Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-04-05-Speech-4-233"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-04-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Fishing accidents2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010405.13.4-233"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-04-05-Speech-4-2342
lpv:speaker	lp:Carmen Fraga Estévez2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (1999-10-06--2002-01-11)3 vice-chair; EPP-ED (1999-09-30--2002-01-11)3 unknown; Partido Popular (1999-07-20--2002-01-11)3 substitute; AGRI (1999-07-21--2002-01-11)3 member; PECH (1999-07-21--2002-01-11)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like this report to contribute to the Commission giving up once and for all its obsession that a modern fleet runs counter to the protection of resources. Protection of resources is a priority objective of the CFP, which can under no circumstances be put before any measure that promotes the safety of fishermen, because this is a fundamentally false approach. There are many measures for maintaining and even reducing the fishing effort, while at the same time enabling living and safety conditions for crews to be improved. The report that we are debating today, like all those that have been drawn up regarding safety, shows that the fact the fleet is so old is the main cause both of accidents on board and of sinking, and that sinking often has very serious consequences. The Commission’s plan to reserve the structural measures for the fleet almost exclusively for destroying it, while the surviving fleet is condemned to sail under increasingly precarious conditions, is therefore ridiculous. The only thing that is unfortunately achieved through this policy is that the Community fleet features more strongly in terms of accidents than in terms of savings. Also, there is no point in having a battery of safety standards if it is not required that they are complied with. This is doubly concerning because the fact that this compliance has to be monitored and required makes us wonder what perception the sector has of its own safety. The last FAO report on the world state of fisheries and aquaculture says that a safe working environment is not something that can be imposed easily and that measures for improving safety can only be effective if there is the will to put them into practice. We therefore need to remember the responsibility that we all have as politicians, governments and fishermen, to end the fatalism that seems to surround this sector, a responsibility that cannot of course be escaped by the Commission or its narrow view on the modernisation of the fleet."@en1

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