16 Amendments of Guido MILANA related to 2009/2106(INI)
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the application of the CFP interacts directly with areas as vast as the environment, safety, public health, consumer protection and regional development and all exogenous factors that contribute to changes in habitat, place a strain on the marine ecosystem, affect the stability of biological resources and have an impact on species reproduction, such as the acidification of the oceans and the rise in sea temperatures, coastal erosion, mining activities and military prohibitions, and whereas it is essential to guarantee proper and careful harmonisation between all these areas,
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas the maintenance of modern, competitive and safe fishing fleets is not incompatible with the reduction in fishing capacity, which has in fact been carried out by various Member States in order to bring it more closely into line with the availability of resources, and whereas stakeholders have always advocated measures that will not depress the sector but will have positive and gradual effects, such as efforts to increase fish biomass, reducing fishing days, establishing biological protection zones, upgrading small-scale fisheries, etc.,
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Q. Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing constitutes one of the most serious threats against a sustainable exploitation of living aquatic resources which jeopardises the very foundation of the CFP and international efforts to promote better ocean governance, and whereas the Council Regulation establishing a Community control system, which is shortly to be implemented, is intended to further promote control and deterrence,
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission’s initiative of submitting the Green Paper, which is forming the basis to a consultation procedure and a major discussion on the constraints and challenges facing the current CFP, with a view to an urgent and far-reaching reform thereof, and also calls for stakeholders' views to be taken into account;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the current CFP is one of the most integrated Community policies, which gives the Community broad powers for the management of marine resources, and also calls for stakeholders to be more closely involved;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points out that Parliament has in previous terms drawn attention to the fact that CFP rules were not being sufficiently complied with and has repeatedly called on Member States to improve controls, harmonise inspection and sanction criteria, ensure transparency of inspection findings and strengthen the Community inspection systems; in order to overcome these contradictions, it would be useful to involve the main stakeholders and give them greater responsibilities;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses that scientific knowledge of marine ecosystems is a sine qua non for the establishment of a policy for the conservation and sustainable management of fisheries resources, with the involvement and participation of cooperative sector research workers as observers and full representatives on RACs;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses that the success of aquaculture will depend on an enterprise-friendly environment at national and/or local level and that Member States and regional authorities should be given guidelines enabling them to establish a framework suitable for the implementation of the Community approach while expanding the base of operators capable of investing in environment-friendly aquaculture, giving preference to undertakings and fishermen whose activities are in decline;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Maintains that the CFP should adopt an ecosystem approach, which should be taken into account equally in all of the economic activities carried on, where these affect the marine environment, placing emphasis on integrated management of coastlines where complex ecosystems are to be found and where a very delicate ecological balance must be struck between environmental, economic, social, recreational and cultural interests;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Points to the need for greater investment in research and scientific knowledge in the fisheries field, encouraging collective research organisations, whose competence and experience have increased in recent years, and for the fisheries sector to be dovetailed more effectively into the subject areas covered by the framework programmes to promote research;
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Urges the Commission to draw up a specific Community support programme for small-scale coastal and non-industrial fisheries as this kind of selective fishing has a lower impact, employs more people, has strong local roots and places emphasis on the traditional role of non- industrial fisheries;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Urges the Commission and the Member States to promote proper training for fishermen with a view to enhancing the status of qualifications, giving prestige to the profession, and attracting more adaptable young people who would be capable of embracing occupational mobility and taking a more entrepreneurial attitude to the sector and incorporating all the technical, scientific and cultural elements needed to help overcome the widespread perception of fisheries as a peripheral activity;
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Considers it necessary to ensure higher first-sale prices of fishery products and to reduce the number of middlemen in the chain stretching from producers to consumers and, to an increasing extent, secure the involvement of producers’ organisations in the management of stocks and the marketing of fishery products, the aim being to make the catching sub-sector as profitable as possible and to encourage and support all direct sales and marketing activities by producers capable of shortening the chain;
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Maintains that the management system for the fisheries sector has to abandon the traditional top-down approach, laying emphasis instead on the principle of regionalisation and subsidiarity (horizontal decentralisation) and the participation of professionals in the sector, taking into account the multifarious specific features of the Community fleet; firmly rejects any attempt to adopt a universal Community fisheries management model, in a form serving to impose uniformity and calls instead for due account to be taken of the fact that, because of its configuration and geophysical characteristics, the Mediterranean cannot be compared to or treated in the same way as northern seas, whose characteristic features are different;
Amendment 322 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Maintains that Regional Advisory Councils (RACs) and the Community Fisheries Control Agency should participate more actively in the CFP reform process and be placed in a position, logistically and financially, to exercise their updated responsibilities effectively and to the full, as set out in Parliament's resolution of 25 March 2009 (A6- 0187/2009), which proposes that the visibility of the RACs should be improved and their participation promoted, giving them observer status within the various institutional bodies, including Parliament's Committee on Fisheries and the Commission’s Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee on Fisheries (STECF) and Advisory Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture (ACFA) as well as the Council of Fisheries Ministers itself;
Amendment 370 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. Considers that the sustainable development of aquaculture requires environment-friendly production methods, stringent health and animal welfare standards, and a high level of consumer protection including incentives for organic aquaculture production and efforts to enhance the efficiency of fish farming plants;