Activities of Patrice TIROLIEN related to 2012/2297(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on Blue Growth - Enhancing sustainable growth in the EU’s marine, maritime transport and tourism sectors
Amendments (8)
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for a focus on leveraging synergies across EU instruments to support and develop maritime clusters; welcomes initiatives at Member State and regional level, such as Ireland’s INFOMAR programme;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the need for legal certainty for businesseall actors looking to invest in maritime areas; calls on the Commission and, the Member States and the regions to agree on clear, uniform, transparent and practical maritime spatial planning and integrated coastal zone management plans;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes the potential for offshore wind, tidal, wave and ocean thermal energy, as well as the conventional offshore energy sector, to generate sustainable jobs in coastal regions, reduce emissions and contribute to the EU’s long-term energy targets; highlights the fact that significant investment in redeveloping grid connections and in transmission capacity will be required to bringmaximise this potential on stream;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines the role of aquaculture in promoting regional development in coastal areas; notes that 90 % of aquaculture businesses in the EU are SMEs, providing 80 000 jobs; calls, in that context, for innovative methods to be supported via the EMFF, to promote the development of aquaculture, particularly in deep water, alongside offshore wind farms;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recognises that blue biotechnology offers an enormous potential for tackling global societal challenges, such as protecting the environment, including the marine environment, food problems and the fight against climate change and its consequences; calls for synergies between regional and innovation policies in order to develop research infrastructure to harness this sector;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for low-impact tourism to be promoted and sustained as a driver for growth and jobs in coastal areas; highlights the need to provide sustainable infrastructure for tourism sectors with high growth potential, such as water sports; believes that the concept of eco- conditionality, referring in particular to a neutral impact on the ecosystem, the production of energy for infrastructure and resistance to extreme natural phenomena, should be inherent in the development of infrastructure and activities in the marine environment; welcomes initiatives to promote crossborder tourism strategies on a sea- basin basis.
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Draws attention to the importance, in Europe's maritime arrangements, of the outermost regions and the Overseas Countries and Territories; notes also the recent discoveries of rare earth materials and hydrocarbons in these regions; stresses the need to encourage the exploitation of these new resources in the most sustainable way possible; calls for pilot projects to be set up to monitor these innovative and sustainable exploration and exploitation techniques; stresses the need to improve these regions' integration in the single market, taking into account their special characteristics in accordance with Article 349 TFEU, in order for the entire European Union to benefit from their assets;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Stresses that maritime areas are areas of trade within the European Union but also with its neighbours; emphasises the importance of the synergies to be developed with the external policies of the Union in order to facilitate the setting-up of common projects with non-EU countries; believes that the EU's ability to share the future costs and benefits of this blue growth will be a measure of its attractiveness and standing in the world;