Amen­dement Hazekamp: meer­ja­renplan voor de kabeljauw-, haring- en sprot­be­standen in de Oostzee (19)

Jarosław Wałęsa
Multiannual plan for the stocks of cod, herring and sprat in the Baltic Sea and the fisheries exploiting those stocks

Proposal for a regulation
COM(2014)0614 - C8-0174/2014 – 2014/0285(COD)

Committee on Fisheries

Amendment 19
Anja Hazekamp

Proposal for a regulation
Article 16

Text proposed by the Commission

Article 16

Amendments to Council Regulation (EC) No 2187/2005

Articles 20 and 21 of Regulation (EC) No 2187/2005 are deleted.

Amendment

deleted

Justification

This part of the Commission proposals intends to delete specific rules on special fishing permit and replacement of vessels or engines applicable to the Gulf of Riga. As a justification, the Commission cites a scientific advice by STEFC stating that ‘rules for effort limitations are not currently required to meet the biological objectives, as long as the limitations in catches are effective in limiting the fishing mortality as intended.’ However, since it is all but clear that fishing mortality will be adequately reduced by the catch limitations in this proposal, it is much more precautionary to keep existing policies on fishing effort.