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CFP Reform Implementation of the Landings Obligation: Context and Process

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CFP Reform. Implementation of the Landings Obligation: Context and Process. The Key Legal Provisions. Common Fisheries Policy – Basic Regulation Common Organisation of the Markets in Fisheries and Aquaculture Products European Maritime and Fisheries Fund - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: CFP Reform

CFP ReformImplementation of the Landings Obligation: Context and Process

Page 2: CFP Reform

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

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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

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Key ContentRegionalisationElimination of discardsMaximum Sustainable YieldCoherence with environmental legislation.ScienceExternal DimensionAquaculture

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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Maximum Sustainable YieldBy 2015 where possible, 2020 in any event.Legally binding exploitation target, Biomass

aspiration.

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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.

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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.

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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

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Aquaculture

• New Advisory Council for aquaculture.

• Encouraging sustainable aquaculture, and

national “strategic plans”

Aquaculture

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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Thank you to Defra for helping me put this together.