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dcterms:Date	"2002-12-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Fisheries2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021204.5.3-093"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-12-04-Speech-3-0942
lpv:speaker	lp:Niels Busk2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Temporary committee on foot and mouth disease (2002-01-17--2002-12-17)3 unknown; Venstre (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; AGRI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; PECH (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-president; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, I should like to thank both rapporteurs for the great job of work they have done. The reforms of our fisheries policy that we are debating this evening are very important. In particular, Mr Varela’s reports on public aid for the renewal and modernisation of the fishing fleet are very important. On behalf of my group, I would at the same time express understanding for Mr Varela’s statement concerning oil pollution along the Galician coast. The Group of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party supports the Commission’s proposals for reform, containing those elements necessary to our being able to adapt the Community’s fishing fleet to the ocean’s resources. We might well have been able to endorse maintaining public aid for the modernisation of fishing vessels if this would exclusively have improved safety and working conditions on board. We could also discuss aid for renewal if we were to make the aid conditional upon more capacity’s being withdrawn than added. Under no circumstances, however, can we accept a continuation of the present situation, in which the European fishing fleet is becoming larger and larger at the taxpayer’s expense. One of the biggest problems for the European fishing industry is, specifically, that the fleet is too big. There are simply too many vessels for too few fish, and there are unreasonably large discrepancies between the ways in which the Member States have so far administered fisheries policy. To continue with this catastrophic policy, which will only exacerbate the problems and postpone the reform process which must undoubtedly take place, would be to pull the wool over the eyes of the fishermen. With regard to the proposed ban on cod fishing, we in the ELDR Group would like to support the conservation arrangements. We also emphasised, however, that, when such drastic measures for reducing the quotas are being proposed, we really need to be sure of the facts, for the measures would have very far-reaching consequences for the fisheries sector not only at sea but also on land. Research must therefore be accorded high priority, and sufficient resources must be made available. Everyone agrees that current fisheries policy has proved to be a failure. That is why it is absolutely crucial for us to support the Commission’s proposals for reform and thus to reject the tabled amendments aimed at perpetuating current fisheries policy."@en1

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