7 Amendments of Gabriel MATO related to 2017/2208(INI)
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas artisanal fishing uses gear and techniques that have less impact on the status of endangered stocks;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
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;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)
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;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
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;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Recital D b (new)
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;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
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;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
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;