EU/Senegal Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement and Implementation Protocol from 20 November 2014 to 19 November 2019

The European Parliament adopted by 587 votes to 103, with 13 abstentions, a legislative resolution on the draft Council decision on the conclusion, on behalf of the European Union, of a Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Senegal and the Implementation Protocol thereto.

Parliament gave its consent to the conclusion of the Agreement and called on the Commission to:

• forward it the minutes and the conclusions of the meetings of the Joint Committee provided for in the Agreement, as well as the multiannual sectoral programme provided for in the new protocol;
• facilitate the participation of representatives of Parliament as observers in the meetings of the Joint Committee;
• send to Parliament and to the Council, before the present Agreement expires and as negotiations begin for a future one, detailed information in the form of an ex post report on the costs and benefits of the Agreement;
• submit to Parliament yearly reports on the implementation of the Agreement.

The Commission is also called upon to keep Parliament immediately and fully informed at all stages of the procedures related to the protocol and its renewal and to focus in particular on the promotion of local management and accountability in the context of the implementation of the Agreement.