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"Mr President, Commissioner, as the representative of the Member States the European Union plays a major role in regional fisheries organisations. Quite rightly, measures agreed on in these organisations are given a place in Community law. However, in my view, the method followed deserves no beauty prizes. Parliament is asked, as a kind of rubber stamp, to approve an ordinance that already has a binding character.
Rapporteur Varela Suanzes-Carpegna has, in my view, not understood the Nice Summit. He believes that the European Union is a superstate, and must shoulder all the costs of deploying observers to monitor the catching of tuna on board ships of Member States. When the rapporteur lands back with both feet on the territory of the Union, he will have to acknowledge that the Union is a far-reaching collaborative agreement between Member States. Cofinancing is certainly not a dirty word and does not imply a renationalisation of policy. It seems to me only common sense that Member States that benefit from the tuna catch should contribute proportionately to the costs. A cost-benefit analysis for each Member State might be a cause of embarrassment to the rapporteur.
The stocks of fish species that migrate over long distances are in serious danger because of overfishing, the catching of under-sized fish, and by-catches. Rapporteur Piétrasanta rightly observes that the Union must accept its responsibility for the poor management of these fish stocks. Precisely because of that, the Commission must take a leading role in managing these fish species.
The danger that more and more ship owners will send their ships to sea under a cheap flag of convenience and so evade the management measures is a real one. The blacklist with embargoes on importing from countries that pay no attention to management measures agreed within the regional fisheries organisations should be supplemented with a public campaign aimed at informing the public on the methods of fishing, by-catches and the killing of dolphins. In this way the public will have the opportunity in its purchasing behaviour to opt for best fisheries practice. Such a campaign would involve one of the major forces in the free-market model, namely the consumer."@en1
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