Fisheries Protocol with Morocco - Statement by Commissioner Damanaki

"The Commission will fully respect today's vote of the European Parliament. Tomorrow I am going to propose to the Council that it repeals the provisional application of the Protocol.

We don't know if a new Fisheries Protocol with Morocco is possible. We are going to explore all the possible ways forward. In any case- as I have already stated on several occasions- if a new fisheries Protocol with Morocco were to be proposed and agreed, it would have to give convincing answers to the key issues of environmental sustainability, economic profitability and international legality.

The vote of the European Parliament sends a strong message to the Moroccan Government that it would need to engage for a better agreement on all these issues."

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