§ Mr. Maxwell-Hyslopasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether the Argentine Government has purported to grant the Federal Republic of Germany any rights to fish in waters on the Falkland side of the median line between British and Argentine 200-mile fishery limits; what action the British Government have taken directly with the Federal Government to ensure that German vessels do not fish within the British limits appertaining to the Falkland Islands; and whether negotiations by the Federal Government with the Argentine Government bilaterally take place with the consent of the European Commission on behalf of the whole EEC.
§ Mr. JuddThe Federal Republic of Germany signed in April a fisheries cooperation agreement with Argentina covering
the fishing zone situated South of 40°S".The German Government have assured Her Majesty's Government that the agreement does not entail any recognition of an Argentine claim to fisheries jurisdiction within a putative Falkland Islands 200-mile zone. Her Majesty's Government are content that there will be no question of German fishing within the exclusive fishery limits of the Falkland Islands. The Argentine-German negotiations do not appear to have concerned matters falling within the competence of the European Community.