Activities of Antolín SÁNCHEZ PRESEDO related to 2009/2106(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Green Paper on reform of the common fisheries policy (debate)
Amendments (49)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 a (new)
Citation 19 a (new)
– having regard to its resolution "2050: The future begins today – recommendations for the EU's future integrated policy on climate change" (2008/2015 (INI),
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 b (new)
Citation 19 b (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 25 November 2009 on the EU strategy for the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change,
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the application of the CFP interacts directly with areas as vast as the environment, safety, public health, consumer protection and regional development, internal and international trade, relations with third countries and development cooperation, and whereas it is essential to guarantee proper and careful harmonisation between all these areas,
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the current geopolitical, economic and social situation and the drawing-up of a strategy and action plan for the preservation and sustainable development of the oceans and seas in Europe and the world (integrated maritime policy – IMP), justify increasedour commitment to establishing an environmentally and socio-economically sustainable CFP in which the decision- making power for Parliament with regard to the CFP is strengthened as provided for in the Lisbon Treaty,
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas, in order to be more inclusive and effective, the CFP should be restructured with a vieworganised to thake a multidisciplinary involvement ofapproach to involving all groups directly or indirectly connected with the sector, in particular fishermen, vessel owners, the scientific community and politicianindustry and other links in the sectoral and commercial chain, the scientific community and institutional stakeholders,
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas, despite the significant progress made following the revision of the CFP in 2002, serious problems relating to fleet overcapacity and the scarcity of some fishery resources still remain and have worsened in recent years,
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas the maintenance of modern, competitive, environmentally-friendly and safe fishing fleets is not incompatible with the reduction in fishing capacity, which has in fact been carried out by various Member States in order to bring it more closely into line with the availability of resources,
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. whereas the small-scale fishing fleet and areas that are heavily dependent on fishing require different treatment and greater socio-economic support in the new CFP,
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L b (new)
Recital L b (new)
Lb. whereas fisheries and aquaculture products are an important and increasing source for the supply of the high-quality proteins and healthy fats that are essential for the EU's food needs,
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas the Community fisheries fleet and sector isare a source of high-quality food and plays an essential role in respect of employment and, social cohesion and dynamism in the EU's coastal, remote and outermost regions,
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P
Recital P
P. whereas Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs) and fisheries partnership agreements play a vital and increasingly important role in the use and sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources in Community and international waters,
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital R
Recital R
R. whereas the greatest possible focus should be given to the strategic importance of aquaculture and its development around the worldt Community level, both in socio-economic and environmental terms and with regard to food security,
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital R a (new)
Recital R a (new)
Ra. whereas shellfishing activities form an integral part of the sector and are of considerable importance in certain coastal areas and, in the case of shellfishing on foot, are generally performed by women; whereas these activities should be brought fully within the scope of the new CFP,
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes also the two main principles set out by the Commission with a view to an effective and successful reform of the CFP, namely the need to give more responsibility to the sector, based on the establishment of conditions favourable to good fishing practice and to make fisheries management models more flexible in order to create alternatives tohat improve the traditional single system of TACs and quotas currently in force;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that despite having been extensively reformed in 2002, the CFP, 27 years after its establishment, is faced with serious problems in certain fisheries whose main features are overfishing, overcapacity, overinvestment in some sections of the fleet, energy inefficiency and waste, with additional aspects, such as the economic and social regression, currently affecting the sector, globalisation of the fisheries and aquaculture market and the consequences of climate change;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points out that Parliament has in previous terms drawn attention to the fact that CFP rules were not being sufficiently complied with and has repeatedly called on Member Statesthe competent bodies in the EU to improve controls, harmonise inspection and sanction criteria, ensure transparency of inspection findings and strengthen the Community inspection systems;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Points out that RFMOs and fisheries partnership agreements play a vital role in the governance and application of good fishing practice within their respective jurisdareas of competence and fields of applications;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses that scientific knowledge of marine ecosystems isand applied research into the needs of the sector are a sine qua non for the establishment of a policy for the conservation and sustainable management of fisheries resources and for its progressive refinement;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses that, notwithstanding the degree of complexity of some procedures for modifying fisheries management models and the difficulties, in particular legal problems, which may appear in this process, these andre not insuperable, as shown by the successful application of other management models in other parts of the world, such as fishing- effort-based management and transmissible fishery rights;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses that, despite the decommissioning measures taken, some sections of the European fleet, especially the small-scale fleet, have not been sufficiently renewed and there are still vessels which are obsolete or very old and which need to be modernised with a view to ensuring greater on-board safety and a lesser environmental impact without increasing fishing capacity;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Stresses the importance of fishermen’s associations, producers’ organisations and other associations in the sector for the smooth operation and development of the sector;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses that the success of aquaculture will depend on an enterprise-friendly environment at national and/or local level and that Member States and regional authorities should be given guidelines enabling them to establish a framework suitable for the implementation of the Community approachable to count on a suitable Community framework for the harmonious development of the sector and the realisation of its full wealth and job creation potential;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Stresses that the full involvement of women in activities in the sector, on an equal footing with men, is a fundamental objective that should be reflected in all the policies and measures designed and adopted for the sector;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Urges the Commission to ensure that most vulnerable groups in the fisheries sector, especially working women, fisherwomen and women shellfish gatherers, are not disadvantaged when access rights to resources are allocated, by encouraging their participation in the RACs;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Considers that CFP commitments to reversing the economic and social consequences of reduced fishing possibilities and greater international competition must be compatible with the long-term sustainability of the sector;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Maintains that the CFP should adopt an ecosystem approach, which should be taken into account equally in all of the economic activities carried on, where these affect the marine environment. In this respect, calls on the Commission to ensure that the CFP reform includes the measures adopted to combat climate change and sets up adequate funding to implement these measures;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Urges the Commission to conduct a detailed and exhaustive survey on the size, characteristics, and spread of the current Community fleet, since this is essential in order towhich establishes a regime wherebyclear definition of the small-scale fleet would be treated differently from the large-scale fleet, each category being defined according to sound criteriain order to guarantee its special treatment and different arrangements for the small- scale and industrial fleets based on their respective problems;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Points to the need for greater investment in applied research and scientific knowledge in the fisheries field, and for the fisheries sector to be dovetailinvolved more effectively into the subject areas covered by the framework programmes to promote research;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Urges the Commission to draw up a specific Community support programme for small-scale coastal and non-industrial fisherpresent to the Council and the European Parliament a specific Community support programme for coastal and non-industrial fisheries and shellfishing, activities that are generally conducted by small and medium-sized operating units and in which women play a significant role, which involves providing more support in areas that are heavily dependent on such activities;
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Believes that all fishing and shellfishing operators, whether men andor women alike, need to be guaranteed easier access to European Union financial instruments and accorded the same status in all Member States, especially as regards access to social security, and that a strategy must be put in place to provide financial support to ; urges that a financial support strategy must be put in place for fishing and shellfishing professionals who, because fishing capacity has to be adjusted according to the availability of fish stocks, might or to fish stock recovery plans, might see a fall in actvity or lose their job;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Calls on the Member States, within the framework of their respective workers' rights, to reach collective agreements that should be accepted by European fleets in order to improve their working conditions and safety;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Considers it necessary to ensure higher first-sale prices ofhat producers are more closely involved in the marketing chain for fishery products and to reduce the number of middlemen in the chain stretching from producers to consumers and, to an increasing extent, securfacilitate the involvement of producers’ organisations in the management of stocks and the marketing of fishery products, the aim being to make the catching sub-sector as profitable as possible;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls on the Commission to step up information to consumers on the origin and quality of fishery products, draw up a specific eco-labelling programme with a view to enhancing the image of fishery products and promoting consumer health, and to base it on strict monitoring and complete traceability of fisheries, as regards both catches in the wild andfrom obtaining the raw material to marketing the end product, as regards sales of both fresh catches and processed products from fishing activity or aquaculture products;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Reiterates the need to provide for strictensure strict compliance with monitoring and certification of fisherymeasures for fishery and aquaculture products entering the Community market, including imports, in order to ascertain that they come from sustainable fisheries and, if so, are properly processed; ensuring their traceability, as far as imported products are concerned, and that they satisfy the requirements imposed on Community products, the aim being to create a level playing field on the Community market;
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Considers it essential to establish a political framework allowing decisions concerning the sector to be taken on a medium- and long-term basis, applying different operating plans consistent with the specific nature of fisheries and the distinctive features of individual European fleets and industries;
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Considers that management plans should be regularly monitored and assessed, without detracting from the minimum flexibility required to enable them to be adapted swift more regularly, employing a flexible approach to adapt them quickly and appropriately to the new circumstances that may affecting the broader contextm;
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Maintains that the management system for the fisheries sector has to abandon the traditional top-down approach, laying, whilst preserving its Community nature, has to emphasise instead on the principle of regionalisation and subsidiarity (horizontal decentralisation) without leading to regional discrimination or upsetting the common implementation of fisheries policy and the participation of professionals in the sector, taking into account the multifarious specific features of the Community fleet and fisheries; firmly rejects any attempt to adopt a universalsingle Community fisheries management model, in a form serving to impose uniformity;
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Urges the Commission to carefully explore the possibility of adopting new more advanced fisheries management mechanisms, as opposed to the TAC and quota system, for example fishing effort management and the use of transferable fishing rights, since such arrangements would facilitate the introduction of the no-discards policy and enable the fleet to be adapted in a more flexible way, in line with the actual diversity and distribution of stocks, and could be supported by structural implementing measures, without neglecting the more vulnerable small-scale sector;
Amendment 306 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32a. Considers that a management system based on fishing effort could help develop an effective no-discards policy and simplify the current administrative and control procedures, which are excessively time-consuming and expensive for both the sector and the Member States' administrations;
Amendment 320 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Maintains that Regional Advisory Councils (RACs) and the assessments made by the Community Fisheries Control Agency should participatelay a more actively role in the CFP reform process and be placed in a position, logistically and financially, to exercise their updated responsibilities effectively and to the full;
Amendment 331 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Maintains that regional umbrella organisations, staffed by representatives of the Member States, the sector, other stakeholders, and the scientific community, should be set up to exercise management decision-makingguidance power and that the RACs, playing their advisory role, should be merged with them; believes that these bodies, working in conjunction, would make for genuine and effective decentralisation of management, in keeping with the Treaty and without undermining the general aims and principles laid down by the Community legislature;
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Calls for a more comprehensive policy to make Member States take greater responsibility, whereby theyMember States that had not fulfilled their control and conservation commitments would not be eligible for structural funding and other forms of Community support if, and only if, they had fulfilled their control and conservation commitmentspursuant to Article 95 of the new Control Regulation;
Amendment 354 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35a. Urges that the future financial accompanying measures be adapted to the objectives and commitments of the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy;
Amendment 359 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Is convinced that a strong, revitalisedhigh quality aquaculture sector that is attuned to its environment and the activities conducted within this environment would boost growth in related sectors and help to promote development in coastal and rural areas, with considerable benefits for consumers as well, in the form of ecologically produced nourishing, high- quality food products;
Amendment 363 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Considers that the competitiveness of Community aquaculture should be strengthened by providing ongoing substantial support for research and technological development, planning coastal areas and river basins, so as to facilitate access to the required space, and encompassing the specific needs of aquaculture within EU market policy;
Amendment 368 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. Considers that the sustainable development of aquaculture requires environment-friendly installations and production methods, stringent health and animal welfare standards, and a high level of consumer protection;
Amendment 379 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
Paragraph 40
40. Calls on the Commission to encouragpresent proposals to the Council and the European Parliament that promote the search for new aquaculture species offering high quality and added value, and to promote research and a Community- wide exchange of good practice regarding such species and the related production and marketing methods with a view to meeting environmental concerns and securing a better competitive position in relation to other novel foods;
Amendment 401 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
Paragraph 43
43. Maintains that new fisheries agreements with third countries should be encouraged in order to afford the Community fleet easier access to new fishing grounds, strengthening the capacity of our partners to guarantee sustainable fishing in their own waters and thus contributing to improving governance in the field of fisheries outside the EU;