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The New Common Fisheries Policy

The New Common Fisheries Policy. Carla MONTESI, Director - DG MARE Directorate for the Baltic Sea, North Sea and Landlocked Member States 27 November 2013, Tallinn.

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The New Common Fisheries Policy

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  1. The New Common Fisheries Policy Carla MONTESI, Director - DG MAREDirectorate for the Baltic Sea, North Sea and Landlocked Member States 27 November 2013, Tallinn

  2. … ensure that fishing and aquaculture activities are environmentally sustainable in the long term and are managed in way consistent with the objectives of achieving economic, social and employment benefits, and of contributing to the availability of food supplies • … apply the precautionary approach and shall aim to ensure that exploitation restores and maintains populations of harvested species above levels which can produce the maximum sustainable yield … the maximum sustainable yield exploitation rate shall be achieved by 2015 where possible and on a progressive, incremental basis at the latest by 2020 for all stocks • … gradually eliminate discards

  3. Aspiration? • stocks above the levels capable of producing MSY • Leading target? • exploitation rate at MSY • Timing? • by 2015 where possible and progressively by 2020 at latest for all stocks Maximum sustainable yield

  4. Multi-annualPlans • Priority to achieve the MSY target • Single-species or mixed fisheries/several stocks • Proportionate measures, accounting for economic/social impact • Address specific problems of achieving MSY in mixed fisheries • Mandatory elements • (scope, objectives, quantifiable targets, time frames, conservation reference points, objectives and measures for the discard ban, safeguards on ensuring quantifiable targets) • Optional elements • (discard elimination measures, monitoring indicators, objectives for freshwater part of ana/catadromous species)

  5. By fishery: • 2015: small & large pelagic fisheries, industrial fishery, Baltic salmon • 2015-17: Baltic (remaining species) • 2016-2919: North Sea, north-western and south-western waters… • 2017-2019: Mediterranean, Black Sea, other relevant waters • Implementation details in multiannual plans (co-legislated) • species covered in each fishery • exemption for species with high survival rate • de minimis provisions (maximum 7 % in first year, then 7, 6, 6, and 5 % in subsequent years) – not counted against quota • where no more selectivity is possible (science) • to avoid disproportionate handling costs • provisions on documentation of catches • fixing of minimum conservation reference sizes

  6. No multiannual plans? discard plan • regionalization (joint MS recommendations) • COM adopts discard plan (delegated Act) • Quota flexibility • count catches of non-target species against quota of target species • maximum 9 % • non-target stock has to be within safe biological limits • interannual flexibility (banking and borrowing) • maximum 10 % • TAC adjustments with discard ban

  7. based on best available scientific advice, compatible with objectives (of the CFP, of the conservation measures, the targets), and no less stringent than existing Union legislation • conservation measures • multiannual plans • fish stock recovery area • compliance with Union environmental legislation • discard plans

  8. European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) • Through 4 pillars is a strategic implementing instrument for the CFP: • Sustainable development of fisheries • Sustainable development of aquaculture • Sustainable development of fisheries areas • Integrated maritime policy • Accompanying measures (e.g. data collection, control) • Trialogues

  9. Thank you for your attention!

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