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"Mr President, I wish to speak on the Poignant report. In committee we tabled an amendment on the increasing problem of fishing vessels flying flags of convenience, which was very narrowly defeated. More and more unscrupulous shipowners are transferring their vessels to countries such as Belize, Honduras or St Vincent and the Grenadines. They know perfectly well that these countries will turn a blind eye to whatever these ships do: how they fish and what they catch. Commissioner Fischler has quite rightly referred to this problem as the 'scourge of the oceans'.
At present, there is nothing to prevent a European shipowner from exporting his ship to one of these countries, receiving a very healthy subsidy of EUR 1 million or more and still keeping his ship. We introduced an amendment to try and close this huge loophole, using criteria adopted by international fisheries management organisations. I am glad to hear that the rapporteur supports our amendment, because it is scandalous that this loophole still exists.
I do not see how anyone in this House could actually support the use of EU funds – EU taxpayers' money, that is – to allow shipowners to escape controls and then fish in competition with law-abiding shipowners. I urge everyone here today to support this amendment."@en1
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