Activities of Carmen FRAGA ESTÉVEZ related to 2009/2238(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Arrangements for importing fishery and aquaculture products into the EU with a view to the future reform of the CFP (debate)
Amendments (4)
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Urges the Commission to increase the quantity and quality of impact assessments on all tariff and trade concessions relating to the industry and the EU and ACP markets, in the context of the studies conducted by DG Trade, which currently focus almost entirely on the impact of such measures on beneficiary countries; also stresses that those assessments must provide duly quantified results and take particular account of vulnerable fish species;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Points out, in this respect, that in many cases it is the Community’s own rules on conservation and management that encourage the entry of new fishery and aquaculture products from third countries, which then replace Community fishery products and take over their traditional market niches; calls on the Commission, therefore, when drawing up plans for the recovery and management of species, to take close account, in its calculations and timescales for the recovery of a species, of the risk that a sudden and marked drop in the supply of products of Community origin may jeopardise their future access to markets once a species has recovered;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. The European Union must also enforce those undertakings in order to ensure that all products exported to the European Union, without exception, are from countries that have ratified the main international agreements in the field of maritime law, and in particular the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the Convention on Straddling and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks and, in cases where the exports are from waters managed by an RFMO, that they are contracting parties to the relevant RFMO agreement;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Emphasises the importance of rigorously applying all aspects of EU law in relation to health standards and inspections (including food safety, traceability and prevention) to fishery and aquaculture imports; urges the Commission, in this respect, to enhance its programme of third country inspections by fine-tuning Food and Veterinary Office missions, primarily by increasing the number of establishments inspected on each mission, in order to obtain results that better reflect the real situation in third countries;