C 214/150
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
16.6.2023
Thursday 19 January 2023
P9_TA(2023)0019
Small-scale fisheries situation in the EU and future perspectives European Parliament resolution of 19 January 2023 on the small-scale fisheries situation in the EU and future perspectives (2021/2056(INI)) (2023/C 214/14)
The European Parliament,
— having regard to Commission maritime economic paper No 08/2020 of 9 March 2021 entitled ‘The EU fishing fleet 2020: Trends and economic results’ (1),
— having regard to the Commission communication of 16 June 2020 entitled ‘Towards more sustainable fishing in the EU: state of play and orientations for 2021’ (COM(2020)0248),
— having regard to Articles 38 to 44 and Article 349 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU),
— having regard to recital (4) of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 on the Common Fisheries Policy, amending Council Regulations (EC) No 1954/2003 and (EC) No 1224/2009 and repealing Council Regulations (EC) No 2371/2002 and (EC) No 639/2004 and Council Decision 2004/585/EC (2) (the ‘CFP Regulation’), which states that the CFP should contribute to ‘long-term environmental, economic, and social sustainability’ and to ‘a fair standard of living for the fisheries sector including small-scale fisheries’, and to recital (33) thereof, which states that ‘access to a fishery should be based on transparent and objective criteria including those of an environmental, social and economic nature’ and that ‘Member States should promote responsible fishing by providing incentives to those operators who fish in the least environmentally damaging way and who provide the greatest benefits for society’,
— having regard to Article 17 of the CFP Regulation, which states that, when allocating fishing opportunities, the Member States are to use ‘transparent and objective criteria including those of an environmental, social and economic nature’,
— having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1379/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture products, amending Council Regulations (EC) No 1184/2006 and (EC) No 1224/2009 and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 (3) (the ‘CMO Regulation’),
— having regard to Directive 2014/89/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 establishing a framework for maritime spatial planning (4),
— having regard to the amendments adopted by the European Parliament on 11 March 2021 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009, and amending Council Regulations (EC) No 768/2005, (EC) No 1967/2006, (EC) No 1005/2008, and Regulation (EU) 2016/1139 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards fisheries control (5),
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
Maritime economic paper No 08/2020, ‘The EU fishing fleet 2020: Trends and economic results’, European Commission, Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, 9 March 2021.
OJ L 354, 28.12.2013, p. 22.
OJ L 354, 28.12.2013, p. 1.
OJ L 257, 28.8.2014, p. 135.
OJ C 474, 24.11.2021, p. 218.