TEXTSADOPTED
1. Commonfisheries policy: closer dialogue between the fishing industry and
groupsaffected*
A5-0094/1999
ProposalforaCouncilregulationoncloserdialoguewiththefishingindustryandgroupsaffected
bythecommonfisheriespolicy(COM(1999)3826dashC5-0145/19996dash1999/0163(CNS))
The proposal was amended as follows:
TEXT PROPOSED
BY THE COMMISSION (1)AMENDMENTS
BY PARLIAMENT
(Amendment 1)
Article 3
The Commission may carry out all the verifications it considers
necessary to ensure compliance with the conditions and performanceof the tasks assigned by this Regulation to the European trade orga-nisations, which shall assist the representatives appointed for this pur-pose by the Commission .The Commission shall ensure that meetings financed from
theCommunitybudgetheldbytradeorganisationswithinthe framework of the Advisory Committee on Fisheriesand Aquaculture correspond to the purposes and tasksset out in Decision 1999/478/EC(
1) and shall exercise
financial control over the payments made in connection
withthosetasks .
(1) OJL187,20.7.1999,p.70.
(Amendment 2)
Article 3a (new)
Article3a
The Commission shall present an annual report to the
European Parliament and the Council on the substanceand conclusions of debates held within the AdvisoryCommittee on Fisheries and Aquaculture (plenary) andthe working groups referred to in Article 7 of Decision1999/478/EC.
(1)OJ C 274 E, 28.9.1999, p. 37.
EuropeanParliamentlegislativeresolutionontheproposalforaCouncilregulationoncloserdia-logue with the fishing industry and groups affected by the common fisheries policy
(COM(1999)3826dashC5-0145/19996dash1999/0163(CNS))
(Consultation procedure)
The European Parliament,
cdash having regard to the Commission proposal to the Council (COM(1999)382) (
1),
cdash having been consulted by the Council pursuant to Article 37 of the EC Treaty (C5-0145/1999),
cdash having regard to Rule 67 of its Rules of Procedure,
cdash having regard to the report of the Committee on Fisheries and the opinion of the Committee on
Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (A5-0094/1999),
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1. Approves the Commission proposal as amended;
2. Calls on the Commission to alter its proposal accordingly, pursuant to Article 250(2)of the EC
Treaty;
3. Calls on the Council to notify Parliament should it intend to depart from the text approved by Parlia-
ment;
4. Calls for the conciliation procedure to be initiated should the Council intend to depart from the text
approved by Parliament;
5. Asks to be consulted again if the Council intends to amend the Commission proposal substantially;
6. Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and Commission.
2. VolunteeraidworkersinColombia
B5-0026and0036/2000
EuropeanParliamentresolutiononprotectionforvolunteerandhumanitarianworkers
The European Parliament,
cdash having regard to its previous resolutions condemning the murders of volunteer and humanitarian
workers,
A. deeply disturbed at the increasingly frequent violent deaths of volunteer and humanitarian workers
and human rights activists,
B. having regard to the problem of shrinking security for volunteer and humanitarian workers,
C. whereas it is necessary to comply with international humanitarian law as laid down in the Geneva
Conventions of 1949 and their protocols of 1977,
D. whereas the International Committee of the Red Cross has suspended all operations in Colombia after
a mob of peasant refugees damaged the organisation’s headquarters in Bogota and took 40 officials
hostage,
E. appalled at the recent murders of Iñigo Eguiluz, a Spanish volunteer worker, and Jorge Luis Mazo, a
Colombian priest, committed in Colombia on 18 November 1999, and by the constant threats towhich many of the volunteer workers in Colombia have been subject,
1. Calls on the Commission to take urgent action to improve security conditions for volunteer and
humanitarian workers carrying out their activities in conflictive areas under actions receiving Commissionfunding;
2. Calls on the Council, and, in particular, its Secretary-General, within the framework of the CFSP, to
encourage those countries which have still not done so to ratify or adhere to the instruments of interna-tional humanitarian law;
3. Calls on the Commission to draw up a communication on the security conditions for volunteer and
humanitarian workers carrying out their activities in conflictive areas on behalf of NGOs and multilateralaid organisations;
4. Calls on governments on whose territory attacks on, or violations of, the integrity of the person of
volunteer and humanitarian workers occur to carry out the necessary investigations to ensure that suchattacks do not go unpunished;C 304/226 EN 24.10.2000 Official Journal of the European Communities
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