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Hudghton (Verts/ALE), I
voted against this report in the final vote. I did so principally because
I believe that the inclusion of marine biological resource conservation as
one of only five exclusive competences of the EU is not only unnecessary,
but in fact anomalous and unjustified. The fact that this Parliament's
Fisheries Committee almost unanimously supported that view in its opinion
reflects a strongly held point of view in Scotland's fisheries dependent
communities.
This is yet another example of
failure on the part of a Westminster Government to act in the best
interests of fishing communities, and will undoubtedly motivate many
voters in Scotland to vote for rejection of the Constitutional Treaty in a
referendum. |
