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Mr President, I would like to express the Commission's disappointment at the position proposed in Mr Lisi's report and voted. In fact our proposal implements the political guidelines in the Mediterranean action plan which was welcomed by Parliament and adopted by Council. Several of the critical comments made are simply not correct. I would like to make a few points here.
Firstly, the Commission proposal
give flexibility to Member State managers when deciding on different options to manage fish stocks in the Mediterranean, so we
take into consideration the characteristics of Mediterranean fisheries. The proof is that national administrations can establish national management plans and these plans may allow derogations from certain common provisions precisely because of the different situations in different parts of the Mediterranean.
Secondly, we are well aware that the fisheries sector is opposed to our proposal. We have received similar reactions to the recovery plan for cod in the northern waters of the Community. The difference here, however, was that both the sector and the European Parliament had been open to dialogue with the Commission and we adopted an acceptable plan in the end. And it is precisely this spirit we also need for the southern waters.
Thirdly, the alleged poor consultation of the sector does not correspond to the truth. The sector has been consulted on several occasions before and after we presented our proposal.
Fourthly, the Commission agrees with Parliament that we need to work with other Mediterranean countries, and that is why we took the initiative for the Venice Conference in November 2003 when the Mediterranean countries, ranging from Morocco to Lebanon and Slovenia, agreed with the European Union that we must agree on common measures in the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean to preserve our fish stocks.
Finally, I would like to make one thing very clear. The disastrous social and economic costs Mr Lisi mentioned in his report will be the result if we do not take prompt and effective action as proposed by us, because the state of many Mediterranean fish stocks is already quite poor. We cannot, therefore, accept your request to withdraw our proposal, because there are neither scientific nor political justifications for Parliament's request."@en1
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