Under consultation procedure, the European Parliament adopted the report by Robin Teverson (ELDR,UK), which approves the Commission proposal for a Council regulation establishing a list of types of behaviour which seriously infringe the rules of the common fisheries policy (CFP), subject to amendments in the following areas:
- providing that the information to be submitted to the Member States, the European Parliament and the Advisory Committee on Fisheries regarding action taken by the administrative and/or judicial authorities against those who seriously infringe the rules of the CFP should be made available on an annual basis and at the latest before 30/06 of the year following the collection of the data;
- providing that, in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 37 of the Treaty and before 30/06/2000, the Council shall draw up a list of the penalties which infringements of the CFP listed in the proposed regulation attract in the different Member States and shall adopt follow-up action, in particular with a view to arriving at comparable penalties for comparable infringements throughout the Community;
- adding to the list of infringements (under failure to comply in connection with the marketing of fishery products) the illegal landing of fishing and the sale and transport of fishery products illegally caught or landed.�