19 Amendments of Estelle GRELIER related to 2011/2318(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas 853 % of fish stocks globally for which information is available are either fully exploited orand 32 % are overexploited, according to the most recent assessment by the FAO;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas quotas in RFMOs are primarily based on historical catches, which maintains preferential access for developed countries to global fish stock by the Contracting Parties, but the legitimate aspirations of neighbouring countries to develop resources exploited by the EU’s external fleet are also taken into consideration; whereas it is essential to maintain this principle within the framework of responsible fisheries;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that fishing by EU interests or destined for the EU market inside and outside Union waters by EU or non-EU vessels should be based upon the same standards in terms of ecological and social sustainability and transparency;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Reiterates its belief in the need for coherence between the fisheries policy of the Union and its policies with respect to development and, the environment and trade; notes that such coherence requires coordination both within the Commission itself and between the Commission and the governments of the individual Member States;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that the IPOA-Capacity (International Plan of Action for the Management of Fishing Capacity) committed the EU, no later than 2005, to develop and implement a system for the management of fishing capacity; notes thatwould like the Commission to explain why it appears to be pursuing contradictory approaches to the management of capacity by proposing a freeze in certain RFMOs while proposing to remove the main regulatory limits to capacity within the EU’s internal and external fleets;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Urges the Commission to support clearly defined principles and objectives for environmentally, economically and socially sustainable fisheries on the high seas and in waters under national jurisdiction at the upcoming United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in Brazil in June 2012;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Believes that the EU should launch an initiative at UN level to set up a global catch documentation scheme as a key tool to combat IUU fishing, compatible with what has been put in place for the European fleet;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Considers that the EU should be active within the UN system to explore means for the global community to address the need for more integrated global ocean governance, regarding both living marine resources and other resources as well as pollution and the impacts of climate change on the oceans, and social standards and working conditions;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Considers that bilateral fisheries agreements, or Sustainable Fisheries Agreements (SFA) as the Commission proposes to call them, negotiated between partners and equitably implemented, should be of benefit to both parties, providing economic resources, technical and scientific expertise and support for improved fisheries management and good governance to the third country, while allowing the continuation of fishing activities by EU vessels that provide a modest but important supply of fish toare a significant source of supply for the EU and ofor ther markets of certain developing countries, for both fresh and tinned products;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Considers that the Fishing Authorisations Regulation should be amended so that EU-flagged vessels which have temporarily left the register of a Member State to seek fishing opportunities elsewhere are not allowed to benefit from fishing opportunities under the SFA or the protocols they already had in force at the time when they left the register if they subsequently return to an EU register;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Considers that the currently used social clause should be strengthened to include respect for International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention 188, ILO Recommendation 199 on work in fishing, as well as the eight ILO Fundamental Conventions, namely: the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No 29), the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No 87), the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No 98), the Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No 100), the Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No 105), the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No 111), the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No 138), the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No 182);
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Reaffirms that EU vessels should not compete with local fishermen for the same resources in the same fishing grounds and on the local markets;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Believes that RFMOs must develop management systems that provide for an equitable and fair resource allocation based upon transparent environmental and social criteria, rather than the simplistic as well as the criterion of historical catches, while ensuring that management and conservation measures are fully implemented by all members;
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Calls upon the Commission and the Member States to give serious consideration to methods for preventdiscouraging EU-flagged vessels from being deregistered unless they are to be reflagged to States in good standing in all relevant RFMOs and to make every effort to ensure that there is fair competition between EU flags and the flags of non-EU States, which is the best way of combating deflagging; to this end, calls for a solution to be found to the legal vacuum that exists when a fisheries partnership agreement (FPA) is in force, but the protocol for this FPA has expired and the new protocol is being negotiated, to avoid tempting shipowners to deflag;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38 bis (new)
Paragraph 38 bis (new)
38a. Points, however, to the need to adopt an individually tailored approach to management of EU external fleet capacity ceilings, working together with the RFMOs, and to take into account the different context in which this segment of the fleet operates;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42 – indent 1
Paragraph 42 – indent 1
– be preceded by environmental and social impact assessments, for both non-EU and EU countries, and of the networks already created by pre-existing agreements,
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42 – indent 5
Paragraph 42 – indent 5
– not lead to increased trade that, which would results in over-exploitation and depletion of resources;