A political agreement between EU institutions was reached in the early hours of Wednesday 28 November on the multi-annual plan for the management of fish stocks in the Western Waters (see EUROPE 12125, 12113).
The compromise text negotiated between the Austrian Presidency of the Council and the European Parliament delegation, led by the rapporteur, Alain Cadec (EPP, France), confirms the goal of achieving exploitation of stocks that respects the maximum sustainable yield (MSY) by 2020 at...