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"Mr President, this is an extremely complex issue that has caused much debate and discussion within CITES for more than ten years now. We are dealing here with the whole question of who does what when catching fish in international waters and then landing them in a port, particularly in respect of marine species listed in CITES Appendix 2.
Last year, the CITES Standing Committee came very close to endorsing the recommendations agreed by the working group that flag states should be responsible for export certificates, but, at the last minute, Brazil and the Oceania region brought up the question of chartering and effectively threw a spanner in the works. They wanted special provisions for chartering vessels fishing in areas beyond national jurisdiction.
Now, the issue was referred to a working group which met recently in the US and, although the majority of countries were in agreement on provisions for chartering vessels with special safeguards, including consultation with our fishery management organisations and the Food and Agriculture Organisation, there was no overall consensus. The issue is now on the agenda for the upcoming Standing Committee of CITES, which is supposed to endorse the text and refer it to the Conference of the Parties next year for adoption.
Just when everyone thought that the issue was now closed, the new provision of giving the flag state the responsibility of issuing certificates for marine specimens caught by another flag state, the chartered one, is now being seen as highly risky.
Several EU Member States have raised concerns that this would cause conflict with existing provisions for our FMOs as well as with our own regulations to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and would risk creating distortions to the rules of origin. Surely the most important issue here is not to lose sight of the main purpose of CITES.
I am not reassured by what I heard Commissioner Potočnik say at the opening of this debate today and I hope the Commission can give us some further reassurance that they are taking this matter very seriously."@en1
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