European Parliament 22 February 2002, WRITTEN QUESTION E-0499/02 by Eija-Riitta Korhola (PPE-DE) to the Commission. The volume of investment required by the Kyoto Protocol.

STECF nowhere proposes a total authorised catch (TAC) of 35 000 tonnes for 2002. The only definitive reference by STECF to a possible TAC for 2002 states that ‘from the economic point of view, the TAC level should be maintained at the 2001 level …’.