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"Mr President, this is not reform, as the Commission itself points out. Council Regulation No 3760/92 established the framework upon which the CFP rests. Of course, at its core is equal access to Community waters which was derogated until 1 January 2003. Only at this point will the CFP fully come into force. So what we are actually seeing here is the final stage of implementation of the CFP.
After 30 years of meddling by the Commission and in-fighting by Member States, what we now have is a world-class ecological disaster and the near destruction of many parts of the British fishing industry. This itself is graphic testimony to the abject failure of the measures thus far implemented.
But instead of new measures to deal with it all, what we are now seeing is a complete contradiction. Bound by treaty obligations to afford equal access, which effectively means allowing the Spanish fleet into the rest of British waters, against that, we see: relative stability. Relative stability is based on track record; equal access is based on fleet tonnages. They are in fact opposite things. They cannot exist side by side. That crucial point alone demonstrates that these proposals are a political fudge.
Not surprisingly, therefore, Mr Fischler's colleague, Mrs De Palacio, has expressed global reserve on every aspect of the proposed reform and I share that global reserve. Nothing that the Commissioner has offered addresses the fundamental flaw and that is that it is a common policy.
The only fisheries policies that have been successful around the world are those that are managed exclusively by sovereign nation states. Thus, the only real option is to abolish the CFP. Politics and fishing just do not mix."@en1
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