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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2011-04-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EC-Comoros fisheries agreement - Community financial measures for the implementation of the common fisheries policy and in the area of the Law of the Sea - Fisheries - transitional technical measures - Imports from Greenland of fishery products (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20110405.23.2-569-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-04-05-Speech-2-570-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Isabella Lövin2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the Pan-African Parliament (2009-09-16--2012-02-12)3 unknown; Miljöpartiet de gröna (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; PECH (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; G/EFA (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; DEVE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to thank all the rapporteurs for their constructive cooperation. However, I would like to focus on the fisheries agreement with the Union of the Comoros. If I ever need to remind myself why we in the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance have up to now voted against these fisheries agreements, I only have to take out one of the assessments and read the agreement with the Union of the Comoros that we are now to vote on. The EU has had an agreement with this poor country since 1998. According to the assessment, the agreement provided the Union of the Comoros with EUR 2.7 million between 2005 and 2009. The agreement states that 60% of the money is to be used to support the local fishery sector and for controls and scientific estimates of fish stocks. According to the assessment, this developing country still does not have a single operating fishing port, not a single coastguard boat, no coastguard aircraft and no fishery research. The country’s own fishery sector is still completely undeveloped. Thus, the Union of the Comoros receives EUR 2.7 million to let in EU boats. We taxpayers provide 65% of this amount and vessel owners 35%. These boats, the majority of which are intended for tuna fishing, have during the same period caught fish, according to the assessment, to the value of EUR 13.7 million. It is very good business for the vessel owners, but the assessment states that all of the so-called added value has been received by the EU. No Comorian people have been employed as crew on the boats. There has been no landing of fish on the Comoros. All processing of the fish has been done elsewhere, in the Seychelles, for example. I agree with the Commissioner that it is good for the EU to have a presence in the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC), but my question to the Commission is the following: How does the Commission intend to ensure that this new agreement is implemented better than previous agreements? For example, how should the EU fleet be persuaded to employ Comorians on board and how will the Commission ensure that the agreement really contributes to development on the Comoros so that the figure for the money earmarked for development of the fishery sector is not just fine words, but also has substance?"@en1
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