Traduction de «Comité pour les colloques européens de biologie marine » (Français → Anglais) :

Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: Blue Growth - Opportunities for marine and maritime sustainable growth (COM(2012) 494 final of 13 September 2012).

– having regard to the Commission communication to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions of 13 September 2012 entitled ‘Blue growth – Opportunities for marine and maritime sustainable growth’ (COM(2012)0494),

87. Calls on the Commission to promote partnerships between the private sector and research institutes, as well as crossborder partnerships such as the European Marine Biological Resource Centre, since marine biotechnology and access to marine biodiversity require scientific knowhow and sophisticated and expensive equipment;

7. Underlines the role of artisanal, small-scale fishing and sustainable aquaculture in promoting regional development in coastal areas and in lake and waterway areas; notes that 90 % of aquaculture businesses in the EU are SMEs, providing 80 000 jobs, and highlights the great potential for green job development in other marine-related activities; calls, in that context, for innovative, sustainable methods to be supported, via the EMFF, to promote the development of fisheries, marine biology and aquaculture, particularly in deep wat ...[+++]er alongside offshore wind farms;

– having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee of 20 March 2013 on the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions – ‘Blue Growth – opportunities for marine and maritime sustainable growth’,

36. Recognises the threat to ecosystems from certain pesticides, flame retardants and other persistent, bio-accumulative and toxic chemicals; stresses the importance in this regard of effective implementation of REACH; stresses the need to monitor bio-accumulation of such pollutants through the use of top predators in terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments; considers furthermore that special attention should be given to the hazards of pesticide use as they are designed to be toxic and are used in the environment; points out that the new European pesticide legislation - proposal for a regulation on the placing of plant protec ...[+++]tion products on the market (COM(2006)0388 - 2006/0136(COD)); proposal for a framework directive on the sustainable use of pesticides (COM(2006)0372 - 2006/0132(COD)); Thematic strategy on the sustainable use of pesticides (COM(2006)0373 - 2007/2006(INI)) - should ensure that the European biodiversity loss does not grow due to pesticide use;