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Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

Answer

Mr. Steen: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the means by which (a) Spain, (b) the Netherlands, (c) France, (d) Denmark and (e) Germany plan to achieve their MAGP IV objectives; if applications have been made to the European Union Commission for each of their schemes; what timespan the Commission has set for the implementation of each of the schemes; and if he will make a statement. [33038] Mr. Morley: Under the terms of Council Decision 97/413/EC, all maritime Member States had until 30 June 1997 to submit to the European Commission national fishing effort limitation programmes for achieving the objectives fixed in MAGP IV, identifying and quantifying the means by which this is to be done. The Commission then had until 30 November 1997 to discuss these plans in detail with the Member States concerned and subsequently to approve them, with whatever modifications were found to be necessary. In the event this process was not completed until 16 December 1997 and the resulting series of Commission Decisions was not published in the Official Journal of the European Communities until 12 February 1998. All 13 programmes are contained in volume L39 and all cover the period from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2001.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

33038; 308 c159-60W;308 c159W

Session

1997-98

EC documents

Dec97/413/EC

Subjects

EU countries Fisheries EU law Fishing catches Germany Fish France Quotas Multiannual guidance programme Netherlands Spain Denmark