European Union - Third Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 19 December 2000.
CONTENTS
REPORT
PART 1: THE CFP: A FAILING POLICY
Fish stocks are critically low
Political will to act is lacking at the Community
level
The fishing industry must be helped to adjust
Fishing communities deserve attention from
more senior politicians
A comprehensive approach is needed
PART 2: BACKGROUND AND EVIDENCE
Box 1: Previous consideration by Parliamentary
Select Committees
The current context
Box 2: Extract from House of Commons
Written Answer of 19 December 2000 (col 134W)
The Common Fisheries Policy and its objectives
Preparations for the review of the CFP
Box 3: Summary of views emerging from
the Commission's preliminary consultations in 1998-99
The economic and social importance of fisheries
The environmental integration process
Developments since the mid-term review
Radical or incremental reform?
Environmental sustainability
Capacity reduction—the Multi-Annual
Guidance Programmes
EU Structural Funds—the Financial Instrument
for Fisheries Guidance
Effort controls and medium-term management
strategies
Zonal or regional management
Discards
Fisheries management within 6, 12 and 200-mile
limits
Social implications of moves towards more
sustainable fishing
Fish farming
Enforcement
Global fisheries
PART 3: THE COMMITTEE'S CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Objectives of the reformed Common Fisheries
Policy
Protection of the Marine Environment
Capacity Reduction
Effort Control
Zonal Management
Discards
Coastal fisheries and the six and twelve
mile limits
Control within the exclusive economic zone
(EEZ)
Mitigation of the social effects of achieving
sustainable fisheries
Fish Farming
Enforcement
Global Fisheries
The CFP is failing
The forthcoming Green Paper
The challenge facing the Community
Recommendation to the House.
Appendix 1
Members of the Sub-Committee
Appendix 2
Extract from Sub-Committee D's invitation for
evidence
Appendix 3
Appendix 4
Letter from the Rt Hon Dr Jack Cunningham MP,
Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, to Lord Phillips
of Ellesmere KBE FRS, Chairman, House of Lords Select Committee
on Science and Technology
Letter from Lord Phillips of Ellesmere to
the Rt Hon Dr Jack Cunningham MP
Appendix 5
Note by the Clerk of an informal discussion between
Sub-Committee D and MAFF officials on 14 June 2000
Appendix 6
Glossary of main fisheries terms used in the
Report and evidence
| ORAL EVIDENCE |
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| Marine Stewardship Council |
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| Oral Evidence 5 July 2000 | 1
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| Written Evidence | 9 |
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| Professor Jacqueline McGlade |
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| Oral Evidence 19 July 2000 | 12
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| Institute for European Environmental Policy
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| Oral Evidence 19 July 2000 | 17
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| Written Evidence | 23 |
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| Dr G P Kirkwood |
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| Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine
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| Oral Evidence 26 July 2000 | 28
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| Written Evidence | 36 |
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| National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations
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| Written Evidence | 38 |
| Oral Evidence 11 October 2000 | 41
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| Supplementary Written Evidence | 46
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| European Commission |
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| Oral Evidence 11 October 2000 | 48
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| David Symes |
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| Written Evidence | 56 |
| Oral Evidence 18 October 2000 | 60
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| Save Britain's Fish |
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| Written Evidence | 66 |
| South Devon & Channel Shellfishermen
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| Written Evidence | 67 |
| The Fishermen's Association Ltd |
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| Oral Evidence 18 October 2000 | 70
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| Her Majesty's Government |
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| Written Evidence | 77 |
| Oral Evidence 25 October 2000 | 87
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| Scottish Fishermen's Federation |
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| Written Evidence | 96 |
| Oral Evidence 1 November | 98
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| Dr Christian Lequesne, Centre d'Etudes et Recherches Internationales, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris, and Professor Ola Flaaten, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and University of Tromsø, Norway
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| Oral Evidence 1 November 2000 | 104
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| Joint Nature Conservation Committee |
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| Written Evidence | 111 |
| Oral Evidence 8 November 2000 | 117
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| Supplementary Written Evidence | 124
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| The Wildlife Trusts and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-UK)
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| Written Evidence | 127 |
| Oral Evidence 8 November 2000 | 129
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| WRITTEN EVIDENCE |
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| Angling Trade Association | 137
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| Marine Conservation Society | 138
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| National Federation of Sea Anglers | 141
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| The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
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| South West Handline Fishermen's Association
| 149 |
| David B Thomson | 150 |
| Whale & Dolphin Conservation Society |
154 |
| Mrs Elizabeth Young (Lady Kennet) | 157
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| NOTE: Pages of the Report and Appendices are numbered in bold type; pages of evidence are numbered in ordinary type. References in the text of the Report are as follows:
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| (Q) refers to a question in oral evidence;
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| (p) refers to a page of the Report or Appendices or to a page of evidence.
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