Activities of Francisco GUERREIRO related to 2019/2160(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the impact on fisheries of marine litter
Amendments (35)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
- having regard to article 191 TFEU,
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 b (new)
Citation 6 b (new)
- having regard to the Directive 2004/35/EC on environmental liability with regard to the prevention and remedying of environmental damage,
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 c (new)
Citation 6 c (new)
- having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 26 October 2017 on the application of Directive 2004/35/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 on environmental liability with regard to the prevention and remedying of environmental damage (the ‘ELD’) (2016/2251(INI)),
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)
Citation 10 a (new)
- having regard to the 2005 United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report entitled "Marine Litter - An analytical overview";
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 a (new)
Citation 11 a (new)
- having regard to the October 2020 report by the European Environmental Agency entitled "State of nature in the EU - Results from reporting under the nature directives 2013-2018",
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)
Recital -A (new)
-A. whereas the best way to reduce the amount of marine plastic waste is to reduce and avoid its production and shift towards recycling and reusing material and products;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas considerable amounts of marine waste are generated by the fishing industry, namely by the use and disposal or loss of containers and buoys made of plastic, in particular expanded polystyrene, also known as styrofoam;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the problem of waste at sea is largely the result of poor management of waste on land, ranging from pollution of water courses and rivers and poor management of waste and waste water to littering, but it is also caused by natural run-off phenomena such as storms and rainfall;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas 70% of the marine litter that enters the sea ends up on the seabed, and whereas half of the remaining amount is found on beaches and half is floating on the water surface;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the presence of marine waste seriously undermines the resilience and productivity of marine ecosystems, which are already facing many cumulative pressures, such as climate change and biodiversity decline;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the European Union has already missed its biodiversity targets for 2020;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas marine waste poses a threat to a number of marine animal species and other animal species like birds, some of which are already endangered or even critically endangered;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas fish species already have the highest proportion of bad conservation status according to the EEA 2020 report;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1
Subheading 1
Improving the legislative framework and governance on marine litter and making them more effective
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses the need to revise the EU’s integrated maritime policy with a view to establishing a strategic framework on marine litter that incorporates all marine environment laws;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to support a new UN treaty on marine plastic pollution, including effective global governance of lost fishing gear, or 'ghost gear';
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to champion an ambitious governance model in international UN negotiations on marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdictions and to recognise the ocean as a common good, with a view to adopting a new approach that prioritises individual and collective responsibilities over the traditional principles of freedom and sovereign rights, as laid down in the Law of the Sea, and thus ensures that the sea is protected also from the detrimental impact of marine litter;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to consider the application of progressive taxes on all plastic materials used by the fisheries industry, thus reducing the industry’s impulses on the unhindered use of plastics in manufacture and packaging; simultaneously promoting fiscal incentives or tax rebates for manufacturers, suppliers and retailers developing and implementing zero waste transition activities;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to better combat Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) fishing, which contributes to marine litter, ‘ghost gear’ and the destruction of the marine environment;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Calls on the Commission and Member States to prioritise the protection of the marine environment from marine litter by increasing the number of Marine Protected Areas to at least 30% of EU waters as provided for under the Biodiversity Strategy;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Highlights the lack of efficiency of the European Liability Directive (ELD) for marine litters including difficulties such as identifying the polluter and assigning responsibility, as well as its restricted scope, recalls that the European Parliament called for are vision of the ELD that would take into account the limits to its effectiveness;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on the European Commission and on Member States to better implement the polluter-pays principle;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Urges the Commission to play a major role in the UN’s Decade of Ocean Science and to support digitisation and the use of artificial intelligence with a view to improving our understanding of the oceans and ourthe impact of marine litter on them;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to step up research and data collection on the impact of marine waste on fisheries and ecosystems and to introduce robust measures to address and prevent the impact of nano- and microplastics on both fishery resources and human health;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Points out that the directive on single-use plastics concerns waste commonly found on beaches; urges the Commission to step up existing measures on single-use plastics, drawing, in particular, on work to be done on waste in the water column and on sea beds as part of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, and to take account of the impactconsider a ban of some forms of marine waste, such as polystyrene containers and packaging from fishery products;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for information on the loss of fishing gear at sea to be put to more effective use when it comes to tackling marine pollution through improved data- sharing and exchange of best practices among Member States and EU agencies, and for this information to be used to develop new tools for identifying and tracking fishing gear lost at sea;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses that reducing the impact of marine waste is contingent on improvements to the circular economy on land, including through removing from the market unnecessary plastics and packaging and on the adoption of a life- cycle approach in the fisheries sector;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls for the eco-design of fishing gear to be supported through the swift adoption of guidelines on the development of harmonised standards for a circular economy for fishing gear; supports the marking of materials used in fishing gear by means of product passports; supports the promotion of research and innovation seeking to simplify theto find alternative and environmentally friendly new materials to be used in all fishing gear, including polymers;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 4
Subheading 4
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to draw up an EU-level action plan to combat marine littering by reducing waste at its source, and cut down plastic use and consumption;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Urges the Member States to collect data and monitor, to take action to clear up areas in rivers and estuaries where marine waste has accumulated and to introduce legal measures for marine waste not to reach the environment in the first place;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Stresses that the role of fishermens, civil society and local authorities in voluntary collection programmes which make it possible to identify, passively collect and recycle marine waste, such as the ‘Fish for Litter’ programme must be promoted and supported;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Recalls that marine litter is transboundary; Points out that tackling marine waste must be a joint effort with European neighbourhood countries; Calls on the Commission to put an end to the exporting of waste to third countries;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Stresses that little is knownthere is little public awareness about nano- and microplastic pollution and its effect on the environment and on human health and further research should be conducted to get to know more about the massive effects of plastic pollution, including nano- and microplastic pollution; points out that this lack of knowledgepublic awareness may make consumers distrustful of the quality of fisheries and aquaculture products;
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Welcomes the preparatory work done by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) on restrictions on microplastics intentionally added to products; Calls on the Commission to be ambitious in following up this proposal, including by explorby adopting a general phase-out of intentionally added microplastics by 2022 and by preventing, through new mandatory regulatory measures, the unintentional release of all microplastics, including for example from textiles, tyres, artificial turf and production plastic pellets, including by addressing the problem of the spread and persistence of nano- and microplastics in the water cycle;