EU/Mozambique Fisheries Partnership Agreement: fishing opportunities and financial contribution. Protocol from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2014

2011/0378(NLE)

The European Parliament adopted by 566 votes to 89, with 17 abstentions, a legislative resolution on the on the draft Council decision on the conclusion of the Protocol setting out the fishing opportunities and the financial contribution provided for by the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Mozambique.

Parliament gives its consent to the conclusion of the protocol.

With a view to increasing transparency, Parliament calls on the Commission to:

  • forward to Parliament the minutes and the conclusions of the meetings of the Joint Committee as well as the multiannual sectoral programme and the corresponding annual evaluations;
  • facilitate the participation of representatives of Parliament as observers in the meetings of the Joint Committee and submit to Parliament and the Council, within the last year of application of the new Protocol and before the opening of negotiations for its renewal, a full evaluation report on its implementation, without imposing unnecessary restrictions on access to this document.

Lastly, Parliament calls on the Commission and the Council, in the context of their respective competences, to keep it immediately and fully informed, at all stages of the procedures related to the new Protocol and its renewal, pursuant to the appropriate provisions of the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.