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dcterms:Date	"2010-06-17"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Linda McAVAN2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, what the Commissioner said is quite encouraging about the emerging EU position, because the EU will have an important role in the IWC – a quarter of the membership – and with the potential to get allies we could be a major player there. However, I want to clarify a number of points. Madam Commissioner, you said that Commissioner Potočnik was studying the Chair’s compromise, but from what I have seen of the compromise it would legitimise commercial whaling in Japan, Norway and Iceland. That, I think, undermines the idea of a moratorium on commercial whaling. It legitimises whaling in an established IWC sanctuary in the Southern Ocean, which was mentioned by my colleague over there, and it would allow whaling to continue involving endangered species. I hope that when we consider the compromise we look very carefully at what the compromise is. I would like some clarity on media reports about the Council’s position. The British media are reporting, as one or two colleagues have touched upon, that the Commission lawyers are saying that if they cannot get a consensus in the EU, the 25 Member States must abstain. Could you clarify the exact position and tell us how close we are to having a common position for these crucial negotiations? As MEPS we have all had a letter from the Australian Government looking for support for a progressive position at the IWC. It would be a terrible shame if the EU could not find a common position. If we cannot find a common position on whaling, how on earth are we going to find common positions on other major international issues? We already have a problem in the mercury negotiations, and I think we have to resolve these problems in time. It is not good enough to see the EU abstaining like this. It does not do much for our credibility if that is the case. So, please could you clarify that crucial point?"@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Linda McAvan (S&D ). -"1
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