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Debates
Wednesday, 6 September 2006 - Strasbourg
Simplification
of the CFP
Ian Hudghton (Verts/ALE
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I voted in favour of the amendment, which would have allowed ACP countries
to opt out of fisheries agreements, if they considered such agreements to
be harmful to their interests.
Simplification of the Common
Fisheries Policy is an attractive notion, given the centralised,
cumbersome and often secretive processes under which management decisions
are made.
My view, and that of many Scots,
is that the CFP should be concerned with the market in fisheries products,
but that control and management of the resource and of catching
opportunities should be returned to Scotland. |
