5 Amendments of Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA related to 2016/2016(INI)
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Points out that the common fisheries policy (CFP) and the European maritime and fisheries fund (EMFF) were designed to tackle the problems and challenges encountered in the East Atlantic and the northern hemisphere, and so cannot, in their current form, be used to solvetherefore need an element of flexibility and pragmatism to meet the specific challenges and problems encountered by fisheries in the southern hemisphere and the Caribbean;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for Article 349 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to be applied in full to the EUon the Commission to ensure that its policies, rules, funds and programmes related to EU fisheries policy, and in particular the EMFF, are targeted so that they meet the specific challenges experienced by the ORs and other outlying regions of the EU;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Takes the view that the EMFF should be used to replace and modernise small fishing boats that land all their catches in ports in the ORs and contribute to the sustainable local development of fisheries in the outermost regions; acknowledges that the EMFF currently offers some flexibility through higher intensities of public aid, a compensation regime for offsetting specific costs and a derogation which allows financing for anchored fish aggregating devices; calls on the Commission to further consider increasing the maximum possible aid intensities for the replacement of fleet engines, provided that taking this course of action is the choice of Member States;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Deplores the lack of consistency between European fisheries policies and points out that EU action in third countries could seriously hinder the development of the sector in the outermost regions; calls on the Commission to ensure that local stakeholders are at the heart of the decision making process when it comes to fishing fleets in the ORs, particularly through the use of community led local development; believes in the importance of ensuring that fishermen in the ORs have access to information which explains how they can make use of the existing support that the EU provides;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Regrets that the Commission failed to publish an implementation report on Regulation (EC) 639/2004 by the 30 June 2012 deadline; believes that this represents a lost opportunity, as this publication would have been a crucial source of insight for possible future derogations of the CFP’s entry-exit management scheme which could assist the development of fishing fleets in the ORs; demands that the Commission give further information about why the decision to not publish this report was taken;