The European Commission on Friday, 4 December, withdrew the ‘yellow card’ that was given to Kiribati more than four years ago, thanks to the country’s efforts to fight illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (‘IUU fishing’).
Kiribati thus remedied the shortcomings in its fisheries governance (see EUROPEB11731A15).
Virginijus Sinkevičius, European Commissioner for Fisheries, welcomed the efforts of Kiribati, who “have cooperated actively with the Commission and addressed...