The draft opinion by Gabriel Mato (EPP, Spain) on the EU biodiversity strategy for 2030 was criticised on Thursday 14 January in the European Parliament’s Committee on Fisheries (see EUROPE B12636A10).
Mr Mato’s draft opinion is addressed to the Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, which will adopt a report on biodiversity by 2030.
Mr Mato deplored the fact that the strategy makes fishing “the great enemy” of biodiversity. He proposed that...