It was by the overwhelming majority of 630 votes to 27, with 19 abstentions that the European Parliament, in Strasbourg on Tuesday 16 January, adopted the report by Linnéa Engström (Greens/EFA, Sweden) on the European Commission proposal for the incorporation into EU law of the management, conservation and control measures recently adopted by the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO), to which the European Union is a contracting party (see EUROPE 11757).