The Agriculture & Fisheries Council will meet in Luxembourg on Thursday 14 April (starting at 11 a.m.).

Fisheries points will be dealt with in the morning and Health and Food Safety and Agriculture items in the afternoon.

The Fisheries points on the agenda are:

Review of fishing effort management in Western Waters under the reform

The Council will hold a debate on the Commission’s Communication on the review of the Western Waters regime, adopted in November 2010 (COM (2010) 661). The Western Waters regime is a very large-scale effort management system covering bottom fisheries (except deep-sea fisheries) in the North-East Atlantic, excluding the North Sea.

Any Other Business (AOB)

A Joint Declaration of Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Luxembourg and Slovakia on the future role of the freshwater aquaculture and inland fishery within the CFP reform will be presented.

The meeting will be chaired by Mr Sándor Fazekas, Hungarian Minister for Rural Development. Commissioners Maria Damanaki and Dacian Cioloş will represent the Commission at the meeting.

More information:
Background documents for the meeting
Press release about the meeting

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