§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food which nations have lost historic rights within the United Kingdom's 12-mile limit under the common fisheries policy fishing agreement and where; and which nations have had their rights reduced and where.
§ Mr. Buchanan-SmithAt present all member States have rights to fish in parts of the United Kingdom's 12-mile limit; under the arrangements from 1 January 1983 referred to in my right hon. Friend's statement to the House on 27 October vessels from Denmark, Greece and Italy—and Luxembourg—would no longer have such rights. Other member States would retain reduced rights in sectors of the United Kingdom's 6 to 12-mile limit. The position will be evident from a comparison between the map of current rights in the United Kingdom 12-mile limit and the proposed rights set out in annex I of the draft regulation at annex II of the unnumbered explanatory memorandum of 4 November 1982, both of which documents are in the Library of the House.
§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he will publish a map detailing the historic fishing rights which have been eradicated and those which remain.
§ Mr. Buchanan-SmithA map of fishing rights within United Kingdom coastal waters from 1 January 1983 will be published after final agreement is reached on a revised common fisheries policy. Maps already exist showing the current position.
§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what proportion of the French fishing catch is made within the British 200-mile limit.
§ Mr. Buchanan-SmithWe do not have information in the form which would permit an estimate of this kind to be made.
§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will assess the claim Spain would have to a fishing quota in the North Sea in 170W intervention system operates, expressed in terms of days consumption in October 1982 and comparable dates for the past five years.
§ Mr. Buchanan-SmithThe information requested is as follows:
the event of Spanish entry to the European Economic Community; and whether this will require existing quotas of members to be adjusted downwards.
§ Mr. Buchanan-SmithSpanish quotas in the waters of existing member States will depend on the result of Spain's negotiation for accession to the European Community. I do not expect that the Community would consider that the pattern of Spanish fishing would justify the allocation of quotas in the North Sea to Spain.
§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what proposals he has for policing historic rights and ensuring that they are exercised only on the species historically fished.
§ Mr. Buchanan-SmithThe ships and aircraft of the Fishery Protection Service will continue to be responsible for policing fishing activities by foreign vessels throughout United Kingdom fishery limits.
§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food on what basis national conservation measures can still be imposed by the British Government within the 200-mile limit under the recent common fisheries policy agreement.
§ Mr. Buchanan-SmithThe measures envisaged allow for action by member States in relation to local stocks of interest only to their fishermen or other measures applying to their fishermen only; and for other non-discriminatory action where conservation is seriously threatened. The relevant texts are essentially the same as those in articles 18 and 19 of document 4877/82 submitted under cover of an explanatory memorandum on 23 February 1982.
§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will publish details of the system of catch policing under the new fisheries agreement specifying the number of European inspectors to be based in (a France, (b) Holland, (c) Denmark and (d) the United Kingdom and the resources to be made available to them by the Commission.
§ Mr. Buchanan-SmithThe new system for the policing of catches is specified in the Community control regulation No. 2057/82 which will apply at the latest from 171W 1 January 1983. The regulation provides for the Commission to make on-the-spot checks of the inspection and enforcement procedures carried out by member States. It is anticipated that the deployment of the inspectors will be more flexible if they are based centrally in Brussels rather than allocated to member States. The resources to be devoted to the inspectorate have not yet been finally determined but Her Majesty's Government are taking steps to ensure that these will be adequate for the task.
§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is the total allowable catch recommended for each of those species in which the Commission allocated increases to the United Kingdom by (a) his own scientific advisers, (b) the Commission's scientific advisers and (c) the Commission.
§ Mr. Buchanan-SmithThe well-established United Kingdom view is that authoritative scientific advice on total allowable catches—TACs—is given only by the appropriate committee of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea on which scientists from my Department and the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland play a full and active role. The proposals put forward by the Commission on 26 October relate only to the shares of TACs available to the Community and not to TACs as a whole.
§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food under what powers, and in what manner, the United Kingdom may now impose national conservation measures on fishing within the 200-mile limit.
§ Mr. Buchanan-SmithThe United Kingdom may now adopt national conservation measures in accordance with
Common Levy* MCA† Total Import Levy Item and CCT No. £/MT P/LB £/MT P/LB £/MT P/LB Common Wheat (10.01B1) 63.152 2.86 13.153 0.60 76.305 3.46 Barley (10.03) 60.875 2.76 11.867 0.54 72.742 3.30 Maize (10.05B) 65.593 2.97 11.867 0.54 77.460 3.51 White Sugar (17.01A) 234.850 10.65 36.840 1.67 271.690 12.32 Butter 82–84% Fat Content (04.03A)‡ 845.151 38.34 231.490 10.50 1,076.641 48.84 Cheddar Cheese (04.04E1B1) 1,008.901 45.76 180.150 8.17 1,189.051 53.93 Skimmed Milk Powder (04.02A11B1) 411.858 18.68 96.800 4.39 508.658 23.07 Boneless Frozen Beef (02.01A11B4BB33)¶ 1,620.666 73.51 217.330 9.86 1,837.996 83.37 Lard (15.01A11) 91.932 4.17 — — 91.932 4.17 Pigmeat Carcasses (02.01A111A1)¶ 256.562 11.64 90.970 4.12 347.532 15.76 Salted Bacon Sides (02.06B1A2AA) 328.382 14.90 116.440 5.28 444.822 20.18 Eggs (04.05A1B)[...] 175.461 7.96 30.300 1.37 205.761 9.33 Poultry Meat 70% Chickens (02.02A1B)[...] 168.279 7.63 25.980 1.18 194.259 8.81 * Conversion from European Currency Units into sterling has been made using the representative rate 1 ECU [...] £0.618655, and multiplying the resultant figure by the current monetary coefficient of 0.893.
† Currently, monetary compensatory amounts act as a levy on imports.
‡ There is a special rate for New Zealand butter.
[...] Does not include a supplementary levy at present applied to imports from Finland.
¶ Imports are also subject to an ad valorem tariff of 20 per cent. Most imports from outside the Community are subject to special arrangements involving reduced levy and duty rates.
[...] An additional levy is applied depending on country of origin.
[...] An additional levy is applied to imports from Spain and Hungary.