Fishery resources: the Community's participation in Regional Fisheries Organisations RFOs

The Parliament voted 444 to 24 in favour of a resolution drafted by Mr Salvador JOVE PERES (EUL/NGL, E) calling on the Commission to submit urgently a paper dealing with regional fisheries organisations. The resolution supports the Commission taking a leading role in both monitoring stocks under the Common Fisheries Policy and strengthing links with some thirty five international regional bodies responsible for controlling the world's fisheries resources. While at present a lack of resources at central level means that some powers are delegated to the Member States, the resolution calls for this situation to be rectified so that the Commission can exercise to the full its supervisory and monitoring powers. The resolution calls on the Commission to come up with a proposal to lay down a uniform system of penalties for infringement of the rules.�