EU Control Regulation Review – factsheets

On 6 November we have produced an updated and consolidated document: Joint NGO priorities on the revision of the EU Fisheries Control System

The following factsheets present the NGO priorities on the revision of the EU Control Regulation:

Joint NGO priorities on the revision of the Control Regulation

Remote Electronic Monitoring

Sanctions

Traceability

Transparency

IUU

Small-scale fisheries

The European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA)

These call on decision-makers to:

• Ensure full compliance with the landing obligation;
• Adapt the general control framework to the control of technical measures;
• Maintain and improve the EU legal framework for enforcement and sanctions;
• Mandate the use of cost-efficient tracking devices and the electronic reporting of catches and fishing operations for small-scale vessels;
• Improve the control of recreational fisheries;
• Improve traceability requirements;
• Improve data management and sharing;
• Ensure the monitoring and control of fleet capacity;
• Effectively control fishing in restricted and marine protected areas;
• Introduce transparency requirements;
• Minimise the amendments to the EU IUU Regulation by staying within the scope of the Commission’s proposal and by strengthening only those provisions opened for review;
• Revise the European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA) mandate.