Conservation of marine and fisheries resources: tropical tuna, conclusion of the Convention for the strengthening of the Inter-American Commission IATTC, established by the 1949 Convention between the United States and Costa Rica called Antigua Convention

At its meeting on 28 October 2005, the Working Party on Internal and External Fishery Policy examined the above proposal. The Working Party unanimously agreed to the text of the proposal, but introduced one amendment consisting of changing the legal basis in order to ask the European Parliament for its assent (the Danish, Polish and United Kingdom delegations entered parliamentary scrutiny reservations on the text of the proposal. The United Kingdom and Poland have now lifted their reservation. Denmark expects to lift its reservation before 14 December 2005).

The Commission representative entered a scrutiny reservation on the change of legal basis which was subsequently lifted on 17 November 2005.

The text, as finalised by the legal linguistic experts, should now be forwarded to the European Parliament in order to obtain its assent in accordance with Article 300(3), second alinea of the TEC. Subsequently, the text will be submitted for formal approval to COREPER/Council.

The rest of the text has not been modified therefore please refer to the previous initial proposal.