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"Mr President, I wish to repeat what I said earlier, that what the Commission is trying to do with this proposal is to deal with an emergency. This is an emergency measure. We are trying to help the Member States in real trouble due to the economic crisis, so that they can reduce the national contribution rate for Fisheries Fund programmes. This will ease the pressure on them.
Of course, it will take more than this to resolve the problem, because the take-up of European Union funds is not just a question of the national contribution. We also need suitable programmes financed in accordance with the regulation. Nonetheless, it will bring some relief and that is what we are trying to do at this very difficult juncture for certain Member States.
A number of general comments were made in the debate about the Fisheries Fund, especially about the future composition of the Fisheries Fund, based on the proposal we have made to reform fisheries policy.
I agree with many of the comments. The programmes need to be simplified because we have a very low take-up rate. We need to focus on actions that support sustainability, because there is no point in handing out European taxpayers’ money to finance a policy that does not result in healthy fish reserves. The only way to increase fishermen’s income is to have healthy fish reserves.
I agree that we need to support coastal fisheries and small-scale fishermen in particular. That is why the proposal for the new fund will include increased financing for all small vessel owners of up to 75% for every country.
Naturally, there are problems for which the national governments, not the Commission, are to blame. I wish to clarify that, because it is all too easy to say that the Commission is to blame, for example, because small-scale fishermen are disappearing and because they only receive 4% of the quotas in national allocations. We allocate the quotas by Member State and the internal allocation is then based on decisions taken by national governments.
I therefore think that all this needs to be borne in mind when the House debates the new financial regulation for the next period.
Today, we are talking about an emergency measure which, it should be noted, will not increase financing by the Member States; it will simply speed up financing. We are not therefore giving additional resources to the Member States and certain members need not worry on that count. What we are doing is to help to expedite financing, in order to help them in these difficult times."@en1
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