Considerations on COM(2024)407 -

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dossier COM(2024)407 - .
document COM(2024)407
date September 13, 2024
 
1. In line with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 19821 (‘UNCLOS’) and the Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks of 4 August 19952 (‘UNFSA’), the management of certain straddling and highly migratory fish stocks requires the cooperation of all the countries whose fleets exploit that stock.

(1) Regulation (EU) No 1026/20123 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishes a framework to allow for the identification and the adoption of measures with regard to third countries which fail to cooperate and allow unsustainable fishing of a stock of common interest for the Union.

(2) In accordance with Regulation (EU) No 1026/2012 a country may be identified as allowing non-sustainable fishing if, among others, it fails to cooperate in the management of a stock of common interest in full compliance with the provisions of the UNCLOS and the UNFSA, or any other international agreement or norm of international law and if it fails to adopt necessary fishery management measures.

(3) A definition of “failure to cooperate” should be introduced, to better define, for the purposes of Regulation (EU) No 1026/2012, the scope and meaning of the requirement to cooperate pursuant to UNCLOS and UNFSA.

(4) It is also necessary to clarify that a country may be considered as allowing non-sustainable fishing if it does not implement the necessary fishery management measures, and that those measures include control measures.

(5) It is also appropriate to reinforce the procedures prior and subsequent to the adoption of measures in respect to countries allowing non-sustainable fishing.

(6) Regulation (EU) No 1026/2012 should therefore be amended accordingly.