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CFP ReformImplementation of the Landings Obligation: Context and Process
The Key Legal ProvisionsCommon Fisheries Policy – Basic
RegulationCommon Organisation of the Markets in
Fisheries and Aquaculture ProductsEuropean Maritime and Fisheries Fund
Focus today on the Basic Regulation only
Reform Package – Basic RegulationA brief history.........
Proposals:
• Green Paper in 2009
• Original Commission proposal (2011)
• “General Approach” in Council (Feb 2013)
• European Parliament amendments (Feb
2013)
• Trilogues (March - May 2013)
• Deal???? (June 2013) – to be finalised
Key ContentRegionalisationElimination of discardsMaximum Sustainable YieldCoherence with environmental legislation.ScienceExternal DimensionAquaculture
Discards
Objective - Elimination of discards.
• Progressively implemented landing
obligations (discard bans).
• Detailed rules/quota provisions to aid
implementation.
• Specifics can be set out in EU plans, or in
detailed technical measures, but landing
obligations / deadlines apply in any event.
Regionalisation
• Member States and Advisory Councils to
work together to develop detailed technical
measures.
• Multiannual plans would set direction.
Regions have the opportunity to agree
management detail.
• New routes to give measures legal effect.
Regionalisation (continued)• Where Member States agree detailed measures for
a fishery, option to enact quickly in EU law, or
potentially national measures.
• Cooperation between Member States and relevant
Advisory Councils.
• More responsive than co-decision.
• Coordinated management without delegating legal
power to Commission.
Multiannual Plans• Multiannual plans consistent with general
CFP objectives.
• Either single species or mixed fisheries
plans, with adjustments to achieve MSY.
• Mandatory content – e.g. Quantifiable
targets and safeguards.
• Optional content – detailed conservation
measures, discard provisions etc
Maximum Sustainable YieldBy 2015 where possible, 2020 in any event.Legally binding exploitation target, Biomass
aspiration.
Integration with Environmental Policy
• Member States propose, but enacted via
regionalised process, Commission powers in
some cases, or full co-decision.
• Protected areas and establishment of Fish
Stock Recovery Areas
Environmental Integration.
Access & Fishing Opportunities• Access provisions continue – i.e. access to all
waters, subject to 0-12 arrangements.
• Fishing opportunities remain allocated by
Member States; explicit criteria
• MSs can choose Transferable Fishing
Concessions as an option
• MS reporting on capacity, action plan and
“adjustments” where necessary.
External Dimension
Principles guiding third country agreements
and other external EU engagement :
•Same principles of sustainability inside and
outside EU waters.
•More transparent agreements, based on
science.
•Coherence with development aims.
External Dimension
Aquaculture
• New Advisory Council for aquaculture.
• Encouraging sustainable aquaculture, and
national “strategic plans”
Aquaculture
Control & Enforcement
• Emphasis on coordination, cost-efficiency,
culture of compliance and effective
sanctions.
• Financial assistance conditional on
compliance with CFP’s rules.
• EMFF (to be finalised) – to support
implementation of reformed CFP.
Co-ordination, Compliance, Finance
Discards (the detail)
• Landing obligations for all quota stocks
• Deadlines:
o Pelagics [no later than 1 Jan 2015]
o Listed whitefish stocks, defined by fishery
[2016-2018]
o Remainder [2017-2019]
Discards – the detail
Discards (Continued)
• Catch limits control what can be caught, not what
can be landed.
• Quotas should be adjusted accordingly, but remain
in place.
• Technical rules conflicting with landing obligation
reviewed/removed.
• Reduce unwanted catch in first instance –
selectivity, spatial measures, optimising use of
quota.
Discards (Continued)
Exemptions:
• Species for which fishing is prohibited;
• Species for which scientific evidence demonstrates
high survival rates;
• De minimis exemption [5% after transition period]
o Where evidence shows selectivity very difficult;
o To avoid disproportionate costs in limited cases.
Discards (Continued)
Quota provisions:
• Deducting unwanted catch from target species (not
more than 9% of quota for target species).
• Year-to-year flexibility of 10% of quota.
• International swapping between MSs.
Discards (Continued)
Controls:
• Full documentation of catches (including CCTV
and/or other methods).
• Minimum conservation reference sizes, where
appropriate, fish below used only for non-human
consumption.
Implementation
What is it that we have to do?
• There is substantial change ahead but crucially
flexibility on how to deliver.
• Undertaking a detailed analysis of these new
provisions.
• Determine exactly what we have to do, by when,
who needs to be involved, our options and what
the respective roles and responsibilities could be.
Implementation
Thank you to Defra for helping me put this together.