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"Mr President, first of all on the technical measures. Since 1985 there has been a provision in the technical measures regulation to allow Member States to impose stricter measures for their own fishermen in EU waters. They could not do this for other fishermen, but only for their own. Now the Commission has proposed the removal of this provision in the revised regulation. We have raised this matter in the Committee on Fisheries many times and the Commission says that this provision is redundant, that Article 10 in the new basic regulation allows Member States to enact stricter measures for their vessels.
This right is limited to their own waters, at least so the Commission said in January when it more or less forced Sweden to exploit the depleted cod stocks in the Baltic and the North Sea. So, if this provision is removed from the technical measures regulation, as the Commission is proposing, then Member States will not be able to impose stricter measures outside their own waters. I would like to know from the Commission why it considers this undesirable now, after almost twenty years? Does it not fly in the face of wanting to persuade Member States to be more responsible and, if they are more responsible, allow them to be?
There is a lot of hypocrisy here. I would like to ask people to support Mr Hudghton's amendments, which would actually bring the regulation back to what he originally wanted.
On the Irish Box, it makes no sense whatsoever in an important nursery and spawning area to try and increase the number of vessels that are going in there, to open up the Irish Box. If the Commission is being consistent in wanting to have a more ecological and sustainable approach to fishing, then surely it should not do that.
There is also hypocrisy in this Parliament in relation to ICES, because regarding the cod stocks, even the Commission would not go as far as ICES wanted. Therefore some people want to accept the advice of ICES only when it suits.
You cannot allow what is going to happen to the Irish Box to go ahead. It completely flies in the face of conservation and sustainable fishing and there is no justification for it. We would like to see our amendment supported tomorrow during the vote."@en1
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