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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2008-06-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Protection of vulnerable marine ecosystems (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20080604.26.3-260"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-06-04-Speech-3-2612
lpv:speaker	lp:Paulo Casaca2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Partido Socialista (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; CONT (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; PECH (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (2007-03-26--2008-09-02)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with India (2007-03-16--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with Iran (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 member; BUDG (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, I would like to begin by congratulating our rapporteur for this excellent report and by reiterating that what we are dealing with here is the protection of the seabed, inter alia deep-water coral reefs, seamounts, hydrothermal vents and deep-water sponges, which are priceless treasures of our ecosystems. I should also like to recall that protection of these ecosystems had long been assured in the Autonomous Region of the Azores and it was only in 2003 that it was jeopardised by the European institutions, when they decided to open up fishing in this region indiscriminately, without any consideration for the need to protect these ecosystems. Above all, the most important issue seems to me to be for us to have totally consistent legislation and the problem with the 1 000 metres is that it does not make any sense to say that one cannot fish below 1 000 metres outside European waters, and yet one can fish below 1 000 metres in European waters – this does not make any sense from the point of view of the legislation’s environmental soundness. What concerns me most of all is that this UN Resolution – the key Resolution 61/105 of 8 December 2006 – concerns several other measures, namely those related to protecting sea turtles that live on the surface and that, unfortunately, the European Commission, instead of transposing this decision in its entirety, decided to start point by point, sector by sector, several years later. This does not seem to me to be the best legislative modus operandi. It would be better if the entire UN decision were transposed at Community level and this would then simplify things immensely and make the legislation much more operable both within and outside Community waters."@en1

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