The European Parliament gave the green light on Tuesday 24 October to the European Commission proposal to extend the Commission’s power to adopt delegated acts establishing discard plans – that is to say, implementing the ban on throwing fish overboard – for a further period of three years.
The rapporteur and chair of the European Parliament's fisheries committee, Alain Cadec (EPP, France), proposed that a simplified procedure with no amendments be used for this approval.
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