This Resolution, composed of 4 articles, stipulates that the current support measures established in the Operative Fisheries Programme for Madeira Region within the III Community support frameworks (CSFs III) shall be maintained. The Regional Assembly thus recommends the Regional Government to maintain in force the aforementioned Programme until 2006, as set in the Regional Decree No. 6/2001/M. These provisions are aimed at protecting from the EC Common Fisheries Policy reform (PCP) the regional