12 Amendments of Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA related to 2017/2119(INI)
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas transparency is a means of ensuring the right of consumers to know, with maximum precision, the characteristics of the products that they purchase. This requires improvements in labelling, with the obligation to feature the same precise information on the origin of the fish both when sold fresh and in processed products.
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas the importance of the processing and canning industry;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that one of the foundations of these marketing strategies is the mandatory indication on labels of the origin of fishery products, both when sold fresh and processed.
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. For the purposes of transparency and to safeguard the rights of consumers it will be necessary to revise the Annex to Regulation 1536/92 concerning the marketing of preserved products;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses the importance of developing policies enabling local coastal communities to offer integrated services, exploiting synergies arising from the various production sectors and likely to bring about and encourage development at the local level. Insists therefore on combining funding from the CFP with other European programmes in the ESF or the CAP. This combination of resources and programmes should support initiatives by local communities and entrepreneurs focused on rural development, improving living conditions, and helping to consolidate income and in particular to diversify sources of income.
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Such local development plans for coastal communities should support new activities and businesses making it possible to bring high-quality raw materials, the communities' specific transformation processes and their cultural and historical heritage all together in the value chain. They should, moreover, promote marketing mechanisms, such as the compulsory labelling of product origin, that help to raise the profile of these qualities in the marketplace and that ensure that the greater part of the income generated reverts to these communities.
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls for this process to be fostered with special emphasis on gender policies, with a view to ensuring that women are adequately represented in these organisations. This would both reflect women's current presence in the sector and help them play a greater role in it.
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses the importance of drawing up specific digital skills training strategies focusing on management and, especially, sales as a basic tool to improve the position of producers in the value chain.
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Points out that these training plans must both cover traditional occupations practised within the sector, mainly by women, and develop specific plans focused on increasing women's employability and entrepreneurship. Including these features in accredited training courses must also have the consequent legal effects and improve the status of these professionals in the labour market.
Amendment 105 #
10. Urges the Member States and regional authorities to help fishing enterprises to access the knowledge, networks and funding required to undertake innovative activities and design new products (‘novel foods’), so as to generand to seek to involve in these efforts research organisations and institutions, such as oceanographic institutes, which have extensive knowledge of the basic raw materials and their biological, nutritional and organoleptic properties; the aim being to stimulate synergies between different parts of the chain and make the sector more resilient;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Asks the Commission to propose a clear definition of and sketch the foundations for a future European programme to support small-scale fishing that will help to improve the environmental and socio-economic sustainability of the fishing sector in the EU, that will make it possible to identify, differentiate and enhance the value of products from small- scale fishing in order to promote consumption of those products, and that will encourage new generations to work in the fishing sector so as to produce a generational renewal that will make it possible to create more social cohesion in the EU’s coastal communities;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to explore the benefits that global value chains might offer for small-scale fishing and that might help it to integrate more easily into the global economy, increasing the added value of its products while making it possible to maintain its activity and that of local communities; stresses the importance of digital skills training to that end;