Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement SIOFA

The European Parliament adopted by 646 votes to 26 with 14 abstentions, a legislative resolution under the consultation procedure, making one amendment to the proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion, on behalf of the European Community, of the Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement. The report had been tabled for consideration in plenary by Philippe MORILLON (ALDE, FR) on behalf of the Committee on Fisheries.

Parliament changed the legal base to the second subparagraph of Article 300(3) from a reference to the first subparagraph. It accepted advice from the Legal Affairs Committee that this was a case of the assent procedure rather than the consultation procedure, since a specific institutional framework was being laid down in the international agreement concerned (establishment of subsidiary bodies which will take important decisions).