Paris will ask the European Commission in the coming days to bring together the partnership council which is provided by the Brexit Agreement when there is a dispute.
Le Monde with AFP and Reuters
Negotiations continue, but Paris loses patience. France, which is still waiting for the British authorities The issuance of 73 licenses to its fishermen, will ask the European Commission to initiate a post-Brexit litigation procedure against the United Kingdom, announced the government, Friday, December 17th.
“We got 93% of the post-Brexit fishing licenses, but there are some dozens of licenses to obtain, which are so many boats, as many families we have to defend absolutely,” said the secretary of State to European affairs, Clément Beaune, after a meeting at the Elysée with a delegation of fishermen, in the presence of Emmanuel Macron.
“We will ask the European Commission in the next few days to bring together the partnership council, which is provided by the Brexit Agreement when there is a problem – it is a political authority, we have not been never together for the moment – to tell the British that it is a European problem that they do not respect the agreement and therefore that we must have this political pressure that continues, “explained m . Beaune.
Fisherman’s accompanying plan
The Minister of the Sea, Annick Girardin, said that he remained “73 licenses still pending”, promising that France would continue to discuss with London and the authorities of the Anglo-Norman Islands “to try to tear out “Permissions,” license license “.
Taking note of the fact that some fishermen will not have an authorization to work in the British waters, the ministers reaffirmed that no one would remain on the edge of the path, now evoking the issue of compensation.
“The President wishes that on the fishermen’s plan of accompaniment (who would not have licenses), we shall be precise on the individual aid, and that he was sewn, case per case, basin By basin, “said M me Girardin, stating that a” guy accompanying “would be” named in the coming week “.
Under the agreement signed at the end of 2020 between London and Brussels, European fishermen may continue to work in British waters as long as they have been experiencing before. But for more than eleven French and British months are competing on the nature and extent of the proof to be provided.
outside the Mediterranean, about a quarter of the French intakes in volume (about 20% in value) come from British waters, very fishy and which are at the origin of 650 million euros of annual sales for the fishermen of the EU.