Ricardo Serrão Santos, the Portuguese Minister for the Sea, said on Tuesday 15 June, after an informal meeting in Lisbon of EU fisheries ministers, that he hoped that the Member States would be able to reach a common position on the controls regulation by the end of June.
The European Parliament adopted its position on this text in March (see EUROPE B12676A11). After the adoption of the EU Council’s general approach at the EU Council of 28-29 June, negotiations between the three...