The regulation establishing a Community Fisheries Control Agency therefore deserves particular attention.

That is why I voted for the report on the Community Fisheries Control Agency.

I visited the Community Fisheries Control Agency in Vigo.

I cannot vote in favour of the proposal for a Council regulation establishing a Community Fisheries Control Agency.

Now there will also be a Community Fisheries Control Agency, in other words a real European Fisheries Ministry.

The Community Fisheries Control Agency was founded in 2005 to ensure that the common fisheries policy rules are complied with by Member States.

The reform also aims to clearly define the roles and responsibilities of Member States, the Commission and the Community Fisheries Control Agency.

Community Fisheries Control Agency (CFCA)

With today's resolution the European Parliament grants budgetary discharge 2009 to the Executive Director of the Community Fisheries Control Agency.

Reflecting that history, the Community Fisheries Control Agency, which coordinates fishing controls in European Union waters is based in Vigo.

Community Fisheries Control Agency, an agency of the European Union (EU) based in Vigo, Spain.

Examples of this include the role of the Community Fisheries Control Agency, and the rapporteur’s proposal to set up a framework agreement as regards the fisheries agreements with third countries.

In order to coordinate the policy making and enforcement efforts the CFCA - Community Fisheries Control Agency in Vigo, Spain has been established.

I am sceptical about the added value provided by the creation of a Community Fisheries Control Agency and believe that centralisation at that level conflicts with the Member States’ competences.

I hope that, whatever happens, the Community Fisheries Control Agency will succeed in introducing proper coordination of European efforts to carry out the necessary checks, because the national monitoring systems are not working.

I would just like to highlight one aspect by mentioning the need for the Community Fisheries Control Agency to play a particularly important role, given its Community nature and its impartiality order.

Both the Court of Auditors and the Committee on Budgetary Control have delivered a positive opinion on the implementation of the budget of the Community Fisheries Control Agency.

On March 14, 2005 the European Union Agriculture ministers reached a political agreement on establishing a Community Fisheries Control Agency which will be tasked with coordinating fishing controls in Community waters.

The Court of Auditors states in its report that the annual accounts of the Community Fisheries Control Agency for the financial year 2008 are reliable and that the underlying transactions are legal and regular.

This is to be achieved by providing Community financial support to Member States to reduce weaknesses in their fisheries control programmes and by assisting coordination of control measures, particularly via the Community Fisheries Control Agency.

If the impact of these controls continues to be insufficient, and only if this is the case, perhaps we will have to consider the possibility of a joint inspection structure, which would be supported in particular by a Community Fisheries Control Agency.

Of course, there are many other steps that could be taken, which is why we are asking for the fight against illegal fishing to be one of the priorities of the annual work programme of the Community Fisheries Control Agency.

I have voted in favour of budgetary discharge for the Community Fisheries Control Agency for 2009 because I appreciate the correctness, clarity and transparency of the accounts and the efficiency deriving from comprehensible and feasible planning.

I voted for discharge of the implementation of the budget of the Community Fisheries Control Agency for the financial year 2009 after seeing the analysis the Court of Auditors is undertaking, which states that its actions are legal and regular.