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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Mrs Miguélez Ramos’ good report on the modification of the protocol to the fisheries agreement with Greenland shows once again that justified criticisms can be made of its content and application. These come not only from the rapporteur of the Committee on Fisheries, but also from the Committee on Budgets.
I agree with the rapporteur when she calls for the financial expenditure for this agreement to be adapted to the actual situation. Her call for a general evaluation report and a cost-benefit analysis also has my full support. Parliament has been calling for this for a long time for fisheries agreements with third countries.
I cannot, however, support the rapporteur’s call for the Commission to reallocate unused fishing opportunities to another Member State on request, even if that allocation were limited to just one fishing campaign. In my opinion, this would have a very serious effect on the common fisheries policy principle of relative stability.
The possibility of transferring or exchanging allocated fishing quotas must continue to be a Member State competence. After all, the sustainable use of fish stocks benefits from unused fishing opportunities. If parts of allocated quotas go unused because of particular foreseeable circumstances, however, then bilateral contractual arrangements between the Member States are still the appropriate way of dealing with that. The Commission may be allowed to intervene here in a regulatory capacity. Anything more than that, however, would seriously undermine the basis of the common fisheries policy.
I therefore ask you to support Amendment No 2 but to vote against Amendment No 5 in tomorrow’s vote."@en1
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