European Fisheries Technology Platform focuses on fishing vessels’ energy efficiency In December, the recently created European Fisheries Technology Platform (EFTP) – who have set up five working groups looking at various aspects of... 11/02/2013
Fisheries Committee calls for end to overfishing and discards At its session in December 2012, the European Parliament Fisheries Committee voted on the report for the future basic regulation governing the Comm... 31/01/2013
‘In setting quotas too high, EU Fisheries ministers allowed legalised overfishing’, says WWF Prior to a key vote in the European Parliament on the future Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), and the setting up of quotas for 2013 by the Council, t... 31/01/2013
European Parliament Fisheries Committee to vote on the CFP Basic Regulation In December 2012, the European Parliament Fisheries Committee was to vote on the future CFP Basic Regulation. More than 100 consolidated amendments... 30/12/2012
European Parliament wants fishing investments in third countries to be covered by the future CFP At its November 2012 plenary session, the European Parliament voted by an overwhelming majority (94%) in support of a resolution on the external di... 30/12/2012
Regional cooperation, stakeholder’s consultation, and innovation: key elements of the future CFP In her speech at a symposium in the Netherlands, the EC Fisheries Commissioner highlighted that, ‘in 2009 we had only five stocks fished at Maximum... 02/12/2012
EU Ministers support controversial subsidies At their October 2012 meeting, the Council of Fisheries Ministers reached an agreement on a ‘partial general approach’ on the EC proposal for the f... 02/12/2012
€12.5 million is to be allocated for idle fishing fleets affected by fishing agreements The Spanish Secretary-General of Fisheries has announced that €12.5 million is to be allocated in 2013 to help EU fleets affected by difficulties e... 04/11/2012
The EP Development Committee votes against TFCs in RFMOs, and welcomes transparency in FPAs The European Parliament Development Committee has voted on a report on ‘Policy coherence for development’, which includes some aspect s dealing wit... 04/11/2012
Executive Brief Update 2012: EU Common Fisheries Policy and Fisheries Partnership Agreements: Challenges for ACP countries About this update This brief was updated in September 2012 to reflect developments since July 2011. The 2011 publication was based on a fuller... 29/10/2012