European Parliament
Andersson, Färm, Hedkvist Petersen, Karlsson and Theorin (PSE ),
in writing.
(SV)
We welcome the trend whereby the European Union is setting aside the traditional fisheries agreements in favour of new fisheries partnership agreements with third countries. The old fisheries agreements were insufficiently generous towards countries that transferred fishing rights to the EU. The new partnership will hopefully lead partly to more sustainable fisheries that take account of third countries’ local needs and partly to these countries’ having the opportunity in the future to exercise control over their fisheries themselves.

