The European Commission on Friday 2 December adopted the Portuguese and Slovenian programmes implementing the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) covering the period 2021-2027.
The total amount of funds allocated to Portugal, covering this six-year period, is €539.9 million (€392.6 million EU contribution).
The total amount of funds allocated to Slovenia for the next 6 years is €34 million (contribution from the EU budget: €24 million).
The day before, the Commission adopted programmes for two other countries: Greece (€519.6 million, including €363.7 million in EU funds) and Romania (€232 million, including €162.4 million in EU funds).
Green transition. On 1 December, the European Commissioner for Oceans and Fisheries, Virginijus Sinkevičius, stressed that the structural support available for the fisheries sector under EMFAF “will allow Member States to make the necessary investments in the fishing sector, so that it can really benefit from the green transition”.
It is therefore of the utmost importance, in his view, that Member States “use the available funds fully, so that they can achieve the objectives of their national programmes and the goals of the Common Fisheries Policy” (see EUROPE 13075/7).
More info: https://aeur.eu/f/4fs (Original version in French by Lionel Changeur)