8.16. Măsuri de gestionare, conservare și control aplicabile în zona de aplicare a Acordului privind pescuitul în sudul Oceanului Indian (SIOFA) (A9-0192/2023 - João Pimenta Lopes) (vot)
Margaritis Schinas,Vice—President of the Commission. – Madam President, I have a statement to read on behalf of the Commission: ‘We regret the rejection by the European Ϸվ of this proposal. We take note of Ϸվ’s call to withdraw. We will now consider this matter carefully and we will inform this House in due course of how we intend to proceed. As we stated during the plenary debate, the Commission is unequivocally committed to the principle of multilingualism in the context of implementing measures and incorporating forms of regional fisheries management organisations. The Commission therefore would like to reiterate once again our willingness to engage in a dialogue with the European Ϸվ to identify the best way to achieve that objective, not only for this proposal but also for all future proposals implementing measures agreed within regional fisheries management organisations.’
In that light, I hope that the Commission proposal would be referred back to committee for further discussions and, should a mutually agreeable solution be found, the Commission wants to assure this House that we stand ready to uphold any solution in the current and future proposals.