45 Amendments of Younous OMARJEE related to 2017/2055(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6
Citation 6
– having regard to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which entered into force on 29 December 1993, and the Aichi targets of the Strategic Plan for Biological Diversity 2011-2020, adopted in October 2010,
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 b (new)
Citation 8 b (new)
- having regard to the resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly on 19 June 2015 on the development of an international legally binding instrument on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction,
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)
Citation 15 a (new)
- having regard to the Commission study entitled ‘Study: realising the potential of the outermost regions for sustainable blue growth’,
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas it is widely agrescientifically demonstrated that the environmental health of the oceans is under significant threat, that they have already suffered widespread damage and that risk of beingthey will continue to be irreversibly damaged unless targeted and coordinated efforts are undertaken by the world community;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas current pressures on the marine environment include damage to habitats, degradation of coral barrier reefs, invasive species, pollution and nutrient enrichment, as well as highover- exploitation rates of marine species and, acidification and warming of waters induced by climate change;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the exclusive economic zones (EEZs) of European Union Member States extend over 25.6 million km2, virtually all of which area is located in the Outermost Regions and the Overseas Countries and Territories, making the European Union the largest maritime area in the world; whereas the European Union therefore has a duty to play a leading role in establishing effective and ambitious international governance of the oceans;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas in 2015 the IPCC stated that, in order to limit climate change to 2°C in the period until the end of this century, one third of oil reserves, half of gas reserves and more than 80% of coal reserves must remain unexploited;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas marine pollution – for example the direct or indirect dumping of waste, substances or energy, including the introduction of submarine noise sources of human origin – has, or may have, a harmful impact on living resources and marine ecosystems, impoverishing biodiversity, endangering human health, creating obstacles to maritime activities and altering water quality;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. having regard to Sustainable Development Goal 14 of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDG 14), which encourages the conservation and sustainable exploitation of the oceans, seas and marine resources for purposes of sustainable development;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. having regard to the resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly on 19 June 2015 on the development of an international legally binding instrument on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
Recital G b (new)
Gb. whereas the exploitation of marine renewable energy could contribute to the objective of energy autonomy on small European islands;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G c (new)
Recital G c (new)
Gc. whereas the seas and oceans have the potential to become major sources of clean energy; whereas such renewable marine energy gives the EU the opportunity not only to generate economic growth and to create skilled jobs but also to improve the security of its energy supply and become more competitive thanks to technological innovation; whereas the exploitation of this local resource has a particularly important dimension for island States and regions, particularly the Outermost Regions, where ocean energy could contribute towards energy self-sufficiency and replace energy produced at high cost by diesel power stations;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Welcomes the call for action for sustainable management of the oceans and the more than 1 300 commitments launched by the UN at the Ocean Conference held in New York from 5 to 9 June 2017, and calls for them to be acted upon without delay;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the European Union to play to the full the role incumbent upon it, as the largest maritime area in the world, in establishing international governance of the oceans which entails stringent standards, is ambitious and fully caters for all imperatives relating to the conservation and preservation of marine environments;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Recalls UN Resolution 2749 (XXV) of 17 December 1970, which recognises that ‘the sea-bed and ocean floor, and the subsoil thereof, beyond the limits of national jurisdiction, as well as the resources of the area, are the common heritage of mankind’, and Article 136 of the Montego Bay Convention, which stipulates that ‘the sea-bed and ocean floor beyond the limits of international jurisdiction, and its resources, form part of the common heritage of mankind’;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Stresses that, in view of the warnings by scientists regarding the irreversible environmental risks associated with deep-sea mining and the limits to current knowledge, the precautionary principle necessitates the imposition of an international moratorium on oil or gas extraction and on prospecting with a view to oil or gas extraction in the high seas, and a total ban in protected marine areas and their vicinity; stresses the risks involved in hydraulic fracturing at sea;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Calls for international regulation of offshore oil and gas prospecting and extraction and all other types of exploitation of the oceans, of the seabed, of the beds and subsoil of territorial waters, EEZs and extensions of continental shelves;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Calls on the Commission to encourage Member States to cease subsidising licences for mining prospecting and extraction in areas beyond national jurisdiction and issuing permits for mining of their continental shelves;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for international regulation of measures against nuclear waste and pollution in the oceans and the seabed, with a view to the implementation of practical measures to limit their environmental and health impact and to eliminate pollution of the seabed;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that improving transparency, access to information, participation by civil society and the legitimacy of UN organisations, such as the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) is a matter of priority in addressing existing governance shortcomings;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls for regional arrangements for governance of marine environments to be tightened up, particularly with a view to the attainment of SDG 14; calls on the European Union and international organisations, particularly by means of official development aid, to increase support for regional organisations and for the attainment by third countries of SDG 14;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the Commission to promote equal conditions on the labour market in the field of the sea and to ensure fair treatment, applying effectively the relevant international conventions, such as the Work in Fishing Convention and the Maritime Labour Convention of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), and establishing a harmonised social framework for maritime activities in Community waters;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Calls on the Commission to support a stepping-up of international initiatives to combat trafficking in human beings by maritime routes;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Welcomes the forthcoming strategy on plastic by the Commission as well as the other measures aimed at combating marine litter and expresses its deep concern about the scale of the issuend calls for practical, lasting and binding measures to be taken to reduce significantly the use of plastics and micro-plastics; welcomes the other measures aimed at combating marine litter and expresses its deep concern about the scale of the issue; calls on the Commission to launch an international initiative to eliminate plastic pollution of the oceans and seabed;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the European Union and Member States to join and support the international coalition for the reduction of pollution with plastic bags;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Encourages efforts to combat all sources of pollution of the oceans and the seabed, including noise pollution, and the implementation of practical international measures to eliminate pollution from the oceans and the seabed;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Welcomes the Commission’s determination to arrange for international action to monitor the impact of the warming of the oceans, rising sea level and acidification of waters; calls for intensification and development of international scientific programmes to monitor the temperature, salinity and heat absorption of the oceans, and for the establishment of a global ocean observation network to improve monitoring of global changes in the oceans and permit better forecasting of the impact of climate change on the functioning of the oceans, carbon absorption and management of living marine resources;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 c (new)
Paragraph 13 c (new)
13c. Encourages the Commission to establish an effective policy of adjustment to climate change in coastal and maritime areas, particularly by taking practical measures to protect coastal and marine ecosystems;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Urges the Commission to support international efforts to protect marine biodiversity, in particular within the ongoing negotiation of a new legally binding instrument for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction; calls on the Commission to propose more stringent legislation to preserve and make sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas under the jurisdiction of the European Union Member States;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Welcomes the Commission’s commitment to support the CBD and CITES and stresses the need for a coordinated approach in implementing the decisions taken in the framework of these conventions for the protection of marine species and biodiversity and for greater consistency of international work with the work undertaken at European level; stresses the importance of doing more to protect marine species under CITES and the need to strictly comply with the Convention for protected marine species;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to step up measures and resources to combat overfishing and illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, particularly by improving existing systems and through international cooperation, banning subsidies to fishing which contribute to overcapacity and overfishing and ensuring that effective monitoring is performed by developing electronic tools and on-board monitoring devices;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Welcomes the Commission’s commitment to provide funding opportunities for the establishment of marine protected areas and the exchange of best practices as a contribution to the achievement of the global target of 10 % of marine and coastal areas to be designated as Marine Protected Areas by 2020; welcomes the Commission’s intention to promote and step up measures to manage protected marine areas, particularly by developing coherent and connected networks of Marine Protected Areas;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Member States to step up their efforts to implement a holistic approach to the design, management and evaluation of Marine Protected Areas, in order to reach their full potential for protecting marine biodiversity; calls on the Member States to increase the number of designated Marine Protected Areas; stresses the importance, in particular, of protecting biologically and ecologically significant areas as defined by the Biodiversity Convention;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls for more to be done to establish the Natura 2000 network in the marine environment, by identifying and managing Natura 2000 sites for the marine environment, particularly on the high seas; reiterates its call for specific and lasting arrangements to be made to protect biodiversity which are equivalent in the French outermost regions;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Calls for the definition and establishment of Autonomous Ecological Areas, cross-border areas which simultaneously cover territorial waters, national EEZs, extensions of continental shelves, and the high seas, in which mining prospecting and extraction in the seabed and marine subsoil should be banned;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 c (new)
Paragraph 17 c (new)
17c. Calls on the Commission and Member States to implement the priority measures adopted by the conference of the parties to the Biodiversity Convention regarding marine and coastal biodiversity;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 d (new)
Paragraph 17 d (new)
17d. Calls on the Commission to recognise, in EU law, the existence of ecological damage distinct from economic, material and non-material damage, and calls on the Commission to contribute towards its recognition at international level;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 e (new)
Paragraph 17 e (new)
17e. Calls on the Commission to increase the consistency between its internal and external policy on the management and protection of resources, biodiversity and the oceans;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 f (new)
Paragraph 17 f (new)
17f. Stresses that the development of marine renewable energy in island territories constitutes a genuine opportunity for sustainable development of the territories concerned, but also a source of considerable potential for the European Union and the rest of the world; calls on the Commission to take the initiative to launch a global strategy for the island territories to develop a new economic model appropriate to their specific nature and based on energy autonomy and the development of marine renewable energy;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 g (new)
Paragraph 17 g (new)
17g. Calls on Member States and the Commission, by means of the various Community funds, to support the necessary investment in island and outermost regions to facilitate the development of marine renewable energy and thus contribute to the energy autonomy of those territories;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 h (new)
Paragraph 17 h (new)
17h. Calls on the Commission to support training and skills in the new occupations linked to the sustainable blue economy and to promote them particularly in regions with strong potential such as maritime, island and outermost regions;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 i (new)
Paragraph 17 i (new)
17i. Calls for the introduction of an overarching integrated European policy on the oceans, with both an internal and an external section, covering all policies which affect the oceans (research, environment, energy, transport, fisheries, cohesion, neighbourhood, international trade, etc.), based on the fundamental aims of preserving the marine environment and sustainable development; calls on the Commission to make the maritime, island and outermost regions the focus of that new policy;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Stresses the importance of facilitating knowledge of the seabed, marine species and habitats, and geological, bathymetric, seismic, volcanic, chemical, hydrological, atmospheric and meteorological data on the oceans, particularly in order to develop marine renewable energy and establish protected marine areas; encourages, in this context, scientific observation and exploration of the oceans with due regard for the environment and marine ecosystems and with the objective of sustainable development;
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Calls on Member States and the Commission to promote scientific knowledge, exchanges of data and technology transfer with the aim of contributing to the protection and sustainable use of the oceans; calls for the pursuit and intensification at global level of initiatives, cooperation and investment to promote marine research and innovation;
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21b. Calls on the Commission to establish, at European level, and to promote at international level, research, observation, and collection and exchange of data concerning the activity of volcanic islands and oceanic volcanoes and their links with the oceans; stresses the driving role that the outermost regions could play in this field;