Negotiators from the European Parliament and the EU Council reached agreement on Thursday 29 September on a compromise text to extend restrictions on access to EU fisheries waters for another 10 years.
Member States will be able to restrict the access of other EU vessels to their territorial waters and fisheries resources within a zone extending up to 12 nautical miles. The EU’s outermost regions will be able to extend this derogation to 100 nautical miles.
The existing rules were due...