The New
Common Fisheries Policy
Carla MONTESI,
Director - DG MARE
Directorate for the Baltic Sea,
North Sea and Landlocked
Member States
27 November 2013, Tallinn
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Objectives
Conservation
Landing
Obligation
Regionalization
EMFF
1. … ensure that fishing and aquaculture activities are environmentally
sustainable in the long term and are managed in way consistent with the
objectives of achieving economic, social and employment benefits, and
of contributing to the availability of food supplies
2. … apply the precautionary approach and shall aim to ensure that exploitation
restores and maintains populations of harvested species above levels which
can produce the maximum sustainable yield … the maximum sustainable
yield exploitation rate shall be achieved by 2015 where possible and on a
progressive, incremental basis at the latest by 2020 for all stocks
3. … gradually eliminate discards
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Objectives
Conservation
Landing
Obligation
Regionalization
EMFF
Maximum
sustainable
yield
 Aspiration?
stocks above the levels capable of producing MSY
 Leading target?
exploitation rate at MSY
 Timing?
by 2015 where possible and progressively by 2020 at
latest for all stocks
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Objectives
Multi-annual
Plans
Conservation
Landing
Obligation
Regionalization
EMFF
 Priority to achieve the MSY target
 Single-species or mixed fisheries/several stocks
 Proportionate measures, accounting for economic/social
impact
 Address specific problems of achieving MSY in mixed fisheries
 Mandatory elements
(scope, objectives, quantifiable targets, time frames,
conservation reference points, objectives and measures for
the discard ban, safeguards on ensuring quantifiable
targets)
 Optional elements
(discard elimination measures, monitoring indicators,
objectives for freshwater part of ana/catadromous species)
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Objectives
Conservation
Landing
Obligation
Regionalization
EMFF
 By fishery:
• 2015: small & large pelagic fisheries, industrial fishery, Baltic salmon
• 2015-17: Baltic (remaining species)
• 2016-2919: North Sea, north-western and south-western waters…
• 2017-2019: Mediterranean, Black Sea, other relevant waters
 Implementation details in multiannual plans (co-legislated)
• species covered in each fishery
• exemption for species with high survival rate
• de minimis provisions (maximum 7 % in first year, then 7, 6, 6, and 5 %
in subsequent years) – not counted against quota
o where no more selectivity is possible (science)
o to avoid disproportionate handling costs
• provisions on documentation of catches
• fixing of minimum conservation reference sizes
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Objectives
Conservation
Landing
Obligation
Regionalization
EMFF
 No multiannual plans? discard plan
• regionalization (joint MS recommendations)
• COM adopts discard plan (delegated Act)
 Quota flexibility
• count catches of non-target species against quota of target species
o maximum 9 %
o non-target stock has to be within safe biological limits
• interannual flexibility (banking and borrowing)
o maximum 10 %
 TAC adjustments with discard ban
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Objectives
Conservation
Landing
Obligation
Regionalization
EMFF
based on best available
scientific advice, compatible
with objectives (of the CFP, of
the conservation measures,
the targets), and no less
stringent than existing Union
legislation
 conservation measures
• multiannual plans
• fish stock recovery area
 compliance with Union
environmental legislation
 discard plans
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Objectives
Conservation
Landing
Obligation
Regionalization
EMFF
 European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF)
 Through 4 pillars is a strategic implementing instrument for the CFP:
 Sustainable development of fisheries
 Sustainable development of aquaculture
 Sustainable development of fisheries areas
 Integrated maritime policy
 Accompanying measures (e.g. data collection, control)
 Trialogues
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• Thank you for your attention!
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