Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-06-04-Speech-3-231"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2008-06-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Community system against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20080604.25.3-231"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-06-04-Speech-3-2322
lpv:speaker	lp:Daniel Varela Suanzes-carpegna2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with India (2007-04-24--2009-03-09)3 substitute; REGI (2007-01-31--2009-03-09)3 unknown; Partido Popular (2004-07-20--2009-03-09)3 member; INTA (2007-01-31--2009-03-09)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-16--2009-03-09)3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2009-03-09)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2007-05-23--2009-03-09)3 member; Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand (2007-03-14--2009-03-09)3 member; PECH (2007-01-31--2009-03-09)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this debate is taking place during the most serious crisis in the Community fisheries sector that we have ever known. On this rests the future of a whole economic sector, which in the European Union is very concentrated in regions that are highly dependent on it, and therefore it has huge social repercussions. On this also rests the sustainability of fisheries resources, which are a prime source of healthy food, at a time when there is a food crisis. There are various reasons why costs are not being covered in the sector and why it is currently not profitable to go out fishing. Fish imports and the entry of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing into the European Union are among those reasons. We therefore support the proposal and the report, but they are not sufficient. I would like to take this opportunity to speak out in the European Parliament to ask the Commission and the Council to do something urgently, and not to allow this sector to die, as if it continues as it is now, it is going to collapse. I ask the Commissioner and the Council to prepare and adopt a joint urgent emergency plan that also includes medium and long-term measures. France is leading this battle, and the imminent French Presidency is a golden opportunity to make it happen. The Commission needs to exercise its right of initiative more actively — with aid, compensation, restructuring, innovations – in order to mitigate the costs that the sector is suffering from and curb unfair competition in imports. Time is running out. We wanted the Committee on International Trade to be part of this debate, because there is little point in banning IUU fishing if the European Union then opens its markets to it. Is it too much to ask for only legal fish to be sold in the European Union? We need more controls, more traceability and more and better labelling, in short more guarantees of what is entering the European Union. This needs to be done not only by the European Union but globally, through multilateral and bilateral channels. Partnership agreements should also be a tool for achieving this, with the corresponding technical assistance and training, in order to create not new barriers to trade, but rather measures that are effective for all the parties involved."@en1

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