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Document 91999E000540
WRITTEN QUESTION No. 540/99 by Daniel VARELA SUANZES- CARPEGNA Fish product canning industry and aquaculture in the European Union
WRITTEN QUESTION No. 540/99 by Daniel VARELA SUANZES- CARPEGNA Fish product canning industry and aquaculture in the European Union
WRITTEN QUESTION No. 540/99 by Daniel VARELA SUANZES- CARPEGNA Fish product canning industry and aquaculture in the European Union
EÜT C 370, 21.12.1999, p. 55
(ES, DA, DE, EL, EN, FR, IT, NL, PT, FI, SV)
91999E0540
WRITTEN QUESTION No. 540/99 by Daniel VARELA SUANZES- CARPEGNA Fish product canning industry and aquaculture in the European Union
Official Journal C 370 , 21/12/1999 P. 0055
WRITTEN QUESTION E-0540/99 by Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna (PPE) to the Commission (12 March 1999) Subject: Fish product canning industry and aquaculture in the European Union At its June 1998 part-session the European Parliament debated and adopted the own-initiative report on the fish product canning industry and aquaculture in the European Union (A4-0137/98)(1), in the conclusions to which, inter alia, it declared the tuna canning industry is the most important Community canning sector in terms of employment and the volume of trade, and that to encourage the huge growth prospects in this sector there is a need: "(...) to ensure there is a proper supply of the necessary raw material (fresh, frozen and ribs of tuna), giving priority to the Community fleet and opening new quotas for imports only when these are strictly needed for the Community industry." Can the Commission say what measures have been adopted to comply with Parliament's request and thereby encourage the growth prospects in the Community tuna canning industry? (1) OJ C 210, 6.7.1998, p. 295.