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"Mr President, a few very short comments in the short time still remaining to me. Naturally, I should like to express my thanks for the comments and observations regarding the report. First of all, I should like to say – and you have just confirmed this, Commissioner – that this is not a demonstration or show of solidarity. This is a show of flexibility that is late arriving, unfortunately: this proposal lacks such solidarity, which would only be the case if the funding available to these Member States were increased, which is not happening. However, it was important that the Commission consider this possibility.
Moreover, this proposal – and I would highlight it again – does not guarantee full use of the funds available. The amounts of national funding required are still 15% or 40%, depending on whether the region is eligible for convergence funding or not. However, in addition to the problem of under-execution of the European Fisheries Fund (EFF), to which a number of speeches referred, we are facing another problem. As well as measures to increase the take-up of funds, we need to reorient the priorities of the EFF itself. This was mentioned in a number of speeches and we entirely agree. There is a need to focus on and not forget that more than 50% of the EFF has been used to scrap boats, when what we need is to steer it towards productive activity, towards the renewal and modernisation of the fleet and support infrastructure, and towards using job creation and vocational training to bring young people back into the sector. There needs to be positive discrimination favouring coastal and artisanal fishing, so we have a certain amount of concern about the limitations placed on some of these areas by the future European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, which needed to stimulate such productive activities.
One final word in conclusion, Mr President, regarding the amendments made by the Council and the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats): we consider these amendments unnecessary and inopportune. However, we believe that, given the urgent need to adopt this proposal, we should not oppose these amendments because what is needed, in fact, is for it to be adopted as soon as possible."@en1
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