SECTORAL POLICIES / Fisheries

It will be necessary to digest effects of Brexit before changing fisheries policy, according to João Aguiar Machado

Brussels, 23/07/2019 (Agence Europe)

On Tuesday 23 July, the European Commission considered, before the European Parliament's Fisheries Committee, that before submitting proposals to reform the Common Fisheries Policy, “it will be necessary to digest the effects” of the United Kingdom's exit from the EU.

João Aguiar Machado, Director General of DG Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE), presented to the new MEPs the priorities to be identified in the coming months by the new Commission, which will be guided in...