19 Amendments of Massimo CASANOVA related to 2019/2160(INI)
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas a substantial proportion of the plastics and microplastics in the sea comes from land-based sources;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas the volume of plastic in the sea also has a significant impact on fisheries, which is even greater and more costly where small-scale fishing is concerned;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas Article 48 of the Fisheries Control Regulation, which lays down measures for the retrieval of lost fishing gear, is a step in the right direction but is too limited in scope;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas ghost fishing occurs when lost or abandoned, non-biodegradable fishing nets, traps and lines catch, entangle, injure, starve and cause the death of marine life; whereas the phenomenon of ghost fishing is brought about by the loss and abandonment of fishing gear; whereas the Fisheries Control Regulation requires the mandatory marking of gear and the notification and retrieval of lost gear; whereas some fishermen therefore bring back to port, at their own initiative, lost nets retrieved from the sea;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E c (new)
Recital E c (new)
Ec. whereas an estimated 80% of marine litter is accounted for by plastic and microplastic, somewhere between 20% and 40% of plastic marine litter is linked in part to human activities at sea, including merchant and cruise ships, with the rest originating on land, and, according to a recent FAO study, roughly 10% comes from lost and abandoned fishing gear; whereas lost and abandoned fishing gear is one component of plastic marine litter and, given that an estimated 94% of the plastic entering the ocean ends up on the sea floor, the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) needs to be used to ensure that fishermen become directly involved in fishing for marine litter schemes by being paid or offered other financial or material incentives;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Emphasises that Resolution 11 of the UN Environment Assembly of the UN Environment Programme of 23- 27 May 2016 recognised that the presence of plastic litter and microplastics in the marine environment is an issue of global concern that is rapidly becoming more and more worrying and that needs an urgent global response that incorporates a product life-cycle approach;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to coordinate on the basis of a single timetable their work on laws such as the marine strategy framework directive, the water framework directive, the directive on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment, the directive on port reception facilities and the framework directive for maritime planning, with a view to making legislation in this area more consistent and avoiding adding layers of regulation that could complicate the legal framework for action;
Amendment 134 #
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 our impact on them;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support research into not only the use of biodegradable fishing gear but also other sources of pollution of the sea with plastics and microplastics;
Amendment 147 #
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,take into account that solutions for tackling waste from plastics cannot be isolated from an overall plastics strategy; invites the Commission, therefore, to 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 impact of some forms of marine waste, such as polystyrene packaging from fishery products;
Amendment 154 #
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 among Member States, the Commission and EU agencies, and for this information to be used to develop new tools for identifying and tracking fishing gear lost at sea without, however, creating a financial burden on fisheries and aquaculture operators;
Amendment 163 #
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, and on the adoption of a life-cycle approachn approach based on reuse, in all its forms, in the fisheries sector;
Amendment 164 #
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 the materials used in fishing gear, including polymers;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Supports the development of efficient recycling channels through the upgrading ofby incentivising reception facilities at European ports with a view to improving selective waste sorting; calls for collection operations to be made more attractive by taking measures to support fishermen and aquaculture producers that bring their end- of-life fishing or aquaculture gear back to port;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Stresses that the role of fishermen in voluntary collection programmes which make it possible to identify, collect and recycle marine waste, such as the ‘Fish for Litter’ programme must be promoted and supported, using Community funds to incentivise investment for such purposes;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Points out that the accidental collection of waste by fishing vessels is excluded from the cost recovery system;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote campaigns to raise awareness of the issue of marine pollution caused by plastics and microplastics, underlining the fact that fishermen are also often affected by this phenomenon, especially in the case of microplastics;