Brussels, 04/04/2014 (Agence Europe) - An agreement seems to be at hand on future procedures to approve the management (or recovery) plans for fish stocks, a key element of the new common fisheries policy (CFP).
The adoption of these management plans has been blocked since the Lisbon Treaty came into force in 2009, as the Council and the European Parliament failed to find any common ground on the legal basis to be used to approve these plans.
The task force set up by the EP, the Council...