Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-06-03-Speech-2-338"
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"Mr President, I would like to focus on the Fava report and then make a brief point on this absolutely fascinating debate on the
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Commissioner, I would like to ask you to clarify a few points regarding Mr Fava’s report, if possible, since you have said that you essentially endorse the proposals it contains. Mr Fava’s report – which we will support tomorrow – states that the data on which your proposals are based is not up to date and is therefore not particularly reliable: the forecast of 12 000 jobs losses is underestimated and the retraining of the workforce envisaged is virtually impossible given the level of education of the people concerned. Mr Fava has pointed all this out today too, and yet you say that you are essentially in agreement. I fail to understand how you can support the report considering the proposals made.
Then the Committee on Budgets points out that there is not enough money and that the constraints are such as to exclude additional funding. Well then, if you, with your imagination, could manage to dream something up, we would be truly delighted. I would propose, and I am anxious to hear your opinion, in view of these budgetary difficulties, giving some of the responsibility back to the Member States – we are going to call for this in another report – allowing them, for example, to apply the
rule to fisheries too, a rule with which you are quite familiar since it is employed in agriculture as well.
As far as the other issue under consideration is concerned, I confess I am a little disappointed by the debate. The excessively nationalistic overtones make me genuinely of the opinion that there is no longer any point in having a common fisheries policy. Whether we are talking about Portuguese, Irish or Spanish waters, clearly the scope for debate is reduced by such attitudes. During these periods of genuine difficulty – I am thinking of the serious issues affecting fishermen and their families – the only certain point of reference is the law. By respecting the law, we will be able to reconcile environmental sustainability with rights, the Treaties and the agreements. It is our only safeguard against shifting towards national policies and the only guarantee of our being able to pursue a common policy in this sector."@en1
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