Common Fisheries Policy during Germany’s EU Presidency: Key Points of Focus
Fisheries and Marine Environment Policy
The oceans are one of our most valuable natural resources and are among those most at risk. To ensure effective, sustainable protection of our marine environment, joint efforts are needed across all affected policy sectors.
The EU Presidency has thus made sustainable fisheries a key point of focus and aims to achieve advancements in areas such as:
- Promotion of sustainability under the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP)
- Combating illegal, unreported and unregulated fisheries (IUU Fisheries)
- Research on climate-related changes in fish stocks
- Accelerating certification of fisheries and fishery products
Simplifying the requirements of the Common Fisheries Policy will also play a key role.
The following issues will receive priority attention:
- Management of cod stocks in the Baltic Sea and of plaice and sole stocks in the North Sea
- Implementation of the bilateral agreement between the EU and Greenland
- Reducing driftnet fisheries
- Measures to protect the European eel
- Eco-labelling of fishery products
- Improved fisheries monitoring in the Baltic Sea
