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"Mr President, Mr Fischler, you have given in to the anti-European nationalism of certain Member States that just want to monopolise fishing for themselves. They do not want to share, and are using the excuse of environmental fundamentalism which puts fish before human beings.
Of course, we are in favour of conserving stocks, more so than you, as your proposals do not prioritise radical scientific reform, which has to be the very basis of the system, you relegate it to second place, to a second package. Big mistake.
What is more, you allow the scandalous squandering of over a million tonnes of fish which one Member State destroys each year to convert into animal feed without asking how this affects the food chain of the species. That is not conservationism. You promise us studies, but we have had a fisheries policy for twenty years and you are still promising us studies. This is not acceptable.
We need to divide up all available resources scientifically and update the level of dependency of the European regions, which is another thing you have failed to do. You have admitted that the studies are incomplete. A reform of this calibre cannot be tackled with incomplete studies of the extent of the dependency of the regions. Some fishing grounds are being reserved solely for certain States. Boats are being scrapped as if starting from scratch, as if some States had not already scrapped fifty per cent of their fleet while others have increased theirs. The reform goes against the social cohesion policy laid down until the year 2006, preventing economic operators from continuing with the activities they had planned in Objective 1 regions. They are not asking you for more money, Mr Fischler, but rather to carry on fishing. They want to continue to fish, they can continue and the European Union needs them to do so.
With regard to foreign policy, Mr Fischler, you have broken your promise to Parliament that your reform would give equal treatment to shipbuilders and the northern agreements and shipowners and the southern agreements. You have not done this. You have restricted commercial agreements with third parties and outlawed mixed companies, thereby undermining the global position of the European fleet, increasing the vulnerability of our industry and making us more dependent on imports. This is a political error of the first order, an error on a scale never before seen in fisheries policy, and if we do not change this and make the sector more European, you will be sounding the death knell of an entire economic and social sector of strategic importance to the European Union."@en1
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