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"Mr President, I very much welcome the way Parliament voted today on the EU-Fisheries Partnership Agreement when it decided to reject the agreement.
I voted against the report, as it is probably the least successful of all the fisheries agreements currently in force. For a number of reasons, I believe that we should have rejected the report and I am glad the Parliament did. For a start, it is a poor deal for European taxpayers, with a return of only 65 cents for every euro the European Union is investing. From a sustainability point of view, the stocks we are accessing are already overfished, so not only are we heavily subsidising jobs, but we are doing so while exporting ecologically unsustainable fishing practices. On top of that, only 15% of the funds allocated for sectoral support in the agreement have been used to date. There is also remaining legal uncertainty on this agreement under international law as far as the rights of the people of Western Sahara are concerned.
I was disappointed that the Committee on Fisheries voted for the agreement, despite opposition from both the Committee on Budgets and the Committee on Development, but I am very glad that today, the Parliament took the right decision. I hope we can strike a better agreement when this will be reviewed once again in February 2012."@en1
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