On General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 - all sections
PECH-AD-761147
Committee on Fisheries · Rapporteur: Carmen Crespo Díaz
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The Committee on Fisheries calls on the Committee on Budgets to incorporate its suggestions into the 2025 EU budget resolution, covering fisheries, aquaculture, and maritime affairs.¶ It stresses the impact of Russia's war on Ukraine, Brexit, and environmental challenges, and calls for adequate funding for scientific advice, data collection, control, fleet renewal, aquaculture, and other priorities.¶¶¶
Committee position. The Committee on Fisheries proposes amendments to the 2025 EU budget to ensure adequate funding for fisheries priorities, addressing impacts of war, Brexit, and environmental challenges.¶
Key points
- Recalls the strategic role of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) in food security, ecosystem resilience, and a sustainable blue economy.¶
- Notes the effects of Russia's aggression on food supply, fuel costs, and price volatility, impacting fishing activities and livelihoods, especially in the Black Sea.¶¶
- Highlights additional impacts on Black Sea fishers from drifting sea mines and calls for support.¶
- Deplores the Russian aggression, supports Ukraine, and expresses concern over the proposed EMFAF budget cut of 105,000,000 EUR, urging the Commission to analyze consequences and alternatives.¶
- Insists on updated scientific advice and accurate data collection, including recreational fisheries, for sustainable management.¶
- Calls for attention to fishing fleets for safety, working conditions, energy efficiency, and environmental sustainability, including renewal of small-scale fleets, without excluding vessels above 24 meters.¶
- Urges actions to increase sustainable EU aquaculture production and full use of EMFAF resources.¶
- Recalls fish's strategic value for food security and low-impact capture fisheries.¶
- Calls for compensation for Brexit-related disruptions, especially after June 2026.¶
- Insists on improving scientific knowledge and funding for data collection and research on selective fishing techniques.¶
- Reiterates the need for an ecosystem-based approach, including management of seals and cormorants.¶
- Calls for funding for data collection and restoration in the Black Sea and Danube Delta, and action in the Baltic Sea.¶¶
Who is affected
- EU fisheries and aquaculture sectors, fishers, especially small-scale and Black Sea fishers.¶¶¶
- Scientific entities and Advisory Councils, potentially affected by EMFAF budget cuts.¶
- European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA), with increased tasks under new Control Regulation.¶
- Young people and women in fisheries, and coastal communities in outermost regions.¶¶