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"Mr President, Commissioner, Mr Stevenson, Scottish herring is very popular and is sold and consumed in the Netherlands as ‘Hollandse Nieuwe’, which means literally ‘New Dutch’. Our herring season began on Saturday with flag day. Well, Mr Stevenson, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. What can we say? This year, the quality was outstanding, the herring was juicy and had a fat percentage of 18%.
The total allowable catches have been set at a low level for years now, and we can now see that there is a lot more herring than ever expected before, and in that fact, at the same time, is also what I want to say. The scientific quality of these forecasts needs to, and indeed can, improve, for which reason it is good that Parliament is also demanding a right of control. There needs to be more control, and not only for the Commission.
It is important that we, Parliament, also exercise these rights stemming from the Treaty of Lisbon, as stated in the Stevenson report. Things can be improved, and they must. Mr Stevenson has adopted the right approach and we should just persist with that position. Even if we talk until the cows come home, Parliament has these rights and so we just have to persist with that position."@en1
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