Activities of Elspeth ATTWOOLL
Plenary speeches (84)
Third report on economic and social cohesion
Protection of animals
Equality in access to and supply of goods and services
Immigration, integration and employment
Vote
Identification and registration of sheep and goats
Recovery of cod stocks
Vote
Fisheries partnership agreements with third countries
Cohesion policy
Vote
Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States
Fisheries
Socio-economic crisis in the whitefish sector
Fishing in international waters
Fisheries
Social dialogue: tripartite social summit
Working conditions for temporary workers
Petition 395/2001
Fishing for deep-sea stocks
Common fisheries policy
Common fisheries policy
Social policy agenda
State of implementation of working time directive
Rail freight in the Channel Tunnel
Future of the common fisheries policy
Community fisheries (1997-2001)
Equal pay for work of equal value
Coastal zone management in Europe
Treaty of Nice and the future of the EU
Assistants' statute
Common fisheries policy
Competition between postal services
Rights of language teachers
Outermost regions of the EU
Samina ferry disaster in Greece
Short sea shipping
Beef and beef products
Community railway undertakings
Structural Funds (1998)
Protection of juveniles of marine organisms
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
Identification, registration and labelling of beef
Additionality
Common fisheries policy
Combating certain fish diseases
European postal services
Tourism and employment
Sustainable urban development – rural development – EQUAL initiative
Multiannual guidance programmes for the fishing fleets (1997)
Fisheries
Community control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the Common Fisheries Policy (debate)
Green Paper on territorial cohesion and debate on the future reform of the cohesion policy - Regional policy best practice and obstacles to use of Structural Funds - Urban dimension of cohesion policy - Complementarities and coordination of cohesion policy with rural development measures - Implementation of the Structural Funds Regulation 2007-2013: results of negotiations on national cohesion strategies and operational programmes - A European initiative for the development of micro-credit in support of growth and employment (debate)
European Union fishing fleet affected by the economic crisis (debate)
The crisis in the fisheries sector caused by rising fuel oil prices (debate)
Community system against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (debate)
Commission Question Time
Rights-based management tools in fisheries (debate)
Rights-based management tools in fisheries (debate)
4th report on economic and social cohesion - Territorial Agenda and the Leipzig Charter (debate)
Reduction in unwanted by-catches and elimination of discards in European fisheries (debate)
Better Regulation - Better law-making 2005:, subsidiarity and proportionality - Simplification of the regulatory environment - Use of 'soft law' (debate)
Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the EC and Denmark and Greenland (debate)
Regional policy (islands and natural and economic constraints) (debate)
Illegal fishing (debate)
Support for rural development by the EAFRD – Voluntary modulation of direct payments under the CAP (debate)
Eco-labelling schemes for fisheries products (debate)
EC-Morocco Fisheries Partnership Agreement (debate)
More environmentally friendly fishing methods (debate)
Strategic guidelines for rural development (2007-2013) (debate)
Women's networks
Common fisheries policy and the Law of the Sea
Fisheries control programmes – Community sanctions in the fisheries sector
Protocol to the EEC-Seychelles fishing agreement
Council Question Time
Draft general budget for 2006 (Section III) - Draft general budget for 2006 (Other sections)
Council Question Time
Structural Funds
Social situation in the European Union
Transfers of vessels to countries hit by the tsunami in 2004
Voting time (continued): see Minutes
Fisheries Control Agency
Fish by-catch
Protection of deep-water coral reefs in certain areas of the Atlantic Ocean
Reports (13)
Report on the proposal for a Council decision on a Community financial contribution towards Member States fisheries control programmes - Committee on Fisheries PDF (191 KB) DOC (111 KB)
Report on the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 850/98 as regards the protection of deep-water coral reefs from the effects of trawling in an area north west of Scotland - Committee on Fisheries PDF (163 KB) DOC (97 KB)
Report on the proposal for a Council regulation on the removal of fins of sharks on board vessels - Committee on Fisheries PDF (189 KB) DOC (96 KB)
Report on the Commission communication ot the Council and the European Parliament on behaviour which seriously infringed the rules of the common fisheries policy in 2000 - Committee on Fisheries PDF (117 KB) DOC (50 KB)
Report I. on the proposal for a Council decision on amending Council Decision 97/413/EC concerning the objectives and detailed rules for restructuring the Community fisheries sector for the period from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2001 with a view to achieving a balance on a sustainable basis between resources and their exploitation (COM(01)0322 - C5-0308/01 - 2001/0128(CNS)) and II. on the proposal for a Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 2792/1999 laying down the detailed rules and arrangements regarding Community structural assistance in the fisheries sector (COM(01)0322 - C5-0309/01 - 2001/0129(CNS)) - Committee on Fisheries PDF (179 KB) DOC (96 KB)
PDF (38 KB) DOC (113 KB)
PDF (41 KB) DOC (124 KB)
REPORT Report on Governance within the CFP: the European Parliament, the Regional Advisory Councils and other actors PDF (134 KB) DOC (68 KB)
REPORT Report on Community action in relation to whaling PDF (135 KB) DOC (79 KB)
REPORT on rights-based management tools in fisheries PDF (148 KB) DOC (93 KB)
REPORT Report on the proposal for a Council Decision amending Decision 2004/585/EC establishing Regional Advisory Councils under the Common Fisheries Policy PDF (129 KB) DOC (61 KB)
REPORT on Women's networks : fishing, farming and diversification PDF (170 KB) DOC (112 KB)
REPORT on the proposal for a Council regulation establishing a Community Fisheries Control Agency and amending Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 establishing a control system applicable to the Common Fisheries Policy PDF (223 KB) DOC (141 KB)
Opinions (2)
OPINION A strategic review of Better Regulation in the European Union
OPINION Proposal for a Council decision on Community strategic guidelines for Rural Development (Programming period 2007-2013)
Written declarations (3)
Amendments (30)
Amendment 17 #
2008/2223(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Stresses the importance of the Common Fisheries Policy as the means of ensuring the existence of standards, principles and rules that are applicable across all Community waters and to all Community vessels;
Amendment 20 #
2008/2223(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Believes, nonetheless, that there should be progressive devolution of management responsibilities to RACs in order to improve the effectiveness of the implementation of such standards, principles and rules;
Amendment 22 #
2008/2223(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Believes also that the coming reform of the CFPommon Fisheries Policy should bring about its full decentralisation of its application, with RACs as the core, in order that common measures may be tailored to fit the specificities of different fisheries and fishing conditions;
Amendment 13 #
2008/2177(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the Commission also to produce more generalised guidance on the nature of the derogations allowed under Article 9(1) of the Wild Birds Directive, including further clarification of the terminology where any ambiguity may be deemed to exist;
Amendment 110 #
2008/2174(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Notes that the Green Paper acknowledges the particular development challenges of regions with specific geographical features, such as mountainous regions, island regions and sparsely populated regions; believes that the specific feature of remoteness should also be included; also notes that border regions face specific challenges in terms of accessibility, quality and efficiency; rejects the view that territorial cohesion should be a policy exclusively dedicated to addressing the problems of those regions; considers, however, that special consideration should be given to the development of those regions in order to offset their handicaps and enable them to effectively contribute to the harmonious development of the Union as a whole;
Amendment 121 #
2008/2174(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Believes, however, that any such definition must allow identification of the manner in which communities across the EU may have common characteristics and assessment of how sectoral and other policies can be best tailored to the specificities of their situation; considers in this connection that, in fact, an assessment of the territorial assets of all EU territories should be undertaken; believes that common definitions of closely related concepts such as "territory", "urban area", "rural area", "upland area", "mountain area", "remote area", and others should be reached.
Amendment 136 #
2008/2174(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls for a significant reinforcement of the European Territorial Cooperation Objective for the next programming period; is convinced of the European added value of this objective, not least because of the direct involvement of regional and local authorities in the planning and implementation of the relevant programmes of cross-border, transnational and interregional cooperation; to that effect, stresses also the importance of the cross-border dimension and the relevant operational programmes of the European Neighbourhood Policy; believes, however, that this should not be done at the expense of the direct support given to regions under the other two objectives;
Amendment 145 #
2008/2174(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Stresses the need to elaborNotes thate, in the context of territorial cohesion, additional qualitative indicatorsGDP is likely to remain the criterion for determining the eligibility of regions under the convergence objective for structural funding but that, with the purposes of better designing and implementing the corresponding policies on the ground, taking into account the different territorial specificities; underlines, however, that the GDP remains the only eligibility criterion for receiving financial assistance from the Structural Fund, and for allocating funding within such regions, additional qualitative indicators should be employed; stresses the need to develop such indicators;
Amendment 160 #
2008/2174(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Notes that indicators other than GDP can already be employed in regions eligible under the regional competitiveness and employment objective and stresses that these should include the designation of areas as mountainous, island, remote or sparsely populated;
Amendment 161 #
2008/2174(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23b. Considers also that there may be grounds for reconsidering the NUTs levels at which eligibility is assessed, in order to enable funding to be better targeted;
Amendment 194 #
2008/2174(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Recognises that territorial cohesion introduces some new ideas on how to improve the governance of cohesion policy; agrees with the view that different territorial scales are needed for different problems and that therefore the establishment of real partnerships between all the parties invloved in regional and local development at different levels is a precondition in the process of designing territorial cohesion and calls on the Commission and Member States to make all efforts to develop such a multi-level territorial governance; considers that territorial cohesion should be about identifying the appropriate territorial level for addressing each policy or measure in a way that is as close as possible to the citizen;
Amendment 2 #
2008/2101(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 a (new)
Citation 3 a (new)
- having regard to the meeting of the International Union for Conservation of Nature in Barcelona, 5-14 October 2008,
Amendment 20 #
2008/2101(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for any such hunting to take place only with clear quotas based on sthe advice of the IWC Scientific advicCommittee, under strict controls and with full recording;
Amendment 24 #
2008/2101(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls also for threats to the cetacean populations arising from climate change, pollution, ship strikes, fishing gear, sonarunderwater noise (including sonar, seismic surveys and vessel noise) and other hazards to be tackled outside such protected areas;
Amendment 23 #
2008/2064(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital Ha (new)
Recital Ha (new)
Ha. whereas effective governance can be facilitated through the use of proper spatial planning;
Amendment 24 #
2008/2064(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital Hb (new)
Recital Hb (new)
Hb. whereas the exchange of best practice is a useful tool in facilitating good governance;
Amendment 97 #
2008/2064(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10a (new)
Paragraph 10a (new)
10a Requests that the next Structural Funds Regulations contain specific provisions to make the application of the partnership principle legally binding, including clearly verifiable criteria as appropriate;
Amendment 114 #
2008/2064(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the European Commission, without seeking to cast doubt on the relevance of thehile requesting the Commission to look at which NUTS II level is most pertinent, to identify the size of area best suited to the implementation of genuine integrated policies for the development of territories as they are experienced subjectively and territories which form the basis for projects, in particular; - population and labour catchment areas, i.e. towns and the surrounding rural areas, - territories which justify specific thematic approaches, such as mountain ranges, river basins and coastal areas, - at local authority level, to develop place- based approaches;
Amendment 126 #
2008/2064(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22a (new)
Paragraph 22a (new)
22a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to make proper use of spatial planning in order to assist in the facilitation of balanced regional development;
Amendment 132 #
2008/2064(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Takes the view that the European networks for exchanges of goodbest practice should broaden their work in the area of governance and thus help to ensure that goodbest practices are in fact implemented;
Amendment 5 #
2008/2063(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Notes that environmental protection is generally a matter of shared competence; calls, therefore, for clarification of the term "marine biological resources" and of the circumstances in which their conservation is "under the common fisheries policy", in order that the scope of the exclusive competence may be better identified;
Amendment 11 #
2008/2014(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Emphasises the importance, in the above contexts, of proper spatial planning;
Amendment 168 #
2008/0216(CNS)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 47
Article 47
Amendment 177 #
2008/0216(CNS)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 47 – paragraph 1
Article 47 – paragraph 1
1. Recreational fisheries onconducted from on board a vessel in Community marine waters on a stock subject to a multiannual recovery plan shall be subject to an authorisation for that vessel issued by the flag Member Staevaluated by the Member State in whose waters they are conducted.
Amendment 183 #
2008/0216(CNS)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 47 – paragraph 2
Article 47 – paragraph 2
2. Catches inWithin two years of the date of entry into force of this regulation, Member States shall estimate the impact of recreational fisheries on the stocks in their waters subject to a multiannual plan shall be registered by the flag Member Staterecovery plan and submit the information to the Commission. The relevant Member State and the Commission, on the basis of the advice of the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries, shall decide which recreational fisheries are having a significant impact on stocks.
Amendment 188 #
2008/0216(CNS)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 47 – paragraph 3
Article 47 – paragraph 3
3. Catches of species subject to a multiannual plan by recreational fisheriWhere a recreational fishery is found to have such an impact, catches shall be counted against the relevant quotas of the flag Member State. The Member States concerned shall take appropriate steps to regulate the recreational fishery concerned and may establish a share from such quotas to be used exclusively for the purpose of that recreational fisheriesy.
Amendment 20 #
2008/0070(COD)
Proposal for a recommendation
Recommendation 2
Recommendation 2
2. use ECVET from 2012, in particular by adopting measures for its gradual applicationtesting, starting as soon as possible, and its gradual application, beginning no later than 2017, to vocational education and training qualifications from level 1 to level 8 of the EQF, in accordance with national legislation and practice, for the purpose of transfer, recognition and accumulation of individuals' learning outcomes achieved in formal and, where appropriate, non- formal and informal contexts;
Amendment 4 #
2007/2191(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. Whereas disparities may arise within as well as between regions,
Amendment 55 #
2007/2191(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Notes that special attention has to be paid to the situation of communities that are particularly vulnerable because of their location in areas subject to a combination of geographical handicaps, including, for example, remoteness, sparsity of population, islands, mountainous areas and difficult climatic conditions;
Amendment 59 #
2007/2191(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Notes, in this regard, that vulnerable groups may exist in all regions, even the more prosperous ones, and that an integrated approach should take such groups into account;