Common fisheries policy: monitoring. Report 1995

In adopting the report by Mr Robin TEVERSON (ELDR, UK) on monitoring the common fisheries policy 1995, the European Parliament noted that there had been no improvement in the control and monitoring of the CFP since the publication of the previous report. It insisted that future reports should include a timetabled action plan to correct the failures of the CFP monitoring procedures identified. Parliament was alarmed at the continued lack of political will to enforce the CFP so as to enable stocks to be conserved. It called on the Commission to draw up a new method of gathering and processing data which would oblige the Member States to forward uniform and transparent information, and called on it, where appropriate, to name individual enterprises, Member States or other agencies which had failed in their duty to control and monitor the operation of the CFP. It observed that the Member States had made no progress in the monitoring of marketing channels, and considered that the lack of harmonization regarding infringements remained a fundamental problem in monitoring the CFP. It deplored the lack of effective monitoring of markets to prevent import fraud.�