The Council of Ministers of the EU will shortly adopt the legal acts allowing the EU to sign the agreement to prevent unregulated high seas fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean (see EUROPE 12039, 11917).
At the end of November 2017, the Commission held negotiations with Canada, China, Denmark (Faroe Islands and Greenland), Iceland, Japan, Norway, Republic of Korea, Russia and the United States to conclude a binding agreement to stop unregulated high seas fishing in the Central Arctic Ocean....