Traduction de «Vis à filet souple » (Français → Anglais) :

‘bottom-set net’ means a trammel net, a bottom-set gillnet or a combined bottom-set net.

‘bottom-set gillnet’ means any net made up of a single piece of net held vertically in the water by floats and weights fixed or capable of being fixed by any means to the bottom of the sea and maintain the gear in place either close to the bottom or floating in the water column.

In support of these resolutions, the European Community has already taken a decision to ban driftnet fishing by Community vessels with nets in excess of 2,5 km : the EC Council of Ministers adopted, on 28 October 1991, a legally binding regulation ending driftnet fishing with nets longer than 2,5 km and providing rules for the use of nets in excess of 1 km and up to 2,5 km. The EC measure applies in all waters under the sovereignty or jurisdiction of the Member States and, outside those waters, to any vessel flying the flag of or registered in a EC Member State.

This is a method of fishing with a net or a combination of nets, suspended in a vertical position by numerous floats, drifting on the surface with the wind and the currents; certain non-Community vessels operating mainly in the Pacific use driftnets in excess of 50 km. Driftnets are extremely unselective, catching species other than target species, especially certain protected species such as marine mammals.

Proposals are therefore being put to the Council : - to preserve the present regulatory structure, which is based on bilateral (inter-governmental) agreements and arrangements and on inter-airline cooperation; but - to modify it so as to bring in more flexibility and competition in order to increase the efficiency of efficient, innovating airlines and enable them to make profits, promote expansion, (and hence employment) and to make a better response to consumers' needs ; and - to provide a safety net in the agreements between Member States, to ensure that an airline from one of the parties has at least 25% of the market in question/.

Proposals are therefore being put to the Council : - to preserve the present regulatory structure, which is based on bilateral (inter-governmental) agreements and arrangements and on inter-airline cooperation; but - to modify it so as to bring in more flexibility and competition in order to increase the efficiency of efficient, innovating airlines and enable them to make profits, promote expansion, (and hence employment) and to make a better response to consumers' needs ; and - to provide a safety net in the agreements between Member States, to ensure that an airline from one of the parties has at least 25% of the market in question/.