The European Commission announced on Thursday 27 June that it was lifting the yellow card given in October 2015 to Taiwan, acknowledging the progress the country has made and the major upgrade of its fisheries legal and administrative systems to fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
The decision cancels the first step in a process that could have led to a total ban (red card) on imports of Thai fisheries products into the European Union. In January 2019, the...