Text tabled : B7-0064/2012

  Maria do Céu Patrão Neves (PPE), in writing. – (PT) The purpose of this resolution is to resolve the interinstitutional deadlock between the European Parliament, the European Commission and the Council that has grown up around the implementation of the multiannual plan for horse mackerel. To this end, Parliament calls on the Commission to take initiatives to foster a political dialogue between the three institutions aimed at clarifying their respective roles in the decision-making process and at addressing the issue of the future architecture of multiannual management plans. It also urges the Council to submit its position on the proposed multiannual plan for western stock of Atlantic horse mackerel, in order to enable Parliament to start its second reading and make progress on this matter. It is also noteworthy that long-term management plans applying to as many fish stocks as possible are key for the conservation of fish stocks, as stressed by the Commission in its proposal for a reformed common fisheries policy, so there is an urgent need to apply it, in this case to western stocks of horse mackerel. I voted for this resolution.