Activities of Maria do Céu PATRÃO NEVES related to 2009/2238(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Arrangements for importing fishery and aquaculture products into the EU with a view to the future reform of the CFP (debate)
Amendments (6)
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses that market liberalisation and the current openness of the Community market to exports of fishery and aquaculture products are having a considerable and damaging impact on the local economy in certain regions, especially the most remote regions, which are unable to find markets for their products;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 4
Subheading 4
Environmental, social, cultural, health and quality aspects
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Is concerned that the massive influx of fishery and aquaculture products onto the Community market in an environment of unfair competition could end up influencing the eating habits of Europeans, who, at a time of general economic crisis, could yield to the easy temptation to buy cheaper and lower- quality food products;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Believes that, in addition to applying the Community rules on IUU fishing, it is necessary to exercise stricter downstream controls on the marketing of such fish, notably by means of more rigorous audits of the Member States and of enterprises suspected of supplying products originating in illegal fishing;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Emphasises the urgent need to introduce stringent and transparent criteria for certifying and labelling in respect of the quality and traceability of European fishery and aquaculture products and to promote the introduction, as soon as possible, of specific EU ecolabelling for such products in order to put an end to the uncontrolled proliferation of private certification systems;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32a. Believes that the ecocertification and ecolabelling of fishery and aquaculture products should be a process that is transparent and easily understandable by the consumer, and should be available to the whole sector without exception, subject to strict compliance with the basic attribution criteria;