During the night of 7-8 December, the Council, the European Parliament, and the European Commission reached agreement after 12 hours of tense negotiation on a new multi-annual management plan for demersal fish stocks in the North Sea (see EUROPE 11920).
The plan, part of the new Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), is the first of this type agreed for the North Sea and the second EU multi-annual regional plan, following on from the Baltic Sea plan signed in 2016. It will govern the management of...