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"Mr President, after 10 years in this Parliament I did not think anything could surprise me any more, but I was shocked by the fatuity of the proposal of extending the common fisheries policy to recreational sea anglers, requiring them to log every catch and count it against their national quota.
The proposal has not been deleted, although it has been substantially bettered largely thanks to a long and gruelling war of attrition fought in committee by four gritty and patriotic Scots representing the main parties of that country: Mesdames Attwooll and Stihler, and Messieurs Stevenson and Hudghton. I also want to pay tribute to Northern Ireland’s best friend in the European Parliament, Jim Allister, who is a great champion of the interests of both communities and traditions in his province.
The problem here was enforcement. The problem was that people were not enforcing existing law. Our instinct in this Parliament is always to legislate, rather than use the legal arsenal already at our disposal. I wish that we would apply – more widely than just in the field of fisheries – the principle that the best thing is not always to pass a new law until you have completely exhausted the legal powers that you already have."@en1
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