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

The European Parliament adopted by 652 votes to 19, with 2 abstentions, a legislative resolution on 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.

It adopted its position at first reading under the ordinary legislative procedure. The amendments adopted in plenary amend the Commission proposal 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;

- 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.