Conservation of fishery resources: 15 years rebuilding plan for Greenland halibut in the waters of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation NAFO

2004/0229(CNS)

The European Parliament adopted a resolution by 540 votes in favour to 12 against with 12 abstentions, making a few amendments to the Commission’s proposal. The report was drafted by Henrik Dam KRISTENSEN (PES, DK):

-“recovery plan” is substituted for “rebuilding plan” throughout the text.

- Member States will inform the Commission of the allocation of quotas not later than 15 January each year (the Commission had specified December.)

- Parliament deleted Article 8 on the margin of tolerance in the estimation of quantities reported in the logbook.