Considerations on COM(2015)669 - Amendment of Council Regulation (EC) No 768/2005 establishing a Community Fisheries Control Agency

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dossier COM(2015)669 - Amendment of Council Regulation (EC) No 768/2005 establishing a Community Fisheries Control Agency.
document COM(2015)669 EN
date September 14, 2016
 
table>(1)National authorities carrying out coast guard functions are responsible for a wide range of tasks, which may include maritime safety, security, search and rescue, border control, fisheries control, customs control, general law enforcement and environmental protection.
(2)The Community Fisheries Control Agency, established by Council Regulation (EC) No 768/2005 (3), commonly referred to as the European Fisheries Control Agency, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, established by Regulation (EU) 2016/1624 of the European Parliament and of the Council (4), and the European Maritime Safety Agency, established by Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council (5), support the national authorities in the exercise of most of those functions.

(3)Those agencies should therefore strengthen their cooperation with each other and with the national authorities carrying out coast guard functions, in order to increase maritime situational awareness and to support coherent and cost-efficient action.

(4)The Community Fisheries Control Agency should be renamed the European Fisheries Control Agency.

(5)Regulation (EC) No 768/2005 should therefore be amended accordingly,