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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-06-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Structural measures2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010614.2.4-026"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-06-14-Speech-4-0272
lpv:speaker	lp:Rijk van Dam2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EDD (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 vice-chair; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 member; Delegation to the EU-Estonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3,3 member; Delegation for relations with Israel (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3,3 member; CONT (2000-07-03--2001-09-02)3,3 unknown; Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij - Gereformeerd Politiek Verbond - Reformatorisch Politieke Federatie (1999-07-20--2002-03-17)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the peripheral regions of the European Union are in a vulnerable situation. After the collapse of negotiations with Morocco, which behaved in an incomprehensible way, it looks as if a portion of the fishing fleet will have to be rationalised. In its Green Paper, the Commission announced that approximately forty per cent of the European fishing fleet will have to be scrapped if we still want to catch fish in European waters in ten to twenty years’ time. Rapporteur Poignant opposes the notion that peripheral regions should also give up fleet capacity. Although I can fully understand his concern for the working population, such concern is short-sighted. In the future we cannot continue supplementing poor catches with contributions from the Structural Fund. One way or another fleet capacity must be reduced. As regards that reduction of the fleet I should like suggest an idea to Mr Poignant : that is, days at sea. The Dutch fleet has a capacity that is nominally too large for the allotted fishing area. However, by restricting the number of days that ships may be at sea, the impact of total fleet capacity on fish stocks is reduced. In this way the capacity of the fleet at sea on a particular day is within the norms laid down. Such a scheme makes it possible to modernise and improve the safety level of the fleet. If we are unwilling to limit the catching capacity of the fleet, nature will do it for us. In the peripheral regions too, we must treat the riches of the sea that we have been given sensibly."@en1

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