European Parliament
Raül Romeva i Rueda  (Verts/ALE ),
in writing.
– In favour. The EP underlines that the plan’s objective is to maintain the biomass of western horse mackerel at a level that ensures its sustainable exploitation, and to provide the highest long-term yield; it believes that the harvest control rule should be based in equal parts on precautionary advice and on recent total allowable catches, adjusted by a factor that reflects the recent trend in the stock abundance as measured through egg production; it stresses that the harvest control rules are core elements of the multiannual plans that must be decided under the ordinary legislative procedure.

