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I broadly welcome the positive work done by the rapporteur, and the way I voted reflects my complete solidarity with the Portuguese positions on this subject. In fact, it is beyond comprehension that the new measures should penalise most those Member States that have already made a large cut-back in their capacity (as is the case of Portugal, which has, in fact, far exceeded the targets set), rather than directly affecting the fleets of those countries that have not achieved the reduction targets set in the operational plan for fisheries (MAGP), which should be the ones to have to bear the necessary cuts. It is vital that the European Commission should understand once and for all that the system it has proposed – encouraging the scrapping of vessels by increasing the scrapping premium, but selecting only vessels from the Member States that have fulfilled the MAGP targets – will ultimately run seriously counter to the stated aim of the measure. Furthermore, it is worth emphasising that it is highly unfair to try to subject Portugal, for instance, to a policy in which the money for these measures would be taken from funds now allocated to aid for fleet renewal. On the contrary, it is quite clear that programmes of aid for the renewal and modernisation of the fleet – particularly the Portuguese fleet – should continue to exist, and that Community structural assistance should not be confined to the scrapping of vessels."@en1
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