Proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) on closer dialogue with the fishing industry and groups affected by the common fisheries policy (COM(1999) 382 - C5-0145/1999 - 1999/0163(CNS))
Date: 2000-01-21
Institutions: Committee on Fisheries, European Parliament
Subjects: European organisation, advisory committee (EU), aquaculture, common fisheries policy, communications policy, fishing industry, professional association

24.10.2000

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Official Journal of the European Communities

C 304/225

TEXTS ADOPTED

Friday 21 January 2000

1. Common fisheries policy: closer dialogue between the fishing industry and

groups affected *

A5-0094/1999

Proposal for a Council regulation on closer dialogue with the fishing industry and groups affected
by the common fisheries policy (COM(1999) 382 . C5-0145/1999 . 1999/0163(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 performance
of 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
the Community budget held by trade organisations within
the framework of the Advisory Committee on Fisheries
and Aquaculture correspond to the purposes and tasks
set out in Decision 1999/478/EC (1) and shall exercise
financial control over the payments made in connection
with those tasks.

(1) OJ L 187, 20.7.1999, p. 70.

(Amendment 2)
Article 3a (new)

Article 3a

The Commission shall present an annual report to the
European Parliament and the Council on the substance
and conclusions of debates held within the Advisory
Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture (plenary) and
the working groups referred to in Article 7 of Decision
1999/478/EC.

(1) OJ C 274 E, 28.9.1999, p. 37.

European Parliament legislative resolution on the proposal for a Council regulation on closer dia-
logue with the fishing industry and groups affected by the common fisheries policy
(COM(1999) 382 . C5-0145/1999 . 1999/0163(CNS))

(Consultation procedure)

The European Parliament,

0 having regard to the Commission proposal to the Council (COM(1999) 382) (1),

0 having been consulted by the Council pursuant to Article 37 of the EC Treaty (C5-0145/1999),

0 having regard to Rule 67 of its Rules of Procedure,

0 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),

(1) OJ C 274 E, 28.9.1999, p. 37.

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1.

Approves the Commission proposal as amended;

Calls on the Commission to alter its proposal accordingly, pursuant to Article 250(2) of the EC

2.
Treaty;

Calls on the Council to notify Parliament should it intend to depart from the text approved by Parlia-

3.
ment;

Calls for the conciliation procedure to be initiated should the Council intend to depart from the text

4.
approved by Parliament;

5.

6.

Asks to be consulted again if the Council intends to amend the Commission proposal substantially;

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and Commission.

2. Volunteer aid workers in Colombia

B5-0026 and 0036/2000

European Parliament resolution on protection for volunteer and humanitarian workers

The European Parliament,

0 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 to
which many of the volunteer workers in Colombia have been subject,

Calls on the Commission to take urgent action to improve security conditions for volunteer and
1.
humanitarian workers carrying out their activities in conflictive areas under actions receiving Commission
funding;

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 multilateral
aid 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 such
attacks do not go unpunished;