EC/Guinea-Bissau Fisheries Partnership Agreement: fishing opportunities and financial contribution from 16 June 2011 to 15 June 2012. Protocol

The Committee on Fisheries adopted the report by Carl HAGLUND (ALDE, FI). It recommended that the European Parliament gives its consent to the conclusion of the Protocol agreed between the European Union and the Republic of Guinea-Bissau setting out the fishing opportunities and the financial contribution provided for in the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the two parties currently in force.

In the interests of transparency, Members call on the Commission to:

• forward to Parliament the minutes and the conclusions of the meetings of the Joint Committee provided for in the Agreement, as well as the annual programming and the corresponding annual report;
• facilitate the participation of representatives of Parliament as observers in the meetings of the Joint Committee.

Members also call on the Commission to submit to Parliament and to the Council, before the expiry of the new Protocol, an evaluation report on its implementation. They also call on the Commission and the Council, in the context of their respective competences, to keep Parliament immediately and fully informed, at all stages of the procedures related to the new Protocol and its renewal, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Treaty.