Translation of "évaluation globale des eaux internationales " (French → English) :

We hope, where this report is concerned, that the Commission communication will support launching the bases for a global analysis of the problems and needs of the European Union fleet in the territorial waters of third countries, focusing on two issues: how to achieve more coherent and more complete participation in the organisations governing international waters, in order to protect the legitimate interests of the Community; and how to secure a higher profile for the international dimension of the CFP within the Union's external po ...[+++]licy.

We hope, where this report is concerned, that the Commission communication will support launching the bases for a global analysis of the problems and needs of the European Union fleet in the territorial waters of third countries, focusing on two issues: how to achieve more coherent and more complete participation in the organisations governing international waters, in order to protect the legitimate interests of the Community; and how to secure a higher profile for the international dimension of the CFP within the Union's external po ...[+++]licy.

The forthcoming Commission communication on the international dimension of the CFP in the context of its reform should lay the bases for a global examination of the problems and needs of this fleet. This should be centred on two questions: how to achieve a more coherent and fuller participation in the bodies which govern international waters, in the context of the defence of the Community's legitimate interests; and how secure a h ...[+++]igher profile for the international dimension of the CFP within the Union's external policy.

The overall outcome of this failure of policy on the conservation of resources is that, at present, according to the data provided in April 2000 by the Commission's Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries, of the 240 species of interest for the Community fisheries analysed, embracing both Community and international waters, stocks of only 40 species can be considered to be in a state which conforms to the rules of the precautionary principle; 80 species, including such valuable commercial species as hake and cod, are at imminent risk of collapse or over-exploitation.

41. Calls on the Commission to evaluate the effects of the EU's distant water fishing fleets, which operate in both international waters and under the aegis of international fisheries agreements on biological diversity in the world's seas and, where necessary, to reduce the activities of those fleets; further demands that these fleets be subject to similar controls and restrictions as EU vessels fishing in European waters;

19) Ballast Water: EU funded research can contribute to assessing the full impact of the serious problem posed by the introduction of exotic species in ballast water [30].