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Commission action on EASA diabetes recommendations for aviation medical rules
Question for written answer E-001680/2026 to the Commission Rule 144 Thomas Bajada (S&D) In September 2025, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) published the final report of its three-year diabetes project. The report recommends updating the implementing rules, acceptable means of compliance and guidance material.
Risks posed to Malta and the Italian Pelagie Islands by the drifting Russian shadow-fleet tanker vessel ‘Arctic Metagaz’
Question for written answer E-001110/2026 to the Commission Rule 144 Thomas Bajada (S&D), Giuseppe Lupo (S&D) According to notices issued by the Maltese authorities, the Russian tanker vessel ‘Arctic Metagaz’ is not under command and is damaged following an alleged attack. Public reporting has indicated that, at the time of submission of this written question, the vessel is drifting in international waters between Malta and the Italian islands of Lampedusa and Linosa.
Commission action aimed at prohibiting conversion practices in the European Union
Priority question for written answer P-001037/2026 to the Commission Rule 144 Thomas Bajada (S&D) The European Citizens’ Initiative 'Ban on conversion practices in the European Union’ has gathered over one million verified signatures and met national thresholds under Regulation (EU) 2019/788. The initiative calls on the Commission to propose a binding prohibition of conversion practices targeting LGBTIQ+ persons across the EU.
REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2017/2107 laying down management, conservation and control measures applicable in the Convention area of the International Commission for the Co
PR_COD_1amCom Symbols for procedures *Consultation procedure ***Consent procedure ***IOrdinary legislative procedure (first reading) ***IIOrdinary legislative procedure (second reading) ***IIIOrdinary legislative procedure (third reading) (The type of procedure depends on the legal basis proposed by the draft act.) Amendments to a draft act Amendments by Parliament set out in two columns Deletions are indicated in bold italics in the left-hand column.
Preserving the Water Framework Directive’s integrity and ensuring its effectiveness
Question for written answer E-004682/2025 to the Commission Rule 144 Michal Wiezik (Renew), Javi López (S&D), Thomas Bajada (S&D) Adopted in 2000, the Water Framework Directive[1] (WFD) is a cornerstone of freshwater protection, a crucial climate adaptation instrument, and a key instrument of the Water Resilience Strategy. However, 25 years after it was enacted, only 39.5 % of surface waters are in good ecological status[2].
Innovation with a soul
Real innovation or the kind that stands the test of time, is not only technological, but moral. It begins not in laboratories or boardrooms, but in our collective imagination. It begins when we dare to ask: How can we innovate to live better together?
Case of non-compliance by Tunisian fishing vessel
Question for written answer E-004214/2025 to the Commission Rule 144 Thomas Bajada (S&D) In spite of years of reports by fishers and the Maltese authorities with respect to illegal fishing and aggression by Tunisian-flagged vessels in the Mediterranean, engaged in common dolphinfish (coryphaena hippurus) fisheries, little action has been taken by the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) Compliance Committee to rectify this long-standing situation.
Trade restrictive measures
Question for written answer E-003932/2025 to the Commission Rule 144 Thomas Bajada (S&D) Efforts are under way to strengthen the EU’s legislative framework against unsustainable fishing by non-EU countries, particularly through trade restrictive measures. Such measures are known to be successful in ensuring multilateral compliance in fisheries management, such as those taken under recommendation 06-13 of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas.
Preparation for the upcoming Compliance Committee and Annual Meeting of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean
Question for written answer E-003931/2025 to the Commission Rule 144 Thomas Bajada (S&D) With decision GFCM/46/2023/22[1] the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) launched a process to revamp its Compliance Committee through a permanent compliance assessment mechanism. The process is set to be formalised during the GFCM’s upcoming Annual Meeting in November 2025.
The EU should be built around its people
The EU should be built around its people I have said this many times before in the European Parliament, even at the risk of sounding dissonant when defence spending dominated the agenda—I do not believe a militarised Europe can be a socially just Europe
Gaza: Europe’s silence is no longer neutral
There is no negotiating with genocide. And there is no room for ambiguity when international law, and basic morality, are being eroded in real time. I say this fully aware of the complexity of the conflict, and of Israel’s legitimate right to security
Question for written answer E-001909/2025 to the Commission Rule 144 Thomas Bajada (S&D) The recently announced New Pact for the Mediterranean is expected later this year. As specified in the mission letter for the Commissioner for the Mediterranean, Dubravka Šuica, the Pact should work on building comprehensive partnerships focused on areas of mutual interest within an integrated approach encompassing economic, humanitarian, development, peace and security policies.
Added value of the New Pact for the Mediterranean
Question for written answer E-001910/2025 to the Commission Rule 144 Thomas Bajada (S&D) The recently announced New Pact for the Mediterranean, expected later this year, envisages working on building comprehensive partnerships focused on areas of mutual interest. In this context, can the Commission outline how the new proposal for a new pact for the Mediterranean will offer added value over and above the mechanisms that are already in place? Submitted: 13.5.2025 Last updated: 21 May 2025
INFORME sobre la estrategia europea de resiliencia hídrica
PROPUESTA DE RESOLUCIÓN DEL PARLAMENTO EUROPEO sobre la estrategia europea de resiliencia hídrica (2024/2104(INI)) El Parlamento Europeo, –Visto el Tratado de Funcionamiento de la Unión Europea (TFUE), y en particular su artículo 191, –Visto el Acuerdo adoptado, el 12 de diciembre de 2015, en la 21.ª Conferencia de las Partes en la CMNUCC (CP 21) en París (en lo sucesivo, «Acuerdo de París»), –Vistos la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible de las Naciones Unidas y los Objetivos de...
REPORT on the European Water Resilience Strategy
MOTION FOR A EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RESOLUTION on the European Water Resilience Strategy (2024/2104(INI)) The European Parliament, –having regard to the Treaty of the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), in particular Article 191 thereof, –having regard to the Agreement adopted at the 21st Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP21) in Paris on 12 December 2015 (the Paris Agreement), –having regard to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable...
REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) No 1026/2012 on certain measures for the purpose of the conservation of fish stocks in relation to countries allowing non-sustainable fishing |
15.4.2025 - (COM(2024)0407 – C10‑0098/2024 – 2024/0224(COD)) - ***I Committee on Fisheries Rapporteur: Thomas Bajada DRAFT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) No 1026/2012 on certain measures for the purpose of the conservation of fish stocks in relation to countries allowing non-sustainable fishing (COM(2024)0407 – C10‑0098/2024 – 2024/0224(COD)) (Ordinary legislative procedure:...
Depleted uranium in Sardinia
Question for written answer E-000741/2025 to the Commission Rule 144 Thomas Bajada (S&D) Several studies carried out in Salto di Quirra, Sardinia, have raised concerns about environmental, food safety and human health risks. In 2010, a technical committee of experts in the Italian Senate (III Committee on Depleted Uranium, DU) suggested the potential presence of high levels of thorium, cadmium and lead in soil.
Water is life
Water is more than a resource; it is the foundation of life itself. We cannot afford to treat it as infinite anymore
EU points-based driving licence system
Question for written answer E-002182/2024 to the Commission Rule 144 Thomas Bajada (S&D) Several Member States have created points-based driving licence systems to enhance road safety and driving standards. Yet, at EU level, the system remains fractured and heterogeneous, whereby points lost in one Member State would not be reflected in another Member State. Most of the recent Commission proposals on driving permits in the EU have missed the opportunity to tackle this issue.
Invasion and destructive impact of various pufferfish species (
Question for written answer E-001726/2024 to the Commission Rule 144 Sakis Arnaoutoglou (S&D), Thomas Bajada (S&D), Eric Sargiacomo (S&D), André Rodrigues (S&D) The increasing prevalence of various pufferfish species (Tetraodontidae) in the Mediterranean Sea poses a significant threat to fisheries, marine ecosystems and the economies of coastal regions.
Parliamentary question | Ensuring significant advances during the upcoming 47th Annual Session of the GFCM (4-8 November 2024, Rome) | E-001674/2024 | European Parliament
Question for written answer E-001674/2024 to the Commission Rule 144 Thomas Bajada (S&D) In order to ensure that the outcome of the 47th Annual Session of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) significantly advances the agenda in terms of achieving Mediterranean-wide sustainability in the fisheries sector, the EU must strengthen its regional diplomacy in this forum.
The EU’s preparedness with regard to the mpox epidemic caused by monkeypox virus clade I
Question for written answer E-001647/2024 to the Commission Rule 144 Thomas Bajada (S&D) The World Health Organization has declared the current mpox epidemic caused by monkeypox virus clade I a ‘public health emergency of international concern’. Reports indicate that children account for more than 70 % of mpox cases and 85 % of mpox deaths in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Parliamentary question | Closure period – common dolphinfish (coryphaena hippurus) | P-001516/2024 | European Parliament
Priority question for written answer P-001516/2024 to the Commission Rule 144 Thomas Bajada (S&D) Paragraph 23 of Recommendation GFCM/46/2023/14 of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean and Article 82 of Regulation (EU) 2023/2124 establish that fishing for common dolphinfish stock is prohibited between 1 January and 14 August of every year, including the current year, 2024.
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