E. whereas it is vital that the CFP pursues an approach to the fisheries sector that takes into account the biological, ecological, and economic and social dimensions (the three pillars of the CFP reform), so that a compromise is always struck between the state of existing resources in the various maritime areas and protection of the socio-economic fabric of coastal communities that depend on inshore fishing to guarantee jobs and prosperity;

We should acknowledge it in the same way we acknowledge our cultural diversity and in the same way we recognize biological and scientific diversity as part of the rich, cultural fabric that makes us Canadian.

23. Urges the Commission, in view of the particular circumstances of the exclusive economic zones of the outermost regions (absence of a continental shelf in certain cases) and the limitations of their fisheries zones (often confined to submarine hills), to apply, without hesitation, the precautionary principle and the principle of relative stability, thereby helping ensure not only biological and ecological balance for the species concerned, but also the protection of the socio-economic fabric related to the fisheries sector in those regions; urges the Commission also to take account in its legislative proposals of the fact that fishin ...[+++]g activity in some of the outermost regions, for example in the Indian Ocean, is very recent and that fish stocks in these areas are still rich;

23. Urges the Commission, in view of the particular circumstances of the exclusive economic zones of the outermost regions (absence of a continental shelf in certain cases) and the limitations of their fisheries zones (often confined to submarine hills), to apply, without hesitation, the precautionary principle and the principle of relative stability, thereby helping ensure not only biological and ecological balance for the species concerned, but also the protection of the socio-economic fabric related to the fisheries sector in those regions; urges the Commission also to take account in its legislative proposals of the fact that fishin ...[+++]g activity in some of the outermost regions, for example in the Indian Ocean, is very recent and that fish stocks in these areas are still rich;

6. Believes the Commission should, in view of the particular circumstances of the EEZs of the outermost regions (absence of a continental shelf in certain cases) and the limitations of their fisheries zones (often confined to submarine hills), apply, without hesitation, the precautionary principle and the principle of relative stability; this would help ensure not only biological and ecological balance for the species concerned, but also the protection of the socio-economic fabric related to the fisheries sector in those regions; the Commission should also take account in its legislative proposals of the fact that fishing activity in s ...[+++]ome of the outermost regions, for example in the Indian Ocean, is very recent and that fish stocks in these areas are still rich;

The very definition of personal information needs updating to take account of scientific advance, as, for example, with blood and tissue samples.