Activities of Gesine MEISSNER related to 2012/2235(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT For a comprehensive EU fishery strategy in the Pacific Region PDF (252 KB) DOC (169 KB)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION For a comprehensive EU fishery strategy in the Pacific region
Amendments (5)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points to the need for EU policies to be consistent with development objectives along the lines called for in Article 208 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union; calls on the Commission to ensure that measures relating to Pacific fisheries are in keeping with an external dimension of the common fisheries policy, make for sustainable exploitation of fishery resources – allowing as required for the effects of climate change – and help to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in the Pacific region;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Regrets that there is no regional fisheries agreement for the Pacific, bearing in mind the mobility of fish stocks, even though this has been explicitly requested by many countries in the region; calls on the Commission to work towards a general framework for good fisheries governance at regional level in liaison with the appropriate RFMOs;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Urges the Commission to ensure the coordination and coherence of all the Community policies affecting the Pacific region, and specifically those on fisheries, trade and development, and to enhance potential synergies with a view to achieving a multiplier effect that maximises the benefits both for the states of the Pacific region and for the EU countries, while also raising the profile of the EU in the Western and Central Pacific;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 – introductory part
Paragraph 12 – introductory part
12. Calls on the Commission to provide for the establishing of a longer-term strategy on access for the EU fleet to the EEZs of the countries of the region, perhaps based on a regional framework agreement between the EU and the countries of the Western and Central Pacific, negotiated with the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) and centring on the following aspects: