§ Mr. StreeterTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement260W on the legal authority of the letter from the President of the European Commission, agreed at Amsterdam, on quota hopping.[16945]
§ Mr. Doug HendersonThe letter records the interpretation of the Commission of how a Member State may, within the rules of the Single Market, establish an economic link between fishing activity and fishing communities. Under Article 155 of the EC Treaty the Commission is the guardian of the Treaty, and the letter carries that authority.