Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-02-Speech-2-191"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-09-02"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Mid-term review of EU-Greenland fisheries protocol2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030902.8.2-191"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-09-02-Speech-2-1922
lpv:speaker	lp:Neil Parish2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I am sorry to sound a note of disharmony in this debate, but this report needs to be taken in two respects. First of all we have to isolate the fact that European taxpayers' money has to be spent with transparency – and at the moment it is not. Clearly we are overpaying for the fishing rights and we should pay for the amount of fish that is caught by European fishermen, but if we wish to pay for Greenland development aid then let us pay for it separately. I am not against it but it cannot be paid for with paper fish through a fisheries agreement. I am very surprised at the Commission's attitude to the idea that we should now open up the number of species that can be caught in and around Greenland. Anyone would think that the common fisheries policy has been a great success, when in fact we see fish stocks in European waters as a whole declining more and more. The idea now is to open up more quotas for more species. I have often said in this Chamber that fish unfortunately do not swim separately and very often, when one species of fish is caught, others also swim into the nets. If the fishermen do not have quotas, these fish are discarded. We all know that a disgraceful amount of fish is discarded in the European Union every year. We need to review the whole idea of having third country agreements. Very often it leads to the European Union exploiting third countries' waters and means that fishermen in these third countries are driven out of business and the whole thing is being brought into disrepute. Often the money which the EU spends does not reach the fishermen or the countries for which it is intended. It very often ends up in the wrong place. We should review the whole situation."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; AGRI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; PECH (2002-05-16--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with Israel (2002-03-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Parish (PPE-DE )."1

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