Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-03-31-Speech-3-239"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-03-31"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EC-Denmark/Greenland fisheries agreement2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040331.9.3-239"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-03-31-Speech-3-2402
lpv:speaker	lp:Carlos Lage2
lpv:spokenAs	member; PECH (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Temporary committee on improving safety at sea (2003-11-20--2004-04-21)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; PES (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partido Socialista (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-30--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the modification of the Fourth Protocol, laying down the conditions for fishing between the EU and Greenland, is a step in the right direction, as its guiding principles are truth, transparency and reciprocity. As you say, Commissioner, we no longer have paper fish or virtual fish. We can, accordingly, establish a relationship between the EU’s financial contributions and the fish that can actually be caught, because there are fish to be caught. I therefore welcome this modification and Mrs Miguélez Ramos’s report, which is appropriate and well structured. The words in her intervention were similarly welcome, as they enabled us to focus on the central political issue at stake here. I also welcome Commissioner Vitorino’s intervention. His knowledge of fisheries does not surprise me, given that his many talents allow him to speak about fisheries with a remarkable breadth of knowledge. Here was me thinking that all he knew about fish was what he found on the plate ... Seriously, though, I hope that Commissioner Vitorino can come and teach us about particle physics and molecular biology ( ); he has the talent and intelligence to do this. Returning, however, to the political question raised by Mrs Miguélez Ramos, the removal of the Spanish and Portuguese from the Greenland fishing zones is both unjust and ‘anti-historic’ – now that ‘the destiny of history’ has gone out of fashion, please allow me to use the term ‘anti-historic’. If the Spanish and Portuguese were the first to discover fishing routes across the globe, then they must also have discovered the fisheries in Greenland, from where they have now been banned. We now have the chance to rectify this injustice, and this opportunity to rectify injustice consists of allowing quotas not taken up by the States holding them to be used by Portugal and Spain. This must not mean that these two countries must be subordinate to the authority of the countries holding the quotas. This is not some kind of modern-day feudal law invented alongside the quotas that are assigned to one country, which later passes them on or not to the EU Member State that, within the scope of Community policy, wishes to use them. I therefore wholeheartedly support the position of Mrs Miguélez Ramos that the European Union and the Commission can assign unused fishing quotas to countries wishing to use them, such as Portugal and Spain."@en1
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