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The speech by Commissioner Borg was illuminating in terms of the Commission’s intentions for the future of the common fisheries policy: namely, alteration of its management system by introducing, in stages, a Community system based on fishing rights.
We could almost have predicted its intentions: initially to extend the application of this system, although only to part of the fleet, in a large number of Member States, and then, subsequently, to create a single EU market in fishing rights, possibly with their transaction on a stock exchange.
The objectives indicated by the European Commission ‘... may lead to large-scale buying of rights, resulting in concentration of ownership of quotas, geographical distribution of fishing activity and fleet composition’, where ‘... any mechanisms established to limit the negative effects … should be compatible with Community single market and competition rules’.
This is an extremely important issue which goes to the heart of the Member States’ sovereignty and also the ownership and management of the right to exploit a natural resource, in other words the transfer to private interests of rights to exploit a public asset.
We can but categorically reject this intention!"@en1
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