Brussels, 17/06/2008 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 17 June, the European Parliament decided not to use the emergency procedure this week on the proposal adjusting the fisheries protocol between the EU and Mauritania (see EUROPE 9662 for details of the proposal). The request for an emergency vote came from the EU Council of Fisheries which would have liked to adopt the text as quickly as possible, indeed at its next meeting which is scheduled for 23 June in Luxembourg. Chairman of the European Parliament fisheries committee, Philippe Morillon, proposed that the vote should not be held this week, but at the July plenary session in order to give the rapporteur Carmen Fraga Estévez (EPP-ED, Spain) sufficient time. Fraga's report will probably be adopted by the fisheries committee on 26 June and it will then be possible to include it on the agenda for the next EP plenary session, from 7-10 July. Morillon pointed out that the EU-Mauritania fisheries protocol had been negotiated at the end of last year. “We now have to be able to pay what is due to Mauritania from 1 August,” he said. The new arrangements of the agreement cover the period from 1 August 2008 to 31 July 2012. (L.C./transl.rt)