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"Mr President, I would also like to congratulate the rapporteur, Mrs Langenhagen, on the quality of her work and on the speed and care with which she has produced her report, thereby responding to the urgency which the Commission and the Council had demanded of us.
However, I would like to say that this debate concerns a fishing agreement which is atypical for many reasons. Firstly, because it is the only Community fishing agreement which is not international, since the Community negotiates it and signs it with a Member State, as well as with the local authorities of Greenland. This international agreement is in no way ‘international’ and it is barely a ‘fishing’ agreement, since it does not distinguish – despite the claims of Parliament and the Council – between the specific amount intended for development cooperation and the amount corresponding to fishing possibilities.
This is fundamentally a development cooperation agreement dressed up as a fishing agreement. EUR 14 million is intended for development cooperation but it is also the case that the very limited use of the fishing opportunities means that most of the remaining 28 million also goes into the coffers of Greenland’s treasury, with no compensation for the Community’s fishing sector.
Another idiosyncrasy of this agreement is that it is the only one in which shipowners do not have to pay a single tariff for carrying out their activities. It is regrettable that there has been hardly any development of the possibility of creating mixed companies and that exploratory campaigns have not been developed at all. Commissioner, the sector affected casts doubt upon the figures supplied the Commission on the true use of fishing possibilities.
According to some reports, only 12% of the fishing possibilities were utilised within the last agreement, and the agreement negotiated by the Commission, which it is proposing to this House today, prevents these possibilities, paid for the Community tax-payers, being used by other Community fleets with an interest in fishing in these waters. The whole thing is a wasteful mess.
Iberian fleets – Spanish and Portuguese – which before joining the Community fished in these waters, are still being excluded, 15 years later, from the scope of this agreement, owing to an abusive interpretation of the principle of relative stability.
Given the high financial figures involved, second only to Mauritania, the Community must make a real assessment and not a fictitious one. Furthermore, Parliament should have been consulted during the negotiation.
The Socialist Group will vote in favour of the amendments of the Committee on Fisheries and also the amendment tabled by Mrs Figueiredo."@en1
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