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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10365
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/fisheries

Commission wants ambitious fisheries policy reform

Brussels, 26/04/2011 (Agence Europe) - The main aspects of the proposal that the European Commission will be putting forward in mid-July in an effort to overhaul the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) are as follows: an end to public aid to the fishing fleet; compulsory individual and transferable fishing quotas; ban on discards; end to retirement aid (intervention mechanism); cross compliance for financial assistance to fishing businesses; the setting up of a European Observatory on fishing...