Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-02-Speech-2-184"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-09-02"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Mid-term review of EU-Greenland fisheries protocol2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030902.8.2-184"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-09-02-Speech-2-1852
lpv:speaker	lp:Paulo Casaca2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; CONT (2002-01-22--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partido Socialista (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; BUDG (2002-01-30--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, rapporteur, I feel it would be appropriate to start by recalling that the main reason for the existence of this agreement was Greenland’s leaving the European Union. I also think it is important to recall the reasons why Greenland chose to leave. It left the Union because we wanted forcefully to remove this small and extremely remote community’s inalienable right to fish within the two hundred miles of its exclusive economic zone, which are today clearly protected under International Maritime law. This is perhaps the greatest mistake the European Union has made to date; it has already caused us serious problems in the past and still poses a threat for the future. In small areas criss-crossed by national borders, such as the North Sea, having the European institutions jointly organise fishing for highly migratory surface fish species has been the right approach. Moving from specific cases and solutions to common ownership of fishing resources under a supposed Community law is, however, no longer acceptable. The same set of articles in International Maritime Law that defines the ownership of marine biological resources also defines the ownership of mineral resources, specifically fossil fuels. The same European Community that sanctioned the application of these articles to delimit the ownership of underwater fossil fuel mines in the North Sea by various Member States claims that they do not apply to biological resources. In other words, we would have a law that can only be used for protecting the interests of the States at the centre of Europe, where gas and oil is found, but which does not apply to protecting the interests of Europe’s peripheral States or outermost regions, which contain enormous maritime areas with substantial resources. In the ten-year period that we feel must now be started in order to ensure that the European institutions discuss the status of the ‘Western waters’, a thorough review must be conducted of the issue of access to waters, European legislation must be adapted to the broad principles of International Maritime Law and the best ways of safeguarding sustainable fisheries in the Atlantic must be studied."@en1

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