Activities of Carmen FRAGA ESTÉVEZ related to 2008/0216(CNS)
Plenary speeches (1)
Community control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the Common Fisheries Policy (debate)
Amendments (22)
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) Clear, tailor-made specific control measures should be applied to multi-annual plans, marine protected areas and discards under a special regime. The procedure for the establishment and lifting of real time- closures for fishing grounds should be clarified.
Amendment 43 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 29
Recital 29
(29) Powers should be conferred to the Commission to close a fishery when the quota of a Member State or a TAC itself is exhausted. The Commission should also be empowered to deduct quotas and refuse quota transfers or quota exchanges to ensure the achievement of the objectives of the Common Fisheries Policy by the Member States.
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 35
Recital 35
(35) It should however be for the Council to decide on the obligation to use electronic monitoring devices and traceability tools such as genetic analysis and other fisheries control technologies. Since those technologies entail costs for national control authorities and for the sector concerned, it is appropriate that the Council should reserve for itself the right to exercise implementing powers directly in this specific case. Since the Council decides on the introduction of multiannual plans it is also appropriate that the Council decides in this context on a threshold amount applicable to the live weight of species subject to these multiannual plans above which a vessel shall be required to land its catches in a designated port. Since the Council adopts the annual TAC and quota Regulation it is also appropriate that it determines in this context trigger by-catch levels for the establishment of real time closures.
Amendment 58 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – point 17
Article 4 – point 17
(17) "Processing" means the process by which the presentation was prepared. It includes cleaning, filleting, icfilleting, packing, canning, freezing, smoking, salting, cooking, pickling, drying or preparing fish for market in any other manner;
Amendment 93 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 2
Article 11 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission, after providing documentary justification by submitting evidence of failure to comply with control measures or scientific reports, may require a Member State to use a Vessel Detection System for a given fishery and at a given time.
Amendment 104 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 3
Article 14 – paragraph 3
3. The permitted margin of tolerance in estimates recorded in the logbook of the quantities in kilograms of fish retained on board shall be 510 %.
Amendment 122 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – point f
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – point f
f) the quantities of each species retained on board, including zero catches returns; ;
Amendment 124 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 4
Article 17 – paragraph 4
4. The Commission, in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 111, may exemptuncil, on a proposal from the Commission, may set, for certain categories of fishing vessels from, another notification period for the obligation set out in paragraph 1 for a limited period, which may be renewed, or make provision for another notification period taking into account, inter alia, the type of fishery products, the distance between the fishing grounds, landing places and ports where the vessels in question are registered.
Amendment 129 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 4
Article 19 – paragraph 4
Amendment 132 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 2
Article 21 – paragraph 2
Amendment 163 #
Proposal for a regulation
Chapter IV – section 4
Chapter IV – section 4
Section 4 The whole of Section 4 is deleted. Real time closure of fisheries
Amendment 199 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 54 – paragraph 1
Article 54 – paragraph 1
1. Registered buyers, registered auctions or other bodies or persons which are responsible for the first marketing of fishery products landed in a Member State, shall submit electronically, within 26 hours after the first sale, a sales note to the competent authorities of the Member State in whose territory the first sale takes place. If this Member State is not the flag State of the vessel that landed the fish, it shall ensure that a copy of the sales note is submitted to the competent authorities of the flag Member State upon receipt of the relevant information. The accuracy of the sales note shall be the responsibility of these buyers, auctions, bodies or persons.
Amendment 241 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 84 – paragraph 7
Article 84 – paragraph 7
7. Member States shall also establish a penalty point system under which the master andor the officerscaptain of a vessel receive appropriate penalty points as a result of an infringement against the rules of the Common Fisheries Policy committed by them.
Amendment 261 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 96 – paragraph 1
Article 96 – paragraph 1
1. Where a Member State does not respect its obligations for the implementation of a multiannual plan, and where the Commission has reasons to believeproof that the non respect of those obligations is particularly detrimental to the stock concerned, the Commission may provisionally close the fisheries affected by those shortcomings.
Amendment 265 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 97 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 97 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. If the quota, allocation or share of a stock or a group of stocks allocated to a Member State does not exceed 100 tonnes, the reduction for exceeding the quota shall be applied in a linear manner and not by percentage, except for species covered by a multiannual plan to which paragraph 1 shall apply.
Amendment 267 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 97 – paragraph 2
Article 97 – paragraph 2
2. If, over the previous two years, a Member State has repeatedly overfished its quota, allocation or share of thea stock or group of stocks over the previous two years, if the overfishing is particularly detrimental to the stock concerned or if the stock isthat is particularly sensitive to over-fishing or subject to a multiannual plan, the multiplying factor referred to in paragraph 1 shall be doubled.
Amendment 269 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 97 – paragraph 3
Article 97 – paragraph 3
Amendment 272 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 98
Article 98
Amendment 278 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 100
Article 100
Amendment 281 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 101 – paragraph 1
Article 101 – paragraph 1
1. If there is evidence, including based on the results of the sampling carried out by the Commission, that fishing activities and/or measures adopted by a Member State or Member States undermine the Common Fisheries Policy or threaten the marine eco-system and this requires immediate action, the Commission, at the substantiated request of any Member State or on its own initiative, may decide on emergency measures which shall last not more than one yearsix months. The Commission may take a new decision to extend the emergency measures for no more than six months.
Amendment 283 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 101 – paragraph 3
Article 101 – paragraph 3
3. A Member State shall communicate the request referred to in paragraph 1 simultaneously to the Commission and to the Member States concerned. The other Member States may submit their written comments to the Commission within five15 working days of receipt of the request. The Commission shall take a decision within 15 working days of receipt of the request.
Amendment 284 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 101 – paragraph 5
Article 101 – paragraph 5
5. The Member States concerned may refer the Commission decision to the Council within 105 working days of receipt of the notification.