Fishery products: additional costs due to remoteness of Azores, Madeira, Canary islands, French Guiana

In adopting the report by Mr Manuel MEDINA ORTEGA (PSE, E), the European Parliament expressed itself in favour of the inclusion of the French Department of Réunion in the list of outermost regions (Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands and Guiana) for which a system of compensation for additional marketing costs is envisaged, in the case of tuna and swordfish. While keeping the overall amount of aid for this at the same level, Parliament's amendments reduced the quotas for tuna, sardines and mackerel intended for freezing and increased the quota for fresh fish intended for processing. Parliament called for it to be made possible for aid to prawn-fishing to vary in relation to the size of the prawns caught, without altering the overall budget allocation for such aid. At the same time it called for an annual report to be drawn up on the impact (particularly financial) of the Regulation.�