Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-02-14-Speech-2-197-000"
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"en.20120214.15.2-197-000"2
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"The EU-Guinea-Bissau Fisheries Partnership Agreement for the period 2007–2011 expired on 15 June 2011. The EU has refused to accept Guinea-Bissau’s position demanding an increased financial contribution; in the absence of an agreement between the two parties on a new protocol, they have decided to conclude a one-year protocol, with the terms of the expired protocol renewed and basically unchanged.
Therefore, the 37 fishing licences for Member-State fleets have been retained, four of which are for Portugal. It is important to remember that the current agreement was temporarily suspended by the EU, citing problems with the Guinea-Bissau Government’s capacity for absorbing the funds relating to sectoral support. It is also important to remember the timely demands we made, which we would reiterate here, to increase EU aid and to adopt measures, jointly discussed and agreed with Guinea-Bissau, aimed at improving its capacity for absorbing EU funds. Regrettably, little was done by the EU in this area. This reveals the weakness of the development aid component in these agreements. These weaknesses have to be looked at and urgently need to be overcome."@en1
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