Whilst recognising the need to avoid postponing the adoption of measures to preserve the environment, which was left unprotected outside the 100-mile limits of the EEZs of the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands when the special access regime defined in Regulation (EC) No 2027/95 came to an end, the rapporteur is surprised at these interim measures, given that no new circumstances have arisen between 3 February and 16 August to justify urgent or emergency action, and he regrets the fact that the Commission appears to have jumped the gun in an ongoing institutional procedure in which Parliament will continue to play its part up to the end, as is its right and its duty.
Whilst recognising the need to avoid postponing the adoption of measures to preserve the environment, which was left unprotected outside the 100-mile limits of the EEZs of the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands when the special access regime defined in Regulation (EC) No 2027/95 came to an end, the rapporteur is surprised at these interim measures, given that no new circumstances have arisen between 3 February and 16 August to justify urgent or emergency action, and he regrets the fact that the Commission appears to have jumped the gun in an ongoing institutional procedure in which Parliament will continue to play its part up to the end, as is its right and its duty.