Proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) on closer dialogue with the fishing industry and groups affected by the common fisheries policy (COM(1999) 382 - C5-0145/1999 - 1999/0163(CNS))
24. 10. 2000 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 304/225 TEXTS ADOPTED Friday 21 January 2000 1. Common fisheries policy: closer dialogue between the fishing industry and groups affected * A5-0094/1999 Proposal for a Council regulation on closer dialogue with the fishing industry and groups affected by the common fisheries policy (COM(1999) 382. C5-0145/1999. 1999/0163(CNS)) The proposal was amended as follows: TEXT PROPOSED BY THE COMMISSION (1) AMENDMENTS BY PARLIAMENT (Amendment 1) Article 3 The Commission may carry out all the verifications it considers necessary to ensure compliance with the conditions and performance of the tasks assigned by this Regulation to the European trade orga- nisations, which shall assist the representatives appointed for this pur- pose by the Commission. The Commission shall ensure that meetings financed from the Community budget held by trade organisations within the framework of the Advisory Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture correspond to the purposes and tasks set out in Decision 1999/478/EC (1) and shall exercise financial control over the payments made in connection with those tasks. (1) OJ L 187, 20. 7. 1999, p. 70. (Amendment 2) Article 3a (new) Article 3a The Commission shall present an annual report to the European Parliament and the Council on the substance and conclusions of debates held within the Advisory Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture (plenary) and the working groups referred to in Article 7 of Decision 1999/478/EC. (1) OJ C 274 E, 28. 9. 1999, p. 37. European Parliament legislative resolution on the proposal for a Council regulation on closer dia- logue with the fishing industry and groups affected by the common fisheries policy (COM(1999) 382. C5-0145/1999. 1999/0163(CNS)) (Consultation procedure) The European Parliament, 0 having regard to the Commission proposal to the Council (COM(1999) 382) (1), 0 having been consulted by the Council pursuant to Article 37 of the EC Treaty (C5-0145/1999), 0 having regard to Rule 67 of its Rules of Procedure, 0 having regard to the report of the Committee on Fisheries and the opinion of the Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (A5-0094/1999), (1) OJ C 274 E, 28. 9. 1999, p. 37. C 304/226 Official Journal of the European Communities EN 24. 10. 2000 Friday 21 January 2000 1. Approves the Commission proposal as amended; Calls on the Commission to alter its proposal accordingly, pursuant to Article 250(2) of the EC 2. Treaty; Calls on the Council to notify Parliament should it intend to depart from the text approved by Parlia- 3. ment; Calls for the conciliation procedure to be initiated should the Council intend to depart from the text 4. approved by Parliament; 5. 6. Asks to be consulted again if the Council intends to amend the Commission proposal substantially; Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and Commission. 2. Volunteer aid workers in Colombia B5-0026 and 0036/2000 European Parliament resolution on protection for volunteer and humanitarian workers The European Parliament, 0 having regard to its previous resolutions condemning the murders of volunteer and humanitarian workers, A. deeply disturbed at the increasingly frequent violent deaths of volunteer and humanitarian workers and human rights activists, B. having regard to the problem of shrinking security for volunteer and humanitarian workers, C. whereas it is necessary to comply with international humanitarian law as laid down in the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their protocols of 1977, D. whereas the International Committee of the Red Cross has suspended all operations in Colombia after a mob of peasant refugees damaged the organisation’s headquarters in Bogota and took 40 officials hostage, E. appalled at the recent murders of Iñigo Eguiluz, a Spanish volunteer worker, and Jorge Luis Mazo, a Colombian priest, committed in Colombia on 18 November 1999, and by the constant threats to which many of the volunteer workers in Colombia have been subject, Calls on the Commission to take urgent action to improve security conditions for volunteer and 1. humanitarian workers carrying out their activities in conflictive areas under actions receiving Commission funding; 2. Calls on the Council, and, in particular, its Secretary-General, within the framework of the CFSP, to encourage those countries which have still not done so to ratify or adhere to the instruments of interna- tional humanitarian law; 3. Calls on the Commission to draw up a communication on the security conditions for volunteer and humanitarian workers carrying out their activities in conflictive areas on behalf of NGOs and multilateral aid organisations; 4. Calls on governments on whose territory attacks on, or violations of, the integrity of the person of volunteer and humanitarian workers occur to carry out the necessary investigations to ensure that such attacks do not go unpunished;