EU: Stalemate over misreported catches persists in fisheries control revision
Published Mar 11, 2023
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EU lawmakers seem closer to an agreement on the most significant overhaul of EU’s fisheries monitoring rules in a decade despite the Commission's opposition to relaxing rules on misreporting fish catches.
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EU lawmakers seem closer to an agreement on the most significant overhaul of EU’s fisheries monitoring rules in a decade despite the Commission’s opposition to relaxing rules on misreporting fish catches. The interinstitutional negotiations – known as ‘trilogue’ in EU jargon – between the Council and the European Parliament on revising the fisheries control system are about to glide into port as EU lawmakers aim to reach a final agreement in May. Despite some expecting Wednesday’s (8 March) evening meeting – the 11th since negotiations started – to be the last round of talks, it resulted in a stalemate. Clara Aguilera, Spanish socialist MEP and main negotiator for the European Parliament, told EURACTIV after the meeting that, even though there was no agreement yet, they all “see the light at the end of the tunnel”. The parts working on the dossier share the impression that the next meeting, scheduled for 30 May, could be the decisive one for revising the system of monitoring, ...
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