Brussels, 16/10/2000 (Agence Europe) - Speaking before the European Parliament's Fisheries Committee, the Council President, Jean Glavany asserted that the European Union cannot remain passive in the face of the confidence crisis in the fisheries sector. He recalled that the French Presidency wants to widen the TAC and the quotas for new species (he cited bass and white tuna) in the framework of the multiannual management of stocks which enables to "phase out the erratic variations in quotas...