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There is no doubt that this is an EP own-initiative report that is highly relevant and topical, yet, despite raising pertinent questions on timber and fish exploitation and trade, it does not call into question the framework of trade relations between the EU and these countries, in particular when it mentions again the ‘not yet fully agreed and signed Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the West African countries’. The resolution ‘exhorts the Commission once again to act on the ultimate objective of the EPAs, which is advancing regional integration and strengthening the economic position of the ACP countries, and in this context stresses in particular the position of the West African countries’, that is, in an attempt to sell these countries ‘a pig in a poke’.
Furthermore, among other important points, while drawing attention to the ‘insufficient means to survey and control the activities of fishing vessels’ in these countries, it recommends ‘monitoring and surveillance services, since these countries lack the necessary technical and human resources to carry out these tasks, by setting up monitoring centres, training inspectors or acquiring patrol vessels and airborne resources’, measures which, if they go ahead, will have to respect fully the sovereignty and the exercise of that sovereignty by these countries in terms of their EEZs."@en1
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