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	Common Fisheries Policy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is the fisheries policy of the European Union.
		This would formally place fisheries policy outside the jurisdiction of individual nation states, although decisions would still be made primarily by the council of ministers, as is the case now.
		The common fisheries policy was created to manage fish stocks for the European Union as a whole.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Common_Fisheries_Policy (2064 words)

	Common Agricultural Policy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was born in the late 1950s and early 1960s when the founding members of the EU had just emerged from over a decade of severe food shortages during and after the Second World War.
		The CAP has always been a difficult area of EU policy to reform; this is a problem that began in the 1960s and one that continues to the present day, albeit less severely.
		It can be described as a "path dependent" institution due to the institutional make-up of the policy; the Agricultural Council is the main decision-making body for CAP affairs and is dextrously manipulated by those states that hold the CAP most dearly, such as France.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Common_Agricultural_Policy (3812 words)

	EUROPA - Overviews of the European Union activities - Fisheries and Maritime Affairs
		Fisheries agreements with countries outside the EU and negotiations within regional and international fisheries organisations ensure that not only the waters of the EU, but those of the whole world, are not over-fished.
		While fisheries and environment policy are to some extent integrated, there is much greater scope to integrate all policies which affect the maritime environment.
		An integrated policy would improve coordination on discrete developments, such as port expansion, construction of offshore wind farms or the response to offshore drilling and shipping accidents – all of which can affect the fishing industry and fish stocks, and channelling funds for structural improvements bearing the broad maritime dimension in mind.
	europa.eu /pol/fish/overview_en.htm (988 words)

	Common Fisheries Policy: 21 Nov 2002: House of Commons debates (TheyWorkForYou.com)
		The report by the Advisory Committee on Fishery Management shows that the haddock spawning stock biomass is the largest it has been since 1971; the saithe spawning stock biomass is the largest it has been since 1976; and the whiting spawning stock biomass is the largest it has been since 1991.
		Friend appreciates that one of the problems of the CFP is that when stocks become unsustainable the suggestion is that one of the fisheries should be closed—in this case, the cod fishery.
		The Commission's CFP reform package also includes an action plan, which we endorse, to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, a communication on integration of environmental protection requirements into the CFP, which we support, and action plans on aquaculture and on the management of fisheries in the Mediterranean, which are based on very sensible ideas.
	www.theyworkforyou.com /debates/?id=2002-11-21.801.0 (8560 words)

	Lawrie Quinn - Parliamentary Speeches, Common Fisheries Policy
		Member, knows that the common fisheries policy is the means by which the European Union manages and regulates the fisheries' fishing effort and the fish markets of the member states.
		The political management of the CFP is characterised by the annual round of bargaining or horse trading by national Ministers who attempt, at all costs, to maintain their national quotas in real terms.
		We are pursuing a mixed fishery in the North sea, and it is not a case of one size fits all.
	www.durhamlabour.org.uk /lwquinn/cfp.htm (10766 words)

	Common Fisheries Policy
		The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is an EU policy designed to make EU fishing grounds a common resource by giving equal access to all member states.
		The CFP was launched in 1970 when applications for membership to the European Community from ‘fish-rich’ Norway, UK, Ireland and Denmark prompted the six founding members to speed-up their plans for a common market in fish.
		Fisheries are a natural and mobile resource and are thus, by nature, common property.
	www.civitas.org.uk /eufacts/FSPOL/AG5.htm (718 words)

	ECBC Common Fisheries Policy submission
		It is estimated that 6.2% of the total population of harbour porpoises in the Celtic Sea is killed each year in fishing nets, and 4% of the total population of harbour porpoises in the North Sea.
		Studies have estimated that the annual bycatch of harbour porpoises in the Celtic Sea hake gill net fishery, is of the order of 2237 individuals, and that the annual bycatch of common dolphins is of the order of 200.
		Furthermore, the annual bycatch of harbour porpoises in the Celtic Sea hake gill net fishery, is estimated to be in the order of 2237 individuals, and yet the average number of porpoises stranding on the beaches of Ireland is less than 18.
	www.eurocbc.org /page7.html (989 words)

	Reform of Common Fisheries Policy: Presentation
		It makes a nonsense of the Common Fisheries Policy if a significant percentage of the French fleet is owned and run by Spanish interests purely in order to gain access to waters and quotas to which they as a nation do not have in their own right.
		When I became Minister one of the big issues regarding the upcoming review was the issue of the fleet policy, the drastic suggestions in the Commissioner's proposals and a schedule which was the genesis of the understandable anger in Ireland and elsewhere about the potential for a reduction in the fleet.
		We have the National Fisheries College in Greencastle, County Donegal, the recently reopened regional fisheries centre in Castletownbere, which is being extended, an office in Galway and a network of inshore fisheries development officers.
	www.irlgov.ie /committees-29/c-marine/20021120-J/Page2.htm (13327 words)

	Reform of Common Fisheries Policy: Presentation
		I stress, as part of the background to my remarks about the Common Fisheries Policy, that agreements were signed by the six original member states before Ireland, Denmark and the United Kingdom joined the EU in 1973.
		The new Common Fisheries Policy will be determined over the next six weeks and it is of crucial interest to Ireland in ensuring that over the next 20 years or more account is taken of the key concerns which the review group has identified.
		Efforts have been made for years and it is symptomatic of a philosophy and policy that fail to take account of other approaches which can achieve the desired objectives in terms of retention and development of fish stock, but allow the economic activities to continue and the communities dependent on fishing to exist.
	www.irlgov.ie /committees-29/c-marine/20021120-J/Page1.htm (10509 words)

	EPP-ED Group: Policies
		The CFP consists of four aspects which centre on the following areas: the conservation of resources and control of fishing activities, structural measures to adapt and modernise the sector, market-oriented measures and commercial policy and, finally, external policy relating to fisheries.
		Although the common fisheries policy (CFP) was only 20 years old, it needed to be reformed due to excessive fishing, which meant that there were not as many adult fish to reproduce and replenish stocks.
		As fisheries is one of the few sectors covered by a consolidated Community sectoral policy, the EU should protect it and enhance it so as to capitalise on it in the world economy.
	www.epp-ed.eu /Policies/pdoc04/fisheries_en.asp (2014 words)

	Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy
		The new framework does not alter the general distribution of responsibilities for control and enforcement, according to which the Member States are primarily responsible for the control and enforcement of the CFP and the Commission is responsible for monitoring and enforcing the correct application of Community law by the Member States.
		The integrated framework for fisheries partnerships at national and/or regional level will be a set of measures and principles designed to enhance a policy dialogue between the Community and developing countries, both directly and through regional fora, with the principal objective of developing more effective relations with these countries.
		The proposals reflect a wide recognition that previous structural policies have failed to address the central problem that there are too many fishing boats for the quantity of resources available to the Community fleet and present serious but necessary measures to reduce the number of vessels.
	www.oceanlaw.net /ops/papers/14.htm (4874 words)

	European Commission - Fisheries - General information
		DG FISHERIES AND MARITIME AFFAIRS is the Directorate-General responsible for the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) and for developing a future maritime policy for the EU at the European Commission.
		DG FISHERIES AND MARITIME AFFAIRS is under the responsibility of Mr Joe Borg, the European Commissioner in charge of Fisheries and Maritime Affairs.
		A reform of the CFP was decided in December 2002 by the Council of Fisheries Ministers and entered into force in January 2003.
	ec.europa.eu /fisheries/faq/general_en.htm (1566 words)

	An Ecosystem-based approach to the common Fisheries Policy: Achieving the Objectives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Although there are significant differences between agriculture and fisheries, which make the direct transposition of policy measures from one area to the other difficult or impossible, it should be feasible to develop a less regulatory and more balanced approach to fisheries policy (Section 2).
		Although the temptation within the policy hierarchy may well be to seek to achieve the new objectives by intensifying current management practice, existing measures offer little prospect of achieving the required reduction and restructuring of fishing activity.
		The centralised system of fisheries management which characterises the present CFP is unlikely to be appropriate to the needs of an ecosystem based approach.
	www.jncc.gov.uk /page-2517 (1915 words)

	BIM Corporate - Sea Fishing - Fisheries Management - Common Fisheries Policy
		As fish are a mobile resource and cannot be delimited to a particular country, all regulations under the CFP are adopted at Community level and implemented in all Member States.
		All aspects of fisheries and aquaculture are covered to some extent under the umbrella of the CFP.
		The CFP was first established in 1983, it was reviewed 10 years later in 1992 and again in 2002.
	www.bim.ie /templates/text_content.asp?node_id=230 (328 words)

	International Relations and the Common Fisheries Policy
		The different interests of Member States in fisheries in general, and in distant-water fisheries in particular, are clearly an important factor in the development of the EC’s policy in relation to international fisheries issues.
		The negotiating effort at the Law of the Sea Conference, at least as far as fisheries were concerned, was concerned principally with elaborating the regime of this new zone and little attention was paid to the development of rules concerning fishing on the high seas.
		With regard to fisheries, for a certain number of matters that are not directly related to the conservation and management of sea fishing resources, for example research and technological development and development cooperation, there is shared competence.
	www.oceanlaw.net /hedley/pubs/bergen2000.htm (10187 words)

	Common Fisheries Policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The need to improve fisheries management techniques in order to cope with the crises in fish stocks and the plethora of different models of fisheries management both within the EU and across the globe suggest that fisheries as a sector could lend itself to a high level of policy transfer.
		It assesses the ways in which policy makers are framed and constrained by the wider economic and institutional systems in which they operate.
		The project focuses on the way policy actors (EU, national, regional, local) assess and react to alternative systems of management (we look at institutional arrangements and the methods of allocating the right to fish) both within and without the EU.
	www.hull.ac.uk /futgov/Projects/fishpol.htm (208 words)

	EU Presidency 2004 Website > Policy Areas > Agriculture and Fisheries > Common Fisheries Policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A comprehensive reform programme for the Common Fisheries Policy was agreed by member states in December 2002, and our Presidency will coincide with the implementation of crucial reforms under this programme.
		In recognition of the significant contribution of the fisheries sector to the development of peripheral regions of the European Union, the Irish Presidency will focus internal fisheries policy on maximising sustainable fishing opportunities for the European Union's fishing industry.
		Other key external fisheries objectives of the Irish Presidency will include the adoption of an Action plan on stock evaluation in Third Country Waters, which will ultimately contribute to the development of scientifically-based management plans for third-country fisheries in which EU member states have interests.
	www.eu2004.ie /templates/standard.asp?sNavlocator=4,24,319 (423 words)

	Luxembourg Presidency - Agriculture and Fisheries
		The Agriculture and Fisheries Council brings together the ministers for agriculture and fisheries in a bid to formulate a common policy and take and implement decisions in these two fields.
		The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) has applied to this fleet since 1983, and has provided the Community with a judicial system and a range of management instruments for running the sector.
		The fisheries policy strongly advocates conservation and improvement of fish stocks exploited by the fleets.
	www.eu2005.lu /en/presidence/domaines_politiques/agriculture/index.html (1063 words)

	OceanLaw On-Line Paper No. 20: Europe's New Common Fisheries Policy
		In December 2002, the EU Fisheries Council agreed on the new Common Fisheries Policy (CFP).
		The previous CFP was responsible for massive overfishing and destruction of the marine environment.
		While the new CFP has responded to many demands of WWF and other environmental groups and provides a more comprehensive legal basis for the management of EU fisheries it does not fully address the issue of overcapacity and other important areas, such as fishing agreements with third countries, have yet to be dealt with.
	www.intfish.net /ops/20.htm (164 words)

	WWF - Sustainable fishing: improving management
		Our ForTuna and European Fisheries Initiatives are particularly driving this work for the world's tuna fisheries and to encourage EU fisheries to implement sustainable fishing policies.
		The new ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management required now by the CFP should also ensure the precautionary approach is applied, through implementation of measures designed to ensure sustainable fishing and to minimize the impact of fishing activities on marine ecosystems.
		WWF is also monitoring the impacts of EU fishing access agreements on local economies and ecosystems, and supporting the EU in seeking coherence between the development and fisheries policies of the European Union.
	www.panda.org /about_wwf/what_we_do/marine/what_we_do/policy_events/common_fisheries_policy.cfm (735 words)

	Policy briefs - Fisheries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) was therefore developed to help manage the Union's fish stocks and to balance the interests of Member States with fishing industries.
		Over fishing is a global problem, but the CFP has come in for particular criticism from both the fishing industry and environmentalists.
		The CFP also covers aquaculture - an industry whose importance was recognised by the Commission when, in September 2002, it published 'A strategy for the sustainable development of European aquaculture'.
	europa.eu.int /unitedkingdom/information/policy_briefs/bb16_en.htm (447 words)

	The Common Fisheries Policy: A Sinking Ship
		To make matters worse, the CFP is run by Brussels bureaucrats who often set the so-called "total allowable catch" on the basis of political considerations while ignoring the fact that fl-market fishing, which can run as high as 30% of the quota, renders the allowable catch a dead letter.
		Beattie explains, it's a "classic 'tragedy of the commons.' There is no point in one fisherman holding back because some fisherman, possibly of another country, will have taken his catch.
		Yet EU officials, notably adviser to the European Fisheries Commission Christoph Nordmann, say that the ITQ system is not likely to be adopted by the EU because of cultural and jurisdictional differences.
	www.environmentprobe.org /enviroprobe/evpress/0700_wsj.html (914 words)

	University of Portsmouth \| Future Economic Management of Fisheries
		A series of international workshops were organised, each focusing on a key economic issue in fisheries management within the context of European fisheries, the Common Fisheries Policy and the basic instruments of European integration.
		The fourth and final workshop was held in Bergen, Norway, in October 2000 and focused on International Relations and the Common Fisheries Policy.
		Conclusions of the 1998-2000 Concerted Action Economics and the Common Fisheries Policy and Implications for the CFP after 2002.
	www.port.ac.uk /research/cemare/researchandconsultancy/pastprojects/FutureEconomicManagementofFisheries (420 words)

	Defra, UK - Fisheries
		In the UK Defra is the lead department for fisheries and so our Directorate has a major role in EU and international negotiations, as well as in managing and implementing fisheries policy.
		Sea fisheries - general overview of sea fisheries policy, including information on and for the UK fishing industry.
		Salmon and freshwater fisheries - information on the controls on the volume and methods of inland fisheries in England and Wales.
	www.defra.gov.uk /fish/fishindx.htm (288 words)

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