Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-09-27-Speech-3-322"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-09-27"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Improving the economic situation in the fishing industry (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060927.24.3-322"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-09-27-Speech-3-3242
lpv:speaker	lp:Hélène Goudin2
lpv:spokenAs	member; IND/DEM (2004-07-20--2007-06-12)3 substitute; ENVI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Junilistan (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; DEVE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr Guerreiro’s report on improving the economic situation in the fishing industry worries me a lot. The way in which the Community’s fishing fleet conducts its activities will lead to the oceans becoming irrevocably depleted of fish, and all to protect an industry that is uncompetitive internationally. Allow me to give an example. At the beginning of September, the Commission presented a proposal on fishing in the Baltic Sea. The ICES, or International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, again repeated the demand for a total ban on cod fishing in the eastern Baltic, but the Commission believes that it is enough for it to be reduced by 15%. This shows very clearly that the EU does not put the environment first but, rather, seeks the best for industry. The last remark requires qualification, however, because the fishing industry will die out once the seas are depleted of fish. A global view of what is just should be adopted when the EU’s fisheries policy is discussed. The rapporteur says explicitly that the EU’s fishing fleet is forced to compete with third countries’ fleets. The latter have much lower costs, and their products are consequently cheaper. By introducing tax relief, which is definitely not something for the Community to do, Mr Guerreiro wishes to distort the international market and thus deprive poor people of their only means of income. That is frightening and, at the same time, very tragic. The EU is, however, showing its true face in this case: that of an uncompetitive economy that is prepared to do anything to protect its production, at the same time as excluding the world’s poor."@en1

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