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Mr President, the Commission wishes firstly to thank Mrs Figueiredo for her excellent report and for the support she has shown for the communication we have presented to you.
Following the reform of the common fisheries policy, the Member States and the Commission must now make every effort to ensure that the rules in force are correctly applied. In order to achieve this common objective, I believe that we are all in complete agreement that we need to step up cooperation in the area of monitoring. From this point of view, the Commission communication defines a strategy for cooperation and coordination between the Member States and at EU level, focusing on both short-term and medium-term goals. What we have drawn up is an action plan that seeks to establish a coherent strategy to ensure that the inspection and monitoring activities of the Member States – which are first and foremost their responsibility – are more effective, and to this end we propose three major areas of action.
The first of these is the definition of inspection priorities for the most threatened stocks. This approach will then have to be extended to other activities, such as those involving the fishing of highly migratory species in the Mediterranean or the landing of vessels engaged in illegal fishing activities.
The second major area of action is the adoption of specific and transparent monitoring programmes that are tailored to the characteristics of the fisheries activities in question. We recommend that all the national authorities concerned should help to draw up programmes to cover inspection and monitoring at sea and, of course, the control of landings and marketing.
The third area is the improvement of cooperation to ensure that the monitoring and application of the rules are uniform and more effective. Experience shows that selective or voluntary cooperation is insufficient, particularly as regards access to information, operational cooperation and follow-up of irregularities and infringements. We agree with the industry that the inspection procedures should be harmonised.
Voluntary cooperation is therefore no longer enough, and in our view an organisational structure at Community level is now necessary. That is the reason for this feasibility study in which we hope to involve the Member States and interested parties – beginning, of course, with fishermen and their various communities, as mentioned by Mrs Figueiredo – the aim being to establish a joint inspection structure through a Community Fisheries Control Agency. This feasibility study will have in mind an agency responsible for the organisation and deployment of all of the means of inspection and monitoring according to the priorities to be established at Community level. In conclusion, the dialogue on this communication does not pose any problems and we thank Mrs Figueiredo again for her comments and her support."@en1
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