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Debate on CFP Reform Gets Under Way the Final Lap? FINANCIAL SERVICES REGIONAL POLICY COUNCIL EUROPEAN WORKS COUNCILS EP agrees relaxed rules Svoboda: Cohesion policy is New directive boosts worker on e-money Page 4 everyone’s concern Page 6 power in big firms Page 10 EUROPOLITICS The European affairs daily Monday 27 April 2009 N° 3741 37th year FOCUS FISHERIES Debate on CFP reform The final lap? gets under way By Marianne Slegers By Anne Eckstein ticularly following the problems being With the final plenary session of the encountered by fishermen in north- current European Parliament quickly Although the discussion by the fisher- ern France. After the Council, Michel approaching, pressure is mounting on the ies ministers, meeting in Council in Lux- Barnier commented on this key issue EP and the Council to obtain a compro- embourg on 23 April, was relatively brief, and on the green paper’s suggestion of mise on the revision of the Working Time the debate on reform of the Common introducing individual quotas. Directive. An agreement must be reached Fisheries Policy (CFP) is already well He said he agrees with the principle before the last plenary, or else the revi- under way, between the off-the-cuff reac- of individualised and pooled quotas but sion falls. On 27 April, at 19:00, informal tions of French Agriculture and Fisheries is opposed to transferable quotas and three-way talks will start again at the EP’s Minister Michel Barnier (see Europoli- determined to keep management in the premises. These talks will be based on the tics 3740) and the proposals tabled by hands of the public authorities. European Commission’s ‘compromise Danish Minister Eva Kjer Hansen. The Eva Kjer Hansen submitted a working package’ of 23 April (see Europolitics two positions seem totally contradictory document to the Council proposing a 3740) and will feed into a ‘final’ concilia- – which suggests a lively debate ahead reform of which the first pillar would be tion round, scheduled for 22:00 that same – but according to both the Danish min- to switch from quotas based on volumes day. Whether this really is the last meet- ister and a senior official of DG MARE, landed (the present system) to quotas ing remains anyone’s guess. In the run-up they are not irreconcilable. based on real catches. to the plenary in Strasbourg in early May Barely 24 hours after its adoption by the This would make fishermen more the options are wide open, since the con- European Commission, the green paper accountable and oblige them to adapt ciliation process can be extended by two on reform of the CFP (3738) was pre- their investments, capacities and fishing weeks (officially, the conciliation proce- sented officially to the Council by Fisher- gear, she explained. It would also lead to dure ends on 28 April). While the sides ies Commissioner Joe Borg. The presen- a reduction in discards. Copenhagen has are busy bracing themselves for the last tation was not followed by a formal airing been using this system since 2007 and negotiation round, the Commissioner for of views, although some delegations has launched in this connection a pilot Employment, Vladimir Spidla, said, on insisted on commenting. The Czech EU project of camera surveillance aboard six 24 April, that he was “pleased to see that Presidency announced an initial detailed fishing vessels. both sides are now negotiating seriously”. debate at the next Council (25-26 May). This operational supervision matched He added that “We’re calling once again The document met with a “positive reac- with the obligation for fishermen to pro- on both the EP and the Council to show tion on the whole,” said a source close to vide precise catch data has demonstrated flexibility to make a final agreement pos- the Commission. As expected, the tough its worth, noted the Danish minister, who sible”. For five long years now, the EP and issues will be reform of the TACs (total distributed a study on the system to her the Council have proved unable to agree allowable catches) and quotas system, fellow ministers. on how to count on-call time (as work- capacity reduction and subsidies. She would like to bring the seven Baltic ing time or not) and whether or not and rim countries into the project to test it how EU companies should make use of QUOTAS A MAIN CONCERN on a larger scale. The second pillar of ‘opt-out’ contracts. The question of quotas is already the Danish proposal – also already being emerging as the main concern, par- applied by Danish (continued on page 5) Sold by subscription only © reproduction strictly prohibited in any language www.europolitics.info EUROPOLITICSTHE EUROPEAN AFFAIRS DAILY The centrepiece of EU news www.europolitics.info ❏ Yes, I would like to subscribe to EUROPOLITICS daily: ❏ 6 MONTHS, 112 issues (paper version) + unlimited online access at the price of €890 (1). HELPGETTING US GET TO TO KNOW KNOW YOU YOU BETTER… BETTER… ❏ 1 YEAR, 223 issues (paper version) + unlimited online access at the price of €1,700 (1). 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