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Debates
Tuesday, 11 December 2007 - Strasbourg
Protection of the Marine Environment
Ian Hudghton (Verts/ALE
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I was able to support the compromise package reached
across this house on the Lienemann report on the marine environment. It
is essential for future policy in this area that a holistic and balanced
approach is taken. The Common Fisheries Policy perhaps serves as a
template for how not to nurture the marine environment. Central control
from Brussels is no way to manage the seas and oceans of Europe and the
wider world. I therefore recognise that the EU has a valuable role to
play in marine environmental policy but also believe that the needs and
views of individual maritime communities must be factored into the
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