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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-12-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Conversion of fishing vessels and fishermen2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20031203.11.3-150"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-12-03-Speech-3-1512
lpv:speaker	lp:Carlos Lage2
lpv:spokenAs	member; PECH (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Temporary committee on improving safety at sea (2003-11-20--2004-04-21)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; PES (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partido Socialista (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-30--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the failure to renew the fisheries agreement with Morocco dealt a harsh blow to the external strategy for fisheries policy and has had tragic consequences for certain fishing areas, especially in Andalusia and, on a smaller scale, in Portugal’s Algarve region. The Commission and Parliament have, it must be said, managed to adopt a plan to support the activities affected, albeit with a few weaknesses and shortcomings, which are now being corrected. We therefore welcome this Commission proposal, which has come about as the result of Parliamentary pressure as well as requests from the two countries directly affected, Portugal and Spain. It must be said that this proposal would perhaps not have been needed if the Commission had listened to Parliament when Regulation 2561/2001 was discussed. Even then, the potential problems of implementing this regulation had already been clearly identified. We support the Miguélez Ramos report, and have nothing but praise for the rapporteur’s work and for the initiatives she has produced, which are doubtless behind the corrections that are being made to the proposal. We must ensure equal treatment for all fishermen and we must ensure that the regulation covers the greatest number possible of people working in this sector. The provisions preventing already scheduled aid being granted within more reasonable deadlines must, therefore, be removed. We support the rapporteur’s amendments, which are so clearly justified that they need no further comment. It is right that financial compensation should also be given to fishermen who are unemployed as a result of other decisions and not just because their vessels have been scrapped, including fishermen who have decided to devote themselves to other types of fishing, for example, or those who have already switched to other types of fishing. I wish to make one last comment, Mr President, which concerns the need, in future, to provide emergency measures for situations of vulnerability when agreements with third countries might lead to situations of collapse and harm fishing activities. I genuinely believe that we need a global strategy so that we do not only respond to these situations as and when they arise."@en1

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