The European Parliament and the Council should be able to begin negotiations towards the month of March 2017 in their quest for agreement on the sustainable management of the external fishing fleets (see EUROPE 11682).
Following the vote in the Parliament’s fisheries committee on Monday 5 December, the plenary session vote on the report by Linnéa Engström (Greens/EFA, Sweden) should be held in February of next year.
The Commission has proposed a new system for granting fishing...