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"Mr President, Commissioner, Chairman of the Committee on Fisheries and dear friend, Mr Stevenson, ladies and gentlemen, I am speaking to you at a particularly difficult time for the autonomous region of the Azores, as has already been said. Things are also difficult, however, for all those who believe in sustainable development and in the need to reverse the trend of over-exploiting fishery resources and of exterminating species, which is leading our oceans and, with them, our fishing communities, to disaster.
The Commission’s original proposal for the Western Waters and the Stevenson report both seek to uphold and strengthen existing legislation protecting the resources of Portugal’s Western Waters. Nevertheless, to our great surprise – as Mrs Figueiredo has already said – we have just discovered that the Council is preparing to dismantle all existing protection. The Council’s current position is an invitation to plunder and devastate the Western Waters, flying in the face of the scientific reports that conclude that there is an urgent need to restrict, rather than extend, access to the waters, it ignores the positions and interests of fishing communities and will, if adopted, inevitably lead to an unprecedented disaster.
Commissioner, I should like to remind you of the answer you gave to my parliamentary question on the validity of the current regulations. You said at the time, Commissioner, in Question No 26: ‘… the Commission has a clear understanding of the validity of Regulations Nos 685 and 2027. Unless amended or repealed by the Community legislator, the rules established by the regulations will continue to apply.’ This is the opposite of what you have just said here! I fail to understand how your opinion can change completely in only three months! I should also like to clarify the following point: the rules for the accession of Portugal and Spain to the European Communities expired in 1995. We are not in a transitional period! A new set of regulations was adopted in 1995 to apply thereafter, with the agreement of everyone! This is what you now want to blow out of the water, to call into question in order to ruin Portuguese waters. This is completely unacceptable. I wish to conclude, furthermore, by saying that equality between those in completely different situations is nothing but humbug and not equality at all. We want to see equality between situations that are equal, not a pretence of equality that serves only to cover up a policy of destroying our resources. For this very reason, I wish to support the rapporteur and to call on all Members to vote for Amendment No 20 of this report tomorrow.
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