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Madam President, Commissioner Tajani, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to begin by thanking my colleagues from the Committee on Fisheries, who have supported me in my work on the resolution we are discussing today. In particular, I should like to express my gratitude to Commissioner Damanaki and the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, with whom we have collaborated in recent months.
The Black Sea must take its place in the new common fisheries policy and in the integrated maritime policy. It must also ensure the livelihood of fishermen, and safeguard the industry, fish production and fish processing. These points must be taken into consideration in the new financial framework of the European Fisheries Fund after 2013.
To conclude, I wish to highlight the fact that the report is aimed at establishing a long-term framework for the development of fisheries in the Black Sea. It is an economically, socially and politically important region. Coordinated fisheries management is an important part of the global strategy for the Black Sea and of cooperation within the Eastern Partnership.
The resolution is the product of many factors. It is very topical, as we begin the debate on the reform of the common fisheries policy. Moreover, the Black Sea basin, with its specific features and characteristics, will be included in it for the very first time.
We already adopted, last year, a resolution on the Commission Green Paper on these reforms, as well as a resolution on integrated maritime policy. We are also currently engaged in a debate on the next budgetary period, for which we will have to decide on the most suitable financial measures for the Black Sea.
Ever since Bulgaria and Romania joined the European Union in 2007, the waters of the Black Sea have been part of the European maritime space. The other four countries – Turkey, Ukraine, the Russian Federation and Georgia – are not part of this policy. Unfortunately, cooperation among these six countries in the area of fisheries had always been very limited in scope, if not non-existent. Furthermore, there is a lack of legal documents to regulate this activity.
When drafting the report, I attended meetings in Ankara and Moscow with the institutions responsible for fisheries. The representatives of those two countries assured me that they were going to participate and cooperate in the development of a common agreement. The two countries control the majority of the fisheries and of the fishing industry in the Black Sea.
The data in the report on the ecological state of the Black Sea are very worrying: serious environmental problems, damaged ecosystems, altered flora and fauna, and endangered species. If urgent measures are not taken, we are in danger of having a dead sea.
There is an urgent need for scientific research, which is insufficient today due to the lack of coordination among the countries and also because of the lack of funding. Secondly, current quotas are causing problems, because they do not reflect the true situation regarding fish stocks and are therefore creating the conditions for illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.
This is a common problem and one that is difficult to resolve. Thanks to the excellent report by my colleague Ms Lövin, on which the Committee on Fisheries will be voting, we are going to take a strong stance against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. Furthermore, until now, there has been no proper institutional structure for coordinating and managing fishing in the Black Sea, and the discussions and debates on its creation have already been going on for 10 years, without any concrete results.
The powers of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean are clearly insufficient. Creating a separate organisation to manage regional fisheries in the Black Sea – as exists for the Baltic Sea for example – may help to manage and resolve the majority of these problems. That organisation should include all the countries in the Black Sea basin, monitor the status of stocks and define the parameters of in-depth scientific research."@en1
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