Activities of Alain CADEC related to 2009/2107(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
A new impetus for the Strategy for the Sustainable Development of European Aquaculture (debate)
Amendments (5)
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the sustainable aquaculture sector can make a major contribution to ensuring high-quality food supplies as regards fish products and thus to reducing the pressure on wild speciediversifying the supply of fisheries and aquaculture products, as well as playing an important role as regards food security, economic activities and employment, especially in rural and coastal regions,
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
O. whereas EU products currently face fierce competition from imports from non- EU countries (above all, Turkey, Chile, Vietnam and China), where companies can operate with much lower overheads, as they are not subject to the same stringent environmental and, plant health and social legislation, thereby putting the EU aquaculture sector under further pressure,
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to set out in that regulation specific criteria and general rules, together with provision for maximum harmonisation of environmental impact criteria at Community level in order to avoid any distortion of competition between Member States, for the various product categories, with which every aquaculture establishment in the Community must comply, but to delegate responsibility for the implementation phase to the competent territorial authorities, in full accordance with the principle of subsidiarity e.g. parameters on environmental impact, water supply, feeding of farmed fish, molluscs and crustaceans, product traceability and labelling, and fish health and respect for feeding habits, etc.;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Hopes that this Fund will take into due account the need to provide financial support for SMEs and family-run enterprises, for young people setting up in aquaculture and for the development of tools to cover the climate-, health- and market-related risks to which aquaculturists are exposed;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls on the Commission to propose specific criteria in relation to the well- being of farmed fish, such as maximum levels of farming density, the quantity of vegetable and animal proteins that can be used in feedstuffs on fish farms, and which take into account the nutritional requirements of the fish species farmed – on the understanding that the long-term goal must be to replace animal proteins with vegetable proteins –, the phases in their life cycle and the environmental conditions, and to promote transportation and slaughter practices which limit sources of stress, and the changing of water in fish ponds in such a way as to guarantee the well-being of the fish being farmed there;