When it meets in Brussels on Monday 5 December, the European Parliament’s fisheries committee is expected to approve the interinstitutional agreement on the new rules for deep-water fishing in the North-East Atlantic (see EUROPE 11648 and 11585).
The European Parliament will then adopt the deep-sea fishing regulation at the last plenary session of this year in Strasbourg 12-15 December. The text will come into force at the start of 2017. Spain voted against the regulation.
In order to...