Fishery products, live bivalve molluscs and by-products thereof: rules for imports from Greenland

The Committee on Fisheries adopted the report drafted by Carmen FRAGA ESTÉVEZ (EPP, ES), under a special legislative procedure (EP consultation), amending the proposal for a Council decision laying down rules for imports into the European Union from Greenland of fishery products, live bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates, marine gastropods and by-products thereof

The main amendments are as follows:

• given that the proposed act lays down measures of general application that are intended to be binding in their entirety and directly applicable in all Member States, the act more suitably takes the form of a regulation than of a mere decision. Accordingly, the title of the present proposal needs to be changed from a "Council Decision" to a "Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council";
• following the opinion that has been requested from the Committee on Legal Affairs pursuant to Rule 37 of the EP Rules of Procedure, Members consider the appropriate legal basis to be Articles 43(2) and 204 TFEU and the Sole Article of Protocol No. 34.