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# 91995E3334(01)

**WRITTEN QUESTION No. 3334/95 by Katerina DASKALAKI to the Commission. Subsidies for the renewal of the fishing fleet - the destruction of traditional boats (SUPPLEMENTARY ANSWER)** 
  
*Official Journal C 217 , 26/07/1996 P. 0003*

  

WRITTEN QUESTION P-3334/95 by Katerina Daskalaki (UPE) to the Commission (6 December 1995)

Subject: Subsidies for the renewal of the fishing fleet - the destruction of traditional boats

Payment of the Commission's subsidy for the renewal of the fishing fleet is conditional on, among other things, the destruction of old fishing vessels.

The result is the destruction of traditional boats in Greece and the disappearance of the art of wooden-ship building, an art which flourished in the Mediterranean from the eighteenth century.

Will the Commission modify the subsidy scheme in question so that it does not harm this nautical part of our cultural heritage?

Additional answer given by Ms Bonino on behalf of the Commission (4 March 1996)

Further to the answer given by the Commission on 5 January 1996, ((OJ C 91, 27.3.1996, p. 60. )) the Honourable Member's attention is drawn to the fact that the Commission has agreed to allow no more than 15 vessels satisfying very specific criteria in respect of age and traditional design to be withdrawn but not scrapped in the framework of the fisheries operational programme. These vessels, intended to illustrate traditional fishing activity, will be put on public display.

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