Parliament calls for end to management plan deadlock

Two non-legislative resolutions were passed in the European Parliament on Thursday. One resolution called on a solution to the deadlock [...]

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Environment Committee draft opinion on basic regulation

Chris Davies’ draft of the Environment Committee’s opinion on the Basic Regulation is now available. In his draft opinion, draftsman [...]

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35 CFP proposals from Ulrike Rodust

This week Ulrike Rodust published her working document for the basic regulation. She proposes reaching FMSY by 2015, introducing a [...]

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MEPs divided on transferable fishing concessions

Advocates of transferable quotas asked opposers for clear alternatives but few were given, as the EP Fisheries Committee today discussed [...]

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MEPs support EU eco-label for fish

Several MEPs in the Fisheries Committee this week expressed their support for an EU eco-label for fish. As expected, the [...]

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One of four Brussels restaurants serve endangered fish

Endangered fish are on the menu in a quarter of the restaurants in the EU capital, according to a survey. [...]

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Commission publishes four CFP non-papers

The European Commission has published Q&A documents on four of the main topics in the CFP reform: discard ban, maximum [...]

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Gabriel Mato to become new chair of EP Fisheries Committee

Gabriel Mato Adrover is proposed to become the new chairman of the Fisheries Committee in the European Parliament. As the [...]

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Member states unwilling to take more regional responsibility, Commission says

Member states are reluctant to start the process of regionalisation, Ernesto Peñas of the European Commission said at a meeting [...]

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Ousted Spanish government plotted to derail discard ban

According to the British newspaper The Guardian, a secret document shows that the former Spanish government was plotting to derail [...]

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