Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-10-23-Speech-4-147"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-10-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Common fisheries policy2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20031023.3.4-147"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-10-23-Speech-4-1482
lpv:speaker	lp:Struan Stevenson2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I would like to start by thanking Mrs Figueiredo for her very good report and for her constant hard work within the committee. The proper control and monitoring of the common fisheries policy and the even-handed implementation of the rules is, of course, the only way to return a semblance of credit to this much discredited common policy. However, I have to say that any new control system will require the cooperation of the sector, of the fishermen themselves. The fishermen are rapidly losing any respect they ever may have had for this discredited policy. For example, take what happened last week. The same week as the ICES published its most recent report, calling for the complete closure of the cod fishery around Britain and Ireland, the Council of Ministers tore open the Irish Box and tore open the economic exclusion zone around the Azores and Madeira, allowing a virtual free-for-all in some of the most sensitive spawning and nursery grounds in European waters. This was a decision based on political pressure; it owed nothing to conservation and everything to politics. It is decisions like this that have brought the whole CFP into disrepute. How can our fishermen believe that their endless hardship is in the name of conservation, when they see decisions like this being taken which fly in the face of common sense? It is also time that the Commission tackled the disgrace of the two million tonnes of good healthy fish that are discarded dead back into the sea every year in the name of conservation. The public will no longer tolerate this needless waste which has become emblematic of the failed CFP. I am grateful to Mrs Figueiredo for trying to breathe life back into the corpse of this discredited policy, but I fear it may be too late for resuscitation."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2002-03-08--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; AGRI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 unknown; Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2002-01-23--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3,3 chair; PECH (2002-01-23--2004-07-19)3,3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Stevenson (PPE-DE )."1

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