Translation of "MAGP " (English → French) :

I would also like to say to you clearly and in all honesty that we will not meet that objective at all with MAGP IV. With MAGP IV we are a long way from achieving a reduction of 30%, let alone 40%. There is a report with which you are probably familiar, I hope you are, which says that we will at best achieve 5% over the full MAGP period and even that is very unlikely.

I. whereas there is a belief within the fisheries sector that the application of MAGPs has not been managed in a fair and equitable manner, leading to the requirements of the successive MAGPs being implemented in an uneven fashion in the Community fleets and resulting in discrimination against certain Member States,

From the first image you can clearly see that although on average Member States have fulfilled their MAGP objectives for MAGP III and IV, these objectives taken together fall far short of the Commission's original proposal for MAGP III. Furthermore this modest overall result disguises that some Member States have not achieved their objectives, while others may have exceeded them.

It specifies the procedure for adopting the multiannual guidance programmes for the fishing fleets (MAGPs) for the period starting on 1 January 2002.

...EETS AT THE END OF 1995 (MAGPS III) The Council took note of the report from the Commission on the progress of the multi-annual guidance programmes for the fishing fleets (for the period 1993-1996) at the end of 1995 and noted its importance in relation to the objectives to be fixed in the MAGPs IV. The President invited the Commission to take due account of the concerns of delegations relating to the measurement of capacity of vessels and welcomed the Commission's willingness to address the issue of the determination of the capacity of Member States' fleets, in terms of gross registered tonnage and kilowatts, as soon as possible. .. ...[+++].

. fishing effort reduction rates defined in relation to identified critical stocks and areas; . special treatment of small-scale coastal fishing vessels; . weighted approach to establishing fishing effort reduction; . achievement of effort reduction targets through effort management or capacity, or a combination of both; . fixing of objectives for MAGPs IV on the basis of objectives for MAGPs III; . three year programme with a six-year horizon via a mid-term review; . fully transparent and verifiable basis for the segmentation of Member States' fleets; -noted the comments of delegations on this compromise;