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"Mr President, I take the opportunity offered by the Stihler report to remind the House that the common fisheries policy has evolved greatly over the last 20 years and is now a fully-fledged Community policy with specific objectives. However, the draft of the future treaty contains no separate provisions relating specifically to the CFP. In the conclusions of the Convention, fisheries policy has been downgraded to being a mere accessory of the common agricultural policy, instead of being openly acknowledged as having a distinct and separate existence.
I ask all my colleagues in this House to impress on their national governments the need to find a formula to rectify this, by defining the specific objectives of the common fisheries policy in the final version of the future treaty. This is something that will not unravel anything, nor will it upset balances in the final outcome. There is still time for this to be done. 'Where there is a will there is a way'.
I congratulate Mrs Stihler on her excellent report, which supports the main thrust of the Commission's plans, as would I or anyone who has the slightest interest in conservation. Like Mrs Stihler, however, I believe there must be greater flexibility. There must be far greater local participation in these decisions. Member States and regional advisory councils must be able to propose alterations both to the geographical scope of the plan and the exact arrangements designed to reduce fishing efforts.
I say to the Commission: questions will be asked and answers sought if this recovery programme is used as some form of covert operation to introduce a secondary decommissioning programme.
Commissioner, will you please confirm to this House this morning that you will be proposing adequate compensation to offset some of the socio-economic effects of this proposal? That is what my fishermen and fishermen from the remote communities of the periphery of Europe want to hear from you.
Why is it that the least culpable are bearing the brunt of these proposals and other proposals that emanate in the name of conservation?"@en1
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