Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-04-22-Speech-3-270"
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"en.20090422.49.3-270"2
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"The European Parliament has today voted in favour of including sports and recreational fisheries in the common fisheries policy. In so doing, the EU has begun to regulate one of our most popular leisure activities.
The proposal is preposterous. Firstly, the fishing waters belong to the individual countries, not to Brussels. Secondly, the activities of recreational fishermen do not affect stocks to any great extent. Thirdly, this legislation will be impossible to comply with. You only need to look at Sweden, which has 11 500 km of coastline. Do the EU’s bureaucrats and the Members of this House believe that it will actually be possible to monitor what is happening at all times and in all places? A law that is impossible to implement is a particularly bad law.
On the other hand, I am not particularly surprised by the proposal. The EU is like a steam engine that has started to roll along the way towards its goal of becoming a fully-fledged federal state. It is large, heavy and very difficult to stop once it starts rolling. Anyone who gets in its way will be mown down.
Today is a dark day for those of us who want pithy and effective European cooperation, but above all it is a very dark day for recreational fishermen in all Member States."@en1
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