Conservation of fishery resources: cod, stock recovery

The European Parliament adopted the report by Mrs Catherine STIHLER (PES, UK). (Please refer to the previous text). In addition, a few other amendments were adopted by the Parliament such as : - the stipulation that Member States should be allowed to take further, non-discriminatory measures for the conservation and protection of marine fish stocks, provided they are consistent with the objectives of the Common Fisheries Policy. Such measures should have no impact on the allocation of quotas in accordance with the relative stability system once stocks have recovered and the Member State takes the view that fishing activities should resume; - the clarification that a day absent from port shall be a continuous or discontinuous period of 24 hours from the time of entry into a geographical area defined in Article 2. The number of days absent from port shall be calculated by dividing the number of hours absent from port by 24.�