4 Amendments of Salvatore DE MEO related to 2022/0212(BUD)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine has impacted fisheries from several perspectives, notably disrupting fishing activities in the Black Sea, with temporary bans set up for security reasons in certain Member States’ waters, such as in the Romanian waters bordering Ukraine in Danube Delta, with similar disruptions occurring, especially in the Mediterranean, as a result of the increased cost of fuel occasioned by the conflict;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that Russia’s military aggression has led to significant disruptions in trade flows and an increase in energy prices, which has hit small-scale fisheries particularly hard, requiring the use of European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) crisis measures; calls on the Commission to further increase such efforts with the aim of compensating the sharp increase of fuel prices and other additional costs, which since March 2022 have doubled compared to the average price in 2021; welcomes the amending of the EMFF1 regulation1 aiming at alleviating the consequences of the war on the sector and on the markets; _________________ 1 COM(2022)179 final
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses the importance of fixing the economic and social damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has hit the entire fisheries and aquaculture sector hard, and from which the sector is still recovering; calls on the Commission, therefore, to effectively support the most distressed fishing areas, such as the Western Mediterranean, which is also reeling from the impact of a 6% reduction in the 2022 fishing effort for demersal stocks;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Draws attention to the international dimension of the CFP and its economic, social and environmental benefits and calls on the Commission to devote adequate resources to Oceans governance of the oceans and seas; stresses the importance of international cooperation to achieve EU’s commitimplement EU agreements;