Black Sea Outlook Conference
Odessa, 1 November 2011
The EU Maritime and Fisheries Policy: a Black
Sea perspective
Daniela GRITTI,
European Commission,
Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries
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1. The EU maritime and
fisheries policy framework
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Maritime policy areas
Employment
Fisheries
Industry
Regional
development
Environment
Security
External
relations
Energy
Transport
Research
Internal
market
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Policy actions since 2007
ENVIRONMENT
Marine Strategy Framework Directive 2008/56/EC
RESEARCH
Marine and Maritime Research Strategy 2008/534/EC
TRANSPORT
Maritime Transport Space without Barriers
Third Maritime Safety Package
2011 White Paper/ Connecting Europe: new EU core transport
network
FISHERIES
Regulation on the Common Fisheries Policy 2002/2371/EC
Reform proposal 2011/425/COM
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Cross-cutting tools
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Maritime Spatial Planning
Integrated Maritime Surveillance
EMODNET: European Marine Observation
and Data Network
- Objective: Improve access to marine
environmental data (ex: MSFD)
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EMODNET
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-5 portals operated:
chemistry
Hydrology
Biology
geology
physical data
Most of the pilots
adopt SeaDataNet
standards and
interconnect to the
SeaDataNet CDI
Directory.
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Common Fisheries Policy reform
Multi annual eco-system based management: from singlestock plans to muilti- fish stocks
Banning discards
Introduction of fisheries ”concessions”
Support for small scale fisheries
Development of sustainable aquaculture: national strategic
plans and aquaculture advisory council
Market policy: storage facility and market standards on
labelling, quality, traceability
Regionalisation: boost role of RFMO and Advisory Council
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Improving scientific knowledge
Member states will be entrusted with collecting, maintaining
and sharing scientific data about fish stocks and the impact of
fishing at sea-basin level
Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee on Fisheries
Data collection framework: 50 M € per year until 2013 per
national pogrammes + FP7
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Financial instruments
2011-2013: Financial Regulation on IMP 2011-2013
Still to be approved by EU Council
40M €, half of which will be for EMODNET
+ Project on MSP in the Mediterranean and Black Sea (1M €)
+ Cooperation in coastguard functions in EU basins (2.1M €)
+ Technical assistance money (1.4M €)
2014-2020: New European Maritime and Fisheries instrument
Amount proposed by EC is 6.7 billions €
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2. What about the Black Sea?
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Regional approaches
Seas are different – regional specificities
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Geography
Political context
Economic situation
Social situation
Environmental challenges
Main objective
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Adapting the IMP to regional
challenges and opportunities
for specific policy development
Providing added value
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Examples of existing initiatives
Research
EMODNET
BS.ERANET
UpGrade Black Sea Scene
ENP/SEIS
“Ocean of tomorrow”
Conservation and ecosystem
Sesame (FP7)
Maritime safety
SASEPOL
Fight against pollution
MONINFO
enviroGRIDS (FP7)
Coastal Management
OURCOAST
PEGASO
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Common Fisheries Policy in Bulgaria and Rom
Yearly quota for sprat and turbot - Regulation EC/1256/2010
+ techical measures
Cooperation between Romania and Bulgaria in the turbot control
plan and in data collection
Ad hoc working Group of the EU Scientific, Technical and Economic
Committee on Fisheries on the Black Sea
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Regional fisheries cooperation in the Black Sea
State of play
Lack of common management of fisheries resources
Shortage of joint data collection
Possible ways forward
GFCM: creation of a working group on the Black Dea
FAO project proposal Black Sea Fish
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Brainstorming event with Bulgarian and Romanian
authorities: proposals and way forward
Need for regional cooperation and dialogue, both between
authorities and stakeholders
Possible cooperation in scientific research, data collection and
management, joint controls
Harmonisation of data, tools and methods (sampling) and
connection to the metadata infrastructure of BlackSeaScene
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Thank you!
daniela.gritti@ec.europa.eu
Daniela Gritti,
European Commission,
Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries
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