce measures to phase in energy transition, encouraging the use of low or zero-emission technologies and eliminating environmentally harmful subsidies as a matter of urgency in accordance with the commitments taken at the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh in 2009; invites the Commission to agree on a roadmap with each trade partner covered by a trade agreement, with milestones in place, and to show leadership in relevant international forums;

2021/03/01
Committee: INTA

2020/2273(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Urges the EU to adopt a whitelist of endangered species to efficiently combat the illegal trade thereof, to improve the training of its customs ~~officials~~and other officials with regard to biodiversity in and to support the establishment of a mechanism to prohibit the export of nationally protected endangered species in their countries of origin;

2021/03/01
Committee: INTA

2020/2273(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Calls on the Commission to create a centralised system of data and statistical analysis supported by Eurostat and EU statistical agencies in order to be able to obtain more detailed ecosystem inventories;

2021/03/01
Committee: INTA

2020/2273(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Stresses that access to up-to-date technologies is a key factor in keeping European agriculture competitive on a global market and in maintaining European high standards;

2021/03/01
Committee: INTA

2020/2273(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9b. Notes that the EU internal market is the world’s biggest importer and exporter of agri-food products; is convinced that the EU should use this position to set the benchmark in terms of standards for sustainable food systems, based on the precautionary principle, environmental protection and animal welfare; an EU Promotion Policy including all EU agricultural products can actively contribute to this benchmark setting on the sustainability of agricultural products;

2021/03/01
Committee: INTA

2020/2273(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9b. Emphasizes that the limitations and obligations that European producers must adhere to should also apply and be regularly monitored for the imports coming into the EU; in this sense, considers it should become a non- negotiable factor in free trade negotiations;

2021/03/01
Committee: INTA

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Citation 2 a (new)

- having regard to its position adopted at first reading on 4 April 2019 with a view to the adoption of Regulation (EU) .../... of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund and repealing Regulation (EU) No 508/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council,

2021/02/04
Committee: PECH

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Citation 2 b (new)

- having regard to the Council conclusions of 29 October 2020 on the Farm to Fork Strategy,

2021/02/04
Committee: PECH

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Citation 2 c (new)

- having regard to the Commission’s proposal of 18 January 2018 for a Council Directive amending Directive 2006/112/EC as regards rates of value added tax,

2021/02/04
Committee: PECH

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Stresses that farming accounts for 1% of global greenhouse gas emissions; calls on the Commission to step up trade policy with a view to improving cooperation with third countries and to undertake ambitious commitments similar to those established in the Farm to Fork Strategy with the aim of contributing to the global effort to combat climate change and keeping European farming competitive;

2021/02/09
Committee: INTA

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital -A (new)

-A. whereas the aim of the Farm to Fork Strategy is to contribute to the European climate change agenda, protect the environment, ensure the products’ position in the value chain, and encourage the consumption of sustainable and healthy foods;

2021/02/04
Committee: PECH

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that the EU internal market is the world’s biggest importer and exporter of agri-food products; is convinced that the EU should use this position to set the benchmark in terms of standards for sustainable food systems, based on the precautionary principle, environmental protection and animal welfare; stresses that an EU promotion policy that includes all agri-food products may actively help to set this benchmark with a view to improving the sustainability of production and global consumption;

2021/02/09
Committee: INTA

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas marketing standards in the EU, including environmental sustainability and social standards, are very high; whereas the EU is importing fishery and aquaculture products that have lower environmental or social standards, to the detriment of EU producers' competitivity.

2021/02/04
Committee: PECH

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the objectives of the common fisheries policy (CFP) include supplying the Union market with foods of high nutritional value, reducing the Union market’s dependence on food imports and ensuring that foods reach consumers at reasonable prices;

2021/02/04
Committee: PECH

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls on the Commission to provide coherence and flexibility so that the measures and objectives set out in the Farm to Fork Strategy are tailored to the common agriculture and fisheries policies, trade policy, the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, and other related EU policies and strategies;

2021/02/09
Committee: INTA

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas fish has been described as ‘the perfect protein’ because it is the animal protein with the smallest carbon footprint and the lowest environmental impact since no antibiotics, pesticides or artificial feeds are needed for its production;

2021/02/04
Committee: PECH

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Stresses that the Commission should base its legislative proposals on scientifically sound ex-ante impact assessments that describe the methods used to calculate the targets, along with the baselines and reference periods of each target, after consultation with the Member States; in this regard, the cumulative effects of the legislative proposals should be taken into account;

2021/02/09
Committee: INTA

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Believes that sustainable production should become a key characteristic of EU agri-food products, expanding the concept of quality to social and environmental aspects; acknowledges European farmers' commitment to offering the highest production standards in the world and also highlights the need for the EU institutions to provide them with the support that they need;

2021/02/09
Committee: INTA

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)

Ac. whereas more than half the adult population of the Union is overweight, contributing to a high prevalence of diet- related diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, and increasing healthcare costs;

2021/02/04
Committee: PECH

2020/2260(INI)

Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)

Ad. whereas fishers’ associations, such as guilds, are key players in the food system of some Member States, where they operate as not-for-profit public law and social economy entities representing the fisheries sector and collaborating with the public administration, performing functions of general interest, to the benefit of sea fishing and workers in the fisheries sector, and business functions, marketing products and providing advisory and management services;

2021/02/04
Committee: PECH

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Believes that sustainable production should become a key characteristic of EU agri-food products, expanding the concept of quality to social and environmental aspects, along with the sustainability of farmers' income;

2021/02/09
Committee: INTA

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls on the Commission to promote primary-sector access to new technologies as a fundamental factor in supporting the competitiveness of EU farming on the global market, along with maintaining high production standards;

2021/02/09
Committee: INTA

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Expresses disappointment at the lack of ~~prominence and ambition of the fisheries and aquaculture sector in the Farm to Fork~~relevance of the fisheries and aquaculture sector in the Farm to Fork Strategy presented by the Commission; urges the Commission to pay due attention to the specific features of the fisheries and aquaculture sector in any future legislative proposals, strategies or guidelines it may present as a result of this Strategy;

2021/02/04
Committee: PECH

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on the Commission, with a view to protecting animal and plant health in European farming and preventing pests and diseases entering the EU, to step up control mechanisms both at origin and at borders in trade with third countries;

2021/02/09
Committee: INTA

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Stresses that promoting healthy and sustainable diets, as well as the Union’s climate change strategy, should privilege EU fisheries and aquaculture products, as they are an important source of protein with a small carbon footprint and a crucial component of a healthy diet and also highlight the value of the work of fishers and women in the sector, and of aquaculture;

2021/02/04
Committee: PECH

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Points out that, thanks to its heart- healthy properties, fish consumption has great potential to address the European public health crisis in terms of the high prevalence of diet-related diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, in the Union;

2021/02/04
Committee: PECH

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Emphasises that, when implementing the objectives and measures proposed in the Strategy, due attention must be paid to the economic, social and environmental sustainability of food systems and to the competitiveness of the European fisheries and aquaculture sectors;

2021/02/04
Committee: PECH

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)

2c. Emphasises that the transition to a sustainable food system also involves guaranteeing fair incomes for primary producers;

2021/02/04
Committee: PECH

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. ~~Welcomes~~Notes that the Commission’s assessment ~~of the CFP, due by 2022, with a~~report on the functioning of the CFP, due to be published by 31 December 2022, should focus on the risks triggered by climate change for the social, economic and environmental sustainability of ~~spec~~fisheries;

2021/02/04
Committee: PECH

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Stresses the risk of putting the EU agri-food sector at a competitive disadvantage in the absence of global convergence of standards, ~~and~~ of leading to increased costs for consumers, and of undermining the production model of 10 million European farms; calls on the Commission to present a comprehensive impact assessment of the targets envisaged in the Strategy, as well as proportionate measures to maintain the competitiveness of the EU agri-food sector and ensure reciprocity of standards;

2021/02/09
Committee: INTA

2020/2260(INI)

Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Points out that trade agreements should ensure that the parties involved actively engage in the promotion of sustainable development principles; they should also ensure that international standards are in line with the EU's environmental and climate ambitions; what is more, to guarantee a global transition to sustainable food systems, these agreements should take account of the binding nature of compliance with the Paris Agreement on climate change;

2021/02/09
Committee: INTA

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Highlights the growing technological divergence between the EU and its main trade competitors with regard to biotechnology, genome editing and new breeding techniques (NBTs) as a result of the EU's regulatory restrictions; calls on the Commission to provide a technological level playing field that enables European businesses to compete on an equal basis on international markets;

2021/02/09
Committee: INTA

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to present guidelines for sustainable food procurement in institutional catering and urges the Commission to include fisheries and aquaculture products in these guidelines;

2021/02/04
Committee: PECH

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Points out that the farming and fishing industries are vital to the development of sustainable economic activity in the outermost regions and highlights these sectors' contribution and added value with regard to food security and to responding to public demand for high-quality products; stresses the need to include those regions' situation in the long-term strategic vision set out in the Farm to Fork Strategy;

2021/02/09
Committee: INTA

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. ~~Requests that~~Welcomes the Commission ~~and the Member States im~~’s intention to consider reforming the origin and prove thnance labelling of all fisheries products, whether fresh, frozen, processed or from aquaculture, marketed in restaurants and through retailers to allow traceability from the place of origin; stresses that this step will enhance the value of sustainablefor specific products, and emphasises that its proposal must be preceded by an impact study that considers the benefits to consumers and producters and ~~prote~~the impact con~~sumer rights~~ the internal market;

2021/02/04
Committee: PECH

2020/2260(INI)

Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Champions European consumers' right to more information on the origin and treatment of the agri-food products that they consume; considers, further, that improving consumer information and traceability will harness the efforts of the sectors concerned to comply with the environmental and food security requirements of the newly reformed common agricultural policy and the Farm to Fork Strategy; highlights the importance of increasing the added value of European production in comparison with imports from third countries;

2021/02/09
Committee: INTA

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Stresses that in 2020, the EU's Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) registered record numbers of imports of agri-food products that exceeded the maximum acceptable residue limit or had been treated with active substances that are banned in the EU; calls on the Commission to carry out checks more often and step up the minimum inspection thresholds to ensure that producers fully comply with EU law;

2021/02/09
Committee: INTA

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Stresses the need to ensure a level playing field for all fishery products marketed in the EU regardless of their origin.

2021/02/04
Committee: PECH

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Recommends that the Union institutions and all Member States launch initiatives to encourage fish consumption, such as tax incentives, green public procurement and appropriately funded dedicated campaigns aimed at consumers ~~be launched~~ to bolster ~~fish~~ consumption.

2021/02/04
Committee: PECH

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Welcomes the fact that the Commission’s proposal for a directive on rates of value added tax (VAT) envisages the use of indirect taxation to encourage the consumption of sustainable and healthy food products; urges all Member States to apply a reduced rate of VAT to fisheries and aquaculture products, lower than the minimum 5% of the taxable base.

2021/02/04
Committee: PECH

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8b. Stresses that associations such as the guilds (‘cofradías’) in Spain play a fundamental role in achieving the objectives of this Strategy; calls, therefore, for the guilds to be recognised under Union law and for them to eligible to receive financial support on an equal footing with producer organisations; calls, therefore, on the European Commission to present as soon as possible a proposal for a regulation amending Regulation (EU) 1379/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 on the common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture products.

2021/02/04
Committee: PECH

2020/2260(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)

8c. Notes that, by their very nature, a number of the animal welfare considerations contained in the Commission’s Strategy do not apply to the fisheries sector.

2021/02/04
Committee: PECH

2020/2257(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the common values, cultural heritage and special relation shared between the EU and the USA constitute the core and the cornerstone of the Transatlantic Alliance, a relation that needs to be nurtured and further strengthened in the coming years in order to face together common challenges;

2021/04/27
Committee: AFET

2020/2257(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Welcomes the cooperation and involvement of NATO in the key issue of migration, and highlights the importance of initiatives such as the use of ships and other resources in the Aegean Sea; calls for similar actions to be taken in other areas with very high migratory pressure, and stresses that this is also a key element to increase security;

2021/04/27
Committee: AFET

2020/2257(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Highlights that illegal mass migration constitute a source of important risks in terms of security, and stresses that threats in this regard are becoming more acute, especially in the broad geographic area including North and sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East; underlines that those areas are currently characterised by fragility, instability, and insecurity, a situation which is generating illegal migration felt acutely throughout Europe, but especially by those Allies bordering the Mediterranean;

2021/04/27
Committee: AFET

2020/2257(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Expresses concern for the current developments and initiatives taken by the Iranian regime, and call for measures oriented towards the immediate halt and stop of all the uranium enrichment programmes and any other activities aimed at the development of nuclear weapons in this country;

2021/04/27
Committee: AFET

2020/2257(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Stresses that terrorism has been and remains one of the most immediate asymmetric and significant threats facing the Alliance, repeatedly striking inside NATO countries and being one of the biggest concerns for citizens;

2021/04/27
Committee: AFET

2020/2257(INI)

Jörgen WARBORN, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Iuliu WINKLER, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Is convinced that the Member States must increase their efforts to improve the EU’s ability to act with a more capable, deployable, interoperable and sustainable set of military capabilities and forces, which would give the EU the capacity to contribute more equitably to transatlantic security, enable it to achieve strategic autonomy, and further pave the way to progressively frame a European Defence Union (EDU) in line with Article 42 of the TEU; stresses that strategic autonomy strengthens transatlantic security, and by no means aims to decouple from or weaken NATO, but rather at complementing it, underlining the importance of avoiding duplication in common strategic actions, and pooling resources for a better optimization of available capabilities; underlines at the same time that strategic autonomy not only entails defence capability development but also the institutional capacity enabling the EU to act, where possible with partners, and independently if necessary; believes that these increased European military efforts will allow the EU to take greater responsibility for European security, and to better promote common EU-NATO interests and values, in particular in the European neighbourhood;

2021/04/27
Committee: AFET

2020/2216(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Notes that data access and processing are often indispensable to providing competitive digital services; calls on the Commission to adopt digital trade rules that increase the competitiveness of EU business and facilitate the free transfer of data flows ~~across borders~~globally while respecting EU data protection rules; including by adding ambitious and flexible provisions on cross-border data flows in trade agreements that do not allow for excessive state intervention;

2021/02/01
Committee: INTA

2020/2216(INI)

Jörgen WARBORN, Massimiliano SALINI, Enikő GYŐRI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Iuliu WINKLER, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Notes that data access and processing are often indispensable to providing competitive digital services; calls on the Commission to adopt digital trade rules that increase the competitiveness of EU business and facilitate the free transfer of data flows across borders ~~while respecting EU data protection rules~~in full conformity with EU privacy and data protection law, including the GDPR;

2021/02/01
Committee: INTA

2020/2216(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6 a. Notes that production and trade depend on digital information being transported, stored and used across borders;

2021/02/01
Committee: INTA

2020/2216(INI)

Jörgen WARBORN, Massimiliano SALINI, Enikő GYŐRI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Iuliu WINKLER, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6 b. Highlights the EU data strategy’s role in building its own single market for data through legislation, including the Data Governance Act and the forthcoming Data Act;

2021/02/01
Committee: INTA

2020/2216(INI)

Jörgen WARBORN, Massimiliano SALINI, Enikő GYŐRI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Iuliu WINKLER, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)

6 c. Underlines the fact that competitive access to data is of crucial importance for the development of AI technology, which will be increasingly important in several sectors in society; stresses therefore that researchers and businesses need to be given greater freedom to access and use data for AI development;

2021/02/01
Committee: INTA

2020/2216(INI)

Jörgen WARBORN, Massimiliano SALINI, Enikő GYŐRI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Iuliu WINKLER, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 d (new)

6 d. Draws attention to the legal unpredictability faced by AI technology developers because of inadequate coordination of data protection and ethics issues relating to AI at EU level; asks the Commission therefore to submit guidance for pre-approved data usage procedures, as well as for pseudonymisation and anonymisation, in order to increase legal predictability for AI technology developers; considers that national authorities should follow that EU guidance, when exercising their public authority, as a way of ensuring consistent regulatory compliance and removing obstacles to the functioning of the digital single market;

2021/02/01
Committee: INTA

2020/2216(INI)

Jörgen WARBORN, Massimiliano SALINI, Enikő GYŐRI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Iuliu WINKLER, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 e (new)

6 e. Recognises the ambition to make the EU a world leader in the development and application of AI and underlines the fact that the EU should position itself as a global leader in the development of ethical and legal norms and standards for the use of AI, potentially setting standards for the rest of the world;

2021/02/01
Committee: INTA

2020/2216(INI)

Jörgen WARBORN, Massimiliano SALINI, Enikő GYŐRI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Iuliu WINKLER, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 f (new)

6 f. Notes that SMEs are hardest hit by opaque bureaucracy and excessive regulatory burdens and, accordingly, underlines the fact that legislation needs to be simplified and clarified in order to promote the development and use by them of digital technologies, in particular AI;

2021/02/01
Committee: INTA

2020/2216(INI)

Jörgen WARBORN, Massimiliano SALINI, Enikő GYŐRI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Iuliu WINKLER, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 g (new)

6 g. Highlights the fact that the size of the single market constitutes the main potential for increased digital competitiveness and innovation in Europe and that therefore any fragmentation and any unwarranted border barriers to data flows, collaborative research and exports of digital goods and services between EU countries must be immediately eliminated so as to ensure that society reaps the full benefits of the EU market;

2021/02/01
Committee: INTA

2020/2206(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Is aware that the EU and NATO would be more effective if they acted in a truly coordinated manner and drew on their knowledge and resources, avoiding duplication;

2020/10/28
Committee: AFET

2020/2206(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 d (new)

13d. In this connection, highlights the vital importance of the EU in supporting the democratic and electoral processes that are taking place and in safeguarding their transparency and legitimacy;

2020/10/28
Committee: AFET

2020/2206(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Welcomes the current efforts to redesign and significantly upgrade the EU- Africa strategy, including in terms of security and cooperation; calls for a common EU approach to strengthen the EU’s visibility and commitment in Africa; reiterates the importance of the various EU missions and operations deployed in Africa and calls on the European External Action Service (EEAS) and the Council to ensure that the EU’s common security and defence policy (CSDP) missions in Africa can continue to operate effectively;

2020/10/28
Committee: AFET

2020/2206(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 d (new)

19d. Highlights the importance of Latin America for the EU and calls for this region to continue to be considered as of major geostrategic interest for the common foreign and security policy, through participating in promoting democracy and human rights in the region and assisting in its economic development;

2020/10/28
Committee: AFET

2020/2206(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 f (new)

19f. Calls for a strong joint position to be maintained in relation to the regime in Venezuela, and in relation to human rights violations perpetrated by Nicolás Maduro’s regime, and also in relation to the system of sanctions, especially in the light of recent events, and the recent complaints made by various bodies, including the United Nations;

2020/10/28
Committee: AFET

2020/2206(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Calls for the strengthening of defence capabilities, notably through the sufficient funding of Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO), the EDF, military mobility and the European space programme; in this connection, also calls for resources to be optimised and for unnecessary duplication to be avoided in the costs, elements and instruments that make up the EU’s common foreign and security policy (CFSP); underlines the need for further coherence of EU tools in EU defence cooperation; calls for increased support, staffing and adequate budgetary resources for the EEAS Strategic Communications Division;

2020/10/28
Committee: AFET

2020/2137(INI)

Angelika WINZIG, Jörgen WARBORN, Iuliu WINKLER, Enikő GYŐRI, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)

-1. stresses that it is the sole responsibility of states and governments to safeguard human rights, their society, nature and environment in their countries and that this responsibility shall not be transferred to private actors.

2020/09/24
Committee: INTA

2020/2137(INI)

Angelika WINZIG, Jörgen WARBORN, Iuliu WINKLER, Enikő GYŐRI, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 a (new)

-1 a. recalls that the EU economy is facing the biggest global economic crisis since the Great Depression with companies all over Europe hit especially hard; stresses that especially at this time no legislative initiatives of economically inhibiting or damaging nature, such as those imposing higher administrative burdens or causing legal uncertainty, shall be taken.

2020/09/24
Committee: INTA

2020/2137(INI)

Angelika WINZIG, Jörgen WARBORN, Iuliu WINKLER, Enikő GYŐRI, Christophe HANSEN, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 b (new)

-1 b. requires that, before any initiative is proposed, an impact assessment is carried out focusing on: a) the administrative burden on business b) value added by EU companies c) employment by EU companies d) engagement of EU companies in international markets

2020/09/24
Committee: INTA

2020/2137(INI)

Angelika WINZIG, Jörgen WARBORN, Iuliu WINKLER, Enikő GYŐRI, Christophe HANSEN, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 c (new)

-1 c. recalls the importance of transitional periods in order to create legal certainty and good legislation ; stresses in this context the need for a transitional period of at least 7 years in order to allow companies to implement any new measures.

2020/09/24
Committee: INTA

2020/2137(INI)

Angelika WINZIG, Seán KELLY, Jörgen WARBORN, Iuliu WINKLER, Enikő GYŐRI, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Reiterates that global ~~value~~supply chains are the key feature of the global economy and that trade policy ~~must~~can contribute to a transparent production process throughout the ~~value~~supply chain and demonstrate compliance with environmental, social and safety standards;

2020/09/24
Committee: INTA

2020/2137(INI)

Angelika WINZIG, Seán KELLY, Jörgen WARBORN, Iuliu WINKLER, Christophe HANSEN, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Emphasises that sustainable corporate governance can help the EU to build a more resilient and sustainable economy, improve the level playing field ~~and protect EU businesses and citizens,~~in order to maintain Europe's international competitiveness and protect EU businesses from unfair competitive advantages of third countries resulting from lower protection standards and is therefore hugely beneficial to EU trade policy;

2020/09/24
Committee: INTA

2020/2137(INI)

Angelika WINZIG, Seán KELLY, Jörgen WARBORN, Iuliu WINKLER, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Notes that the COVID-19 crisis has exposed the vulnerabilities ~~of unregulated~~in global supply chains, and that ~~businesses with~~voluntary better environmental, social and governance practices and risk mitigation processes ~~weather the crisis better~~based on established approaches such as the UN Guiding Principles and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises can contribute to making companies more resilient in times of crisis;

2020/09/24
Committee: INTA

2020/2137(INI)

Angelika WINZIG, Jörgen WARBORN, Iuliu WINKLER, Enikő GYŐRI, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

~~4. Notes with concern that less than 1 % of companies publicly list their suppliers, even in high-risk sectors;~~deleted

2020/09/24
Committee: INTA

2020/2137(INI)

Angelika WINZIG, Seán KELLY, Jörgen WARBORN, Iuliu WINKLER, Enikő GYŐRI, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses that directors’ duties should encompass an obligation to develop, disclose and implement a corporate sustainability strategy for all aspects of the company’s operations, including its supply chains;deleted

2020/09/24
Committee: INTA

2020/2137(INI)

Angelika WINZIG, Seán KELLY, Jörgen WARBORN, Iuliu WINKLER, Enikő GYŐRI, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Stresses that ~~the~~any new EU requirements to disclose information on how sustainability issues affect the company and how the company affects society and the environment should ~~include the sharing of all relevant information on all actors throughout the entire supply chain;~~ not overlap with existing reporting requirements (e.g. non financial reporting directive) and their scope and that any new EU requirements must be in accordance with the various international reporting standards like GRI, SASB, IIRC, etc to ensure a level playing field for European companies; reiterates the necessity of avoiding any additional administrative burdens for companies, especially SMEs;

2020/09/24
Committee: INTA

2020/2137(INI)

Angelika WINZIG, Seán KELLY, Jörgen WARBORN, Iuliu WINKLER, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Notes that sustainable corporate governance cannot reach its full potential without due diligence legislation that requires companies to identify, prevent, mitigate and account for human rights abuses and environmental damage in theire importance of discussing due diligence measures in the context of sustainable corporate governance in order to identify, prevent, mitigate possible human rights violation in global ~~value~~supply chains.

2020/09/24
Committee: INTA

2020/2134(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34

34. Calls on the EU to support corporate accountability as a key element of the European Green Deal; calls on the Member States to implement effective regulatory measures to provide redress and hold businesses accountable when it comes to ensuring that they fulfil their due diligence obligations regarding the impact of climate change on human rights; calls on the EU and the Member States to ensure that the people hardest hit by the structural changes made in order to achieve the drastic cut in emissions by 2030 are guaranteed the right to work; emphasises that the green transition should be fair and leave no one behind;

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET

2020/2134(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36

36. Believes that the current EU trade policy review should be an opportunity to redefine, promote and reinforce the protection of human rights in trade policy; stresses that the sustainable development chapters of future trade agreements must be covered by the dispute settlement mechanisms of these agreements; welcomes the fact that the political agreement reached by the EU and the Mercosur countries with regard to the conclusion of an ambitious and balanced trade agreement includes a commitment by the parties to apply the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement on climate change effectively; also welcomes the fact that the commitments made in the chapter on trade and sustainable development are covered by the dispute resolution mechanism included in the agreement;

2020/10/15
Committee: AFET

2020/2131(INI)

Seán KELLY, Gabriel MATO, Christophe HANSEN, Enikő GYŐRI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Recalls that small and medium- sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of the EU economy; underlines that the proper functioning of the internal market and the creation of a capital market union remains an absolute priority for SMEs; Notes that only a small percentage of firms who export goods outside the EU are SMEs, and that global markets are an important source of potential for SMEs to increase competitiveness, economic growth and innovation; Notes that frictionless trade and freedom of movement of the EU’s Single Market provides SME’s with the necessary scale and experience to export beyond the borders of the EU and to access further desirable markets.

2020/09/07
Committee: INTA

2020/2131(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Recalls that small and medium- sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of the EU economy depending around 13 million employees on SMEs exports; underlines that the proper functioning of the internal market and the creation of a capital market union, remains an absolute priority for SMEs;

2020/09/07
Committee: INTA

2020/2131(INI)

Seán KELLY, Gabriel MATO, Christophe HANSEN, Enikő GYŐRI, Jörgen WARBORN, Massimiliano SALINI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Regrets the serious impact of the COVID19 pandemic and necessary health measures implemented to suppress the spread, including the lockdown of economies, on global trade with both imports and exports of the EU being reduced and value chains interrupted or halted as a result; Notes that further disruption will be experienced by European businesses due the United Kingdom leaving the European Union and the Commission must therefore ensure that trade flows and sustained value chains, including trading routes for freight traffic across the EU, remain open to allow free access to sales markets maintain integrity of the single market.

2020/09/07
Committee: INTA

2020/2131(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Recalls that European SMEs need an open trade policy to recover from the coronavirus crisis; welcomes the European Union trade policy review as key framework to respond the challenges faced by SMEs in international trade, particularly with ;

2020/09/07
Committee: INTA

2020/2131(INI)

Seán KELLY, Gabriel MATO, Christophe HANSEN, Enikő GYŐRI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Encourages~~Calls on the Commission to fully support SMEs in overcoming ~~all~~ barriers that prevent their access to third- country markets; ~~requests the inclusion of an~~Welcomes the commitments made by the Commission to include SME chapters in every trade agreement to ensure legal security for SMEs; underlines the need for the effective enforcement of trade agreements as a priority task of the Chief Trade Enforcement Officer;

2020/09/07
Committee: INTA

2020/2131(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to be more active in its support of national and regional export agencies as well as SME business organisations at EU, national and regional level in order to allow SMEs to overcome the information gap and take better advantage of trade agreements; opines, in this respect, that the Commission could set up an SME internationalisation platform to monitor progress; welcomes that the EU Delegations have a crucial role in providing support to SMEs by addressing queries and practical difficulties of SMEs linked to the implementation of FTAs;

2020/09/07
Committee: INTA

2020/2131(INI)

Seán KELLY, Gabriel MATO, Enikő GYŐRI, Christophe HANSEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to be more active in its support of national and regional export agencies in order to allow SMEs to overcome the information gap and take better advantage of trade agreements; opines, in this respect, that the Commission cshould set up an SME internationalisation platform to monitor progress and provide technical assistance to SMEs in accessing new markets;

2020/09/07
Committee: INTA

2020/2131(INI)

Seán KELLY, Christophe HANSEN, Gabriel MATO, Jörgen WARBORN, Enikő GYŐRI, Massimiliano SALINI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Commission to ~~take greater account of the role of SMEs~~facilitate participation of SMEs in public procurement when it comes to negotiating ~~public procurement~~ chapters in trade agreements; welcomes the announcement from the Commission that it will launch a new information portal on customs procedures and ~~formalitie~~provide user- friendly, up-to-date and practical information on trade policy and in particular on FTAs; calls on the Commission to deliver on its objective of launching a simplified self-assessment tool for rules of origin and life cycle analysis, where a particular focus should be placed on risk assessment, to help SMEs assess whether a product benefits from preferences under a given trade agreement and how they can take advantage of strategic diversification of supply chains;

2020/09/07
Committee: INTA

2020/2131(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Recalls that access to financing is essential for SMEs considering the greater difficulties of access to finance in some Member States; calls on the Commission to address this financial access gap and ensure that SMEs compete on a level playing field; asks the European Investment Bank to pay particular attention to SMEs when defining its policies; draws particular attention to SMEs, which need funding ~~and~~, technical assistance as well as reducing regulatory burden to comply with the Green Deal and digitalisation objectives in order to remain competitive; stresses that digitalisation offers several benefits to SMEs, such as providing new opportunities to offer digital services or products and expanding their market access;

2020/09/07
Committee: INTA

2020/2131(INI)

Seán KELLY, Enikő GYŐRI, Gabriel MATO, Jörgen WARBORN, Christophe HANSEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Recalls that access to financing is essential for SMEs; asks the European Investment Bank to pay particular attention to SMEs when defining its policies~~; draws particular attention to SMEs, which need funding~~, such as micro financing loans, and technical assistance to comply with the Green Deal and digitalisation objectives ~~in order to remain competitive;~~as well as reducing regulatory burden in order to remain competitive; Notes that the Commission needs to remove barriers to green growth and eco-innovation for SMEs to ensure that the Green Deal is an economic opportunity for SMEs.

2020/09/07
Committee: INTA

2020/2131(INI)

Seán KELLY, Enikő GYŐRI, Gabriel MATO, Christophe HANSEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission to ~~strengthen~~effectively implement the EU’s safeguard and trade defence instruments in order to better protect European industry, in particular when it affects sectors with a majority of SMEs; underlines the need to focus on implementation and enforcement of our trade agreements, for breaches of both market access and trade and sustainable development commitments, in order to effectively address market distortions so that SMEs do not face a competitive disadvantage. urges the Commission, in this regard, to enhance the role of the SME Trade Defence Helpdesk to both increase support to SMEs in accessing trade defence instruments and to enhance communication to SMEs of the tools available in addressing distortions in markets.

2020/09/07
Committee: INTA

2020/2129(INL)

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)

-1. stresses that it is the sole responsibility of states and governments to safeguard human rights in their countries and that this responsibility shall not be transferred to private actors.

2020/09/24
Committee: INTA

2020/2129(INL)

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 a (new)

2020/09/24
Committee: INTA

2020/2129(INL)

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 b (new)

-1 b. recalls that in accordance with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, corporate due diligence shall only address internationally recognised human rights; notes that any extension of these Principles to other areas, such as water, soil or air pollution shall be avoided.

2020/09/24
Committee: INTA

2020/2129(INL)

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 c (new)

-1 c. requires that, before any initiative is proposed, a robust impact assessment is carried out focusing on: a) the administrative burden on business; b) value added by EU companies; c) employment by EU companies; d) engagement of EU companies in international markets.

2020/09/24
Committee: INTA

2020/2129(INL)

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 d (new)

-1 d. recalls the importance of transitional periods in order to create legal certainty and effective legislation; stresses in this context the need for a transitional period of at least 7 years to enable businesses to implement any new measures.

2020/09/24
Committee: INTA

2020/2129(INL)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. ~~regrets~~acknowledges the work done so far to reach the current ~~low~~ levels of supply chain due diligence;

2020/09/24
Committee: INTA

2020/2129(INL)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. is convinced that ~~mandatory due diligence is necessary to create a level playing field and avoid unfair competitive advantages arising~~in order to strengthen Europe's international competitiveness creating an international level playing field is of utmost importance; notes that due diligence processes can contribute to mitigating unfair competitive advantages of third countries resulting from lower protection standards in international trade;

2020/09/24
Committee: INTA

2020/2129(INL)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Is gravely concerned by the persistent exploitation and degradation of human beings through forced labour systems affecting 25 millions of people and from which ~~the private economy extracted profits of 150 billion dollars~~certain undertakings, entities and/or persons, be they public or private, have benefited globally in 2019; Notes with concern that there are currently an estimated 152 million children in child labour, 72 million of whom work in hazardous conditions;

2020/10/12
Committee: AFET

2020/2129(INL)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. ~~is convinced that due diligence obligations should aim to prevent human, labour and environmental rights violations, make supply chains more robust and~~stresses that the role and responsibility of the state to protect human rights must not be transferred to private actors; is, however, convinced that due diligence measures can add to existing self-regulatory and voluntary initiatives, such as certification schemes, capacity building mechanisms and awareness campaigns, aiming to prevent human rights violations and that streamlining parallel initiatives can mitigate the potential risks of supply chains and help to avoid disruption of international trade;

2020/09/24
Committee: INTA

2020/2129(INL)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10

10. Points out that corruption in the context of judicial proceedings can have a devastating effect on the lawful administration of justice and judicial integrity, and intrinsically violate the fundamental right to a fair trial, the right to due process and the victim’s right to effective redress; stresses that corruption generally leads to systematic abuse of human rights ~~in the business context~~, for example, by preventing individuals from accessing goods and services that states are obliged to provide to meet their human rights obligations and/or increasing the price of such goods and services, by encouraging wrongful acquisition or appropriation by businesses of land, or by granting licences or concessions to businesses in the extractive sector;

2020/10/12
Committee: AFET

2020/2129(INL)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Stresses the importance of requiring third country companies operating in the European Union to comply with the standards that the European Union requires in terms of due diligence;

2020/10/12
Committee: AFET

2020/2129(INL)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 13

13. Urges the Commission to propose Union mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence legislation imposing legal obligations on Union companies and companies domiciled or operating in the Union internal market, including third country companies, and establishing effective monitoring, enforcement and remedy mechanisms;

2020/10/12
Committee: AFET

2020/2129(INL)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. welcomes the fact that the EU conflict minerals regulation has become a benchmark for ~~binding~~targeted due diligence legislation in supply chains;

2020/09/24
Committee: INTA

2020/2129(INL)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. welcomes the excellent work done so far on international level and is convinced that ~~the~~any future regulation, if necessary, should be based on established non-binding approaches such as the UN Guiding Principles and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises;

2020/09/24
Committee: INTA

2020/2128(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)

– having regard to the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy adopted by the General Assembly in September 2006, which is soon to be updated for the seventh time,

2020/11/26
Committee: AFET

2020/2128(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the United Nations this year celebrates its 75th anniversary; whereas the UN has proved to be an essential forum for international consensus -building on peace and security, sustainable development and respect for human rights and international law, as well as being a key provider of support for fragile states and vulnerable communities; whereas, in a context where the achievements and indispensable role of the UN are often overlooked in a quest by some countries to advance unilateral decisions, it is important for the EU and its Member States – as principal financial contributors to the UN – to ensure that the UN remains an efficient and effective forum for the benefit of the international community and can continue to deliver on present and future global challenges, which can only be achieved through multilateral solutions;

2020/11/26
Committee: AFET

2020/2128(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b

(b) take the view that, in a multipolar context where some countries are promoting selective multilateralism rather than effective multilateralism anchored in universal values, the EU must seek to promote further an unconditional commitment by UN members to universal values, a rules-based system and the primacy of human rights in all policy areas; calls for the promotion of the mainstreaming of such values across all policy and programming areas of the UN, in close cooperation with like-minded countries, with a view to advancing policy dialogue and policy solutions, implementation and mainstreaming capacity; urges the Council to intensify its contacts with the new US administration with a view to working in tandem with the USA, as a long-standing ally, to tackle the many global challenges within the framework of the UN; also calls on the Council to seek dialogue and close cooperation with the United Kingdom, a permanent member of the UN Security Council with whom we share many values and interests despite the Brexit decision;

2020/11/26
Committee: AFET

2020/2128(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c a (new)

(ca) support a thoroughgoing reform of the UN Security Council to improve its representativeness on the basis of a broad consensus so as to ensure it can respond more swiftly and effectively to international threats to peace and security; in particular, takes the view that the Security Council should be reformed through a significant restriction of the right of veto, or by regulating the right of veto, especially where there is evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity, as the decision-making process has been obstructed by the right of veto; takes the view, furthermore, that the composition of the Security Council should also be changed by consensus so that it provides a more accurate reflection of the global order, with the European Union being given a permanent seat;

2020/11/26
Committee: AFET

2020/2128(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f

(f) continue to seek greater synergies between the work of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), the UNGA and the UNSC; commends the work of the EU in supporting the work of the HRC, in the context of the need to mainstream respect for human rights across all decision- making and policy areas of the UN; also highlights the work of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in reporting breaches of human rights; insists that there be a guarantee of impartiality for all organisations involved in defending and upholding human rights, in particular to protect them from potential interference by states suspected of breaching or failing to uphold human rights;

2020/11/26
Committee: AFET

2020/2128(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f a (new)

(fa) act immediately to press for a reform of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), banning countries with proven track records of human rights breaches from joining, and promoting membership for countries with proven track records of democracy and upholding and safeguarding human rights; regrets the fact that countries with autocratic regimes and which have repeatedly breached human right have been able to join the UNHRC; regrets Venezuela’s involvement as a full member of the UNHRC between 2020 and 2022, when the UN itself, in its 2020 report, has endorsed reports of crimes against humanity committed by the Venezuelan Government, and points out that there is a clear lack of consistency in this situation;

2020/11/26
Committee: AFET

2020/2128(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g

(g) continue to expand its diplomacy and outreach toolbox, with particular regard to ~~climate diplomacy,~~ peace and security, fair globalisation, climate diplomacy and the capacity to pursue policy dialogue and policy consensus, ~~not on~~essentially with UN members but ~~also with relevant~~not forgetting other interlocutors such as cities, regions, academia, civil society and the private sector;

2020/11/26
Committee: AFET

2020/2128(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g a (new)

(ga) promote efforts in the UN to combat terrorism by implementing and updating the four pillars of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy approved by the General Assembly in September 2006; points out that it is almost 20 years since the Security Council passed its landmark resolution 1373 in September 2001, and yet terrorism is still one of the most serious threats to international peace and security;

2020/11/26
Committee: AFET

2020/2128(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point h

(h) expand further the trilateral cooperation between the EU, the AU and the United Nations; stresses the importance of continuing to develop the ~~AU’s~~ capabilities of the AU and of African states as regards crisis prevention, crisis management and conflict resolution on the African continent, as well as capabilities in other policy areas of relevance for Africa’s security and stability, including in economic and environmental terms and with regard to access to public goods; in that regard, emphasises the need to pay particular attention to the situation in the Sahel, given the increasing levels of instability in the region; takes the view that the EU can have a tremendous capacity of appeal with its ability to deliver on the partnership aspirations of the African continent and its institutions; underlines the importance of closer political and policy dialogue with the EU’s partners in Africa, including within parliamentary dimensions; emphasises the need to intensify dialogue and cooperation, within the framework of the UN, with African countries in the Southern Mediterranean neighbourhood in order to address shared challenges;

2020/11/26
Committee: AFET

2020/2128(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point h a (new)

(ha) forge closer cooperation with the countries of Latin America – a region with which we share many ties and values and which has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic – in order to tackle common challenges in a coordinated manner within the framework of the UN;

2020/11/26
Committee: AFET

2020/2128(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l

(l) support the UN Secretary-General’s call for an affordable and accessible COVID-19 vaccine, to be considered a global public good; within the framework of the UN and building on the experience gained in the international response to the COVID-19 pandemic, strive to improve global mechanisms for preventing and combating pandemics;

2020/11/26
Committee: AFET

2020/2120(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission, in line with its role as ‘guardian of the Treaties’, to make the OR Unit in DG REGIO the ‘guardian of the correct application of Article 349 TFEU’, and to consider setting up a fully-fledged directorate directly linked to ‘OR correspondents’ in the other directorates-general, as well as a high- level inter-service group under the authority of the President of the Commission, given that, in order to adopt specific measures for the ORs, political impetus is needed;

2021/06/02
Committee: REGI

2020/2120(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Recognises that the ORs offer opportunities for the Union in the face of socio‑economic and climate challenges, but that taking advantage of those opportunities will require accelerating the process of making up for underdevelopment linked to structural handicaps, and consolidating and ring- fencing the resources used to compensate for the structural handicaps resulting from remoteness and insularity, which are vital tools for helping the ORs to become fully and fairly integrated within the European area;

2021/06/02
Committee: REGI

2020/2120(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Stresses the need to encourage local initiatives by supporting ~~VSMEs, SMEs~~all manufacturing companies in the ORs, regardless of their size, and the tourism, craft, industrial, building and construction, and digital sectors, as well as VSMEs and SMEs;

2021/06/02
Committee: REGI

2020/2120(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Recalls that, under the EMFAF Regulation, the Commission undertook to present a mid-term report on the chapter concerning the ORs (Chapter V) and to assess the need for a separate regulation on fisheries in the ORs, along the lines of the POSEI Regulation for the agricultural sector in the ORs; calls for the creation of a fisheries POSEI by 2027;

2021/06/02
Committee: REGI

2020/2120(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Calls on the Commission and Council to maintain the POSEI budget, through EU funds, at current levels throughout the whole period 2021-2027;

2021/06/02
Committee: REGI

2020/2120(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)

16b. Calls on the Commission and Council to consider the possibility of creating a Programme of Options Specifically Relating to Remoteness and Insularity (POSEI) for maritime and fisheries issues, as well as progressively for other sectors, such as tourism and transport, following full impact assessments and consultation of the stakeholders concerned;

2021/06/02
Committee: REGI

2020/2120(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)

16b. Recalls that the Commission annexed a declaration to the EMFAF Regulation, in which it undertook to help the Member States and ORs to improve the collection of scientific data needed to meet the eligibility conditions for fishing fleet renewal aid in the ORs;

2021/06/02
Committee: REGI

2020/2120(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Regrets that the renewal of the artisanal fleets, in order to replace old, unsafe and polluting vessels by modern, energetically efficient, safer and with improved working conditions vessels, is not eligible under the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund for 2021-2027; calls on the Commission to reconsider the possibility for such funding at EU level;

2021/06/02
Committee: REGI

2020/2120(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Points out however that, if the Farm to Fork strategy further limits the use of plant protection agents for the EU, at the same time is must take into account the specificities of the tropical and sub- tropical cultures in the ORs, as well as to limit access to the EU markets for products that do not comply with the EU standards, such as bananas from third countries that massively use plant protection agents that are not authorised in the EU;

2021/06/02
Committee: REGI

2020/2120(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)

18b. Stresses that the implementation of the biodiversity strategy in the ORs should not hamper the sustainable development of the agricultural and fisheries and aquaculture sectors in these regions;

2021/06/02
Committee: REGI

2020/2120(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22a. Points out that the ORs form an important part of the EU’s exclusive economic zone (EEE) and its vast reserve of natural resources, and that they are a strategic asset and a source of major economic opportunities; emphasises that the ORs suffer more from marine pollution than any other mainland region of Europe because of their insularity, and that this affects their environmental and economic development; calls for support to develop hydro-biodegradable materials, which would create opportunities for the future in terms of the blue economy and healthy ecosystems;

2021/06/02
Committee: REGI

2020/2120(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)

25a. Calls for a specific regulation for the ORs on the common organisation of the markets so that the particular environmental, geographical and social circumstances of those territories falling under Article 349 TFEU can be taken into account;

2021/06/02
Committee: REGI

2020/2120(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the ORs benefit fully from international agreements (EPAs, FTAs, etc.) concluded between the EU and third countries; calls for differentiated treatment of OR products in all EPA and FTA renegotiations; calls for vigilance with regard to the consequences of these agreements and recommends that effective measures be put in place as part of trade policy, including ~~safeguard clauses and~~ specific checks by the Chief Trade Enforcement Officer, while ~~ensuring that~~imposing the principle of ‘~~equivalence’ does not lead to situations which discriminate against the OR~~conformity’ on imports from third countries, particularly organic products;

2021/06/02
Committee: REGI

2020/2120(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the ORs benefit fully from international agreements (EPAs, FTAs, etc.) concluded between the EU and third countries; calls for vigilance with regard to the consequences of these agreements and recommends that effective measures be put in place as part of trade policy, including efficient and operational safeguard clauses and specific checks by the Chief Trade Enforcement Officer, while ensuring that the principle of ‘equivalence’ does not lead to situations which discriminate against the ORs;

2021/06/02
Committee: REGI

2020/2120(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)

28a. Calls for strict compliance with European environmental and social standards applicable to tropical goods from third countries and for systematic import quotas for tropical products from such countries, based on existing trade flows; considers that specific surveillance and sanction mechanisms should be introduced to check compliance with these conditions;

2021/06/02
Committee: REGI

2020/2120(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)

28a. Calls on the Commission to fully protect sensitive agricultural products, such as banana, tomatoes, sugar etc., in trade negotiations;

2021/06/02
Committee: REGI

2020/2120(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 b (new)

28b. Calls for the utmost vigilance by the Commission in the liberalisation of the European market and the multiplication of trade agreements between the EU and third countries that produce the same agricultural products for export as the ORs, but under different social and environmental conditions, which distort competition; calls on the Commission to take effective action to ensure that trade agreements do not jeopardise measures supporting the ORs, particularly under the POSEI programme; calls on the Commission to grant preferential treatment to OR products on both OR local markets and the EU market; calls for the creation of a trade agreements task force within the Commission that will involve representatives from the OR economic sectors;

2021/06/02
Committee: REGI

2020/2120(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 c (new)

28c. Calls for the systematic exclusion of tariff codes for goods produced only in the ORs from agreements between the EU and its trade partners positioned in the same market segments, where the total volume of concessions already granted to non-European countries exceeds a threshold beyond which the ORs can no longer access the EU market; calls, in this respect, for the exclusion of four customs codes for speciality sugars from all bilateral agreements between the EU and third countries competing with the ORs to produce speciality sugars;

2021/06/02
Committee: REGI

2020/2120(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 d (new)

28d. Points out that the OR fisheries sector has been severely affected by the failure to renew fisheries agreements (SFPA), particularly the agreement with Madagascar since 2018, and warns that there will be a devastating effect on both economic activity and the state of coastal resources on Réunion if the fisheries agreement with Mauritius is not renewed;

2021/06/02
Committee: REGI

2020/2120(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Arnaud DANJEAN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 e (new)

28e. Recalls the joint declaration by the three institutions annexed to the Regulation on the stabilisation mechanism which was revised when Ecuador joined the EU-Colombia/Peru Trade Agreement: ‘The Commission will continue to carry out regular analyses of the state of the market and the situation of Union banana producers after expiry of the stabilisation mechanism. If a serious deterioration in the state of the market or the situation of Union banana producers is found to have occurred, given the importance of the banana sector for outermost regions, the Commission will examine the situation, together with the Member States and the stakeholders, and decide whether appropriate measures should be considered. The Commission could also convene regular monitoring meetings with the Member States and the stakeholders’; reminds the Commission of its commitment to halt the gradual reduction of the customs tariff by permanently ring-fencing the residual tariff of EUR 75/tonne applicable to third countries with which the EU has signed trade agreements;

2021/06/02
Committee: REGI

2020/2117(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 20 a (new)

— having regard to the Commission communication of 13 May 2020 on tourism and transport in 2020 and beyond (COM(2020)0550) and to the adoption of the Tourism and Transport Package,

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Arnaud DANJEAN

Motion for a resolution
Citation 21 a (new)

— having regard to its resolution of 25 March 2021 on establishing an EU strategy for sustainable tourism (2020/2038(INI)),

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Daniel CASPARY, Arnaud DANJEAN, Seán KELLY

Motion for a resolution
Recital I (new)

I. whereas the pandemic has exposed the vulnerabilities of global value chains, has created major challenges for international production, especially in combination with rapid technological change and digitization acceleration, and has highlighted the need for enhanced resilience and diversification at a global, regional, and local level;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Daniel CASPARY, Arnaud DANJEAN, Seán KELLY

Motion for a resolution
Recital J (new)

J. whereas the COVID-19 outbreak has further increased inequalities and has added to the already growing concern among citizens about job loss in certain sectors, the changing nature of work and the pressure on workers’ wages and rights, and these problems must be addressed in order to retain public support for global trade;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Arnaud DANJEAN, Seán KELLY, Jörgen WARBORN

Motion for a resolution
Recital K (new)

K. whereas the divisions within the WTO and the urgent need for its reform, complicated the coordinated response to keep global supply chains open, and the priority now must be to rebuild trust in multilateral institutions being able to deliver global answers, by rapidly moving forward on the discussions on the WTO Trade and Health Initiative;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Daniel CASPARY, Seán KELLY

Motion for a resolution
Recital L (new)

L. whereas COVID-19 has caused a global pandemic, giving rise to an unprecedented global health, economic, social, and humanitarian crisis, which created bottlenecks and disruptions of an unseen scale to international trade, causing it to plunge as the virus spread and slashing global production and employment, decreasing the level of Foreign Direct Investment, and increasing geopolitical tensions;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Daniel CASPARY, Arnaud DANJEAN

Motion for a resolution
Recital M (new)

M. whereas the Trade Policy Review needs to be complemented with a realistic strategy to increase EU resilience and strategic autonomy, including tailored policy measures and instruments in the area of domestic production, nearshoring, diversification of suppliers, and stockpiling;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Arnaud DANJEAN, Seán KELLY

Motion for a resolution
Recital O (new)

O. whereas the COVID-19 outbreak risks creating a set-back in the worldwide fight against climate change, yet, we need global action and cooperation to develop policies and streamline climate action in internal and external policy, as the vaccine alone will not be sufficient to address the social, environmental and economic crisis COVID-19 has caused;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Arnaud DANJEAN, Seán KELLY

Motion for a resolution
Recital P (new)

P. whereas the pandemic has demonstrated strategic vulnerabilities in the EU and global supply chains, including for critical raw materials, essential medical goods such as personal protective equipment and active pharmaceutical ingredients;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Arnaud DANJEAN, Seán KELLY

Motion for a resolution
Recital Q (new)

Q. whereas the Communication on the Trade Policy Review needs to be complemented with continued dialogue and transparency with the European Parliament, which will play a key role in its implementation;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Arnaud DANJEAN

Motion for a resolution
Recital T (new)

T. whereas the COVID-19 crisis has shown that the services sector is the backbone of the global economy and the most dynamic component of international trade; stresses to this sense that tourism plays a crucial role for the economic growth of the different Member States and, in particular, represents a significant added value for the economic, social and cultural development of the Outermost Regions;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Christophe HANSEN, Jörgen WARBORN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the ~~mainstreaming of the European Green Deal into the c~~Communication on the Trade Policy Review (TPR) and calls for a concrete action plan ~~to make this ambition a rea~~for an assertive trade policy geared towards multilateralism, resilience, and sustainability;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Christophe HANSEN, Jörgen WARBORN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Welcomes th~~e incorporation~~at the EU will propose the respect of the Paris Agreement to be considered as an essential element in ~~all~~future trade, and investment a~~nd partnership agreements; stresses that ratification of the International Labour Organiz~~greements; reminds the Commission that the respect and implementation (of ILO) core conventions and respect for human rights are ~~requirements for concluding FTA~~commitments of its recent trade agreements; asks for ambitious chapters on digital trade, gender, and on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to be included in ~~all~~new trade agreements;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Iuliu WINKLER, Christophe HANSEN, Sven SIMON, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Massimiliano SALINI, Gabriel MATO, Jörgen WARBORN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Welcomes the incorporation of the Paris Agreement as an essential element in all trade, investment and partnership agreements; stresses that ratification of the International Labour Organization (ILO) core conventions and respect for human rights are ~~requirement~~important considerations for concluding FTAs; asks for ambitious chapters on gender and on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to be included in all trade agreements;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Christophe HANSEN, Seán KELLY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Underlines that the post-COVID-19 recovery is a unique opportunity to ~~set the agenda for~~promote sustainable growth; calls on the Commission, therefore, to present its review of the 15-point action plan on TSD chapters ~~without delay;~~in 2021 and expects the review to ~~address the enforceability of TSD commitments as a matter of urgency, as it is not currently included~~consider the effective implementation and enforcement in trade agreements; recalls, in this regard, the non-paper from the Netherlands and France on trade, social economic effects and sustainable development11 ; suggests that, as a minimum, recent advances in enforceability should be applied to EU trade policy, namely the ability to tackle any non-compliance by partners through unilateral sanctions, including the introduction of tariffs or quotas on certain products or the cross- suspension of other parts of an agreement; __________________ 11 Non-paper from the Netherlands and France on trade, social economic effects and sustainable development, accessed at ‘the Netherlands at International Organisations (permanentrepresentations.nl)’.

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Iuliu WINKLER, Christophe HANSEN, Sven SIMON, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Massimiliano SALINI, Gabriel MATO, Jörgen WARBORN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Underlines that the post-COVID-19 recovery is a unique opportunity to set the agenda for sustainable growth; calls on the Commission, therefore, to present its review of the 15-point action plan on TSD chapters without delay; expects the review to address the enforceability of TSD commitments as a matter of urgency, as it is not currently included; recalls, in this regard, the non-paper from the Netherlands and France on trade, social economic effects and sustainable development11 ; suggests that, as a minimum, recent advances in enforceability should be applied to EU trade policy, namely the ability to tackle any non-compliance by partners through unilateral sanctions, including the introduction of tariffs or quotas on certain products or the cross- suspension of other parts of an agreement; emphasizes the role of the Chief Trade Enforcement Officer in this regard, calling for close cooperation with the European Parliament’s International Trade Committee in the monitoring and scrutiny of TSD enforcement; __________________ 11Non-paper from the Netherlands and France on trade, social economic effects and sustainable development, accessed at ‘the Netherlands at International Organisations (permanentrepresentations.nl)’.

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Daniel CASPARY, Arnaud DANJEAN, Jörgen WARBORN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls on the Commission to move away from a “brown/green” product distinction, which dictated “good” and “bad” goods and services, and instead promote life cycle analysis and impact assessments to achieve fair and accurate sustainable trade;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Christophe HANSEN, Arnaud DANJEAN, Seán KELLY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Points out that high up-front costs, which will only repay themselves over time, and a lack of know-how and equipment are currently ~~prevent~~slowing developing countries ~~from ‘going green’~~in their green and digital transitions; demands that the Commission use ~~all~~its trade instruments ~~at its disposal~~ to increase financial support, technical assistance, technology ~~transfers~~capacity building and digital penetration in order to empower developing countries and ~~enable them to~~to support the achievement of sustainable and digital resilience;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Christophe HANSEN, Seán KELLY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls for the EU to take a leading role ~~at a~~within the multilateral ~~level to end harmful subsidies by advocating transparency and strict regulation and disciplines~~ framework to engage with like-minded countries and trade partners to pursue a strong environmental agenda, including t~~rade agreements and at the World Trade Organization (WTO)~~he progressive development of disciplines against market distorting subsidies; stresses the importance of drawing up sustainability impact assessments on an ex- an~~te, intermedia~~te and ex-post basis; stresses the need to ~~develop a comprehensive framework with concrete targets~~provide guidance to advance the SDGs, the Green Deal and the ILO Decent Work Agenda in trade and investment agreements; ~~emphasises that new agreements should only be concluded once these targets have been fulfilled and that existing agreements should be revised accordingly;~~

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Iuliu WINKLER, Christophe HANSEN, Sven SIMON, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Massimiliano SALINI, Gabriel MATO, Jörgen WARBORN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls for the EU to take a leading role at a multilateral level to end hmar~~mful~~ket distorting subsidies by advocating for a common rulebook, including transparency and strict regulation and disciplines in trade agreements and at the World Trade Organization (WTO); stresses the importance of drawing up sustainability impact assessments on an ex-ante, intermediate and ex-post basis; stresses the need to develop a comprehensive framework with concrete targets to advance the SDGs, the Green Deal and the ILO Decent Work Agenda in trade and investment agreements; emphasises that new agreements should ~~only be concluded once these targets have been fulfilled~~carefully consider progress in third country efforts to meet sustainability targets and that existing agreements should be revised accordingly in due time;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Christophe HANSEN, Arnaud DANJEAN, Seán KELLY, Jörgen WARBORN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. EWelcomes the Access2Market gateway and the Commission’s efforts in promoting this tool across the Europe; emphasiszes that transparency and dialogue with stakeholders and citizens are key to creating support for trade policy~~; insists that the role and responsibilities of~~ and to harness its benefits; insists that the EU must deepen its engagement with Member States, the private sector, civil society, and ~~domestic advisory groups must be clearly defined in the EU’s international agreements~~all other relevant actors, as well as with trade partner and developing partner countries, and that financial assistance must be duly accompanied by capacity- building measures ~~to enable it~~in order for them to function effectively and with particular attention paid to SMEs taking better advantage of trade agreements and to trade facilitation measures;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Christophe HANSEN, Seán KELLY, Jörgen WARBORN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Stresses the importance of ~~fair~~resilient and sustainable value chains that respect human rights, labour rights and environmental standards; recalls that mandatory due diligence ~~throughout the entire supply chain is a necessary~~is an instrument to achieve this; stresses that more attention should be paid to the vulnerabil~~e pos~~itiones of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), especially in developing ~~countries, where~~markets and in their manufacturing capacities as large companies are more likely to overcome ~~a sudden drop in demand~~exogenous shocks;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Christophe HANSEN, Seán KELLY, Jörgen WARBORN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Notes that global value chains often involve an uneven distribution of risks, particularly in the garment sector; deplores the fact that during the pandemic this uneven distribution has led to European businesses offloading the costs of lower demand onto producers in developing countries by cancelling orders that were already produced and in some cases even shippedsymmetrical effects and distribution of risks; deplores that least developed countries (LDCs), low-income and middle-income (LICs and MICs) countries were hit the hardest in numerous sectors by trade disruptions triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic; calls the Commission to act as a global player and to tailor its support towards LDCs, LICs and MICs, while taking into consideration the particular circumstances of COVID-19; calls on the Commission to engage with Member States, local governments, the private sector and civil society to achieve a fairer distribution of ~~risks~~negative impacts and across ~~the~~ supply chains;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Arnaud DANJEAN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Stresses that the tourism value chain is one of the main European industrial ecosystems; emphasises, in this regard, that due to restrictions on travel and supply chains disruptions caused by the COVID-19 crisis, tourism related sectors such as HORECA, as well as other major industries (aeronautic, automotive, steel, shipbuilding and marine) are suffering trade and economical collapse;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Christophe HANSEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. ~~Stresses the importance of~~Notes that Member State investments are often drastically cut during crises and assets in strategic sectors, such as healthcare, are exposed to a risk of undervaluation and sale to foreign investors; stresses that, while openness to trade is part of the economy’s resilience and competitiveness, effective rules ensuring fair competition and a level playing field for European businesses in, both in the internal market and in third- country markets~~; stresses, in this regard, the importance of trade defence instruments and calls on the Commission to swiftly~~, are necessary to guarantee mutually beneficial trade relations with international partners and protect the single market from aggressive investment strategies from non-EU actors trying to take advantage of the current crisis; stresses that increased investments of state-owned enterprises from third countries may be even more likely to cause distortions in case of leveraging of their privileged position within a closed and non-transparent domestic market; calls on the Commission to swiftly fill the gaps of the EU’s regulatory framework and complete the EU’s trade defence toolbox ~~throug~~with legislative proposals in 2021~~, giving priority to an~~ to strengthen our strategic autonomy, where priority should be given to instruments tohat deter and counteract coercive actions by third countries and that tackle distortions caused by foreign subsidies and state- owned enterprises and to ~~the~~ conclu~~sion of~~ding the negotiations on the International Procurement Instrument12 ; __________________ 12Amended proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 January 2016 on the access of third- country goods and services to the Union’s internal market in public procurement and procedures supporting negotiations on access of Union goods and services to the public procurement markets of third countries (COM(2016)0034).

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Christophe HANSEN, Seán KELLY, Jörgen WARBORN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Is convinced that openness should go hand in hand with safeguarding our strategic sectors and should be closely connected with an ambitious, forward- looking industrial policy in line with the Green Deal and digital strategy, which can increase the EU’s capabilities to withstand future shocks in strategic sectors and ensure the competitiveness of EU businesses, creating quality jobs and ensuring that Europe plays a crucial role in the production of innovative goods and future services;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Iuliu WINKLER, Christophe HANSEN, Sven SIMON, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Massimiliano SALINI, Gabriel MATO, Jörgen WARBORN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Is convinced that openness should go hand in hand with safeguarding our strategic sectors and should be closely connected with an ambitious, forward- looking industrial policy in line with the Green Deal and digital strategy, creating quality jobs and ensuring that Europe plays a crucial role in the production of innovative goods and future services; supply chain diversification and resilience should be a key priority for the revised EU Trade Policy; highlights the coupling of trade and security interests and calls for a proportional strengthening of FDI Screening, complementing Member State efforts to safeguard European strategic sectors, preventing the establishment of detrimental and exploitable economic dependencies with non-EU actors;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Christophe HANSEN, Seán KELLY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Is convinced that the EU is too dependent on a limited number of suppliers for critical raw materials, goods, and services, and that this undermines its strategic autonomy and geopolitical objectives; insists that the EU should overcome these undesirable dependencies via a horizontal mix of policies tohat incentivises companies to stockpile, increase manufacturing, diversify sourcing strategies and promotes nearshoring, where necessary, which could create new trading opportunities for partners in the Eastern and Southern Neighbourhoods; stresses that related policies need to be tailored to the specific characteristics of the sectors and global value chains(GVCs) under consideration, as no general policy approach exists, and that GVC configuration is a business choice;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Christophe HANSEN, Seán KELLY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Notes that ~~foo~~agri-food markets and supply chains remained operational during the pandemic, but deplores that export restrictions and trade barriers have disrupted it; notes that the Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS), which brings together the principal trading countries of agricultural commodities with the aim of enhancing food market transparency and the policy response for food security, can be regarded as an example of good practice; calls on the Commission to explore whether this model could be used in other value chains as well; supports trade facilitating actions taken to promote food safety standards and sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS) in response to COVID-19; calls on the Commission to identify the most appropriate measures to ensure that this pandemic does not translate into a food crisis in the developing world;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Seán KELLY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the Commission to come up with a digital trade strategy to, which increases the market access of European businesses, strengthens digital infrastructure, harmonizes regulatory frameworks, modernises trade and customs tools, and protects EU citizens’ rights under the GDPR13 ; underlines the acceleration of the digital revolution due to COVID-19 and stresses the importance of the EU taking the lead in setting standards for a sustainable, digital-driven global economy and keeping international data flows open to rapidly overcome a range of trade barriers and bottlenecks; calls on the EU to facilitate the building and readiness of digital infrastructures, particularly in the e-commerce sector and its supply capacities with the aim of reducing face to face processes and allowing for efficient logistics and strategic stockpiling; calls on the Commission to support skills training to enable more businesses and consumers to use online services and digital platforms; stresses the importance of engaging with the United States and like-minded partners on setting a joint regulatory framework and standards at the WTO level; __________________ 13Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (General Data Protection Regulation) (OJ L 119, 4.5.2016, p. 1).

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Seán KELLY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Underlines that international trade governance has an important role to play in the rapid development of medical treatments and vaccines, the rapid scaling up of production, the development of resilient global value chains and equitable market access ~~for the whole world~~; stresses, in this context, that the COVID-19 pandemic must be used to provide impetus for more concerted international cooperation and to boost global preparedness for health emergencies;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Christophe HANSEN, Jörgen WARBORN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Emphasises, in this connection, the detrimental effects of unilateral measures such as export restrictions and prohibitions and the lack of transparency on global stocks and the subsequent price speculation on scarce essential goods, not least for low and middle-income countries; calls, therefore, ~~for~~the EU to encourage the adoption of the WTO trade and health initiative by the end of 2021 and ~~for greater transparency on the supply and production of essential~~to encourage stronger global cooperation, including increased transparency, production of medical products, resilience of global healthcare system, and accessible and affordable medical products and services;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Christophe HANSEN, Daniel CASPARY, Seán KELLY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Is concerned about the recent rise in export restrictions on vaccines by the main manufacturing countries such as the US, the UK, China ~~and~~, India and by the EU and emphasises that this might endangers the rapid global scaling up of vaccine production capacity; urges the Commission to engage with producing countries to swiftly eliminate export barriers ~~and to replace the export authorisation mechanism with an export and import notification requirement; insists on having timely and comprehensive access to such data;~~ ; reaffirms that the EU export authorisation mechanism is a temporary measure, only to be used as a very last resort, that should evolve in the long-term into a transparency mechanism; stresses, however, that for the time being a targeted export authorisation mechanism with criteria of proportionality and reciprocity works towards ensuring the safety and well-being of European citizens; emphasises that the increased transparency provided by the EU export authorisation mechanism has increased European citizens trust in the EU’s vaccine rollout and management of the COVID-19 pandemic while demonstrating the EU's cooperative approach as a vaccine export champion;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Seán KELLY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20a. Notes with concern that geopolitical competition and tensions have accelerated following the COVID-19 outbreak; stresses that the European Union still has to position itself in this new geopolitical environment and believes that the global pandemic has confirmed the need for a stronger and more effective international trade and development policy;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Iuliu WINKLER, Christophe HANSEN, Sven SIMON, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Massimiliano SALINI, Gabriel MATO, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Jörgen WARBORN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Invites the Commission to set out concrete and specific actions and a roadmap to implement the concept of open strategic autonomy; recalls the geopolitical significance of a strong, diversified and resilient EU trade policy; stresses that the EU’s market strength, values and adherence to cooperation, fairness and rule-based trade should be the basis of such openness; strongly recommends that the EU seeks out ~~partnerships with like-minded~~new and consolidates existing partnerships with like-minded partners; urges, to this end, the Commission to push forward and finalize ongoing bilateral negotiations with international partners; stresses, however, that where cooperation is not possible, the EU should pursue its interests through autonomous measures to protect its values and fight unfair trading practices;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Invites the Commission to set out concrete and specific actions and a roadmap to implement the concept of open strategic autonomy and to ensure that all soft and hard options are on the table, even calibrated threats; stresses that the EU’s market strength, values and adherence to cooperation, fairness, reciprocity, and rule-based trade should be the basis of such openness; strongly recommends that the EU seeks out partnerships with like-minded partners; stresses, however, that where cooperation is not possible, the EU should pursue its interests through autonomous measures to protect its values and fight unfair trading practices;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Christophe HANSEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21a. Urges the Commission to proceed with putting in place the Multilateral Investment Court, building on the EU’s approach to its bilateral FTAs, to fully exercise its prerogative at EU level concerning investments agreements, and to support Member States in implementing effective foreign direct investment screening mechanism;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Christophe HANSEN, Seán KELLY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)

21b. Urges the Commission to pursue an effective “vaccine & medical supplies diplomacy” for countries with limited access to them and to work effectively towards increasing the EU’s global standing and diplomatic visibility in this area as the acknowledgement of the EU’s leading role will strengthen its international credibility;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Christophe HANSEN, Seán KELLY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 c (new)

21c. Believes that tackling international issues arising from, but not limited to, the COVID-19 pandemic, should be handled at the multilateral lever and require further engagement by the European Union and its Member States, acting together as ‘Team Europe’;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Christophe HANSEN, Seán KELLY, Jörgen WARBORN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Welcomes the TPR’s affirmation of multilateralism and extensive proposals for the necessary in-depth reform of the WTO across all its functions; shares the Commission’s emphasis on economic recovery, digital trade, unfair state subsidies, and sustainable development in its vision for WTO reform and urges the Commission to bring to bear all efforts to implement ~~a sustainable development~~its agenda; stresses the importance of taking forward the WTO initiative on trade and climate;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Shares the suggestion made in the TPR that the G20 should ~~cooperate and take a leading role in achieving carbon neutrality worldwide~~strengthen cooperation on carbon neutrality and other aspects of the Green Deal; stresses, however, that in order for this approach to be effective, some G20 members will need to raise their emission reduction commitments;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Christophe HANSEN, Seán KELLY, Jörgen WARBORN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Supports the new, forward-looking transatlantic agenda based on common interests and shared values; urges the Commission and the US administration to cooperate closely in order to secure a level playing field and to agree on ambitious social and environmental standards and build on each other’s experience to enforce these more efficiently; calls for joint efforts to overcome the pandemic, speed up the economic recovery and facilitate trade in essential medical goods; reiterates that we should work together to achieve meaningful WTO reform and find common solutions to common problems; supports the Commission’s Communication on ‘A new EU-US agenda for global change’ and calls for the swift establishment of a new EU-US Trade and Technology Council;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Iuliu WINKLER, Christophe HANSEN, Sven SIMON, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Massimiliano SALINI, Gabriel MATO, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Jörgen WARBORN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Is aware of the importance of the EU’s multifaceted trade relationship with China; firmly believes that EU-China trade relations require a more balanced and reciprocal approach; stresses that the upcoming ratification process of the EU- China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment can only begin once the EU has the requisite autonomous measures in place, including a ban on products made using forced labour, an upgraded trade defence toolbox and a working sanctions mechanism on human rights; demands that the Commission move forward withhas to be accompanied by substantial progress in the elaboration of suitable and effective autonomous measures, to be deployed in efforts to counter market-distorting practices or to defend strategic EU interests, including a ban on products made using forced labour, an upgraded trade defence toolbox and a working sanctions mechanism on human rights; underlines that Parliament will carefully scrutinise the agreement, including its provisions on sustainable development and reminds the Commission that it will take the human rights situation in China, including in Hong Kong, into account when asked to endorse the Iinvestment ~~Agreement with Taiwa~~agreement; deeply regrets the unacceptable Chinese escalation of placing elected Members of the European Parliament and European Union institutions under sanctions, as this further erodes trust and hinders bilateral cooperation;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Iuliu WINKLER, Christophe HANSEN, Sven SIMON, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Massimiliano SALINI, Gabriel MATO, Jörgen WARBORN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)

26a. Underlines the vital added value of engaging in consolidated economic and commercial relations with the wider Asia- Pacific region, manifesting the concept of Open Strategic Autonomy through a diversification of EU supply chains; stresses the strategic need of contributing to regional and global trade and investment standard-setting, recalling that the normative playing field is an area where the EU needs to exercise its influence, in line with its geo-economic ambitions;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Iuliu WINKLER, Christophe HANSEN, Sven SIMON, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Massimiliano SALINI, Gabriel MATO, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Jörgen WARBORN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)

26b. Urges the Commission to move forward with the Investment Agreement with Taiwan, taking the necessary steps for a scoping exercise, impact assessment and launching a public consultation; reiterates the importance of the bilateral structural dialogue, including on matters related to multilateralism and WTO, technology and public health, as well as essential cooperation on critical supplies such as semiconductors;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Iuliu WINKLER, Christophe HANSEN, Sven SIMON, Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Massimiliano SALINI, Gabriel MATO, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Jörgen WARBORN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Welcomes the TPR’s engagement towards Africa and the Eastern and Southern Neighbourhoods and looks forward to concrete steps to deepen the EU’s relations with these partners; stresses the importance of engaging in an effective, sustained and constructive fashion the Eastern Partnership countries, consolidating existing DCFTAs and providing mutually beneficial economic cooperation with these actors of key geopolitical relevance for the EU’s strategic agenda; reiterates the importance of a strategic and sustainable partnership with Southeast Asia, India and Latin America;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Andrey KOVATCHEV, Christophe HANSEN, Seán KELLY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)

27a. Calls on the EU to learn from its experience of the COVID-19 pandemic to better understand what it means to be a geopolitical actor in an increasingly tense global environment and stresses the importance of using strategic foresight in order to increase preparedness and resilience for the world emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic and for any future shocks and health crises, including the emergence of new disease mutations and future pandemics, aiming to develop future-proof strategies and responses;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2116(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 a (new)

- having regard to Article 80 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

2020/12/14
Committee: AFET

2020/2116(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Citation 26 a (new)

- having regard to the Commission communication of 24 November 2020 entitled ‘Action Plan on Integration and Inclusion’ (COM(2020)0758),

2020/12/14
Committee: AFET

2020/2116(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Citation 26 a (new)

- having regard to the Commission communication of 9 March 2020 entitled ‘Towards a comprehensive Strategy with Africa’ (JOIN(2020) 4 final),

2020/12/14
Committee: AFET

2020/2116(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Citation 26 b (new)

- having regard to the Malta Declaration of 3 February 2017 by the members of the European Council on the external aspects of migration,

2020/12/14
Committee: AFET

2020/2116(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Citation 26 c (new)

- having regard to the Statement by the co-presidency of the 5th Regional Forum of the Union for the Mediterranean held on 27 November 2020,

2020/12/14
Committee: AFET

2020/2116(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas external policy on migration, including protection of migrants' human rights, represents a challenge not just for the Member States in whose territory the external borders lie, but for the whole of the Union;

2020/12/14
Committee: AFET

2020/2116(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas refugees, internally displaced persons, legal migrants and illegal economic migrants all fall into different categories as regards their legal status; whereas the human dignity of all the people involved in these movements must be at the centre of all EU policies on this matter;

2020/12/14
Committee: AFET

2020/2116(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas migration routes are often exploited by criminal organisations and human trafficking networks and whereas, in order to disrupt the business model of traffickers and thus prevent the tragic loss of lives, the incentives that push illegal migrants to embark on dangerous crossings must be eradicated;

2020/12/14
Committee: AFET

2020/2116(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)

Cb. whereas the Canary Islands (Spain) are an external EU border facing the coasts of a key region for EU external action;

2020/12/14
Committee: AFET

2020/2116(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)

Cc. whereas more than 20 000 migrants arrived by sea in the Canary Islands (Spain) throughout 2020, a rise of 1019% compared to the previous year;

2020/12/14
Committee: AFET

2020/2116(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas effective readmission of illegal migrants is a basic pillar of the new pact on migration and asylum presented by the Commission and should constitute an important element of the external dimension of the Union's migration policy;

2020/12/14
Committee: AFET

2020/2116(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Reiterates that Member States need to ensure that the Union's external borders are properly controlled, with the aim of preventing illegal entry thereto, combating human trafficking and preventing lives being lost at sea; reiterates that, to achieve this, Member States have to be able to count on Union financial and material aid;

2020/12/14
Committee: AFET

2020/2116(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Stresses that responsibility must go hand in hand with solidarity and thus calls for mandatory solidarity to be shared by all Member States and not just by the migrants' countries of first entry; points out that there must also be a common solidarity-based approach to the use of resources for the return of illegal migrants; calls, in this regard, for faster and more effective procedures to be included in the readmission system, as well as in border procedures;

2020/12/14
Committee: AFET

2020/2116(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Notes that fair burden-sharing in the management of migration flows is a prerequisite for any truly European migration and asylum policy; reiterates that frontline Member States alone cannot deal with the migratory pressure on the entire European Union; points out that, according to the European Asylum Support Office, most asylum applications are dealt with by only five Member States;

2020/12/14
Committee: AFET

2020/2116(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)

3c. Notes that the external dimension must be a key element of the New Pact on Migration and Asylum; stresses the importance of increased cooperation between the Union and, in particular, the countries of the Southern Neighbourhood, in order to address the limitation of irregular migration flows, to combat trafficking in human beings and people smugglers and to guarantee migrants' human rights; urges the EU institutions and the Member States, to that end, to step up their relations with the countries of the Southern Neighbourhood through frequent political contacts, including in the framework of fora such as the Union for the Mediterranean;

2020/12/14
Committee: AFET

2020/2116(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Is concerned about the rapid growth of unaccompanied migrant minors, whose presence has multiplied in recent years in some EU countries, which shows that criminal networks have found in them one of the main channels for their criminal activity;

2020/12/14
Committee: AFET

2020/2116(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Reiterates that for the Union's migration policy to function properly and be sustainable, it should combine increased external cooperation with the countries of origin and transit with a substantial increase in the numbers of irregular migrants who are genuinely readmitted;

2020/12/14
Committee: AFET

2020/2116(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Highlights the practical human rights implications stemming from the increasing number, and hence the extrajudicial nature, of informal arrangements on return and readmission, which are concluded in the absence of due democratic scrutiny and parliamentary oversight and are not subject to judicial scrutiny; calls on the Commission to prioritise the conclusion of formal readmission agreements, thus ensuring full respect for Article 218(6) TEU, and to ensure that formal EU Readmission Agreements (EURAs) exclude the application of informal agreements; believes that Parliament must assess the legality of informal agreements which include commitments on issues that fall within its competencies, such as readmission, and must be ready to undertake further action if these informal agreements appear to be incompatible with the Treaties;deleted

2020/12/14
Committee: AFET

2020/2116(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Is deeply concerned about the mass influx of irregular migrants and vessels along the coasts of the Canary Islands; urges the EU institutions and the Member States to react quickly to these developments and to increase the technical and financial resources for protecting the Union's external border in the Canary Islands; urges in particular the European Asylum Support Office and the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) to step up their efforts to tackle the migration crisis in the Canary Islands;

2020/12/14
Committee: AFET

2020/2116(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL, Gabriel MATO, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Is of the view that further assistance should be provided to countries in the Maghreb and Sahel regions to enable them to cope with the influx of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa and to combat trafficking in human beings and people smuggling; stresses in this regard the need to strengthen judicial and police cooperation with those countries in order to identify and dismantle organised crime networks; draws attention, furthermore, to the need to build up the capacities of those countries so that they can pursue and sanction those responsible in an effective manner; calls, therefore, for cooperation between the European Union, the Member States, Europol, Eurojust, Frontex and the third countries concerned to be encouraged; reaffirms that measures taken against human trafficking should not adversely affect the rights of victims of trafficking, migrants, refugees and persons in need of international protection;

2020/12/14
Committee: AFET

2020/2116(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. ~~Not~~Expresses withs grave concern the increasing recourse since 2016 to enhanced conditionality between development cooperation and migration management, including return and readmission; stresses, however, that according to Article 208 TFEU the primary objective of Union development cooperation policy shall be the reduction and, in the long term, the eradication of poverty; calls, therefore, on the Commission to ensure that policies on development cooperation do not contravene the principles enshrined in Article 208 TFEU; stresses that the use of development cooperation as an incentive for migration management undermines meaningful action on the needs of people in developing countries, the rights of refugees and migrants, and their potential impact on regional migration patterns and contribution to local economies, and thus also undermines a wide range of rights stemming from the Sustainable Development Goalsat economic and security problems in Africa, exacerbated by the crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, are encouraging migration; calls on the Union to draw up a joint cooperation agenda with our African partners at the European Union-African Union Summit to be held in 2021; urges the Union to make use of the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI) to address the root causes of migration, such as conflicts, climate and environmental causes, extreme poverty and social exclusion;

2020/12/14
Committee: AFET

2020/2115(INI)

Seán KELLY, Christophe HANSEN, Iuliu WINKLER, Massimiliano SALINI, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Believes that under the Commission’s strategy of open strategic autonomy supply chain resilience will be heightened through a trusted network of actors who can be reliable partners to develop common risk coordination mechanisms, methods and standards for assessment, share information and expectations, and have an active dialogue with governments, firms, and investors. European and Asian states should retain multilateral efforts and region-to-region dialogue where possible to foster sustainable and rules-based economic networks in Eurasia.

2020/10/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2115(INI)

Seán KELLY, Iuliu WINKLER, Christophe HANSEN, Gabriel MATO, Massimiliano SALINI, Jörgen WARBORN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Underlines the importance of the EU strategic relationship with China and calls on the Members States and Institutions to address China with one voice and adopt a coordinated approach. Emphasises the need to ensure a level playing field, reciprocity and a non- discriminatory treatment of the respective parties, business communities and civil society. Reiterates calls on China to move forward on an ambitious reform of the WTO, including comprehensive rules on industrial subsidies, and recognises the concerns regarding market-distorting practices of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises, forced technology transfers and data localisation, overcapacities and related dumped exports, and other unfair trading practices. Believes that extending the level playing field to third markets is of paramount importance for the long- term opportunities of European businesses.

2020/10/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2115(INI)

Seán KELLY, Christophe HANSEN, Iuliu WINKLER, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3 b. Recognises the potential for EU to cooperate with China's “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI) development strategy to build connectivity and cooperation across economic corridors and to connect the Eurasian continent from China to Europe. Believes that the EU should also try to engage China to ensure the BRI meets international standards. Securing fair competition on third markets by upholding multilateral economic governance practices is vital; Is of the view that the Commission should further analyse the potential to collaborate with China in connecting BRI in its TEN-T Corridor Studies to prevent possible bottlenecks and transport constraints: Expresses concern that China funded projects lack transparent bidding processes and are predominately completed by Chinese companies that are significantly less open to local or international companies; calls on China to increase reciprocity, especially in the infrastructure sector, to improve transparency, to prioritise high labour and environmental standards and to ensure debt sustainability.

2020/10/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2115(INI)

Seán KELLY, Iuliu WINKLER, Christophe HANSEN, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)

3 c. Regrets that the EU’s Connecting Europe and Asia strategy has not attracted the same attention as the BRI in Central Asia in terms of connectivity in the region. Supports the Commissions efforts in dismantling trade barriers underpinned by sustainable, rules-based connectivity that includes tackling non- physical and regulatory barriers to movement as well as infrastructure. Countries in Central Asia have benefited significantly from increased integration into the global economy over the past two decades. Opines that the EU should play a much bigger role and become one of the key players in the region using trade and investment as a driver of growth, contributing to shared prosperity.

2020/10/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2115(INI)

Seán KELLY, Iuliu WINKLER, Christophe HANSEN, Gabriel MATO, Massimiliano SALINI, Jörgen WARBORN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Underlines the importance of the existing network of bilateral, regional and multilateral trade agreements and the bilateral cooperation between the EU and Asian partners, with successful examples of strategic partnerships in Japan, South Korea and Singapore; Recognises that the ASEAN region is the EU's third largest trading partner outside Europe, after the US and China, and ensuring better access for EU exporters to the this market and enhancing cooperation through strategic partnerships and investment protection agreements should be a priority for the EU. In this respect, opines, that negotiations with Taiwan on a Bilateral Investment Agreement (BIA) should be conducted.

2020/10/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2115(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the EU-Japan connectivity partnership and the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean: joint communication of 2019 gave additional relevance to this strategy; whereas partnerships with other Asian partners should be established; whereas Africa should be designated a connectivity priority region as much as Asia;

2020/11/24
Committee: AFET

2020/2115(INI)

Seán KELLY, Iuliu WINKLER, Christophe HANSEN, Gabriel MATO, Massimiliano SALINI, Jörgen WARBORN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission to ensure the enforcement of trade agreements and make existing ones more ambitious, in particular by promoting sustainable EU norms and standards; Calls on the Commission to implement fully trade defence instruments to ensure that European businesses are not subjected to unfair trading practices and tackle distortions in prices and costs that are not a result of free market forces.

2020/10/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2115(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Highlights that connectivity as a fundamental orientation of the European Union is deeply ingrained in the EU’s approach to domestic and international challenges; points out with pride that connectivity policies have been implemented successfully in many of the EU’s external relations; encourages the Commission and EEAS to create a Global EU Connectivity Strategy (‘the Strategy’) as an extension of the current EU-Asia connectivity strategy and the joint EU- LAC communication, in order to align our connectivity philosophy and connectivity policies with the goal of strengthening the EU’s role as a true geopolitical and geo- economic actor;

2020/11/24
Committee: AFET

2020/2115(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to step up their ambition for the digital transformation; expects the EU to become a competitive global actor in digitalisation on a par with the US and China leveraging on its existing assets such as European telecoms operators; considers, in this context, the promotion of digital connectivity through very high capacity networks based on fibre and 5G a high priority for the EU; believes that the development of open strategic autonomy in this sector must include diversification of the supply chain of equipment manufacturers through the promotion of open and interoperable network architectures such as Open RAN and digitalisation partnerships with third countries; underlines that the EU should aim at co- leadership in setting and defending international standards and practices;

2020/11/24
Committee: AFET

2020/2115(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22 a. Endorses the commitments to strengthen the partnership between the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean, as defined in the 2019 Joint Communication, including those related to the digital economy and connectivity, and stresses the importance of reinforcing the partnership with the LAC region, which fully shares European fundamental values and interests.

2020/11/24
Committee: AFET

2020/2111(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)

— having regard to the State of the Union address delivered by President of the Commission Ursula von der Leyen on 16 September 2020,

2020/10/01
Committee: AFET

2020/2111(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 b (new)

— having regard to the Consultation Note ‘A renewed trade policy for a stronger Europe’ presented by the Commission on 16 June 2020,

2020/10/01
Committee: AFET

2020/2111(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas Latin America is the region of the world most heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, given that 5 of the 10 countries with the highest mortality rate per 100 000 inhabitants are Latin American; whereas the EU and Latin America have strong cultural ties and common interests;

2020/10/01
Committee: AFET

2020/2111(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Regrets the lack of ~~global leadership and~~a coordinated international response in the initial phases of the COVID-19 crisis, as well as tendencies to opt for isolationist solutions, the withholding of critical information, the rise of authoritarian nationalism, state- sponsored disinformation campaigns and the promotion of false narratives which create distrust and undermine international cooperation;

2020/10/01
Committee: AFET

2020/2111(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Stresses that the COVID-19 crisis has evidenced the shortcomings of our current system of international governance in the field of health; regrets that the international community has not been able to guarantee neither the swift exchange of information nor a coordinated response nor the containment of the virus; calls for the reinforcement of the system of the United Nations and the World Health Organisation and urges the states to work in a more efficient and coordinated manner against global threats;

2020/10/01
Committee: AFET

2020/2111(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Notes the geopolitical competition and tensions following the COVID-19 outbreak, and recognises that the European Union s~~till has to position itself in the new world order~~hould play a key role as an actor in the new world order, defending and promoting around the world the values in which the European project has its roots, liberal democracy and human rights, in a new political arena in which, alongside the EU, the US, China and Russia play a leading role;

2020/10/01
Committee: AFET

2020/2111(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Stresses, in this regard, the importance of nurturing, promoting and strengthening transatlantic relations and collaboration between democratic regimes with a view to coordinating a joint response to this crisis, along with aid for third countries and the most disadvantaged regions, boosting democratic values in the face of autocratic powers’ attempts to increase their influence;

2020/10/01
Committee: AFET

2020/2111(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Stresses, similarly, the importance of stepping up NATO’s key role;

2020/10/01
Committee: AFET

2020/2111(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Is concerned about the lack of leadership the United States has shown in fighting COVID-19; ~~believes that the false information in President Trump’s tweets and during his press conferences have been very unhelpful in the joint fight against the virus~~regrets the fact that the US, the world power in pharmaceutical research and biomedical engineering, was absent from the Coronavirus Global Response Pledging Conference (the Donor Conference) starting on 4 May 2020;

2020/10/01
Committee: AFET

2020/2111(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. ~~Acknowledges the need~~Calls on the VP/HR to find a new method of cooperation between the EU and US, based on mutual respect and a joint agenda to defend multilateralism, the rule of law and human rights; calls as well for closer cooperation between the EU and the US in the areas of health and science; welcomes the announcement by President von der Leyen that the Commission is ready to build a New Transatlantic Agenda to strengthen our bilateral partnership, also in domains such as trade, tech and taxation; recalls that the transatlantic partnership is an essential pillar of EU foreign policy regardless of the US administration in office;

2020/10/01
Committee: AFET

2020/2111(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Urges the Chinese regime to fully cooperate with anthe independent investigation into the origins of COVID- 19 supported by the WHO General Assembly on 17 and 18 May 2020, and calls on the Member States to present a united ~~front~~approach towards a rising China, which ~~is leading a crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong and has threatened to annex Taiwan~~has assumed an increasingly relevant place in international organisations and agencies; calls on the Member States to advocate Taiwan’s ~~membership of the WHO~~incorporation into WHO meetings, mechanisms and activities;

2020/10/01
Committee: AFET

2020/2111(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Stresses that only a more united EU, backed up by sufficient and credible military capacities, will be able to conduct a strong foreign policy, and believes that the VP/HR should receive a stronger mandate in speaking on behalf of the EU; believes in the need that all Member States be persuaded of the convenience of such a unitary approach and contribute to the coherence of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP);

2020/10/01
Committee: AFET

2020/2111(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Believes that the end of the unanimity rule on ~~foreign policy~~certain domains of foreign policy, particularly human rights and the adoption of restrictive measures (sanctions), would help the EU to conduct a foreign policy that is more effective and more proactive;

2020/10/01
Committee: AFET

2020/2111(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Notes that the COVID-19 pandemic has shown the need to reduce dependency on third countries in certain strategic and existential sectors and might prompt diversification of its most critical supply chains; believes that the Union must seize the opportunity and aim for ‘health strategic autonomy’ in areas such as the production of critical medicine and pharmaceutical products and equipment, notably active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), personal protective equipment (PPE), ventilators and masks;

2020/10/01
Committee: AFET

2020/2111(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Recalls its request for a strong global sanctions regime to address serious human rights violations, which would be the EU equivalent of the so-called Magnitsky Act; welcomes the announcement by President von der Leyen that the Commission will soon come forward with a proposal;

2020/10/01
Committee: AFET

2020/2111(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)

25a. Stresses the need for the EU to put together collaboration plans and strategies with Latin American countries to help them to cope with the COVID-19 crisis; urges the EU to support these countries politically with a view, among other things, to preventing their excessive dependence on aid from other geopolitical players; considers that it is appropriate for these plans and strategies to be geared towards achieving goals such as improving public services (particularly health and education), strengthening the rule of law, tackling poverty and taking up sustainability and climate change commitments;

2020/10/01
Committee: AFET

2020/2111(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)

25a. Expresses concern about the situation in Latin America owing to the pandemic and calls on the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (VP/HR) to coordinate efforts to respond together in a spirit of solidarity, delivering aid to affected countries;

2020/10/01
Committee: AFET

2020/2111(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 b (new)

25b. Stresses the importance of strengthening the link between the EU and Latin American countries and points out the importance of finalising the Mercosur agreement, which will serve as an important tool for economic recovery;

2020/10/01
Committee: AFET

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Stresses that trade policy is an essential tool for implementing the circular economy and the EU’s sustainability agenda globally; underlines that increased recycling and an energy transition in line with the emissions reduction proposed by the Commission can reduce the EU’'s reliance on imports of raw materials, and energy resources; stresses that the European Union has succeeded in decoupling economic growth from greenhouse gas emissions and points also to the need to decouple economic growth from resource use in order to ensure the long- term sustainability of global value chains;

2020/10/02
Committee: INTA

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Notes that in the transition to a circular economy particular attention must be given to key supply chains where the EU’s environmental footprint is significant; stresses that such supply chains should, as far as possible, minimise the carbon footprint of their products;

2020/10/02
Committee: INTA

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Commission to identify and abolish barriers that prevent or restrict market access for circular products from outside the EU ~~and~~, adapting the carbon footprint of products and ensuring their safety and traceability; calls on the Commission to investigate the possibilities and benefits of reducing tariffs on certain products in order to encourage the development of the circular economy;

2020/10/02
Committee: INTA

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Urges the Commission to ensure that FTAs reflect the objectives of the circular economy by including strong, binding and enforceable sustainable development chapters; suggests that the circular economy should be addressed in a cross-cutting manner in all relevant FTA chapters; welcomes the inclusion of various aspects of the circular economy in existing trade agreements, through sustainable development chapters, as well as the inclusion of an explicit mention of the circular economy in future agreements currently under negotiation, thereby strengthening public diplomacy spearheaded by the EU in the context of Agenda 2030;

2020/10/02
Committee: INTA

2020/2043(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Notes that the general exception clause of Article XX of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) should be the basis for any CBAM design and its only rationale should be an environmental one ~~– reducing global CO2 emissions and preventing carbon leakage~~, and that therefore, the CBAM should not be seen as an alternative to the existing carbon leakage measures under the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), which are competitiveness measures;

2020/11/03
Committee: INTA

2020/2043(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Stresses that there are design options that allow the existing carbon leakage measures to co-exist with the mechanism while not leading to double protection; therefore strongly urges the European Commission to develop a scenario in its upcoming impact assessment where existing carbon leakage measures are maintained alongside the mechanism;

2020/11/03
Committee: INTA

2020/2041(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Underlines that Europe and Africa are in close geographical proximity, have strong historical, social and cultural ties and are being brought ever closer by the increase in trade and numerous shared challenges, which call for a continental- African approach and result- oriented use of EU resources;

2020/07/02
Committee: AFET

2020/2041(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Highlights the need to galvanise the EU’s relations with the countries of North Africa; laments the fact that 25 years on from the start of the Barcelona Process, the creation of an area of shared prosperity, stability and freedom with the southern neighbourhood countries has still not been completed;

2020/07/02
Committee: AFET

2020/2041(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Underlines that the process of development on the African continent is of key importance for the prosperity, stability and security of both the EU and Africa; underscores the importance of promoting better living conditions for Africans, and of adopting policies targeting young people that stimulate economic growth and create job opportunities;

2020/07/02
Committee: AFET

2020/2041(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Emphasises the importance of orderly management of the migration flows between Africa and Europe based on the principles of cooperation, solidarity, balance and shared responsibility; stresses that both sides must combat human trafficking gangs;

2020/07/02
Committee: AFET

2020/2041(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Notes that Africa is still undergoing the process of integration at regional, continental and international level and that as yet 54 African countries ~~remain divided and diversified~~continue to differ greatly in areas of key strategic importance to the EU, such as meeting internationally recognised standards and practices in trade, human rights, sustainable development and positioning in international organisations;

2020/07/02
Committee: AFET

2020/2041(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Highlights the importance of the upcoming EU-AU Summit scheduled for October 2020; trusts that this summit will adopt a new mutually-beneficial joint strategy which reflects the interests of both sides and strengthens the ties between the two continents;

2020/07/02
Committee: AFET

2020/2041(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Shares the opinion that the matter of the security of Africa ~~should be transferred into the hands of Africans and that the EU should assist its African partners in the successful accomplishment of this ultimate goal~~is of great importance for the development of the continent and is primarily the responsibility of African countries themselves; considers that the EU should assist its African partners in the successful accomplishment of peace and overcoming the crises and conflicts on that continent through an integrated approach that harnesses all available tools, including support for developing African security and defence capabilities; urges the Council in this respect to swiftly approve the European Peace Facility; highlights also the need to enhance cooperation between the two continents in the field of public health and combating pandemics.

2020/07/02
Committee: AFET

2020/2038(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Gabriel MATO, Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK, Peter van DALEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34

34. Calls on the Commission to consider the special characteristics and additional constraints of outermost regions in the formulation and impact of tourism legislation;

2020/11/10
Committee: TRAN

2020/2023(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital C

C. whereas the existing historical and geographical links between the EU and the UK create a strong interdependence between the parties, both in terms of fishing and aquaculture activities, and in the sectors of processing of and trade in those products; whereas the UK and the EU currently share 97 stocks subject to Total Allowable Catches (TACs); whereas, from thatese points of view, a lack of agreement would cause immediate and significant damage for all stakeholders involved and ultimately for EU and UK citizens; whereas, furthermore, any agreement should aim to avoid economic dislocation for Union fishermen that have been engaged in fishing activities in UK waters.

2020/04/06
Committee: PECH

2020/2023(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Gabriel MATO, Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK, Peter van DALEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Reaffirms that no comprehensive agreement can be concluded between the EU and the UK if it does not include a complete, balanced and long-term fisheries agreement, ~~allow~~upholding the continuation under optimal conditions of access to waters, resources and markets of the parties concerned, as well as the existing fishing activities;

2020/04/06
Committee: PECH

2020/2023(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Gabriel MATO, Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK, Peter van DALEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Recalls that the greatest mutual benefit will be obtained by ~~maintain~~upholding existing reciprocal access to waters and fisheries resources, by defining common, coherent, clear and stable principles and rules, enabling open access of fishing and aquaculture products to markets without causing economic or social tensions through unbalanced competition;

2020/04/06
Committee: PECH

2020/2023(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Gabriel MATO, Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK, Peter van DALEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls ~~for~~on the ~~maintenance of a~~parties to uphold existing quota shares and the stable and constant distribution of fishing rights; and stresses the importance of long- term management of resources based on compliance with CFP principles such as maximum sustainable yield (MSY) and the technical measures which have so far contributed to the improvement of the state of fish stocks for the benefit of the fleets of both EU Member States and the UK;

2020/04/06
Committee: PECH

2020/2023(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Gabriel MATO, Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK, Peter van DALEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Believes~~, finally,~~ that the provisions of any fisheries agreement should be supported by dispute settlement mechanisms and include remedial measures as part of a general management of the governance of the future relationship between the EU and the UK.

2020/04/06
Committee: PECH

2020/2023(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Gabriel MATO

a) for the total value of the fish ~~caught in UK EEZ~~ing opportunities lost as a consequence of the Agreement in UK waters and elsewhere, including Svalbard waters, the reference period shall be 2015-2018;

2021/04/19
Committee: PECH

2020/0380(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA, Gabriel MATO

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point b

~~b) for the value of the fish caught in the UK EEZ as a share of total value of fish caught by a Member State, the reference period shall be 2015-2018;~~deleted

2021/04/19
Committee: PECH

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – point b

(b) additional amounts of EUR 12 126 162 000 shall be made available in 20246 in accordance with Article 11.

2021/03/31
Committee: REGI

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas the fee to be paid by ship owners per tonne of tuna caught increased from EUR 55 to EUR 75 under the previous protocol and whereas the new protocol provides for a rise from EUR 80 per tonne in 2020 to EUR 85 per tonne over sixEU’s financial contribution to Seychelles under the SFPA is EUR 5.3 million per year; whereas a significant proportion of that contribution, EUR 2.8 million per year, is earmarked specifically to promote the sustainable management of fisheries in Seychelles, and to support the development of small-scale fisheries; whereas the fee to be paid by ship owners per tonne of tuna caught increased from EUR 55 to EUR 75 under the previous protocol and whereas the new protocol provides for a rise from EUR 80 per tonne in 2020 to EUR 85 per tonne over six years; whereas for the entire duration of the protocol, the estimated total value of the EU’s financial contribution to Seychelles, including the contribution paid by EU ship owners, is EUR 58.2 million, equivalent to EUR 9.7 million per years;

2020/06/08
Committee: PECH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2020/06/08
Committee: PECH

2020/0002M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Considers that the EU-Seychelles SFPA should continue to promote further economic, financial, technical and scientific cooperation between the EU and Seychelles in the field of sustainable fisheries and sound exploitation of fishery resources in the Seychelles fishing zone, building on the excellent cooperation and contribution to regional development that has been forthcoming from the EU fleet;

2020/06/08
Committee: PECH

2020/0002M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Regrets the fact that the Seychelles fisheries sector, including its artisanal component, has not been involved throughout the negotiations; Calls for it to be included immediately with a view to ensuring that its interests and the development of the Seychelles fisheries sector are not undermined by the EU- Seychelles SFPA;deleted

2020/06/08
Committee: PECH

2020/0002M(NLE)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

2020/06/08
Committee: PECH

2020/0002M(NLE)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Javier ZARZALEJOS, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Deplores the fact that the Protocol to the EU-Seychelles SFPA will allow for an increase in fishing capacity, with a stable number of authorised purse seiners and an increased number of longliners, despite the low utilisation rate of capacity under the previous agreement, despite scientific recommendations to reduce the catch of yellowfin tuna, and despite calls from the Seychelles fishers’ union to reduce fishing effort in the region;deleted

2020/06/08
Committee: PECH

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1

— having regard to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and Kosovo*, of the other part, which entered into force on 1 April 2016, *This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244/1999 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence1a. __________________ 1a This mention should be included in the title and applied throughout the entire document.

2020/12/15
Committee: AFET

2019/2172(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 4

2020/12/15
Committee: AFET

2019/2172(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Javier ZARZALEJOS, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Citation 17

— having regard to its previous resolutions on ~~the country~~Kosovo,

2020/12/15
Committee: AFET

2019/2172(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Javier ZARZALEJOS, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

~~A. whereas each enlargement country is judged individually on its own merits, and it is the speed and quality of reforms that determine the timetable for EU accession;~~deleted

2020/12/15
Committee: AFET

2019/2172(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Javier ZARZALEJOS, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas Kosovo remains the only country in the Western Balkans whose citizens need a visa to travel to the Schengen Area although all benchmarks for visa liberalisation have been fulfilled since 2018;deleted

2020/12/15
Committee: AFET

2019/2172(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Javier ZARZALEJOS, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes Kosovo’s continued commitment to advancing on its European path, as well as the strong support for European integration among Kosovo’s population, without prejudice to Member States' position on status;

2020/12/15
Committee: AFET

2019/2172(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Javier ZARZALEJOS, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Expresses concern about the dissolution of the Ministry of the EU Integration, and calls on the Government of Kosovo to ensure that the new structure is granted the level of competence and responsibilities appropriate to ensuring proper coordination of the integration process;deleted

2020/12/15
Committee: AFET

2019/2172(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Javier ZARZALEJOS, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Welcomes the Commission’s statement of 26 August 2020 confirming its assessment of Kosovo’s ability to benefit from the visa liberalisation regime, and calls on the Council to urgently proceed with the adoption of a visa-free regime for the citizens of Kosovo;deleted

2020/12/15
Committee: AFET

2019/2172(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Javier ZARZALEJOS, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. ~~Stresses that normalisation of relations between Serbia and Kosovo is a priority and a precondition for EU accession~~Reiterates its support for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue; calls for active and constructive engagement in the EU-facilitated dialogue led by the EU Special Representative, seeking a comprehensive and legally binding agreement in accordance with international law; reiterates its call to move forward with the full implementation, in good faith and in a timely manner, of all the agreements already reached;

2020/12/15
Committee: AFET

2019/2172(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Javier ZARZALEJOS, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. ~~Notes~~Is aware of the fact that five Member States have not ~~yet~~ recognised Kosovo~~, and reiterates its call for them to do so; stresses that recognition would be beneficial to the normalisation of relations between Kosovo and Serbia~~; takes note of the decision of those five Member States concerning the approval of the SAA in the Council;

2020/12/15
Committee: AFET

2019/2172(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Javier ZARZALEJOS, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Notes that strong political support, effective implementation and close monitoring are required to fight Kosovo’s large informal economy, which constitutes a serious barrier to the development of its private sector, and affects the capacity ~~of the state~~ to provide good quality public services;

2020/12/15
Committee: AFET

2019/2163(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas climate change has a major direct impact on marine species by altering their abundance, diversity and ~~distribution~~migration patterns and affecting their feeding, development and reproduction, as well as relations between species; whereas these changes have ramifications for the CFP and the management of the Union's waters and resources;

2020/12/15
Committee: PECH

2019/2163(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

H a. whereas the principle of relative stability, first set out in the CFP Basic Regulation of 1983 and implemented by the TACs and Quota Regulation of the same year, lays down a distributional key of the TAC by Member State based on the allocation principles of historical catches (1973-1978), dependency as enshrined in the Hague preferences of 1976 and jurisdictional losses (1973-1976);

2020/12/15
Committee: PECH

2019/2163(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)

H b. whereas the Commission must submit a report to the European Parliament and the Council on implementation of the CFP by 31 December 2022;

2020/12/15
Committee: PECH

2019/2163(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Stresses that fishermen, shellfish gatherers and the rest of the seafood chain are not a cause of climate change but rather victims of it;

2020/12/15
Committee: PECH

2019/2163(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Is of the view that, in the light of the complexity of the fisheries industry, further measures to tackle climate change should also incorporate action on global governance, while recognising that some of these measures will call for a degree of institutional adaptation; in that context, efforts at global level should ensure a level playing field between EU and third countries operators, by avoiding to impose unilaterally stringent measures to EU operators without requesting that similar ones are applied to everybody;

2020/12/15
Committee: PECH

2019/2163(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Recommends that the Commission and the Member States provide for appropriate management measures when fish populations move from one basin to another; however, climate change should not constitute an excuse for imposing further stringent management measures and drastic cuts in TACs and quotas; proportionality and socio-economic aspects shall adequately be taken into account;

2020/12/15
Committee: PECH

2019/2163(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point c

c) promotion of current and new species through targeted communication policies that are both wide-ranging (such as TV broadcasts and cookery programmes) and local (through regional policies aiming at the consumption of fish in canteens, hospitals and wherever there is great demand). Responsible fish is a healthy and sustainable option;

2020/12/15
Committee: PECH

2019/2163(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point g a (new)

g a) adequate EU and national funding.

2020/12/15
Committee: PECH

2019/2163(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Peter van DALEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Stresses that the principle of relative stability, which has remained largely unchanged since it was first established, fails to take account of the ongoing impact of climate change on species distribution; points out that the disruption caused by climate change, coupled with the landing obligation and the UK's withdrawal from the Union, makes it very difficult to maintain the current quota allocation system; urges the Commission, the Council and the Member States to look into and consider modifying the principle of relative stability in line with the CFP's new challenges, which include the impact of climate change on the seas and oceans;

2020/12/15
Committee: PECH

2019/2162(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1

— having regard to Article 3(3) of the Treaty on European Union (TEU), and to Articles 11, 39 and 191 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU),

2020/09/11
Committee: PECH

2019/2162(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Peter van DALEN

Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)

- having regard to the 2020 edition of the FAO report on the State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA),

2020/09/11
Committee: PECH

2019/2162(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Peter van DALEN

Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 b (new)

- having regard to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council, Towards more sustainable fishing in the EU: state of play and orientations for 2021 (COM/2020/248 final),

2020/09/11
Committee: PECH

2019/2162(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 c (new)

- having regard to the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF) report on Monitoring the performance of the Common Fisheries Policy (STECF-Adhoc-20-01),

2020/09/11
Committee: PECH

2019/2162(INI)

Peter van DALEN, Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Niclas HERBST, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR

Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 a (new)

- Having regard to the Commission communication COM(2020) 248, entitled ´Towards more sustainable fishing in the EU: state of play and orientations for 2021´of June 2020

2020/09/11
Committee: PECH

2019/2162(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the common fisheries policy (CFP) is aimed at ensuring that fishing and aquaculture activities are environmentally sustainable in the long term and a~~t progressively restor~~re managed ing a~~nd maintaining populations of fish~~ way that is consistent with the objectives of achieving economic, stoc~~ks above biomass levels capable of producing the maximum sust~~ial and employment benefits, and of contributing to the avainlab~~le yield (MSY);~~ ility of food supplies;

2020/09/11
Committee: PECH

2019/2162(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Peter van DALEN

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas fisheries management measures adopted under the CFP are be~~ginning to bear~~aring fruit, as the number of fish stocks exploited at sustainable levels is increasing, making higher yields possible for stocks which were ~~until recently~~ overexploited;

2020/09/11
Committee: PECH

2019/2162(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas ~~still around 38 % of stocks~~despite the huge drop in fishing pressure which according to the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF) has been reduced almost by half in the last 20 years on average for all the stocks evaluated in the North-East Atlantic ~~and~~, still around 9238 % ~~in the Mediterran~~of stocks in this arean are overexploited~~, according to the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF), despite the legal requirement to stop overfishing by 2020;~~ . However, these stocks represent a small portion of the total landings. In the Mediterranean, according to the Commission for the Mediterranean(GFCM) 2018 report on The State of Mediterranean and Black Sea Fisheries, the percentage of overexploited fish stocks decreased from 88 percent in 2014 to 78percent in 2016, and to 62.5 percent in 2017 according to the SOFIA report 2020 (http://www.fao.org/gfcm/news/detail/en/c /1174318/);

2020/09/11
Committee: PECH

2019/2162(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

D a. whereas in 2019 the Council set 62 out of 78 TACs in line with Fmsy. It is therefore expected that in 2020 more than 99% of landings in the Baltic, North Sea and the Atlantic managed exclusively by the EU will come from sustainably managed fisheries;

2020/09/11
Committee: PECH

2019/2162(INI)

Peter van DALEN, Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Niclas HERBST, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR

Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)

D b. whereas in the northeast Atlantic the biomass has continued to increase since 2007, and in 2018 was 48% higher than in 2003 for fully assessed stocks. In the Mediterranean and Black Seas, the situation has remained essentially unchanged since the start of the data series in 2003, although since 2012 there has may been a slight increase in biomass;

2020/09/11
Committee: PECH

2019/2162(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas fishing at maximum economic yield (MEY) refers to the level of capture at which social, environmental and economic benefits for society are maximised, which improves the resilience of the sector;deleted

2020/09/11
Committee: PECH

2019/2162(INI)

Peter van DALEN, Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Niclas HERBST, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

2020/09/11
Committee: PECH

2019/2162(INI)

Peter van DALEN, Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Niclas HERBST, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls for MPAs to be established as part of a coherent network of connected areas, including offshore and deep-sea areas; recalls the requirement to cease fishing with bottom-contacting gear below 400 m in areas where vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs) are known to exist or are likely to occur;deleted

2020/09/11
Committee: PECH

2019/2162(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls for MPAs to be established as part of a coherent network of connected areas, including offshore and deep-sea areas; ~~recalls the requirement to cease fishing with bottom-contacting gear below 400 m in areas where vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs) are known to exist or are likely to occur;~~

2020/09/11
Committee: PECH

2019/2162(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Peter van DALEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Urges Member States to set ~~stronger and more~~ effective management plans for the existing MPAs and to put in place ~~stronger~~effective control measures to ensure that MPAs are respected, including by involving the fisheries sector;

2020/09/11
Committee: PECH

2019/2162(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Peter van DALEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Recognises that the success of MPAs and other protected areas lies in them being ~~accepted and embraced by fishers, coastal communities and other stakeholders~~rational, justified by science and not simply established to reach a quota, thereby the need for cost-benefit analyses, monitoring and enforcement. In order for MPAs to be accepted by fishers, coastal communities and other stakeholders they need to understand why, how and what must be protected; calls therefore for the inclusion of the fisheries sector, including its artisanal component, as well as other relevant stakeholders, such as fisheries management bodies, in the design, management and monitoring of MPAs;

2020/09/11
Committee: PECH

2019/2162(INI)

Peter van DALEN, Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Niclas HERBST, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Stresses the importance of having a comprehensive and coherent approach when establishing MPAs, by not only limiting commercial fishing activities but also tackling other activities such as fossil fuel exploration and exploitation, mining, large-scale aquaculture, dredging, offshore wind farms, transport and recreational fisheries;

2020/09/11
Committee: PECH

2019/2162(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Peter van DALEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Stresses the importance of having a comprehensive and coherent approach when establishing MPAs, by not only limiting commercial fishing activities but also tackling other activities such as fossil fuel exploration and exploitation, mining, offshore windfarms, large-scale aquaculture, dredging, transport and recreational fisheries;

2020/09/11
Committee: PECH

2019/2162(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Invites the Member States to ~~expand the network~~make further efforts ofn fish stock recovery areas under the CFP in accordance with the best available scientific advice where there is clear evidence of heavy concentrations of fish below minimum conservation reference size or of spawning grounds;

2020/09/11
Committee: PECH

2019/2162(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Peter van DALEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Stresses that rapid and strong action to fight climate change is essential for the preservation of healthy fish populations, and therefore for the continuity of fishing activity and for food security in the long term; Recalls that according to Article 2 of the Paris Agreement, parties shall aim at increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production;

2020/09/11
Committee: PECH

2019/2158(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

B a. whereas according to article 194 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, the European energy policy shall ensure the functioning of the energy market, ensure security of energy supply, promote energy efficiency and savings and the development of renewable energy and promote the interconnection of energy networks; whereas the definition of the energy mix of Member States remains a national competence, and therefore energy mixes are highly diversified;

2021/03/29
Committee: PECH

2019/2158(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)

B b. whereas the geographical characteristics of Member States and European sea basins vary greatly across the EU; whereas the development of offshore wind farms and other renewable energy systems is currently concentrated in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, where conditions are more favourable; whereas, in the future, the possibility or desirability of creating, or of increasing the size or capacity of offshore renewable energy installations will equally be very different in each basin and Member State;

2021/03/29
Committee: PECH

2019/2158(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

G a. whereas, through their maritime spatial plans, Member States should aim to contribute to the sustainable development of energy sectors at sea, of maritime transport, of the fisheries and aquaculture sectors, and the preservation, protection and improvement of the environment including the resilience to climate change impacts; whereas, Member States are required to establish their maritime spatial plans before 31 March 2021.

2021/03/29
Committee: PECH

2019/2158(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

G a. whereas, in the context of spatial planning, fisheries and aquaculture interests should receive special attention and should not be marginalised;

2021/03/29
Committee: PECH

2019/2158(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)

G b. whereas the Commission proposal for an EU Biodiversity Strategy affirms that "ocean energy, including offshore wind, (…) allows for fish stock recovery", while a recent study of the European Parliament (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData /etudes/STUD/2020/652212/IPOL_STU(2 020)652212_EN.pdf) reveals that "potential fisheries benefits as a consequence of Offshore Renewables installations are not well understood and empirical evidence is pending";

2021/03/29
Committee: PECH

2019/2158(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)

G b. whereas the Commission, in its communication entitled ‘An EU Strategy to harness the potential of offshore renewable energy for a climate neutral future’, called on public authorities to plan in the long term and from an early stage the deployment of offshore renewable energies, assessing their environmental, social and economic sustainability and ensuring coexistence with other activities, such as fisheries and aquaculture, and making sure the public accept planned deployments;

2021/03/29
Committee: PECH

2019/2158(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Is concerned about the negative ~~long-term~~ impact that offshore wind turbines have on certain ecosystems, fish stocks and biodiversity, and consequently on fisheries as a whole, over their life cycle, from construction through operation and decommissioning; hence the importance of rigorous and detailed studies to assess such impacts in existing windmills;

2021/03/29
Committee: PECH

2019/2158(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Warns that offshore renewable energy will only be sustainable if it has no negative impact on the environment and on economic, social and territorial cohesion, especially in fisheries- dependent regions;

2021/03/29
Committee: PECH

2019/2158(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Stresses that small-scale fishing enterprises will be particularly affected by displacement as they may not have the capacity to move to fishing grounds further afield or to change fishing method, particularly if offshore wind farms are located in territorial seas (12 nautical miles from the coast);

2021/03/29
Committee: PECH

2019/2158(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Stresses that overlap analysis of offshore renewables and fisheries suggests a sharp increase in special conflict potential in certain European ~~water~~sea basins over the coming years;

2021/03/29
Committee: PECH

2019/2158(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16 a. calls on Member States, in their national maritime spatial plans to be delivered by 2021, to take into account the need to ensure that the negative effects of offshore windmills on fisheries are avoided and that therefore they are placed away from fishing grounds;

2021/03/29
Committee: PECH

2019/2158(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Stresses that OWFs should only be built if the exclusion of negative environmental and ecological, as well as economic and socio-cultural impacts to fishermen, aquaculture producers and coastal communities is guaranteed, in line with the objectives of the Blue Economy and the European Green Deal;

2021/03/29
Committee: PECH

2019/2158(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Stresses that early equitable and effective stakeholder consultation and participation, notably of the fishers and aquaculture producers and coastal communities, the creation of transparent guidelines and the payment of compensation could alleviate the potential for conflict and create a level playing field between fisheries and offshore renewables;

2021/03/29
Committee: PECH

2019/2158(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. ~~Not~~Urges th~~at further EU legislation might be required in case Member States’ maritime spatial planning does not guarantee the fair inclusion of fisheries~~e Commission and the Member States to ensure that maritime spatial plans fairly reflect the legitimate interests of fishermen, shellfish gatherers and the rest of the sea-industry supply chain;

2021/03/29
Committee: PECH

2019/0272(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8

(8) The Management plan takes into account the specificities of the different types of gear and fishing techniques. When implementing the Management plan, the Union and Member States should ~~endeavour to~~ promote coastal fishing activities and the use of fishing gear and techniques which are selective and have a reduced environmental impact, in particular gear and techniques used in traditional and artisanal fisheries, thereby contributing to a fair standard of living for local economies, such as "almadrabas".

2020/05/28
Committee: PECH

2019/0272(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1

The objective of this Regulation is to maintain a biomass of bluefin tuna a~~bove levels capable of producing maximum sustainable yield~~round B0.1, achieved by fishing at or less than F0.1.

2020/05/28
Committee: PECH

2019/0272(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point 6 a (new)

(6 a) "Sport fishery" means non- commercial fisheries whose members adhere to a national sport organization or are issued with a national sport license.

2020/05/28
Committee: PECH

2019/0272(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point 32

(32) ‘'fishing effort’' means the product of the capacity and the activity of a fishing vessel to measure the intensity of the fishing operations. This measurement varies from gear to gear. For longline fisheries is measured in number of hooks or hooks-hours. For purse-seiners is measured in terms of boat days (fishing time plus search; for a group of fishing vessels it is the sum of the fishing effort of all vessels ing t~~ime)~~he group.

2020/05/28
Committee: PECH

2019/0272(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2

(2) By way of derogation from paragraph 1, the carry-over of non- harvested live bluefin tuna may be permitted if a reinforced system of control is developed and reported by the Commission to the ICCAT Secretariat. That system shall be an integral part of the Member State inspection plan referred to in Article 13, and shall include at least the measures established in Articles 26 (3) and 52. By way of derogation from paragraph 1 of this Article, Member States may request to transfer a maximum of 5% of its 2019 quota to 2020. Member States shall include this request in their fishing capacity plan.

2020/05/28
Committee: PECH

2019/0272(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3

(3) Before a fishing season starts, Member States responsible for farms shall ensure a thorough assessment of any live bluefin tuna carried over after bulk- harvests in farms under their jurisdiction. To this end, all carried-over live bluefin tuna of the catching year subject to bulk- harvest in farms shall be transferred to other cages using stereoscopic camera systems or alternative methods, provided they guarantee the same level of precision and accuracy, in accordance with Article 50. Fully documented traceability shall be ensured at all times. Carry-over of bluefin tuna of years that were not subject to bulk- harvest shall be controlled annually using the same procedure of appropriate sampl~~ing~~es based on risk assessment.

2020/05/28
Committee: PECH

2019/0272(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2

(2) Member States ~~may allocate sectorial quotas to~~that have small scale coastal vessels authorised to fish for bluefin tuna shall allocate a specific sectorial quota for those vessels and shall include such allocation in their fishing plans. They shall also include the additional measures to closely monitor the quota consumption by that fleet in their monitoring, control and inspection plans. Member States may authorise a different number of vessels to fully utilise their fishing opportunities, using the parameters referred to in paragraph 1.

2020/05/28
Committee: PECH

2019/0272(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1

In accordance with Article 17 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013, when allocating the fishing opportunities available to them, Member States shall use transparent and objective criteria, including those of an environmental, social and economic nature, and shall also ~~endeavour to~~ distribute national quotas fairly among the various fleet segments giving special consideration to traditional and artisanal fisheries, and to provide incentives to Union fishing vessels deploying selective fishing gear or using fishing techniques with reduced environmental impact.

2020/05/28
Committee: PECH

2019/0272(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 3

(3) In case of the non-submission by a Member State to the Commission of any of the plans referred to in paragraph 1 within the deadline or if the Commission found a case of serious non-compliance with the provisions of the present of Regulation concerning the annual fishing plans as established in final inspections reports, it may decide to not endorse the plans submitted and to transmit the Union plan to ICCAT Secretariat without the plans of Member State concerned.

2020/05/28
Committee: PECH

2019/0272(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 3

(3) By way of derogation form paragraph 1, if a Member State provides evidence to the Commission that, due to winds reaching force 4 or more on the Beaufort scale, or due to a public health crisis, some of its purse seiners fishing for bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea were unable to utilise their normal fishing days during a year, that Member State may carry over a maximum of 10 days lost ~~until 11 July of that year~~ for the vessels concerned. The inactivity of the vessels concerned, and in the case of a joint fishing operation for all vessels involved, shall be duly justified with weather reports and VMS positions.

2020/05/28
Committee: PECH

2019/0272(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 3

(3) Union purse seiners shall not engage in joint fishing operations with purse seiners from other CPCs. However, Member States of the Union may authorize their purse seine vessels to engage in joint fishing operations with CPCs with less than five authorized purse seine vessels. For that purpose, a protocol shall be agreed in advance between the Member State and the CPC concerned on the operational arrangements to be followed by the vessels and by the authorities of each party, in particular, on handling the catch declaration documents as required by the applicable legislation.

2020/05/28
Committee: PECH

2019/0272(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 65 – paragraph 1 – point a

~~(a) The target of fishing mortality to maintain the stock biomass at MSY as referred to in Article 3;~~deleted

2020/05/28
Committee: PECH

Clara AGUILERA, Paolo DE CASTRO, Pina PICIERNO, Marc TARABELLA, Ivo HRISTOV, Juan Fernando LÓPEZ AGUILAR, Gabriel MATO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1

– Canary Islands: EUR ~~69 9~~72 700 000. Or. en (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32013R0228&from=EN)

2020/03/02
Committee: AGRI

2019/0254(COD)

Clara AGUILERA, Paolo DE CASTRO, Pina PICIERNO, Marc TARABELLA, Ivo HRISTOV, Juan Fernando LÓPEZ AGUILAR, Gabriel MATO, Robert HAJŠEL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1

Regulation (EU) No 229/2013
Article 18 – paragraph 2

2. The Union shall finance the measures provided for in Chapters III and IV up to an amount of EUR 23 00930 000. Or. en (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32013R0229&from=en)

2020/03/02
Committee: AGRI

2019/0254(COD)

Clara AGUILERA, Paolo DE CASTRO, Pina PICIERNO, Marc TARABELLA, Ivo HRISTOV, Juan Fernando LÓPEZ AGUILAR, Gabriel MATO, Robert HAJŠEL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1

Regulation (EU) No 229/2013
Article 18 – paragraph 3

3. The amount allocated to finance the specific supply arrangements referred to in Chapter III shall not exceed EUR ~~6 83~~7 110 000. Or. en (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32013R0229&from=en)

2020/03/02
Committee: AGRI

2018/2121(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34

34. Notes that the phenomenon of digitalisation has created a new situation in the market, whereby digital and digitalised companies are able to take advantage of local markets without having a physical, and therefore taxable, presence in that market, creating a non-level playing field and putting traditional companies at a disadvantage; notes that digital businesses models in the EU ~~face a lower effective average tax burden than~~pay on average less than half of the effective tax rate of companies with traditional business models31 ; _________________ 31 As evidenced in the impact assessment of 21 March 2018 accompanying the digital tax package (SWD(2018)0081), according to which on average, digitalised businesses face an effective tax rate of only 9.5 %, compared to 23.2 % for traditional business models.

2018/12/20
Committee: TAX3

2018/2121(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35

35. Welcomes the digital tax package adopted by the Commission on 21 March 2018; calls on the Council to swiftly adopt these proposals, taking into account Parliament’s opinion ~~on them~~adopted on the 13th of December 2018;

2018/12/20
Committee: TAX3

2018/2121(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36

36. Understands that the so-called interim solution is not optimal; believes that it will help speed up the search for a better solution at global level, while levelling the playing field in local markets to some extent; Underlines the need for common Union approach in order to save guard the integrity of the digital single market;

2018/12/20
Committee: TAX3

2018/2121(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 a (new)

36a. Stresses that EU Member States need to adopt a long-term solution for the taxation of the digital economy in order to have the EU lead the debate at OECD and international level.

2018/12/20
Committee: TAX3

2018/2121(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 70 a (new)

70a. Notes the adoption by the European Parliament and the European Council on the Commission proposal for a General Reverse Charge Mechanism, proposal that will allow temporary derogations from normal VAT rules in order to better prevent mainly carousel fraud in those member states that are most severely affected by this type of fraud. However, the GRCM should by no means delay the swift implementation of a definite VAT system.

2018/12/20
Committee: TAX3

2018/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the Beijing Platform for Action ~~emphasis~~notes the need to analyse tax policies from a gender perspective and to adjust them to promote a more equitable distribution of productive assets, wealth, opportunities, income and services;

2018/10/03
Committee: ECON FEMM

2018/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas taxation policies can have explicit or implicit gender biases; whereas an explicit bias means that a tax provision directly targets either men or women in a distinct way, while an implicit bias means that the provision nominally applies equally to all ~~but~~whereas in reality there is discriminat~~es against wome~~ion;

2018/10/03
Committee: ECON FEMM

2018/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas on average corporate tax rates have fallen dramatically since the 1980s, from above 40 % to 21,.9 % in 2018, while in contrast, the rate of consumption taxes (of which VAT is a large component) has ~~increased~~remained stable at around 19% since 20094, increachsing to 20,.6 % in 20169; __________________ 9 https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/sites/ taxation/files/taxation_trends_report_2018. pdf

2018/10/03
Committee: ECON FEMM

2018/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on all Member States to assess the desireability of shifting from joint taxation to individual taxation~~; believes that until tax systems are no longer based on the assumption that households pool and share their funds equally, tax fairness for women will not be achieved~~ in the interests of achieving tax fairness;

2018/10/03
Committee: ECON FEMM

2018/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Acknowledges that transition periods towards such an individual taxation system may be necessary in some Member States; calls, during these transition periods, for the elimination of all tax expenditures based on joint income and notes the need to gradually ensure that all tax benefits, cash benefits and in- kind government services are given to women as individuals in order to promote their financial autonomy;deleted

2018/10/03
Committee: ECON FEMM

2018/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. ~~Deplores the persistence of~~Calls on Member States to eliminate gender gaps in women’s property ownership, particularly of major assets14; notes that the reduction of capital gains and property taxes primarily benefits men, as they are more likely to control such resources15; __________________ 14 Action Aid. Making tax work for women’s rights. 15 Institute of Development Studies (2016) Redistributing Unpaid Care Work – Why Tax Matters for Women’s Rights. Policy Briefing. Issue 109.

2018/10/03
Committee: ECON FEMM

2018/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Notes that the share of consumption taxes roexperienced a slight increase in the Union from 20094 to 2016; notes that VAT typically accounts for between two thirds and three quarters of consumption taxes in the Member States;

2018/10/03
Committee: ECON FEMM

2018/2095(INI)

Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ~~implement gender- responsive approaches to budgeting in a way that explicitly tracks what proportion of public funds are targeted at women and that ensures that all~~focus as far as possible the policies for mobilising resources and allocating expenditure on promoteing gender equality;

2018/10/03
Committee: ECON FEMM

2018/2046(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Insists that any revenue to the Union budget deriving from any assigned revenues or repayments of irregularities from agriculture in previous years should remain under Heading 2;

2018/07/16
Committee: AGRI

2018/2046(BUD)

Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Welcomes the increased funding proposed by the European Commission for promotion measures, which ~~are crucial to expand the share of European exports on markets across the world~~confirms the effectiveness of the improvements made by the last reform; considers that promotion measures are crucial to expand the share of European exports on markets across the world and to deal with the restrictions imposed by certain third countries on EU products, such as the Russian embargo or the recent US decision to impose anti-dumping and countervailing duties on the imports of Spanish ripe olives;

2018/07/16
Committee: AGRI

2018/2046(BUD)

Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Takes note of the recent transfers from Pilar I to Pilar II decided by France, Lithuania and Netherlands, which have led to a decrease in the appropriations for direct payments in the DB 2019; deplores the insufficient execution of payments to young farmers in recent years and encourages Member States to promote the use of those appropriations the following year in order to boost generation renewal;

2018/07/16
Committee: AGRI

2018/2046(BUD)

Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Asks for the maintenance of the appropriations for POSEI programmes at the maximum levels foreseen in the EU regulation, underlining the relevance of those programmes for the resilience of the agricultural producers and highlights the fragile economic situation of the outermost regions, which are still strongly hit by the crisis and the structural disadvantages referred to in article 349 of the TFEU (remoteness, insularity, small size, difficult topography and climate and economic dependence on a few products).

2018/07/16
Committee: AGRI

2018/2046(BUD)

Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7 a. Welcomes the increased support for research and innovation dedicated to the supply of safe and high quality food; stresses that it is essential that funds earmarked for research in the agri-food sector, in particular from the Horizon 2020 budget, remain fully available as such in order to stimulate innovation and smart solutions in the agricultural and rural development sectors;

2018/07/16
Committee: AGRI

2018/2046(BUD)

Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7 b. Expresses its satisfaction at the 25% increase in appropriations intended to combat animal diseases and plant pests, as the Unionis facing significant risks and increased outbreaks.

2018/07/16
Committee: AGRI

2018/2037(INI)

Michel DANTIN, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Mairead McGUINNESS, Nuno MELO, Czesław Adam SIEKIERSKI, Daniel BUDA, Norbert ERDŐS, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Anne SANDER, Alberto CIRIO, Tom VANDENKENDELAERE, Marijana PETIR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Vladimir URUTCHEV, Francis ZAMMIT DIMECH, Angélique DELAHAYE

Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)

– having regard to Articles 40 and 42 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) establishing a Common Market Organisation in agricultural products and the extent to which rules on competition apply to production of and trade in agricultural products,

2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2018/2037(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Michel DANTIN, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Alberto CIRIO, Manolis KEFALOGIANNIS, Francis ZAMMIT DIMECH, Sofia RIBEIRO, Marijana PETIR

Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)

– having regard to the report XXX of the European Parliament on the current situation and future prospects for the sheep and goat sectors in the EU,

2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2018/2037(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Michel DANTIN, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Alberto CIRIO, Manolis KEFALOGIANNIS, Francis ZAMMIT DIMECH, Sofia RIBEIRO, Marijana PETIR

Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 b (new)

– having regard to the recommendations of the EU Sheep Meat Forum, held in 2015 and 2016, under the aegis of the European Commission,

2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2018/2037(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Maurice PONGA, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ricardo SERRÃO SANTOS

Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 d (new)

– having regard to the Commission report of 15 December 2016 on the implementation of the scheme of specific measures for agriculture in favour of the outermost regions of the Union,

2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2018/2037(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the Commission’s communication on the Future of Food and Farming acknowledges that the common agricultural policy (CAP) is the most integrated policy in the EU and is enabling the EU farming sector to respond to citizens’ demands regarding not only food security, safety, quality and sustainability, but also environmental care, climate change action, rural development and high animal welfare standards;

2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2018/2037(INI)

Michel DANTIN, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Mairead McGUINNESS, Czesław Adam SIEKIERSKI, Daniel BUDA, Norbert ERDŐS, Nuno MELO, Angélique DELAHAYE, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Alberto CIRIO, Sofia RIBEIRO, Vladimir URUTCHEV, Anne SANDER, Francis ZAMMIT DIMECH

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas EU agriculture is at a turning point from an economic, technological and environmental perspective and that a strong and renewed ambition at EU level needs to provide the EU agricultural sector visibility and certainty with regards to the challenges arising from the impacts of Brexit and of the multilateral and bilateral trade agenda;

2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2018/2037(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Michel DANTIN, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Alberto CIRIO, Manolis KEFALOGIANNIS, Francis ZAMMIT DIMECH, Sofia RIBEIRO, Marijana PETIR, Nuno MELO

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas such a new delivery model should ensure a direct relationship between the EU and European farmers;

2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2018/2037(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Michel DANTIN, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Alberto CIRIO, Manolis KEFALOGIANNIS, Francis ZAMMIT DIMECH, Sofia RIBEIRO, Marijana PETIR, Angélique DELAHAYE

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas direct payments provide the first substantial layer of stability and a safety net to farm incomes as they represent from a tangible portion of annual farming incomes to as much as 100% of farm revenues in certain regions and should continue to allow farmers to compete on a level playing field with third countries;

2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2018/2037(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas new rural value chains in the bio economy can offer good growth and job potential for rural areas;

2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2018/2037(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Michel DANTIN, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Alberto CIRIO, Manolis KEFALOGIANNIS, Francis ZAMMIT DIMECH, Sofia RIBEIRO, Marijana PETIR, Nuno MELO

Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)

Eb. whereas direct payments must be more targeted to farmers, as those who contribute to the stability and the future of our rural regions and who face economic market risks;

2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2018/2037(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Michel DANTIN, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Alberto CIRIO, Manolis KEFALOGIANNIS, Francis ZAMMIT DIMECH, Sofia RIBEIRO, Nuno MELO, Marijana PETIR, Giovanni LA VIA

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas specific tools for Mediterranean sectors should remain in the first pillar;

2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2018/2037(INI)

Michel DANTIN, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Mairead McGUINNESS, Czesław Adam SIEKIERSKI, Nuno MELO, Marijana PETIR, Norbert ERDŐS, Daniel BUDA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Sofia RIBEIRO, Angélique DELAHAYE, Vladimir URUTCHEV, Tom VANDENKENDELAERE, Anne SANDER, Francis ZAMMIT DIMECH, Alberto CIRIO

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas it is essential to provide flexible and responsive tools to help sensitive and strategic sectors cope with structural changes, such as the potential impacts of Brexit or of approved bilateral trade agreements with the EU’s main partners;

2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2018/2037(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)

Fb. whereas sectorial strategies for fruits and vegetables, wine and apiculture should remain compulsory for the producing countries and the specificities of these tools and rules should be kept;

2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI

2018/2037(INI)

Michel DANTIN, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Mairead McGUINNESS, Czesław Adam SIEKIERSKI, Nuno MELO, Marijana PETIR, Norbert ERDŐS, Daniel BUDA, Angélique DELAHAYE, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Sofia RIBEIRO, Alberto CIRIO

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas it is essential to ensure a fair standard of living for farmers across regions and Member States, affordable prices for citizens and consumers, and access to quality food and healthy diets, while delivering on the commitments for environmental care, climate action, and animal and plant health and welfare;

2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)

9c. Considers that those delays strongly reduce the effectiveness of the programs and create huge uncertainty to European farmers;

2018/03/22
Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Considers that in order to effectively reach the objective of generational renewal, the European Commission should reintroduce an exit scheme, allowing old farmers to retire and young farmers to enter the sector;

2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Underlines that Mediterranean EU regions are more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, such as drought, fires and desertification, so greater efforts will be required by farmers in these areas to adapt their activities to the altered environment;

2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI

2018/2037(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)

17b. Calls therefore on the Commission to introduce a new European incentive scheme instead of the first pillar’s green payments to support farmers who already adopted or wish to move towards environmentally sustainable and economically rewarding practices and production models (e.g. organic farming, conservation agriculture, integrated farming, precision farming and digitalised agriculture...);

2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI

2018/2037(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Michel DANTIN, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Alberto CIRIO, Manolis KEFALOGIANNIS, Francis ZAMMIT DIMECH, Sofia RIBEIRO, Nuno MELO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)

17b. Underlines that such efforts should be reflected and supported in the CAP policy framework, as climatic cohesion should be transversal to all common policies;

2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI

2018/2037(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 c (new)

17c. Stresses that such an eco-scheme should be simple and inclusive while defining under which conditions relevant practices and production models are eligible and how certification schemes controlled by public authorities could be used;

2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI

2018/2037(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 d (new)

17d. Adds that Member States in cooperation with the European Commission should also be able to design equivalence measures in their national strategies;

2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI

2018/2037(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Recalls that some challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity and water management, go beyond the CAP and serve other policy objectives;

2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI

2018/2037(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)

18b. Recalls that their funding should also be ensured by other instruments;

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Insists on the critical need for the future CAP to support farmers more efficiently in order to cope with price and income volatility due to climate, health and market risks, by creating additional incentives for ~~flexible~~the development and the use of such risk management and stabiliszation tools while ensuring broad access and compatibility with existing national schemes;

2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI

2018/2037(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Michel DANTIN, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Alberto CIRIO, Manolis KEFALOGIANNIS, Francis ZAMMIT DIMECH, Sofia RIBEIRO, Marijana PETIR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21a. Calls for better support to be given to increase the leguminous plant productions in the EU and for specific aids for extensive sheep and goat breeders, taking into consideration the positive impact on the environment of those sectors and the need to reduce the EU dependency on imports of proteins for feed;

2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI

2018/2037(INI)

Michel DANTIN, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Herbert DORFMANN, Mairead McGUINNESS, Czesław Adam SIEKIERSKI, Norbert ERDŐS, Daniel BUDA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Sofia RIBEIRO, Vladimir URUTCHEV, Anne SANDER, Francis ZAMMIT DIMECH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Insists on the necessity of strengthening the position of producers within the food supply chain, in particular by guaranteeing them a fair share of the added value~~, by fostering inter-sectoral cooperation, and strengthening transparency in the markets and crisis prevention~~;

2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI

2018/2037(INI)

Michel DANTIN, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Nuno MELO, Norbert ERDŐS, Daniel BUDA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Sofia RIBEIRO, Vladimir URUTCHEV, Marijana PETIR, Alberto CIRIO, Anne SANDER, Francis ZAMMIT DIMECH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22a. Considers that supply management measures for cheeses and ham with a protected designation of origin or a protected geographical indication or for wine have proven their efficiency in improving the sustainability, the competitiveness and the quality of the targeted products and should therefore be maintained and, if appropriate extended to cover all quality-labelled products in line with the CAP objectives;

2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI

2018/2037(INI)

Michel DANTIN, Francis ZAMMIT DIMECH, Anne SANDER, Vladimir URUTCHEV, Sofia RIBEIRO, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Norbert ERDŐS, Daniel BUDA, Czesław Adam SIEKIERSKI, Mairead McGUINNESS, Herbert DORFMANN, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)

22b. Stresses that, based on the provisions obtained in the Omnibus regulation to rebalance the bargaining power within the food supply chain, farmers should be further incentivised to organise and use such new collective possibilities provided by farmers’ organisations;

2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Calls on the Commission to allow and indeed encourage – drawing on the lessons learnt during the last market crises particularly in the dairy sector – ~~active~~the complementary use of innovative market and crisis management instruments, such as voluntary sector agreements to manage, and if appropriate reduce, supply in quantitative terms among producers, producers organisations, farmers’ associations and processors, and to examine the possibility of extending such instruments to other sectors;

2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI

2018/2037(INI)

Michel DANTIN, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Herbert DORFMANN, Mairead McGUINNESS, Czesław Adam SIEKIERSKI, Norbert ERDŐS, Daniel BUDA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Alberto CIRIO, Sofia RIBEIRO, Vladimir URUTCHEV, Tom VANDENKENDELAERE, Anne SANDER, Francis ZAMMIT DIMECH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Calls for an in-depth review of the current crisis reserve mechanism in order to create an ~~independent financial instrument~~workable and independent EU fund for agricultural crisis exempt from the budgetary principle of annuality, so as to permit budgetary transfers from one year to the next, thereby enabling quick and effective prevention actions and responses to crisis situations, including those involving animal and plant health, disease- related issues and food safety; Insists that this renewed EU fund for agricultural crisis should be used to complement the post-Omnibus European Risk Management Toolbox in case of severe crisis;

2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI

2018/2037(INI)

Michel DANTIN, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Herbert DORFMANN, Mairead McGUINNESS, Czesław Adam SIEKIERSKI, Nuno MELO, Angélique DELAHAYE, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Alberto CIRIO, Sofia RIBEIRO, Vladimir URUTCHEV, Norbert ERDŐS, Anne SANDER, Francis ZAMMIT DIMECH, Daniel BUDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Believes that while trade agreements are beneficial to the EU agricultural sector overall, and necessary for strengthening the EU’s position on the global agricultural market, they also pose a number of challenges that ~~require reinforc~~need to be tackled, s~~afeguard mechanisms~~uch as respect of EU sanitary and phyto-sanitary standards, to ensure a level playing field between farmers in the EU and in the rest of the world;

2018/03/23
Committee: AGRI

Tom VANDENKENDELAERE, Siegfried MUREŞAN, Gabriel MATO, Anne SANDER

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas Europe still faces a ~~huge~~n investment ~~deficit~~gap, even though it has benefitted from exceptionally low interest rates for years and financing conditions remain very favourable;

2018/07/16
Committee: ECON

Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Urges the Commission to investigate, for its part, possible trade- distorting US farm subsidies, for example in the case of aid for the almond sector;

2018/05/03
Committee: AGRI

Michel DANTIN, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 69 – paragraph 4

4. Member States shall grant support in the form of lump sums. Support shall be limited to the maximum amount ~~of EUR 100 000~~provided for in Annex IXb and may be combined with financial instruments.

2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Michel DANTIN, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Mairead McGUINNESS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 70 – paragraph 5 – point c (new)

2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 29

2018/10/25
Committee: PECH

2018/10/25
Committee: PECH

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point f

(f) investment in disposal of waste in landfill, except in the outermost regions in certain duly substantiated cases;

2018/11/06
Committee: REGI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 84 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point b

(b) 2022: ~~0.5~~1 %;

2018/11/15
Committee: REGI

2018/0196(COD)

Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 84 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point c

2018/11/15
Committee: REGI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18

(18) For vessels ~~of 12 metres’ length or more~~that do not belong to the small-scale coastal fishing fleet, it is important that the information in the logbook isbe made more accurate and includes data on the catches by haul or by operation, as this will enhance the effectiveness of controls. In the case of vessels ~~less than 12 metres’ length~~that belong to the small-scale coastal fishing fleet, the obligations pertaining to the completion and submission of the logbook should be simplified ~~and masters should only be required to submit the information contained in logbook once, before arrival at port~~.

2019/02/07
Committee: PECH

2018/0193(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point k a (new)

Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point 34 a (new)

(ka) the following point is added: ‘34a. ‘small-scale coastal fleet’ means fishing vessels presenting at least three of the following five characteristics: (a) having an overall length of less than 12 metres; (b) operating exclusively within the territorial waters of the flag state; (c) making fishing trips of less than 24 hours from the time of departure to the return to port; (d) having a crew of no more than four persons; (e) using selective, low- environmental-impact fishing gear .’

2020/05/20
Committee: PECH

2018/0193(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point k b (new)

Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point 34 b (new)

(kb) the following point is added: “34b. ‘fishing without vessels’ means engaging in a fishing activity without using a fishing vessel, such as shellfishing, fishing on foot or ice fishing.”

2020/05/20
Committee: PECH

2018/0193(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19

(19) TIn the provisions on the margin of tolerance in logbook estimates of quantities of fish retained on board ~~should be amended to take into account the new rules pertaining to the reporting of catches below 50 kg in logbooks. In addition, the provisions on th~~, an accurate estimate of the weight of the species caught should be sought, while appropriate margins of tolerance ~~should be amended in order to address the specificity of catches which are landed unsort~~are established.

2019/02/07
Committee: PECH

2018/0193(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20

(20) When a fishing vessel departs, it should immediately start an electronic logbook and a unique fishing trip identifier number is assigned for that trip. The logbook, transhipment declarations and landing declarations should include a reference to this unique fishing trip identifier number to allow enhanced controls and to improve the validation of the data by Member States and the traceability of fishery products in the supply chain. In order to improve and simplify the transmission of information on fishing gear losses to Member State competent authorities, the logbook format should include information on lost gears. By way of derogation, masters of Union fishing vessels belonging to the small- scale coastal fleet with catches of less than 1 000 kg of TAC and quota species per year should not have to start an electronic logbook.

2019/02/07
Committee: PECH

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 33

2019/02/07
Committee: PECH

2018/0193(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6

Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1

Union fishing vessels subject to this requirement shall have installed on board a ~~fully functioning~~ device which allows that vessel to be automatically located and identified by a vessel monitoring system through transmitting vessel position data at regular intervals.

2020/05/20
Committee: PECH

2018/0193(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 41

(41) The weighing should be performed on systems approved by the competent authorities and by operators registered by Member States to carry out that task. All products should be weighed per species upon landing, unless the Member State has adopted a sampling plan approved by the Commission and drawn up in line with the risk-based methodology adopted by the Commission, as this will guarantee a more accurate reporting of the catches. Furthermore, weighing records should be recorded electronically and kept for three years.

2019/02/07
Committee: PECH

2018/0193(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6

Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009
Article 9 – paragraph 3

3. By way of derogation from paragraph 2, masters of Union fishing vessels belo~~w 12 metres’ length overall~~nging to the small-scale coastal fleet may carry on board a mobile device which allows the vessel to be automatically located and identified by a vessel monitoring system through recording and transmitting vessel position data at regular intervals. In case the device is not within reach of a mobile network, the vessel position data shall be recorded during that period of time and shall be transmitted as soon as the vessel is in reach of such network and at the latest before ~~entering port~~landing its catches.

2020/05/20
Committee: PECH

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18

Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009
Article 19 a – paragraph 1

2019/02/07
Committee: PECH

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 49

Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009
Article 60 – paragraph 5 – point c

(c) In the case of fishery products destined for human consumption: a second weighing per species of fisheries products is performed by a registered weigher. That second weighing may take place, after transport, at an auction centre, at the premises of a registered buyer or producer organisation. The result of that second weighing shall be transmitted to the master.deleted

2020/05/15
Committee: PECH

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 56

Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009
Article 68 – paragraph 5

2020/05/15
Committee: PECH

2018/0193(COD)

Gabriel MATO, Alain CADEC, Ricardo SERRÃO SANTOS, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Maurice PONGA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 56

Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009
Article 68 – paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. The transporter shall be exempt from the requirements laid down in this Article if: (a) the transport document is replaced by a copy of the declaration from the electronic logbook, or the landing declaration pertaining to the quantities transported, or any equivalent document; and (b) these documents contain the same information as indicated in paragraph 4.

2020/05/15
Committee: PECH

2018/0193(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 86 a (new)

Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009
Article 118a (new)

(86a) The following Article 118 a (new) is inserted: Article 118a (new) In the case of French Guiana, whose vast territory suffers from a structurally inadequate internet coverage, and whose extensive coastline offers a large number of landing spots with little or no electronic infrastructure, a period of up to 72 hours in total is granted for the various electronic operations provided for in Articles 15, 17 22, 24, 58, 62 and 66.

2019/02/07
Committee: PECH

2018/0193(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 60

Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009
Article 74 – paragraph 3 – point f

(f) the use of CCTVs and other electronic monitoring devices, where applicable;

2020/05/15
Committee: PECH

2018/0193(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – paragraph 1

Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009
Annex IV – table – row 1 – column 2 – indent 2 (criteria)

~~– the infringement is the second one detected in the preceding twelve months;~~deleted

2019/02/07
Committee: PECH

Danuta Maria HÜBNER, Gabriel MATO, Fulvio MARTUSCIELLO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4

(4) The objectives of the CFP are, inter alia, to ensure that fishing and aquaculture are environmentally sustainable in the long term and that fishing and aquaculture activities are managed in a manner consistent with the objectives of generating economic, social and employment benefits, to apply the precautionary approach to fisheries management, and to implement the ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management.

2018/08/10
Committee: PECH

2018/0074(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 a (new)

Article 1 a Review By [six months after the entry into force of this amending Regulation] the Commission shall review and report on the interaction with Regulation (EU) 2017/2395 with a view to ensuring supervisory coherence. By [two years after entry into force of this amending Regulation], the Commission shall review and report on the impact, effectiveness and outcomes of this amending Regulation, and in particular on its interaction with the supervisory reporting framework, the other actions taken at national and EU level to tackle NPLs and develop a secondary market, and the institution-specific supervisory practices.

2018/11/23
Committee: ECON

2018/0050(COD)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26

(26) Where scientific advice shows that the fishing effort regime is not sufficient to meet the objectives or targets of the plan provided for in this Regulation, ~~management measures based on total allowable catch~~where appropriate, technical measures that allow for the improvement of the stock status by reducing the fishing mortality of the target species should be introduced in order to complement the effort regime.

2018/10/16
Committee: PECH

2018/0050(COD)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 28

(28) In order to protect nursery areas and sensitive habitats, and safeguard small- scale fisheries, the coastal zone should be regularly reserved for more selective fisheries. Therefore, the plan provided for in this Regulation should establish a closure for trawls operating within the 100 m isobath for three months each year on a case-by-case basis, when necessary and justified by science, through regionalisation.

2018/10/16
Committee: PECH

2018/0050(COD)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 12a (new)

(12a) ‘co-management’ means the process of managing fisheries resources in which governments share power with local fishing communities, scientists and NGOs, and each party is given specific responsibilities and rights relating to disclosure and decision-making in the management of fisheries resources.

2018/10/16
Committee: PECH

2018/0050(COD)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1

1. The target fishing mortality in line with the ranges of FMSY defined in Article 2 shall be achieved as soon as possible, and on a progressive, incremental basis ~~by 2020~~in five years from the entry into force of this regulation for the stocks concerned, and shall be maintained thereafter within the ranges of FMSY. In the pursuit of this objective, account shall be taken of the economic and social impact of the calendar proposed as established in Article 9 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013.

2018/10/16
Committee: PECH

2018/0050(COD)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3

3. In accordance with Article 16(4) of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013, when the Council fixes fishing ~~opportuniti~~effort measures, it shall establish those ~~opportuniti~~measures for the assemblage of stocks concerned, within the range of FMSY available at that time for the most vulnerable stock.

2018/10/16
Committee: PECH

2018/0050(COD)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 4

4. By way of derogation from paragraphs 1 and 3, fishing ~~opportuniti~~effort measures may be set at levels that are lower than the ranges of FMSY.

2018/10/16
Committee: PECH

2018/0050(COD)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 5 – introductory part

5. By way of derogation from paragraphs 3 and 4, fishing ~~opportuniti~~effort measures may be set above the range of FMSY available at that time for the most vulnerable stock, provided that all stocks concerned are above the BPA:

2018/10/16
Committee: PECH

2018/0050(COD)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 5 – point c

(c) in order to limit variations in fishing ~~opportuniti~~measures between consecutive years to a maximum of 210 % and up to 30 % of the cumulative effort in the first five years of the plan.

2018/10/16
Committee: PECH

2018/0050(COD)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1

1. Where the scientific advice shows that the spawning biomass of any of the stocks concerned is below the precautionary reference point (BPA), remedial measures shall be adopted to ensure the rapid return of the stocks concerned to levels above those capable of producing MSY. In particular, by way of derogation from Article 4(3) and (5), fishing ~~opportuniti~~effort measures shall be set at levels consistent with a fishing mortality that is reduced within the range of FMSY for the most vulnerable stock, taking into account the decrease in biomass.

2018/10/16
Committee: PECH

2018/0050(COD)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2

2. Where the scientific advice shows that the spawning biomass of any of the stocks concerned is below the limit reference point (BLIM), further remedial measures shall be taken to ensure the rapid return of the stock to levels above those capable of producing MSY. In particular, by way of derogation from Article 4(3) and (5), those measures may include suspending the targeted fishery for the stock concerned and the adequate reduction of the fishing ~~opportuniti~~effort measures.

2018/10/16
Committee: PECH

2018/0050(COD)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Proposal for a regulation
Chapter 3 – title

FISHING ~~OPPORTUNITI~~EFFORT MEASURES

2018/10/16
Committee: PECH

2018/0050(COD)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 4 – point a

(a) for the first year of application of this Regulation, the baseline shall be calculated for each ~~effort group as the average effort~~geographical subarea expressed as the maximum number of proven fishing days ~~between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2017 and take account only of vessels active during that period~~through either VMS, sales notes, or logbooks in a reference period from2012 to 2016. A minimum threshold of days from which no further reduction will be permitted shall be set through regionalisation in accordance with article 18 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013;

2018/10/16
Committee: PECH

2018/0050(COD)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 6

6. Where the scientific advice shows that recreational fisheries have a significant impact on the fishing mortality of a particular stock, the Council may limit recreational fisheries when setting fishing ~~opportuniti~~effort measures in order to avoid exceeding the total target of fishing mortality.

2018/10/16
Committee: PECH

2018/0050(COD)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – title

8 ~~Total allowable catch~~Safeguard measures

2018/10/16
Committee: PECH

2018/0050(COD)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1

Where the best available scientific advice shows that the fishing effort regime is not sufficient to meet the objectives or targets set out in Articles 3 and 4, the Council shall adopt complementary ~~management measures based on total allowable catch~~technical measures that allow for the improvement of the stock status by reducing the fishing mortality of the target species.

2018/10/16
Committee: PECH

2018/0050(COD)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 5

5. Member States shall ensure that the total capacity, expressed in GT and kW, corresponding to the fishing authorisations issued in accordance with paragraph 4 is not increased during the period of application of the plan. An exchange of capacity between the different management areas shall be permitted, should the improvement in the state of the resources allows for it.

2018/10/16
Committee: PECH

2018/0050(COD)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 7a (new)

7a. Where appropriate and with the aim to improve the state of stocks that are declining, Member States may establish co-management committees in order to ensure optimal adaptation of the plan to the local specificities of a fishery.

2018/10/16
Committee: PECH

2018/0050(COD)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1

1. In addition to what is provided for by Article 13 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1967/2006, the use of trawls in the western Mediterranean Sea shall be prohibited within the 100 m isobath from 1 MaJuly to 31 ~~July~~September each year, when necessary and justified by science, in accordance with article 18 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013.

2018/10/16
Committee: PECH

2017/2253(INI)

Alain LAMASSOURE, Markus FERBER, Anne SANDER, Gabriel MATO, Fulvio MARTUSCIELLO, Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas equivalence is ~~a tool to promote international regulatory convergence, which may lead to more competition in the EU on a level playing field, while preventing regulatory arbitrage~~forth and foremost a sovereign tool to promote equality of treatment between third country entities and EU firms, which may lead to international regulatory convergence, while preventing regulatory arbitrage and preserving the integrity of the single market and its competitiveness;

2018/05/04
Committee: ECON

2017/2253(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

F a. whereas the negotiations for the withdrawal of the UK from the EU are still ongoing;

2018/05/04
Committee: ECON

2017/2253(INI)

Alain LAMASSOURE, Anne SANDER, Gabriel MATO, Tom VANDENKENDELAERE, Fulvio MARTUSCIELLO, Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Considers that the EU should promote global financial regulatory reforms aimed at reducing systemic risk and should work towards an open, integrated and resilient financial system that supports sustainable and socially- inclusive economic growth, job creation and investment;

2018/05/04
Committee: ECON

2017/2253(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Notes that the Member States may not always entirely support international cooperation owing to concerns about the protection of national interests and the inherent incentive to shift risks to other jurisdictions;deleted

2018/05/04
Committee: ECON

2017/2253(INI)

Alain LAMASSOURE, Markus FERBER, Anne SANDER, Gabriel MATO, Tom VANDENKENDELAERE, Fulvio MARTUSCIELLO, Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Notes that several EU legislative acts contain specific provisions for regulatory cooperation with third countries, including the possibility to conclude ~~int~~coopernational agreements for supervisory and enforcement purposes and to grant ‘equivalence’;

2018/05/04
Committee: ECON

2017/2253(INI)

Alain LAMASSOURE, Anne SANDER, Gabriel MATO, Tom VANDENKENDELAERE, Fulvio MARTUSCIELLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses that, in many cases, the granting of equivalence is a unilateral decision taken by the EU and is not applied in a reciprocal manner by third countries; considers that international cooperation could be better advanced by dint of international agreements negotiated between the EU and third countries; notes that, unlike equivalence, international agreements can provide mutual access between the EU and third countries for financial institutions and for the mutual recognition of rulesdoes not systematically require a reciprocal application on behalf of the third country;

2018/05/04
Committee: ECON

2017/2253(INI)

Alain LAMASSOURE, Markus FERBER, Anne SANDER, Gabriel MATO, Fulvio MARTUSCIELLO, Werner LANGEN, Othmar KARAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Recognises that the EU’s equivalence regime is an integral part of a number of the legislative acts forming its regulatory framework for financial services and can offer several benefits, such as: the removal of unnecessary regulatory barriers, increased competition, increased capital flows into the EU, and more instruments and investment choices for EU firms and investors;

2018/05/04
Committee: ECON

2017/2253(INI)

Alain LAMASSOURE, Markus FERBER, Anne SANDER, Gabriel MATO, Tom VANDENKENDELAERE, Fulvio MARTUSCIELLO, Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Reiterates that, in some cases, equivalence decisions do not grant financial institutions comparable rights to passport financial services throughout the EU, but recognises that they may give third-country institutions ~~limited~~ access to the single market for certain products or services;

2018/05/04
Committee: ECON

2017/2253(INI)

Alain LAMASSOURE, Anne SANDER, Gabriel MATO, Tom VANDENKENDELAERE, Fulvio MARTUSCIELLO, Othmar KARAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Emphasises that ~~one of~~ the key objectives for equivalence is to promote regulatory convergence on the basis of international standards and to balance the needs of financial stability and investor protection in the EU on the one hand with the benefits of maintaining an open and globally integrated EU financial markets on the other ;

2018/05/04
Committee: ECON

2017/2253(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Considers that, as it stands, the EU’s process for granting equivalence lacks ~~certainty and~~ sufficient transparency, and requires a structured and practical framework outlining clear procedures and guidelines as regards the level of granularity of the assessment to be performed by the Commission;

2018/05/04
Committee: ECON

2017/2253(INI)

Alain LAMASSOURE, Anne SANDER, Gabriel MATO, Fulvio MARTUSCIELLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Questions the rationale behind equivalence decisions typically taking the form of implementing acts; insists that the process for granting equivalence to a third country in the area of financial services should ~~always~~, in the most important cases, be scrutinised by Parliament and that, owing to their political nature, and for the purposes of greater transparency, ~~these~~such decisions should be taken by means of delegated acts;

2018/05/04
Committee: ECON

2017/2253(INI)

Alain LAMASSOURE, Anne SANDER, Gabriel MATO, Fulvio MARTUSCIELLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Notes that the Commission has the right to withdraw equivalence decisions, and believes that Parliament should be consulted in a timely manner before such a withdrawal decision is taken; calls for the introduction of clear procedures ~~and timelines~~ governing the adoption, withdrawal or suspension of equivalence decisions;

2018/05/04
Committee: ECON

2017/2253(INI)

Alain LAMASSOURE, Anne SANDER, Gabriel MATO, Tom VANDENKENDELAERE, Fulvio MARTUSCIELLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Calls on the Commission to ~~adopt a legislative act~~ establish~~ing~~ a clear framework for a transparent, coherent and consistent application of equivalence procedures, which introduces a standardised process for the determination of equivalence and a detailed and granular assessment of third- country legal frameworks; calls for such clarification to take place in the context of an inter-institutional agreement between the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission;

2018/05/04
Committee: ECON

2017/2253(INI)

Alain LAMASSOURE, Anne SANDER, Gabriel MATO, Markus FERBER, Tom VANDENKENDELAERE, Fulvio MARTUSCIELLO, Werner LANGEN, Othmar KARAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls for equivalence decisions to be reviewed at least once every three years, or in any case of changes in the third country’s regulatory framework which would call the equivalence decision into question, by the relevant ESA and for such reviews to be made public;

2018/05/04
Committee: ECON

2017/2253(INI)

Alain LAMASSOURE, Anne SANDER, Gabriel MATO, Tom VANDENKENDELAERE, Fulvio MARTUSCIELLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Calls on the Commission to consider the possibility of introducing an application process for granting equivalence which could be opened to third countries on a date specified in a given piece of legislation;deleted

2018/05/04
Committee: ECON

2017/2253(INI)

Alain LAMASSOURE, Anne SANDER, Gabriel MATO, Fulvio MARTUSCIELLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Calls on the Commission to conduct an in-depth review of all equivalence decisions taken, in order to determine the successes and failures of the current equivalence regime, and to assess whether the equivalence framework currently contained in EU legislative acts can lead to a more favourable treatment of third-country firms compared to that of EU firms;

2018/05/04
Committee: ECON

2017/2253(INI)

Alain LAMASSOURE, Anne SANDER, Burkhard BALZ, Gabriel MATO, Tom VANDENKENDELAERE, Fulvio MARTUSCIELLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Recalls the importance of National Competent Authorities (NCAs) in the authorisation process for financial institutions that wish to delegate part of their portfolio management or risk management to service providers in third countries where the regulatory regime is comparable to that of the EU; considers that NCAs have sufficient technical knowledge and expertise to properly assess delegation approval requests; encourages the ESAs to develop further cooperation between NCAs in order to share best practice concerning regulatory cooperation and activities with third countries;deleted

2018/05/04
Committee: ECON

2017/2226(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas private consumption growth is expected to drop slightly next year before easing in 2019, as a result of higher inflation compared to last year, ~~which is dampening the purchasing power of households and this effect is likely to be only partially mitigated by lower private savings~~although still below the ECB target of 2%;

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2226(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas tax avoidance, tax evasion and aggressive tax planning have caused billions in losses of potential revenues for the public finances of several Member States, to the benefit of some large corporations;

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2226(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses the importance of a productivity increase followed by a wage increase at European level in order to boost private consumption as the main support for growth; points out the need to focus on the interaction between monetary, fiscal and incomes (including wage and profit development) policies rather than only fiscal issues;

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2226(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19 a. Welcomes the proposal of the European Commission to establish a European Monetary Fund, anchored to the EU’s legal framework;

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2208(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas artisanal fishing uses gear and techniques that have less impact on the status of endangered stocks;

2017/12/05
Committee: PECH

2017/2208(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)

Bb. whereas the measures affecting these regions that are adopted as part of the common fisheries policy must be sustainable from the social and economic point of view so as to ensure that artisanal fishing remains viable;whereas the species fished in coastal fisheries are extremely valuable in socio-economic terms even though they account for only a small proportion of commercial fisheries;

2017/12/05
Committee: PECH

2017/2208(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)

Bc. whereas Article 17 of the CFP stipulates that 'when allocating the fishing opportunities available to them, (...) Member States shall use transparent and objective criteria (...).The criteria to be used may include, inter alia, (...) the contribution to the local economy (...).' Within this framework, the European Union must pay particular attention to the fleets of the less developed regions;

2017/12/05
Committee: PECH

2017/2208(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas the outermost regions (ORs) face strong structural constraints that seriously hinder their development;whereas Article 349 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) confers special status on the ORs, as 'least developed regions', and provides for the adoption of ‘specific measures' aimed at laying down the conditions of application of the Treaties to those regions;

2017/12/05
Committee: PECH

2017/2208(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital D b (new)

Db. whereas it should be noted that, because of the particular geographical characteristics of the outermost regions and their extreme remoteness from Europe, coastal fishing is integral to the economic development of these regions;

2017/12/05
Committee: PECH

2017/2208(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls for the full application of Article 349 TFEU in the European Union’s policies, regulations, funds and programmes relating to fisheries, particularly in the EMFF, in order to respond to the specific difficulties encountered by the ORs;

2017/12/05
Committee: PECH

2017/2208(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Calls on the Commission, in order to allow the survival of the fisheries sector in the outermost regions and in compliance with the principles of differential treatment for small islands and territories mentioned in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14, to introduce supporting measures based on Article 349 of the TFEU to allow the funding (at EU or national level) of the outermost regions’ artisanal and traditional fishing vessels which land all their catches in ports in the outermost regions and contribute to local sustainable development, so as to increase human safety, comply with European hygiene standards, fight illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and achieve greater environmental efficiency;

2017/12/05
Committee: PECH

2017/2193(INI)

Tokia SAÏFI, Franck PROUST, Michel DANTIN, Angélique DELAHAYE, Maurice PONGA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)

- having regard to the study on the cumulative effects of future trade agreements on EU agriculture published by the Commission on 15 November 2016;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2193(INI)

Tokia SAÏFI, Franck PROUST, Michel DANTIN, Angélique DELAHAYE, Maurice PONGA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas the European agricultural sector and certain agricultural products, such as beef, veal, sheepmeat, dairy products, cereals and sugar – including special sugars – are particularly sensitive issues in these negotiations;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2193(INI)

Tokia SAÏFI, Franck PROUST, Michel DANTIN, Angélique DELAHAYE, Maurice PONGA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)

Db. whereas New Zealand is the world’s leading exporter of butter, the second largest exporter of powdered milk and is also a major player in the global export market for beef, veal and sheepmeat and other dairy products;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2193(INI)

Tokia SAÏFI, Franck PROUST, Michel DANTIN, Angélique DELAHAYE, Maurice PONGA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls on the Commission to anticipate and take account of the consequences of the UK leaving the European Union on these negotiations, particularly when preparing the exchange of offers and calculating quotas;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2193(INI)

Tokia SAÏFI, Franck PROUST, Michel DANTIN, Angélique DELAHAYE, Maurice PONGA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point g a (new)

(ga) Monitoring measures and safeguard clauses that can be activated in an effective and timely manner in the event of market disturbance and difficulties affecting producers;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2193(INI)

Tokia SAÏFI, Franck PROUST, Michel DANTIN, Angélique DELAHAYE, Maurice PONGA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point g b (new)

(gb) Specific, unambiguous provisions on the treatment accorded to overseas countries and territories (OCTs) and the outermost regions (ORs) so as to ensure that due account is paid to their particular interests in the negotiations;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2192(INI)

Tokia SAÏFI, Franck PROUST, Michel DANTIN, Angélique DELAHAYE, Maurice PONGA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)

- having regard to the study on the cumulative effects of future trade agreements on EU agriculture published by the Commission on 15 November 2016;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2192(INI)

Tokia SAÏFI, Franck PROUST, Michel DANTIN, Angélique DELAHAYE, Maurice PONGA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas the European agricultural sector and certain agricultural products, such as beef, lamb, dairy products, cereals or sugar – including special sugars – are particularly sensitive issues in these negotiations;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2192(INI)

Tokia SAÏFI, Franck PROUST, Michel DANTIN, Angélique DELAHAYE, Maurice PONGA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)

Db. whereas Australia is the world’s third largest exporter of both beef and sugar, and is a major player in the global export market for dairy products and cereals;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2192(INI)

Tokia SAÏFI, Franck PROUST, Michel DANTIN, Angélique DELAHAYE, Maurice PONGA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls on the Commission to anticipate and take account of the consequences of the UK leaving the European Union on these negotiations, in particular in preparing the exchange of offers and calculating quotas;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2192(INI)

Tokia SAÏFI, Franck PROUST, Michel DANTIN, Angélique DELAHAYE, Maurice PONGA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point f

(f) Enforceable measures covering the recognition and protection of intellectual property rights, including geographical indications (GIs) for agricultural and foodstuff products, and for wines and spirits, taking as a benchmark the EU- Australia agreement's provisions protecting the wine sector, while striving to improve the existing legal framework and to ensure a high level of protection for all geographical indications;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2192(INI)

Tokia SAÏFI, Franck PROUST, Michel DANTIN, Angélique DELAHAYE, Maurice PONGA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point g a (new)

(ga) Monitoring measures and safeguard clauses that can be activated in an effective and timely manner in the event of a market disturbance and difficulties affecting producers;

2017/09/21
Committee: INTA

2017/2192(INI)

7a. Based on the data and the impact assessment report, the Commission should evaluate the role of recreational fisheries in the future CFP, so that both types of maritime fishing – commercial and recreational – could be managed in a balanced, fair and sustainable manner with a view to achieving the desired objectives;

2018/03/01
Committee: PECH

2017/2120(INI)

Norica NICOLAI, Werner KUHN, Gabriel MATO, Rosa D'AMATO, Ruža TOMAŠIĆ, Alain CADEC, António MARINHO E PINTO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Jens GIESEKE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Reminds that the EMFF provides funds for data collection, including recreational fisheries; calls upon the Commission to widen the future scope of the EMFF in order to provide financial support for research and analysis of the data collected;

2018/03/01
Committee: PECH

2017/2120(INI)

Norica NICOLAI, Werner KUHN, Gabriel MATO, Rosa D'AMATO, Ruža TOMAŠIĆ, Alain CADEC, António MARINHO E PINTO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Jens GIESEKE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8b. Reminds that traceability is the best tool in determining and controlling when recreational fishing becomes semi- subsistence fishing;

2018/03/01
Committee: PECH

2017/2119(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 b (new)

- having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 6 July 2017 on promoting cohesion and development in the outermost regions of the EU,

2018/03/05
Committee: PECH

2017/2119(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)

- having regard to the Commission’s new strategy for 'A renewed and reinforced strategic partnership with the outermost regions of the European Union’ published on 24 October 2017,

2018/03/05
Committee: PECH

2017/2119(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 c (new)

- having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 27 April 2017 on the management of fishing fleets in the outermost regions,

2018/03/05
Committee: PECH

2017/2119(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

Ga. whereas fisheries in the Outermost Regions face constraints of their own, recognised in Article 349 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which also affect their structuring;

2018/03/05
Committee: PECH

2017/2119(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission and Member States to take the necessary action to facilitate the creation of POs, removing the bureaucratic hurdles in the procedure established; points out that it is also necessary to boost the activities of POs, further empowering them and facilitating access to the necessary financial support so that they can carry out a wider variety of tasks in addition to day-to-day fisheries management, while respecting a framework defined by the objectives of the CFP, particularly for the outermost regions, which must be able to locally adapt the functioning of producer organisations and inter-branch organisations in their territories, which are characterised by remoteness, isolation, small size, the prevalence of small-scale fishing and a high degree of vulnerability to imports;

2018/03/05
Committee: PECH

2017/2119(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission and Member States to help and encourage producer organisations to include the value chain in production and marketing plans, with the aim of adapting supply to demand, ~~thus~~securing a fair income for fishermen and ensuring that European consumers find products that meet their needs, taking account of differences; points out that, in this context, marketing strategies tailored to specific local features are an essential tool, which would embrace sectoral and/or product-based campaigns and which would help to improve consumer information and awareness, including marking and labelling that provides comprehensible information;

2018/03/05
Committee: PECH

2017/2119(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. In order to ensure a level-playing field between imported and EU fisheries and aquaculture products marketed on its territory, the EU should require that all products comply with the same level of conservation and management measures, as well as hygiene requirements imposed by EU legislation.

2018/03/05
Committee: PECH

2017/2119(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Insists on a stricter implementation of the EU legislation on labelling and consumer information, both in retail markets and in the hotel, restaurant and catering sector (HORECA); believes this is important for all fisheries products, both imported and EU-produced; considers that the implementation of the Control Regulation should be reinforced to this end in all Member States and that regulations should be adapted to cover all stages of the supply chain;

2018/03/05
Committee: PECH

2017/2118(INI)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18 a. Stresses that, where implementation of EU legislation is problematic or inconsistent, guidelines on its interpretation and best practices should be issued;

2018/03/06
Committee: PECH

2017/2118(INI)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22 a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that trade agreements with third partners condition preferential market access to the respect of sustainability and animal welfare standards equivalent to those applicable in the EU;

2018/03/06
Committee: PECH

2017/2118(INI)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Calls on the Commission to encourage strong and long-lasting EU generic campaigns explaining the sustainability merits of EU aquaculture products, focusing on their high quality, animal welfare and environmental standards compared to those imported from third countries, as in the case of the label ‘Farmed in the EU’;

2018/03/06
Committee: PECH

2017/2118(INI)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36

36. Points out that cooperation between the scientific community ~~and aquaculture producers~~on the one hand, and on the other hand aquaculture producers and others upstream and downstream of producers, should be strengthened;

2018/03/06
Committee: PECH

2017/2118(INI)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41

~~41. Requests that a precondition for Member State access to EMFF funding should be having fully attained at least 50 % of the goals identified in the national strategic plans;~~deleted

2018/03/06
Committee: PECH

2017/2118(INI)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42

42. Stresses that stronger support is needed for producer and inter-branch organisations so that they can become pillars of the CMO;

2018/03/06
Committee: PECH

2017/2118(INI)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43 a (new)

43 a. Stresses that marine aquaculture is compatible and complementary with coastal fishing in the outermost regions, and calls on the Commission to support the development of farming and varietal- selection techniques in the warm waters of tropical or subtropical areas; calls on the Commission to highlight the role played by women in non-industrial coastal fishing and all associated activities;

2018/03/06
Committee: PECH

2017/2117(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas sheep- and goat-farming play an important role in ensuring environmental sustainability, particularly where they are based on grazing, being as they are present in 70% of geographically disadvantaged areas and contribute to preserving biodiversity and combating soil erosion, the build-up of unwanted biomass, avalanches and forest fires;

2017/11/28
Committee: AGRI

2017/2117(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas this sector is affected by a high level of ageing, and generational renewal needs to be improved in order to guarantee the survival of this type of livestock farming and help curb the rapid depopulation of many rural regions;

2017/11/28
Committee: AGRI

2017/2117(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)

Db. whereas women carry out significant work in this sector, even though their role is often invisible, and they face difficulties owing to the scarcity of basic services and family support services in many regions;

2017/11/28
Committee: AGRI

2017/2117(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Recital M

M. whereas the protection afforded to certain animal species under the Habitats Directive has led to increased attacks on herds of sheep and goats by wolves, bears ~~and lynxe~~, lynxes and above all feral dogs, thus worsening the precarious situation in which some farms find themselves;

2017/11/28
Committee: AGRI

2017/2117(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Endorses the recommendations published by the 2016 EU Sheepmeat Forum, held under the aegis of the Commission, in particular the need to compensate the sector for the environmental role it plays, especially where it is based on grazing; takes the view that these recommendations are equally valid for the sectors of goatmeat and ewe’s and goat’s milk products;

2017/11/28
Committee: AGRI

2017/2117(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Commends the Commission on its intention to set up a dedicated budget line for those products in the next promotion campaigns co-financed by the Union, and advocates the need to include wool and pelts among the beneficiary products;

2017/11/28
Committee: AGRI

2017/2117(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Supports maintaining or, where possible, increasing coupled aid for sheep- and goat-farming in the forthcoming reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), including differentiated subsidies for grazing herds, with a view to arresting the drain of farmers from these sectors in the EU, in view of the high rate of dependence of sheep- and goat-farmers on direct payments;

2017/11/28
Committee: AGRI

2017/2117(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

5a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to take into consideration the specific problems outlined by organisations representing women employed in this sector, improving their visibility, among other measures, and promoting ownership and co-ownership, as well as the introduction of the necessary family support services;

2017/11/28
Committee: AGRI

2017/2117(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Considers it necessary to promote the concentration of supply among farmers in cooperatives and producer organisations that will boost their bargaining power in the food chain, add value to their members’ production and facilitate activities that will lead to cost savings, such as export measures, innovation, input purchasing and livestock consultancy;

2017/11/28
Committee: AGRI

2017/2117(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Calls on the Commission to look into the possibility of exempting wool from the requirements of Regulation 1069/2009 and Regulation 142/2011 on the treatment of animal by-products, since it is not intended for human consumption;

2017/11/28
Committee: AGRI

2017/2115(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission to inc~~lude a new direct support scheme for beekeepers based on colony numbers in its proposals for the common agricultural policy post-2020~~rease the budget line earmarked for beekeepers in its proposals for the common agricultural policy post-2020, taking into account the rising number of colonies recorded in recent years;

2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI

2017/2115(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Supports the idea of ~~the Member States making it obligatory to~~introducing common EU rules on compulsory labelling indicateing the place of origin of ~~the honey on~~ honey and other bee ~~products, as is the case with certain meat and dairy~~ products;

2017/09/12
Committee: AGRI

2017/2114(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the GDP growth rate for the euro area was 1.8 % in 2016 and is set to remain steady at 1.7 % in 2017 and at 1.9 % in the EU overall, surpassing pre- crisis levels while still being insufficient; whereas significant differences in growth rates remain across the EU, ranging between 0.0 % and 5.2 %;

2017/07/10
Committee: ECON

2017/2114(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that Europe harbours untapped economic potential as growth and employment are advancing unevenly; underlines that this is the result of the heterogeneous performance of the Member States’ economies; emphasises that the implementation of structural reforms in the Member States could facilitate at least 1 % higher growth, as already evidenced in certain Member States;

2017/07/10
Committee: ECON

2017/2114(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Points out that cohesion policy is the EU's principal investment activity, seeking to promote job creation, business competitiveness, economic growth and sustainable development, while improving the quality of life of citizens in all regions and municipalities of the European Union;

2017/07/10
Committee: ECON

2017/2114(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Takes the view that reforms to improve the business climate are needed to boost productivity, competitiveness and employment in the euro area; underlines in this context the importance of supply-side reforms;

2017/07/10
Committee: ECON

2017/2114(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Considers that reforms removing investment bottlenecks would allow for immediate support for economic activity and at the same time set the conditions for long-term sustainable growth;

2017/07/10
Committee: ECON

2017/2114(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Takes the view that a timely agreement in the ongoing negotiations on the revised European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) ~~could help to~~will improve the effectiveness of this instrument and to address shortcomings experienced in its implementation so far;

2017/07/10
Committee: ECON

2017/2114(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Pilar AYUSO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Welcomes the fact that deficits in the euro area ~~are projected to~~have declined; is concerned, however, that this process is slowing down and agrees that government debt remains too high in some Member States;

2017/07/10
Committee: ECON

2017/2088(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the ageing of the agricultural workforce is especially acute in livestock-raising sectors, particularly sheep and goat farming, owing to existing limits on its profitability;

2018/01/26
Committee: AGRI

2017/2088(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Pilar AYUSO, Nuno MELO

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the shortage of young people pursuing careers in farming is jeopardising the economic and social sustainability of rural areas and the food sufficiency of the European Union;

2018/01/26
Committee: AGRI

2017/2088(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Pilar AYUSO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph –1 (new)

-1. Advocates maintaining a strong Common Agricultural Policy with a view to the forthcoming reform given that this would constitute the most attractive incentive for young people wishing to engage in an agricultural activity;

2018/01/26
Committee: AGRI

2017/2088(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Pilar AYUSO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Welcomes the amendments supporting young people brought in by the Omnibus Regulation by improving their access to financial instruments and proving for an increase in the single payment under the first pillar;

2018/01/26
Committee: AGRI

2017/2088(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Pilar AYUSO, Nuno MELO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Congratulates the European Commission on its intention to deepen the measures promoting generational renewal in the forthcoming reform of the CAP but considers that these new initiatives should be covered by a sufficient European budget, since otherwise they will fail to provide the desired incentive effect;

2018/01/26
Committee: AGRI

2017/2088(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Pilar AYUSO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Notes that access to land is the largest barrier to new entrants to farming in Europe and is limited by the low supply of land for sale or rent in many regions, as well as by the competition from other farmers, investors and residential users; ~~consider~~believes that the land access problem is exacerbated by the current direct payment structure, which requires minimal active use of the land and allocates subsidies largely on the basis of land ownership; believes that the existing farmers are incentivised to retain land access in order to retain subsidy access instead of ensuring the best use of the land; recommends increasing the activity levels required to receive payments and to target subsidy payments towards the achievement of particular outcomes (e.g. production of specific environmental or social goods)circumstances limiting access to land in each Member State should be studied and that young people should be encouraged to access this means of production;

2018/01/26
Committee: AGRI

2017/2088(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Pilar AYUSO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. ECalls on the Commission to establish recommendations at European Union level to encourages more active national policies ~~with EU recommendations~~ on access to land ~~with~~based on best practices;

2018/01/26
Committee: AGRI

2017/2088(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Pilar AYUSO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Believes that a proper definition of an active farmer ~~will~~taking into account the specific situation in each Member State should help generational renewal, drive structural change and aid land mobility;

2018/01/26
Committee: AGRI

2017/2088(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Pilar AYUSO, Nuno MELO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Considers it necessary, therefore, to provide critical support to young people wishing to introduce innovative production techniques and processes, such as precision agriculture and conservation systems, which aim to enhance the cost-effectiveness and environmental sustainability of the farming sector;

2018/01/26
Committee: AGRI

2017/2088(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Pilar AYUSO, Nuno MELO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)

18b. Measures to arrest the rural exodus Considers it necessary to offer young farmers long-term prospects so as to arrest the rural exodus, and calls on the Commission and the Member States to look into new initiatives for establishing the infrastructure necessary to support new entrepreneurs and their families in rural areas.

2018/01/26
Committee: AGRI

2017/2072(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 35 a (new)

- having regard to the ESRB March 2015 report on the regulatory treatment of sovereign exposures,

2017/11/24
Committee: ECON

2017/2072(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Reiterates its concerns about the high level of non-performing loans (NPLs) in certain jurisdictions; agrees with the Commission that ‘Member States and banks themselves have a primary responsibility in tackling non-performing loans’4 ; welcomes, nonetheless, the work done by different EU institutions and bodies on this issue as well as the efforts done in some Member States; calls on these actors and the Member States to duly implement the Council conclusions of 11 July 2017 on the action plan to tackle non- performing loans in Europe; _________________ 4 Commission communication on completing the Banking Union, 11 October 2017, p. 15 (COM(2017)0592).

2017/11/24
Committee: ECON

2017/2072(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Recalls that there are risks associated with sovereign debt; notes that in some Member States financial institutions have overly invested in bonds issued by their own governments, ~~constituting excessive ‘home bias’~~reminds that in most euro area countries, euro area sovereign debt exposures of banks (as a proportion of total assets) were considerably larger at the inception of the Economic and Monetary Union than they are now; takes note, in this respect, of the Commission’s ongoing work on the idea of so-called sovereign bond-backed securities (SBBS);

2017/11/24
Committee: ECON

2017/2072(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Recalls that deposit protection is a common concern for all EU citizens; is currently debating the proposal on an EDIS at committee level; notes, in this respect, the Commission’s ~~more proportionate~~ ‘new approach’ to an EDIS as put forward in its communication of 11 October 2017;

2017/11/24
Committee: ECON

2017/2072(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Notes the potential benefits and the likely risks related to the introduction of an EDIS; considers, therefore, risk reduction measures to be essential building blocks laying the foundations for an EDIS; recalls that a common EDIS would reduce the vulnerability of national DGS to large local shocks, ensuring that the level of depositor confidence in a bank would not depend on the bank's location and weakening the link between banks and their national sovereigns;

2017/11/24
Committee: ECON

2017/2057(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Recital G

G. whereas any EU trade negotiation must guarantee the highest levels of social, labour and environmental protection achieved by the parties, and may serve as a tool to promote an agenda of social justice and sustainable development, both in the EU and throughout the world; whereas the modernisation of the AA should be seen as an opportunity for the EU and its Member States to further promote common high standards and commitments in their trade agreements, especially in the areas of labour rights, environmental protection, consumer rights and public welfare; whereas it could be carefully analysed and evaluated whether a sanctions-based mechanism is needed to redress infringements effectively;

2017/06/27
Committee: INTA

2017/2057(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Recital L

L. whereas ~~even if~~ Article 45 of the 2002 EU- Chile AA ~~already~~ includes provisions in the cooperation chapter specifying that it should ‘contribute to strengthening policies and programmes that improve, guarantee and extend the equitable participation of men and women in all sectors of political, economic, social and cultural life’~~, it does not include any particular and binding objective or benchmark in the area of trade1; 1 http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2012/august/t radoc_149881.pdf~~;

2017/06/27
Committee: INTA

2017/2057(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Recital P a (new)

Pa. whereas disproportionately strict conditions to comply with in the Chilean legislation impedes EU fishing vessels to use port facilities in Chile in order to land, tranship, refuel or to get fishing gear;

2017/06/27
Committee: INTA

2017/2057(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point a a (new)

(aa) to ensure that the mandate, negotiations and ratification procedures draw a clear distinction between EU exclusive and shared competences, as deducible from the opinion of the Court of Justice on the EU-Singapore FTA;

2017/06/27
Committee: INTA

2017/2057(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point a a (new)

(aa) to negotiate with Chile two separate agreements clearly distinguishing between a trade and investment agreement only containing issues under EU exclusive competence and a second agreement including the subjects for which the competences are shared, as deducible from the opinion of the Court of Justice on the EU-Singapore FTA, and to fully respect the distribution of competences between the EU and its Member States throughout the negotiation process as well as for the signature and conclusion of the agreements;

2017/06/27
Committee: INTA

2017/2057(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point d

(d) to recall that globalisation and trade policy have recently been subject to intense debate in Europe and elsewhere, because of ~~the~~a potentially unequal distribution of its gains, and to consider that it is necessary to guarantee a more inclusive distribution of the benefits of trade and to provide adequate protection to those which may be disadvantaged in the process, while developing policy action in other spheres beyond the provisions of trade agreements themselves, going from industrial to fiscal and social policies;

2017/06/27
Committee: INTA

2017/2057(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point g

(g) to ensure that a modernised AA guarantees, throughout the entire text, and enshrines, explicitly and unequivocally, the right and the ability of the parties to adopt and apply their own laws and regulations in the public interest, in order to achieve legitimate public policy objectives such as the protection and promotion of public health, social services, public education, safety, the environment, public morals, social or consumer protection, privacy and data protection, and the promotion and protection of cultural diversity; to underline in this regard that no European FTA has ever restricted the legitimate interest of the Union, its Member States or sub-federal entities to regulate in the public interest;

2017/06/27
Committee: INTA

2017/2057(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point l

(l) to ensure that ~~while~~ commitments are made to facilitate the entry and stay of natural persons for business purposes~~, all EU and Member States labour rights, conditions and social security systems are applicable to the employment of workers benefitting from Mode 4 commitments~~;

2017/06/27
Committee: INTA

2017/2057(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point m

(m) to ~~ensure~~include ambitious mechanisms on regulatory cooperation while ensuring that any cooperation on regulatory matters remains voluntary, respect the autonomy of regulatory authorities, must be purely based on enhanced information exchange and administrative cooperation with a view to identifying unnecessary barriers and administrative burdens, and must preserve the precautionary principle; to recall that regulatory cooperation must aim to benefit governance of the global economy by intensified convergence and cooperation on international standards, guaranteeing the highest level of consumer, environmental, social and labour protection;

2017/06/27
Committee: INTA

2017/2057(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point n

(n) to ensure and explicitly foresee that the modernised AA does not prevent the parties’ ability to define, regulate, provide and support public services in the public interest, that it will by no means require governments to privatise any service nor preclude governments from expanding the range of services they supply to the public, and that it will not prevent governments from providing public services previously supplied by private service suppliers or from bringing back under public control services that governments have previously chosen to privatise; to keep in mind that no European free trade agreement has ever introduced limitations in this regard;

2017/06/27
Committee: INTA

2017/2057(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point p

(p) to mandate the inclusion of a tax good governance clause that reaffirms the parties’ commitment to implement international standards in the fight against tax evasion, avoidance and elusion, and that includes obligations for country-by-country reporting, automatic exchanges of information and the establishment of public registers of beneficial ownership;deleted

2017/06/27
Committee: INTA

2017/2057(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point r

(r) to clearly spell out in the negotiating directives ~~the requirement to commit the parties~~ to promote corporate social responsibility (CSR) via ~~binding~~established standards, including with regard to internationally recognised instruments, and the uptake of sectorial OECD guidelines and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights; to recall the need to respect and ensure the effective implementation of indigenous’ rights, including ILO standards on indigenous’ labour rights and the right to consultation with governmental authorities;

2017/06/27
Committee: INTA

2017/2057(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point w

(w) to consider that negotiations on investment may be an opportunity to make progress towards a necessary international reform of the dispute settlement regime, to seek a commitment by all parties to ~~put an end to investor-to-state dispute settlement (ISDS) based on ad hoc private arbitration, and to replace it with~~work towards a public investment court system (ICS) with an appeal mechanism, with a view to preserving the right to regulate to achieve legitimate public policy objectives, prevent frivolous litigation and guarantee all democratic procedural guarantees, such as the right to access to justice (with particular attention to SMEs), judicial independency, transparency and accountability, while pursuing the establishment of a multilateral investment court (MIC);

2017/06/27
Committee: INTA

2017/2057(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point x

(x) to ensure that the modernised AA contains a robust and ambitious TSDC that includes binding and enforceable provisions, subject to a suitable and effective dispute settlement mechanism~~s, with the possibility of imposing sanctions in case of breach~~; considers that the TSDC should cover, among other things, the parties’ commitment to adopt and maintain in their national laws and regulations the principles enshrined in core ILO conventions and to effectively implement up-to-date ILO instruments, especially the Governance Conventions, the Decent Work Agenda, ILO Convention n°169 on the rights of indigenous peoples, the Convention on Equal Opportunities and Equal Treatment for Men and Women Workers, the Convention on Domestic Workers, and the Workers with Family Responsibilities Convention, as well as labour standards for migrant workers;

2017/06/27
Committee: INTA

2017/2057(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point y

(y) to ensure, with reference to the progress achieved by Chile in bilateral trade negotiations with Uruguay and Canada, that the parties include ~~a specific chapter~~provisions on trade and gender equality ~~that specifically contains clear and measurable targets,~~ beyond the adherence of the parties and their respect for international human rights, labour and social standards, foreseeing active measures aiming to enhance opportunities for women to benefit from the opportunities provided by the AA; to ensure, inter alia, that the parties commit to collect disaggregated data allowing for; to ensure thorough ex ante and ex post analysis on the impact of the modernised AA on gender equality, to pursue an enhanced participation of women enterprises (particularly micro-enterprises and SMEs) in public procurement, building on the experience of the Chilean Ministry of Gender Equality which, in 2015, established a supporting program to strengthen women entrepreneurs’ participation as suppliers in the public procurement market of ‘Chile Compras’, to support the internationalisation of women enterprises and the participation of women in WTO Mode 4 opportunities; and to ensure that this chapter foresees the involvement of women organisations and gender equality experts in the negotiating teams, as well as in the JCC (foreseeing the development of innovative means of consultation, such as electronic discussions) and that it guarantees periodical substantial discussions on gender and trade, if necessary, with the establishment of a specific consultative subcommittee;

2017/06/27
Committee: INTA

2017/2057(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point a d a (new)

(ad a) the AA with Chile offers a unique opportunity for Chilean legislation to be adapted so that it allows EU vessels to use their port facilities;

2017/06/27
Committee: INTA

2017/2057(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point a e

(ae) to ensure that the parties guarantee ~~a maximum~~the highest possible level of transparency and participation, ensuring that the objectives of the negotiations are fulfilled, and that this involves constant and duly informed dialogues with all parties concerned, ~~particularly the social partners and civil society;~~ to involve systematically, in this regard, both the competent parliamentary bodies, particularly the EU- Chile JCC and the JCC, throughout the full life-cycle of the AA, from negotiations to implementation and evaluation, and to support the creation of an official Chilean civil society participation body reflecting the pluralism of Chilean society, attaching particular attention to its indigenous peoples; to this aim, to ensure, together with Chile, that all relevant information, if possible without undermining the trade negotiations and the EU interest, is published in the most accessible way to the general public, including fact-sheets translated into Spanish as the shared official language;

2017/06/27
Committee: INTA

2017/2052(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Highlights that a substantial and accessible fisheries fund is necessary in order to implement the common fisheries policy (CFP), to ensure the sustainability of European aquaculture and fisheries, including through implementation of the discard ban and landing obligation and achieving the maximum sustainable yield (MSY) objective, and to help the sector carry out the necessary restructuring process; rejects any attempt to dispense with a specific fund for the fisheries sector in view of the socioeconomic importance of this activity in the coastal regions of the European Union (EU);

2017/10/24
Committee: PECH

2017/2052(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Stresses that the CFP is an exclusive EU competence and that the financial funds made available to the EU for this policy should therefore be sufficient in order achieve the demanding goals laid down in the Basic Regulation; recalls, however, that the current European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) accounts for only 0.6 % of the total 2014- 2020 MFF; emphasises that EMFF financial funds should be kept at least at the same level in view of the socioeconomic importance of this activity in the coastal regions of the European Union (EU);

2017/10/24
Committee: PECH

2017/2052(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Notes that Brexit must not be used as an excuse to reduce future funding; the EU should find a way to ensure that a possible decline in the post-2020 MFF does not automatically translate into lower allocations to the EMFF, in view of the already diminished budget allocated to the fisheries sector in the EU;

2017/10/24
Committee: PECH

2017/2052(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that the level of implementation of the 2014-2020 EMFF three years after its adoption on 15 May 2014 remains unsatisfactory, as by September 2017 only 1.4 % of the EUR 6.4 billion fund had been used; hopes that the level of implementation of the EMFF and other EU structural and investment programmes will eventually improve; highlights that the low level of implementation is largely due to the delay in adopting the rules for this European fund following the reform of the CFP and, in many cases, the lack of clarity in the administrative procedures regarding the aid measures under the fund, for which reason it advocates greater precision and simplification;

2017/10/24
Committee: PECH

2017/2052(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Is of the opinion that steps need to be taken in order to ensure that the post- 2020 EU fisheries fund is implemented in a swifter and more flexible manner, ~~without the delays that continue to plague the 2014-2020 EMFF~~in order to try to avoid a repetition of the current situation;

2017/10/24
Committee: PECH

2017/2052(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Stresses that, even though the EU remains a net seafood importer, European fisheries continue to be a very important source of healthy food for the European market; underlines that the EU should ~~continue to prevent substandard produc~~strengthen and harmonise controls and inspections of third country imports to prevent products that do not meet the legal requirements from entering the EU market;

2017/10/24
Committee: PECH

2017/2052(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Stresses that European added value in fisheries management has to date been largely associated with a reduction in the capacity of fishing fleets; is of the opinion that in the post-2020 MFF a balance between the fisheries resources available and fleet capacity will have to be taken into account; highlights, however, that other elements with a non-quantifiable added value should be considered as well, such as the role the fishing sector plays in communities highly dependent on this activity in terms of employment and local growth; underlines, therefore, that ~~fisheries must remain independen~~an independent fisheries fund must continue to exist in order to support these communities;

2017/10/24
Committee: PECH

2017/2052(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Stresses the need to maintain the financing structure for the two collective support instruments for the fisheries sector, local action groups and producer organisations in the fisheries sector, in view of the fact that they constitute core elements for the development of fisheries in regions that depend on this activity;

2017/10/24
Committee: PECH

2017/2052(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9b. Considers that the EMFF should continue to prioritise financial support to coastal and artisanal fisheries given the socioeconomic role they play in regions that are hihgly dependent on fisheries, but without jeopardising the financial support to other fleets necessary for the supply of healthy foodstuffs to EU markets;

2017/10/24
Committee: PECH

2017/2052(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 c (new)

9c. Considers it necessary, with a view to the upcoming reform of the MFF, to launch a debate on the possible funding of measures to modernise certain fleets that are obsolete and that pose safety risks at sea, as is the case with some fleets in the outermost regions, provided this does not lead to an increase in fishing capacity;

2017/10/24
Committee: PECH

2017/2052(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 d (new)

9d. Considers it very important to enhance financial support for innovation and technological development to help meet the objectives of the CFP, taking into account the need to improve the selectivity of fishing gear, notably in the context of the landing obligation and the fulfilment of the MSY;

2017/10/24
Committee: PECH

2017/2052(INI)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Welcomes the desire to boost the aquaculture sector under the European strategy for the ‘blue economy’ – to which 20 % of the EMFF is allocated – but regrets the administrative obstacles to the development of aquaculture and, hence, calls for thought to be given to ways of reducing red tape in the Member States;

2017/10/24
Committee: PECH

2017/2052(INI)

José Manuel FERNANDES, Sofia RIBEIRO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Gabriel MATO, Maurice PONGA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 79

79. Stresses the socioeconomic and ecological importance of the fisheries sector, the ‘blue economy’ and their contribution to the food autonomy of the EU; points out that the common fisheries policy is an exclusive EU competence; emphasises, in this respect, the need to keep a specific, substantial, independent and accessible fisheries fund to implement this policy; calls for the reestablishment of the Program of Options Specifically relating to Remoteness and Insularity in Fisheries (POSEI Fisheries), as this is a very important program for the European Outermost Regions; calls, at least, for the level of financial appropriations dedicated to the fisheries sector under the current MFF to be maintained and, if new needs arise, to increase the financial appropriations for maritime affairs; warns about the possible negative impacts of a hard Brexit on this sector; notes that other financial instruments, in addition to non- repayable aid, could provide complementary financing possibilities;

2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG

2017/2043(BUD)

Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Javi LÓPEZ, Esteban GONZÁLEZ PONS, Virginie ROZIÈRE, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Marc TARABELLA, Pilar AYUSO, Luis de GRANDES PASCUAL, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Pilar del CASTILLO VERA, Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Agustín DÍAZ DE MERA GARCÍA CONSUEGRA, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Teresa JIMÉNEZ-BECERRIL BARRIO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Gabriel MATO, José Ignacio SALAFRANCA SÁNCHEZ-NEYRA, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Hannu TAKKULA, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Heinz K. BECKER, María Teresa GIMÉNEZ BARBAT, Inés AYALA SENDER, José BLANCO LÓPEZ, Soledad CABEZÓN RUIZ, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Ramón JÁUREGUI ATONDO, Elena VALENCIANO, Jana ŽITŇANSKÁ, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Silvia COSTA, Francisco de Paula GAMBUS MILLET, Ernest URTASUN, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Javier NART, Jordi SOLÉ, Josep-Maria TERRICABRAS, Milan ZVER, Julie GIRLING

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 (new)

Calls for maintaining the EU support to sports policy, the sports chapter of the Erasmus+ programme and the financing of Special Events, such as the Special Olympics in 2017;

2017/05/04
Committee: CULT

2017/2009(INI)

Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the 2030 Agenda and its sustainability goals, which are not only environmental but also social and economic in nature; stresses that, although the EU farming industry is already making a valuable contribution to sustainability, through the Common Agricultural Policy and stringent environmental requirements, it still needs to adapt better to the many challenges facing it;

2017/03/29
Committee: AGRI

2017/2009(INI)

Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Notes in this regard the significant environmental efforts made in the farming sector over the last few years through the measures envisaged under both the first and the second pillar of the CAP;

2017/03/29
Committee: AGRI

2017/2009(INI)

Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Stresses that, by using agricultural waste, the bioeconomy ~~can~~is another tool to help to reduce the environmental impact of farming, in the form of emissions of greenhouse gases and pollutants into the air, soil and bodies of water, and can also contribute to the more efficient use of resources;

2017/03/29
Committee: AGRI

2017/2009(INI)

Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Considers that, in order to further encourage farming excellence and quality in Europe, it is necessary to continue to focus on innovation and its application in the field in order to optimise production processes, improve the quality of our products, reduce environmental impacts and optimise resources used;

2017/03/29
Committee: AGRI

2017/2009(INI)

Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8b. Believes it necessary to promote broadband availability and improve transport services in rural areas, so as to contribute to not only the achievement of environmental sustainability objectives but also the promotion of growth in rural areas that is fully sustainable in environmental, economic and social terms.

2017/03/29
Committee: AGRI

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Sofia RIBEIRO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)

18b. Considers it necessary to provide better support for diversification of production in the outermost regions, and to introduce actions designed to resolve the market crises which certain sectors are facing, particularly the tomato and livestock sectors, and to facilitate the development of small-scale holdings, such as dairy product holdings;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

18c. Urges the Commission to plan a specific financial allocation for the outermost regions when exceptional and emergency aid is granted to the agricultural sector because of serious market crises;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. ~~Deplor~~Stresses, in the name of consistency of policies, the fact that the efforts made in the outermost regions to modernise and to render their ~~traditional~~ industries competitive ~~are increasingly being jeopardised by~~should not be undermined by the negative effects that certain free trade agreements signed between the EU and third countries may have on the economies of the outermost regions;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19a. Calls on the European Commission to encourage the farmers of the outermost regions to promote their high-quality products by supporting the use of the outermost regions logo, as well as other forms of quality certification;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Lambert van NISTELROOIJ, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. ~~Deplores the fact that~~Calls for the trade negotiations conducted by the Union ~~fail to~~to duly take into account ~~either~~ the specific characteristics orand the ~~sensitive~~ products of the outermost regions, and in particular bananas, sugar, rum, tomatoes and fishery products;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Considers that the Union’s trade policy ought not to endangers the ~~small number of products which are exported and the traditional industries on which the economies of the outermost regions depend~~industries of the outermost regions, since they play a major role in economic, social and environmental terms;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Calls on the Commission to systematically produce environmental, social, economic and territorial impact assessments relating to the outermost regions before initiating any trade negotiations and to systematically adopt a policy of protecting the products of the outermost regions in trade agreements;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Lambert van NISTELROOIJ, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Calls for the ~~Union’s trade policies to be adjusted so as to take full account of the competitive disadvantages of the outermost regions; calls for the~~ preservation of tariff and non-tariff barriers which are ~~vital~~necessary for the protection of the sensitive products of the outermost regions and for safeguard clauses and stabilisation mechanisms to be activated in the event of the products of the outermost regions being seriously affected, or the threat of such an occurrence;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Lambert van NISTELROOIJ, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. ~~Calls for the system~~Underlines the limits ofn t~~olerance of imports to be abandoned which makes it possible for goods to enter the Union that have been treated with active substances not authorised there~~he principle of equivalence, particularly for organic agriculture products, which makes it possible for products from third countries which are not in compliance with all the European requirements to enter the European Union; Calls for the principle of compliance to be applied immediately;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Ricardo SERRÃO SANTOS, Younous OMARJEE, Liliana RODRIGUES, Sofia RIBEIRO, Maurice PONGA, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)

26a. Considers essential to set up a support system for the fisheries of the ORs based on Article 349 in the light of what is done in agriculture with POSEI;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Sofia RIBEIRO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. ~~Calls on the Union to remove all the regulatory obstacles, to authorise aid for the renewal of traditional fishing fleets in the outermost regions, to increase invest~~In the interests of the survival of the fisheries sector in the outermost regions, and in accordance with the principles of differentiated treatment for the small islands and territories referred to in SDG 14, calls on the Commission to create support measures based on Article 349 TFEU to enable the funding (whether European or national) of the artisanal and traditional fishing boats of the outermost regions which land all their catches in outermost region ports and contribute to local sustainable development, w~~hich is needed for the sustainable development of local fishing and to protect sensitive fishing grounds of the outermost regions~~ith a view to increasing human safety, compliance with European hygiene standards, combating IUU fishing and becoming more environmentally friendly; notes that the renewal of the fishing fleet must remain within the permitted capacity ceilings, must be restricted to replacing an old ship with a new one and must be conducive to sustainable fishing and the attainment of the MSY objective;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. C~~onsiders that the Union has, overall, under-invested in the seas and oceans and more specifically in the case of~~alls on the Union to support the outermost regions, so that ~~it has not ensured~~they can progress with the sustainable and efficient economic development of their exclusive economic zones ~~of the outermost regions, and that it has left these marine areas at the mercy of pillage of their resources by fishing fleets, both foreign and European~~;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Sofia RIBEIRO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. ~~Deplores the fact that, by means of this under-investment, the Union ends up almost exclusively becoming, and regarding itself as, a continental entity and not also a~~Calls on the European Union to rely upon the outermost regions in an effort to reinforce its position as an international maritime power;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)

30a. Calls for the creation of a specific instrument for fisheries in the outermost regions, based on former Regulation No 1791/2007 and drawing inspiration from the agricultural POSEI regulation, with a view, in particular, to ensuring legal certainty in relation to the plans for compensation of additional costs through ex ante approval by the Commission and permanent funding;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Younous OMARJEE, Gabriel MATO, Louis-Joseph MANSCOUR, Ricardo SERRÃO SANTOS, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Liliana RODRIGUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31

31. Recalls that Article 349 TFEU provides for specific access to structural funds for the outermost regions and that, on that basis, all the outermost regions should be regarded as ‘least developed regions’ and as systematically eligible for the maximum level of support;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Lambert van NISTELROOIJ, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34

34. Recalls the shared objective of twofold integration of the outermost regions; calls for all schemes concerned with cross-border cooperation between the outermost regions and third countries or the overseas countries and territories in their geographical regions to be intensified and made operational;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35

~~35. Deplores the fact that the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) has not adopted either geographical distribution criteria or criteria specific to the outermost regions;~~deleted

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Sofia RIBEIRO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 a (new)

36a. Recalls that the most important fund for training and employment is the European Social Fund (ESF); calls on the Commission – in view of the structural nature and critical levels of unemployment in the outermost regions, and on the basis of Article 349 TFEU, which grants the outermost regions the right to specific access to the Structural Funds – to create an additional allocation within the framework of the ESF in order to support employability, mobility and training in the outermost regions;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Lambert van NISTELROOIJ, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 6

Competition policy and State aid

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 a (new)

37a. Recalls, furthermore, that Article 107(3) TFEU states that aid to promote the economic development of the outermost regions may be considered to be compatible with the internal market, in view of their structural, economic and social situation;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Marc JOULAUD, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38

38. ~~Deplores the fact that~~Calls on the Commission to rely on Articles 107(3)(a) and TFEU in the Regional State Aid Guidelines and the GBER (General Block Exemption Regulation) ~~do not take sufficient account of Article 107(3)(a) and Article 349 TFEU and that they create a situation which may lastingly damage~~in order to contribute to the economic and social development of the outermost regions;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41

41. ~~Condemns~~Warns of trade practices such as those of clearance markets, which ~~end up~~can destabilis~~ing~~e the island micro-markets of local economies;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Sofia RIBEIRO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7

Research, ~~environment~~business competitiveness, environment, education, transport, energy and telecommunications

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Lambert van NISTELROOIJ, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43

43. ~~Does not consider that any of the Union’~~Calls on the Commission to lay down in its horizontal programmes ~~provides for~~ access conditions specific to the outermost regions; ~~regards this situation as particularly discriminatory;~~

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45 a (new)

45a. Points out the central role played by SMEs in the outermost regions with regard to economic and social development; calls on the Commission, therefore, to take better account of the situation of the outermost regions within the framework of the COSME programmes, or the EU employment and social innovation programme (EaSI);

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Lambert van NISTELROOIJ, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45 b (new)

45b. Would like to see an improvement in the way the common characteristics of the outermost regions are taken into account within the framework of the Erasmus programme, including through the promotion of exchanges between outermost regions;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Ricardo SERRÃO SANTOS, Younous OMARJEE, Liliana RODRIGUES, Sofia RIBEIRO, Maurice PONGA, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46 a (new)

46a. Recalls that the European Court of Auditors in the Special Report 01/2017 considered that "Further efforts are needed to implement the Natura 2000 network in order to fully exploit its potential";

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Lambert van NISTELROOIJ, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Sofia RIBEIRO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47

47. ~~Deplor~~Stresses the fact that the ~~Natura 2000 programme is not applicable to the French outerm~~outermost regions enjoy extraordinary biodiversity and that they are particularly seriously affected by the effects of climate change, therefore instruments specific to thoste regions~~; considers this situation to be particul~~ need to be introduced to combat those effects; calls on the Commission once again to put the BEST preliminarly ~~damaging to the~~action on a permanent footing by creating a sustainable mechanism for funding protject~~ion~~s ofn biodiversity ~~and the environment in those region~~, the promotion of ecosystem services and adaptation to climate change in European overseas countries and territories;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Sofia RIBEIRO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47 a (new)

47a. Recalls that, in its Special Report 01/2017, the European Court of Auditors considered that ‘significant progress is needed from the Member States, and more efforts from the Commission, in order to better contribute to the ambitious goals of the EU 2020 biodiversity strategy’;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Ricardo SERRÃO SANTOS, Younous OMARJEE, Liliana RODRIGUES, Sofia RIBEIRO, Maurice PONGA, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47 a (new)

47a. Recalls that the European Court of Auditors in the Special Report 01/2017 considered that "Significant progress is needed from the Member States and further efforts by the Commission to better contribute to the ambitious objectives of the EU's biodiversity strategy for 2020";

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Younous OMARJEE, Gabriel MATO, Louis-Joseph MANSCOUR, Ricardo SERRÃO SANTOS, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Liliana RODRIGUES, Maurice PONGA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47 a (new)

47a. Suggests that an impact study be carried out regarding the possibilities of applying the Natura 2000 programme to the French outermost regions, with a view to establishing the most appropriate tools for the protection of the biodiversity and environment of these regions;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Ricardo SERRÃO SANTOS, Younous OMARJEE, Liliana RODRIGUES, Sofia RIBEIRO, Maurice PONGA, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47 b (new)

47b. Recalls that the mid-term review of the EU Biodiversity Strategy published by the Commission in October 2015 and mentioned by the European Court of Auditors in the Special Report 01/2017 concluded that, although significant progress has been made since 2011 in implementing the measures under Objective 1, the most significant challenges remain the completion of the marine element of the Natura 2000 network and the guarantee of effective management of the sites and funding needed to support the Natura 2000 network, both of which are important factors for ORs";

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Sofia RIBEIRO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48

48. Considers that people and businesses in the outermost regions do not enjoy the same right to freedom of movement as other European citizens, and calls on the European Union to ~~establish a programme relating to~~support programmes designed to provide the territorial continuity of the outermost regions and promoting free movement of citizens between the outermost regions and the Union or between different outermost regions; calls on the Union to exclude the outermost regions from the ETS;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Sofia RIBEIRO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48 a (new)

48a. Calls for the creation of a specific POSEI-type programme for transport to promote the territorial, social and economic cohesion of the regions and to reduce the isolation, or double isolation, of some outermost regions; stresses that this programme should provide for support for the transport of people and goods between the outermost regions and the continent, within the outermost regions themselves and between outermost regions that are close to each other, such as the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Isles; stresses that this programme should also promote trade between these regions;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2230(INI)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas stocks of bigeye tuna have been in decline since 2012, a~~nd all the efforts to reduce catches in rec~~s a consequence of which the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) introduced a management ymea~~rs have failed, with~~sure that will be renegotiated in 2017, and whereas purse seiner catch ~~levels reaching a peak in~~es fell by 26% in 2015 by comparison with 20134; whereas, further, the Cook Islands waters are regarded as a ‘shark sanctuary’, even though it should be stressed that this is not a target species for the European fleet fishing in those waters under the new agreement;

2016/12/12
Committee: PECH

2016/2230(INI)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1

~~Draws attention to~~2. Takes notes of the conclusions of the ex ante evaluation report of June 2013 on the EU-Cook Islands FPA and protocol, according to which previous FPAs/Protocols in the region (Kiribati, Solomon Islands) have not made any meaningful contribution to the development of the local fishing sectors, particularly in terms of joint enterprises (with shared investments) and the development of local processing capacity~~; takes the view that the EU-Cook Islands FPA should mark a turning po~~, and that, as the same report points out, it is probably 'unrealistic' to expect that the FPAs and their protocols will generate these benefits given that the costs of processintg in this ~~unsatisfactory scenario by making an effective contribution~~area are much higher than those recorded in other countries or regions; takes the view that the EU-Cook Islands FPA should contribute insofar as is possible to local fishing sector development, thereby matching the objectives announced for the new generation of EU fisheries agreements;

2016/12/12
Committee: PECH

2016/2230(INI)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a (new)

(a) Regrets the attitude of other countries in the region that have not reached partnership agreements with the EU and are opening their fishing grounds up to other countries and regions in the world that on occasion employ fishing practices that do not consider the resources available, instead of opting for the European Union's financial aid which to a large extent targets development of local fisheries, bearing in mind the sustainability parameters EU Member State vessels comply with when fishing under these agreements;

2016/12/12
Committee: PECH

2016/2230(INI)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Considers that employment possibilities for local seamen on board EU vessels ~~could be more objective~~under the partnership agreements do meet international standards; reiterates the need to respect ILO principles~~, notably by taking decisive action to~~ and promote the ~~signing~~ratification of its Convention No 188 while at the same time respecting the general principles of freedom of association and collective bargaining for workers, and non- discrimination at the workplace and in professional activity; points out, however, that in view of the shortage of skilled seamen for tuna vessels, the Cook Islands' authorities have not requested embarkation in the EU fleet;

2016/12/12
Committee: PECH

2016/2230(INI)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Considers it desirable to improve the quantity and accuracy of data on all catches (targeted and bycatch) and, more generally, the conservation status of fishery resources so that the impact of the Agreement on the marine ecosystem and on fishing communities can, with the involvement of fishermen's associations, be gauged more accurately; urges the Commission to promote the regular and transparent functioning of the bodies responsible for monitoring the application of the Agreement, ~~including by setting up a Joint Scientific Committee that would also involve fishermen’s associations~~and a strengthening of scientific assessments by the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) ;

2016/12/12
Committee: PECH

2016/2223(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Angélique DELAHAYE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Emphasises that farmers’ livelihoods depend on getting produce to the market at remunerative prices and that loss of produce at farm level equates to loss of investment and income;

2017/02/09
Committee: AGRI

2016/2223(INI)

Angélique DELAHAYE, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Michel DANTIN, Marijana PETIR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Points out that food wastage is caused by a range of factors and cannot be attributed solely to agricultural policy and rural development;

2017/02/09
Committee: AGRI

2016/2223(INI)

Angélique DELAHAYE, Elisabeth KÖSTINGER, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Michel DANTIN, Marijana PETIR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Emphasises that unfair trading practices in the supply chain can result in food wastage; draws attention to Parliament's call for the Commission to establish a legislative framework providing an effective means of addressing such practices;

2017/02/09
Committee: AGRI

2016/2223(INI)

Angélique DELAHAYE, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Michel DANTIN, Marijana PETIR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Welcomes the recent establishment of the EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste to allow stakeholders to share information on this issue; calls on the Commission to supply Parliament with a detailed schedule of the measures under way and the objectives and sub-objectives set, as well as a progress report on the work on a common methodology and on donations;

2017/02/09
Committee: AGRI

2016/2223(INI)

Angélique DELAHAYE, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Michel DANTIN, Marijana PETIR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Highlights the importance of cooperation, for example via Producer Organisations or other bodies such as interbranch organisations and cooperatives, for increased access to finance for innovation and investment in treatment technologies such as composting and anaerobic digestion or further processing of products which could allow farmers to access new market and customers; points out in this connection that better sectoral organisation results in better production management and more effective action against food wastage;

2017/02/09
Committee: AGRI

2016/2223(INI)

Angélique DELAHAYE, Elisabeth KÖSTINGER, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Michel DANTIN, Marijana PETIR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Draws attention to the important role the programme for the distribution of fruit, vegetables, bananas and milk in schools plays in raising public awareness; calls on the Member States to make greater use of the opportunities afforded by these programmes;

2017/02/09
Committee: AGRI

2016/2223(INI)

Angélique DELAHAYE, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Michel DANTIN, Marijana PETIR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Believes that farmer-led initiatives can offer viable economic solutions and provide value for products which might otherwise go to waste, and highlights the potential of farmer-led social innovation projects such as gleaning and donation of excess foodstuffs to food ~~bank~~aid associations;

2017/02/09
Committee: AGRI

2016/2223(INI)

Angélique DELAHAYE, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Michel DANTIN, Marijana PETIR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Notes that some wastage at farm level ~~is also due to~~results not just from the pro~~le played by retailers in relation to retailer standards regarding product specifications, cancelled orders owing~~duct specifications imposed on suppliers but also from other practices such as the cancellation of orders in response to changes in consumer demand, and over- production as a result of requirements to meet seasonal demands.

2017/02/09
Committee: AGRI

2016/2223(INI)

Angélique DELAHAYE, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Michel DANTIN, Marijana PETIR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Stresses the importance of tailoring distribution, conservation and packaging procedures closely to the features of each product and to consumer needs, in order to limit product wastage;

2017/02/09
Committee: AGRI

2016/2223(INI)

Angélique DELAHAYE, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Michel DANTIN, Marijana PETIR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8b. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and stakeholders to improve the provision of information to consumers on how best to keep and/or use food;

2017/02/09
Committee: AGRI

2016/2223(INI)

Angélique DELAHAYE, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Michel DANTIN, Marijana PETIR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)

8c. Stresses that the utilisation of by- products should be regarded as one means of combating food wastage;

2017/02/09
Committee: AGRI

2016/2223(INI)

Angélique DELAHAYE, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Michel DANTIN, Marijana PETIR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 d (new)

8d. Calls on the Commission and the Member States closely to monitor food donations in order to make sure that the food is not siphoned off and sold on alternative markets, as this would prevent it from reaching those in need and discourage people in the trade from making donations, on account of the risk of this resulting in unfair competition;

2017/02/09
Committee: AGRI

2016/2204(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Pilar AYUSO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas it is vital that women remain in rural areas in order to curb depopulation, and the European institutions and governments need to do everything possible to ensure improved recognition for their work and rights and provide rural areas with the necessary services that will make it possible to balance work and family life;

2016/11/21
Committee: AGRI FEMM

2016/2204(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Pilar AYUSO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

Ia. whereas women in rural areas need to be made more visible in European, national and regional statistics in order to reflect their situation and the role they play in our peoples’ economy;

2016/11/21
Committee: AGRI FEMM

2016/2204(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Pilar AYUSO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)

Na. whereas new technologies play a crucial role in opening up new markets, and their development represents a key element in the support needed to fix the female population in rural areas;

2016/11/21
Committee: AGRI FEMM

2016/2204(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Pilar AYUSO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Considers it necessary to encourage the activity of rural women's associations as a key social, economic and cultural stimulus;

2016/11/21
Committee: AGRI FEMM

2016/2204(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Pilar AYUSO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls for more women in rural development working groups and monitoring committees, as well as greater participation by women in their analyses and conclusions;

2016/11/21
Committee: AGRI FEMM

2016/2204(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Pilar AYUSO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Encourages the Member States to encourage the participation of female spouses or other family members in the joint management of farms and calls for better information to encourage women to seek farm co-ownership;

2016/11/21
Committee: AGRI FEMM

2016/2204(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Pilar AYUSO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls for the promotion of training activities designed to encourage the presence of women in areas and sectors in which they are under-represented and for awareness-raising campaigns on the importance of the active involvement of women in cooperatives, both as partners and in management positions;

2016/11/21
Committee: AGRI FEMM

2016/2204(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Pilar AYUSO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on the Commission, together with the Member States, to improve conditions for women in rural areas, and to provide not only adequate informational material on support possibilities specifically aimed at women farmers and women in rural areas, but also access to education and credit, ~~while also promot~~thereby offering greater access to knowledge and sources of funding and micro-financing with a view to starting up and consolidating women's business activities in the sector, while also encouraging the establishment of womens' associations that establish networks and channels for information, training and job creation and the provision of wide-ranging professional diversification advice;

2016/11/21
Committee: AGRI FEMM

2016/2204(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Pilar AYUSO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Calls for the involvement of women with higher-level qualifications in agriculture, livestock-raising and forestry to be encouraged and facilitated in training programmes to develop activities linked to the provision of advisory services to farms and innovation;

2016/11/21
Committee: AGRI FEMM

2016/2204(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Pilar AYUSO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7b. Calls for incentives for the training of women in rural tourism connected to branches of commercial farming given that such tourism is a booming sector;

2016/11/21
Committee: AGRI FEMM

2016/2204(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Pilar AYUSO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Calls for the incorporation of specific initiatives to promote a better work-life balance, and improve quality of life for families in rural areas given the importance this has in encouraging women to remain in such areas;

2016/11/21
Committee: AGRI FEMM

2016/2148(INI)

Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Nuno MELO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Takes the view that rural areas, particularly the least developed areas, can make a significant contribution to increasing employment and reducing poverty by boosting investment in innovation and education to help modernise rural areas, make them more competitive and thereby guarantee generational renewal;

2016/09/06
Committee: AGRI

2016/2148(INI)

Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Nuno MELO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Takes the view, therefore, that in order to guarantee economic growth in rural areas, all cutting or freezing of the funding allocated to those areas must be avoided;

2016/09/06
Committee: AGRI

2016/2148(INI)

Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Nuno MELO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. ~~Note~~Regrets that the budget initially allocated for the current programming period under Pillar II was EUR 99.6 billion, which represents a decrease in real terms compared with the previous period, ~~but because of~~although owing to provisions for additional national financing, variable co- financing rates and the possibility of fund- switching between CAP pillars, the final amount shows a slight overall increase at present;

2016/09/06
Committee: AGRI

2016/2148(INI)

Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Nuno MELO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Calls on the Commission to adopt a set of guidelines in order to show the agri-food industry the funding options available under the European Structural and Investment Funds, in combination with the new European Fund for Strategic Investments.

2016/09/06
Committee: AGRI

2016/2095(INI)

Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Agustín DÍAZ DE MERA GARCÍA CONSUEGRA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Stresses the need for the Commission and the Member States to reach a stronger commitment to applying Article 174 of the TFEU, particularly in regions with serious and permanent natural or demographic disadvantages, such as low population density or sparsely populated island and mountainous regions; Emphasises that greater territorial cohesion implies greater economic and social cohesion, and therefore calls for strategic investment in those regions with a view to making them more competitive, improving industry and territorial structure and, ultimately, stabilising the population in those areas;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Agustín DÍAZ DE MERA GARCÍA CONSUEGRA, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Calls on the Commission to introduce policies designed to combat demographic decline and the dispersion of the population; stresses that the European Union’s cohesion policy should prioritise attention for regions suffering demographic decline;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)

2c. Points out that the outermost regions are facing a series of factors which, owing to the fact that they are ongoing and taking place at the same time, are seriously damaging the development of those regions, which are contending with unemployment rates higher than 30%; calls on the Commission to bolster the application of Article 349 of the TFEU by adopting specific measures to improve the integration of the EU’s outermost regions; calls, with regard to the archipelagos, for the severe depopulation occurring in non-capital islands to be taken into account;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2079(INI)

Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the Mediterranean has to take up the major challenge of achieving MSY for most stocks by 2020 and this will require the participation and commitment of countries outside the EU; whereas in the Mediterranean basin the overall level of overfishing is broadly between 2 and 3 times the FMSY; whereas, despite the considerable efforts made both within and outside the EU to ~~develop an effective legal framework and~~ ensure implementation of and compliance with legislation in the fisheries sector, over 93% of the assessed species in the Mediterranean are still regarded as being overfished;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2079(INI)

Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas recreational fishing is of socio-economic value in many regions of the Mediterranean and it has both a direct and an indirect impact on employment;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2079(INI)

Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)

Db. whereas account needs to be taken of the role that recreational fishing plays with regard to the state of stocks in the Mediterranean area;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2079(INI)

Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Stresses the importance of enforcing, in the short term and comprehensively, the targets and measures laid down in the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) and of a timely, urgent and effective implementation of the multiannual management plans provided for in the CFP, taking an ecosystem-based approach; stresses, in particular, the need to achieve the Good Environmental Status (GES) goal established by Framework Directive 2008/56/EC on the strategy for the marine environment, taking into account that fisheries management measures should be decided only in the context of the Common Fisheries Policy;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2079(INI)

Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Takes the view that the Mediterranean should continue to receive differential treatment by comparison with the remaining sea basins under the CFP, since much of it comprises international waters in which third countries play a decisive role with regard to the state of stocks;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2079(INI)

Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Considers it urgent to provide a response that is collective, based on multi- tier cooperation – international, European, national and regional; considers that all stakeholders, including fishermen, scientists and NGOs, should be involved in an inclusive, bottom-up process; emphasises the strategic role played by the Mediterranean Advisory Council in this context;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2079(INI)

Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. ~~Notes that the CFP recognises that ac~~Considers it necessary to ~~fishing opportunities should be distributed primarily among~~continue to provide increased support for small- scale, traditional and non-industrial fishermen, and for those in small coastal areas, ~~and should include incentiv~~through, among other measures, preferential access for traditional fishing to the 12-mile zones (Article ~~7(1)(d)~~5 of the CFP regulation) and incentives under the CFP regulation in order to promote more selective fishing techniques which have a lower impact on the marine ecosystem and fishery resources; notes that, for this reason, efforts should be made in this direction, to ensure that incentives and preferential access to coastal fishing areas are given to the small-scale (artisanal) fleet as opposed to those fisheries segments that are not selective and have a greater impactpoints out that efforts should be made in favour of the EU's most sustainable fleets;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2079(INI)

Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that, a~~ccording to the FAO, a precautionary~~ realistic approach to the conservation, management and exploitation of living marine resources should be applied, ~~in order to~~taking account of socio- economic considerations, in order to achieve sustainable fisheries while protecting and preserveing the marine environment as a whole ~~and to~~; highlight ~~that~~s the lack of scientific information ~~must not be an excuse to postpone conservation and management measures, or to make them fail~~;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2079(INI)

Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Takes the view that it is not feasible to protect and safeguard Mediterranean fisheries and environmental resources through effective fisheries management policies unless they are backed up by strong, wide-ranging and urgent policies and measures to counter the anthropogenic factors that affect and have an adverse impact on those resources: climate change (warming, acidification, rainfall), pollution (chemical, organic, macro- and microscopic), ~~gas and oil exploration and extraction, shipping traffic,~~ invasive species and destruction or alteration of natural habitats, especially coastal;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2079(INI)

Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. ~~Considers it feasible to introduce non-transferable quotas, especially for species subject to single-species fisheries; i~~Is of the view that, to avoid social inequalities, fishing opportunities should be allocated using objective and transparent criteria, including environmental, social and economic criteria, and should also be fairly distributed within the various fisheries segments, including traditional and small- scale fishing; is of the view, in addition, that incentives should be provided for fleets to use more selective fishing equipment and techniques that have a reduced impact on the marine environment, in keeping with Article 17 of the CFP regulation;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2079(INI)

Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Takes the view that the depletion of stocks in the Mediterranean should be tackled through fisheries management measures that include area and time- based restrictions and daily or weekly fishing limits; believes that these measures should be decided in close cooperation with the sector concerned in order to ensure efficient implementation;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2079(INI)

Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Notes that the system of marine protected areas in the Mediterranean covers a~~n inadequat~~ percentage of the area, with major coverage disparities between the various basins; considers it crucial to ~~increase the percentage of marine protected areas~~ensure a more linked-up network of marine protected areas, using a scientific basis, and to identify areas to be covered by protection measures, in addition to implementing an effective monitoring and control system to check they are effective;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2079(INI)

Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Considers it vital for policies to take a varied and nuanced approach, within management plans, and with different criteria based on the biological characteristics of the species and technical characteristics of the fishing methods; considers, moreover, that appropriate planning in space (rotating ‘no fishing’ areas, total or partial closure depending on fishing systems) and time (biological recovery periods) should be ~~the vital~~a component of any multiannual plan, in addition to the promotion of technical measures aimed at maximum gear selectivity;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2079(INI)

Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Believes that coordinated action with third countries from the Mediterranean needs to be encouraged by stepping up political and technical cooperation under the aegis of international institutions active in this area; welcomes the recent launch of the European Commission's MedFish4Ever programme, a call for action to halt the depletion of fish stocks in the Mediterranean; stresses the need to do all in our power under this programme to promote sustainable fisheries in the Mediterranean countries;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2079(INI)

Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Commission to assist non-EU Mediterranean countries in modernising their fisheries sectors and to achieve sustainable fisheries, also through athe European policy of fisheries agreements ~~that are more balanced, fair and sustainable~~;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2079(INI)

Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Calls for, with a view to ensuring equal conditions for all vessels fishing in the Mediterranean area, the establishment of a regional plan, under the aegis of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean, to ensure a fair balance is struck between fishing resources and the fleet capacity of all countries on the Mediterranean shore, as well as a regional centre for the vessel monitoring system (VMS) and joint inspection operations;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2079(INI)

Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)

13b. Stresses the need to lay down a set of ground rules for the management of recreational fisheries throughout the Mediterranean;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2079(INI)

Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Stresses that 250 000 people are directly employed on board boats and that the number of people dependent on the fishing industry increases exponentially if one includes families whose subsistence is derived from regional fishing and who are employed in secondary industries, such as processing, maintenance of boats and tourism, including activities linked to recreational fishing; notes that 60% of work involved in fishing is located in developing countries to the south and east of the Mediterranean, which shows how important small-scale fishing is for the sustainable development of those regions and, in particular, for the most vulnerable coastal communities;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2079(INI)

Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Considers it vital to promote, emphasise and provide incentives for cooperation between fishermen, particularly small-scale fishermen, within the same area or region, for the purpose of tackling jointly the planning and management of local fisheries resources with the aim of effective and practical regionalisation, in accordance with the aims of the CFP, given that the enormous fragmentation and differentiation of occupations, targets, technical characteristics and equipment used make it practically impossible to adopt a cross- cutting and unambiguous approach;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2079(INI)

Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Stresses the strong and crucial need to share data ~~and combat their inaccessibility and dispersion,~~ by developing an all- embracing ~~online~~ archive, which should be publicly funded and should contain all the data on fish and fishing, including recreational fishing so as to facilitate monitoring of quality and multiple, independent analyses and thus to adopt a constructive approach to stock assessments;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2079(INI)

Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Notes that the impacts, as well as the quantities, extent and characteristics of IUU fishing (i.e. illegal fishing), are currently not sufficiently assessed and are therefore underrepresented in information about the current status of fisheries and about trends over time, yet ought to be adequately taken into account in the development of scientific assessments for purposes of fisheries management;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2077(INI)

Michel DANTIN, Gabriel MATO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Ricardo SERRÃO SANTOS, Nicola CAPUTO, Angélique DELAHAYE, Pilar AYUSO, Jean ARTHUIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas rabbit farming has been very hard hit by the decline in meat consumption in the European Union and the economic crisis in farming, and whereas sales prices have fallen by some 20% in three years, while production costs have remained constant;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Pilar AYUSO, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas, likewise, account should be taken of the nutritional contribution made by rabbit meat and the role its production plays in family-run businesses, accounting for a significant share of jobs for women in many rural areas where there are few possibilities for livestock diversification;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Pilar AYUSO, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas rabbit production accounts for only a small share of final livestock production, at less than 1%, and the sector is currently facing economic difficulties owing to the steady decline in consumption in the EU;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Michel DANTIN, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Angélique DELAHAYE, Pilar AYUSO, Jean ARTHUIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the housing of rabbits kept for farming purposes is one of the ~~central~~important questions discussed among stakeholders involved in their breeding, especially with regard to animal welfare, while it is necessary to bear in mind that animal welfare is based on three other major principles: health, feed and the emotional state of the animal;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Pilar AYUSO, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the housing of rabbits kept for farming purposes is one of the central questions discussed among stakeholders involved in their breeding, especially with regard to animal health and welfare;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Michel DANTIN, Gabriel MATO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Angélique DELAHAYE, Pilar AYUSO, Jean ARTHUIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas ~~the domesticated rabbit has kept most of the wild rabbit’s natural behaviour, and intensive farming systems have severe negative implications for its welfare~~rabbit farming already complies with European rules on food safety, hygiene and animal welfare, which are among the most stringent in the world;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Pilar AYUSO, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas ~~the domesticated rabbit has kept most of the wild rabbit’s natural behaviour, and intensive farming systems have severe negative implications for its welfare~~scientific studies need to be launched to establish animal welfare indicators for the various types of rabbit farming, taking into account, among other factors, the modification of the behaviour of these animals in the absence of predators in captive production systems;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Michel DANTIN, Gabriel MATO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Angélique DELAHAYE, Pilar AYUSO, Jean ARTHUIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas in organic production systems ~~rabbits are kept in~~are subject to a stringent requirements, with extremely expensive infrastructure, which do not currently allow organic rabbit farming to be developed viably; whereas even if group pens with access to a small area of pasture at the base of the pen~~, which~~ allow~~s the~~ rabbits more space, increased social interaction and more opportunities for natural behaviour such as gnawing on wooden blocks, eating hay, hiding in tubes and under platforms, standing on their hind legs, lying stretched out, hopping and jumpingto develop in adequate space, this type of housing is liable to impair rabbits' health because of diseases communicated from one individual to another through social interaction and infections due to aggression and violence; whereas cannibalism also occurs among the animals;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Pilar AYUSO, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas, however, research needs to be carried out on the social problems posed by group housing systems, such as increased aggression as a consequence of bringing together batches of animals or rearing females with different litters, which may cause lesions that affect their health and welfare, and whereas it is also more difficult to control infections and parasites;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Pilar AYUSO, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)

Fb. whereas research needs to be undertaken to develop alternative production systems such as organic production, that would exist alongside traditional production systems;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Pilar AYUSO, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital F c (new)

Fc. whereas, at present, insufficient research and information is available to resolve the health challenges and behavioural problems that can arise as a result of the different types of rabbit farming, including systems where rabbits are reared in groups and on the ground;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Pilar AYUSO, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital F d (new)

Fd. whereas the sector’s low level of economic significance in the EU represents a strong disincentive for research and innovation aimed at improving rabbit health and welfare;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Michel DANTIN, Gabriel MATO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Angélique DELAHAYE, Pilar AYUSO, Jean ARTHUIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas there are minimum EU standards for the protection of pigs1 , calves2 , laying hens3 and broiler chickens4 , as well as the general Council Directive for the protection of animals kept for farming purposes5 , but there is no~~t as yet any~~ specific EU legislation on minimum standards for the protection of rabbits; _________________ 1 Council Directive 2008/120/EC laying down minimum standards for the protection of pigs, Official Journal L 47, 18.02.2009 p. 5-13. 2 Council Directive 2008/119/EEC of 18 December 2008 laying down minimum standards for the protection of calves~~. Official Journal~~ (OJ L 10, 11.1.2009, p. 7-13). 3 Council Directive 1999/74/EC of 19 July 1999 laying down minimum standards for the protection of laying hens~~. Official Journal~~ (OJ L 203, 3.8.1999 p. 53-57). 4 Council Directive 2007/43/EC of 28 June 2007 laying down minimum rules for the protection of chickens kept for meat production, Official Journal L 182, 12.7.2007, p. 19-28. 5 Council Directive 98/58/EC of 20 July 1998 concerning the protection of animals kept for farming purposes. O~~fficial Journal~~J L 221, 8.8.1998, p. 23-27.

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Pilar AYUSO, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas ~~only a few~~some Member States have legal requirements for rabbit farming and have developed guides to best practice in collaboration with the sector;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Pilar AYUSO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Expresses its concerns that rabbits in the EU are usually reared in unenriched cages, a barren environment that only has a drinker and feeder; also notes with concern that rabbits are fed on pellets and the close confines of the battery cages do not allow rabbits to express their natural behaviour;deleted

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Michel DANTIN, Gabriel MATO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Eric ANDRIEU, Angélique DELAHAYE, Pilar AYUSO, Jean ARTHUIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. ~~Expresses its concerns that rabbits in the EU are usu~~Notes that in the European Union rabbits are generally reared in ~~unenrich~~slatted cages, a barren environment that only has a drinker and feeder; also notes with concern that rabbits are fed on pellets and the close confines of the battery cages do not allow rabbits to express their natural behaviourwhich allows the environment to be sterile, keeping the animal away from soiled areas; stresses that these cages greatly promote the health quality of housing and therefore limit the risk that animals may become diseased or infected;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Pilar AYUSO, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Supports giving a boost to research and innovation to improve rabbit farming in the European Union, whereby the EU would grant incentives aimed at resolving the health and animal welfare problems that may arise in the various production systems while at the same time promoting the profitability of European farms;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Michel DANTIN, Gabriel MATO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Angélique DELAHAYE, Pilar AYUSO, Jean ARTHUIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Acknowledges that in some Member States alternatives to barren-cage farming of rabbits exist which ~~reduce the incidence of disease~~ improve the welfare of farmed rabbits; considers, however, that these alternative systems still constitute niche production and ought to be yet further and substantially improved with regard to productivity and viability in order to meet European demand, because demand mfor~~tality ra~~ rabbit meat from park systems ~~and improve the welfare of farmed rabbits~~remains limited by the impact of the additional production costs on the price charged to the consumer; recalls in this context that an organic rabbit farm produces some 500 rabbits per annum, whereas a conventional one produces 40 000;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Pilar AYUSO, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Acknowledg~~Notes that in some Member States alternatives to ~~barren-~~cage farming of rabbits exist which ~~reduce the incidence of disease and mortality rates and improve the welfare of farmed rabbit~~could be developed as production systems that would be available alongside conventional farming models;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Michel DANTIN, Gabriel MATO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Eric ANDRIEU, Angélique DELAHAYE, Pilar AYUSO, Jean ARTHUIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Encourages the use of pen systems for groups, which are the most suitable system for rabbits because of their highly social behaviour; points out that the use of pen systems improves the welfare of farm rabbits and reduces the incidence of abnormal behaviour amongst themdevelopment of research and innovation in rabbit-rearing systems, as the group pen system is not a satisfactory solution because it promotes aggression between individuals and may create health problems because of the risk of injuries and infections; stresses furthermore that housing is not the only criterion for animal welfare and that animal health also depends on two important farming practices, namely the ambient conditions of buildings and the development of adequate prophylaxis;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Pilar AYUSO, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Encourages the use of ~~pen systems for groups, which are the most suitable system for rabbits because of their highly social behaviour; points out that the use of pen systems~~guides to best practice to improves the ~~welfare of farm rabbits and reduces the incidence of abnormal behaviour amongst th~~health and welfare of both animals reared in cages and those reared in pen systems;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Pilar AYUSO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Emphasises that, owing to the absence of species-specific animal husbandry legislation for rabbits in the EU, the breeding of rabbits is highly intensified and its architecture resembles a high-output industrial production system;deleted

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Pilar AYUSO, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. ~~Points out~~Stresses that, t~~o cut costs and save space, a typical barren wire cage for an adult doe in the EU is 60 to 65 cm long, 40 to 48 cm wide and 30 to 35 cm high; concludes that this mean~~he size of cages varies according to the animals' age and weight, and housing systems that rabbits cannot move normally or adopt normal postures such as stretching out, sitting and standing with their ears erect ( a ‘look out’ posture typical of the species), rearing up, turning around comfortably and hopping; underlines that this lack of exercise can also lead to weakened or broken bonesve improved over time to incorporate new arrangements such as footrests, with the aim of reducing foot lesions and improving welfare;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Pilar AYUSO, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Notes ~~with concern that there is a high rate of disease and mortal~~the high mortality rate that naturally occurs among rabbits compared with other species, wityh a~~mongst caged farm rabbits, compared with other farmed specie~~ loss of 90% of wild rabbits under the age of one year; notes with concern, therefore, the scant amount of treatment and research aimed at tackling diseases among farm rabbits;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Pilar AYUSO, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. ~~Expresses its concern that rabbits reared and fattened for meat~~Points out that, in its 2005 report on the impact of the current housing and husbandry systems on the health and welfare of farmed domestic rabbits, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) had already warned of the higher risks to rabbit health arising from production ion the ~~EU are typically caged in groups, and are provided with a space per rabbit that is less than the area of two ordinary A4 sheets of paper~~ground by comparison with cages, and welcomes the progress made by many producers in introducing improvements to the design of housing systems in line with EFSA's recommendations;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Michel DANTIN, Gabriel MATO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Eric ANDRIEU, Angélique DELAHAYE, Pilar AYUSO, Jean ARTHUIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Points out that rabbits are extremely sensitive animals and can suffer from a wide range of welfare problems and infectious diseases, including fatal viruses, snuffles and sore hocks ~~from sitting on wire-mesh cage floors; i~~, and that these health risks aware ~~that investigations6 have shown th~~limited thanks to very strict European health rules; stresses that, under the legislat ion some farms sick and injured rabbits are not treated and many fall victim to eye and fungal infections and respiratory conditions; notes with concern that the vast majority of these animals end up in the food chain, either as pet foodin force[1], sick animals immediately receive medical treatment, accompanied by isolation of the animal during its convalesence, or euthanasia if necessary; [1] Directive 98/58/EC concerning the protection orf a~~s meat sold to consumers in supermarkets; _________________ 6 http://www.ciwf.org.uk/our- campaigns/investigations/rabbit- investigations/2014-the-biggest-secret-of- the-cage-age/~~nimals kept for farming purposes

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Pilar AYUSO, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Points out that rabbits can suffer from a wide range of welfare problems and diseases, including fatal viruses, snuffles and sore hocks from sitting on wire-mesh cage floors; is aware that investigations6 have shown that on some farms sick and injured rabbits are not treated and many fall victim to eye and fungal infections and respiratory conditions; notes with concern that the vast majority of these animals end up in the food chain, either as pet food or as meat sold to consumers in supermarkets; _________________ 6 http://www.ciwf.org.uk/our- campaigns/investigations/rabbit- investigations/2014-the-biggest-secret-of- the-cage-age/, and is aware that little research has been carried out in these fields owing to the low level of investment, which means that few therapeutic tools are available to rabbit farmers and veterinarians;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Michel DANTIN, Gabriel MATO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Eric ANDRIEU, Nicola CAPUTO, Angélique DELAHAYE, Pilar AYUSO, Jean ARTHUIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Recognises the importance of providing training courses for people involved in all aspects of animal handling in rabbit farming and good practice guides based on reliable technical and scientific analyses in order to improve their performance and understanding of the relevant animal welfare requirements in order to avoid unnecessary suffering for animals;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Michel DANTIN, Gabriel MATO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Angélique DELAHAYE, Pilar AYUSO, Jean ARTHUIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Underlines that growing rabbits and does kept in pen systems, typically 750 cm²/rabbit for growers and 800 cm²/rabbit for does, benefit from more space for movement~~, social interaction and play, and that platforms in pen systems allow rabbits to avoid aggressors by getting out of the way, with separate housing for does when they are nursing a litter~~;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Pilar AYUSO, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Underlines that growing rabbits and does kept in pen systems, typically 750 cm²/rabbit for growers and 800 cm²/rabbit for does, benefit from more space for movement, ~~social interaction and play, and that platforms in pen systems allow rabbits to avoid aggressors by getting out of the way, with separate housing for does when they are nursing a litter~~but stresses the need to continue researching further into these systems, since existing park systems are not a very satisfactory alternative bearing in mind that rearing animals in groups often leads to increased aggression among the animals, a greater risk of lesions and the more rapid development of diseases;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Pilar AYUSO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Points out that transport is an extremely stressful experience for rabbits; underlines that rabbits should be fed before long-distance transport and be provided with adequate food, water and space in transit, and that transport times should be as limited as possible, owing to the sensitivity of the species; emphasises that there are a huge variety of stress factors that affect animal welfare and that these differ between regions or even farms;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Michel DANTIN, Gabriel MATO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Angélique DELAHAYE, Pilar AYUSO, Jean ARTHUIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Stresses that rabbits should be fully stunned before slaughter, ensuring that they undergo no suffering, pain or stress; recalls that slaughter ~~should~~must be carried out without risk of the stunned animal regaining consciousness; recalls that the development of practical research into slaughter techniques would make it possible to establish electric slaughter methods appropriate to the specific characteristics of rabbits which may be commercially viable;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Pilar AYUSO, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Stresses that rabbits should be fully stunned before slaughter, ensuring that they undergo no suffering, pain or stress; recalls that slaughter should be carried out without risk of the stunned animal regaining consciousness; draws attention to the need to improve alternative systems to electronarcosis, such as stunning with CO2 and a mixture of gases, which are used on other species;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Pilar AYUSO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Stresses that the ~~widespread~~ misuse of antibiotics in rabbit farming~~, especially in the intensive type of farming that uses cage systems, can lead to an increase in~~ can lead to an increase in antimicrobial resistance, as is the case in the remaining areas of antim~~icrobial resistance~~al production;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Pilar AYUSO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

~~15. Emphasises that abolishing the use of battery cages across the EU would have a positive impact on the protection of public health and would reduce the use of antibiotics in rabbit farming;~~deleted

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Michel DANTIN, Eric ANDRIEU, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Pilar AYUSO, Angélique DELAHAYE, Jean ARTHUIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. ~~Calls on~~Encourages the Commission, in the light of the high number of rabbits being farmed and slaughtered in the EU and the severe animal welfare implications of the systems currently used for keeping rabbits, to put forward soon legislative proposals on setting minimum standards for to cooperate with stakeholders in the rabbit- farming industry to draw up guidelines establishing animal welfare rules for rabbits; considers that this method will make it possible to help rabbit-farming stakeholders to incorporate good practice rules in their proteduction ~~of farm rabbit~~methods on a voluntary basis;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Pilar AYUSO, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls on the Commission, in the light of the high number of rabbits being farmed and slaughtered in the EU ~~and the severe animal welfare implications~~, to put forward soon a report ofn the ~~systems currently used for keeping rabbits, to put forw~~various farming systems and to develop guidelines in collaboration with the sector geared ~~soon legislative proposals on setting~~to guaranteeing compliance with minimum standards for ~~the~~ protecti~~on of farm~~ng the health and welfare of rabbits;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Pilar AYUSO, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Invites the Commission to consider ~~pen systems~~scientific evidence as the guiding principle when proposing measures for housing requirements for breeding does and for rabbits reared for meat production;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Michel DANTIN, Gabriel MATO, Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Angélique DELAHAYE, Pilar AYUSO, Jean ARTHUIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Points out that a balance must be kept between the various aspects to be taken into consideration, as regards ~~welfare and health, economic and social considerations and environmental impact~~animal welfare, the sustainability of production in the light of the associated financial situation, the working conditions of farmers, and lastly consumer protection; considers that all parties involved in the production process should be listened to in order to propose the best compromise between animal welfare criteria and these economic and social considerations;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2077(INI)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO, Pilar AYUSO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Stresses that all measures should be harmonised at EU level by introducing ~~specific EU legislation~~a guide to good practice for the minimum protection of farm rabbits, including a clear system of production labelling allowing consumers in the EU to make an informed choice about the rabbit meat they buy;

2016/09/20
Committee: AGRI

2016/2064(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 – point 1 (new)

(1) Takes the view that a greater degree of additionality can be achieved by strengthening cooperation with national promotional banks;

2017/03/02
Committee: BUDG ECON

2016/2064(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Recalls that as a result of their know-how, NPBs are ~~necessary~~essential for the success of EFSI, as they are close to and familiar with the local markets; finds that synergies have so far not been exploited to the requisite extent ; observes a risk of local institutions being crowded out by the EIB; recognises that EFSI and the EIB are increasingly willing to take more junior/subordinated tranches with the NPBs and urges them to continue to do so; invites the EIB to discuss whether it would be useful to incorporate NPB expertise into the SB;

2017/03/02
Committee: BUDG ECON

2016/2064(INI)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41

41. ~~Stresses~~Welcomes the fact that, due to a very strong uptake reflecting the high market demand, the SME Window was further reinforced by EUR 500 million from the IIW Debt Portfolio under the existing legislative framework; welcomes that, due to the flexibility of the EFSI Regulation, the additional financing was granted to benefit SMEs and small mid- caps; intends to monitor closely the allocation of the guarantee under the two windows;

2017/03/02
Committee: BUDG ECON

2016/2035(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas fisheries-related tourism can help to reduce the impact on fish stocks and the environment and also increase knowledge and awareness of environmental protection and cultural conservation; whereas, in particular, fishing tours and tourist services offered by fishermen ashore are ~~serving in many European regions to reduce the fishing effort and are~~ a genuine way of supplementing, and diversifying out of, the core activity in many European regions;

2017/03/30
Committee: PECH

2016/2035(INI)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas fisheries-related tourism activities can help to raise the profile of fishermen and promote appreciation and understanding of their complex field of activity; whereas fishing tours and other tourism-related fishing activities (tourist services offered by fishermen ashore, recreational fishing, etc.) are economically advantageous for fishermen ~~and sustainable in terms of resources,~~ compared with traditional fishing, but are still little known to the general public, who are manifestly not fully aware of the importance of consuming local fish products coming from a short supply chain;

2017/03/30
Committee: PECH

2016/2035(INI)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Recital S

S. whereas recreational fishing is an activity carried out solely for recreational and/or competitive sporting purposes, in which living aquatic resources are exploited, but catches may not, under any circumstances, be sold; whereas although the intention is not to make a profit, recreational fishing is included among the tourist activities that generate a parallel economy which can be managed by professional fishermen through services, facilities, and infrastructure offered to recreational fishermen; whereas, however, uncontrolled and intensive recreational fishing is liable to have an adverse effect on fish stocks in some areas;

2017/03/30
Committee: PECH

2016/2035(INI)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Recital Z

Z. whereas a survey of fishing tour operators in Italy has revealed that fishing tours translate into much shorter working hours at sea for fishermen, with a corresponding reduction in the gear used, daily catch volumes up to 50 % lower, fishing effort reduced by a half, and roughly 16 % less by-catch, compared with traditional fishing; whereas this brings major benefits for fish stock and marine ecosystem conservation; whereas, from a social point of view, shorter working hours at sea are conducive to the physical and mental well-being of fishermen and their families;deleted

2017/03/30
Committee: PECH

2016/2035(INI)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Calls on the Commission to look into the possibility of allowing the mixed use of vessels intended for commercial fishing so that, while still retaining this purpose, they may also accommodate fishing-related tourism activities;

2017/03/30
Committee: PECH

2016/2035(INI)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Considers it necessary to preserve the use of traditional practices and techniques such as the almadraba and xeito, given that these are closely connected with the identity and way of life of coastal regions, and for these to be recognised as forming part of cultural heritage;

2017/03/30
Committee: PECH

2016/2035(INI)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Given the lack of synergy among businesses in the EU’s sea basins, resulting in fragmentation and limited economic advantages, considers it essential for Member States, regions, and stakeholders to share best practice; notes that research institutes, museums, tourism companies, and other stakeholders should be encouraged to work together to develop sustainable innovative products meeting visitors’ expectations; considers that local action groups (FLAGs) can play an important role in this connection and therefore need to be provided with the appropriate funding;

2017/03/30
Committee: PECH

2016/2035(INI)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Calls on the Commission to conduct a study to gauge the socio- economic impact and the environmental impact ~~(in terms of catch reductions)~~ likely to arise from these activities;

2017/03/30
Committee: PECH

2016/2016(INI)

Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Louis-Joseph MANSCOUR, Younous OMARJEE, Maurice PONGA, Alain CADEC, Isabelle THOMAS, Gabriel MATO, Sofia RIBEIRO

Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)

— having regard to the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Communities in Joined Cases C-132/14 to C-136/14 on the interpretation of Article 349 TFEU, which stresses that Article 349 allows derogations not only from the treaties but also from secondary law,

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2016(INI)

Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Maurice PONGA, Alain CADEC, Gabriel MATO, Sofia RIBEIRO

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the EU needs to assume responsibilities in the maritime realm of the ORs, and whereas their exclusive economic zones (EEZ) make up a large p~~ercentage~~roportion of the EU’s total EEZ;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2016(INI)

Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Louis-Joseph MANSCOUR, Younous OMARJEE, Maurice PONGA, Alain CADEC, Isabelle THOMAS, Ricardo SERRÃO SANTOS, Gabriel MATO, Sofia RIBEIRO

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the fisheries sectors in the ORs have to be seen against the background of a particular structural, social and economic situation (Article 349 TFEU), which requires specific and adapted consideration of common European policies;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2016(INI)

Isabelle THOMAS, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Younous OMARJEE, Louis-Joseph MANSCOUR, Maurice PONGA, Ricardo SERRÃO SANTOS, Gabriel MATO, Nicola CAPUTO, Alain CADEC, Liliana RODRIGUES, Renata BRIANO, Sofia RIBEIRO

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) ~~recognises the specific characteristics of the ORs and~~and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF), which were designed to tackle the problems and challenges of continental Europe, allows for a differentiated approach ~~in these region~~for the ORs but can only provide a limited response to the specific characteristics of fisheries in the ORs;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2016(INI)

Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Louis-Joseph MANSCOUR, Younous OMARJEE, Maurice PONGA, Alain CADEC, Gabriel MATO, Sofia RIBEIRO

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas the ORs began to be in~~corpo~~tegrated into the CFP when the limitation on fishing effort was introduced in the 1990s; whereas, this is the reason the ORs ~~consider themselves~~are unfairly treated by the CFP and ~~call it the ‘~~doubley penal~~ty’~~ised (no access to previous aid for fleet renewal and the current prohibition on aid for renewal);

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2016(INI)

Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas one of the objectives of the CFP is to promote ~~coastal~~ fishing activities, taking into account socio- economic issues;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2016(INI)

Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Younous OMARJEE, Maurice PONGA, Alain CADEC, Gabriel MATO, Sofia RIBEIRO

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas a sizeable level of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing takes place in some of the ~~ORs’ EEZ7~~ EEZs of some ORs7 and in the sea basins around others; _________________ 7 European Parliament Draft study on the management of the fishing fleet in the outermost regions (IP/B/PECH/IC/2016_100) and European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) operational programme of France.

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2016(INI)

Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Louis-Joseph MANSCOUR, Younous OMARJEE, Maurice PONGA, Alain CADEC, Gabriel MATO, Sofia RIBEIRO

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas the ORs are affected by some of the highest levels of unemployment in the EU (up to 60% youth unemployment in some ORs);

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2016(INI)

Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Sofia RIBEIRO

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) among other things provides for support of producer organisations, engines, and community- led local development (CLLD) under certain conditions;deleted

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2016(INI)

Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Sofia RIBEIRO

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

~~L. whereas the EMFF supports innovation projects such as management and organisation systems;~~deleted

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2016(INI)

Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Louis-Joseph MANSCOUR, Younous OMARJEE, Maurice PONGA, Alain CADEC, Isabelle THOMAS, Ricardo SERRÃO SANTOS, Gabriel MATO, Sofia RIBEIRO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Considers that sustainable ~~and ‘honest’~~ fishing is the basis for prosperous coastal communities and contributes to food security in the ORs; insists, in this context, on the need to involve local fisheries in achieving food security for local communities, as food security in the ORs is currently too dependent on imports;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2016(INI)

Younous OMARJEE, Isabelle THOMAS, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Louis-Joseph MANSCOUR, Gabriel MATO, Ricardo SERRÃO SANTOS, Maurice PONGA, Alain CADEC, Sofia RIBEIRO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Points out that the common fisheries policy and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF), designed to tackle the problems and challenges of continental Europe, can only provide a limited response to the specific characteristics of fisheries in the ORs, that they cannot be uniformly applied to the challenges and specific characteristics of fisheries in the ORs and that they must be allowed a degree of flexibility and pragmatism or be subject to derogations; calls also for the development of a strategy for each regional sea basin tailored to the specific situation of each of the outermost regions;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2016(INI)

Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Louis-Joseph MANSCOUR, Younous OMARJEE, Maurice PONGA, Alain CADEC, Gabriel MATO, Sofia RIBEIRO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Stresses the presence in the ORs of a wide variety of small communities which are highly dependent on traditional, coastal and small-scale fishing and for which fishing is often the only livelihood;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

Isabelle THOMAS, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Younous OMARJEE, Louis-Joseph MANSCOUR, Maurice PONGA, Ricardo SERRÃO SANTOS, Gabriel MATO, Nicola CAPUTO, Alain CADEC, Maria João RODRIGUES, Renata BRIANO, José BLANCO LÓPEZ, Sofia RIBEIRO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Commission when proposing deleg~~ated~~islative acts in respect of costs for hygiene, health and safety-related investments and investments related to working conditions, to facilitate a holistic and appropriately tailored approach;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2016(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Commission when proposing deleg~~ated~~islative acts with regard to the criteria for calculation of additional costs resulting from the specific handicaps of ORs, to also consider the impact of climatic and geographical conditions and depredation;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Notes that modernisation, and the development of the traditional or small- scale fishing fleet - including that which fishes for shrimps - in the ORs with the aid of public funding (European or national) is necessary, particularly because of the accelerated ageing of their vessels, which gives rise to problems with safety, compliance with European hygiene standards and efficiency, and the unsuitability of the fleet to reach the available resources or to combat IUU fishing; stresses furthermore that such restructuring will help to diversify fishing in the ORs, to improve its quality, to introduce innovation into its fishing activities and to increase efficiency; calls on the Commission therefore to eliminate all obstacles without delay in order to authorise public financing of the gradual renewal of small-scale or traditional fishing fleets - including those fishing for shrimps - of vessels which land their catches in ports in the ORs and which contribute to local, sustainable development of the fishing industry without damaging the sustainability of resources;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2016(INI)

Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Gabriel MATO, Alain CADEC, Isabelle THOMAS, Ricardo SERRÃO SANTOS, Younous OMARJEE, Louis-Joseph MANSCOUR, Maurice PONGA, Sofia RIBEIRO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Requests the Member States when implementing the provision of the CFP on the allocation of fishing opportunities to ~~consider in~~devote particular ~~fishing vessels~~attention to traditional or small-scale fishing, which contributes to the local economy and haves a low impact on the environment;

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2016(INI)

Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Sofia RIBEIRO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

~~20. Stresses that the potential of aquaculture should be better exploited in the ORs, as it might open up new export possibilities;~~deleted

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

2016/2016(INI)

Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Gabriel MATO, Isabelle THOMAS, Ricardo SERRÃO SANTOS, Louis-Joseph MANSCOUR, Younous OMARJEE, Maurice PONGA

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3

~~Ways and means under a potential future CFP~~deleted

2017/02/06
Committee: PECH

Gabriel MATO, Danuta Maria HÜBNER

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 23

Directive 2014/59/EU
Article 45c – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 a (new)

1a. For the purposes of points (i) and (ii) of point (a) of subparagraph (1), each resolution entity shall determine the total risk exposure amount of its resolution group in accordance with Title II of Part Three of the Regulation (EU) No 575/2013. An institution which is subject to Article 92a of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 shall calculate the total risk exposure amount of its resolution group exclusive of any exposure which, where applicable, must be deducted according to Article 72e of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013.

2018/01/31
Committee: ECON

2016/0362(COD)

Gabriel MATO, Danuta Maria HÜBNER

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 23 a (new)

Driective 2014/59/EU
Article 48 – paragraph 6 a (new)

23a. In Article 48, the following paragraph 6a is added: "6a. In order to enable the effective application of the bail-in tool and/or the write down or conversion powers without infringing the general principle set forth in Article 34(1)(g), Member States shall also ensure that in national law governing normal insolvency proceedings the capital instruments (Common Equity Tier 1 instruments, Additional Tier 1 instruments and Tier 2 instruments) shall rank in insolvency below than the ranking provided for the rest of subordinated claims not qualifying as capital instruments." Or. en (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:32014L0059)

2018/02/01
Committee: ECON

2016/0360A(COD)

Pilar del CASTILLO VERA, Gunnar HÖKMARK, Krišjānis KARIŅŠ, Gabriel MATO, Esther DE LANGE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14

Regulation (EU) No 575/2013
Article 36 – paragraph 1 – point b

(~~b) intangible assets;~~ 14) In paragraph 1 of Article 36, point (b) is replaced by the following: "(b) intangible assets with the exception of software that has a market value. Institutions shall only deduct from CET1, the difference between the exposure value of the software calculated in accordance with article 111(1) and the market value, when the exposure value is higher than the market value. EBA shall develop draft regulatory technical standards to define the term "software" and to determine the methodology to calculate the market value referred to in this paragraph. EBA shall submit those draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by XXX;" Or. en (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32013R0575&from=EN)

2018/02/02
Committee: ECON

2016/0360A(COD)

Gabriel MATO, Danuta Maria HÜBNER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18

Regulation (EU) No 575/2013
Article 49 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 a (new)

~~This paragraph shall not apply when calculating own funds for the purposes of the requirements in Articles 92a and 92b.~~deleted

2018/02/02
Committee: ECON

2016/0360A(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 19 – point b

Regulation (EU) No 575/2013
Article 52 – paragraph 1 – point p

(p) where the issuer is established in a third country and has been designated according to article 12 of Directive 2014/59/EU as part of a resolution group the resolution entity of which is established in the Union or where it is established in a Member State, the law or contractual provisions governing the instruments require that, upon a decision by the resolution authority to exercise the power referred to in Article 59 of Directive 2014/59/EU, the principal amount of the instruments is to be written down on a permanent basis or the instruments ~~are to be~~ converted into Common Equity Tier 1 instruments;;

2018/02/02
Committee: ECON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 270 – paragraph 1 – point 3 f (new)

Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013
Article 64 – paragraph 3a (new)

3 f. In Article 64, the following paragraph is added: 3a. If the Member State applies one or more of the criteria referred to in paragraph 2, it may decide to add the condition that the applicant shall be a natural person not older than 40 years in the moment of submission of the application.

2017/03/28
Committee: AGRI

2016/0276(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21 a (new)

(21 a) In order to address market failures and gaps, to stimulate adequate additional investments, and to promote the geographic and regional balance of EFSI-backed operations, an integrated and streamlined approach to the aim of promoting growth, jobs and investments is necessary. The Steering Board should set out guidelines which foresee that: - as a general rule and unless duly justified, EFSI should take a junior position versus other investors, and the pricing of the guarantee should be modulated including blending where necessary to enable projects in order to maximize leverage of funds and to take into account local market conditions; - the pricing policy for equity-type operations taking into account that pricing levels shall remain behind market prices significantly. According to the principle of subsidiarity, a higher pricing can be agreed where the private or public investors plan to bring in sufficient equity risk taking money.

2017/03/27
Committee: BUDG ECON

2016/0276(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)

Regulation (EU) No 2015/1017
Article 5 – paragraph 2 a (new)

(2 a) the following paragraph is added: ‘Furthermore, in line with the pricing policies, the Steering Board shall set out guidelines which foresee that: - as a general rule and unless duly justified, EFSI shall take a junior position versus other investors, and the pricing of the guarantee shall be modulated including blending where necessary to enable projects in order to maximize leverage of funds and to take into account local market conditions; - the pricing policy for equity-type operations taking into account that pricing levels shall remain behind market prices significantly. According to the principle of subsidiarity, a higher pricing can be agreed where the private or public investors plan to bring in sufficient equity risk taking money.';

2017/03/27
Committee: BUDG ECON

2016/0276(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4 – point -a (new)

Regulation (EU) No 2015/1017
Article 7 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1

(- a) in paragraph 3, the first subparagraph is replaced by the following: 'The Steering Board shall comprise f~~our~~ive members: three appointed by the Commission, one by the EIB and one by the EIBuropean Parliament. The Steering Board shall comprise one observatory member who is designated by National Promotional Banks and Institutions among themselves for a fixed term of 18 months. The observatory member can be consulted by the full members, but does not take part in the decision-making. The Steering Board shall elect a Chairperson from among its members for a fixed term of three years, renewable once. The Steering Board shall strive to take its decisions by consensus. In the event that a consensus cannot be reached, the Steering Board shall decide by a four- fifths majority of its component members.'

2017/03/27
Committee: BUDG ECON

2016/0276(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point d a (new)

Regulation (EU) No 2015/1017
Article 9 – paragraph 4 a (new)

(d a) in Article 9, a new paragraph 4a is inserted: '4a. If a public authority within a Member State establishes an investment platform or a national promotional bank or institution that shares the objectives of the EFSI, the EIB shall cooperate with that body and incorporate the due diligence process taken by the NPBs in its evaluation process of new operations to avoid duplications.'

2017/03/27
Committee: BUDG ECON

2016/0265(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2

(2) Under Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council11, the European statistical programme is to provide the framework for the development, production and dissemination of comparable, high-quality European statistics, setting out the main fields and objectives of the actions envisaged for a period corresponding to that of the multiannual financial framework. _________________ 11 Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on European statistics and repealing Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1101/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the transmission of data subject to statistical confidentiality to the Statistical Office of the European Communities, Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 on Community Statistics, and Council Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom establishing a Committee on the Statistical Programmes of the European Communities (OJ L 87, 31.3.2009, p. 164).

2017/02/09
Committee: ECON

Increase the efficiency and effectiveness of statistical production processes. Considering the fact that the Lisbon Treaty has called for better regulation, a streamlining of the legislation related to the pillar of business statistics is needed. In so doing, due consideration should be given to the limitations of the resources available to producers and the overall burden on respondents in line with the Commission Regulatory Fitness and Performance Programme (REFIT). Provide high-quality statistics on key areas where enterprises are the centre of interest, such as business statistics, short-term indicators, their investment in human capital and skills, international transactions, globalisation, internal market monitoring, R&D and innovation, and tourism. Special attention should be paid to the availability of data in high value-added industrial or services sectors, in particular in the green, digital, collaborative or social economy (such as health and education).

2017/02/09
Committee: ECON

2016/0265(COD)

Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Gabriel MATO

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – PFC 1(C) - paragraph 1

A~~n inorganic~~ mineral fertiliser shall be a fertiliser ~~other than an organic or organo-mineral fertiliser~~containing nutrients in a mineral form or processed into a mineral form. Urea and its condensation and association products shall be considered to contain nutrients in a mineral form.

2017/03/24
Committee: AGRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 34 – paragraph 2

2. On the basis of that report, where at regional level the~~re is evidence that the objectives and targets have not been met,~~ performance indicators, based on scientific evidence, show a deterioration of the marine resources within ~~six~~twelve months after the submission of the report as referred to in paragraph 1 Member States within that region shall submit a plan setting out the corrective actions to be taken to ensure those objectives ~~and targets~~ can be met.

2017/06/13
Committee: PECH

Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ

Horse mackerel (Trachurus spp.) 15 cm1,1a, 1b __________________ 1 No minimum conservation reference size shall apply to horse mackerel (Trachurus pictaratus) caught in waters adjacent to the Azores islands and under the sovereignty or jurisdiction of Portugal. 1a. No more than 5 % may consist of horse mackerel between 12 and 15 cm. For the purposes of the control of that quantity, the conversion factor to be applied to the weight of the catches shall be 1,20. These provisions shall not apply for catches subject to the landing obligation. 1b By way of derogation from Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013, the minimum conservation reference sizes of sardine, anchovy, herring, horse mackerel and mackerel shall not apply within a limit of 10 % by live weight of the total catches retained on board of each of those species. The percentage of undersized sardine, anchovy, herring, horse mackerel or mackerel shall be calculated as the proportion by live weight of all marine organisms on board after sorting or on landing. The percentage may be calculated on the basis of one or more representative samples. The limit of 10 % shall not be exceeded during transhipment, landing, transportation, storage, display or sale.

2017/06/14
Committee: PECH

2016/0074(COD)

Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ

Proposal for a regulation
Annex VII – Part B – paragraph 1 – table – row 2 a (new)

At least 70mm1a Whole area None __________________ 1a. A mesh size of 100mm shall be used in directed fishing for hake (20% of catches) in ICES divisions VIII a, b, d and e

2017/06/14
Committee: PECH

2016/0074(COD)

Gabriel MATO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ

Proposal for a regulation
Annex VIII – Part B – paragraph 1 – table – row 2

At least 120mm 1a Whole area Codend and extension piece shall be constructed in T90 netting1a __________________ 1a. The use of beam trawl shall not be authorised

2017/06/14
Committee: PECH

2015/2932(RSP)

Tokia SAÏFI, Franck PROUST, Marielle DE SARNEZ, Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO

Paragraph 8

8. Notes that a balanced outcome in agriculture chapters that takes the interests of European producers, particularly those in the outermost regions, and sensitivities duly into account can boost competitiveness and will be beneficial to both consumers and producers; calls on the Commission to exclude the most sensitive sectors from the negotiations or to foresee transitional periods and appropriate quotas; calls for the inclusion of effective bilateral safeguard measures to prevent a surge in imports that would cause, or threaten to cause, serious injury to producers;

2016/01/13
Committee: INTA

2015/2932(RSP)

Tokia SAÏFI, Franck PROUST, Maurice PONGA, Marielle DE SARNEZ, Gabriel MATO

Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Calls on the Commission to take account of the interests of the overseas countries and territories in the region during the negotiations on these free trade agreements;

2016/01/13
Committee: INTA

2015/2119(INI)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas, to date, thanks to the Fisheries Partnership Agreement, there have been improvements in fisheries monitoring, control and surveillance, sanitary inspection capacity and the participation of Guinea Bissau with regional fisheries bodies. Whereas, however, the performance of sectoral cooperation ha~~s been lamentably poor; whereas change i~~s nbee~~ded urgently, and~~n relatively poor; whereas the Agreement has to ~~do more to~~continue efforts in promoteing sustainable development of the Guinea-Bissau fisheries sector and of related industries and activities so as to ensure that the added value created by exploitation of the country’s natural resources, to a greater extent, remains in Guinea-Bissau itself;

2015/06/22
Committee: PECH

2015/2119(INI)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. CDespite efforts that have been made, calls on the Commission to continue helping the Guinea-Bissau authorities improve the fisheries surveillance and control system in Guinea-Bissau waters with a view to intensifying measures to combat IUU fishing;

2015/06/22
Committee: PECH

2015/2109(INI)

Alain CADEC, Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR

Motion for a resolution
Citation 9

– having regard to the UN ~~Millennium Development Goals Report 2015,~~2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the Sustainable Development Goal to Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development;

2016/01/18
Committee: PECH

2015/2109(INI)

Alain CADEC, Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the sea covers 71 % of the Earth’s surface and contains 97 % of the planet’s water; whereas the sea is home to a significant part of the world’s biodiversity ~~which still remains unexplored~~;

2016/01/18
Committee: PECH

2015/2109(INI)

Alain CADEC, Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas ~~an estimated 64 % of the sea, notably the~~not all high seas and the deep seabed~~, are~~ areas ~~beyond the national jurisdiction of states and~~ are governed by international law;

2016/01/18
Committee: PECH

2015/2109(INI)

Alain CADEC, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK, Gabriel MATO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the preservation of marine biological diversity should be ~~considered as being part of the common natural heritage of mankind, and its preservation and conservation a common concern of all humankind and should be treated as such;~~a common objective of all humankind in order to guarantee the marine environmental balance and avoid new risks for food security

2016/01/18
Committee: PECH

Alain CADEC, Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR

11a. Urges the Commission to call upon States that have not done so to ratify or accede to the UNCLOS.

2016/01/18
Committee: PECH

2015/2100(INI)

Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. ~~Stresses its concern about the current high level of shark by-catch as a consequence of fisheries in these water~~Notes that some shark species (particularly blue shark and shortfin mako, which represent 99% of total catches) included in Annex 1 to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea are main species targeted by the EU surface long liner fleet and that the Standing Committee on Research and Statistics (SCRS) of ICCAT considers that they are exploited within safe biological limits; calls on the Commission to report to Parliament on the actions taken by the Joint Committee in response to the ~~critical~~ science- based study to be carried out as described in Article 4, paragraph 6 of the Annex to the Protocol, in order to have guarantees that this fishery is exploited in a sustainable and responsible way; stresses that~~, in addition,~~ Parliament ~~must~~should also be informed ofabout the data o~~n shark by-catch figures, in an attempt to ensure that shark by-catch is kept to an absolute minimum~~btained as regards shark stocks;

2015/05/26
Committee: PECH

2015/2093(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas there is a need for stricter checks on products coming into the EU from illegal, unreported and unregulated fisheries and a need to guarantee an equivalent level of control on such fishing in all Member States;

2016/04/27
Committee: PECH

2015/2093(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Advocates a strengthening of controls to prevent the importation of fish from illegal, unreported and unregulated fisheries by, among other measures, setting up national intelligence teams staffed with specialised fishing inspectors, who are best qualified to detect risks, and establishing a minimum percentage of consignments that must be checked;

2016/04/27
Committee: PECH

2015/2093(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21a. advocates imposing harsher sanctions for illegal, unreported and unregulated fisheries;

2016/04/27
Committee: PECH

2015/2091(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas ~~85 % of global fish stocks for which information is available are either fully exploited or overexploited, accord~~less than 30 % of fish stocks are overexploited, as indicated ing t~~o the most recent assessment~~he report ‘The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture’ published in June 2014 by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO);

2015/11/19
Committee: PECH

2015/2091(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the EU is a major market for fishery products (fish caught by EU fleets as well as imports), consuming 11 % of the world’s fish production in terms of volume and importing 24 % of fishery products in terms of value; and the EU likewise has an industry for processing and preserving seafood products with a significant social dimension which must be protected;

2015/11/19
Committee: PECH

2015/2091(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas quotas in RFMOs are based primarily on historical catches, ~~thus maintaining preferential access to global fish stocks for developed countries;~~

2015/11/19
Committee: PECH

2015/2091(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas in ~~many~~some cases there are insufficient data on the ~~fish stocks that the EU is fishing, in terms of their statu~~status of resources and of total removals by local and third- country fleets;

2015/11/19
Committee: PECH

2015/2091(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Insists on the importance of sustainable fishing, processing and trade, in the EU and abroad, as the only way to secure a future for coastal communities, the employment generated by fishing and the industry for preserving and processing seafood products, and the contribution of fishing to food s~~ecurit~~ufficiency;

2015/11/19
Committee: PECH

2015/2091(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Recognises that sustainable fishing, both inside and outside Community waters, is vital to ensure the viability of the European fishing industry and fleet; this socio-economic viability must be present in the commercial policy of the EU to prevent the European fleet from being replaced by less sustainable fleets from outside the EU;

2015/11/19
Committee: PECH

2015/2091(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Emphasises that all aspects of the external dimension of the CFP must be predicated on equitable relationships between the EU and its partners globally, be they bilateral (sustainable fishing partnership agreements) or multilateral (RFMOs); such equity must also be reflected in EU trade agreements with third countries;

2015/11/19
Committee: PECH

2015/2091(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Insists that, in its external fishery-related activities (catching, processing and marketing), the EU must ~~adopt and promote the highest~~promote its environmental and social standards and implement rigorous and effective control and inspection measures, while ensuring transparency in all its activities, to ensure fair competition on the EU market;

2015/11/19
Committee: PECH

2015/2091(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Reiterates the need for better scientific information ~~and~~on the status of resources and for the acquisition of 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 funds available under the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and the European Development Fund;

2015/11/19
Committee: PECH

2015/2091(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Recognises that International Good Governance can only be led by example, and therefore the social and environmental standards of the EU must serve as a benchmark for improving standards within RFMOs, by ensuring that these standards are applied to the other fleets.

2015/11/19
Committee: PECH

2015/2091(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Encourages the Commission to promote a ~~fairer~~balanced distribution of the allocation of access in RFMOs, taking into account both the environmental and social impact and developing countries’ aspiration to develop their own fisheries; this distribution must be done such that the European Union is not the only contracting party that has to systematically give up part of its quotas;

2015/11/19
Committee: PECH

2015/2091(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Recognises the importance of fisheries for developing countries, especially artisanal fisheries, on account of their contribution to food s~~ecurit~~ufficiency, the local economy and employment; without prejudice to the role played by industrial fisheries to ensure the socio-economic development of coastal areas and the supply of fish products;

2015/11/19
Committee: PECH

2015/2091(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Recognises the work done by the European Union in combating illegal, undeclared and unregulated fishing in international waters, by requiring that the Community market is only supplied with fish caught strictly in line with European regulations and the rules imposed by regional fisheries organisations;

2015/11/19
Committee: PECH

2015/2091(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Emphasises the significant role played by women throughout the value chain, from financing through to the marketing of fish products; believes that these activities reinforce the economic and social empowerment of women ~~and~~, who play a~~n important role in closing gender gaps~~ key role in the sector, and insists that more attention be paid to these priorities in EU relations with developing countries;

2015/11/19
Committee: PECH

2015/2091(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Considers that the EU should encourage third countries, beginning with those with which it negotiates an SFPA, to establish a regulatory framework for joint ventures by EU and other interests in the catching, processing and marketing sectors; is of the opinion that such a framework is the best means of ensuring that joint ventures are set up and operate in line with high sustainability and transparency standards as promoted by the reformed CFP, thus also providing better legal stability for EU interests in supporting sustainable fisheries development in third countries;

2015/11/19
Committee: PECH

2015/2091(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Defends the need to extend the transparency provisions included in the agreement with Mauritania to all fisheries agreements with third countries;

2015/11/19
Committee: PECH

2015/2091(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)

16b. Also warmly welcomes the fact that the protocol with Mauritania grants the European fleet priority access to fishing surpluses in that country, and encourages the European Commission to follow this example in negotiating protocols with other third countries, taking into account the strict sustainability requirements which the Community fleet must meet.

2015/11/19
Committee: PECH

2015/2091(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. ~~Calls for detailed information on the catches and activities of vessels allowed to fish in Mauritanian waters and the associated conditions of access to be publicly available; s~~Strongly encourages the Commission to ensure th~~at similar~~e inclusion of provisions are ~~included in other future protocols, leading to much-improved transparency regarding total~~lating to detailed information on the catches and activities of vessels allowed to fish in~~g effort and conditions of acces~~ third-country waters;

2015/11/19
Committee: PECH

2015/2091(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. 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; likewise, encourages third countries to comply with RFMO resolutions, which promote transparency in fisheries agreements;

2015/11/19
Committee: PECH

2015/2091(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Considers that vessels fishing under the provisions of an SFPA but which do not supply their Member State and the Commission with the data required under the terms of their fishing authorisation ~~should not be issued with authorisations in subsequent years (no data, no fish)~~will be subject to the sanctions regime laid down in the Community fisheries regulations;

2015/11/19
Committee: PECH

2015/2091(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Welcomes the recent publication of the names of EU-flagged vessels granted authorisation to fish outside EU waters, and insists that the Commission publish such information as a matter of course~~, including data on their activities and catches~~;

2015/11/19
Committee: PECH

2015/2091(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
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,~~transparently, in a uniform and harmonised manner, especially with regard to monitoring and control, to ensure equitable treatment of all fleets, and must not be subject to the short-term needs of the EU’s trade policy or be used by EU fishing interests as a tool for improving competition;

2015/11/19
Committee: PECH

2015/2091(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

24a. Calls on the European Commission to study the inclusion in the IUU Regulation of provisions relating to working conditions;

2015/11/19
Committee: PECH

2015/2091(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Believes that bilateral and multilateral trade agreements negotiated by the EU should promote environmentally sustainable and socially just conditions for the production of fisheries products in the third countries concerned, through the use of appropriate quantitative and qualitative restrictions on access to the EU market; also believes that these conditions should be a requirement for any fish product or fishing-derived product sold on the European market, and that any fish product or fishing-derived product not guaranteed to comply with these conditions should be barred from the European market;

2015/11/19
Committee: PECH

2015/2091(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Takes the view, in particular, that the provisions of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements should include ~~an explicit reference to the IUU Regulation; warns the Commission against proposing any type of improved~~the standards required under the IUU Regulation; opposes the improvement of trade relations towith a third country that has been identified under Article 31 of the IUU Regulation; also considers it to be of particular importance to introduce into the IUU Regulation elements such as the creation of a database similar to TRACES to verify and cross-check data relating to catch certificates and vessels or to establish a minimum percentage for the verification of imports of processed products;

2015/11/19
Committee: PECH

2015/2090(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas coastal fishing accounts for 80% of the European fleet, guarantees a high level of employment in coastal areas, islands and the outermost regions, and represents a socially and environmentally sustainable form of fishing that has considerable potential; whereas its influence on the social and cultural characteristics of coastal and island regions is exceptional and diverse;

2015/11/17
Committee: PECH

2015/2090(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas most coastal and island fishing constitutes a traditional form of commercial fishing, i.e. a way of life and ~~a significant~~the principal source of livelihood, particularly in areas which depend on coastal fishing and which require special measures and support to facilitate growth and development;

2015/11/17
Committee: PECH

2015/2090(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas the characteristics of coastal fishing in enclosed seas, such as the Adriatic Sea and the Mediterranean Sea as a whole, differ from those of the open seas of the Atlantic Ocean, including along the coast of French Guiana, and in the Indian Ocean basin;

2015/11/17
Committee: PECH

2015/2090(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas the impossibility of using specific gears and techniques – which are more environmentally friendly and which do not have a significant impact on the status of endangered stocks – has a serious effect on the viability of already marginalised coastal and island communities causes increased depopulationnon-industrial fishing has a serious effect on the viability of coastal and island communities in terms of controlling increasing depopulation; whereas development and innovation may play a fundamental role in these communities; whereas, in addition, non-industrial fishing uses gears and techniques which are more environmentally friendly and whi~~nders development~~ch have less of and i~~nnovation~~mpact on the status of endangered stocks;

2015/11/17
Committee: PECH

2015/2090(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

K a. whereas it should be noted that, because of the particular geographical characteristics of the outermost regions and their extreme remoteness from Europe, coastal fishing is integral to the economic development of these regions;

2015/11/17
Committee: PECH

2015/2090(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Recital K b (new)

K b. whereas coastal fishing in the outermost regions also faces competition from vessels sailing under non-EU flags that use the same fishing areas and target the same species to sell on the same markets, in addition to competition from non-EU imports which are subject to completely different operating costs and regulatory, sanitary and environmental constraints; whereas, in this context, any efforts to aid endogenous development and self-reliance in terms of food production would come to nothing unless supported by specific EU policies in these regions;

2015/11/17
Committee: PECH

2015/2090(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Recital K c (new)

K c. whereas, in the outermost regions, marine aquaculture also contributes, alongside coastal fishing, to economic development and the supply of fresh produce to the local area;

2015/11/17
Committee: PECH

2015/2090(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Recital T

T. whereas in the fisheries sector, more than in other sectors, the environment and the economy go hand in hand; whereas the blue development of the economy should be focused on sustainable and environmentally friendly projects and activities aimed at preserving the maritime environment and biodiversity as a whole; whereas these projects and activities must also be sustainable from the social and economic point of view so as to ensure that non-industrial fishing remains viable;

2015/11/17
Committee: PECH

2015/2090(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Recital V

V. whereas knowledge of the marine environment, specifically of the state of the marine ecosystem, is vital for assessing the impact of various activities on the environment, as is the laying down of suitable protection measures and monitoring programmes with the goal of promoting the recovery of fish stocks, the sustainable use of resources and the development of innovations; whereas data on the marine environment are inadequate~~, inaccessible~~ and inadequately systematised;

2015/11/17
Committee: PECH

2015/2090(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission to promote and support investment in the diversification of the fisheries sector through the development of complementary activities, including investments in vessels, environmental services in the fisheries sector, cultural and educational activities in the fisheries sector, and to promote and support the diversification of fisheries with a view to protecting the environment and ensuring green growth; stresses that marine aquaculture is compatible with coastal fishing in the outermost regions and calls on the Commission to support the development of farming and varietal-selection techniques in the warm waters of tropical or subtropical areas;

2015/11/17
Committee: PECH

2015/2090(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9 a. Calls for firm support for the work of women since they play an essential role in non-industrial fishing; stresses in particular the key tasks performed by women in the processing chain and their fundamental role in shellfishing;

2015/11/17
Committee: PECH

2015/2090(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9 a. Notes that coastal fishing in the outermost regions is eligible for a compensation scheme recognised under the EMFF because of the significant additional costs it incurs; calls on the Commission to expand this scheme with the addition of a specific mechanism for the ORs that is similar to the POSEI scheme in the agricultural sector;

2015/11/17
Committee: PECH

2015/2090(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Stresses the importance of the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF), which has a particular focus on diversification and innovation in the fisheries sector, with a view to supporting fisheries which are environmentally sustainable, innovative, competitive, effective and knowledge-based; calls on the Commission to validate the regional versions of the EMFF as soon as possible;

2015/11/17
Committee: PECH

2015/2090(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. ~~Expresse~~Calls concern at and opposition to the non-selective approach being taken, consisting of banning the use in the Mediterranean region of traditional gears and techniques (e.g. banning the use of gillnets outside of the category of commercial fishing), which form part of the local inhabitants’ traditions and way of life, are more environmentally friendly, and do not have a significant impact on the status of endangered stocks the European Commission to use a selective approach when developing legislative proposals on the use of fishing gears and techniques so as to take into account the actual impact that these gears and techniques have on non-industrial fishing resources in each one of the relevant areas; calls on the European Commission to ensure that any legislative initiatives are subject to a thorough prior impact assessment taking account of the specific factors that apply in each fishing area; feels that a non-selective approach to the use of gears and techniques is having a serious impact on the viability of already marginalised coastal and island communities, causing further depopulation and hindering development and innovation;

2015/11/17
Committee: PECH

2015/2090(INI)

Gabriel MATO, Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Calls on the Commission to ensure that a review of the assessment of the status of fish stocks as regards coastal fisheries is carried out, and stresses the need for an analysis of small-scale fishing’s impact on fish stocks, given that the species fished in coastal fisheries are ~~mainly of little economic significance and~~extremely valuable in socio-economic terms, even though they only account for a small proportion of commercial fishing;

2015/11/17
Committee: PECH

2015/2002(INI)

Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Gérard DEPREZ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Nicola CAPUTO, Filiz HYUSMENOVA, Gabriel MATO, Agustín DÍAZ DE MERA GARCÍA CONSUEGRA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Sofia RIBEIRO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Nathalie GRIESBECK, Jana ŽITŇANSKÁ

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas ~~the~~ resources available to the EU for its action as a ‘'global player' until 2020 within the multiannual financial framework only amount to 6 % of the total budget and cover all related programmes, including development and cooperation assistance; whereas the importance of domestic resources mobilization should be translated directly into increased investment in human development;

2015/05/13
Committee: AFET

2015/2002(INI)

Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Gérard DEPREZ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Nicola CAPUTO, Filiz HYUSMENOVA, Gabriel MATO, Julie WARD, Agustín DÍAZ DE MERA GARCÍA CONSUEGRA, Sofia RIBEIRO, Jana ŽITŇANSKÁ, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Believes in the continued value of its initially stated objective of creating an area of prosperity, stability and good neighbourliness, based on the founding values and principles of the Union, through a deep structural transformation in the neighbouring countries; stresses therefore the need to go back to basics and bring this objective back to the top of the agenda;

2015/05/13
Committee: AFET

2015/2002(INI)

Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Gérard DEPREZ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Nicola CAPUTO, Filiz HYUSMENOVA, Gabriel MATO, Julie WARD, Agustín DÍAZ DE MERA GARCÍA CONSUEGRA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Sofia RIBEIRO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Nathalie GRIESBECK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses that respect for the universal fundamental values of human rights, rule of law and democracy on which the EU is founded must remain at the core of the revised policy; underlines the importance of promoting the rights of children, youth and gender equality to build inclusive, prosperous and stable societies in the EU neighbourhood;

2015/05/13
Committee: AFET

2015/2002(INI)

Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Gérard DEPREZ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Nicola CAPUTO, Filiz HYUSMENOVA, Gabriel MATO, Julie WARD, Agustín DÍAZ DE MERA GARCÍA CONSUEGRA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Sofia RIBEIRO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Jana ŽITŇANSKÁ, Nathalie GRIESBECK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that the renewed policy must be more strategic, with a real political vision, and politically driven; calls for special envoys to be appointed for the East and the South, with the task of politically coordinating the revised policy and monitor progress in the partnership and the situation of women's and children's rights;

2015/05/13
Committee: AFET

2015/2002(INI)

Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Gérard DEPREZ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Nicola CAPUTO, Filiz HYUSMENOVA, Gabriel MATO, Julie WARD, Agustín DÍAZ DE MERA GARCÍA CONSUEGRA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Sofia RIBEIRO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Jana ŽITŇANSKÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Emphasises that local ownership, accountability and inclusiveness should be key aspects of the new approach so as to ensure that the benefits of the ENP reach all levels of society throughout the country;

2015/05/13
Committee: AFET

2015/2002(INI)

Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Gérard DEPREZ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Nicola CAPUTO, Filiz HYUSMENOVA, Gabriel MATO, Julie WARD, Agustín DÍAZ DE MERA GARCÍA CONSUEGRA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Sofia RIBEIRO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Jana ŽITŇANSKÁ, Nathalie GRIESBECK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Commission to focus on sectors identified together with its partners, in which progress and universal added value can be achieved, and to gradually expand cooperation based on progress and ambitions, in particular to contribute to economic growth and human development with a focus on the new generations;

2015/05/13
Committee: AFET

2015/2002(INI)

Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Gérard DEPREZ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Nicola CAPUTO, Filiz HYUSMENOVA, Gabriel MATO, Julie WARD, Agustín DÍAZ DE MERA GARCÍA CONSUEGRA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Sofia RIBEIRO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Nathalie GRIESBECK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Underlines the continuous need to focus on strengthening and consolidating democracy, the rule of law, the independence of the justice system, ~~respect for minorities~~justice for children, respect for minorities, children's rights, gender equality and diversity; highlights that capacity-building in national institutions, including their national assemblies, together with support for civil society, pro- democracy groups and political parties, will enhance political dialogue and pluralism; underlines the importance of developing systems to promote youth participation;

2015/05/13
Committee: AFET

2015/2002(INI)

Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Gérard DEPREZ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Nicola CAPUTO, Filiz HYUSMENOVA, Gabriel MATO, Julie WARD, Agustín DÍAZ DE MERA GARCÍA CONSUEGRA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Sofia RIBEIRO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Jana ŽITŇANSKÁ, Nathalie GRIESBECK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Notes that security and stability are basic concerns in the neighbourhood and that current developments in the region call for a strong security and peacebuilding component in the ENP, which has regrettably been missing to date; underlines the importance of investing in education to build long-term prospects for stability in the regions concerned by the European Neighbourhood Policy;

2015/05/13
Committee: AFET

2015/2002(INI)

Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Gérard DEPREZ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Nicola CAPUTO, Filiz HYUSMENOVA, Gabriel MATO, Julie WARD, Agustín DÍAZ DE MERA GARCÍA CONSUEGRA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Sofia RIBEIRO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Jana ŽITŇANSKÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Underlines the need for an overarching political strategy to restore the European political order while ensuring full compliance with international law and commitments, as laid down in the Helsinki Final Act of 1975, based on respect for human rights, minority rights and fundamental freedoms, independence, sovereignty and the territorial integrity of states, and peaceful resolution of conflicts; notes that the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), as the biggest regional organisation responsible for security, can play an important role in this regard, within the framework of the United Nations;

2015/05/13
Committee: AFET

2015/2002(INI)

Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Gérard DEPREZ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Nicola CAPUTO, Filiz HYUSMENOVA, Gabriel MATO, Julie WARD, Agustín DÍAZ DE MERA GARCÍA CONSUEGRA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Sofia RIBEIRO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Jana ŽITŇANSKÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Emphasises the need to build strong partnerships with neighbouring countries; stresses the importance of ensuring that the ENP is part of the EU's broader external policy and of taking into account the other strategic players that have influence on the neighbourhood – the ‘'neighbours of neighbours' – as well as relevant UN agencies, international and regional organisations;

2015/05/13
Committee: AFET

2015/2002(INI)

Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Gérard DEPREZ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Nicola CAPUTO, Filiz HYUSMENOVA, Gabriel MATO, Julie WARD, Agustín DÍAZ DE MERA GARCÍA CONSUEGRA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Sofia RIBEIRO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Jana ŽITŇANSKÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Calls on the EU to take advantage of the expertise of the regional organisations to which the neighbours belong, such as the Council of Europe, the OSCE, the African Union, relevant Regional Offices of the United Nations and the League of Arab States, which are important fora in which to engage partners in carrying out reforms, to address concerns on human rights and to foster democratisation;

2015/05/13
Committee: AFET

2015/2002(INI)

Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Gérard DEPREZ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Nicola CAPUTO, Filiz HYUSMENOVA, Gabriel MATO, Julie WARD, Agustín DÍAZ DE MERA GARCÍA CONSUEGRA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Sofia RIBEIRO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Jana ŽITŇANSKÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31

31. Calls for the EU to explore and identify, together with its partners, priorities for integration in different policy fields, such as economic and human development, social protection, conflict and disaster prevention, infrastructure and regional development, water, the environment, competition policies, SMEs, migration, security, energy and energy efficiency, with the aim of creating an area of prosperity, stability and good neighbourliness;

2015/05/13
Committee: AFET

2015/2002(INI)

Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Gérard DEPREZ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Nicola CAPUTO, Filiz HYUSMENOVA, Gabriel MATO, Julie WARD, Agustín DÍAZ DE MERA GARCÍA CONSUEGRA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Sofia RIBEIRO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Jana ŽITŇANSKÁ, Nathalie GRIESBECK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34

34. Notes that high unemployment, social exclusion and poverty, in particular amongst children and young people, combined with the low political participation of women and new generations, are root causes of instability, and demands engagement beyond the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Areas (DCFTAs);

2015/05/13
Committee: AFET

2015/2002(INI)

Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Gérard DEPREZ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Nicola CAPUTO, Filiz HYUSMENOVA, Gabriel MATO, Julie WARD, Agustín DÍAZ DE MERA GARCÍA CONSUEGRA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Sofia RIBEIRO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Jana ŽITŇANSKÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37

37. Takes the view that the parliamentary dimension of the policy needs to be reinforced by enhancing the effectiveness of the interparliamentary meetings and parliamentary assemblies; welcomes, in this context, the new approach that Parliament has adopted to parliamentary democracy support; underlines the role played by Parliaments in ENP countries in holding governments accountable;

2015/05/13
Committee: AFET

2015/2002(INI)

Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Gérard DEPREZ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Nicola CAPUTO, Filiz HYUSMENOVA, Gabriel MATO, Julie WARD, Agustín DÍAZ DE MERA GARCÍA CONSUEGRA, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Sofia RIBEIRO, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Jana ŽITŇANSKÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38

38. Emphasises that for the ENP to be a successful policy, it should also ensure that there is ownership by the Member States; calls on the Commission, therefore, to reinforce policy coordination and joint programming of financial assistance, and to provide mechanisms to foster consultation between the Member States, EU structures, and neighbouring countries and other stakeholders, including UN agencies;

2015/05/13
Committee: AFET

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 a (new)

(15a) This Regulation also covers what are termed ‘dormant’ fisheries agreements, that is to say, those which have not been implemented by the necessary protocols. In line with Court of Auditors Special Report 11/2015 entitled ‘Are the Fisheries Partnership Agreements well managed by the Commission?’, it includes a provision allowing fishing operations to be authorised directly in cases where there is no protocol, on the understanding that such authorisation would be withdrawn if protocols were to enter into force.

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point a

(a) Union fishing vessels ~~operating~~carrying out fishing activities in waters under the sovereignty or jurisdiction of a third country, under the auspices of a regional fisheries management organisation, in or outside Union waters, or on the high seas; and

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point b

(b) third country fishing vessels ~~operating~~carrying out fishing activities in Union waters.

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f

(f) ‘observer programme’ means a scheme under the auspices of a regional fisheries management organisation, or under a sustainable fisheries agreement, that provides observers on board fishing vessels under certain conditions to verify the vessel’s compliance with the rules adopted by that organisation.

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f a (new)

(fa) ‘contracting party’ means a contracting party to the international convention or agreement establishing a regional fisheries management organisation, as well as States, fishing entities or any other entities that cooperate with such an organisation and have been granted cooperating non- contracting party status with respect to such an organisation;

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point a

(a) it has received complete and accurate information, in accordance with the Annex~~es 1 and 2~~, about the fishing vessel and the associated support vessel(s), including non- Union support vessels;

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point c

(c) the fishing vessel and any associated support vessel have an IMO number, where this is required by Union legislation;

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point d

(d) the operator and the fishing vessel have not been subject to a sanction for a serious infringement according to the national law of the Member State pursuant to Article 42 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1005/2008 and Article 90 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 during the 12 months prior to the application for the fishing authorisation;deleted

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

1. This article applies to vessels that within the five years ~~of the date of~~preceding the application for a fishing authorisation have:

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point b

(b) subsequently returned to the Union fishing fleet register within 2~~4 month~~ years from the date of leaving it.

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point b

(b) it did not operate in waters of a non-cooperating third country pursuant to Article~~s 31 and~~ 33 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1005/2008.

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 4 – point a

(a) in a third country which became ~~identified or~~ listed as a non-cooperating country in combatting IUU fishing pursuant to Article~~s 31 and~~ 33 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1005/2008; or

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 5

5. Upon a reasoned request from the Commission, a flag Member State shall refuse, suspend or withdraw the authorisation in cases ~~of overriding policy reasons pertaining~~: (a) of imperative grounds of urgency related to a serious threat to the sustainable exploitation, management and conservation of marine biological resources ~~or the~~; (b) where this is essential in order to prevent~~ion~~ or suppress~~ion of~~ illegal, unreported or unregulated fishing,; (c) or in cases where the Union has decided to suspend or sever relations with the third country concerned. Measures under point (a) shall remain in operation for a maximum period of six months, which may be reviewed if the conditions set out therein continue to apply.

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 6

6. If within one month a flag Member State fails to refuse, amend, suspend or withdraw the authorisation in accordance with paragraphs 4 and 5, the Commission ~~may decide~~, upon further request to the Member State, may decide after five days to withdraw the authorisation and shall notify the flag Member State and the operator accordingly.

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1

A Union fishing vessel may only carry out fishing activities in waters of a third country on stocks managed by an RFMO if this country is a contracting party or non- contracting cooperating party to that RFMO. Where sustainable fisheries agreements have been concluded before the adoption of this Regulation, this provision shall apply four years after its entry into force.

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 a (new)

The Union may allocate a proportion of sectoral support funding to third countries with which it has sustainable fisheries agreements, in order to help those countries join regional fisheries organisations.

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point a

(a) by ~~its flag Member Stat~~the third country with sovereignty or jurisdiction over the waters where the fishing activities take place; and

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point b

(b) by ~~the third country with sovereignty or jurisdiction over the waters where the activities take place~~ its flag Member State.

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point c

(c) the operator has paid all fees and, where applicable, the final financial penalties ~~claim~~imposed by the third country competent authority ~~over the past 12 mo~~under fisheries agreemenths.

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)

(ca) the fishing vessel has an authorisation from the third country.

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1

1. Once ~~it has issued a fishing authorisation, a flag Member State~~a flag Member State has ascertained that the conditions set out in Article 11(a), (b), and (c) are met, it shall send the Commission the corresponding application ~~for~~to obtain the third country’s authorisation.

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 2

2. The application referred to in paragraph 1 shall contain the information listed in the Annex~~es 1 and 2~~ together with any other data required under the sustainable fisheries partnership agreement.

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 4

4. When it is satisfied that the conditions set out in Article 11(a), (b), and (c) are met, the Commission shall send the application to the third country. before the deadline for the transmission of applications laid down in the sustainable fisheries partnership agreement.

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – title

RTemporary reallocation of unused fishing opportunities in the framework of sustainable fisheries partnership agreements

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 7

7. On the basis of the information provided by Member States in accordance with paragraphs 4 or 5, the Commission shall reallocate, solely on a temporary basis, the unused fishing opportunities ~~on a temporary basis~~ by applying the methodology set out in Article 14.

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – title

RTemporary reallocation methodology

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1

1. The Commission may lay down, by means of implementing acts, a methodology for the temporary reallocation of unused fishing opportunities. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 45(2).

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

A Union fishing vessel may not carry out fishing activities in waters of a third country outside the framework of a sustainable fisheries partnership agreement unless it has been issued with a fishing authorisat(Does not affect the English version:)

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – point a

(a) by ~~its flag Member Stat~~the third country with sovereignty or jurisdiction over the waters where the activities take place; and

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – point b

(b) by ~~the third country with sovereignty or jurisdiction over the waters where the activities take plac~~its flag Member State.

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)

(aa) there is a fisheries agreement but it has not been implemented by the corresponding fisheries protocol within three years of its entry into force; if a fisheries protocol is concluded, the direct authorisations are to be withdrawn once the protocol comes into force;

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 1 – point c – indent 2 – indent 1

– a scientific evaluation ~~provided~~carried out by the third country ~~and/or by a regional fisheries management organisation; and~~or in partnership with it and submitted for examination by the national scientific institute of the flag Member State; or

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 1 – point c – indent 2 – indent 2

– a~~n examination of the latter by the flag Member State on the basis of the assessment of its national~~ scientific evaluation provided by a regional fisheries management organisation or other regional body with scientific ~~institute~~competences;

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)

(da) the fishing vessel has an authorisation from the third country.

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1

1. Once it has ~~issued a fishing authorisation~~established compliance with the requirements laid down in Article 18, a flag Member State shall send the Commission the relevant information listed in the Annex~~es 1 and 2, and in Article 18~~.

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 2

2. If the Commission has not requested further information or justification within 150 calendar days of the transmission of the information referred to in paragraph 1, the flag Member State shall inform the operator that it may start the fishing activities in question, provided it has been granted the direct authorisation by third country as well.

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 3

3. If, following the request for further information or justification referred to in paragraph 2, the Commission finds that the conditions in Article 18 are not met, it may object to the granting of the fishing authorisation within ~~two~~at the latest one months of receipt of all the required information or justification.

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Notwithstanding paragraphs 1 to 3, if within a period of no more than three years a fishing authorisation is renewed on the same terms and conditions as agreed in the initial licence, the Member State shall issue the authorisation directly once it has established compliance with the conditions laid down in Article 18 and shall inform the European Commission without delay.

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 1

A flag Member State shall notify the fishing authorisation to the Commission at least 15 calendar days before the start of the planned fishing activities on the high seas, providing the information in the Annex~~es 1 and 2~~.

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Paragraph 3 shall not apply in the event of data not being forwarded on account of a duly justified case of force majeure.

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 1 – point a

(a) the information in the Annex~~es 1 and 2~~ about the fishing vessel and the associated support vessel(s) is complete and accurate; the vessel and any associated support vessel(s) have an IMO number; when so required under European Union legislation;

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 1 – point b

(b) the operator and the fishing vessel have not been subject to any sanction for a serious infringement according to the national law of the Member State pursuant to Article 42 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1005/2008 and Article 90 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 during the 12 months before the application for the fishing authorisation;deleted

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)

(da) the third country is not listed as a non-cooperating country in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1005/2008 or does not permit sustainable fishing by virtue of Regulation (EC) No 1020/2012.

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 38 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 2

Paragraph 1 shall be without prejudice to the consultations between the Union and third countries. In this respect the Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts, in accordance with Article 44, to implement into Union law the outcome of consultations with third countries in respect of access arrangements.deleted

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – title

~~Union f~~Fishing authorisation register

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

1. The Commission shall set up and maintain an electronic ~~Union~~register of fishing authorisation ~~register~~s issued under Titles II and III, made of a public part and a secure part. That register shall:

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I

List of ~~information~~data to be provided for issuing a fishing authorisation I APPLICANT 1 Name of the economic 2 Email* 3 Address 4 Fax 5 6 Telephone 7 Name of the agent (according to 8 Email* 9 Address 10 Fax 11 Telephone 12 Name of association or agentI APPLICANT 1 Vessel identifier (CFR, IMO, operator* IRCS, ….) 1a Vessel name 1b Name of owner 2 Email* 3 Address 4 Fax Tax number (SIRET, NIF ...)* 6 Telephone 7 Name of the economic operator protocol’s provisions)* 8 Email* 9 Address 10 Fax 11 Telephone 12 Name of association or agent representing the economic representing the economic operator* operator* 13 Email* 14 Address 15 Fax 16 Telephone 17 Name(s) of master(s)* 18 Email* 19 Nationality*Address 20 Fax 21 Telephone ~~II [...] III FISHING CATEGORY FOR 49 Vessel type FAO code* 50 G~~21a Method of fish preservation on board deleted II FISHING AUTHORISATION WHICH FISHING INFORMATION AUTHORISATION IS REQUESTED 49 Fishing authorisation type: - charter: - direct authorisation: - high seas: - support activities: 50 Authorised gear type ~~FAO~~ code* 53 FAuthorised fishing Aarea~~s FAO~~ code* 54 ~~Fishing Divisions - FAO - or 55 Landing port(s) 56~~Area of operation or Third Costal State* Party: - high seas: - coastal state(s): 55 Landing port(s) Transhipment port(s) 57 Target Species ~~FAO~~ code orFishing category (SFPA)* 58 Authorisation period requested ~~59 60 61 62 63 64 65 IV [...]~~(start and end dates) start date RFMOs register number* (when known) Date of entry into the RFMO register* (when known) Maximum total crew size*: From [PARTNER COUNTRY]: From the ACP: Method of fish preservation/transformation on board*: Fresh fish/Cooling/Freezing/Fish meal/Oil/Filleting List of support vessels: name/IMO number/ CFR number 58a Authorisation period requested end date deleted

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0289(COD)

Francisco José MILLÁN MON, Gabriel MATO, Carlos ITURGAIZ, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II

~~[...]~~deleted

2016/09/27
Committee: PECH

2015/0270(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5

(5) In June 2015, the Five Presidents Report on Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union pointed out that a single banking system can only be truly single if confidence in the safety of bank deposits is the same irrespective of the Member State in which a bank operates. This requires single bank supervision, single bank resolution and single deposit insurance. The Five Presidents report therefore proposed to complete the Banking Union by establishing a European Deposit Insurance Scheme (EDIS), the third pillar of a fully-fledged Banking Union alongside bank supervision and resolution. Concrete steps in that direction should already be taken as a priority, with a reco-insurance system at the European level for the national deposit guarantee schemes as a first step towards a fully mutualised approach. The scope of this reco-insurance system should coincide with that of the SSM.

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2015/0270(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13

(13) This Regulation applies only in respect of banks and credit unions whose home supervisor is the ECB or the national competent authority in Member States whose currency is the euro or in Member States whose currency is not the euro which have established a close cooperation in accordance with Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013. The scope of application of this Regulation is linked to the scope of application of Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013. Indeed, bearing in mind the significant level to which the supervisory tasks attributed to the SSM and deposit guarantee actions are interwoven, the establishment of a centralised system of supervision operated under Article 127(6) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union is fundamentally important to the process of harmonisation of deposit guarantee in participating Member States. The fact of being subject to supervision by the SSM constitutes a specific attribute that places the entities falling within the scope of application of Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013 in an objectively and characterised distinct position for deposit guarantee purposes. It is necessary to adopt measures to create a single deposit insurance scheme for all Member States participating in the SSM in order to facilitate the proper and stable functioning of the internal market.

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2015/0270(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17

(17) EDIS should progressively evolve from a reco-insurance scheme into a fully mutualised ~~co-~~full insurance scheme over a number of years. In the context of efforts to deepen the EMU, together with the work on the establishment of bridge-financing arrangements for the Single Resolution Fund (SRF) and on developing a common fiscal backstop, this step is necessary to reduce the bank/sovereign links in individual Member States by means of steps towards risk sharing among all the Member States in the Banking Union, and thereby to reinforce the Banking Union in achieving its key objective. However, such risk sharing implied by steps to reinforce Banking Union must proceed in parallel with risk reducing measures designed to break the bank-sovereign link more directly.

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2015/0270(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18

(18) EDIS should be established in t~~hree~~wo sequential stages, first a ~~reinsurance scheme that covers a share of the liquidity shortfall and of the excess losses of participating DGSs, followed by a~~ co- insurance scheme that covers a gradually increasing share of the liquidity shortfall and losses of participating DGSs and eventually resulting in a full insurance scheme that covers all liquidity needs and losses of participating deposit guarantee schemes.

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2015/0270(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19

(19) In the reinsurance stage, and in order to limit the liability for the European Deposit Insurance Fund (“the Deposit Insurance Fund”) and to reduce moral hazard risk at the national level, assistance from the Deposit Insurance Fund can only be requested if the national DGS has raised ex-ante contributions in accordance with a precise funding path, and if it first depletes these funds. However, to the extent that a national DGS has collected funds over and above that which is required by the funding path, it only needs to use up the funds it had to collect to comply with the funding path before being able to receive coverage by EDIS. Therefore, DGSs which have collected more funds than is needed to comply with the funding path should not be in a worse position than those which have collected funds not exceeding the levels set out in the funding path.deleted

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2015/0270(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20

(20) As the Deposit Insurance Fund, in the re-insurance stage, would only provide an additional source of funding and would only weaken the link between banks and their national sovereign, without however ensuring that all depositors in the Banking Union enjoy an equal level of protection, the reinsurance stage should, after three years, gradually progress into a co-insurance scheme and ultimately into a fully mutualised deposit insurance scheme.deleted

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2015/0270(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21

(21) ~~While the reinsurance and~~An initial phase of four years for the co-insurance stages would ~~share many common features,~~ ensur~~ing~~e a smooth gradual evolution, pay-outs under the co- insurance stage would be shared between national DGS and the Deposit Insurance Fund as of the first euro of loss. The relative contribution from the Deposit Insurance Fund would gradually increase to 100 percent, resulting in the full mutualisation of depositor risk across the Banking Union after four years.

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2015/0270(COD)

Gabriel MATO, Younous OMARJEE, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Louis-Joseph MANSCOUR, Sofia RIBEIRO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26

(26) Contributions would be directly levied on banks to finance the Deposit Insurance Fund. The Board would collect the contributions and administer the Deposit Insurance Fund, while national DGSs would continue to collect national contributions and administer national funds. In order to ensure fair and harmonised contributions for participating banks and provide incentives to operate under a model which presents less risk, both contributions to EDIS and to national DGS should be calculated on the basis of covered deposits and a risk-adjustment factor per bank. During the re-insurance period the risk-adjustment factor should consider the degree of risk incurred by a bank relative to all other banks affiliated to the same participating DGS. Once the stage of co-insurance is reachedstage of co- insurance, the risk- adjustment factor should consider the degree of risk incurred by a bank relative to all other banks established in the participating Member States. This would ensure that, overall, EDIS is cost-neutral for banks and national DGSs and avoid any redistribution of contributions during the build-up phase of the Deposit Insurance Fund.

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – point 1 c (new)

Article Regulation (EU) No. 20/2013

Article 15 – paragraph 3

3. should be applied pursuant to paragraph 2, the Commission shall take into consideration the impact of the imports concerned on the situation of the Union market for bananas. That examination shall include factors such as: effect of the imports concerned on the Union price level, development of imports from other sources, overall stability of the Union market. (1c) In Article 15, paragraph 3 is deleted When deciding whether measures Or. en (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32013R0020)

2016/09/09
Committee: INTA

2015/0112(COD)

Marielle DE SARNEZ, Gabriel MATO, Tokia SAÏFI, Maurice PONGA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Younous OMARJEE, Franck PROUST, Sorin MOISĂ, Louis-Joseph MANSCOUR, Eric ANDRIEU

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – point 1 b (new)

Regulation (EU) No 20/2013
Article 15 – paragraph 3

1b. In Article 15, paragraph 3 is replaced by the following: " 3. When deciding whether measures should be applied pursuant to paragraph 2, the Commission shall take into consideration the impact of the imports concerned on the situation of the Union market for bananas. That examination shall include factors such as: effect of the imports concerned on the Union price level, development of imports from other sources, overall stability of the Union market.~~" (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32013R0019&from=EN)~~ The Commission shall submit to the European Parliament and the Council a written report setting out a detailed analysis of the results which prompted it to apply or not to apply measures. This report must be forwarded at the latest 14 days after the Commission has taken the decision to end the emergency procedure.' Or. fr

2016/09/09
Committee: INTA

2015/0112(COD)

Marielle DE SARNEZ, Gabriel MATO, Tokia SAÏFI, Maurice PONGA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Franck PROUST, Younous OMARJEE, Sorin MOISĂ, Louis-Joseph MANSCOUR, Eric ANDRIEU

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – point1 c (new)

Regulation (EU) No 20/2013
Article 15 – paragraph 3 a (new)

1c. In Article 15 the following paragraph is inserted: "3a. The Commission shall develop accurate statistical tools which take account of trends in the volume and price of imports, including over short periods, and of the situation of producers in each of the outermost regions, so that a more detailed assessment of imports and the situation on the Union market can be drawn up." "

2016/09/09
Committee: INTA

2015/0112(COD)

2014/2240(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)

14b. Considers that the governance of Integrated Maritime Policy should be strengthened at EU and sea-basin levels;

2015/04/21
Committee: ITRE

Alain CADEC, Werner KUHN, Gabriel MATO, Remo SERNAGIOTTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)

3c. Stresses that the development of aquaculture and mariculture can play an important role not only in the recovery of species diversity but also in the economic growth of the Adriatic and Ionian region;

2015/06/04
Committee: PECH

2014/0213(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2

Regulation (EU) No 1343/2011
Article 16 b – paragraph 1

1. The harvesting of red coral shall be prohibited at depth less than 50 m. If scientific studies, as validated by the GFCM's Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC), indicate otherwise, the Commission shall adopt delegated acts, in accordance with Article 27, which shall reflect the results of such studies.

2014/11/11
Committee: PECH

2014/0213(COD)