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"Madam President, I should firstly like to congratulate Mr Gallagher on his excellent report that he has presented to us in detail. I will therefore speak here about the Fraga Estévez report. The Commission proposal on the reform of the fisheries COM was unacceptable as it stood and bordered on the schizophrenic.
In reality, if we are only able to subscribe to the objectives defined by the Commission in its explanatory statement, we must, unfortunately, observe that the mechanism proposed does not provide for the means necessary to achieve them. On the contrary, the principles of Community preference and the regulation of the markets, as they have existed up to now, are called into question by the Commission’s proposal for reform. Furthermore, the imbalance is also evident between the unjustified tariff suspensions in favour of third countries and completely inadequate measures to assist Community fishermen in increasing their competitiveness.
Our rapporteur, Mrs Fraga Estévez, in her draft report, incorporated a series of amendments that clearly improved the text, but we nevertheless felt that it was essential, together with Mr Gallagher, to table 31 additional amendments. I should like to thank my colleagues on the Committee on Fisheries, as 22 of these amendments have been adopted, thus making it possible to re-establish the founding principles of the CFP and the COM and to give the producers’ organisations the role and the resources necessary to allow them to regulate and obtain the best return for the fishery and aquaculture products.
I retabled eight amendments in plenary on behalf of my group. Among them, Mrs Fraga Estévez, I should like to stress the importance of Amendment No 67, which is an addition to Article 11, paragraph 1, of the proposal for a regulation. This amendment aims to allow the Member States to grant additional aid to producers’ organisations that, in the context of operational programmes under Article 9 of the regulation, introduce measures to obtain the best return for the species of fish caught and to equate supply with demand. This aid should be able to be financed in the context of the FIFG.
I know, Mrs Fraga Estévez, that you approve and will support this amendment. I therefore hope that it will be adopted by the majority of this House as it can contribute to consolidating and developing producers’ organisations which, when they work efficiently, make it possible to avoid short-term over-fishing and, thanks to their efforts to obtain the best return for their fish, to safeguard jobs in fishing-dependent areas.
Madam President, the European Parliament has played a decisive role in maintaining the financial instrument of the FIFG and in defining correctly the areas dependent upon fishing within the context of the new objective 2. If, in this way, we have been able to contribute, together with the Member States, to safeguarding a legal and financial framework specific to the CFP, it should now be used to the full to serve in the best way possible the needs of the coastal and maritime areas that depend on fishing. That is what we propose."@en1
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