Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-03-10-Speech-1-193"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2008-03-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EC/Guinea-Bissau Fisheries Partnership Agreement (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20080310.22.1-193"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-03-10-Speech-1-1942
lpv:speaker	lp:Luis Manuel Capoulas Santos2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Partido Socialista (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; AGRI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Temporary Committee on Climate Change (2007-05-10--2009-02-04)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; PECH (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Gulf States, including Yemen (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ENVI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, my report concerns the fisheries agreement signed with a small African country which, after over a decade of armed struggle for independence, has in recent years experienced serious political instability interspersed by periods of civil war. Fishing is an important economic resource for this small country, and its financial contribution represents a very significant part of the State budget. However, this fisheries agreement is not one that seeks to purchase fish. According to its partnership philosophy, that is not the European Union’s position. European Union policy is based on other values and its essential concerns are the sustainability of resources and a position of effective partnership. It is therefore an agreement with reciprocal advantages: for the European Union, obviously, because its fleet has access to important fishing grounds, but also for Guinea-Bissau, which, besides the financial contribution, will be in a better position to ensure more sustainable management of what is perhaps its greatest economic resource through support for research, monitoring, surveillance and improving the health conditions of fishery products. It is therefore a balanced and mutually advantageous agreement, which is why I recommend that Parliament approve my report, with the amendment introduced by the Development Committee and with my own proposed amendments, which merely seek to reinforce Parliament’s position in monitoring these areas. I myself, meanwhile, although the Commissioner apparently claims that he is unable to accept these proposals, consider on the contrary that fishing policy can only gain from a more affirmative and more permanent stance by Parliament."@en1

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