Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-12-04-Speech-3-112"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-12-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Fisheries2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021204.5.3-112"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-12-04-Speech-3-1132
lpv:speaker	lp:Torben Lund2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Temporary committee on foot and mouth disease (2002-01-17--2002-12-17)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-06--2004-04-30)3 unknown; Socialdemokratiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; PES (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I think that reform of the common fisheries policy is one of the most pressing problems we have in the EU and, even if Commissioner Fischler looks a little tired, the proposal for a new fisheries reform deserves high praise. There is a real need to set out a fisheries policy that creates a balance between resources and their use, that is based upon the principle of sustainability and that takes much more extensive account of environmental and ecological considerations than the previous policy did. We need the multiannual management plans proposed by the Commissioner, based upon scientific advice and to be applied to all the stocks. We must get away from the annual quota lotteries and the emergency crisis resolution that takes place every single year. The collapse of cod stocks in the North Sea, Irish Sea and Skagerrak is, in reality, a judgment upon fisheries policy so far. If the Member States had followed the scientific advice and warnings, including the Commission’s proposal from June of last year for a rescue plan, this collapse would presumably not have happened. It is the lack of political responsibility and monitoring on the part of the governments that is now giving rise to a range of serious social, environmental and economic consequences in the region concerned. We need to cut back on the combined fishing fleet, something which necessarily means using the subsidies for eliminating the fishing fleet’s overcapacity and, if need be, for supporting those fishermen affected by the measures required. We must not, however, use the subsidies for renewing and converting the fishing fleet. Moreover, we need to establish much more efficient common supervision of fisheries. On that point, the Commissioner should know that aid will be required. I cannot endorse Mr Varela’s reports. I think that they are both on the wrong track. I hope that a sustainable fisheries reform may be implemented before the New Year, and it might be useful if the Commissioner could confirm that the work is continuing in accordance with this timetable and if he could provide his assessments of the options."@en1

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