The Council of Ministers of the EU decided on Monday 27 March not to oppose two delegated acts that seek to restrict fishing activities in order to protect the seabed (reefs) in Danish designated Natura 200 sites.
The measures adopted put a ban on fishing activities with mobile bottom contacting gear in reef zones (under habitat type 1170) and the surrounding buffer zones in three Natura 2000 sites in the Danish part of the Western Baltic Sea: Kattegat, Skagerrak and the North Sea and all...