The members of the European Parliament’s fisheries committee held an initial discussion on Monday 26 February on the draft own initiative report by Clara Eugenia Aguilera García (S&D, Spain) on the optimisation of the value chain in fishing in the European Union.
Aguilera García stresses, in particular, the key role of producer organisations (POs). She proposes to make it simpler to set up POs and to further empower them. In her view, a greater degree of structure and association...