EC/Mauritania fisheries agreement: protocol for the period from 1st August 2001 to 31st July 2006

 The committee adopted the report by Pedro GUERREIRO (GUE/NGL, PT) approving unamended - under the consultation procedure - the proposed conclusion of the Agreement concerning the amendments to the Protocol to the EC/Mauritania fisheries agreement for the period 1 August 2001 to 31 July 2006. The committee was critical of the serious delay that had occurred in consulting Parliament on a text which was agreed many months earlier and drew attention to the 2005 Interinstitional Agreement which stipulated that Parliament must be provided with information in sufficient time for it to be able to express its point of view if appropriate and for the Commission to be able to take Parliament's views as far as possible into account.