Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-03-01-Speech-3-154"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-03-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Common fisheries policy2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000301.9.3-154"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-03-01-Speech-3-1552
lpv:speaker	lp:John Joseph McCARTIN2
lpv:spoken text	"I too want to congratulate Mrs Attwooll and say that I agree with most of what she said. I regard it as a weakness in the proposal that reporting is not mandatory in all Member States. I cannot understand the proposal to make a regulation out of which it is possible for some Member States to slip without any penalty and I cannot understand either that within a European Union where we are only 50% self-sufficient in fish for our domestic needs that there is any highly sensitive information, that by making the reports that are necessary that the national interest or the regional interest of some states or fishing communities is going to be put at risk. In view of the coming review of the policy in 2002 it is important that we have all possible information, economic as well as biological. In the past somebody said to me I have been defending the decisions the Commission makes. It is not very easy in coastal areas anywhere in the Union to defend the European Union in the whole area of fisheries, but I have been defending them on the grounds that decisions are made on properly based scientific knowledge. I am informed when I take a closer look that the information is in fact quite higgledy-piggledy with bits coming from here and there and no clear, proper economic and biological picture emerging. If we do not have this picture then it will not be possible to make reasonable decisions in two years’ time about the future of the policy. It is not easy, indeed I could speak for everybody in my constituency that live in the coastal areas too and say that they are agreed on one thing, that the European Union is the source of all their problems and all their difficulties. Well, I do not agree with them but I think if we do not base our information and our decisions on good scientific information, and if there is not an equal obligation on everyone to give it, then we will have bad decisions."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; CONT (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Fine Gael Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; BUDG (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; PECH (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"McCartin (PPE-DE )."1

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