Activities of Georgios KOUMOUTSAKOS related to 2010/2040(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Integrated Maritime Policy (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT Report on Integrated Maritime Policy (IMP) - Evaluation of progress made and new challenges PDF (238 KB) DOC (165 KB)
Amendments (19)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 23 a (new)
Citation 23 a (new)
- having regard to the Council conclusions of 14 June 2010 on integrated maritime policy,
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Takes the view that IMP should be mutually interconnected and in line with the objectives and initiatives of the Europe 2020 Strategy; believes also that IMP should contribute to achieving a competitive, social and sustainable Union which puts human beings and environmental protection at the centre of its policies; takes the view in this connection that the development of IMP must harmoniously incorporate efforts to attain economic development, a high level of employment and environmental protection;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Asks the Commission, therefore, to come up with an overarching, cross- sectoral strategy for sustainable growth in coastal regions and maritime sectors by 2013, based on a broad investigation of potentials and policy options and on broad stakeholder consultation; considers that one element of this strategy should be a new, integrated approach to strengthening Europe’s world leadership in maritime engineering across sectors such as shipbuilding, off-shore energy development and technologies; another aspect must be to find solutions at an international level to eradicate practices of unfair competence within the shipbuilding industry;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to learn the lessons of the oil spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, to identify all possible legislative loopholes at EU and Member State level and to adjust as quickly as possible all relevant EU legislation accordinglyencourage Member States to fully implement the already existing international legal framework as defined by the relevant IMO's international conventions and in parallel to identify all possible legislative loopholes at EU and Member State level and to adjust as quickly as possible all relevant EU legislation accordingly; moreover underlines that due to the scale of the Gulf of Mexico's catastrophe, considers it necessary to find solutions at an international level in cases of cross- border contamination;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Asks the Commission to ensure that the new IMP will receive appropriate funding in the next financial perspective, and to study, as one option, through a simplified and unified financial mechanism which will group together all maritime issues, including maritime surveillance, and to take seriously into account the Committee of the Regions’ proposal of a coastal fundEuropean fund for coastal and island regions;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Congratulates those Member States and regions which have already established integrated maritime governance policies and structures; calls on those Member States which still have highly fragmented administrative structures relating to the IMP, forthwith to establish unified and integrated maritime governance structures;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Agrees with the Commission that stakeholder involvement in maritime policy-making should also be enshrined more permanently in governance structures; invites to this end all coastal Member States which have not as yet done so to answer positively the Commission’s request to designate national contact points for IMP, anddesignate as soon as possible national contact points for IMP, thereby responding positively to the Commission's request; stresses the necessity to activate this operational network as soon as possible; supports the formation of a cross- sectoral platform for stakeholder dialogue on maritime affairs and reiterates its support for European Maritime Day;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Welcomes the European network of Maritime Clusters and askencourages the Commission, Member States and Regions to take initiatives to support these emerging organisations on all levels;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Commission and the Council to support the inclusion of IMP in the financial leverage instruments and objectives of the EU's external policy through the development of suitable initiatives aimed at addressing problems such as pollution, illegal fishing and piracy;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Welcomes the regional sea-basin initiatives and strategies proposed so far by the Commission; recognises that the implementation of the IMP principles requires that they be translated into targeted strategies and specific measures tailored to the specificities of each sea basin, and in the case of the Mediterranean, the various sub-regions present therein; calls for further dialogue and co-operation in order to improve the governance of the marine space and coastal areas in the different maritime sea basins, including the North Sea, the Atlantic, the Black Sea and the Mediterranean area, and asks the Commission to implement the proposed acttake rapid steps in cooperation with Member States to draw up and present actions in these regions;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Asks therefore the Member Scoastal states concerned to resolve delimitation issues on the basis of UNCLOS and agree on their maritime zones;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Expects that a well coordinated and integrated cross-pillar, cross-sectoral, and cross-border approach towards maritime surveillance will improve protection of the interests of Member States and the European Union by making available, to authorities operating at sea, monitoring and surveillance information across various relevant sectors of activity, thereby generating more efficiency;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls therefore on the Commission, Member States, EU agencies, in particular the EMSA, and relevant organisations to speed up their efforts in terms of cooperation and coordination and with regard to the necessary legislative adaptations;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls the Commission in cooperation with Member States to identify obstacles to the exchange of data in EU and national legislation and in the mandates of the agencies, to learn from the experience gained in regional and national initiatives, research projects and in pilot projects and from CSDP operations relating to maritime surveillance, to present in 2010 a roadmap on integrated maritime surveillance and to explore areas for cooperation with third countries, especially from the Mediterranean which have ratified UNCLOS as well as with relevant organisations;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Asks the Commission to identify the additional financial needs for creating a common Information Sharing Environment within the framework of integrated maritime surveillance in good time before the next Financial Perspective for the benefit of both the EU and Member States;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Reiterates its call for improved cooperation between Member States’ national inspectorates, coastguards and navies and reminds the Commission to carry out – as requested earlier by the European Parliament – a feasibility study on further collaboration or integration between the different coastguard services with the prospect of creating a European Coastguard Service in the near future;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Asks the Commission to come up with a strategy to mitigatetake into consideration the specific impacts of climate change on coastal regions, as a follow-up toin accordance with the White Paper on Climate Change;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Asks the Commission to develop a fleet renewal programme for the very old coastal shipping fleet, by providing the necessary financial resources for this purpose, thus increasing the safety, environmental performance and competitiveness of shipping in the common maritime space without bordarriers, while making full use of the competitive shipbuilding capacity of Europe for this purpose; calls on Member States to ratify the 2009 Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Welcomes the Atlas of the Seas andrecently developed by the Commission and encourages stakeholders to avail the Maritime Forum1 as tangible outputs for stakeholders and the general public of the IMP; 1he new instrument for collaboration; Or. en https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/iwt/index.php?q=frontpage