Activites

• 2000/01/21 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Regulation 2000/104
  • OJ L 017 21.01.2000, p. 0022
• #2237
• 1999/12/17 Council Meeting
• 1999/12/17 End of procedure in Parliament
• 1999/12/17 Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
• 1999/12/02 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
  • T5-0136/1999 summary

    In adopting the report drafted by Mrs. Carmen FRAGA ESTEVEZ (EPP/ED, E), the European Parliament seeks to improve information to the consumer and to facilitate inspections by making it compulsory to indicate in respect of each product the commercial designation, the production method (including the gear type used), the minimum legal size in the catch area, the calibre, the catch area and the origin of the product (farmed or caught in Community fisheries or imported from a third country). The Parliament is in favour of the extension of operational programmes to aquaculture products. It also called for the Member States to be able to grant additional aids to producers organisations that, in the context of these operational programmes, develop measures to enhance the value of the species caught and to adjust supply to demand. As far as the Parliament is concerned, no financial compensation shall be granted in respect of quantities withdrawn exceeding 10% of the quantities withdrawn exceeding 10% of the quantities put up for sale by each producer organisation (the Commission proposed 8%). As far as the compensatory allowance for tuna is concerned, the Parliament set the triggering threshold at 91% of the Community producer price (as opposed to 85% proposed by the Commission). With regard to trade with third countries, the Parliament proposes that the Council, acting by a qualified majority and on proposal from the Commission, decide the total or partial suspension of common customs tariff duties. Lastly, the Parliament approves the annual fixing of reference prices by product category valid for the Community with a view to preventing disturbances arising from supplies from third countries at abnormal prices or in conditions liable to jeopardise the stabilisation measures.�

• #2220
• 1999/11/22 Council Meeting
• 1999/11/22 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A5-0067/1999
• #2170
• 1999/03/30 Council Meeting
  • 2170
• 1999/03/12 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 1999/02/16 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(1999)0055 summary

    PURPOSE: the updating of the common organisation of the market for fishery and aquaculture products. CONTENT: this proposal seeks to bring about an important reform of the common market for fishery and aquaculture products, in accordance with the objectives and principles laid down in the Commission's communication of 16/12/1997 on the future of the market for fishery products, in particular to: - permit of the COM's contribution to the principle of the responsible resource management; - improve the transparency and knowledge of the market and products, including to the consumer; - make the operators, especially producer organisations and their members, aware of and responsible for the optimal management and utilisation of resources; - encourage partnerships between players along the production chain, to gear down the efficiency of the actions of each of them on the market; - favour the use of forward-looking methods of adaptation of supply and demand by producer organisations; - contribute to market stability by encouraging the use of planned and contractualised marketing; - reform the mechanisms of intervention in such a way as to reduce to a minimum the definitive withdrawals from the market, and favour provisional withdrawal and the exploitation of products; - permit the supply of the market and the processing industry in conditions in line with the requirements of international competitiveness. Lastly, this proposal seeks to complement, clarify and facilitate the use of the COM regulations by those involved, in particular by avoiding the proliferation of methods of application. To reach this objective, the new basic regulation is more detailed, in particular with respect to professional organisations, and the more technical aspects will be dealt with using the management commttee procedure.�

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(1999)0055
• Debate in Council: 2170
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A5-0067/1999
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0136/1999
• : Regulation 2000/104
• : OJ L 017 21.01.2000, p. 0022

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)